Trump in Fairfield, CT: "Oh, you better elect me, folks, I’ll never speak to you again." pic.twitter.com/G0ylN6BKvV
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) August 14, 2016
MAKE HIM SIGN A PLEDGE. https://t.co/CzuN94DYc2
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) August 14, 2016
What’s on the agenda as we wrap up the weekend?
Next wk will see collision of 2 powerful media instincts:
1) Story must change ('doing better than you think')
2) Bandwagon ('losers lose')— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) August 13, 2016
Based on this story, I think Trump might have stumbled into a campaign doom loop. https://t.co/mpdoTPRXYQ
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) August 12, 2016
Trentrunner
Well, Buzzfeed just published a lengthy profile of Juanita Broaddrick.
Trump last night said “Thank God we had the dress!” re Monica’s infamous blue dress.
I predict we’re about to have 7-10 days’ worth of Bill splooge.
redshirt
OMG did Trump really say that?
His campaign is insane.
schrodinger's cat
Trump is pretty fat, is that why he is always in a suit?
gogol's wife
@Trentrunner:
I’m sorry, call me a cockeyed optimist (no pun intended), but I think people are sick of that. He’s an old geezer now, it has no frisson.
Trentrunner
@redshirt: He did indeed. I’m surprised it wasn’t more covered.
That and similar lack of coverage on Melanoma’s nude lesbian portfolio show just how insane Trump’s other remarks have been. What the media used to feed on for weeks gets nearly zero coverage.
different-church-lady
@Trentrunner: Well, that was inevitable no matter who the GOP candidate was.
JPL
@Trentrunner: I’d rather they talk about the Trump policies. Let’s remove all the banking regulations on mortgages, because they really are sorry and won’t tank the economy again. Let’s let those who don’t pay payroll taxes, take money from social security to pay for child care, because social security is funded, let’s lower the top one percent taxes, cuz……… and let’s increase spending on roads and vets cuz that pays for itself. Yeah, I’d love to talk about those issues.
different-church-lady
@schrodinger’s cat: Would you want to see him out of a suit?
schrodinger's cat
@different-church-lady: @different-church-lady: I would be happy if I never had to see or hear about him ever again.
MattF
@different-church-lady: Right. Be thankful for small mercies.
Ken
@schrodinger’s cat: The suit’s to hide his Muslim Brotherhood tattoos.
Baud
@different-church-lady: A while back, someone painted naked Trump. I could try to find that for you.
PsiFighter37
Stuck at St. Louis airport waiting for my airplane. Good weekend overall, but getting a bit nervous for this regulatory exam I have in a week. I have taken 4 practice exams and failed two (barely – by 2-4 questions). I’m a bit worried about the possibility of failing. Teaching yourself brand-new shit, outside of a classroom environment, on top of a day job, is very difficult.
Baud
@PsiFighter37: Best of luck. I hope never to have to take a test again.
Kristine
@PsiFighter37: On the job self-ed is hard. Good luck!
AkaDad
Riiiight. As if Trump could ever keep his lie-hole shut.
Baud
Even Jesus forgave the people who hated him. But I guess he was a loser.
dexwood
@Ken:
The suit is reversible to white with a pop-up hood. He has the best tailors with all the best threads.
dmsilev
Politico (yes, I know): RNC considers cutting cash to Trump:
Of course, there’s no need to rush into anything:
Mid October? You’d think maybe Labor Day at the latest if you want your triage attempt to have any hope of working.
redshirt
@Baud: Here‘s one artist’s interpretation.
sigaba
I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU AMERICA! THOUGH I THINK WE WILL DO VERY WELL.
@Baud: He prefers the saviors that didn’t get caught.
redshirt
@PsiFighter37: What’s the topic(s)?
gf120581
@dmsilev: For comparison, when did they triage Bob Dole in 1996?
