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"The protesters chanted things like, 'You will not replace us,' 'Russia is our friend' and 'Blood and soil.'" https://t.co/bjzqSR2g7h
— drew hinshaw (@drewfhinshaw) May 14, 2017
Among the many news stories not getting the attention they deserve, because the man in the Oval Office is so godsdamned busy committing new crimes and misdemeanors all the time… The white-supremacy protestors in New Orleans are serious, and potentially dangerous. Richard Spencer, on the other hand?
Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don't matter.
— Corey Stewart (@CoreyStewartVA) April 25, 2017
@CoreyStewartVA But weren't you born and raised in Minnesota? And you also graduated college in Minnesota before packing up for Virginia?
— Donté Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) April 25, 2017
Backstory: Some schmuck named Corey Stewart, the underdog GOP candidate for governor of Virginia, decided to carve out some special-interest votes by appealing to “Southern heritage”, aka hardcore racist, Virginians. He’s become a freak-show media draw, and a persistent embarrassment to Virginians in general as well as those Republicans who still have some vestigial sense of shame.
Protesters, including white nationalist Richard Spencer, were carrying torches. Mayor compares it to a KKK rally. https://t.co/o00TYIvupj pic.twitter.com/cVoGgvjDW0
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) May 14, 2017
Now, Richard Spencer, self-proclaimed inventor of the term ‘alt right’, wasn’t about to show up in a city where he might get himself punched, again. But Charlottesville, within convenient commuting distance of the Beltway?
… “What brings us together is that we are white, we are a people, we will not be replaced,” Spencer said at an afternoon protest, the first of two rallies he led in the town where he once attended the University of Virginia.
At the second rally, dozens of torch-bearing protesters gathered in a city park Saturday evening and chanted “You will not replace us” and “Russia is our friend,” local television footage shows. Spencer was not shown addressing that gathering, but he tweeted a photo of himself standing in the crowd carrying what appeared to be a bamboo tiki torch.
The evening protest was short-lived. About 10 minutes in, an altercation between Spencer’s group and counterprotesters drew police to the scene, and the crowd quickly dispersed, the Charlottesville Daily Progress reported…
Not soon enough to avoid the snarksters, though…
Y'all told me this mans was dapper pic.twitter.com/dmEFbocUCp
— Vann R. Newkirk II (@fivefifths) May 14, 2017
When you're trying to be a clean cut Nazi but also every worthwhile tailor is gay, jewish and or an immigrant pic.twitter.com/BBNNylgQOQ
— Amateur Intel Pr0n (@ZeddRebel) May 14, 2017
Real Nazis murder their enemies in the dead of night. This guy steals his mom's patio tiki torch and leads the March of the Penny Loafers. https://t.co/s1NWobvi3j
— Bill Harnsberger (@BillinPortland) May 15, 2017
From far away this is an unnerving display of extremism; up close it's tech rehearsal for a junior college production of Young Frankenstein pic.twitter.com/vq4hNlMUE6
— Karen Kilgariff (@KarenKilgariff) May 14, 2017
Knowing how much of a shitheel Spencer is, assume tiki torches were deliberate so he can smile a stupid smile & say 'lighten up stupid libs'
— Amateur Intel Pr0n (@ZeddRebel) May 14, 2017
is tear gas flammable y/n https://t.co/cTBEyCypsX
— Daniel Schultz (@pastordan) May 14, 2017
…it’s not a trifle to carelessly invite upon one’s self or others, & it’s actually pretty damn important, & a deeply good value, to avoid…
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) May 15, 2017
…who sees himself as engaged in a struggle—one might even say it’s a “Kampf”—when really he’s just a spoiled rich fascist cosplayer.
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) May 15, 2017
Pathetic US fascists protest removal of slaveholding rebel icon bearing citronella torches, to protect girlish soft skin from insect bites. pic.twitter.com/xjdExDRycu
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) May 14, 2017
James Powell
When you find one, let us know.
efgoldman
@James Powell:
There might be a couple here in New England, hiding under their divans.
scav
@James Powell: If found, the evidence for an overlap of contemporaneous species might become even stronger. Have they been observed using stone tools to eat their freedom fries or to declassify secrets?
Mnemosyne
The one kinda-sorta good thing about Spencer’s march is that it will further embarrass the Trump voters who continue to claim they only voted for Trump because of his economic policy/foreign policy/etc and not because of the open white supremacy. He’s making their plausible deniability a whole lot less plausible.
