also he's SUPER racist
— Zeddy (@ZeddRebel) January 14, 2017
… as the Dumbest Mean Legislator / Meanest Dumb Legislator in DC. Sure, Donald Trump has the advantage of being born with a gilt-plated spoon in his mouth (and he never risks being confused with Rep. Pete ‘IRA Mucker’ King). But when it comes to world-class vicious stupidity, STEVE KING WILL NOT BE IGNORED!!!
Excellent Trump appointment for Secretary of Homeland Security, General John Kelly & I discuss border security with my wall model on table. pic.twitter.com/OGkBcN6NjU
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) January 13, 2017
Excellent Trump appointee and I played GI Joes and mom made tacos but we got in a fight and he had to go home. https://t.co/JezseoGFoX
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) January 14, 2017
How long have you been talking with inanimate objects? Can we quote the wall model on anything? :-) https://t.co/FlQR7Dsa3H
— Steven Strauss (@Steven_Strauss) January 14, 2017
The wall model made a series of barbed comments https://t.co/7JRk3BQ0UQ
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) January 14, 2017
Just that section alone cost $25,000. Three laborers died during construction. https://t.co/LUJOMp8ISW
— Piss POTUS Jeb Lund (@Mobute) January 14, 2017
I guess if you assume the real American voter is a cruel, ignorant bigot wholly in thrall to megacorporate filth producers, Iowa really deserves its premier spot in the quadrennial presidential race.
Steve King on the intel community: "People there need to be rooted out” https://t.co/jpalO9I3Dr
— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) January 14, 2017
SiubhanDuinne
Steve King is the “calves the size of cantaloupes” guy, yes?
lamh36
What’s a cheap alternative to the Amazon Fire Stick that I could pickup at say my local Walmart or BestBuy?
Josie
@SiubhanDuinne: Yes, among other stupid statements.
Mike E
@SiubhanDuinne: he misspoke… they’re muskmelons
Major Major Major Major
A Scottish newspaper had this to say about the upcoming week’s TV highlights. http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/15024376.Damien_Love__39_s_TV_highlights/
dedc79
@lamh36: roku is great, not sure how it compares in price
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
I’m thinking that a kickstarter or GoFundMe for the benefit of Chechen rebels would be a pretty fun idea right about now.
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
Ha! Saw that earlier (Burnspbesq or someone linked to it a few threads down, I think). Brilliantly done! Thanks for pasting the text in a comment.
SiubhanDuinne
Talking to inanimate objects isn’t all Steve King is doing recently….
I hate these people. I really do.
MomSense
It’s a wall for ants! It needs to be at least three times that size!
Major Major Major Major
@SiubhanDuinne: can we replace him with Stephen King? Seriously, he should run for office. Get rid of one of the twins.
Shell
I think that must have been the designer who created the Stonehenge model for Spinal Tap.
NotMax
King is quite a few kernels short of a cob but for sheer bone-headed dopiness, it’s gotta be Gohmert who takes the Congressional ignoramus title.
jake the antisoshul soshulist
@lamh36:
Chromestick $35. Roku Express $30. Roku Streaming Stick $50
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
I’m not Stephen King’s fiction audience, but he is, at least according to what I’ve seen, a pretty consistent liberal Democrat. I’d vote for him in a heartbeat.
MJS
There appears to be a not insignificant gap between the bottom off the wall and the table top. Why does that not surprise me?
Ruckus
@NotMax:
Agreed.
However….. If you are looking for the total package, stupid and hateful, then pig fucker King wins going away. If MLK were still alive I wonder how he’d feel about sharing last names.
burnspbesq
@MJS:
That’s for agricultural workers headed for Iowa. Gotta keep priorities in order.
Major Major Major Major
@SiubhanDuinne: yeah, he’s great. Very vocal on gun control.
ETA: i wasn’t joking! He should run! Somebody should poll him against Collins.
dmsilev
Well, it’s been a fun few days for family dmsilev, that’s for sure, but thankfully things seem to be stabilizing. Mom is looking at a couple of months of physiotherapy for a cracked pelvis and while chemo for my dad is certainly no walk in the park, the particular strain he has is both treatable and well localized, so we’re optimistic at this point.
Thank you all for your well-wishes the other day; it really helps in coping with these things.
GregB
Is it true that CGI Ronald Reagan will appear at the inaugural, looming over a wall full of razor wire and demand:
Mr. Trump, build up this wall!