I’m not sure that’s a good plan to try again, either, since Dole was a well-respected guy who was running a professional campaign, while Trump is the exact opposite. Dole didn’t have the ability to wreck havoc on the downballot like Trump. (The situation isn’t the same either, esepcially in the Senate; in 1996, the Dems were defending more seats and had a lot of open seats to try and protect, while this year, the GOP is almost entirely on the defense.)
liberal
Mike Bloomberg: Shitstain
Mike J
@Baud:
I coached my last class of the season today. Then I sailed around the south end of Lake Washington and came back to the dock. I have thoroughly uneventful video to prove it.
Baud
@sigaba: Nice.
lamh36
Of course they are…as if folks can’t see why the media wants to cover this…
@AlexParkerDC
Hoo boy– @BuzzFeed looks into the Juanita Broaddrick story:
Trump is good for business…fuq what he does to the country.
Not saying the story should or should not be told, but if the story wasn’t meant to titallate or for clickbait, it’s one thing, but has anyone heard any MSM stories on Trump rape allegations?
msdc
I know I’m misreading the transcript, but this is fucking hilarious.
Villago Delenda Est
@dmsilev: Total fucking idiots are in charge at the RNC.
Thank FSM!
frosty
@PsiFighter37:
I agree. I took the EIT and Professional Engineer exams 15 years out of school. Basically checked textbooks and exam preps out of the library and worked problems for a year for each.
Passed, though. Hang in there.
lamh36
Only with Usain Bolt is 9.86…an “easy 9,86” then the bastard slowed down!
#Olympics #UsainBolt
and then he smiled at the end
burnspbesq
Meet the new goofball.
Corner Stone
@lamh36: It’s nuts. In his first heat he looked around three times and still won. This pre-lim he looked both ways once and still hit 9.86. And was coasting.
Villago Delenda Est
@burnspbesq: Who’s a good boy?
Tom Q
@gf120581: Yeah, 1996 was more a matter of “we’re happy with our incumbent president and want to see him stick around”; no one cringed at the idea of Dole being elected, the way many do about Trump now.
And, as you say, the field was not as ripe for picking, as 1990 had been a Dem-leaning/mostly stable class. It’s when you have a group of Senators elected in a tilt-one-direction election facing the opposite six years later that you have the possibility for significant change (as in 2008/2014).
dmsilev
@Villago Delenda Est: They’re not really idiots, but rather are trying to come up with a solution to an impossible problem: Trump is beloved by his base, but hated by the not-base; how do you run candidates who can appeal to the latter and still keep some support from the former? Now, it’s true that decades of deliberate Republican decisions have brought them to this point, so we should indeed sit back and revel at their agony, but it’s not really the fault of the current generation of apparatchiks.
raven
@burnspbesq: Aha, another knucklehead!
Villago Delenda Est
@dmsilev: Oh, they became apparatchiks because of what the partei has become over the last 50 years. They need to suffer for that.
Mike J
Comments getting eated. Will this one?
Gin & Tonic
@Corner Stone: Am I the only one who looks at Justin Gatlin and thinks of Ben Johnson?
redshirt
@raven: How you feeling Raven?
Corner Stone
I’m having goat biryani for dinner tonight and there’s nothing any of y’all can do about it.
ETA, speaking of being so lucky.
dmsilev
@Villago Delenda Est: That’s a fair point.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mike J: No, because it was short.
FYWP has this very bad tendency to devour long, involved, thoughtful posts. It’s like FYWP is working for Drumpf, now that I think about it.
Corner Stone
@Gin & Tonic: Do you mean because he is 34, still ripped and fast af?
or just his mug and hairstyle?
burnspbesq
@Villago Delenda Est: @raven:
His name’s Gable. He’s around three years old. He came from the same breeder from whom Spouse got the puppy earlier this year. He’s of the long-and-lean variant, probably weighs around 120.
Apparently I am fated to live out the remainder of my days in a three-dog household, and I have nothing to say about it.
Baud
@lamh36: That’s something Hillary’s camp can plan for. None of that old stuff should be a surprise.
Gin & Tonic
@Corner Stone: His physique.
lollipopguild
@burnspbesq: If I am such a Good Dog, where is my treat?
