Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

T R E 4 5 O N

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

A consequence of cucumbers

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

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Irish Setter slander! Had I the skillz, one of those pianos would be labelled “John Miller” and another “John Barron“…
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IMO, this is another great HRC jab at the short-fingered vulgarian: While reminding decent voters that Trump is a bigoted sexist pig (‘Miss Housekeeping’ for a Latino pageant winner, really?) it also tweaks Trump on his failed second marriage, his lost pageant ownership, and his once-less-embarrassing combover…

Speaking of which, commentor Rikyrah pointed out an interesting Steve Benen article — “Why it matters that Donald Trump never vetted himself”:

It’s Campaign Management 101: It’s not enough to research your rivals; you have to research yourself. Taking a close look at your opponents’ backgrounds will help uncover their strengths and weaknesses, which in turn will help shape your strategy, but digging through your own background will help you anticipate and prepare for upcoming lines of attack…

… Mother Jones’ David Corn reported yesterday on a detail that should make Republicans nervous.

For most major presidential campaigns, it is a routine act: You conduct opposition research on your own candidate. The reason is obvious; campaign officials and candidates want to know what they might have to contend with once the you-know-what starts flying. But not Donald Trump.

At least not at the start of the campaign that would lead to him becoming the presumptive GOP nominee. According to a source with direct knowledge, when Trump was considering entering the presidential race early last year, his political advisers, including Corey Lewandowski, who would become his campaign manager, suggested that he hire a professional to investigate his past. But the celebrity mogul said no and refused to pay for it…

It would be a mistake for any national candidate to skip this part of the process, but for a guy like Trump – whose record includes a long list of personal and professional controversies – it’s incredibly reckless.

Corn’s report added, “The candidate, who now refuses to release his income taxes, did not want his own campaign scrutinizing his past. He was not willing to be transparent – not even for his own team.”

To be fair, Trump’s doing his whole campaign on the cheap. Maybe he just couldn’t afford to pay for better research.

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Apart from waiting for a millipede’s worth of further shoes to drop, what’s on the agenda for the day?

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  1. 1.

    Kropadope

    Trump is disgusting. Just a vile misogynistic loser. The disparity in expectations for Democrats and Republicans is breathtaking.

  3. 3.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Today in Republican governance: Judge to decide if death-row inmates in Louisiana need air conditioning Meh, right? So what else is new? Republicans live to sh!t on people just because they can. And then there is this little nugget:

    U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson questioned Friday why prison officials won’t spend roughly $1 million to install the air conditioning, since the state has already spent much more money fighting this issue in court.

    Ahh yes, spending millions of taxpayer dollars when their state is on the verge of bankruptcy just for the pleasure of shitting on someone they deem beneath them. Today’s GOP.

  4. 4.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    “The candidate, who now refuses to release his income taxes, did not want his own campaign scrutinizing his past. He was not willing to be transparent – not even for his own team.”

    That’s sort of like a defendant not telling his defense counsel his side of the case. Hey, guess you all!

  5. 5.

    Baud

    I vetted myself in preparation for my White House run.

    May God have mercy on my soul.

  7. 7.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    Man, Freddie really is a nut job (photo) and a coward.

    All last year I told readers how the DudeBros were attacking women and POC, and there were some, especially Cole, who refused to believe the ugliness. Well, better late than never.

  9. 9.

    satby

    Going to be a bittersweet day today, the memorial for my mom is today. Lots of funny stories, good memories, good friends; and my youngest son is in town from California and I haven’t seen him since last June. It promises to be a worthy sendoff for herself.

  10. 10.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Well, it is Texas:

    Due to a grammatical error in the section condemning homosexuality in the 2016 Texas Republican platform, the state party has actually suggested that the “majority of Texans” are gay and that the behavior of LGBT people is “ordained by God.”

    The section reads:
    Homosexuality is a chosen behavior that is contrary to the fundamental unchanging truths that has been ordained by God in the Bible, recognized by our nations founders, and shared by the majority of Texans.

