This one has been circulating through the fever swamps for a couple days not, and Jonathan Chait sums it all up:
Barack Obama is nearing the finish line of a presidency filled with accomplishments ranging from death panels to FEMA camps to the importation of Sharia law. Year eight is a natural time for Obama to unveil the most deviously brilliant plot of them all: mass lesbian infiltration of the agriculture sector. The Department of Agriculture has cleverly designed this scheme as an innocuous outreach summit to LGBT Americans living in rural areas. But Rush Limbaugh has exposed the administration’s true intentions, which are nothing less than a full-scale assault on the last bastion of red-state America.
Here’s how it works. “Rural America happens to be largely conservative. Rural America is made up of self-reliant, rugged individualist types,” explains Limbaugh. (Farmers are “self-reliant” because, even though their sector is technically the recipient of heavy federal subsidies, they are overwhelmingly white.) Obama has a plan to attack them:
They are trying to bust up one of the last geographically conservative regions in the country; that’s rural America … So here comes the Obama Regime with a bunch of federal money and they’re waving it around, and all you gotta do to get it is be a lesbian and want to be a farmer and they’ll set you up … apparently enough money it make it happen, and the objective here is to attack rural states.
As a resident of a member of a rural right-leaning state, I have done my due diligence and created a list of pros and cons:
PROS
1. Better farmers markets
2. everything will be organized, including you
3. new softball leagues
4. more organic everything
5. cleaner campsites
6. influx of animal rescue volunteers
7. locally owned restaurants featuring brunch
8. more liberal voters
9. instead of Fox news, all public televisions will be tuned to Ellen reruns or the Ovation network.
CONS
1. You will never get a good deal on a used Subaru wagon again.
2. Campsites and dog obedience schools will have to be reserved three years in advance.
3. Potential for uncomfortable discussions over whether any penetration makes you straight will increase dramatically.
This is not an exhaustive list, but I think the pros definitely outweigh the cons.
MattF
Also, more and better bakeries.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
So true on the Subarus:
Origuy
I was going to say: More Subaru dealerships in the outback.
amorphous
Serious question: Does the far right really give a shit about lesbians? Isn’t the hate 99% directed at gay men? I’ve heard “Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve!” But never “Adam and Eve, not Madam and Eve!”
hueyplong
Every Limbaugh segment spent on Barry O’Bama’s societal crimes is a segment not spent on the NKVD, I mean, the Clinton Foundation, or emails.
? Martin
Now, Stuart, if you look at the soil around any large US city, there’s a big undeground homosexual population. Des Moines, Iowa, for an example. Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart. You can’t build on it; you can’t grow anything in it. The government says it’s due to poor farming. But I know what’s really going on, Stuart. I know it’s the queers. They’re in it with the aliens. They’re building landing strips for gay Martians, I swear to God.
catclub
The For Farmers Only dating website is probably ALL over this.
Amir Khalid
Lesbian overlords? Somehow, that doesn’t sound quite right. Overladies, maybe?
Mustang Bobby
And just try getting a pool table at the bar without a reservation.
Roger Moore
@amorphous:
Yes, they do. I don’t think they’re quite as squicky about them as they are about gays, but their ideas about gender roles are as threatened by lesbians as they are by gays. Plus, lesbians can easily have kids without needing to adopt, so they’re the core group threatening to raise kids in LGBTQ families.
KG
@amorphous: They explain it away as good-gay and bad-gay… Angelina Jolie making out with Elizabeth Mitchell is “good-gay”, Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal kissing, very much “bad-gay”.
scav
Based on about half of my experience, there’ll still be a lot of line dancing though. But with much better mixed drinks.
?BillinGlendaleCA
John, you really haven’t thought this through. Think about how much trouble you’ll have getting your Subaru out of the lesbian farmer’s field the next time it gets stuck there. And how will you replace it?
Iowa Old Lady
@catclub: The first time I saw a Farmers Only ad, I thought it was a parody.
