Via Slate, a new praying mantis species discovered by a female scientist who identified the species by studying female specimens rather than male has named the creature after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
Ilomantis ginsburgae, as the species is now known, was identified through a somewhat unusual scientific process. Typically, researchers study mantis specimens’ male genitalia to delineate their species. But Sydney Brannoch, the Ph.D. candidate at Case Western Reserve University who led the ginsburgae study, decided to study female mantis’ genitalia instead—and, thanks to her innovation, was able to distinguish Ilomantis ginsburgae as a new species. (The specimen she studied had actually been sitting around since 1967; you can learn more about Brannoch’s methodology here.)
“This research establishes the validity of using female specimens in the classification of praying mantises,” Brannoch concluded. “It is my hope that our work not only sets a precedent in taxonomy but also underscores the need for scientists to investigate and equally consider both sexes in other scientific investigations.”
Brannoch named the mantis after Ginsburg on account of the justice’s “relentless fight for gender equality”—an apt tribute, given the feminist-tinged method by which ginsburgae was discovered. The researcher also chose Ginsburg because of her love of jabots, the frilly lace collar the justice often wears on her robes. Brannoch sees a jabot-type quality in the mantis’ neck plate.
The only thing that could make this story any cooler is if some experiment goes awry in the lab, producing a giant, marauding mutant Ilomantis ginsburgae that travels to Washington, DC and bites the heads off Justices Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Kennedy on President Hillary Clinton’s inauguration day. Open thread!
rikyrah
This is too funny for words
chopper
but wait, what’s that in the distance? oh no, it’s a giant genetically-modified 40-story tall yam! run for it!
Major Major Major Major
In Which We Get To The Bottom Of Some Crazy-Ass Language, at JSTOR:
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Voting: Use it or lose! I guess
I hope the DNC, state party, Clinton camp are on this
Origuy
I will not read the comments on that story. I won’t! You can’t make me!
Shell
And that definitely should be her next lapel pin!
Miss Bianca
I love it. That’s up there with testudo aubreii as my favorite species naming.
Cat48
That is awesome. The Justice is so cute; love the way she goes,over to get a kiss from the prez at every SOTU or whenever she sees him.
Major Major Major Major
@Miss Bianca: At first I read that as ‘tetsuo’ and was like ‘the bad guy from Akira is an… odd name for a tortoise.’
Bob In Portland
The villagers really love icons, love them better than what their icons are supposed to but never deliver.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Kay and I told y’all Husted is a vicious slimebag in search of minority and/or Democratic voters to suppress, by any means necessary. I’m pretty certain Pepper’s crew at ODP is on it.
Cat48
Clinton is giving a speech right now on how bad Trump would be at FP. It’s an asskicker!
PaulWartenberg2016
Gosh, Steve, that would be wrong.
He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature… and because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can’t be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection… they find only death… fire… loss… disillusionment… the end of everything that’s gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can’t be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside, from Man himself.
Wait, wrong Peter Graves movie…
Major Major Major Major
@Cat48: Ooh, thanks. Listening.
ETA: “That’s why, even if I wasn’t in this race, I would be doing everything I could to make sure Trump does not become president…”
Hmmmmmm
Aardvark Cheeselog
You realize what the Justices would have to be doing in order to provoke this traumatic decapitation you’re dreaming about?
Napoleon
Well its good to see my school Case Western Reserve University is keeping its name in the news.
ArchTeryx
It’s a Ruth Bader Ginsbug!
There, I said it. ^.^
patroclus
Hillary is really laying into Trump. “He thinks he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia.” “He praises dictators and picks fights with the British PM, the London Mayor, the German Chancellor, the President of Mexico and the Pope.” “He says climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese.”
ploeg
CJ Roberts must live to administer the oath.
Steeplejack (phone)
Love that “Separated at birth?” illustration at the top.
Major Major Major Major
@Cat48: She’s too quiet. Reminds me of my grandma almost, and my grandma would never stand up to Putin. She should get a speech coach. Has she tried shouting? It works for the other guys.
Gravenstone
@ploeg: Hell of a denouement, though.
Miss Bianca
@Major Major Major Major: Ah, but you grok it now? In the first book in that series, Stephen Maturin (the naturalist who names the tortoise) also has a great bit where he’s observing two mantises mate.
Reading your formatting article, btw!
@Steeplejack (phone): Me, too!
The Lodger
@Aardvark Cheeselog: Ew. I repeat, ew.
smintheus
If you haven’t read this post by Philip Klinkner at Vox about the factors that predict support for Trump, you’ll want to.
The last chart is the most revealing. It shows as clearly as possible that racial resentment drives support for Trump, by graphing it against both economic pessimism and optimism. Those two lines are virtually identical, and dip into pro-Trump territory only as you enter the top-third of the most racially resentful.
Cat48
@Major Major Major Major:
Men complain that she screams so guess she’s testing
Major Major Major Major
@Miss Bianca: Yeah, I loved the first few of those books! Set it down a number of years ago and tried to pick it back up recently. NO idea what’s going on. That’s the problem with picaresques.