Renie
@schrodinger’s cat: He is fat but I read he wears a bullet proof vest under the suit.
burnspbesq
@lollipopguild:
You got your little sausage-patty thingie this morning.
Corner Stone
@Renie: Do you think he really considers the option that someone would choose to hurt him? Doesn’t he have all those type of loons in his pocket?
Schlemazel
@lamh36:
MEH! The US high school record is 10.00, so 0.14 seconds slower, I’m unimpressed.
burnspbesq
Anyone seen Hell or High Water yet?
Corner Stone
“Here I am again on my own!” “Going down the only road I’ve ever known!”
Anthems for children, sponsored by your friendly local WalMart.
schrodinger's cat
@Corner Stone: Oh nice!
Schlemazel
@burnspbesq:
Cute Puppha, thanks
SiubhanDuinne
So half an hour from my destination, I ran over a thing in the road and blew out my front left tire. OnStar is keeping me company and I’m waiting for a cop and a repair person to show up. It’s dark, I’m hungry and tired from driving, and I have to pee.
JMG
@lamh36: This is the media outlet most famous for outing gay Olympic athletes from violently anti-gay countries? And they’re supposed to be treated as anything but useless slime walking? Anyone working for Buzzfeed is lucky if they’re not urinated on in public.
redshirt
@SiubhanDuinne: Could you pee in the woods?
Also, that timing sucks.
Schlemazel
@redshirt:
raven – Please don’t answer “like shit”
Hope you are hanging in there. This crap is no fun
raven
@redshirt Schlemazel: I’m all right thanks. They went to a split deal on drinking the stuff so I knocked out the first half-gallon from 6-7. I get up at 2am and do the rest so I should be pretty whack by my 7am appointment. I really hope people are not afraid of this, it really isn’t more than an inconvenience and the alternative can be really bad.
eta My biggest regret is that I didn’t schedule the hernia procedure so I could have had the Olympics during the recovery.
lamh36
@JMG: that was Daily Beast actually, not Buzzfeed.
but still..right Buzzfeed is all bout clickbait
lamh36
@Schlemazel: ha…except Bolt obviously slowed down once he saw he was gonna win and how fast he had already gone…
check this pic out: @owillis
Usain Bolt’s not even playing the same game
Mike J
@Villago Delenda Est:
For some reason it’s eating any comment I post with youtube links. I’ll try one last time with a shortener. It’s really not even worth it. It’s just low wind sailing around back to the dock.
Schlemazel
@raven:
Yeah, it is not painful or awful (I have done much much much worse) but it is no fun. I have 8 years before I have to do it again.
I wonder though how many people don’t do the whole thing. I did exactly as told & the doctor just raved about how well I had prepped. I have heard other people say similar so it makes me think you would not have to really do it all but the over recommend because most people cheat.
JMG
@lamh36: You’re right, I was wrong. But all those sites run together in my mind, possibly because they’re all alike.
Schlemazel
@lamh36:
yeah, mine was a joke but I am stunned to learn that the HS record is 10. thats ridiculous.
Villago Delenda Est
OT, sort of: The mega-sewer that is Infowars.com is reporting that Hillary has Parkinson’s, based on a “source” that is in the Secret Service. Probably the dildos on the Christmas Tree guy.
dmsilev
Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief
Huh.
Funny that this is the guy who Trump chose as his campaign chair. So, how about those Trumpian tax returns and rumors of Russian money?
Villago Delenda Est
@Mike J: Naked links is a known problem with FYWP. More than three links of any kind is a known issue.
raven
@Schlemazel: I read somewhere that fewer than 50% of eligible folks do it. I got put on a 2 year rotation after my last one so maybe I’ll be luckier this time. There is so much valuable information on the internet but it is also easy to get really negative stuff if you read input from “patients”. Maybe it helps to have survived some really horrible accidents and KNOW that, in may cases, pain is temporary.
gf120581
@burnspbesq: I was lucky to see a premiere screening two weeks ago at Michael Moore’s film festival in Traverse City (even if it was nearly two hours late because that egotistical fatass wouldn’t keep his previous Q&A to schedule and get off the stage). It’s a must see. If you can see it, see it.
