I'm screaming. pic.twitter.com/dtTWlAbyil
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) April 18, 2016
Because that corgi is still far more attractive to look at than Ted Cruz.
The man just cannot stop alienating people, even those who should be his allies. From Politico, yesterday, “Hannity blows up at Cruz: ‘I’m getting sick of it'”…
… Hours after New York Rep. Peter King said he hated Cruz and would take cyanide if he ever won the nomination, [Sean] Hannity conducted a 14-minute interview with the Texas senator, almost immediately pressing him on his campaign’s delegate selection operation that has obliterated Donald Trump’s.
“You’re hoping to get to a second ballot. In other words, in a second ballot people that support Donald Trump or John Kasich or Marco Rubio, if those delegates are still relevant, can then switch their votes,” Hannity said. “So you’re in a process of talking to delegates, and it seems to be very extensive. Could you explain to people what’s going on?”
“Sean, with all respect, that’s not what people are concerned about,” Cruz responded… “And the media loves to obsess about process. This process and this whining from the Trump campaign is all silly. It’s very, very simple…,” Cruz continued before Hannity interrupted.
“It’s more than a process question,” Hannity said. “It’s an integrity of the election question, and everybody’s asking me this question so I’m giving you an opportunity to explain it.”
A lightly chuckling Cruz said only hardcore Trump supporters would ask such a question.
“Why do you do this?” Hannity said, raising his voice. “Every single time I — no, you gotta stop. Every time I have you on the air and I ask a legitimate question, you try to throw this in my face. I’m getting sick of it. I’ve had you on more than any other candidate on radio and TV. So if I ask you, senator, a legitimate question to explain to the audience, why don’t you just answer it?”…
And then last night…
Cruz: "America has always been best when she is lying down with her back on the mat." ? https://t.co/ZCxFS4yEBH
— Mashable News (@MashableNews) April 20, 2016
When you think about it, I wouldn’t put it past Ted Cruz to try and roofie America. https://t.co/LD5ewLbVqE
— John Cole (@Johngcole) April 20, 2016
Today he finally, more or less, answered the question about his cunning plan to win the convention if he can’t win the primaries, per NBC:
Ted Cruz declared definitively on Wednesday that the fight for the Republican presidential nomination is “definitely headed to Cleveland,” where, he said, “the people are going to prevail.”
“Nobody’s getting 1237 [delegates] – Donald knows that. We’re headed to a contested convention,” Cruz told NBC News while shaking hands after his rally here in a state with 71 delegates up for grabs in next Tuesday’s primary.
“The reason why he has so many of his media surrogates repeating the mantra that the race has got to be over now is because he knows he cannot earn a majority of the delegates in Cleveland,” Cruz continued, calling Trump “a fringe and marginal candidate.”
Cruz exited New York’s primary without winning a single delegate, nearly mathematically vanishing his ability to win the nomination before the convention – a standard he often used last month to indirectly suggest John Kasich and, then, Marco Rubio should leave the race…
… A campaign aide told NBC News it does not anticipate beating Trump in the popular vote in the state, meaning Cruz would lose out on its 17 at-large delegates, which go to the victor. Polls currently show Cruz losing by around 20 percentage points.
But each of the state’s 18 congressional districts will elect three delegates to the national convention. The Cruz campaign is pushing a slate of Cruz-loyalists for 26 of the 54 unbound slots up for the taking. It says others eligible on the ballot to become delegates, particularly longtime state activists able to win on their name alone, have committed to Cruz as well. Cruz has personally met with several of the potential delegates…
As a plan, it’s somewhat more realistic than Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver’s hand-waving last night, but it still relies on a reading of “the people will prevail” as “my people will prevail, assuming all the variables break in my favor” which seems to owe more to his father’s Dominionist religious faith than to modern American politics. He probably could weasel enough backhanded support in Cleveland to get the nomination, assuming he doesn’t alienate more delegates between now and July… but that’s a pretty generous assumption.