Major Major Major Major
Good to hear a vigorous defense of the Iran deal from Hillz.
Miss Bianca
btw, I remain a little bit gob-smacked by this bit:
Why *wouldn’t* they be doing this routinely? I mean, it’s ironic and all that the mantis gets to be the poster bug for this type of classification, but really! Reminds me of all those medical studies where they’d only study men, and then wonder why women might exhibit different symptoms, or different reactions to drugs.
laura
The notorious RBG! She’s relentless in her pursuit of justice and just keeps being awesome.
I can imagine that she’s tickled pink at the honor.
Alain the site fixer
So a few weeks ago I saw Wagner’s The Ring Cycle at the Washington National Opera at Kennedy Center. For Die Walkure (2/4 operas in cycle) mom and I were there early so we we waiting for them to open the theater to us and out come a well dressed but young couple from the closed doors. I quickly noticed their badges, collar mikes, etc. and realized it was the Secret Service. I assumed they we’re there because Newt had been there the night before. Right before I sat down, I almost stumbled over this tiny, little old lady. I had to do a double take because a dear family friend suffering Alzheimer’s was there and she resembled our friend. It wasn’t here, but she looked familiar. It wasn’t until the ride home with mom that I realized it had been the Fabulous RBG.
Folks, she’s old, frail, and she won’t last through the next Presidential term.
We HAVE to win this one. We need to embrace our brother Democrats and pull them to the polls in November, #BernieorBust, annoying purists, whomever – we really need to win this thing. Two openings in the Suprme Court will radically remake the court, and that needs to be our reward for electing the first woman President!
ETA mom and I have tickets for a special one night presentation by her about the law in opera. We. Cannot. Wait.
dedc79
Derek Sprague (current PGA president) should offer Trump his job if he agrees to drop out of the presidential race:
Miss Bianca
@Major Major Major Major: Yeah, at that point, you pretty much have to go back and reread from the beginning. If you like audio books, Patrick Tull’s narration is simply wonderful. That’s how I’m re-reading them right now!
Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap
@Bob In Portland: How about a nice pancake recipe Bob ?
dedc79
Trump/Ryan ’16:
LAO
Surprise! Paul Ryan endorses Trump. politicalwire.com/2016/06/02/paul-ryan-endorses-trump/
ETA: I see dedc79 beat me to the punch. Well played.
cckids
@Cat48:
She “shouts” at rallies, especially when she’s losing her voice. Just like all the other candidates do.
Personally, I loved Michelle Wolf’s “Advice to Hillary” from TDS. “Maybe her voice isn’t the problem. Maybe you need to fix your bitch-ass ears”.
I wish that whole thing would go viral. Hillary need to unleash the person from the “Texts with Hillary” meme.
Cat48
@Alain the site fixer:
Ok, but you have to convince Susan Sarandon. I might hit her. Hills is the DEVIL to her.
ruemara
@Bob In Portland: Considering you’re a Bernie/Stein fan, your musing is hilarious.
Major Major Major Major
@Tilda Swinton’s Bald Cap: Wow, remind me to never get on your bad side! ?
ruemara
@PaulWartenberg2016: you are now officially cool.
Yutsano
@Major Major Major Major: Makes sense since she laid the groundwork for it.
Booping out for lunch but back soon.
SiubhanDuinne
Anybody listening to HRC’s foreign policy speech? Wow, gloves off! If she brings this game to her presidency, I have no worries.
Mnemosyne
@PaulWartenberg2016:
“Do you like gladiator movies?”
Sorry, *really* wrong Peter Graves movie.
Cat48
@cckids:
Her throat gets scratchy after speeches everyday. You know that even happens to Obama and even Bernie! Sigh……
Mike J
Clinton: “Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different – they are dangerously incoherent.”
cckids
@SiubhanDuinne: Yep. She’s bringing both the substance and a few great, quoteable quips.
“You can’t work with other countries via Twitter put-downs. Though I’m sure he’s typing up a few right now.”
Belittle Deadbeat Donnie & continue to show him up as the ignorant jackass he is.
Jeffro
@SiubhanDuinne:
Live feed plz front pagers – this one is even more awesome than PBO’s yesterday. BLISTERING. She SO has his number!
Miss Bianca
@ArchTeryx: tiny, little, mantis-hand-sized golf clap.
@Alain the site fixer: Wow! Torn between saying a proper degree of sober alarm at your message and, “Wow! you actually *saw* RBG at the opera! Geek squee!”
cckids
@Cat48: Surely not! That has to be a *ahem* female affliction, doesn’t it?
Trollhattan
@ArchTeryx:
Ginsbug in my garden!
cckids
@Jeffro: Seconded!! “Do we want him, in a crisis, to have not just his Twitter account at his fingertips, but America’s nuclear arsenal?”
BAM.
Cat48
@SiubhanDuinne: This is a kickass speech, I’m proud of her. She gutted him like a fish!
Jeffro
June 2, 2016: the day da Twitter went BOOM
Mike J
dmsilev
@cckids:
Nice.
