I’m exhausted. Flight was uneventful. JetBlue is solid.
Dogs are thrilled I am back, or at least putting on a good show.
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I’m exhausted. Flight was uneventful. JetBlue is solid.
Dogs are thrilled I am back, or at least putting on a good show.
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SiubhanDuinne
Good lord, you didn’t leave them alone with Steve, I hope!
raven
And there is a brawl in Phoenix!
opiejeanne
Jet Blue is my favorite airline for domestic travel. My only issue with them is that they don’t go everywhere I want to go. In LA they land in Long Beach, and I sorely need them to land in Ontario.
Roger Moore
How about Steve?
opiejeanne
@raven: Are we talking about a pack of jackals wanting a visit from the Blogger in Chief, or riotous behavior for some political reason?
raven
@opiejeanne: Final Four.
satby
Welcome home John. And get some rest, travel these days is grueling.
opiejeanne
@raven: Thanks. When I looked for a brawl in Phoenix I got a different basketball game from a couple of years ago.
jharp
I quit flying years ago.
I just cant take the confinement anymore. Claustrophobia.
And I’ve flown over a million miles.
raven
@opiejeanne: The was no fight but there has been some serious contact.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
My sister the life long travel professional swears by Jet Blue.
It was great to see you – do you miss us yet? How bout the weather?
rikyrah
STOP WRITING THESE ARTICLES!!!
I don’t give a phuck about these people.
Write an article about someone not stupid enough to vote for DOLT45, who sees the harm that they suspected ACTUALLY COMING TO THEIR LIVES.
THAT is the article I want to read.
………………………………….
Nicholas KristofVerified account @NickKristof
My Sunday column, just posted: In Trump country, some supporters are aghast to see Trump budget cuts whacking them
https://twitter.com/NickKristof/status/848255067069321216
rikyrah
Kyle GriffinVerified account @kylegriffin1
‘Someone w/ a gambling debt never insults their bookie.’—Malcolm Nance on need to see Trump’s taxes for Russia links
Baud
@rikyrah: What you said.
schrodingers_cat
@rikyrah: Amen, sister! Nick Kristoff must be one of my least favorite NYT columnists.
rikyrah
Great Twitter Thread
GothamGirlBlue @GothamGirlBlue
I’m probably going to lose a bunch of followers after *this* thread, but Imma go for it anyway. So let’s talk: Bernie Sanders.
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat:
He has been pretty good since the election, rubbing Paul Ryan’s face in the actual Gospel, for example. But luckily my paper wasn’t delivered today, so I won’t see this one.
dmsilev
@rikyrah: “I never thought the leopard would eat MY face” sobs woman who voted for the Leopard Eating People’s Faces Party.
We’re going to be seeing a lot of that quote over the next few years.
(We’d also accept “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”–H.L. Mencken)
SiubhanDuinne
@rikyrah:
Had to laugh at the second comment on that tweet:
LOL, @JohnShamlou is feeling his snarky oats.
debbie
@rikyrah:
There will be plenty of those articles if they manage to pass healthcare. In the meantime, I for one am fine with public shaming. It’s the only way to get some people to realize they were wrong.
My FB feed is full of articles about Trumpsters beginning to regret their decision. I wonder if this is due to some sort of algorithm seeing how much anti-Trump stuff I share or like.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Garbage NYT with garbage columnists
rikyrah
Kyle Griffin
✔
@kylegriffin1
Sens. Warren and Murray say one of Betsy DeVos’ senior advisers at DoE is still getting paid by a for-profit college—and they want answers.
9:19 AM – 1 Apr 2017
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@rikyrah:
This was the discovery of the day on twitter. Must read.
rikyrah
This is the funniest thing you will see all day.
Stevosideways @stevosideways
I literally defy anyone to watch this video in fulland not be smiling like a big idiot by the end!!!
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@dmsilev:
That was Adrian Bott. Perfect characterization of the dumbassery in Trump’s America.
rikyrah
ABC News PoliticsVerified account @ABCPolitics
Rare photo of Harriet Tubman acquired by Library of Congress and Smithsonian’s new African-American history museum.
efgoldman
@rikyrah:
I can’t believe you did that – on a Saturday nite, no less.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: I hadn’t noticed.
Baud
@efgoldman: Saturday night’s all right for fightin’.
debbie
@rikyrah:
Left Bird was my dad when the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan.
Yarrow
@rikyrah: OMG, that is hilarious. Thanks for the link.
Yarrow
@debbie: Were you Right Bird?
Redshift
@debbie:
I’d be fine with them if they were public shaming. Instead, they’re all about how we should have sympathy with these poor people, which is a load of crap.
Ruckus
@rikyrah:
I like how the BS people are there telling the rest of us that we need to join him. After he lost the primary and tainted the election for the sane person running.