OzarkHillbilly
Missouri Supreme Court Just Wiped Most Stealing Felonies Off The Books Can’t you just feel the freedom? I think I’ll just walk into some random houses.
schrodinger's cat
Subaru in the field is a good deal if you can retrieve it.
gvg
I don’t get it.
Frankensteinbeck
@amorphous:
Yes. They believe that lesbians hate men and are out to crush all men under the heel of matriarchy. It does not get the same screeching public passion that their homophobia does, and usually is used more as ‘insult for women I don’t like.’ If lesbians remain submissive, out of sight, and in their proper role of appearing in pornography for the pleasure of men, conservatives would be happy to forget about them.
Ten Bears
I could do without number nine, but otherwise, bring it on!
Oh wait… ?
piratedan
@Amir Khalid: they’re very butch overlords… don’t cha know
call_me_ishmael
@? Martin: I like you. You’re not like the other people here
in the trailer park.
OzarkHillbilly
@Mustang Bobby: Yep and the competition for lap dances will go thru the roof.
cokane
@amorphous: oddly some countries that banned “sodomy” i.e. homosexual acts, sometimes only had penalties for male-male acts and female-female was legal. This was the case in Belize, for example, until very recently. Priniciples
Enhanced Voting Techinques
I can see how a man like Rush who choses to decorate his house in Louis XIV would object to women being involved in the community he identifies with.
MattF
@cokane: Sodomy but not gomorrahmy.
catclub
@Iowa Old Lady: It might be.
p.a.
I can’t find a buffalo plaid flannel shirt anywhere!
cleek
suck it, McCrory, you odious bigoted shitwizzle:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/polltracker/mccrory-falls-behind-north-carolina-governor-poll
-9 !
Villago Delenda Est
Rush Limbaugh says something incredibly stupid.
I’m shocked, shocked!
Villago Delenda Est
@cokane: The story is that Queen Victoria did not believe that female on female homosexuality existed, would not hear of it, so only male on male homosexuality was banned in the British Empire.
CONGRATULATIONS!
They’re hell on wheels in a bar fight. Make damn sure you’re on their side.
I actually read that Limbaugh transcript as I couldn’t believe the headline, but yeah, he’s puttin’ it out there. The lesbos are coming for your farms, America, to kill Jesus. And it struck me how normalized we’ve become to the insane bleatings of the right. Twenty years ago, anyone spewing anything that deranged in public would have been arrested for being intoxicated in public or held for a 72-hour psychiatric hold. Seriously.
The fucker has his own radio show. America, left and right, you let this happen.
Citizen_X
Well, you can’t very well have a field hockey team without a field, now can you?
Punchy
Do gay women farmers grow and harvest les-beans? Are they going to set up shop in FL, perhaps Kissimmee? Will they have corny parties, that….combine…stalking, plaid outfits, overalls, and…wheat for it….John Derriere tractors?
khead
@schrodinger’s cat:
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. Really solid.
Formerly disgruntled Clinton supporter
@CONGRATULATIONS!: 20 years ago Rush L was more popular. The “good ol’ days” are a myth.
WereBear
Don’t forget the pink guns!*
*(Bill O’Reilly sex fantasies.)
Trollhattan
Another plus: constantly being herded to the correct destination by Aussie sheps.
Droppy
After they take over rural America, can they come and take over my city? The non-lesbian overlords have really not worked out too well.
Hildebrand
Holy shit – this isn’t satire? Please tell me its satire.
Iowa Old Lady
Folks must have no problems in their lives if they spend time worrying about lesbian farmers.
jl
Cole is an expert on Subarus, both on the road and in the field.
Why isn’t he out counting them? Tidal wave of lesbians riding high in Subaru wagons through the hills and hollers will be an early warning sign of the invasion.
We’ll know when to take cover.
cokane
@MattF: so true, Gomorrah really got the short end of the stick
Villago Delenda Est
@Iowa Old Lady: It’s Rush Limbaugh. His entire life is a case history of finding problems no one else can imagine.
geg6
This is the funniest shit out the of the fever swamps in a long time. Where does this shit even come from?
jl
The storm has been brewing for a long time.