It sure would make the Media Village Idiots happy, though. Mr. Pierce, at Esquire, warns us:
…[P]ay attention to what’s happening with Tailgunner Ted Cruz. The effort to humanize the ambassador from the Planet Reptilia continues apace and it’s gaining momentum. The New York Times went long on this theme over the weekend, talking about how Cruz is truly an intellectual giant and the champion of “constitutional conservatism,” which is what we’re calling the losing side at Gettysburg this century…
Because, like most of the elite political media, the Times would light itself on fire rather than admit that one of our two political parties has lost its mind, we are seeing Cruz’s retrograde antebellum views of the Constitution being exhumed from the grave of Alexander Hamilton Stephens, shined up for Hi-Def politics, and trotted out as though it were the shining future instead of the dead past. The worst thing that the “conservative intellectual leaders” people are willing to say about him is that he’s not necessarily a Cheney-esque blood beast on foreign policy 100 percent of the time. This is not reassuring…
Why do I feel like if Donald Trump needed 98% of the delegates, Ted Cruz would be saying "step aside" 24/7? pic.twitter.com/UgyOXLEV7w
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) April 20, 2016
dr. bloor
Makes you wonder what portion of his campaign funds are earmarked to upcharges.
Mandalay
This is (kinda) good news…
dmsilev
New category?
Mary G
Lil’ Marco is going to be out of work and needs money so I predict that he will sell his delegates to the highest bidder, probably Adelson or the Koch Brothers. Trump is too cheap to bid enough to compete in the auction.
LAO
So, not to distract from the Ted Cruz bashing (which is always good), how about ESPN finally firing curt schilling? The only down side of which is now having to listen to conservatives bitch and moan about the 1st amendment. WHICH DOES NOT ACTUALLY APPLY TO A PRIVATE COMPANY.
dmsilev
If Trump heads into the convention with 95+% of the delegates needed to win, and then Cruz shenanigans it away from Ambulatory Scalp Weasel, the StormTrumpers will burn down the convention center. And I’m not even sure that’s hyperbole. In any event, it would fracture the GOP immensely.
3 months and counting…
Anne Laurie
@dmsilev: Old category which hasn’t been used in a long time. Decided it was appropriate here.
Roger Moore
@dmsilev:
And the fire might be big enough to pop all the popcorn we’ll need to enjoy the spectacle.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
This is a very hard day for racist everywhere:
1. Blacks on US currency
2. Curt Schilling gets fired
What is America coming to?
Thanks Obama.
Yutsano
I completely believe Rafael is a total copulator of rodentia. I also don’t think this will work out the way he thinks it will. If he does somehow manage to pull this off Trump will pursue the eligibility lawsuit hard and there may not be a clear winner in time to work on the election.
Someone pass me the popcorn. This shit just got good.
Dog Dawg Damn
I’m really thinking the best possible outcome for Dems is for Lyin’ Ted to steal this thing at the convention.
I don’t want to get my hopes up, because life is so awful (isn’t it?), but really, if Cruz were to pull this off, the fallout would be immense, and the landslide *so* gratifying.
And the best part is, the True Conservatives wouldn’t have a leg to stand on–they finally got their conservative pony, and he fared worse than the RINO’s do in general elections.
Might actually bring that party to heel.
different-church-lady
@LAO: “Million dollar arm and a five cent head.”
debbie
As much as he is always flogging them, I doubt the Founding Fathers would approve of Cruz’s tactics.
LAO
@different-church-lady: I’m sure he’ll have a very bright future at Breitbart.
eemom
Wish you could have used some other picture to illustrate the point.
eta: This blog kinda sucks.
dedc79
And then make America carry its rapist’s baby to term.
LAO
@dedc79: lol. Winner!
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@LAO:
Everyone in Boston knew that the most dangerous place on earth was between Curt and a live camera. You just knew it would end like this because he just can’t shut up about anything.
dedc79
@LAO: Are the Mets gonna pull this game out tonight? How about the Rangers tomorrow? Feeling more worried about the Rangers than the Mets at the moment, but that’s mostly a function of where we are in the NHL vs. MLB season.