Redshift
@rikyrah: I read that, too, and loved it.
debbie
@Yarrow:
Yeah, I was pretty bouncy. But my hair was never that big.
debbie
@Redshift:
I agree. I focus on their sense of feeling like they’ve been betrayed.
Pogonip
@rikyrah: A man burdened by a name like Tarzan Vince has bigger problems than Trump-or-Hillary.
JPL
Phoenix is where it is happening. What a great game.
MomSense
@rikyrah:
That was so good.
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: Do we think those are real birds?
Ruckus
@Redshift:
You know, if they didn’t do such harm by being so stupid and/or bigoted I’d say we should feel sorry for them. As it is, I’m finding it rather difficult to do that.
So Fuckem.
H/T ef
WaterGirl
@MomSense: That bird was pretty cool, but I kind of have a crush on those kitties ringing the bells.
efgoldman
@WaterGirl:
Are they angry? Are any named Larry?
Yarrow
@Redshift: Agreed. Many of the articles say that the people voted for Trump largely because everyone else (Hillary voters, Democrats in general) called them stupid. So they still back him because not to do so would be to admit they’re stupid. There is just no addressing that way of thinking.
WaterGirl
@efgoldman: The one on the right is a pretty good dancer. No time for anger, we gotta dance.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
I wonder how quickly cats can be trained to do that? And will they remember the trick the next day?
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
I’ve watched that about 70 elebenty times so far. I adore the look on the right hand (tux) cat’s face whenever the other kitteh rings his bell and still gets a treat, like “WTF dood!?!?!”
Uncle Cosmo
@schrodingers_cat: In a rare fit of honesty, the Gray Lady today decided to change its masthead name to the Herrenvölkischer Beobachter…
Baud
@Yarrow:
Bullshit. Trump called Iowa stupid after Cruz won the primary. Guess who Iowans voted for?
WaterGirl
@debbie: I bet it’s quick and I bet they remember.
@SiubhanDuinne: Every time I watch it I catch something new. The indignation you mentioned, the look on the black & white kitty’s face when he realized he gets a treat every single time he does this, every time! I may have to quit my day job.
Yarrow
@Baud: Yep. But that’s what the articles say because that’s what the people they interview say. It’s ridiculous. The reporters are taking their patented stenography style and putting it to use.
Pogonip
@efgoldman: I thought he could have beat Trump in the Electoral College had the Democrats had the sense to run him. Instead they decided to preach to the choir. Unfair to her as it may be, Hillary Clinton absolutely infuriates a lot of voters, especially female voters. Around here, at least, men weren’t nearly as opposed to her. (One guy cracked me up; he said, “She reminds everybody of their ex-wife, but I’ll probably vote for her because my ex gets things done pretty efficiently.” Chortle.)
I live in what is generally considered deep Trump country and right up till Election Day most of the people around me were still struggling to decide which was the lesser evil. We’re “Trump country” only in the sense that we’re “Absolutely no Clintons!” country. Whereas people didn’t hate Sanders (most had known nothing about him).
Well, we’ll see how President Pence does when the time comes.
Readers, please don’t waste your time yelling at me–I voted for Kodos!
Redshift
@debbie:
If we’re starting to get articles like that, then good. I had long since stopped clicking through on that sort of headline during the “Dems need to figure out how to appeal to these people” phase.
Iowa Old Lady
@Redshift: These are grown up people who live in a democracy in which they are trusted to select their own government. Trump didn’t hide who he was. These people are culprits, not victims.
Tenar Arha
@rikyrah: That’s the kind of thread that’s so good I’m still chewing on it for days, & it’ll float back into my timeline a few times as it retweets around.
Pogonip
@debbie: If they get food for it, they’ll remember.
raven
South Carolina had their chances. Great game.
WaterGirl
@Pogonip: What’s Kodos? Anyone who didn’t cast a vote for clinton is part of the problem.
Mike J
@raven: Gonzagulations
Baud
@Pogonip: I like our choir. I hope we continue to preach to it. Let the chips fall where they may.
Pogonip
@WaterGirl: He and Kang are the aliens on The Simpsons.
I have not voted for a presidential candidate in 20 years. It’s like deciding who should be the captain of the Titanic. The society has broken apart and that’s that.
efgoldman
@raven:
I love it when the smaller schools/small conferences beat the big guys.
Unfortunately, I have to root for a meteor in the second game.
Pogonip
@Baud: You, I’ll vote for. Especially if Tarzan Vince is your running mate.
raven
@efgoldman: South Carolina hoops ain’t exactly a “big guy”.
efgoldman
@Pogonip:
Fuck you AND Wilmer and the imaginary white chargers you rode in on.
Fucking purity ponies. Just too good for the rest of us, I guess.