Women farmers “Farmerettes” driving tractors to plow the fields in spring time, 1918.
http://www.owensarchive.com/women-farmers-farmerettes-driving-tractors-4348
Don’t tell Beck (Wilson! DemocRAT president!)
Pogonip
@Amir Khalid: Overpersons?
Peale
@Iowa Old Lady: Or worry that there’s enough lesibians to tilt Oklahoma blue.
Pogonip
Another possible pro, assuming lesbians have good taste in radio programming: less Limbaugh on rural airwaves. That must be annoying, not finding anything on the radio besides a bellowing lunatic when all you want to do is harvest your lesbeans in peace.
bystander
@p.a.: I was going to name rising prices for flannel and overalls as a Con but that’s more than compensated for with better potluck suppers.
danielx
Probably better farm-to-table restaurants, too. And instead of cable stations that show Deliverance 24/7, there will be radio stations that play nothing but k.d. lang.
Also too, there are fucking tornadoes popping up all over the place.
1,000 Flouncing Lurkers (was fidelioscabinet)
@Amir Khalid: Overwomen. But it’ll be a collective, so the leadership role will rotate.
danielx
@CONGRATULATIONS!:
Twenty years ago they were having Limbaugh listening parties at lunch time in bars; he’s come down in the world since.
1,000 Flouncing Lurkers (was fidelioscabinet)
John, you forgot #10: The county farmers’ co-op will be better managed, and you’ll be able to get someone there to answer the phone.
OzarkHillbilly
@danielx: And Indigo Girls.
catclub
@CONGRATULATIONS!:
I suspect that lesbian couples have been in the country for years, hiding in plain sight. Limbaugh would not know because he probably never visits that part of the country.
The outrage is that the Dept of Agriculture is actually admitting it.
Trollhattan
@danielx: I can go one better: local moron opened “Dittos Cafe” that had daily Limbaugh listening parties. These people are very tribal and do other things together, frequently involving golf clubs.
Felonius Monk
@amorphous:
Of course they do. They really go for that girl on girl p()rno. At least the old white guys do.
danielx
@OzarkHillbilly:
That too.
Felonius Monk
@geg6:
Usually, right out of Limbaugh’s fat ass.
Dog Dawg Damn
Getting lots of Donald J Trump ads on BJ. Had to click through and then leave a message with the campaign. They really do deserve congrats. This level of ineptitude is difficult to pull off ;-)
Trollhattan
@catclub:
Rush should talk, considering the ultra-ghey decor of his NY apartment. He and Trump! have more in common than belligerence–they both dream of being Liberace.
Villago Delenda Est
One of the most pernicious of the many myths of America is the utter bullshit that is the “rugged individual”. The conquest of the West was definitely a group effort, and could not have succeeded without being a group effort. The US Army dealing with the natives, the land grants to the railroads, etc “Rugged individuals”, backed up by communal power.
Dog Dawg Damn
John Deere heiress is a lesbian. Makes perfect sense.
Major Major Major Major
@Dog Dawg Damn: we get right-wing ads here all the time. It’s quite strange. I wonder if Cole is on a list because he was a warblogger many moons ago.
jl
The Storm Is Coming….
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/65/2a/dc/652adc6eeaf3dd49a62845926c67cc91.jpg
Major Major Major Major
@Villago Delenda Est:
jl
The dystopian rain will swallow us all. You want this raising your crops? Huh?
http://www.unloosen.com/thestuff/archives/tractor%20girl_5265.jpg
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
Durnit, I have terrible hay fever and won’t be able to get in on this! So unfair!
Why can’t we take over some profession that gets to work indoors? Like, say, Wall Street?
Brachiator
Oh, Lordy, Limbaugh: Can’t you just imagine a strong lesbian farmer out in the fields in the midday sun. She leaps astride her tractor, her strong thighs snugly on either side of the seat, her muscular arms shifting the gears on the mighty rig as she rips loose and plows through the fields.