Yarrow
Rick Wilson coined #CitronellaHitler to describe Spencer. Thought it was appropriate.
Paul Gottlieb
I’m not a big Robert E Lee fan, but to be fair, Robert E Lee wouldn’t piss on those Putin-loving little shits
Keith P.
Are any of them also wielding deadly horseshoes? That would make the evening go by faster.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@efgoldman:
Divans? Makes me feel like I’m reading a Hardy Boys mystery again! “Frank and Joe and their merry chum Chet hopped into the jalopy to pick up their best gals for the dance….”
Maybe divan is a regional word? Mostly I hear sofa or couch now.
Comrade Nimrod Humperdink
These particular parts need to be replaced as soon as possible. I doubt the warranty is still in effect, and taking them back to the manufacturer would be a futile exercise, but the faster civilization can flush them away the better off everyone else will be.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@James Powell:
They either had ’em surgically removed or they blew ’em up from overload…
opiejeanne
@West of the Rockies (been a while): How about Chesterfield?
ETA: Wikipedia doesn’t seem to know that one, unless you look under “couch”.
Thaddeu
Get even. There is only force that packs a punch – a vote. 45% of eligible voters did not vote in 2016.
ONLY 540 days left ……. to Tuesday, 6 November 2018.
Don’t just whine about voter suppression or voter ID. Get someone to register. Help someone get a VoterID. Fight!.
In blue states, get more to the primaries and get better Democrats elected. In red states, destroy safe GOP seats.
http://www.canivote.org/ will show whether one is registered to vote or not. Getting 10 new voters registered and to the polling booth is possible for everyone
efgoldman
@West of the Rockies (been a while):
It’s an old word, which is the point.
If you have to explain the joke….
burnspbesq
I speculated elsewhere, earlier today, that a significant number of the marchers were probably UVa frat boys. Haven’t seen any photos yet that convince me I was wrong.
opiejeanne
@efgoldman: I didn’t think it was that old but maybe it is. I guess I haven’t heard it in a wile.
ruemara
I truly detest anyone who tells me this is free speech. And I utterly wish them all a rogering with their citronella tikis. Although that may have been the after party, I don’t know.
Adam L Silverman
@West of the Rockies (been a while): It is a Persian word.
amk
was muckavaney talking about these about to burst in the seams fat jacks when he talking about let diabetes kill ’em all?
Yarrow
@West of the Rockies (been a while): What about “settee.”
efgoldman
@burnspbesq:
You’d think supposedly smart kids would know better.
You’d think.
Nobody expected this country to progress at a steady pace, but the fucking place is regressing. Honest to James Eastland, i expect to see video one of these days of Zombie George Wallace and Zombie Lester Maddox standing in front of a doorway somewhere shouting “never!”
Christ what assholes.
Raoul
The whole notion that KKKers and their close kin would turn to ‘Russia is our friend’ just boggles my freakin’ mind.
What ever is the Trump Steaks product du jour is the product these bastards will claim to have always favored. Cleek’s law, updated daily by angry rubes.
Raoul
@Mnemosyne: Like James Powell, I kinda have to ask, can one find a Trump voters capable of embarrassment?
efgoldman
@Raoul:
One of these days, Cleek’s gonna’ start demanding royalties, and all the blogs will go broke.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Yarrow:
Hey, glad you’re back! I occasionally hear settee, but usually in a design magazine.
And, yes, opiejeanne, chesterfield is old school, too, for sure! I read a lot of the original Nancy Drew books, too, and I can almost imagine Nancy sitting on a chesterfield to calmly ponder the latest clue while Beth and George stand trembling in the shadows.
jacy
@West of the Rockies (been a while):
My aunt called a sofa a Davenport. They were originally from Iowa. In Wyoming they were always just couches. If a smaller couch, a loveseat.
efgoldman
@Raoul:
Not yet. A year or so from now, you won’t find any of his admitted voters with a searchlight.
ruemara
@efgoldman: Honestly, I think that for them, it’s all lulz. Nothing that serious, just shaking up us delicate flowers.
efgoldman
@West of the Rockies (been a while):
Chesterfield was the cigarette brand my mom smoked in her misspent yout’. Also a style of coat.
Yarrow
@West of the Rockies (been a while): Thanks!
