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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Hail to the Hairpiece / Open Thread: All the Best Endorsements, Bigly!

Open Thread: All the Best Endorsements, Bigly!

by Anne Laurie|  June 9, 201610:02 pm| 135 Comments

This post is in: Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Post-racial America, Assholes

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Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke says "Jewish tribal nature" is behind Trump opposition https://t.co/KRXJp2RLux pic.twitter.com/ApVM2f2PIN

— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 9, 2016

Notice that both have a bad case of tanning-bed reverse-racoon-mask. Is this the new White Pride social marker?

… “The Jewish establishment is absolutely zeroing in now on Donald Trump,” Duke said on his radio show on Tuesday. “The viciousness of these Jews is unbelievable.”

“I think this whole Trump University case really, if we exploit it, can really expose the entire Jewish manipulation of the American media the American political process, the American control of politics in America, and truly how that they are the dominant and dangerous power that exists in the United States of America today,” he said.

It’s not the first time Duke has been intertwined with the Trump campaign. In February, the former KKK grand wizard rallied supporters around Trump, saying a ballot cast against Trump would be “treason to your heritage” and calling the Trump movement an “insurgency that is waking up millions of Americans.”

That month, Trump was asked in a CNN interview whether he was willing to unequivocally condemn the white supremacist group and its former leader. He dodged the question…

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135Comments

  1. 1.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 9, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    Can’t we start referring to him as (((David Duke)))? Just to fuck with him?

  2. 2.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 9, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    So that happened.

  3. 3.

    schrodinger's cat

    June 9, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    I am out of snark, Trump is scary, Republican party and the base scarier.

  4. 4.

    FlyingToaster

    June 9, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Jeebus, yes! And any Stormfronters and (((Ted Fucking Nugent))) while we’re at it.

  5. 5.

    MomSense

    June 9, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Me too. This is too much.

  6. 6.

    LAO

    June 9, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    Well, I was at last Thursday meeting, and there was no discussion of Trump University. So, I’m not sure where Dukes is getting his information.

  7. 7.

    Jim Bales

    June 9, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    Notice that both have a bad case of tanning-bed reverse-racoon-mask. Is this the new White Pride social marker?

    Why, yes–one should be proud to be White, but not TOO White, you know!

  8. 8.

    jl

    June 9, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    ” Notice that both have a bad case of tanning-bed reverse-racoon-mask. ”

    Wonder if that will be the next hate group bat signal to be put on some (((((registry))))))))))))))))) -yeah, they don’t match. I don’t care.

  9. 9.

    redshirt

    June 9, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    So it’s the Mexican Jews out to get Trump?

    Got it.

  10. 10.

    Baud

    June 9, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    Next up: Catholics.

  11. 11.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    June 9, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    That picture of Duke is several decades old. Here’s the un-cropped version. Don’t think he was using a tanning bed then. Could be wrong though.

    FWIW.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  12. 12.

    amk

    June 9, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: @MomSense: I see the deadbeat’s ceiling at 40% in Nov.

  13. 13.

    schrodinger's cat

    June 9, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    On ICHC and the now defunct cute overload, parentheses {{ }} denoted hugs and I still do that at times. These people have a reverse Midas touch.

  14. 14.

    ThresherK

    June 9, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    An endorsement: I don’t know how I found it, but if you’ve ever wanted to read a great takedown of Atlas Shrugged, in over 100 essays, here it is. The word “masterpiece” is thrown around too much lately, but this Adam Lee fellow really deserves a medal for this.

  15. 15.

    Baud

    June 9, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Those are brackets.

  16. 16.

    schrodinger's cat

    June 9, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    @Baud:
    People used curly brackets, parentheses interchangeably for hugs.

  17. 17.

    Baud

    June 9, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    What’s the world coming to?

  18. 18.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    June 9, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    LOD has Senator Franken on.

  19. 19.

    Baud

    June 9, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Thanks.

  20. 20.

    Patricia Kayden

    June 9, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    Does David Duke know that Trump’s daughter is married to a Jew and converted to Judaism? Just wondering if that would make any difference since for him, Jews are the worst (with Blacks running a very close second).