Fuckem.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: Don’ hold back, we’re grownups here.
efgoldman
@raven:
Huge state school in the SEC, innit?
Pogonip
@efgoldman: Go read your histories of previous empires and then get back to the site readers.
And kiss my rosy red ass. The nastiness on this site is unbelievable. I quit.
raven
@efgoldman: Yep, and they had never been anywhere near the final four.
raven
South Carolina in the NCCA Tourney
2004 0-1
1998 0-1 Lost to Richmond in first round, 62-61
1997 0-1
1989 0-1 Lost to North Carolina State in first round, 81-66
1974 0-1
1973 2-1
1972 2-1 Defeated Temple in second round, 53-51
Lost to North Carolina in regional semifinal, 92-69
Defeated Villanova in third place game, 90-78
Gin & Tonic
@raven: I used to travel to Columbia on business pretty regularly around the last time they were good. Brand-new arena in the center of town was called “The House McGuire Built.” I guess they had a long drought.
JPL
@raven: Isn’t it a new experience for Gonzaga also?
raven
Major Major Major Major
@rikyrah: my new hot take is that most Trump voters are idiots, but I don’t imagine it getting a lot of play.
raven
@JPL: Final Four yes. South Carolina was by far the Cinderella.
JPL
My son has Gonzaga winning it all, and Obama has NC winning it all. hmmm
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@rikyrah: Great thread is an understatement; she nails it. Fuck BlusterB (my proposed new nym for an Independent Senator not named Angus King, so as to avoid trolls with google alerts).
efgoldman
@Pogonip:
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Maybe make good use of the time you’re not wasting here, and go take an adult ed basic civics course.
raven
Boy I did not like Frank Martin, great perspective on what what this game meant.
mainmata
@opiejeanne: Southwest is great here in the Northeast. Go figure.
raven
@JPL: They are tough as shit but the Gamecocks had some really awful possessions down the stretch. It will be interesting to see how the big fella’s eye is.
Van Buren
@efgoldman: Any reader of this blog who can’t figure out that Oregon is preferable to North Carolina shall be suspected of terminal bothsiderism
?BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: Ya hang around Cole for a few minutes…
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
I had a choice in 1969. Enlist, be drafted, move to Canada, quite possibly go to jail for draft evasion. I chose enlist because I though being a citizen sometimes requires commitment and means you have to sometime suck it up and do things that are not exactly what you’d like to be doing and is not maybe the most heroic step. But not voting? What the fuck? How hard is that, you go, you stand in line for a few minutes (or hours – thanks Ken Blackwell) you make a choice and you are done. That’s how you get to complain about how shitty the government is, you fucking participated.
Barbara
@Pogonip: How will the broken society be repaired if so many are just sitting on the sidelines?
Redshift
@Pogonip:
Yes, being told “fuck you” is so much nastier than the immigrants whose lives are being destroyed by racist immigration policies, women across the country who will suffer and die due to the trashing of Planned Parenthood, all because you’re so certain you can predict future history that you can’t even be bothered to help slow down the collapse you are sure is coming. Boo hoo.
efgoldman
Apricot Asswipe is going to need a lot more lawyers:
Also too:
Another Scott
@Pogonip:
The captain of the Titanic made mistakes and caused the wreck. A less stubborn and more sensible captain wouldn’t have sunk the ship and killed thousands of people.
As for voting, the Rush truism says, “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”
The way to fix it is via politics. That means doing your part and making the better choice.
I know what it’s like to think that the major party candidates aren’t good enough to vote for. My first vote was for John Anderson in 1980. It took me far too long, until 2004, to recognize that voting 3rd Party was a cop-out. I could rationalize it (“X is going to win my state anyway”), but it was a was still a cop-out. I wasn’t willing to commit to actually taking a stand in a way that would affect the outcome in a positive way. Yeah, I could say “John Anderson’s plan of instituting a $0.50/gal federal gas tax (over N years) makes a lot of sense, and here’s why…” but someone who isn’t a powerful member of one of the parties isn’t going to get anything done. It was a fantasy.
Everyone has to make up their own mind about what’s important. But saying that society is broken and it doesn’t matter who is president (“and that’s that”) is lying to yourself. Your choice, and your advocacy on-line, matters. Memes that aren’t continuously reinforced die.
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.
efgoldman
@Van Buren:
Nobody wearing that fighting fashion nightmares shit, should ever win anything.
Chris T.
@Baud:
Indeed it is (BS). The average Trump voters made their decision as to who they liked using their “gut” (probably the section nearest the rectum) and then fit everything else in to match. Er, bad imagery there. Enh, what the hell, I’ll leave it in. :-)
In other words, these voters do hate it when someone “looks down on them”, calls them names like stupid, etc., but as soon as it’s done by someone they pre-decided to like, they say “see, we were stupid, but now we’ve wised up and voted Trump!”