Then at the end of the day, with her field hand Clementine giving her a vigorous back rub, she opens the mail, especially the farm subsidy check sent to her by the president.
“Thanks, Obama!”
Ninedragonspot
Willa Cather says hello.
I think some folks in Red Cloud are still sheepish about that one.
Villago Delenda Est
@jl: Yes, it is.
I’ll be in my bunk in the tornado shelter.
jl
@Major Major Major Major:
Need to ban that plant
Alfalfa is a Muslin word.
Medicago sativa, reminds the kids of dope, and corrupts our precious youth,
and
lucerne is French.
Not. An. American. Crop.
Shell
I thought straight guys liked girl-on-girl action.
But sheeeessssh. Just when you thought you’d heard the story that finally has you banging your head on the screen, along comes its topper.
bluefish
@Villago Delenda Est: Indeed. My husband is from the Central Valley of California. He makes your point all the time. As did his mother who lived outside the Hanford area all of her life. She was a staunch Dem in a sea of others. Never forgot what FDR did for the region. I took them both at their word.
JPL
This youtube by the white supremacists is pretty disturbing .. It’s a version of we didn’t start the fire.. link
Brachiator
@Villago Delenda Est:
That’s not true! That’s not true! It was a bunch of sweaty mens, with six guns and such. Taming each other, uh, I mean the wild west.
Roger Moore
@danielx:
Melissa Etheridge.
Roger Moore
@Trollhattan:
And occasionally wetsuits and dildos.
Mike R
An old joke about how does a farmer double his income? Puts up another mail box. A farmer had his hand amputated while working with an auger in a grain bin. Local paramedics couldn’t find the hand and were worrying what to do when a neighbor happened by with a solution. The neighbor waved a subsidy check over the grain and the hand came up reaching for the check. This is what passes for humor here in corn country.
Elmo
@Roger Moore:
Enya. Lots and lots of Enya.
SFAW
@MattF:
Norm Crosby, 1967
Redshift
@Major Major Major Major:
Nah, it’s all keyword based, according to the content. We talk about wingnuts a lot, so we get a lot of ads for people who are interested in that stuff. The algorithms aren’t smart enough to tell if you’re for it or against it.
SFAW
@Tara the Antisocial Social Worker:
But then you’d have to change your nym from “Antisocial” to “Sociopathic,” and THEN where would you be? Other than “On Wall Street,” that is.
scav
@Brachiator: That’s how you can tell Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is totally Hollywood, nuthin’ to do with reality. No real men went about in pairs.
PhoenixRising
11. The Steak N Shake in Effingham, IL will no longer ask every same-sex couple whether we need separate checks.
And that there is worth any amount of enraged whining from the nutbags of right wing radio.
Also, Cole, #3 is very…90s. (If expelling a baby via the body part in question doesn’t make a girl straight, there’s really nothing anyone can put in there that would. The whole gestation thing is not my kink, but about 200K lesbians have done it so it can’t be all bad.)
SFAW
@Redshift:
We do? Since when??
I think yer jokin’
Major Major Major Major
@Redshift: that’s only assuming it’s just straight-up vanilla Adwords. People can pick what domain to buy on I think.
Redshift
@MattF: Leviticus condemns a man who lies with another man, but not a woman who lies with another woman. Lesbians are incapable of committing lots of the Old Testament sins. I can’t remember if it was Stephanie Miller or John Fugelsang who declared them to be God’s chosen people on that basis.
danielx
Another one bites the dust….
I’ve been in that Starbucks, hope the kids got out okay.
The Pale Scot
@? Martin:
Late last night I was driving between the Fl coasts and the only radio I could get was Coast to Coast. The subject they were discussing was whether or not Drumph was a reptilian from the planet Draco using technology to disguise himself. Draconians are reputed to be very ornery and hateful and dismissive of other species, ETs and terrestrial.
I gotta say they made a persuasive case
Redshift
@Major Major Major Major: True, but I think it’s a more likely explanation in this case than advertisers who haven’t updated their site lists since he was a rightblogger.