  21. 21.

    MomSense

    June 9, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    @amk:

    I’m going to hold you to that.

  22. 22.

    geg6

    June 9, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    How self-loathing is his son-in-law? I read the other day that he is the one who is supposedly one of Trump’s most trusted advisors.

  23. 23.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 9, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    @ThresherK:

    I’ve been following Adam Lee’s Atlas Shrugged commentary every week for several years now. It is absolutely brilliant, insightful, and funny.

  24. 24.

    Origuy

    June 9, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    So this is happening:

    Irish leader Enda Kenny has revealed he will not meet Donald Trump during his June 24 visit to Ireland and will be spending time with Vice President Joe Biden instead.

  25. 25.

    schrodinger's cat

    June 9, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    @amk: 40% is still too high.

  26. 26.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    June 9, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    @Origuy: The Vice President would be more fun to be with anyway.

  27. 27.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 9, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    @LAO: Next time leave some gluten free coffee cake for those of us that get held up in traffic, okay?

  28. 28.

    geg6

    June 9, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    @Origuy:

    Well, gotta admit, who would you want to hang around with, Deadbeat Donnie or Handsome Joe? Enda knows what fun is.

  29. 29.

    geg6

    June 9, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    Ha! Great minds!

  30. 30.

    schrodinger's cat

    June 9, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    @Baud: I don’t know, when we got married and visited my grand father-in-law for the first time in Mumbai. He was not too happy that his grandson had decided to stay back in the US. He told us about how Indians were thrown out Burma after the junta took over. It didn’t matter whether they were born there, had Burmese wives etc. I said with 100% conviction that would never happen in the United States. Little did I know that the party of Lincoln would nominate a known bigot and an openly racist person for the Presidency.

  31. 31.

    LAO

    June 9, 2016 at 10:35 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: first come, first served. You know the rules.

  32. 32.

    redshirt

    June 9, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    @amk: Sadly, I think it will be higher. 44% at least.

    Think of it this way: You’ve got 27% at least locked in solid. How many more loyal Republicans will toe the line? Enough to put him over 40% at least.

    I wish it were not so, but, alas.

  33. 33.

    Actually, Bob IS My Uncle

    June 9, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    Best take-down of Atlas Shrugged is still John Scalzi’s:

    http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/10/01/what-i-think-about-atlas-shrugged/

  34. 34.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 9, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    @LAO: We’re watching you…

  35. 35.

    Baud

    June 9, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: This will be a very revealing election.

  36. 36.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 9, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    Semi-OT: Fucking Franklin Graham is bringing his traveling tent revival show to Madison’s Capitol Square next Wednesday.

  37. 37.

    Baud

    June 9, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Has he supported Trump yet?

  38. 38.

    some guy

    June 9, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    the David Duke-Mitch McConnell wing of the GOP has doubled down on der Trumpenfuhrer, is that what you are telling me ?

  39. 39.

    Jay C

    June 9, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    @Origuy:

    Irish leader Enda Kenny has revealed he will not meet Donald Trump during his June 24 visit to Ireland and will be spending time with Vice President Joe Biden instead.

    So Donald will be left to his own devices while in Ireland? What’s the over/under on him making some vulgar “Irish joke” – probably featuring some reference to pigs, potatoes and/or whiskey – in public while he’s there? Maybe that’s why Mr. Kenny didn’t want to meet him…

  40. 40.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 9, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Perhaps there will be a samaritan’s purse snatcher or two in the crowd.

  41. 41.

    lamh36

    June 9, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    Watching The Switch with Jason Bateman and Jen Aniston.

    Love this movie. If you like Jeff Goldblum, I LOVE HIM, you’ll love him in this movie…even though he barely has like what, a lil less than 30min of screen time, but it is golden Goldblum, IMHO.

  42. 42.

    Baud

    June 9, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    @Jay C:

    So Donald will be left to his own devices while in Ireland? What’s the over/under on him making some vulgar “Irish joke” – probably featuring some reference to pigs, potatoes and/or whiskey – in public while he’s there?