Unlike Trump, though, at least some of them really will see that they were wrong.
In Trump’s head, Trump is never wrong. If you somehow detached his head and put it in a tank like on Futurama, Trump would believe that being a head in a tank is the best thing ever.
WaterGirl
@efgoldman:
I do like that one!
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
Woah, between Barack and a hard place.
hovercraft
@Baud:
Thank you, this can not be repeated enough. None of the excuses these assholes keep coming up with for their vote and continued support are true. Twitler has lied to them, insulted them and yet they still stand with him. There is something much more fundamental about it, they like what he represents, a return to when people like them called the shots, could say whatever they wanted about anyone, and no one said boo.
raven
@efgoldman: I’ll be you love those stupid fucking goalie masks.
Major Major Major Major
@Pogonip:
Gosh, why would people be upset by somebody who knowingly and willfully chooses not to participate fully in the political process opining on it?
Toodles.
Reminds me of this wonderful recent comic.
Serf: “We should improve society somewhat.”
Mister Gotcha: “And yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent.”
Gelfling 545
So here is the County Sheriff of Erie freakin’ County, NY. I am so ashamed.
http://www.dailypublic.com/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/2017/Apr/TimHoward.jpg?itok=CuS0xwg7
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: Remember Obama’s body guy played for North Carolina.
Baud
I wish I were on that cruise to Barcelona with Elizabelle right now.
Iowa Old Lady
@Baud: Did she get her credit card back from the cabbie?
schrodingers_cat
@Pogonip: You can dish it out, but when someone gives you the taste of your own medicine, you flounce.
@Major Major Major Major: Read about your grandmother in another thread. My condolences and may she R.I.P.
Baud
@Iowa Old Lady: Yes.
SiubhanDuinne
@Pogonip:
(Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night)
Aleta
One of my friends is/was in 2nd Life, sold his art, spent all his time there going to live concerts. Almost every night for years he’d met up with a big group of musician friends at each other’s live concerts. The music was great. They talked about their real lives and checked up on each other, had memorials when someone died, were like minded on politics and community. The other day he told me the group has entirely collapsed, which is kind of unbelievable to me because they seemed pretty close for so long. He says the arguments during the primaries and then bad feelings after the election got too much and the group broke apart.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: I am jealous.
Major Major Major Major
@schrodingers_cat: Thanks. We’re having fun legal issues now, though whatever does become of her body, at least her mind is at rest.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@hovercraft:
Even if you take away all the racism and sexism there’s still the cheating and chiseling all the contractors, the many bankruptcies where he lost other people’s money, Trump U – he paid out $25 M right before his inauguration which is already down the memory hole, all of the conflicts of interest and they overlooked all that too.
efgoldman
@Chris T.:
But most of that came AFTER the election. It’s effect=>cause.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Glorioski, that was a great read.
ETA: @SiubhanDuinne: God bless him.
SiubhanDuinne
@Iowa Old Lady:
She did.
raven
It looks like they put kids from each team in the baseline seats for their games. Nice touch.
schrodingers_cat
T says this all the time but we don’t have to echo it. This country is not falling apart, this is a bullshit meme. This gratuitous lie needs to die.
Baud
@Aleta:
Sad.
Villago Delenda Est
@JPL: It is a new experience for Gonzaga. The Ducks haven’t been to the final four since the first final four 78 years ago, when they won it all.
efgoldman
@raven:
I love that goalies don’t get stitches in their faces, and their teeth knocked out, yes.
Gerry Cheevers (Bruins goalie, ’70s) had stitches painted on his mask whenever it got hit. Coulda’ been his face.
Major Major Major Major
Here is my dearly departed grandma with her rescue dog Lady from a few years ago, who her and grandpa found discarded by the side of the road. The vet said it looked like she’d outlived her usefulness at a puppy mill. They nursed her back to health and she was one of the most imperious dogs I’ve ever met. By the end of her life she would only eat chicken and drink iced bottled water(!).
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman:
Enjoy.
Doug R
@Baud: In fact, to increase friction, let’s use the Nickelback version: Nickelback/Canucks version of Saturday Night’s Alright for Fightin’
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: That’s a wonderful shot.
raven
@Villago Delenda Est: In McGaw hall!
tybee
@Barbara: bingo
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
I came many hours too late to the thread where you shared your grandmother’s passing, but I do hope it ended up being both peaceful for her and something of a relief to you and your mom and other immediate concerned family members. My condolences and best wishes as you deal with the next layers of paperwork and bureaucracy. RIP to your grandma. I’m glad her pain and confusion are things of the past.