Redshift
@The Pale Scot: Reminds me of the line from Men in Black, in response to learning that Dennis Rodman is an alien: “Not much of a disguise.”
danielx
@The Pale Scot:
Sooner or later someone is going to get pics of the creature swallowing a live rat whole.
Trollhattan
O/T British understatement, in action.
In my book, the takeoff and landing are essentially the ONLY things that matter–the flying bits in between are easy peasy.
Momentary
I live in the most rural farm heavy part of Wales, and it is absolutely full of lesbians.
Trollhattan
@danielx:
Maybe the thing on his head is an emergency snack.
OzarkHillbilly
@Roger Moore: You forgot dead pigs and live sheep.
PhoenixRising
@Redshift: Nope. The ‘chosen people’ joke dates to the mid-1980s, when AIDS was a curse. If G-d is punishing the homosexuals he’s being selective about it.
(If it’s not obvious: It would require a great deal of effort, some unusual proclivities and 2 or more extremely athletic participants to transmit HIV between/among lesbians, so the virus theory is more likely the correct explanation for why we were spared.)
Roger Moore
@Major Major Major Major:
Yeah, but Trump apparently doesn’t have the sharpest digital team in the world. They don’t seem to be making any attempt to distinguish between persuadable and non-persuadable political junkies. If Trump is going to pay to keep the blog operating, I’m willing to give him a pass on that one.
danielx
@Trollhattan:
If so, it’s the most foresight he’s displayed in his lifetime.
jl
@Trollhattan: That was a pretty boring disaster. Airship disasters used to be a lot more exciting.
Why? I bet Rush knows: Nobama big government lesbians taking the fun out of everything!
Matt McIrvin
@PhoenixRising: Several years ago I remember an online friend of mine, who had joined some kind of ultraconservative religious sect, passing around a paper endorsed by the Family Research Council that, he said excitedly, blew apart the claims that lesbians were less prone to HIV and STDs than straight people.
I read it and it was just manifestly stupid on its face: the claimed mechanism was that lesbians have more sex with men than straight women do, because the “lesbian lifestyle” was all about drug-fueled omnisexual orgies. All I could say was that all the lesbians I knew would have to be really, really atypical for any of that to make sense.
Brachiator
@scav:
Butch and Sundance. Totally gay names.
PhoenixRising
@Matt McIrvin:
That’s where we’re going in the Subaru wagons with our rescue herding dogs: A federally-controlled campground. I’m not allowed to tell you the rest or I lose my right to a toaster for every straight woman I convert.
Frankensteinbeck
@Matt McIrvin:
I read one of the Marquis DeSade’s books, once. I remember three things: Nausea, an obsession with erotic asphyxiation, and the bizarre claim that nobody likes anal sex more than lesbians, because it makes them more like men.
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
@SFAW:
Sure, but I’d be able to afford as many noms de keyboard as I wanted.
If my computer was an Apple, would that make it a nom de pomme?
Brachiator
Over Dames?
Over Ladies?
Schlemazel
@Villago Delenda Est:
If I may, I would like to quote the great “Jesus’ General”, “Ladies cannot be homosexuals because they do not have little soldiers to put in each others mouth.”
Gosh I miss his blog, I hope he is doing OK
Anoniminous
@Brachiator:
When in doubt, stick with the German: Uber Frau
scav
@Brachiator: They have rusty farm equipment. They have automated, large, rusty farm equipment. They go by whatever title they choose.
Bruce Webb
JC Christian aka Jesus’ General is back on Twitter. Tweeting and retweeting as of an hour ago.
Blog still down since 2014
Calming Influence
In the ‘Cons” column, you forgot “Genetically modified corn brimming with estrogen”, but I suppose there’s also an argument to be made for putting it in the “Pros” column, so maybe it’s a wash…
rikyrah
This is some crazy shyt. Rush is back on the stuff.
jl
@rikyrah: I wonder whether Brian Williams, who apparently has been let loose on America’s news-ways again though I never see him, still listens to Rush, so he can keep up with what ‘real Americans’ think.