Major Major Major Major
Oh god! Cruz puppeh! Baaahahahahaha!!!
Also my cat is cute https://imgur.com/a/ODbHo
LAO
@dedc79: more worried about Rangers. Think pens will beat them ? Too earlier to worry about mets. Would like them to beat Phillies cause I hate them. (Sports all hate, not real hate).
amk
LMAO @ sean klannity preaching about integrity… Or elections… Or legitimacy.
Villago Delenda Est
@debbie: Franklin would laugh his ass off. Madison would put him on “ignore” and go about his business. Thomas Paine would be out measuring canes and checking them for resilience.
Villago Delenda Est
@amk: Sean’s just really jealous that Rafael is more Backpfeifengesicht than Sean is.
Dr. McCoy
@eemom: It will be back to normal next January.
LAO
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: That reminds me of a very cute Hillary story. At the toast honoring her and welcoming Gillibrand as her Senate replacement, Clinton offerered her advice about being a senator from New York — “never,” she told Gillibrand, “get between Chuck Schumer and a camera on a Sunday morning.”
Mnemosyne
@different-church-lady:
G and I just spent five minutes quoting lines from that movie to each other. We should probably watch it again.
Mnemosyne
@Villago Delenda Est:
Hamilton would set up a series of sock puppet to rip him to shreds in the press.
Or challenge him to a fistfight on the spot. You never knew with him.
Renie
I have the unfortunate pleasure of having Peter King as my House rep but it was funny today when he said..if Ted Cruz becomes GOP nominee, I will take cyanide. Almost worth it to have Cruz win. LOL
Major Major Major Major
@debbie: They would probably be wondering what a Canadian was doing running for the presidency.
Thoroughly Pizzled
@Dog Dawg Damn: I wouldn’t want to risk it. Ted Cruz is that horrible, and a fairly savvy campaigner to boot.
RaflW
Trump has 2.33 million more votes that Cruz. 8,722,467 to 6,389,500. So that makes Teddy boy a lackluster 2nd place to a fringe and marginal candidate.
I’m glad to be back to laughing at the legitimately bad actors in all this, after the BJ threads of late. Phew.
Awww, couldn’t the sentence just have ended there??
LAO
@Renie: I really hate to admit it, but when I heard King’s comment, I thought to myself, so there’s an upside to Cruz winning the nomination.
LAO
@dedc79: ?
Wag
I normally despise Twitter, but our blog host came up with pure redemptive gold with this gem.
MattF
Cruz has made it clear that he admires Nixon’s rtfking prowess.
jl
” Because that corgi is still far more attractive to look at than Ted Cruz. ”
And that corgi had to jam its face through the cage to get that look. While Ted is a natural.
Luthe
@jl: In addition, I’m quite sure that no matter its disposition, the corgi is still superior to Ted Cruz in any measure of personality, empathy, and general likeability.
sinnedbackwards
@Dog Dawg Damn: Maybe even better to Trump their lead and put off till 2020 proving that the “true conservative (sm)” is smashingly defeated. Makes it more likely they die and cannot reform.
Every four years we gain another couple percent non-geezer-whites to the electorate for President (and I speak as a geezer-white male, so no shiite please).
Now if we could just convince folks to ALWAYS vote. Duh.
hueyplong
What event triggers Ted Cruz drinking cyanide?
jl
After reading Ted’s explanation, and after I quit laughing, I reluctantly concluded that Trump has a good chance of getting to 1237 delegates,
Unless Cruz’ ability at jamming the state delegates lists with spoofs is better than his ability at pissing people off.
I want a grand mess at the GOP convention, so I hope Ted can lighten up on the pissing and double down on the jamming,.
Divf
@dr. bloor: Ted’s remark immediately brought to my mind the vase joke.