4 months of this, and Trump will show up at the debates literally foaming at the mouth. If he shows up, of course.
cckids
Pointing out that Trump ran full-page ads across America in 1987 (during the Sainted Ronnie’s term!!!), saying even then “The world is laughing at us!” was just genius.
Jeffro
@cckids: She is lighting him up…and for all the right reasons. Dude is totally going to stroke out and never make it to Cleveland.
Major Major Major Major
@Trollhattan: Kewl!
cckids
Wherever she is, the crowd is loving her.
Alain the site fixer
@Cat48: with pleasure. She’s worn out her charm on me. Just like Bernie has. In 2008 I was very pro Obama and chose to attend the national Convention the night Hillary gave her speech and support. I knew right then that she had my support in 2016. I seriously doubt that I will feel so towards Bernie. I deeply deeply fear the multi year effects on the young passionate believers. I suspect they will be disillusioned and then will be disinclined to vote and get involved again until they have children because of the Bernie campaign’s blowing the pipe. I saw lots of that in the 2008 campaign, folks who had supported Nader then Dean and then held it against subsequent Democrats. It’s so easy to be petulant when you are so pure!
Corner Stone
That speech was barn burner. Great cadence and delivery.
Danack
“The only thing that could make this story any cooler”
Well, one thing that would make the story cooler is to use the name of the tool that they usually use to inspect insects male reproductive organs; it’s called a phalloblaster. sciencephoto.com/set/981/phalloblaster
*warning contains beetle penis*
dmsilev
Heh:
D58826
@Corner Stone: Yea but what does she REALLY think of ‘old small, hands’ and his possum.
catclub
@dedc79:
I thought Trump should demand a huge payment from Shelly Adelson, the Kochs, and other ‘real’ billionaires not to run. Then run third party anyway. Maybe he asked and they turned him down and he is still running.
The Moar You Know
@Alain the site fixer: Love her but she really should have bowed out three or four years ago. Staying was selfish. I get it, but…you have a nation to think of.
SiubhanDuinne
@Alain the site fixer:
I saw RBG give that talk last summer, copiously illustrated by a cast of delightful young music students. Enjoy!
Trollhattan
@Major Major Major Major: When they get that big they are eating MACHINES! Plus it’s unnerving they follow our movement by turning their mantis heads. “Oh yeah, I see you.”
Miss Bianca
@cckids: that is seriously wonderful. I think I love this Michelle Wolf wild lady.
Corner Stone
Paul Ryan saying he will be voting for Trump this fall. Coward.
Mnemosyne
They’re playing a Jethro Tull song over the loudspeaker at the cafeteria at work. I feel much less high than I think I need to be for this song.
catclub
@cckids: Trump history is probably a massive field of goodies for opposition researchers.
Corner Stone
This clown on MSNBC thinks Paul Ryan will dominate the media over Clinton’s badass speech. It might, at that, but what a fucking clear indictment of the press if it does.
Miss Bianca
@Mnemosyne: which Tull song?
Mnemosyne
@The Moar You Know:
Given how the Repugs have reacted to Scalia’s death, what makes you think Obama would have been allowed to replace her?
Mnemosyne
@Miss Bianca:
I don’t know. Something with a flute. :-p
I only know, like, 3 Tull songs, and it wasn’t one I recognized. I think they have satellite radio on.
Matt McIrvin
@The Moar You Know: She’d need to have retired in 2009 or 2010, when Obama made his successful appointments. Otherwise, we’d have two vacancies on the Court now.
I really think that the game here has changed; the Senate is going to leave all SCOTUS appointments by Democratic Presidents vacant until it flips parties, and the new norm is that you simply don’t get to do it until the Senate is held by the same party. At least the filibuster for SCOTUS appointments will probably be gone soon.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: Weren’t there calls for her to step down pre-2012, when the Dems still had a majority*?
*Failing the nuclear option, then in 2010, when they still had 60?
Mnemosyne
@Trollhattan:
We came out a restaurant in Pasadena one night and found one that size on the roof of my car. It did *not* want to be moved and kept buzzing its wings at us to make us back off.
Corner Stone
HRC just iced Trump, mangling him badly. He sounds like Billy Madison trying to form a coherent response.
cckids
@catclub: No lie. Just basic googling would be a treasure trove. Anything more in-depth? Solid gold.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
They’ll have to be. The Ohio Dem Party is pathetic and useless.
Corner Stone
I’m suddenly reminded…”The Party picks the nominee”
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
There were, but it’s 2016 now. I get really tired of “what ifs.” Unless someone invents a time machine, there’s no point in whining about it now.
hovercraft
@Mike J:
Trollhattan
@Mnemosyne:
Never knew the bloody things can fly until I was my 20s, when one buzzed out of the dark and past my face to land on a nearby wall and stare at the light. Time for a boxer change, stat!
Cat48
@Alain the site fixer:
Agree, Hillary’s speech at Convention moved me too and I also thought, next time I’m for you! I’m older but I know it will be hard to get Bernies people. Idealism and purity are hard to overcome. It will b harder if Bernie doesn’t help at first. Time is good for healing and we will have a few months to work on them. I just had to vote Obama too & I will miss him much. He is a special person.