Baud
@Doug R: Haha. That’s WWIII level fighting.
efgoldman
@Gelfling 545:
I’ll see your Erie County guy and raise you the asshole sheriff of Bristol County MA
Another Scott
@Major Major Major Major: Beautiful shot, M^4. Thanks for sharing it. Condolences to you.
Best regards,
Scott.
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
Beautiful lady! You can still see the eager young bride looking out from that other lovely photo you posted. I am furious that Alzheimer’s took her mind, which must have been a formidable one in its prime.
Also, too, very cute doggie.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Major Major Major Major: My condolences for your loss. That looks like a great picture to remember her by.
raven
@efgoldman: Don’t play dumb, you know I’m talking about the silly ass graphics.
Mike J
@SiubhanDuinne: Meh. I mean it personally when I tell somebody who didn’t vote for Hillary to fuck off. Really have no time for somebody who can recognize evil in the world and decides to do the very barest minimum to fight it. Fuck them.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Gelfling 545: is that the snake from the Gasden flag worked into the fucking confederate flag?
@Mike J: I’m so bad at remembering which nym goes with which stance, I at first thought pogonip was snarking on Wilmerites.
Just One More Canuck
@Redshift: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that [Wilmer], was to carry Excalibur.
Aleta
@Another Scott: I read the other thread too late, but wanted to say I’m very sorry about Sophie.
Teach me your mood, O patient stars!
Who climb each night the ancient sky,
Leaving on space no shade, no scars,
No trace of age, no fear to die.
-Emerson
If music suits you, a friend has set the words to music.
Patricia Kayden
@rikyrah: That is totally adorable. My African grey will “sing” or laugh along with me too. That guy was pretty good with his Elvis impression.
raven
@Just One More Canuck: The trailer for the new King Arthur is using Zep.
SiubhanDuinne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Did not know that, or if I ever did, I forgot.
Patricia Kayden
@Pogonip: So President Obama wasn’t good enough for you? Wow. Whatever.
Omnes Omnibus
So what the hell was all that about? A rather unexpected GBCW.
BBA
@schrodingers_cat: It has 60 million people who voted for him. That’s a sure sign of something severely wrong.
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: They can’t keep their lies straight.
CarolDuhart2
@Gelfling 545: That comes when people like us sit out local elections. The other side-bigoted and whatnot-never do.
Roger Moore
@Pogonip:
If they get positive attention of any kind, they’ll remember. Despite their reputation, cats can be just as affectionate and hungry for human approval as dogs are.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: I was wro….wro….wrong, Reggie Love played for Duke.
germy
Susan Sarandon was on the Colbert show. He sort of gave her a hard time.
Anyone see it?
schrodingers_cat
@BBA: Your point is well taken. @Omnes Omnibus: Not that unexpected actually.
Baud
@germy: Does she have a movie out? Still haven’t forgiven Chris Hayes for having her on, but if she has a movie, then I can excuse Colbert.
germy
SiubhanDuinne
@Mike J:
I understand, and to a great extent agree, but I am much less willing to write off commenters who have been here a long time and who clearly agree with most of us on most principles. I don’t want Pogonip to leave: s/he has added much to our conversations over the years. I’d rather have him/her stick around and engage in lively discussion than simply walk away.
Balloon Juice mostly exemplifies inclusion. I’d hate to think that this site was turning into one of those purity places, like so many other sites.
BBA
@germy: I like this one. He’s got moxie.
germy
raven
@Baud: Feud tells the story of the legendary rivalry between Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange) and Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) during their collaboration on the Academy Award®-nominated thriller What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and after the cameras stopped rolling. The series explores how the two women endured ageism and misogyny while struggling to hang on to success and fame in the twilight of their careers.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@germy: I think there’s a clip at mediate , I didn’t want to watch
some great replies to their tweet
I’m a huge fan of her acting. Also, too, she’s an idiot and an asshole
germy
@BBA: Agreed. A good team. They were in Texas.
Baud
@raven: Thanks!
SiubhanDuinne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Duke, UNC, who knows the difference, right?
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Disease does wonders for the medical profession.
Just One More Canuck
@raven: My wife and daughter will probably want to go see that, which means I will too. Given how particular Led Zeppelin is about how their music is used, this is a bit of a surprising choice. it’s used well in the trailer though
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@germy: compare and contrast
we were supposed to let this man pick the chief administrator of the party
ETA: I”d like to think Warren explained a few things to him after, but then the man is impervious to anything but his own righteouness. As I said the other day, he oughta resign, let Howard Dean run for his seat, and go run for the House in whatever district it was Kristof did his thumbsucker piece
Villago Delenda Est
@Major Major Major Major: Grandma was looking great even at that late date!
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: I had missed the signs, I guess.
Aleta
@Major Major Major Major: She is so beautiful there and in 1952. With the dog and their story and the flowers on the table, that picture is beyond beautiful really. Condolences to you.