Lizzy L
Y’all ever been to the San Francisco Pride Parade? Dykes on Bikes rule. The motorcycle mechanics in self-reliant rugged Rural America are about to get very busy — and rich.
There will be coffee. Good coffee.
And your town will soon have a PetSmart.
Origuy
@Momentary:
I take it you don’t live in Llanddewi Brefi?
hovercraft
@Villago Delenda Est:
I think this also has to do with men not being offended by the thought of two girls having sex, and being weirded out by two men having sex. Since men were the exclusive writers of laws back then, they enshrined their fears, paranoia and insecurities into law. The anti lesbian fear has become more of an issue for modern men who feel that lesbians living together openly threatens their position in society.
Davebo
@Bruce Webb: Last tweet I see was from June.
Origuy
Farm Aid and Liliith Fair are in merger talks.
Trollhattan
@Origuy:
Springsteen and Willie are going to be pleasantly surprised at being named honorary lesbians!
Schlemazel
@Bruce Webb:
I don’t tweet but I will look him up thanks. I don’t see how he can do his oeuvre justice at 140 characters though. His best work was to torment wingnuts by being wingnuttier then thou.
Roger Moore
@Origuy:
Isn’t that supposed to be “more Outbacks in the Subaru dealerships”?
Jacel
This news brought to mind a running skit scenario of the Duck’s Breath Mystery Theater involving the Transvestite Farmers Association. This bit didn’t translate to greater exposure outside their shows, unlike the Ask Dr. Science and Ian Scholes routines.
Brachiator
@hovercraft:
Also, their fantasies.
Jeffro
This whole thread has been outstanding…I’m just not sure which parts to relay to RW friends and relatives
Do you think even they know that “the lesbian farmer menace” has to be a bad joke?
JanieM
@Davebo: That tweet is pinned. There are very recent ones below it.
Bruce Webb
@Davebo: That’s a pinned tweet. There are some six tweets (and counting) from the last hour. Scroll down one spot.
Gemina13
@OzarkHillbilly:
Don’t forget Jill Sobule.
Gemina13
@Trollhattan:
Ugh. Liberace had more taste with dinner than either of those buffoons have had in their whole lives.
Kathleen
@jl: I was wondering the same thing. Jon Stewart’s good buddy.
amk
limpaugh’s numbers are circling the drain?
hovercraft
@Brachiator:
They are not gay though, they just happen to think about people asking them to bend over a lot, and about people shoving things down their throats.
hovercraft
@amk:
He never recovered from his attack on Sandra Fluke. Poor guy.
Actually not poor, but for him to lose so many of the big stations in the largest markets is humiliating.
SAD !!
Honus
@jl: here’s how messed up I am. When I saw that picture I thought “nice. That thing has a Honda engine”. But then I drive a Subaru. The only 2wd one, the BRZ.
Pogonip
I want to rant about newspapers. Specifically, non-delivery of same. This has been a problem ever since papers gave up on kids and went to adult “independent contractors” for delivery. I suspect what’s happening is the adult is delivering papers as one of her three or four jobs and if she runs out of time in the a.m., I don’t get my paper. I don’t blame her but I want Cox Publishing sentenced to stoop labor harvesting lesbeans while Rush Limbaugh’s hectoring voice is blasted over the field.
amk
@hovercraft: To go from
addressingwhining at the rethugs convention to being a completely ignored bleat must burn.Pogonip
@hovercraft: the last time I went through Columbus, Ohio, he was still on WTVN-AM. I was surprised at his deterioration. He sounded as if his mind was pretty much gone. I suppose the same can be said of the station. Ever since Fox bought it about 15 years ago the station’s been on a downhill slide. I believe Fox sold it a while back. Didn’t help.
Pogonip
@Pogonip: oops, I meant “Cox Publishing bigwigs.”
Pogonip
@SFAW: I kind of like “Tara the Sociopathic Social Worker.”. It has a nice flow.