    Nader would be pleased.

  43. 43.

    schrodinger's cat

    June 9, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    What about Bill Kristol? Has he found a 3rd party candidate?

  44. 44.

    trollhattan

    June 9, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:
    Mittens got out of bed one day and got more than 40% of the popular vote, so bidnez as usual I guess.

    But, die Hillary ist das Würst.

  45. 45.

    LAO

    June 9, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I understand, it’s pretty crowded. I suggest shifts, cut down on man power. Open up more opportunities to surveil other subjects.

  46. 46.

    trollhattan

    June 9, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:
    My money’s on the Onion’s white-hot ball of rage.

  47. 47.

    Baud

    June 9, 2016 at 10:44 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Found and lost.

  48. 48.

    redshirt

    June 9, 2016 at 10:44 pm

    @lamh36: Did you hear Goldblum has been cast in the upcoming Thor movie?

  49. 49.

    schrodinger's cat

    June 9, 2016 at 10:44 pm

    @trollhattan: Did you see the Americans?. Poor William. I am officially tired of Paige and her weird eyebrows.

  50. 50.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 9, 2016 at 10:45 pm

    @Baud: How the hell would I know?

  51. 51.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 9, 2016 at 10:45 pm

    @redshirt: As the Grandmaster. This should be interesting.

  52. 52.

    redshirt

    June 9, 2016 at 10:46 pm

    I got my first birdie today! Long par 4, awesome drive, and then a spectacular 5 iron second shot to the fringe of the green (uphill too), and then a completely lucky 35 foot putt off the fringe. With a huge break. So beautiful.

  53. 53.

    Baud

    June 9, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I assumed you subscribed to his newsletter.

  54. 54.

    Corner Stone

    June 9, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Damn. Did Adam pass DougJ’s Crankypants to you, or what?

  55. 55.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 9, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: He is likely to meet a crowd of superannuated real hippies, radical lesbian atheists, and Unitarians. I am not sure it will go will for him.

  56. 56.

    redshirt

    June 9, 2016 at 10:48 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: And they’ll be using Grandmaster to incorporate a bit of the Planet Hulk story.

    I’m super psyched for this film. But, at this point, I’m super psyched for all the upcoming MCU films. Strange? Panther? Ms. Marvel? YES!

  57. 57.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 9, 2016 at 10:48 pm

    @Corner Stone: What’s it to you?

  58. 58.

    lamh36

    June 9, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    @redshirt: Yes I did.

    I’m as happy about Goldblum being in the movie as I am about hot ass Chris Hemsworth…lol

  59. 59.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 9, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Please post video!

  60. 60.

    MomSense

    June 9, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Is it some kind of protest of the Obama/Clinton event?

  61. 61.

    redshirt

    June 9, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Ask Corner Stone if he hates me. Or fears me.

  62. 62.

    Corner Stone

    June 9, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: It is everything.

  63. 63.

    MomSense

    June 9, 2016 at 10:52 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Yes, the infamous shock troops for the Unitarian Jihad!

  64. 64.

    redshirt

    June 9, 2016 at 10:52 pm

    @lamh36: Rumors are he’s cutting his hair for some reason in the movie. I hope that’s not where his strength resides.

  65. 65.

    LABiker

    June 9, 2016 at 10:54 pm

    Duke sounds like a Bernie bro.

  66. 66.

    Rand Careaga

    June 9, 2016 at 10:55 pm

    @I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: Holy fuck. I couldn’t find it just now, but I think somewhere I have that same goddamn necktie.

  67. 67.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 9, 2016 at 10:55 pm

    @MomSense: No idea. Seriously, I just saw an ad for it on the TV machine.

    @Adam L Silverman: If I come across any, I certainly will.

  68. 68.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    June 9, 2016 at 10:57 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I knew the book was sci-fi but even though I read it as an adult (not a 14 year old) I did not catch 2% of the screaming inconsistencies in it the Lee did.

    @Actually, Bob IS My Uncle: I gotta read this. Thanx.