Baud
@Just One More Canuck:
Not an Ivanka situation, I hope.
Villago Delenda Est
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: STFuckingFU, Wilmer.
germy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Bizarre.
Watch him run again in 2020.
And again in 2024. Jane will hold a glass jar containing his brain over her head while his followers cheer.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Saw Ghost in the Shell this afternoon – really great. Even the wife enjoyed it.
On another note, the dog’s breath smells like cat litter and he’s grinning like an idiot… I have suspicions…
raven
@Just One More Canuck: I thought the dude was Tom Hardy but I was wrong.
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: She blessed my heart in one exchange we had a couple of months ago. When I pushed back she was not happy. She’s has the flip tone down pat but she can’t take what she dishes out.
Mike J
Why are UNC wearing pantyhose?
zhena gogolia
@Major Major Major Major:
Oh, that is sweet.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: I think that’s the eastern version of the difference between UCLA and U$C.
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: That look! The dog really does look like royalty, surveying her kingdom. Your gram has a really nice look about her. I’m sorry for your loss.
Also sorry for the awfulness that sometimes goes on in families after a loss.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: Why not?
Aleta
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: His hypocrisy blows me away. And it’s deep and rigid.
zhena gogolia
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I’m a huge fan of her acting too, and I’d love to see her play Bette, but I hate her so much I haven’t turned that program on. Just can’t bring myself to watch it. Maybe I’ll get over it some day.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m not one to criticize, just curious. I guess they’re a little curious too.
WaterGirl
@germy: I can’t even watch her anymore.
eclare
@Iowa Old Lady: Amen sister.
WaterGirl
@germy: Wow! That’s impressive!
efgoldman
@SiubhanDuinne:
S/he’s the one who flounced out. It’s not like school; we don’t try to stop people who voluntarily leave.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mike J: They’re playing the Fighting Fashion Nightmares, they have to do something to keep up.
Baud
@germy: Is there a transcript?
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
I know. I wish that weren’t the case.
Olivia
@debbie: I don’t think they change because of public shaming, I think they just crawl back under their slimey rock and wait for the next opportunity to creep out. I haven’t noticed any Trump regretters in either of my Facebook pages and I post lots of anti Trump stuff. So maybe you are fortunate to have friends and acquaintances who actually have a semi working brain.
schrodingers_cat
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Has he said anything yet about how his campaign benefited from Putin’s interference?
Frank Wilhoit
@WaterGirl: Well of course they are. One sulfur-crested cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, and one umbrella cockatoo, Cacatua alba. They will tear your house up right now, and ear protection is mandatory.
Major Major Major Major
@SiubhanDuinne: They’ll be back.
Baud
Maybe Cole should do something to calm our nerves. Like redesign the website again.
raven
@Baud: Cole calm my nerves. . . .sheeeeeeeeet.
germy
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/01/stephen-colbert-confronts-susan-sarandon-about-her-trump-statements.html
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: With nesting comments?
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: I know where you are coming from, but if one can’t take a couple of fuck you comments, especially after announcing that one did vote in the last presidential election, this blog is probably not the best place to hang out online.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
Brilliant idea!
ETA: Adding “threaded comments” is a must!
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: Don’t even start.
Aleta
@zhena gogolia: I went from much respect to unable to bear the sight and sound. Also very angry at her.
germy
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Let Tommy do it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@schrodingers_cat: I want to be able to rate other people’s comments
@Omnes Omnibus: Don’t, don’t, don’t let’s start. I’ve got a weak heart.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat:
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I see we have some good ideas: nested comments and comment rating…
Corner Stone
@germy: Who?
zhena gogolia
I watched two minutes of that Sarandon interview. What a moronic, arrogant **** she is.
schrodingers_cat
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I want to be able to post kitteh videos.
germy
@Corner Stone: Commenter who was involved in the last redesign. I think he gave up because people were giving him so much grief over every little thing.
Corner Stone
@germy: Oh, ok. That sounds awful.
Omnes Omnibus
@germy: Doesn’t ring a bell.
schrodingers_cat
@Corner Stone: @Omnes Omnibus: You two, are too much.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
So I see Bill Maher whitemansplained to Neera Tanden that Maxine Waters getting all upset about Bill O’Reilly’s “joke” is why Dems lost the election. He needs to be hit in the face with a brick. Or bring Maxine Waters on to discuss it with her.
Another Scott
@Aleta: Thanks very much, Altea. You’re very kind.
Cheers,
Scott.
Roger Moore
@schrodingers_cat:
And mandatory registration that requires a confirmed real name and address.
schrodingers_cat
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I am not a fan of these obnoxious atheists. Dawkins, Maher, Sam Harris, and the late Hitchens. They are as awful as any fundie in their smug.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Maybe we should be more like Bill Maher and insult religion more. Middle America would love that.