If you don’t know, I’m not going to tell you.
pseudonymous in nc
@Dog Dawg Damn:
Except Peak Wingnut is a lie, and if Cruz wins the nomination, runs as himself and still loses, the wingnuts will say that next time they’ll find a true true true conservative who’s undeniably a White Guy and not Canadian.
Oldgold
If Cruz gets the nomination,I think a 40+ state electoral landslide and control of both houses of Congress is likely. But, he is such an existential threat to the Republic, I would rather he not be the GOP nominee. It is just not worth the risk that something unforeseen occurs and he is elected.
Dog Dawg Damn
@Oldgold: And Drumpf isn’t an existential threat to the union?
Basically the choice is between catastrophe by malice and incompetence or catastraphone by malice alone.
I’m not sure anyone can predict which outcome is worse–catastrophe will result though.
jl
@Dog Dawg Damn: The GOP is light this year on likely nominees who don’t pose existential threats to the union. It’s a dilemma.
NonyNony
@Dog Dawg Damn:
Nope. Cruz’s loss would be blamed on a combination of Donald Trump poisoning the well and RINO Republican leadership stabbing him in the back.
You have to remember that Conservatism Cannot Fail It Can Only Be Failed. If the Real True Conservative doesn’t win the election it isn’t a fault of Conservatism – it’s either a fault of the candidate (he wasn’t Conservative Enough) or the backstabbing leadership (who aren’t Conservative Enough) or both.
jl
@NonyNony: It’s the failure that can never fail, only be failed.
p.a.
@Mandalay: @efgoldman:
Fixt. (Yankee fan here)
rikyrah
I am still not believing that they will take the nomination away from the person with the most votes and most delegates.
Yutsano
@efgoldman:
What has been accomplished has been witnessed.
Ken
@hueyplong:
As the allied forces close in on his bunker, the deposed President Cruz finally understands that his plan to force Jesus to come back by nuking Jerusalem was a really bad idea?
Oldgold
@Dog Dawg Damn: @Dog Dawg Damn:
He would be a very poor President, but not an existential threat to the Republic.
Omnes Omnibus
@Oldgold: Both Cruz and Trump would be existential threats to the Republic – just in different ways.
Mike J
@Dog Dawg Damn:
So somebody who wants to destroy America isn’t competent to pull it off or somebody who wants to destroy America and could actually accomplish it, and you don’t know which one is worse?
p.a.
@Ken: The quote Billmon used to use:
Kropadope
My teacher’s aide informs me I have the handwriting of a middle-aged woman. That has to be a good thing, right?
Kropadope
Rubio still has more delegates than Kasich? Dayum.
James E Powell
@efgoldman:
It’s important to remember that the House Republicans got rid of Boehner for being a RINO and the Senate Republicans can’t wait to get rid of that closet socialist Mitch McConnell. President Cruz would most definitely let slip the dogs of war.
Kropadope
@Ken:
I’m not a big fan of the Israeli government, but that’s just not to be done.
Dog Dawg Damn
@Mike J: You don’t have to even try to destroy America to actually accomplish that. You may remember this guy, President George W. Bush, who probably thought he was doing the right thing and through sheer incompetence and stupidity, he drove us all into a ditch we are still suffering from.
Trump would be worse. He is a) incompetent to manage the complex financial system which buttresses our increasingly fragile global economy and b) actually holds basic civic values in contempt.
I don’t think Cruz is incompetent in quite the same way, no. But, like I said, it’s anyone’s guess, because Cruz’ competence directed at completely restructuring the social contract would be arguably as devastating as Trump just sinking the boat.
Lindsay Graham said it best — cyanide versus a bullet to the brain.
Omnes Omnibus
@Kropadope: How would New York help Kacisch? He was a goyish bull in a china shop.*
*I am a WASP. I may have misspelled a Yid-English word. My bad.
James E Powell
@Dog Dawg Damn:
I will take a corrupt piece of shit over a determined true believer.