  69. 69.

    Peale

    June 9, 2016 at 10:58 pm

    Look, all Donald Trump did was complain that a white man would ever be subject to judgement from a Mexican in authority, and that wasn’t good enough for David Duke? No? He has to add the Elders of the Protocols of Zion to the mix? Why not just let Trump keep it simple?

  70. 70.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 9, 2016 at 10:58 pm

    @Corner Stone: In that case, no. I have my own Crankypants.

    @MomSense: I am, of course, The Broadsword of Loving Kindness.

  71. 71.

    BruceFromOhio

    June 9, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    “The Jewish establishment is absolutely zeroing in now on Donald Trump,”

    Yeah, along with a fuckton of other establishments. Must be a hairstyle thing, David. Or maybe that the dumpster fire is a shitty human being akin to yourself?

    Now get those fundraising emails out, and be quick about it, these cons don’t run themselves! And somebody pick up my hood from the dry cleaners.

  72. 72.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 9, 2016 at 11:00 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Thanks!

  73. 73.

    lamh36

    June 9, 2016 at 11:00 pm

    J.K. Simmons is jacked in viral training photo http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/08/jk-simmons-jacked via @EW

    Today in viral content: a photo of J.K. Simmons getting super jacked for his role in Justice League.

    Posted five days ago by Aaron Williamson, a former Marine and personal trainer to such stars as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Zac Efron, the picture shows Simmons lifting a pair of dumbbells in the gym.

    “Every time we train together I forget he’s 61 years old. So much respect for this guy,” Williamson wrote on Instagram, using the hashtags #JKSimmons and #OldManCranking.

    Simmons is set to play Commissioner Gordon in Justice League, which is filming now and out on Nov. 17, 2017. Check out photos of Simmons’ ridiculous guns..

  74. 74.

    BruceFromOhio

    June 9, 2016 at 11:01 pm

    @Baud: They came for me, but I wasn’t Catholic.

    I am a registered Democrat. Bring it.

  75. 75.

    Felonius Monk

    June 9, 2016 at 11:02 pm

    @efgoldman:

    And if he shows up here. I’ll rip his fucking face off.

    You are not permitted to do that until you make him consume one box of matzoh and two jars of gefilte fish, then he can be made faceless.

  76. 76.

    redshirt

    June 9, 2016 at 11:02 pm

    @lamh36: I saw this. My only question: Why does Commissioner Gordon need huge guns?

  77. 77.

    Gin & Tonic

    June 9, 2016 at 11:02 pm

    @redshirt: He’s really gotten inside your head, hasn’t he?

  78. 78.

    Corner Stone

    June 9, 2016 at 11:03 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: GFY

  79. 79.

    redshirt

    June 9, 2016 at 11:05 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Are you kidding?

  80. 80.

    MomSense

    June 9, 2016 at 11:05 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    You can lead the charge.

  81. 81.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 9, 2016 at 11:06 pm

    @Corner Stone: Where’d you get yours? I went to TJMaxx.

  82. 82.

    lamh36

    June 9, 2016 at 11:06 pm

    The Switch (7/11) Movie CLIP – I Switched It (2010) HD

    Classic Goldblum delivery.. “Oh…thats’…ill advised”…

    The Switch isn’t even my fav Jason Bateman film, but it is def one of the few Jen Aniston movies I like.

    If you haven’t seen it, check it out.

  83. 83.

    Gin & Tonic

    June 9, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I hope you didn’t pay with a credit card.

  84. 84.

    Gin & Tonic

    June 9, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    @redshirt: Not in the least.

  85. 85.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 9, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    @MomSense: I have to work and I am not downtown anymore.

  86. 86.

    schrodinger's cat

    June 9, 2016 at 11:09 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: You bought them retail? Not bespoke?

  87. 87.

    redshirt

    June 9, 2016 at 11:09 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Funny.

  88. 88.

    Villago Delenda Est

    June 9, 2016 at 11:10 pm

    Thank you, David Duke, for doing your part to elect Hillary Clinton.

    Putz.