    The copy editors at NPR noted that by using the singular “has” instead of “have,” the rest of the sentence refers to “behavior” instead of “truths.” NPR noted that the 2014 Texas Republican platform does not contain the same errors.

  14. 14.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @satby: Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that satby. It’s hard losing a loved one. Thinking of the good times always helps during tough moments.

  16. 16.

    Punchy

    About to run another half-marry. This one is for pride AND company points, which means balls-out effort is expected. Going to be in some epic pain come tee time this afternoon. Of course, thats after I prep for tomorrow’s triathlon….

  17. 17.

    Larv

    This is why I’m extremely dubious of think pieces claiming that Trump could win by appealing to economic insecurities and soft playing the less appealing parts of Republicanism. I think it’s very unlikely that this election will be decided on the basis of competing policies or platforms. Instead, it’s going to be all about personality and how well the candidates stand up to the rigors of a presidential campaign. I’m pretty optimistic about Hillary there – she’s got a lot of experience with handling attacks. But the Donald is a time bomb of braggadocio and insecurities. There’s a ton of toxic shit in his past just waiting to be unearthed, and I don’t see him handling it well. He already has a habit of blowing up at any media outlet or figure that runs anything critical of him (Megyn Kelly, WaPo, NYT, etc…). Over the course of a long, highly stressful campaign I don’t think that act is going to wear well.

  18. 18.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Baud: The opened up the choo-choo train to the beach! So, once we get a clear day down by the ocean; I’ll head down on the train a get some infrared shots of the Pacific.

  19. 19.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Punchy: Gee, all I’m thinking of doing is hike 2.5 miles.

    (Though there is a bit of risk of radiation exposure, the nuclear kind.)

  22. 22.

    Mai.naem.mobile

    Trump places such a high value on looks and yet he’s pretty unattractive himself – now and even when he was younger. He’s definitely more unattractive than Hilz. And thats just physically. Trump’s ugly on the inside too.

  24. 24.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Baud: It’s not heat with near-IR, it’s the reflection and absorption of the near-IR wavelengths of light.

    ETA: The heat pattern camera only works are relatively short ranges, about < 50 yards.)

  29. 29.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Baud: So basically the ocean will be a dark blue or black; it will still be an interesting picture especially with the Santa Monica pier.

  30. 30.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    I found out a my mom’s funeral, that the reason I didn’t get invited to my 10th high school reunion(it was the same year as my mom’s passing) is that that they thought I was dead. The folk that searched for alum saw my dad’s obituary and thought it was me(idiots).

  33. 33.

    Betty Cracker

    @satby:

    Lots of funny stories, good memories, good friends…

    That’s the best way to remember a loved one, IMO. May it comfort you and your family.

  35. 35.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Baud: It’s a short video taken with a 360 degree camera. The YouTube window has directional controls and you can move in any direction in the video.

    ETA: It’s like a photosphere, but video.

  36. 36.

    satby

    Thank you all: Baud, David, rikyrah, Betty. It’s going to be lovely as long as no one plays “On Eagle’s Wings”, because if that happens one red headed mourner will be breaking the organist’s fingers.

    Edited to add, we could probably do a long thread on worst dreck ever passed off as a “hymn”.

  40. 40.

    Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class

    Sometime in the last couple of days, I noted that an LGF commenter was lamenting that the Sanders campaign confirms the impression that the left side of the left is whiny, incompetent and inflexible (I’d say “brittle”).

    I’ve been accused a long time of hippie punching online, when I react to the antics of the left of the left (or as I now refer to them, “Bernsheviks”, who would burn it all down in order to seize the means of production, yards yadda). I prefer to think of it not as hippie punching, but instead as a curb stomping with some gratuitous final face kicks with golf cleats and high grade Italian loafers, with some final slams by a hand stitched leather carryon….

  42. 42.

    satby

    @Baud: yes… and one of the many reasons I hate it.. but it’s now used pretty often in the Catholic funerals I’ve been to. No one who appreciates music could even bring themselves to play it. Especially favored with the aspiring to be Evangelical crowd.
    Reaffirms why I left that church in my teens.