Dog Dawg Damn
@James E Powell: Well the over/under on Trump being impeached is going to be interesting should the unthinkable happen and Sanders secure the nomination, ushering in an era of piss and pomposity.
? Martin
People wondering how liberal NYC is? Ted Cruz won a precinct in Greenpoint (Brooklyn) with 100% of the vote. There was a single Republican vote cast in the precinct:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cgico8iW4AAY9Mh.jpg
? Martin
@Dog Dawg Damn:
My son and I were discussing that last night. It’s unresolvable because you can’t differentiate between him being impeached because he’s incompetent from being impeach because he’s an asshole and everyone hates him and will impeach him for no reason whatsoever.
Then we realized the same was true for Cruz.
catclub
@? Martin: I hope in some debate Trump will be asked if he holds grudges and how that would work for a president.
How about after Bibi Netanyahu pisses him off?
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I feel so much better. I really do try not fuck that kind of shit up. But what is the right way?
Calouste
@rikyrah: That seems to be the Sanders campaign’s plan as well at the moment.
Kropadope
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m not just talking New York, hasn’t Rubio been out of this a while? Maybe since the pace of voting slowed down, it just seems Kasich should have had time to catch up.
ETA: He’s gotten way more third place victories than Rubio.
burnspbesq
OT: if anyone asks you to explain why Texas’ arguments in the DAPA case are complete amd utter horse manure, outsource the job to Marty Lederman.
http://balkin.blogspot.com/2016/04/texass-radical-argument-on-work.html
Marty can also help you explain why the states don’t have standing.
James E Powell
@Kropadope:
It is amusing to recall how giddy the Republicans and their press/media people were over all those Republican governors. They were, if I recall, not just the future of the party, but of our great nation. Rejected. By their own party.
burnspbesq
@Oldgold:
As much as I’d like to be able to sign on to your prediction, I’m just not seeing the House flip. It’s very extremely gerrymandered.
burnspbesq
@Kropadope:
Are you in fact a middle-aged woman?
max
@Omnes Omnibus: I really do try not fuck that kind of shit up. But what is the right way?
‘goy bull in a China shop.’ Saying goyish implies Kasich is actually Jewish and just acting like a goyim. Which would be weird.
max
[‘I do believe.’]
Omnes Omnibus
@max: Eep?
Kropadope
@burnspbesq: No, 30ish male. But I never thought of middle-aged women as having a reputation for poor handwriting.
Librarian
@Kropadope: Do you write in cursive? I was taught to write cursive in school in the 70s and have never written any other way. It’s just easier than printing, and looks more intelligent.
gf120581
@burnspbesq: Even gerrymandering can’t stand against a big enough wave, though.
I don’t think the House will flip (though I expect significant Dem games and they do seem to be expanding the playing field lately), but with either Trump or Cruz atop the GOP, who knows?
The Senate, though, that’s pretty much a lost cause for the GOP the way things are going. If the likes of McCain and Grassley are running scared and the current NRSC chairman is openly telling his fellow senators to avoid Cleveland for their reelect sakes, you know things are bad.
Kropadope
@Librarian: Integrated 80% cursive and 20% print. But of course the cursive had something to do with it. Damn those nuns and whoever Palmer is!!!
CaseyL
@max:
Um… no.
“Goy” is a adjective; goyish an adverb.
“Lawrence Welk is a goy.”
“Lawrence Welk is goyish.”
…has nothing to do with a Jew trying to act like a goy; at least, I’ve never heard it used like that.
ETA: You’re right in that “goyish” describes behavior, but – like I said – I’ve never heard it used to describe Jews-acting-like-not-Jews.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Kropadope:
Arnold Palmer?
Kropadope
@efgoldman: I wasn’t sure, but I thought I got it. Laughed, in any case,
Amir Khalid
@CaseyL:
As I always understood it “goy” is the singular noun and “goyim” the plural, while “goyish” is an adjective.