Mnemosyne
@Raoul:
The one or two of them in my Facebook feed have shut up, so I assume they feel some kind of embarrassment. I could be wrong, though — maybe they’re just biding their time.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Adam L Silverman:
I didn’t know that. I’d have guessed French.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Raoul:
I would be of the opinion that there might have been some PAID protestors in that pointless mob of yahoos…
ETA: And paid or not, it boggles my mind too…
Adam L Silverman
The whole TL is hysterical:
Yarrow
@Mnemosyne: I’ve observed the same behavior but I’m not ready to categorize it as embarrassment. I think it’s more they fear being called an idiot or blamed for the mess the country is in. They know they fucked up by voting for him but they don’t want anyone to remind them of it. That’s more refusing to accept responsibility than embarrassment.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@efgoldman:
Was there perhaps a furniture company named Chesterfield whose product bore the name, sort of like “hey, xerox this document” or “I need a kleenex…”?
Mnemosyne
@West of the Rockies (been a while):
I was surprised to find out that the derivation of the word “skosh” (meaning “a little bit”) was actually Japanese (“sukoshi”) and not Polish or Yiddish as I’d always assumed. It apparently entered American English after the Korean War when vets came back from hearing it in Japan.
??? Martin
Well, Ann Coulter is signaling the exit – so that’s one dead-ender not expressing shame, but disappointment that Trump hasn’t even started preheating the ovens yet.
efgoldman
@Adam L Silverman:
Mockery really is the best asshole repellent. Fuckheads take themselves way too seriously.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
Man, between Adam’s pictures above and those of Kushner and his flunky in their flack jackets and blazers, I will never wear tan trousers again.
efgoldman
@West of the Rockies (been a while):
Dunno’. I had uncles in the business, and I worked in a furniture fabric mill for a couple of years, and I don’t remember any. But it was a long time ago.
GregB
These nitwits think they are some burgeoning SA in the service of Bannon’s fevered dreams.
These types don’t have a good record in life. Just like that chowderheaded gun blogger who plugged himself the other day. Sad times ahead for these bitter ended true believers.
They really are pathetic.
Adam L Silverman
@West of the Rockies (been a while): It is originally diwan. I was never sure if it was a Turkish word that migrated into Persia with the Ottomans or if it was a Persian term that migrated into what is now Turkey with one of the old, Persian empires like the Safavids. I’ve seen it used in reference to Persian and Turkish officials, or more properly their offices, as well as the same in the literature from the period of the Abbasid Civil War in 8th Century Iraq. In political terminology the diwan referred to a high appointed office.
??? Martin
@Raoul: Nah, Russia has a demi-dictator willing to kill gays and suppress minorities for the sake of loyal white Christians. whats not to love there?
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Mnemosyne:
Now that I did know, courtesy of a wonderful old sushi chef in town.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@??? Martin:
Well, as Johnson said, If you’ve lost Anne Coulter… don’t try to find her.”
efgoldman
@West of the Rockies (been a while):
Old sushi takes a very special skill set.
Adam L Silverman
@Thru the Looking Glass…: Again: penetration at all levels. There has been a concerted effort by the Russian government, as well as organizations and individuals connected to it/approved by it, to make connections with and curry favor and/or influence with a wide variety of American political, social, economic, and religious groups on the right to the extreme right in the US. Just as they have throughout Europe. Spencer’s wife (there is RUMINT she is really his beard and handler and the former is being used to manipulate him via the latter) is the Russian to English translator of Dugin.
??? Martin
@West of the Rockies (been a while): No, named after the Earl of Chesterfield. English term for a love seat that is effectively the common term for a sofa in Canada. Stepfathers family is from Canada and had to look it up ages ago when they kept using the term.
Viva BrisVegas
I wonder if Corey Stewart has polled the opinion of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment on this matter?
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Adam L Silverman: You’re right… and when you’re right, you’re right…
That is hysterically funny…
oldster
I replace old light bulbs when they burn out, because I still need the light.
Nobody is going to replace these morons, because nobody needs what they produce.
Let them burn out. No one will miss them.
Cacti
We need to understand these people’s economic anxiety.
Wilmer and Liz Warren told me so.
Yarrow
@Adam L Silverman: Did you ever have the chance to do the “penetration at all levels” post? I know events have been moving at a breakneck pace, so understandable if you haven’t had the opportunity.
Elizabelle
@Yarrow: Great to see you here.