Truegster
For my Texas anti-Hillary coworkers, I have a new quick argument to end their b.s. –
“Name 6 Secretaries of State, and pick your favorite one out of them” – they usually can only name Hillary, Kerry, Powell and Rice and they usually guess Kissinger. Almost no one can name six Secretaries of State.
So Hillary and Kerry are the top two out of those six, performance wise. Let a fool try and argue that Rice And Powell weren’t accomplices to an unjust war…or didn’t have more foreign posts attacked. Neither had great record keeping skills either. At the end of the argument I usually add some smartass comment about Cyrus Vance or William Jennings Bryan.
Schlemazel
@amk:
He has been on a downhill slide for years. Partly his shtick is getting old, partly even morans were offended by his attack on mj fox an fluckand some credit has to go to boy blunder and his super friends who pretty much showed the lie that is Rush. The campaign run against his advertisers helped some but he was already weakened
rikyrah
WGN America Developing ‘Black Wall Street’ From ‘Underground’ EPs & Tika Sumpter
EXCLUSIVE: With Season 2 of Underground about to go into production, WGN America and Get Lifted Film Co. are deepening their relationship on American hidden history with another series. The company run by John Legend, Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorious has inked a deal for early development on Black Wall Street, I’ve learned. Added to the mix is Get Lifted alum and Obamas first-date pic Southside with You actress-producer Tika Sumpter as an exec producer.
With additional time to get the deal in place for the WME-repped The Haves and the Have Nots star Sumpter in place, the overall agreement about the project focusing on what became one of the largest mass killings of African-Americans in the nation’s history came together pretty quickly, I’ve heard.
Matt McIrvin
@Truegster: If they’re good Republicans they ought to be able to name George Shultz. Hell, I’m a liberal Democrat and I think he wasn’t stupid. Al Haig was a horror but he didn’t last very long.
Oh, and geez, James Baker was at State under GHWB. Another relatively sane Republican. I had to look that up, though (he had a bunch of different important positions).
rikyrah
A Timeline of Leslie Jones’s Horrific Online Abuse
August 24, 2016
3:44 p.m.
Today in awful news, Leslie Jones’s personal website has been taken down after being targeted by a vicious hack. Hackers infiltrated the site with what appeared to be naked photos of the comedian, as well as images of her passport and driver’s license, private photos of her with various celebrities, and a photo of dead gorilla (and meme that refuses to die) Harambe.
Enhanced Voting Techinques
So that’s out fate in the Obamaficated America; languishing under the perfumed high heel of the Lesbian overlord that rest oppressively, if ever so daintily, on our necks.
And the down side to this is?
rikyrah
Roger Simon ✔ @politicoroger
Trump: “We will make America proud again. You won’t be embarrassed like you are now.”
2:07 PM – 24 Aug 2016
daves09
@cokane: When the British criminalized homosexual acts in the 1880s it covered both male and female acts. Queen Victoria struck out the female penalties because she refused to believe such things happened,
John Cole
@Bruce Webb: He’s back on twitter, and I love the guy, but he has absolutely lt re: Hillary.
RedDirtGirl
PA Balloon Juice working meet-up this Saturday, anyone?
I am going to go register voters for my corporate shill of a candidate.
Anyone want to do a last minute BJ meet-up/voter drive in PA this Saturday?
I’ll be leaving from Brooklyn.
Davebo
@JanieM: You kids and your twitting!
Obviously I’m not aware of all internet traditions.
jl
@daves09:
” Queen Victoria struck out the female penalties because she refused to believe such things happened, ”
Oh, yeah…. shuuuurrr she did. Nice try Vicky, if that’s what they called you down at the club…
rikyrah
hat tip- POU
WHEN BARACK MET MICHELLE
by Chaz Ebert
…A bigger reason for writing about this movie is the hope that it can put the viewer in touch with the tender points in their hearts. I get soul-sick reading daily stories and seeing visuals about gun violence in Chicago. Being fed a steady barrage of this can turn your heart to stone. I don’t want the children of Chicago or our nation to think this violence is the norm. I don’t want them to walk around in fear of going out to play, fear of walking to school, fear of each other. I am so grateful that Richard Tanne presented the other side of Chicago, especially the southside, with cultural activities and peaceful neighbors, and the daily activities of life that have nothing to do with guns or violence. I want children to see something on the screen to give them hope that just maybe if a man can go from being a community organizer in Chicago to occupying the White House, there is a chance for them.