Corner Stone
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Can we have Maxine hit him in the face with a brick, on tape?
schrodingers_cat
@Roger Moore: I am a real cat and you are the actor who played James Bond.
ETA: Mandatory registration with a FaceBorg account.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Baud: You hate me.
@schrodingers_cat: You hate me more.
@germy: You hate me most of all.
germy
@Corner Stone: @Omnes Omnibus:
Careful! He has your info.
Major Major Major Major
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I am extremely upset that I wasted brain cells reading a transcript of their conversation just now. God, what an idiot.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: ‘
‘
I mean, the lack of perspective or any introspection from these douchebros always just gobsmacks me, but it really needs to gobsmack you white guys. You all really need to do better.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Where is Middle America on the map of Middle Earth?
Millard Filmore
@Pogonip:
What? You are not nearly optimistic enough.
Baud!
2017!
columbusqueen
@Mike J: I’m with you on this.
?BillinGlendaleCA
OMG…There’s a MAGA Church in LA.
germy
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: The only one I hate is srv. But I never see his comments anymore. What happened?
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: Mordor
Baud
@germy: Trump won.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: The Shire.
Baud
@Millard Filmore: I like your optimism.
germy
@Baud: But he didn’t want to stick around to gloat? And call us “you people” and “cucks” anymore?
Omnes Omnibus
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: Very disturbing set of comments, wasn’t it?
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: hard to tell, when they aren’t threaded.
debit
@germy: Oh, that’s not even funny.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: Arrrgh!
Corner Stone
@germy: How could anyone hate srv? He was the BJ equivalent of the servant in the chariot telling you “thou art mortal”.
germy
“Home is anywhere you hang your head.”
– Elvis Costello
Roger Moore
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho:
What am I, chopped liver?
Omnes Omnibus
@germy: srv was a pure troll. It trolled for the sake of trolling. Someone like that can’t keep up with our current reality.
SiubhanDuinne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
LOL, yeah, probably :-)
Another Scott
@Baud: Hush your mouth!!
Cheers,
Scott.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: I do kind of miss the old days, where the trolls just… trolled.
Omnes Omnibus
@germy: Love that song. Love that whole album.*
*Can be applied to virtually all of EC stuff.
Gin & Tonic
@debit: I thought it was good for a chuckle.
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
Oh FFS please can we NOT pile on Tommy?
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Nothing gold can stay.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: Except, oddly enough, gold.
Ruckus
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’m sort of in the middle here. Like you I’ve had some good discussions with Pogonip. But like ef and Mike J it really isn’t that hard to vote. To not vote and then complain about political things is the height of hubris. We are in the fight of our lives as citizens because of not voting or purity voting. That people on this political blog would be upset at a comment like I haven’t voted in over 20 yrs is not surprising at all. I walked to the store and have been thinking of this since my last comment, which was intended to show that some people invested a lot in being citizens, a lot I know have invested a whole lot more than me. Some of them comment on this blog.
But someone who hasn’t voted in over 20 yrs has helped us get where we are. As Adam has stated, we are in a constitutional crisis and we need all hands on deck, not sitting around pissing and moaning. Now if that person was unable to get to a voting place or is a convicted felon and can’t vote in their state, or doesn’t have/can’t get a birth cert and lives in one of those voter ID states, I’ll give them a break. But those seem like very remote possibilities in this case and could have been easily explained.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: It’s ironic, isn’t it?
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Another Scott: I was late to the thread also. My condolences on your sudden loss of Sophie. They leave such big paw prints on our hearts.
Even as we knew it was in the foreseeable future. Layla’s leaving hit us hard, as we’d hoped it wouldn’t be so soon.
@debit: Agreed, for obvious reasons.
@Roger Moore: I didn’t even know you hated me. ::tears up::
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Like raaaaaiiiiiin on your wedding day.
Omnes Omnibus
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: If it helps, I don’t hate you.
efgoldman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Waste of a good brick.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Omnes Omnibus: It helps; thank you.
No One You Know
@rikyrah: I wish I could agree with you, but I love these articles. They suggest me that hope for these people is possible. Their votes were fewer than ours. But counted more.
When that changes, I’ll be as tired of them as you are.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@No One You Know: I agree with this take on these articles
Gravenstone
@SiubhanDuinne: Burnsie is having a heart attack somewhere, reading your comment.
Omnes Omnibus
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: I do what I can.
Corner Stone
I do not understand how these kids in a major NCAA program can not use both feet around the basket.
IOW, they can only go right. I am baffled.
Corner Stone
@No One You Know: It is beyond tiresome. Fuck them.