  89. 89.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    June 9, 2016 at 11:14 pm

    @Rand Careaga: rofl! :-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  90. 90.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 9, 2016 at 11:15 pm

    @redshirt: He doesn’t. Simmons arms aren’t that large. Based on the pic he’s got his body fat down to around 6% or so. If you look at what he was lifting, those are 20 lbs dumbbells. I warm up with 40s for biceps curls and while I haven’t tried to max out lately, (because I’ve been on all TRX for almost a year) I can do 60s without much issue.

  91. 91.

    Gelfling545

    June 9, 2016 at 11:17 pm

    @Jay C: Friends of mine were in Ireland last month. Everywhere they went people were seeking reassurance that Trump couldn’t really be elected. Same when my granddaughter & I were in France in March. (She was wearing her Bernie pins, so people asked.)

  92. 92.

    lamh36

    June 9, 2016 at 11:18 pm

    @redshirt: I was wondering the same thing…I’m not much of a Justice Leaguer though, so really outside of looking forward to Jason Mamoa…I didn’t even realize Gordon was in the film?

  93. 93.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 9, 2016 at 11:21 pm

    @lamh36: As I wrote in 91 above:
    He doesn’t. Simmons arms aren’t that large. Based on the pic he’s got his body fat down to around 6% or so. If you look at what he was lifting, those are 20 lbs dumbbells. I warm up with 40s for biceps curls and while I haven’t tried to max out lately, (because I’ve been on all TRX for almost a year) I can do 60s without much issue.

    As for being in the movie: its a small part. I expect he’ll reprise with more screen time in the stand alone Batman movie and most likely the stand alone Harley Quinn movie too.

  94. 94.

    redshirt

    June 9, 2016 at 11:26 pm

    @lamh36: I find it sad he is. It was just 4 years ago we saw the best Commissioner Gordon ever.

    DC/Warner Bros is going run DC film properties into the ground over some fast bucks.

  95. 95.

    redshirt

    June 9, 2016 at 11:27 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Yeah, but you’re not 61 either.

  96. 96.

    NonyNony

    June 9, 2016 at 11:29 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Maybe they’ll put him in the bunny eared Bat armor like they did in the comics. That would be hilarious.

  97. 97.

    chopper

    June 9, 2016 at 11:29 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    since when does commissioner Gordon have 6% body fat?

  98. 98.

    SFAW

    June 9, 2016 at 11:30 pm

    @Actually, Bob IS My Uncle:

    Outstanding nym.

  99. 99.

    redshirt

    June 9, 2016 at 11:30 pm

    @chopper: lol.

    Since he entered The Murderverse.

  100. 100.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 9, 2016 at 11:30 pm

    @redshirt: This is also true!

  101. 101.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 9, 2016 at 11:31 pm

    @NonyNony: I doubt it.

  102. 102.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 9, 2016 at 11:31 pm

    @chopper: Since he’s being played by Simmons.

  103. 103.

    NonyNony

    June 9, 2016 at 11:33 pm

    @chopper: After the most recent reboot of the comics, Gordon is an ex-marine who replaced Batman after everyone thought he’d died fighting the Joker (spoilers: not actually dead). That version of Gordon probably has 6% body fat. (Of course he’s also only 40-something, so …)

  104. 104.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 9, 2016 at 11:34 pm

    @NonyNony: He’d been an ex-Soldier or Marine for a while even before the reboot. Miller got that into canon with Batman: Year One.

  105. 105.

    NonyNony

    June 9, 2016 at 11:37 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: It’s been a while, but I thought he was Army in Year One. For some reason I thought ex-marine was a Scott Snyder innovation.

  106. 106.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 9, 2016 at 11:37 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: cannon?

  107. 107.

    chopper

    June 9, 2016 at 11:38 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    so simmons got ripped in order to play commissioner gordon because gordon is supposed to be ripped because simmons is playing him. makes sense.

  108. 108.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 9, 2016 at 11:39 pm

    Since I’m actually watching it on Ovation, figured this bit belongs here given how the post started:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCw7RJ5eE8

  109. 109.