Regret to say that Corey Stewart is a localish yokel. From Prince William County, due south of Fairfax County on the I-95 corridor. Woodbridge, the exurbs, and a lot of beautiful farmland. Woodbridge is home to a huge Latino community.
Prince William mixes suburbs full of government employees, Latinos, and Trump nation out in the rural parts.
Mnemosyne
G does an imitation of Trump that very quickly shades into Bill Murray as Carl in Caddyshack. It makes me laugh every time.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Adam L Silverman: I am ASTONISHED at the degree to which the Russians appear to have accomplished this… and I use the word ‘appear’ because I have to assume my own perspective on this is a bit limited… so I can talk about what I see…
i have a friend who keeps a small flock of chickens in her back yard and I have taken the time to study those birds pretty closely the last few years… one thing I’ve learned is that chickens hate fast motion and loud noises… so if you move slowly and quietly around them, they don’t react…
I’ve also learned that human behavior can look disturbingly similar to chicken behavior at times… so I assume that’s how the Russians did this… very slowly and quietly, a quarter inch at a time, over 15, going on 20 years, guessing far too many of us wouldn’t really notice until NOW… when they’ve managed to work their way into our society and political systems to a degree that’s really upsetting…
Elizabelle
Spencer’s participants are the same types of losers who signed on with Ernst Rohm and his Nazi-supporting paramilitary.
They’re pathetic and small-minded, but dangerous too, in any manner of khakis and tailoring (or not), and we need to beat them back into their snakeholes.
We are better than this.
hovercraft
@Cacti:
Speaking of Wilmer, Chris Cuomo was teasing a CNN debate tonight between Wilmer and Kasich as a debate between two potential 2020 candidates. While I do think Kasich wants to run, that assumes that Twitler would lose to a man who makes O’Malley seem exciting, and that as much as he would like to, Wilmer can get the majority of the democratic base who are pissed about last time to suddenly embrace him.
hovercraft
@Elizabelle:
I haven’t seen anything about gnG and her family since your last update, did I miss a post?
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Elizabelle:
And I think the outcome of that situation is quite well known…
Kelly
The younger cat just raced across my feet chasing a mouse. She’s become a good hunter this spring but she doesn’t kill the little beasties. There have been escapees. I haven’t been taking them away from her in the hopes she’ll maintain her enthusiasm. Any hints on how to steer towards lethality?
Major Major Major Major
@Thru the Looking Glass…: I was explaining to an old friend of mine yesterday how deeply-planted the Russians are, just the ones we know about. And of course I noticed about halfway through that I started to sound like a crazy person. He’s been living in Europe for about six years and is very politically well-traveled and was actually fairly unsurprised. Not sure what to make of that, we’re having lunch again tomorrow, perhaps I’ll ask.
jacy
@Kelly:
Smear them with butter? My cats are too lazy to chase anything, but if you leave butter on the counter they’re all over it.
Betty Cracker
@Adam L Silverman: “Boober Alles,” LMAO!
Kelly
@jacy: yeah ours go for the butter if we leave it out. coconut oil too.
Elizabelle
@hovercraft: Not aware of any further news from green’s family, but haven’t had a chance to check all the intervening threads.
Sending out best thoughts to valiant greennotGreen and her family.
Friend and I are taking the train to Figueres (about 1.5 hours from Barcelona) to see the Dali Museum there today. I will check in as I can; think train will have wifi.
Chet Murthy
@jacy: Hey, said it another thread, but you’re here now. You were right about Poop Midas. He’s got a mental defect. It’s more than just narcissism. You were 100% right.
Viva BrisVegas
@Kelly:
Skip a meal.
Morzer
And then they tripped over their flat feet and shot their own dicks off, thus annihilating their present and future in one glorious evolutionary moment.
Splitting Image
Observation: The only thing Bloom County got wrong back in the ’80s was that Bill the Cat started selling secrets to the Russians before they put Donald Trump’s brain in his body.
NotMax
The gang that couldn’t
shootgoosestep straight.Betty Cracker
@Elizabelle: Have fun! I’m in the boonie fringes of the Tampa Bay area, so we’re occasional visitors to the Dali museum over in St. Pete. Fascinating stuff. Would love to see his work in Spain!
Steeplejack
Wow. Diane Keaton on Mannix on MeTV. Didn’t see that coming. Did not need to see that at all.