Schlemazel
Interesting thing Jake Crapper took a shot at Jan Brewer when she tried to defend Trump. “How dare we cover the statements he makes”
If the cheeto-dust covered turd has lost Jake he is in deep trouble.http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/how-dare-we-cover-comments-he-makes-trumps-jan-brewer-gets-awesome-shade-from-jake-tapper/
Suzanne
@PsiFighter37: Hey, good luck. I’ve had eight regulatory exams in the last 5 years. SO VERY emotionally done. I feel you.
Baud
@Schlemazel:
Renie
@Corner Stone: LOL He’s afraid of everyone else probably,
Mike J
@Villago Delenda Est: My links weren’t naked, and I only had two links. Also,m it wasn;t throwing them into moderation as it does in those cases, it was just eating them the way it does if you use a banned user’s name.
lamh36
Wow…this South African runner Van Niekerk’s story is so interesting…
#Olympics #Rio2016 Good luck to him!
#trackandfield
I saw the story where his mom was a great athlete but wasn’t allowed to compete during apartheid goverment because only whites were allowed to compete internationally
gene108
@lamh36:
Nope.
The fact there’s a civil suit stemming from the rape allegations winding its way through court – along with all the other lawsuits he’s involved with – should be an issue, if President Trump comes to pass.
How much time will he be Presdident-in’ and how much will be spent in court?
But no one in the media bothers with this. Sad. Believe me.
burnspbesq
@gf120581:
Thanks. It’s pretty unusual for there to be two movies out at the same time that I’m interested in seeing, but that one and Equity have my attention.
Even Denzel’s presence can’t get me interested in a remake of The Magnificent Seven.
grandpa john
@different-church-lady: he would really look good in old fashioned tar and feathers getting a ride out of town on a rail
Schlemazel
@Baud:
so the boys HS record is half a second better than the womens world record & half a second off the mens. That is very surprising to me. No way I would have guess an 18 year old (or younger) could run that
Mike E
@raven: ACC tourney fans schedule vasectomies during March Madness!
lollipopguild
@burnspbesq: Can I haz another?
Schlemazel
@Mike J:
you might have used one of the banned words like ‘relax” or a dozen other we are not told are forbidden
different-church-lady
@Villago Delenda Est:
Rule of thumb: once it gets beyond a ‘graph, I’m copying the text to my clipboard frequently as I go.
lamh36
Wow…good for him!
He did it!
Congrats Van Niekerk!
Gold 400m and WR!
#Olympics #Gold
debbie
@burnspbesq:
Are all three Pyrennes?
Schlemazel
@lamh36:
I hate when they make me care about the participants. Mostly because so often the reasons they think I should care are just notworth caring about. This guy however really has a story to care about. Glad he won!
Kay
Moment of Truth op-ed in the WSJ.
It’s behind a wall, but they name Gingrich and Chris Christie and the “talk radio Right” as selling the idea that Trump could beat Clinton.
They’re holding out hope for post Labor Day, though. I think politicians can stand anything except for becoming a joke. I thought Trump was a (bad) joke all along, but if there’s a point where he just becomes an object of derision he’s dead as a political figure. I hope we’re nearing that.
lamh36
From Lane 8 where “no one wins”
And he broke Micheal Johnson’s record…BIG!
And his coach is 74 years old!
I’m as excited for him as I would be or the US athlete!
Johnson’s record was 17 years old!
Gin & Tonic
@dmsilev: Um, of course the ledger will be in Cyrillic. It’s in Ukraine. Duh.
Hal
It’s always perplexing to me that Bill cheating on Hillary is a negative for Hillary.
ThresherK (GPad)
@Schlemazel: Please, remember that he and Wolf Blitzer have merged into one unholy Villager, a nearly fictitious entity of self-absorbed circle-jerking, mentioned in the same hushed whispers as the Loch Ness Monster and Yetis. And that person’s name is Wake Blapper.