Woodrowfan
Can anyone recommend an Android app that allows you to immediately upload a video or photo taken on your phone to the cloud, preferably to some Civil Rights organization? I am thinking it’ll be useful at demonstrations.
Baud
@dmsilev: Speedy healing to the parents.
Ruckus
@Woodrowfan:
Android cloud apps
Also you should have google drive on your phone already.
Shana
@Mike E: Since it’s Iowa, rather Muskatine melons.
rikyrah
@dmsilev:
Thanks for checking in. Glad to hear the positive news.???
BRyan
@SiubhanDuinne: I would as well. As to not being the audience for his fiction, I confess to a longstanding argument with myself over reading his stuff I don’t care for (the horror genre, I guess it is) because I so enjoy the way he writes; I find his ability to create scenes and tap his characters’ inner selves very evocative. I believe he was the author of a recent short story, “Herman Wouk Is Still Alive,” in The New Yorker, I think it was. A riveting piece. The man seems to understand those who have nothing, and the way our circumstances and our choices may confine and define us, our lives. We need that level of empathy in our elected officials.
Mike in NC
Thought that Trump’s ‘Great Wall’ had already been replaced by ‘Sturdy Fence’ and ultimately will be revisited as ‘Virtual Turnstile’.
rikyrah
@lamh36:
No suggestions. I have a Fire stick that I got on sale.
SiubhanDuinne
@dmsilev:
This all sounds like a big relief. Again, all best wishes to your parents, and please be sure to take care of yourself! Thanks for the update.
Major Major Major Major
@BRyan: he’s a fantastic wordsmith.
sigaba
I wonder if you can get concertina wire for your Mauer models at Michaels, or if you’ve gotta go to Blick for that…
debbie
@Major Major Major Major:
I had the joy of knowing several Scots when I lived in NYC. I miss their humor and snark even though I could never keep up with their prodigious drinking.
Louise B.
OMG, that exchange between Steven Strauss and Norm Ornstein is hilarious.
XTPD
I remember back when he was whinging about the damage Turkish occupation did to Greece’s European bloodline (i.e., he was literally complaining that there were “no more blond chicks”). I look forward to Rep. King’s future contention that the dearth of the rubio phenotype in the Iberian Peninsula proves the ultimate futility of the Reconquista.
debbie
asked and answered.
Mike J
@Woodrowfan:
Don’t take your primary phone. Take a burner without your contacts other than a lawyer/bail bondsman, and never ever use it for anything like browsing the web. Do not connect your burner phone to your primary email addresses.
Aleta
King and Kelley are wasting taxpayer money sitting in that expensive room; one of these is what they want.
Major Major Major Major
@Mike J: incidentally, everybody should start using Signal like yesterday for any and all demonstration and resistance planning.
SiubhanDuinne
@BRyan:
Well, his early books (Salem’s Lot, The Shining) scared the bejesus out of me, so they were certainly effective! But I don’t like being terrified, so I stay away. Made an exception for The Stand and found it just deadly, no pun intended. Turgid, both dull and overwrought. And I watched the TV movie of “The Lavaliers” and thought it was simply ridiculous.
But I have no quarrel with those who love and admire his writing. De gustibus and all that.
And I would be delighted if he ran against Collins. Be cool to have both Senators from Maine named King :-)
Lizzy L
OT: I’ve been thinking about Adam’s Peaceful Assembly post. I am going to be marching in Oakland, CA: friendly territory without a doubt. I will not be there all day — maybe an hour. (Bad knees for walking on concrete/tarmac.) Am I being foolish to think that some of the precautions Adam lists are not necessary, specifically the ones around cell phones? I don’t expect to encounter tear gas or hostile law enforcement personnel.
p.a.
@SiubhanDuinne: @Josie: @Mike E:
You may laugh, but there’s a guy at my Y with calves like… an anaconda swallowing a capybara. Don’t think he’s Messican though. Might be Canadiac! ?
Major Major Major Major
@SiubhanDuinne: The Stand is ungood, and I’m a fan of his.
Roger Moore
Nothing to see here.
Aleta
General Kelly: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Steve: Yes, sir.
General Kelly: Are you listening?
Steve: Yes, I am.
General Kelly: Tunnels
Steve: Exactly how do you mean?
General Kelly: There’s a great future in tunnels. Think about it. Will you think about it?
Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog
@Woodrowfan:
Mobile Justice:”Record and submit incidents directly and securely to your local ACLU”.
Yarrow
@Lizzy L: I thought Oakland was sort of ground zero for the anarchists/black bloc folks. I see those types of people as being where false flag actions would come from–attacking the police, breaking windows, etc. Someone from there probably has better info on all that.
As with all this stuff, do what you feel is right for you. Be aware and stay safe. Be sure you let people know where you are and have a plan.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Lizzy L:
The city maybe friendly, but it is the Oakland PD who are just assholes.
Major Major Major Major
@Lizzy L: what everybody else said.
@Yarrow: you don’t need a false flag when the assholes want to do it anyway. Trump won’t need a false flag terrorist attack since they’re going to pull one off due to his sheer bureaucratic incompetence easily.
Yarrow
@Major Major Major Major: Could be both/and not either/or.
Suzanne
@dmsilev: Hugs to the family, and to you.
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
I guess I’m glad it’s not just me.
Yarrow
@dmsilev: Glad things are settled down a bit and that all the forward news isn’t terrible. Sounds like your parents have good people helping them so you can relax a bit and let them get the help they need. Remember to take time to take care of yourself through all of this. Best to all of you.
mai naem mobile
My local NPR station had Radio lab on this afternoon. The show was about what happened at Memorial Hospital. This is the hospital where the State Attorney arrested the doctor and a couple of the nurses for murder. They were talking about the horrific conditions at the hospital. Maybe every mofo Trump voter should listen to the show. Wait,I forgot ,those are the mofo morons who think Obama was POTUS when Katrina happened. Obama apparently favors blacks but did nothing for those blacks in NOLA. My own brain can’t handle these contradictions and I don’t even have a methhead diseased brain.
El Caganer
@Major Major Major Major: He lives down here in FL for part of the year – has a place in the Sarasota area (I forget which Key; drove by it one day). Too bad he can’t run in both places.
Major Major Major Major
@El Caganer: oh my god he would wipe the floor with Lil Marco during a debate.
El Caganer
@Major Major Major Major: It would shake up the shit in FL politics, that’s for sure. Dunno how to put a bug in his ear, though.
Major Major Major Major
@El Caganer: seems like the sort of guy who would read a handwritten letter.
maurinsky
Has anyone seen the show Brain Dead? It’s available on Amazon Prime right now, although I guess it’s network life was cut short. My husband and I are about halfway through it, and I feel like Steve King is represented by a character played by Tony Shalhoub, Red Wheatus. He starts off as an amiable drunk, but he becomes a much sharper and hard working right-winger when his brain is invaded by alien ants. If Red were worried about Mexican illegal immigration, he would totally have a wall model on his desk.
It’s pretty good.
Feathers
Because zhena gogolia mentioned it in the thread upstairs and I didn’t know – PBS is showing the Sherlock finale at 7pm, so they can debut the Victoria show at 9. Feckin’ eejits!! They are actually showing this episode in theaters tomorrow night, but PBS can’t be arsed to actually show it when everyone is expecting it to be on.
Another Scott
@Woodrowfan: I wouldn’t count on the cellular network having sufficient bandwidth to upload stuff if anything bad happens on a large scale. Even making timely phone calls may be difficult if there are hundreds of thousands of people acting at once.
This seems like a decent list of potentially useful Android apps for the protester, but I don’t have any personal experience.
Fingers crossed.
Cheers,
Scott.
(Who hasn’t figure out what he’s doing about his cell phone yet…)
Major Major Major Major
@Another Scott: texting is the best way to communicate during these yes?
Another Scott
@Major Major Major Major: Yup! I wouldn’t want to type in a Base64-encoded video as a SMS though!!
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Major Major Major Major
@Another Scott: of course, if you have the bandwidth, you should REALLY be using Signal for texting since the authorities can’t read it.
(((CassandraLeo)))
@El Caganer: Casey Key. He used to come into the bookstore where I used to work but I never actually got to meet him.
I’d definitely vote for him.
J R in WV
@dmsilev:
Glad to hear things are looking, well, not bad anyways.
Best of luck, be careful, keep in touch.
Especially keep in touch!
Woodrowfan
@Ghost of Joe Liebling’s Dog: thanks! and if I go to a demo I’ll bring a burner phone, but want the app on my regular phone for everyday use…