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: We were taught cursive in the public schools out here in CA in the 60’s.
(I always print because my cursive is doctor like.)
Kropadope
@BillinGlendaleCA: Austin Palmer, as in the Palmer method. You don’t even want to know how many circles I needed to draw in the same spot as a 7 year-old.
Librarian
@efgoldman: I went to a Catholic school.
Villago Delenda Est
@BillinGlendaleCA: Same in Oregon, and just like Bill, I always have printed, because my cursive is Rx approved.
Divf
I vividly recall my 4th-grade teacher, a middle-aged lady named Miss Toothman, patiently trying to get me to write correct cursive, a pretty hopeless cause since I’m left-handed. Therefore my association of middle-aged lady handwriting is with flawless Palmer technique.
Kropadope
@BillinGlendaleCA: Funny, depending on whom I’m working with, I’m encouraged to take doctor calls at work because the pharmacists don’t want to read each other’s handwriting.
Villago Delenda Est
@efgoldman: And they will think whatever their fucking 13th Century ideology tells them to think.
opiejeanne
@Kropadope: Some guy on twitter just referred to me as a crotchety ancient dried up Leftist.
I think the thing your aide said to you might be a compliment.
Emma
I’m the queen of cursive. My first three years of schooling involved fat notebooks that looked like music sheets and carefully copying letters (Ls were tallest while Ts were one line shorter, is all I remember, everything else got internalized). The funny part is that depending on my current mental state my handwriting becomes completely different — different shape letters, different slant to the writing — but all in perfect cursive.
That’s what happens when they start you at 3 years old because you whine and whine about going to school.
Kropadope
@Villago Delenda Est:
Well, at least Scalia’s…absence…has brought them forward a couple of centuries, assuming your reckoning is correct,
SoupCatcher
@BillinGlendaleCA: Cursive no longer on the menu, at least as far as San Jose Unified is concerned. Our daughter’s kinder teacher even went so far as to beg us to not even use cursive where our daughter could see. (Too late, as it turns out. And our daughter gleefully signed every homework assignment with her own version of cursive).
As an aside, when College Board went to requiring students to sign an honor code statement in cursive a few years ago, that was the first time many of my students had been required to write that way.
eta I’ve printed in all caps since my undergraduate drafting class.
Kropadope
@opiejeanne:
My apologies, but that’s fucking hilarious (from my removed perspective).
ETA: Oh, and not my aide, my teacher’s aide. I know, it sounded confusing when I wrote it, but I didn’t know how better to express it.
Kropadope
@SoupCatcher:
That’s too bad. None of my little cousins learned cursive either. I couldn’t imagine having to write more than a few sentences in print. So slow, so tiring, so unattractive.
Dog Dawg Damn
@SoupCatcher: I was shocked to find out cursive is off the menu at my niece’s public school. If I hadn’t learned to read/write cursive, I wouldn’t be able to read her great-grandmother’s letters. While I like to think that will all go by the wayside in the future, I’m not so sure. I’ll be teaching her myself at some point, no doubt.
Kropadope
@Kropadope: And now I apparently have word ordination problems. Maybe time to go to bed…naaaahhhhhh.
StellaB
I write in cursive and it’s quite readable. However, I always write prescriptions electronically. This being the 21st century and all.
redshirt
@efgoldman: Brain implants will link us all telepathically over the GREAT BLOG.
Kropadope
@StellaB: So you don’t work at Norwood Hospital, then. I mean, I can read most any chicken scratch and most handwritten Rxs aren’t that bad, but this hospital, OMG. Drug, directions, patient, date, no problem. But for some reason, everyone there likes to sign their name in a little squiggle than can’t even really be called lettering. And it’s always a resident, so there’s like a thousand of them on the same DEA number, so that’s useless. Uggh…
Kropadope
@redshirt:
So….not here?
redshirt
@Kropadope: The future is always 30 years from now.
John Revolta
So, how do you sign your name if you can’t write in cursive? I’ve been wondering about this for months.