Olivia
I remember thinking it wasn’t that important to vote when I was very young because they all seemed to be the same. I voted anyway, choosing the party who best represented my point of view. When you develop some maturity and start understanding what the issues are and what’s at stake, you realize you must make choices. The more mature point of view is to recognize that no candidate is perfect, no one has all the answers and then, when you are really a grownup, you understand that it isn’t what is most important for you, it is what will be best to better the lives of the most people. Unless, of course, you are a fucking conservative who thinks that what is best for you is what is needed and fuck everyone else.
Gin & Tonic
@Olivia: People who are eligible to vote and choose not to deserve only contempt. I find them more contemptible than even Trump voters.
J R in WV
@Pogonip:
If you really didn’t vote in the 2016 election, then fuck you and your horse!
Trump is partly YOUR fault, you have no business hanging out here to laugh at him.
SiubhanDuinne
@Gravenstone:
Burnside knows, or should know after all these years, that I very well know the difference between UNC-CH and Dook, that I have worked with both of them for many many years, and that I was being snarky and sarcastic and would have used the special font except that it upsets people.
Olivia
@Gin & Tonic: I agree wholeheartedly! Even my blind wacko 92 year old mother votes in every election.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: I didn’t vote in ’88 because I bought into the apolitical idea of an army officer. I was wrong.
Gvg
What the heck was a non voter doing around here anyway? I am not sure o believe it. Maybe they have been reconsidering but felt they had too much pride invested in not voting? Like someone boasted a lot when young and now doesn’t know how to admit they are regretting? Otherwise why were they ever here hanging out? It’s the main thing we ever discuss.
I wonder if any of the republican tribe are in that position.
Barbara
@zhena gogolia: I won’t get over it. She is a poseur who claimed virtue as an excuse for selling out the most vulnerable. She doesn’t need anything from me and she is not going to get it.
CB in Natick
@Iowa Old Lady: You’re absolutely right. I have no idea why so many people feel the need to be polite to them. They treat us with disdain and contempt. They dismiss rational thought and expertise. They have embraced the party of hatred and intolerance and have not earned any forgiveness for what they have done.
Roger Moore
@CB in Natick:
I think it’s a variant of the standard Conservative notion that rich people only respond to the carrot and poor people only to the stick. WWC voters are good people who need to be convinced to give up their ideas with sweet reason, while poor women and people of color need to be threatened with the negative consequences of failing to go along.
Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore: You’ve articulated more Villager bullshit.
Wipe them out all of them.
Another Scott
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: Thank you.
We had around 10 years with her, and we thought we lost her several times during that time (when she jumped out of my moving car to chase a squirrel on the way back from puppy training class; when she ate half a loaf of raisin bread; when she was sick and had elevated liver numbers and a nearly inoperable spot on her liver in an ultrasound – she healed on her own). She was a unique, goofy, and very sweet girl, one of a kind and will be greatly missed.
Condolences to you on the loss of Layla. It’s never easy to lose a loved pet. Remember the good times.
Thanks again.
Good night, all.
Cheers,
Scott.
philadelphialawyer
@debbie: Um, that still makes them victims. They were not “betrayed.” They voted for a POS who advertised in advance his shittyness. They are perps. Accomplices. Accessories. Unindicted co conspirators. They can take their sense of “betrayal” and shove it.
philadelphialawyer
@Pogonip: political site in which you boast you can’t be bothered with politics. and then folks don’t like it. go figure!
columbusqueen
@Another Scott: I’m so sorry about Sophie, too.
amk
@rikyrah: Nice. Both the dems and the rethugs let ‘outsiders’ into their primaries and paid a huge price for that stupidity.
WaterGirl
@Frank Wilhoit: I am glad to know that. The one on the right was way cool.
WaterGirl
Dammit, I went to bed too soon last night and missed all the snarky comments.
Cain
@Another Scott:
Dammit, I’m now singing and/or humming the song now.. thanks for the earworm. :P
Cain
@Major Major Major Major: Really a nice shot. RIP your grandma.
Cain
@SiubhanDuinne:
At times, I think we do tend to get very passionate and of course, with Trump and the Republicans in charge, and very little tools to fight them I can see where that problem would be even worse now. It would be good to have people challenge each other to make sure we don’t turn into a purity site. After all, one of the things that makes Balloon Juice so awesome is well.. us! :-)
Miss Bianca
@Major Major Major Major: M4, just wanted to share condolences. Your grandmother sounds like she was as lovely in personality as she was in face and figure. And Lady the Yorkie! Oh, I love it – my granny had a thing for Yorkies, too.
Miss Bianca
@SiubhanDuinne Soul sister, there really is a quote in Gaudy Night to cover every occasion, isn’t there? I’m still dining out on variations of Lord Peter’s contention that “the first thing a good principle does is kill somebody.”