I also want them to see the graceful Michelle Robinson talking about making a difference in the world because of the work ethic taught to her by her father who toiled every day for the city despite the challenges of his Multiple Sclerosis. It is said that if you can see it, you can be it. I want the young people to find the softness in their hearts, especially Chicagoans. Is it too much to ask that “Southside With You” becomes more than an entertainment, but also a vehicle of hope?
There is another reason I wanted to moderate the panel—the year of their first date was the year that I also met the future president for the first time. But it is also the year I met my future husband, Roger Ebert. I joked that although I met the President before I met my husband, Michelle had him first. And it is only a joke, because we both ended up with exactly the right man for us, and we both married those men the same year: 1992.
In 1989, I was still practicing law and I went to the law firm of Sidley & Austin to take a deposition. When I arrived, I was told that the lawyer who was to produce her client for deposition wasn’t in, but had arranged for someone else to speak with me. I was standing there angry, arms crossed, waiting for an explanation. Why didn’t someone call to alert me that the deposition was postponed? I was standing in the hallway outside of the conference room when I noticed several lawyers rushing to stand by my side. But they were looking down the hallway and murmuring in tones of admiration, “Here he comes. Here he comes!” This piqued my interest, whose presence were they heralding? Why were they being so adulatory?
My eyes followed theirs and I spied a tall slim figure walking smoothly toward us. In my memory, he seemed to be gliding as if he was being pulled along on a dolly like one of the characters in a Spike Lee movie. That’s just how smooth he was. He stopped in front of me, beamed a blindingly bright smile and stuck out his hand, “Hi, I’m Barack Obama..” I was immediately struck by his good looks and charm. He conveyed the lawyer’s apologies and offered to reschedule the deposition for the next week. At the time I was a bachelorette, divorced. “Hmm…,” I thought, “I wonder if he is single.” But I merely returned the handshake and thanked him for telling me. After all, I was a professional litigator and so all he saw was my poker face. …
The Lodger
@Brachiator: Agrinatrixes?
Zinsky
The longer I live, the more I realize that conservatives are namby-pamby, bed-wetting, scaredy cats who are afraid of their own fucking shadows. Fuck them! They need to grow the fuck up and quit being so goddamn afraid of everything!
JR in WV
@Momentary:
Wife has welsh in her background, and has always wanted to visit the Ould Country. Should I worry>?
Only been married 45 years, could it be? Naw!
JGabriel
John Cole @ Top:
Am I the only one here who first read that as the Ovulation network?
John Cole
@RedDirtGirl: Where?
Peanut Gallery
@? Martin:
This comment on Twitter from Rodney Anonymous showed up in my twitter feed recently, and made my whole night…
PhoenixRising
@The Lodger: I would almost give in to the 15 year long request for an alpaca farm if we got that as our title.
Agrinatrixes, however, also could be a disease you get a shot & 2 weeks of pills for…transmitted at the grey water dump at campgrounds at national parks.
So either way, lesbian farmers drilling for the essential fluids of our rural areas…will win out.
Brachiator
@The Lodger:
We have a winner!!
Gretchen
@Amir Khalid: right you are, Amir! Lesbian Overladies it is!
Gretchen
@Citizen_X: so true!
Momentary
@JR in WV: Just watch out for the local blacksmith, that woman is v impressive ;)
tybee
@MattF:
i made that joke in a jury room once. got zero laffs.
Bill Arnold
@Roger Moore:
Re this, Donald Trump’s Donation Website Was Easily Hackable
An amusing trifle, but nonetheless a bit funny.