Corner Stone
Fucking Hugh Hewitt.
chopper
@Mike J:
hilz needs to replace her twitter avatar with the rage comic troll guy.
ruemara
Way OT, but I’m listening to the brand new release from ABC (yes, that group). Damn. Its like the 1980’s never left. Martin Fry sounds great and all the songs are good.
hovercraft
Shana
@Alain the site fixer: I saw her with a grandchild (I assume) at Arena Stage a few years ago. Daughter and I were thrilled, smiled at her but didn’t intrude.
I also saw Sonia Sotomayor at City Center in NYC a couple of years ago.
Two down, 6 to go.
hovercraft
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@hovercraft:
Thanks for posting that – I’m at work and am missing it. The best thing about Hillary pivoting to the GE with this speech, is that it makes anything Bernie fucking Sanders says from now on, look really small. Bernie doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground regarding foreign policy anyway, as he admits and has no time for, admittedly. He’s been rendered irrelevant as of today.
raven
Yutsano
@Shana: If you’re up to the task you can hold a séance for Scalia.
burnspbesq
And in other news, the Fed makes Bernie’s obsession with breaking up big banks look really stupid.
motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/06/heres-best-news-weve-gotten-all-year
bemused
@hovercraft:
Keep going Hillary! Trump will be up all night tweeting and hopefully every night for the next 5 months until he is hallucinating and slurring.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@burnspbesq:
Sanders should declare victory and go home after today.
SiubhanDuinne
@Corner Stone:
And fucking MSNBC for defaulting to Hewitt every.single.time.
JPL
@Corner Stone:
No RNC rapid response yet and Trump hasn’t tweeted in 37 minutes.
Abby Phillip on twitter
SiubhanDuinne
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
Quite sure that was no accident on the Clinton side (and not a moment too soon).
chopper
@raven:
wow, really shouting it from the mountaintops there. what, he couldn’t remember his myspace login?
Reggie Mantle
@Cat48:
I’m sure stuff like these gems from the BJ commentariat will help “overcome” idealism if you just yell them loud enough at Sanders supporters:
Oh, and they could insult Jane Sanders’ looks some more. Maybe some Trumpkins will think that’s cool and come to Hillary.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
p.a.
Trump campaign could be taking big hits from TrumpU and soldier aid donations. Do we really want his campaign in trouble before the convention?
1) could these issues provide the Repub elite an opening to sleaze through a more competent candidate?
or
2) could an attempt of this type just ‘incentivize’ the Trumpists to burn the whole rotten Rethug edifice down? (it’s what fascists do when crossed, yes?)
debbie
@raven:
Talk about drinking the Kool-Aid!
Patricia Kayden
Would be even funnier if the giant, marauding mutant Ilomantis ginsburgae bit off Trump’s gigantic head on President Clinton’s inauguration day and then spits it out in disgust. I would personally watch that video one million times.
Gin & Tonic
@Reggie Mantle: Protip. This schtick is getting long in the tooth. How about some thought’s on HRC’s speech.
Cat48
@SiubhanDuinne:
Hewitt always lies or exaggerates. He’s blaming Hill for decisions the president makes. The SOS does not. Also, he’s going to prepare a speech for the last 8yrs, but she was there for four. I hate the little bastard!
the Conster, la Citoyenne
I hope someone brought the cheese, because someone brought the whine.
chopper
@Reggie Mantle:
oh boo hoo, people on a third-rate blog are being mean to a melodramatic, whiny sad-sack. grow up and get a fucking helmet.
Shana
@Yutsano: What a horrifying idea!
Reggie Mantle
@Gin & Tonic:
It was a good speech and will drive Trump out of his fucking mind.
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@JPL:
I look upon Trump as old white male America’s rage boner that has lasted for over four hours. There’s now a bit of a problem, and 37 minutes without a rage boner tweet is a manifestation of that bit of a problem…
Major Major Major Major
@Reggie Mantle: Fuck you. (This is Balloon-Juice for ‘good afternoon’ if you didn’t know.)
All kidding aside, I still don’t see what sort of person would let anonymous blog comments drive them so nuts that they’d support Trump over Hillary since Bernie didn’t win.
I mean, I do see what sort of person would do that, but those sorts of people are stupid and I hate them and also there are probably five hundred of them in the entire country so they don’t really matter. If I found myself concerned with every group of five hundred people I might piss off by anonymous(-ish) yelling on a blog nobody(-ish) reads, well…
Bex
Lin-Manuel Miranda is leaving Hamilton. Let the mourning begin…
Trollhattan
@chopper:
To be fair, there was also a broadcast email on AOL.
Reggie Mantle
@chopper:
Hey, @Cat48, be sure to add that to the list of slogans the Clinton campaign can use to “overcome” idealism and bring the Sanders supporters running to Hillary.
Corner Stone
@Gin & Tonic:
It was straight balls.
Yutsano
@Reggie Mantle: If you pay attention to Twitter, it already has.