StellaB
@Kropadope: OMG. Handwritten orders. Yikes! Is that still legal? I blame Obama! I was a software engineer before I went to medical school. I was appalled way back then when I had to write with a pen on paper. I used to use the electronic order system as a resident even though it involved picking numbers out of awful scolling menus.
Emma
@Kropadope: One of my cousins, a surgeon, has one of those elaborate family names that even keeping to a middle initial sounds like it belongs to a 16th century aristo. His signature is one gigantic sine wave followed by three smaller waves and a long tail. It looks like the EKG of a dying man.
opiejeanne
@BillinGlendaleCA: In California in the 50s they taught cursive, but they taught printing first.
all three of my kids learned cursive in elementary school, the youngest in the 90s.
redshirt
@John Revolta: X
Suzanne
@rikyrah: I have a hard time with that, too. So the dude who gets the most votes and the most delegates doesn’t get the nomination—and it goes to someone with dramatically fewer of each?! WHAAAAT?! I cannot see how a political party would survive that.
Kropadope
@StellaB: Totally legal and mainly coming from hospitals and pain clinics. And it’s mostly not that bad, a trained eye can read almost anything as long as there’s even a little to work with. Signatures really are the worst issue, like they think we don’t have to document who wrote the script or something.
@Emma:
To answer John Revolta’s question…
opiejeanne
@Kropadope: I thought it was pretty hilarious myself. Oh, if he only knew me. It’s all so wrong.
He looks to be in his late 40s and he barged into a conversation between Imani Gandy (Angry Black Lady) and myself. He objected to the word “mansplaining”. I don’t think he was even the rude guy we were talking about. She blocked him, I muted him.
The end.
opiejeanne
@Kropadope: I got the “damned teenagers” glare from a woman about ten years older than I am last week. I’m 66. She was driving her car in a parking lot and we were on foot, trying to get out of her way.
opiejeanne
@Dog Dawg Damn: The neighbor boy taught me to write cursive when I was in first grade. We weren’t supposed to learn that for at least another year. He drew the letters in the sand box and made me copy them. I was 7, he was 9. Sometimes there were no other kids to play with, otherwise he might not have bothered.
opiejeanne
@efgoldman: Aw, sweetie. He looked at my photograph with my white hair and my wry smile and assumed I was several things that I may be guilty of, but I hope dried up and ancient aren’t among them.
Kropadope
@opiejeanne:
Anything I might say about (estimated) 76 year old drivers in parking lots is probably better left unsaid.
opiejeanne
@redshirt: That’s amazing! It looks just like my great grandpa’s signature!
opiejeanne
@Kropadope: She was not doing a good job. Maybe she was another ten years older.
Honestly, we run into people our age or a little younger and are horrified by how old they look. They are old too early.
Went to the fair in Puyallup WA and it was Seniors’ Day. Every chair in the LazyBoy exhibit was occupied and they looked like they had settled in for the day.
seaboogie
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
No, not just a black person on US currency – a black woman on US currency: Harriet motherlovin’ Tubman. Suck on that, bitchez….
Kropadope
@opiejeanne: Age perception is a funny thing. My parents seem younger to me in a lot of respects than they did ten or twenty years ago. It could be that 40 looks older to a 13 year old than 60 does at 33. Or maybe not having to put up with three young children has been rejuvenating for them.
Kropadope
@seaboogie: Well, at least someone I voted for in the past year made it in.
StellaB
I saw the reshowing of the Met’s Roberto Devereux tonight from the comfort of our local movie theater. Yowsa! That was some kind of singing. All of those parts were hard too. It was longer than The Hateful Eight, but seemed shorter.
starscream
I don’t think Trump would be worse than Dubya. Cruz in my opinion could end the world.
opiejeanne
@efgoldman: On Twitter there’s a place for an avatar. It is considered bad form to retain the generic “egg” that everyone gets until they change it.