  44. 44.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    Earlier this week, I decided that an idea I have had progressed far enough that it was worth thinking of it as my next novel, though there are still a lot of pieces missing, like the middle 80%. I have a beginning, most of an ending, 3-4 characters, and a partial setting. What I don’t have is what the plot is about. But I wrote up a really, really rough draft of might be the opening scene.

    Here it is. I am very interested to hear what people think, though I recognize that this is far from polished prose and probably runs on way too long for the eventual scene. It’s more to get a feel for what I’m doing. I’m not sure how much I’ll be paying attention to BJ threads this weekend, as I’m kind of busy, but you can look me up on Facebook if you have thoughts to share.

    The thing that I don’t think comes through right is the relationship between Randolph and Walsh. They don’t especially like each other, complicated because Walsh’s legal status is, at best, that of an indentured servant to the FBI, so Randolph is as much her overseer as her co-worker.

  47. 47.

    Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class

    @Baud:

    Sadly, I’m back to work, and the jet lag was more awful than usual. Still, it was a glorious experience for us.

    Weirdly though, I got a recent itch to go tent camping. I bought all kinds of stuff, and figured out a “crown jewel” spot in the state park system which I’ve booked next weekend. We’re also going to visit middle daughter in Southern Illinois in June, and I’ve got a spot reserved there, too. We’ll see how it goes.

    I know we’re supposed to meet in Vegas in August (ugh) after one off her trade shows for a few days, and I’ve already paid for us to do a dive week at a dedicated dive resort in Bonaire in November (gotta remember to vote absentee). I’m finalizing a friend on buying a dive shop in the Keys in a few weeks – he’ll want me to do some celebratory dives in conjunction with that for a few days – I’ll be incapable of refusing that. Will probably do something in between then and November as well, maybe a spin around a Sandals or something.

  48. 48.

    Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:

    I finally tracked down a classmate who did that – in his case, He was a writer with a long and complicated last name that I think hung round his neck like an anchor.

  49. 49.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class: I stumbled onto one of their web sites yesterday and it’s nut-job central. Their whole “movement” is based on conspiracy theories and longing for their lost youth in the 60s.

    I read one post that was a phone book full CTs on how they believe Hillary stole the election.

    It’s sad. I thought our side believed in reality, but there’s a big slice that are nothing more than neo-truthers.

  56. 56.

    satby

    @OzarkHillbilly: I know, right? Somebody decided they were losing too many authoritarian followers to the Evangelical Protestants and decided to mimic the ostentatious awfulness of the worst of the megachurches. Ewwww
    !

  58. 58.

    geg6

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    As an ex-Catholic in a county spilling over with Catholics, I’m pleased to say that no recent Catholic funeral here that I have attended (and with my age and demographic means I’ve attended a lot of them) has ever featured that hymn. I have a hard enough time sitting through a funeral mass due to my utter contempt for the Church but that would just send me round the bend. Don’t know that I’d be able to contain myself.

  59. 59.

    ET

    Trump thinks he is fabulous. He thinks he is blameless and all his actions or at least justified. He thinks he always right. And he thinks because all of that is self evident why would that exercise be necessary?

  60. 60.

    lollipopguild

    @ET: Trump also knows that they would have found several wharehouses full of material that can and will be used against him so why bother to pay someone to dig it up?

  63. 63.

    scav

    No idea what horrows lurk as funeral music, but after years of reading about the historical Kirk, well, look who’s trundling along into our century? Church of Scotland votes to allow ministers to be in same-sex marriages. Basically, just let the local parish decide although we officially have our opinions. You’ld think the creator had endowed people with free will or something. Plus they seem to be nice to refugees and to be on speaking terms with the UN. The Kirk?! Really should start paying attention to things that happened since John Knox was thundering about.

  66. 66.

    WaterGirl

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: I went to high school with a guy who changed his name as soon as he got old enough. Original name was Joe Kotek – we used to joke that he changed it to Tampon. I’m sure he appreciated how funny we were at 17.

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