Patricia Kayden
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Read the entire article. How the hell is it alright to purge voter rolls for “infrequent” voting? I hope the DNC is filing suit immediately to get this action reversed. This is ridiculous. Talk about trying to steal an election.
burnspbesq
@Major Major Major Major:
Two of the 60 were Lieberman and Sanders, which made it not 60 for all purposes
Replacing Ginsburg at that time would have been more likely to move the Court to the right, because it’s highly unlikely that Obama could have gotten anyone to the left of Sotomayor and Kagan confirmed.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
Reggie Mantle
@Major Major Major Major:
You seem to be very determined to prove how irrelevant you are.
Trollhattan
@burnspbesq:
My guess is both Sotomayor and Kagan have benefited immensely having served with RBG this entire time.
Patricia Kayden
@Aardvark Cheeselog: It’s a mutant praying mantis. It devours men for different reasons than normal praying mantises.
Corner Stone
@Trollhattan:
*Throws on white blazer over pastel crew neck*
Tubbs, let’s roll.
Major Major Major Major
@Reggie Mantle: That’s, uh… okay. Do I need to point out you’re an anonymous commenter on a blog nobody reads too?
Trollhattan
@Corner Stone:
Oh man. Cue Jan Hammer riff, fire up Ferrari/fake Ferrari/cigarette boat and hit it. “Let’s do this, pal!”
Lamh36
#NiecyZoe 10 months today! Who can believe it’s been almost 1 year????
twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/738460148356763648
SiubhanDuinne
Tweety keeps saying that Hillary’s speech was “nationalistic.” I’m not sure he and I define that word quite the same way.
Brachiator
Notorious BUG!
Corner Stone
I hate that fucking Passat commercial.
No, Dad, I’d rather live to see graduation than worry about you embarrassing me in front of my friends. Now could you stop the fucking car here before you smash into the rear end of that car while you’re speeding in a school zone? Asshole.
Alain the site fixer
@SiubhanDuinne: I shall, and thanks again for the Ring suggestions. I’ve begun a long journey!
SiubhanDuinne
@Lamh36:
Dear FSM that baby is cute! She’s going to be given an epic first birthday party, I have no doubt!
Patricia Kayden
@Mike J: Love Secretary Clinton’s response! Boom!
Chyron HR
@Reggie Mantle:
How about no? Does no work for you?
Major Major Major Major
@Lamh36: What a cutie!
Mnemosyne
@Reggie Mantle:
If you have to be convinced to block neo-fascist Trump from office because you don’t think he’ll be that bad, you’re already useless.
Corner Stone
At this point I think it’s pretty clear this blog is completely in the tank for Sanders. No FP post on Hillary’s “Daisy Ad” speech? It’s been like….at least a few minutes fer FSM’s sake!
Davis X. Machina
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: Any true progressive would swap an increase in bank capital requirements for some frog-marching CEO’s in a heartbeat.
Gin & Tonic
@Trollhattan: Easy to make fun now, but what other show had the stones to bring on Frank Zappa as a guest star?
SiubhanDuinne
@Alain the site fixer:
I’ve been on my Ring journey for a bit more than half a century. It never gets old. There are new layers of understanding and insight with every rehearing or re-viewing. Magical stuff.
Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap
@Reggie Mantle: Hey Reg, try this one !
burnspbesq
@Reggie Mantle:
You’re obviously not thinking clearly, so let me spell it out for you.
If progressives rally around Clinton and she wins big, then after the election they can plausibly say “good things happen when we are inside the tent, pissing out. Give us sumpin sumpin going forward.” If they don’t and Clinton wins anyway (which she will), then folks like me who are the core of the Party can plausibly say “We don’t need you to win, you flakes, so GFY.”
Which outcome is better for progressives?
Davis X. Machina
@Corner Stone: She didn’t mean it. Plus she’s going to bomb Iran.
Everyone Knows that…
Miss Bianca
@Lamh36: Are you trying to make us stroke out on THE CUTE??
Getting ready to head up to Paonia for a job interview. Maybe soak in a hot spring for a couple hours on my way. Yea!
Mnemosyne
@Bex:
Once they made the “Mary Poppins” casting announcement, you knew it was coming. The guy *already* has, like, three side gigs. Did they say if Javi is going to be taking over full-time?
(You know, as if I actually know any of these people. “Javi.”)
raven
@Davis X. Machina: She’ll bomb somebody real quick. Take it to the bank.
Cat48
@Lamh36:
So sweet, I wish I could hold the cutie for a while.
SiubhanDuinne
@Brachiator:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
D58826
@burnspbesq: It certainly makes a lot more sense for each bank to decide on it’s business model. If that includes downsizing then so be it. Each bank knows best how it wants to proceed. And best of all – no long time consuming, expensive and not guaranteeed to win law suits.
Reggie Mantle
@burnspbesq:
Except you’re already saying that. So your confidence in a Clinton win without 10 million plus voters may very well be misplaced.
Corner Stone
@SiubhanDuinne: He’s a little late.
It’s a Ruth Bader Ginsbug!
Corner Stone
Man, that Tweety v Jeff Weaver tax return interview yesterday was freakin brutal.
gvg
@Reggie Mantle: You need to realize that the anger is directed at you for acting like an ass, not all Sanders supporters, you. You are hiding behind others reputation and accusing us of attacking ALL those other supporters, but its not them who have been boring our ears off for days now, it’s you and a very few specific others. You are being provoking, deliberately insulting and boring. Please just be quiet. If you could and a couple of others, the reaction anger would die down too.