I may change my portrait to this one of Colleen Moore, shot by my grandfather: https://flic.kr/p/jaaJQ
Anne Laurie
@? Martin:
Being it was Greenpoint, I’m guessing some hipster gave his vote to Failgunner Ted ironically.
? Martin
@opiejeanne: That is an awesome photo. Very suitable for Twitter.
Darkrose
@LAO:
Definitely the best baseball-related news I’ve had today.
Applejinx
@SoupCatcher: I’ve printed in all caps ever since my old webcomic :)
Technocrat
@Applejinx:
I think the question of handwriting is actually moot for me. I can’t recall the last time I’ve done manual writing. Maybe a signature on a repair bill or something.
Hurling Dervish
@hueyplong: The Soviets closing in on his bunker.
qwerty42
@Dog Dawg Damn: … I wouldn’t be able to read her great-grandmother’s letters. While I like to think that will all go by the wayside in the future, I’m not so sure. I’ll be teaching her myself at some point, no doubt. …
Yeah we have some old letters that are similar. This means that future historians will have to be able to read it. If you are doing German history, their cursive is almost indecipherable to us. I have seen an example of it exactly once. For some idea, there is a scene in The Dirty Dozen where the agent is going to sign a hotel register and all the names that precede are in that cursive. Suspect other languages are much the same. My cursive is awful, in spite of the nuns … have mostly printed since classes in Fortran and Assembly.
Weaselone
@qwerty42:
Future historians will probably be able to read any known language in any known unencrypted format using whatever replaces the cell phone.
gelfling545
@efgoldman: Hm. Buffalo schools, though blighted in many ways, still teach cursive writing.
kindness
Anyone else see Susan Sarandon on The Nightly Show last night? I like Bernie and I respect Susan but last night’s visit with Larry just seemed to reinforce my unhappiness with BernieBros. Yea, Susan shone hard for her guy by laying it on thick to Hillary. Funny thing is, you’d think you were watching Fox News listening to what Susan said about a Democratic politician running for president. Purity Trolls. No I don’t have to love them. Just like Nader’s idiots 16 years ago, they’d prefer Democrats lose this election if they don’t get everything they want without any compromises what so ever. I’m sorry but I don’t want to live through another catastrophic Republican administration just so the liberal TeaHaddists can gloat.
CONGRATULATIONS!
@Luthe: Let me tell you a Corgi story that still makes me cry.
2013, my wife and I had just put down our 14 year old lab. We were, of course, numb and devastated. We go to see our nephew’s soccer game the next day. We’re both sitting there pretty much just locked off in a world of our own, and not a nice one.
I feel something furry and warm snuggle into my back. I turn around and it’s a Corgi. I say “hey little fella”. He just sits, quite content. I revel in having a dog next to me if only for a moment. About five minutes later, the owner comes over and just stops, floored. Says “he never, ever ever does that with strangers”. I explain the circumstances, which reassure him not one whit, he gets his dog and leaves. For the next month, ever dog we passed turned and stopped and would lean into us, or ask for pets. It was the weirdest thing I’ve ever experienced. They all knew – “oh, they lost their pack member”. I’d had only the one dog. I didn’t know just how much they know about everything going on around them. Truly awesome and humbling.
Still really appreciate the Corgi. They may not be nice all the time, but they’re nice when it counts.
Paul in KY
@efgoldman: He has an asshole where his heart should be.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Anne Laurie: Lizards deserve better than to be associated with Failgunner Ted. I’ve considered taking their case pro bono. All they ask is that the post include an apology for the unflattering and unkind comparison any readers may infer from the applied category. It’s quite witty – and appropriate given cultural views – but still unkind.
david10
@Kropadope: are you a middle-aged woman?
Turgidson
@Dog Dawg Damn:
Nah, they’d blame Drumpf for screwing everything up, and the establishment for not being sufficiently supportive of Tailgunner Ted. And some of them would undoubtedly blame the Tailgunner himself for running as too much of a RINO squish.