“When you’ve lost Wake Blapper…”
Schlemazel
@Baud:
also too, was she not found to have been doping?
One of the things that has really put me off the Olympics is the number of champions that have been shown to have used PEDs. I was never a big fan of Lance Armstrong but the Mrs was a huge fan & would get angry when reports of his doping would appear. Now she refuses to watch bike racing because everyone cheat (well maybe only the winners). Sadly I feel similarly about all sports now. They might just as well make it legal & see how far the users are willing to take it.
Corner Stone
Bob Costas is an oompa loompa.
dmsilev
@Kay: You can access WSJ articles without a subscription by going to Google and doing a search on the article title. From that article,
Basically all of these op-eds and conservative think-pieces and so forth boil down to “Trump can win if he has a radical personality transformation”. Inspiring!
lamh36
@Green_Footballs
Hey now. Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief
schrodinger's cat
@Hal: Its always the woman’s fault, don’t you know. That’s how patriarchy works.
Schlemazel
@Hal:
Well obviously if she were not a murderous lesbian she could have kept him satisfied and he would not have wandered. It is never the guys fault.
EDIT: @schrodinger’s cat:
JINX!
Villago Delenda Est
@Mike J: Oh, so it’s all new FYWP asshattery!
Schlemazel
@Corner Stone:
why insult the Ompas?
Mary G
@Schlemazel: I had Crohn’s disease in the 80s and had a bunch of colonoscopies with the old style prep with no trouble. When they went to the gallon of stuff I couldn’t keep it down after the second glass. They kept telling me to do my best, I barfed all night, then they complained about the lousy prep. I know I am way overdue but I’m not going back.
lamh36
raven
@Mary G: Mary!
trollhattan
@lamh36:
I was at the US Track and Field championships when Michael Johnson had his coming out party. In the 200 final he pulled up before the finish, winning but not breaking the world record that was easily in reach. The crowd knew it; you could hear the “Uhnnnn-hmm” circling the stands and the folks in the know had it as him holding back for the worlds and the higher sponsor bonus for breaking it there. All I can say is I was sorry not to see him smash the record that he’d eventually own like a comfy pair of Levis.
Track is a great spectator sport, best when it’s open seating like at that meet. Nothing quite like sitting by Bob Kersee coaching Jackie from the stands.
dmsilev
@lamh36: Oh my.
raven
@trollhattan: I was at the Olympics in Atlanta when he won!
Baud
Did they always do these big intros in the Olympics?
Keith P.
100m men’s finals is about to start. This is the only night I’ve watched the Olympics.
raven
@Baud: For a race like this, hell yes! This is considered “The World’s Fastest Man”.
Gin & Tonic
@lamh36: I can’t wait.
Gin & Tonic
@Keith P.: And I lost power a half hour ago.
Baud
@raven: They did it for swimming also. Don’t remember it in past Olympics.
bk
@burnspbesq: English cream retriever? We have two. More loving dogs don’t exist!
redshirt
Bolt runs fast.
Kay
@dmsilev:
The funniest part of the whole thing is Mike Pence. Mike Pence was in trouble in Indiana. Now they’re turning him into this statesman that everyone has always thought should be President.
Mike Pence never would have won that primary. He would have been 2nd tier. Walker and Christie were their big governor stars and they BOTH did poorly.
I wonder if it’s a kind of triage. Pence could keep the religious Right and the Money Party people and they are willing to throw the Trump low information/openly racist base under the bus to keep those two factions. Bush was Money Party and religious Right. That’s a coalition that has worked for them.
Baud
Whoa.
JPL
@raven: I saw several events, but couldn’t afford tickets to the finals. That is cool..
Keith P.
Wow, watching Bolt catch Gatlin was pretty incredible. That was a substantial lead halfway through.
lamh36
BOLT!!!!!!
GOLD!
And he once again made it look easy.
raven
My dad knew the great Herbert Henry “Herb” McKenley, Jamaican sprinter who went to Illinois!