Most Sanders supporters I know are much better behaved, in fact several are my dearest relatives. They will vote for Hillary mostly. They won’t pick fights.
There are 2 possibilities: you are very young and have never had your preferred candidate lose a primary or election before, or you have some other cause of all this nasty anger. If so, you need to figure it out somewhere else. I have seen my choice lose before. most of the time it was still ok except for when Bush II won and I recall calming others down by pointing out that government was mostly run long term employees…..boy that was too optimistic. Which is why I care so much about defeating Trump and really want to take congress back too. Lots of Democrats not just one crucial one will protect the most.
You really are annoying and you don’t get to hide behind Sanders. You are to blame for the reaction you are getting.
Davis X. Machina
@gvg: I liked Roger Munson better anyways.
Villago Delenda Est
I totally approve of Betty’s mad scientist experiment.
Corner Stone
Susan Sarandon. For God’s Fucking Sake. What in the absolute fuck was that bullshit?
Mnemosyne
@Lamh36:
Wait, is she actually walking now, or just standing while holding onto things? Because you guys are going to have your hands full once she starts moving on her own.
Fun thing my boss did for her twin boys around that age: she put child locks on all of the kitchen cabinets except one. She filled the unlocked one with old Tupperware that they could pull out and bang around to their heart’s content. I suspect you’re going to need a lot of ways to distract that baby since she’s already so smart!
geg6
Dear Major IV,
This guy, I’m convinced, is a Repub troll. Nobody whines as much as Repub trolls, MRAs, bigots and libertarians. And the Venn diagram on that is pretty much a circle in a single shade. I don’t know how you manage the energy to engage these assholes. They exhaust me. So whining and needy. I didn’t have kids so as to avoid that shit in my life, but as long as there are Repub trolls, MRAs, bigots and libertarians, I guess I’m stuck with their juvenile crap. Glad there are intrepid souls out there like you with the energy to engage.
Love,
geg6
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Davis X. Machina:
Emoprogs with daddy issues who cut themselves then run away from home agree with you.
Major Major Major Major
@Reggie Mantle: Show me where all 10 million Bernie voters a) said they’d vote for any Democrat in November *cough*west virginia*cough* and b) said they wouldn’t vote for Hillary? The real dead-enders were mostly lost votes anyway, the types that would have gone Green or Libertarian absent Bernie and quite frankly probably would have anyway once it became clear that Bernie would have to moderate/compromise/etc. as the nominee. Most of the Bernie voters who say they won’t vote for Hillary are… not lying, but they’re going to end up voting for Hillary.
amk
@Reggie Mantle:
Some nice projection there, bs bot, given that it was bs who claimed “trumpkins” will vote for him.
bs had his big chance and blew it big time. Time to move on.
Mnemosyne
@Reggie Mantle:
“Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos!”
Yes, it’s true, as long as you don’t give a shit about women, minorities, the economy, the environment, or war, you have nothing to worry about with a Trump election.
But I’m not sure that revealing yourself as a sociopath who doesn’t give a shit about other people unless we can say what’s in it for you is really the best way to convince people to cater to you, regardless of what Mommy has led you to believe.
Trollhattan
@Gin & Tonic:
Hell, I was glued to it back in the day–yoooge Michael Mann fan–but it didn’t age well. OTOH “Crime Story” was and remains one of the very best cop shows.
Chyron HR
I’m pretty sure Trump is going to lose by a smaller margin than Sanders did. Is Clinton supposed to appoint Trump to her cabinet or whatever else is necessary to placate the feelings of those poor people who’s candidate lost, or is this only a courtesy to be extended to Sanders’ supporters?
Trollhattan
@Mnemosyne:
Bernie’s concession:
“My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball; but tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!”
Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap
Reggie’s problem is not eating enough pancakes !
Reggie Mantle
@gvg:
Oh, please. There was Bernie-bashing and foaming at the mouth, spit-spraying rage against his supporters before I even began commenting. You can read for yourself. I’m just pointing it out. And I’m not the only one.
So don’t even bother trying to claim this anger and this hatred for all things Sanders is just directed at me or that all this is because I’m being an ass. You people have turned on progressives as virulently as any Rove-inspired wingnut. You’ve become a center left version of Breitbart.
Reggie Mantle
@Tilda Swinton’s Bald Cap:
You do love some pancakes, don’t you?
amk
@Reggie Mantle:
More likely, 9.99 million bs voters are smarter than the clowns like you.
Gin & Tonic
@Trollhattan: +1 for “Crime Story” – despite Andrew Clay.
Trollhattan
@Reggie Mantle:
Am beginning to see your main shortcoming. Pro tip: use liberally (heh) around your black acquaintances.
Mnemosyne
@Trollhattan:
“Abortions for some, tiny American flags for others!”
Reggie Mantle
I found this post actually rather poignant:
Amen.