    Gin & Tonic

    June 9, 2016 at 11:40 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: He’s an explosive character.

  110. 110.

    redshirt

    June 9, 2016 at 11:40 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Big, 30 shot, huge gun.

  111. 111.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 9, 2016 at 11:43 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: sorry canon. Didn’t mean to get your hopes up.

  112. 112.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 9, 2016 at 11:45 pm

    @NonyNony: It wasn’t clear. He estimated, from his unspecified military experience, that the blonde crooked cop he was paired with had Special Forces training, but it was never clear if he was a Soldier or a Marine.

  113. 113.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 9, 2016 at 11:46 pm

    @chopper: Right, if you think about it to hard you’ll cause a sinkhole. Or something.

  114. 114.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 9, 2016 at 11:48 pm

    @redshirt: How is that a cannon?

  115. 115.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 9, 2016 at 11:49 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Fucking tease.

  116. 116.

    redshirt

    June 9, 2016 at 11:52 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Seems “cannony”?

  117. 117.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 9, 2016 at 11:53 pm

    @redshirt: Cannon has a definition.

  118. 118.

    seaboogie

    June 9, 2016 at 11:55 pm

    @Baud:

    Those are brackets.

    I thought NCAA basketball season was over \lame, I know.

  119. 119.

    redshirt

    June 9, 2016 at 11:57 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Language is fluid. Evolving.

  120. 120.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2016 at 12:00 am

    @redshirt: And artillery requires precision.

  121. 121.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 10, 2016 at 12:04 am

    And I’m going to bed. Try not to blow each other up!

  122. 122.

    seaboogie

    June 10, 2016 at 12:05 am

    @Adam L Silverman: I can lift my own weight – in marshmallows – one at a time – all about the reps I’m told – and it takes the better part of a day…

  123. 123.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    June 10, 2016 at 12:05 am

    @Baud:

    { } = braces
    [ ] = brackets

  124. 124.

    redshirt

    June 10, 2016 at 12:06 am

    @Adam L Silverman: As seen in Captain America #332 – The Living Cannon!

  125. 125.

    redshirt

    June 10, 2016 at 12:07 am

    @Steeplejack (phone): Lisa needs { }

    is my new band name.

  126. 126.

    seaboogie

    June 10, 2016 at 12:12 am

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    { } = braces

    Pretty sure Omnes will tell you that braces are suspenders, and those are some squirrelly looking suspenders – even for a Brit manque living in Cheeseland.

  127. 127.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2016 at 12:14 am

    @seaboogie: I won’t say that. And the rest is rather insulting.

  128. 128.

    seaboogie

    June 10, 2016 at 12:16 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Heh! Sorry, Boo – was thinking of your Brideshead coif, which you had referenced…..

  129. 129.

    SFAW

    June 10, 2016 at 12:20 am

    Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned …

    … I have no idea what the tripled-parens mean in Twitter. (In no small part because I don’t do Twitter).

    Can someone explain to this old fart, who apparently is not aware of all internet traditions?

  130. 130.

    Anne Laurie

    June 10, 2016 at 12:30 am

    @SFAW: Explanatory post from last night.

    Trump’s just bringing out the ugliest in “American” values…

  131. 131.

    SFAW

    June 10, 2016 at 1:12 am

    @Anne Laurie:

    Shit. I mean, thanks for educating me, but that’s pretty fucked up.

    Better to know than not to know, but still …

  132. 132.

    Miss Bianca

    June 10, 2016 at 1:47 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Well, you sure ain’t the Sceptre of Benevolence…

  133. 133.

    redshirt

    June 10, 2016 at 1:54 am

    @Miss Bianca: Not even the Scimitar of Rationality.

  134. 134.

    Brendancalling

    June 10, 2016 at 4:21 am

    @SiubhanDuinne: that’s what I’ve been doing. Also (((TRUMP)))

  135. 135.

    Donut

    June 10, 2016 at 5:07 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    So apparently in those respects Madison has not changed too much since I moved away in ’99. Good to know.

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