Technocrat
@redshirt:
How bizarre is it that the fastest man on Earth has the last name “Bolt”?
raven
@JPL: Here’s my tickets!
Kay
@dmsilev:
I’m delighting in it because it’s clear Trump didn’t know how hard it is, running for President. That arrogance drives me up the wall- this “oh, that’s easy” about what other people achieve. This idea that anyone can just jump in and do anyone else’s job has to end. It’s delusional. You see it so much on the Right- they’re always fulminating about incompetence and how any of them could do any job better. Chris Christie is the worst offender. “Glorified babysitters” for teachers. Chris Christie would last 15 minutes in charge of a room full of children.
Technocrat
@Kay:
AKA The Fey Effect
redshirt
@Technocrat: That’s why everyone should name their child for their future prospects.
Most children should be named Jim/Jane Cubicle.
raven
@JPL: This is 84 in LA. We were in the 4th row for Edwin Mose’s gold medal (they were probably Russian tickets that went on sale when they boycotted). While it’s hard to see, this is Joanie Benoit getting her Gold Medal for the marathon that was run that morning.
grandpa john
@Mary G: I had one last year and had the choice of using an alternate that used something that you mixed with gator aide or some other sports drink. It worked fine for me and didn’t taste bad. my colon was totally clean, no polyps, and at age 78 am through with them.
Martha from Augusta
@lamh36: Good to see that Adam’s landed on his feet. I was disappointed that Gawker did to him what Thiel did to Gawker.
dmsilev
@Kay: The NYT had a story up yesterday on the implosion of the Trump campaign, and one of the commenters made a very good point. While our long campaign season is irritating for lots of reasons, one very good thing about it is that it lets us see how the nominee performs managing a big organization performing a very complicated task. Obama faced that test and passed with flying colors. Trump is failing it badly.
raven
@grandpa john: I’m using Crystal Light lemonade.
Schlemazel
@Mary G:
I suppose it does no good to talk to your doctor because of course they know better than you.
Sorry you have to go through that crap. I am having a similar problem with a series of urologists. I am going to a new one but it takes 8 weeks to get in for new patients.
burnspbesq
@debbie:
Two Pyrs and a little yellow mutt.
JPL
@raven: Neat.. It never dawned on me to take pics of tickets, but I wish I did. As I mentioned before my youngest was near the bombing area. My son told a nice police man that he was going to call his mom even though the pay phones were roped off. After a few more I’m going to call my f…king mom, his friend dragged him off.
Schlemazel
@Technocrat:
I do love that, some people live up to their name!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Hal:
Oh, it’s feeds the internal narrative among these old white guys that women are inferior because you can cheat on them and so on.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Mike J:
I don’t know what specific strings trigger it, but I have found that there are some YouTube addresses that FYWP doesn’t like. It’s strange because YouTube addresses don’t contain recognizable words.
lamh36
@Technocrat:
Kay
@dmsilev:
Thank God it’s so long with Trump, huh? We still know nothing about him. They don’t know who he owes and how much he owes. That’s an essential question and the GOP primary process failed as a political market. They didn’t raise any of that. The GOP political process itself is a market failure :)
mike in dc
Even after he loses(God willing) reporters should keep asking him when he’s going to release his tax returns. Forever.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@lamh36: Bolt always (at least in the races I’ve seen him in) slows down at the end. It would be really neat to see him run flat out before he retires. He’s amazing and it would be great to know how quickly he can really go.
Cheers,
Scott.
grandpa john
@raven: Yeah that would work, I can’t remember the name of the stuff I used, I had to mix it with something sugar free because I am diabetic on an insulin pump.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@burnspbesq: That’s a big, floofy, happy snowball!
Cheers,
Scott.
Kay
@dmsilev:
Hah! A new wrinkle:
So Manafort is the sacrificial lamb? Let the blaming begin.
Technocrat
.@redshirt:
That’s hilarious, and depressing in equal measure.
Now I want another kid so I can name them “President”.
@lamh36:
LMAO!!