Mnemosyne
@Tilda Swinton’s Bald Cap:
One of the restaurants around here serves a bacon-laced pancake with a sunny-side up egg in the middle. Delish. I think they call them Dutch pancakes.
The Thin Black Duke
@Gin & Tonic: And Willie Nelson!
Major Major Major Major
@Reggie Mantle: Nobody’s making you stay. Rageahol is a hell of a drug, but that doesn’t mean you have to indulge.
Poopyman
@Corner Stone: ‘splain, please?
raven
If ya’ll stop talking to this fucking moron it will go away.
Cat48
The Obama Coalition can win again. Obama will not let a Birther win.
chopper
@Reggie Mantle:
i don’t really care who whiny shits like you vote for. i honestly don’t give a shit about that. i’m trying to get you to stop fucking pissing and moaning all over our comment section about how you’re being so persecuted for being a whiny shit.
you want to have a pity party do it on your own blog.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@raven:
what fucking moron?
Reggie Mantle
@Major Major Major Major:
Advice some of you could take as well.
I’m not the one posting GO THE FUCK AWAY in ALL CAPS or posting “fuck you, and fuck your conscience.”
As I said, I suspect the depth of the anger reflects the deep seated insecurity you have about your candidate.
chopper
@Trollhattan:
“am i too late for the 4:30 autogyro?”
Bex
@Mnemosyne: He’s the understudy? If so they said he’s the likely replacement.
Major Major Major Major
@Reggie Mantle:
See, now you’ve earned my ire, because that makes no fucking sense and is stupid and people who say stupid things bother me. Tschuß.
SFAW
@Reggie Mantle:
What exactly is your purpose for commenting here?
1) To try to be “convinced” to vote for Hillary, because you’re (allegedly) willing to consider it, but not there yet?
2) To show the evil BJ-ers what a righteous and pissed-off Bernie-or-Bust-er is like when he gets insulted for being a Bernie-or-Bust-er?
3) To show the BJ-ers what a noble and pure individual you are, with your righteous love of Bernie (or Hillary hatred or both)?
4) To be an emissary from the “10 million” Sanders voters to a blog where everybody (allegedly) hates all Bernie voters?
or is it that you’re just trolling?
You sure as shit don’t speak for the 10 million, because they’re not foaming-at-the-mouth whiners like you. Well, I imagine some are, but I expect most of them are rational, made what they felt was the better choice for the primary, but don’t need to have their tender fee-fees stroked. You haven’t shown any inclination that you want to be “convinced” — you only screech about how BJ-ers are driving every single Sanders voter into Deadbeat Donnie’s loving (and manly) arms.
No, you’re just trolling, and you most likely never considered voting for Hillary — it was just a way to pretend you were sincere.
But on the infinitesimally small chance that you’re not trolling, then you really need to grow the fuck up.
SiubhanDuinne
@Corner Stone:
Ruth Bader Ginsbug, LOL!! Sorry I missed seeing that earlier. I love it!
Mnemosyne
@Reggie Mantle:
Yeah, it’s so weird that if you refuse to go away after people repeatedly ask you to go, those people get increasingly angry with your continued refusal to leave. So bizarre.
Have you had much interaction with actual humans, or do you encounter other people solely through the internet? You seem strangely oblivious to social norms.
Reggie Mantle
@chopper:
Maybe you should take Major X4’s advice about “rage-ahol.”
Mnemosyne
@Bex:
Yes, Javier Munoz. He’s been the regular weekly replacement for the whole run and has gotten very good reviews on his nights, so it makes sense for him to step into it. That was probably the plan all along.
chopper
@Reggie Mantle:
i’ll do that if you take everybody else’s advice and fuck the fuck right off.
deal?
burnspbesq
@Reggie Mantle:
Quite wrong. And stupid.
Villago Delenda Est
@raven: Sage advice. Don’t feed the energy creature.
Patricia Kayden
@raven: So I’ve learned. Ignore the srv and Reggie whatevers. They’re not worth ruining multiple comments sections over.
Major Major Major Major
@Villago Delenda Est:
Mnemosyne
Also, if anyone ever needed a real-life example of sealioning, we have pretty much a textbook example in front of us.
SFAW
@Patricia Kayden:
Except srv is sometimes funny. Not often enough, but certainly more than some.
Corner Stone
@Poopyman: On MSNBC Chris Jansing asked SS about the primary and SS spit out every RWNJ talking point I have heard recently, basically stating that HRC was probably going to be indicted and when Jansing rebutted her, SS said that HRC should be indicted shortly.
It was a John Cole on the Disco Dance Floor level of shit show.
Patricia Kayden
@Lamh36: Too cute!!
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: Yep. I held out hope for this one but… eh. I wuz wrong.
SFAW
@Mnemosyne:
Wow, talk about nailing it. Well, except that the sea lion was polite and not-at-all whiny.
Patricia Kayden
@SFAW: I rarely read anything he writes, so don’t know about him being “funny” at times.
@Corner Stone:
Hey, what are you insinuating about John’s dancing skills? Watch yourself!
Reggie Mantle
Making the echo-chamber a little less echo-y.
Pointing out that that the bitterness and hate you and other Hillary supporters across the Internets are spewing on a daily basis may cost you voters.