J R in WV
@burnspbesq:
“… doomed to live in a three dog household…”
That’s a good thing, Burns, because if you run into a three-dog night, cold, cold cold! you will have the necessary three dogs.
grandpa john
@Schlemazel: There are alternatives to the gallon crap that the seem to be pushing now, I used one last year.
Kay
Next week in Donald Trump’s campaign:
dmsilev
@Kay: It honestly amazes me that none of his primary opponents tried to make an issue of his murky finances and business screw-ups. Maybe it wouldn’t have worked given his support base, but they didn’t really even try. Sure, Romney gave that one speech, but that was really about it.
JPL
@raven: What a great picture..
dmsilev
@Kay: Well, Cory probably has an animus towards Manafort seeing as Manafort was part of the anti-Cory coup, so I wouldn’t make too much of that. But still, fun to watch and makes you wonder how much other …interesting stories are going to pop up in the next month or so.
And again, none of Trump’s primary opponents even tried to investigate him.
Technocrat
@Kay:
Lewandowski threw him under the bus!!?? Ohh, man revenge is a dish best served ice cold.
Manafort doesn’t look like the kind of guy you cross though. Those dead eyes, and flat effect. My gut says he is a dangerous person.
BR
@Kay:
Are you going to start doing frontpage posts again soon? The blog needs you!
Villago Delenda Est
@Kay: Religious right and racists have a large Venn overlap.
Zinsky
This shit-for-brains egotist is flat out, the biggest asshole to ever walk the earth!
raven
@JPL: This is my hat from 84. The oddity is that somehow I got a Russian swim pin even though they were not there!
redshirt
@raven: That’s got to be worth some money somewhere.
patrick II
@Mary G:
You have heard of the new tests where you just send in a stool sample? That is a test for cancer, so I am not sure if it applies.
nutella
I believe I saw somewhere that this is on video, but I’ve lost the link. Quote above from Vox.
nutella
@nutella:
Longer quote from DT Jr:
from Time
J R in WV
@Schlemazel:
I did it some time back, and it wasn’t nearly as bad as, for example, food poisoning or intestinal infection of some kind. Been there, done that.
You do empty out, but you don’t (I didn’t, anyway) experience the cramps and nausea that accompanies other emptying out events.
After the actual ‘scopy my first recollection is tying my shoes in the hall with wife and doctor… feeling actually pretty great. I wonder what I said before I came to, on the way to the hall…
Schlemazel
@J R in WV:
I was disappointed, I wanted to watch on the TV screen. Whatever they give you is an interesting drug because it just erases time but does not leave you groggy.
ThresherK (GPad)
@Technocrat: Remember “Senator K. Thorvaldson” from Lake Wobegone? Senator was his given name, immigrant parents gave it to him.
J R in WV
@Schlemazel:
Yeah, I said I wanted to watch the TV while they were prepping, and they both (Dr and nurse/assistant) said “No, you don’t!” in unison.
Then she put me out.
sukabi
@Ken: and his white pride and kkk tats.
KS in MA
@Gin & Tonic: Gatlin makes me think of Jim Rice.
Candia
@ThresherK (GPad): Sorry for butting in, but that reminds me of “In the Heights”, the musical LMM wrote before “Hamilton”. The protagonist is Usnavi – his Dominican parents named him after the first ship they saw when they came to the US – it was a US Navy ship. Always cracks me up.
Omnes Omnibus
@Candia: One tradition of the Hmong people is/was to choose to name a child after something that they admired. My mom, as a ESL teacher with primarily Hmong students, once had a student named TransAm.
KS in MA
@lamh36: So cool!
Emma
@Candia: One of my father’s college buddies in Cuba was also Usnavi. Same reason. His father had seen an American ship in the harbor in La Habana.
RadioOne
I feel that all of this is definitely going to work out for Trump somehow. It’s just a feeling, but
Vhh
@dmsilev I know a bit about Russia, and this is scary shit, not least because it will poison important US-Russia relations for decades. The US and Russia have many common interests, and we should not hate them nor they, us.