Pointing out the inherent contradiction in “YOU SUCK, WE HATE YOU, WE DON’T NEED YOUR VOTES” and “IF YOU DON’T VOTE FOR HILLARY WE ALL GET TRUMP AND THE WORLD WILL END!”
Tweaking the noses of self-satisfied and smug Clintonites till they go full Trump and start raving insults like The Donald or one of the Breitbrats.
Stuff like that.
Mnemosyne
@Reggie Mantle:
Sealioning. Got it.
chopper
@Corner Stone:
oh FFS, you’ve got to be kidding.
Reggie Mantle
@Villago Delenda Est:
Except your fear of Hillary’s vulnerabilities doesn’t let you ignore any dissent from the idea that she is The One and everyone who doesn’t recognize and bow down is to be shouted down.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: Pinnipeds, amirite?
Reggie Mantle
@Mnemosyne:
You say tomayto…
chopper
@Reggie Mantle:
question: do they still use your whiskers to clean tobacco pipes?
SFAW
@Reggie Mantle:
You seem to have this problem regarding extrapolating an instance to somehow be true for all people, all the time, etc. For example, you seem to think that all “10 million” Sanders voters are as needy (for stroking) as you are. You also seem to think that when BJ-ers go after the Bernie-or-Bust-ers, that it extrapolates to all Sanders voters.
Do tell. The only smug SOB here has been you, child. Your purity and nobility schtick was a great pose, and some of us were gulled for a time. But, just like your apparent next-best-buddy Deadbeat Donnie (if you ever really were a Sanders voter, of course), your facade has worn thin, and people realize that all you have is “Fuck you BJ-ers for not stroking me or Bernie-or-bust-ers.”
So, basically, you got nothin’, just your trolling.
Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap
@Reggie Mantle: Ha, Reg my man, you need to eat more pancakes.
burnspbesq
@Reggie Mantle:
The equilibrium, market-clearing level of supply of your product is none, for there is no demand for it in this market. If you passed Econ 101, you will know that it is time for you to be gone.
Corner Stone
@Patricia Kayden:
Have you ever met the nonpareil abilities to clumsify every situation that is John Cole? He’s like a living Flowers for Algernon without the genius bits in the middle.
Corner Stone
@chopper: No, if I were joking I would say, “What do you do with an elephant with three balls? Walk him and pitch to the rhino.”
SFAW
@Reggie Mantle:
See, now you’re not even trying to make a legitimate, rational argument. Just string together a few psychobabble terms incoherently, and you’re done.
The Golux
@Major Major Major Major:
Which is the means by which Bucky Dent acquired a middle name. (Not to mention Aaron Boone and Grady Little.)
Trollhattan
@Corner Stone:
But with moar mops.
SFAW
@Reggie Mantle:
Upon reflection, I realized I could have saved a lot of words and typing. To wit:
Your comment at #208 pretty much shouts that you came here looking for a fight. Which is pretty close to one of the definitions of trolling.
Corner Stone
@Trollhattan:
Actually I see him as on the dance floor in Airplane! tossing his jacket off stage and it keeps coming back at him.
Mnemosyne
@Reggie Mantle:
… I say sea lion. You’re going to want an Altoid for that mackerel breath.
ruemara
@Reggie Mantle: you may have multiple personality disorder, but you are still not 10 million people. Neither are you the voice of 10 million. You’re a delusional guy.
Gravenstone
@Reggie Mantle: You’re boring, child. Go home and curl up with your blankie.
tybee
@raven:
almost assuredly she’ll make a sterling example out of some group.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: I got a robo call last night. It began with Hillary Clinton screeching into the phone – I didn’t stay on long enough to determine whether it was a robo call from the Clinton campaign (bad plan because everyone hates robo calls, and who wants someone screaming at them on the phone, with no introduction or context) or from Trump or Sanders.
I am going to have to be more vigilant about not answering the phones if I can’t tell who’s calling. Too bad…the last call I picked up without being able to identify who it was from caller ID was the place where I buy my swimsuits – telling me I had just won the $200 gift card!
J R in WV
@Reggie Mantle:
I don’t have anything to say about Jane Sanders’ looks, but her management of Burlington College into bankruptcy is another matter.
Why did she need to buy that expensive lake-front property, again?
J R in WV
@Tilda Swinton’s Bald Cap:
1.5 cups corn meal
1/2 cup flour (buckwheat is gluten free!)
2 tsp baking powder
1 or 2 eggs, depending on their size
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup oil or melted butter
Mix dry ingredients
whip eggs, then milk, then butter
pour into dry ingredients and stir together
Heat cast iron skillet, melt butter, fry 3 pancakes at a time til golden brown on both sides.
MMmmmmm, good. Crispy and light compared to flour only pancakes. Slather with maple syrup and dig in. Can be expanded if you have overnight guests, just double or triple, or whatever, depending on the size of the crowd.
No One You Know
@Reggie Mantle: Actually, it is about you. Props for demonstrating lack of personal responsibility while claiming to be a white knight, and “staying on message” in the face of input to the contrary, though.