NotMax
@efgoldman
On W. C. Fields’ radio show, when a son for him was written in he insisted the character be named Chester as a not so subtle dig.
(Fields’ sponsor was Lucky Strike, Chesterfield’s primary competitor.)
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
#EconomicAnxiety
sm*t cl*de
I’m white enough to burn by moonlight, but I hope I’m not people with Spencer’s polluted end of the genepool.
TenguPhule
@efgoldman: Aren’t those just ordinary unicorns trying to find a virgin?
Steeplejack
@Elizabelle:
I think I looked at all of the threads today (Monday) and we’re up to date on gnG reports.
TenguPhule
@Splitting Image: You remembered that too? Bloom County was ahead of its time by about 30 years.
jacy
@Chet Murthy:
Trust me, I’d rather be wrong. But hopefully he’ll do something so crazy that gets him out before he gets us killed…..
Origuy
@Mnemosyne: My dad, who was in the Corps of Engineers in Okinawa and Korea, used ‘skosh” all the time. We had a cockapoo named Skoshi.
??? Martin
@Thru the Looking Glass…: I’m not surprised. Once the GOP started broadcasting that punching liberals was the only patriotic act left in America, it created a huge opportunity for anyone to come in and help punch liberals in exchange for selling off some of Americas strategic interest.
Mike J
All this talk of Spencer and no mention that the reporter that was attacked with a strobe gif now has proof that Spencer was coordinating attacks?
Elizabelle
@Steeplejack: Thank you. And, you turn out to be a credible source.
Betty Cracker
@Mike J: No shit? Hadn’t heard about that. Can’t say I’m surprised, though.
Elizabelle
@Betty Cracker: I want to see the St Pete museum when i get back. July. Maybe we can do a surrealist themed meetup.
Although. Every day is surrealism in Comrade Trump’s America.
Elizabelle
@Mike J: linky?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Elizabelle: On Saturday the wifey, the kid and I are headed for the Huntington. I’ve been quite alot in the past year(I got a membership, they’ve not been since 1999.
opiejeanne
@Mike J: I hadn’t heard that so thanks for mentioning it. Eichenwald, right?
Mel
Not sure if this is the same incident as the one that Mike J is referencing, but in March, the FBI brought charges against a Trump supporter named John Rayne Rivello (what is it with the three-named sociopaths, anyway?!?) for a cyber attack aimed at journalist Kurt Eichenwald. Apparently, Rivello found out that Eichenwald has severe epilepsy which can be triggered by strobing lights, and sent Eichenwald an email containing an attachment or a gif (sources that I saw at the time weren’t really clear about that) that reportefly immediately started strobing when the email was clicked.
There were a couple of similar incidents happened around the same time frame (monsters copycatting other monsters’ nightmarish behavior, I guess), so this might not be the same one that Mike J was referencing, as I didn’t see any direct mention of Spencer in the coverage of the attack on Kurt Eichenwald. The articles did all stress that Rivello was actively involved in the “alt-right movement”, though, so…
Chet Murthy
@Elizabelle: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/15/1662570/-Kurt-Eichenwald-Richard-Spencer-confessed-on-tape-to-trying-to-kill-me
Mike J
He admitted it on tape for a story the Atlantic ran today. Eichenwald had a lot on his twitter feed.
Quote from story:(on tablet, no link)
“What is that guy’s name? The one whom we almost killed?”
“No, no,” the minion corrected him, with the precision of in-house counsel. “We did not send that.”
Bruce K
Like the saying goes, denial isn’t just a river in Egypt, and I suspect most if not all Republicans currently wielding power in DC are hip-deep in it. I feel a morsel of sadness for a few of them, because their denial may be the only thing that keeps them functioning, and if they had to confront the horrific truth about what they’ve unleashed, they’d break down completely.
But most of my sympathy is reserved for the people who were afraid this was going to happen, warned this was going to happen, and will be forced to endure the consequences anyway.
opiejeanne
@Mel: It was on Twitter. I saw it happen, and there were at least two more strobing gifs in the thread. Kurt’s wife then posted on her husband’s twitter account and told them that he’d reacted so badly that he had to be hospitalized, and they mocked her.
It was ugly.
Mel
How hortible. I just cannot fathom how people can be so casually evil.
My niece has epilepsy, so this incident hit me really hard, not just because of the general awfulness of it, but also because of exactly what you point out: how truly dangerous it was for Mr. Eichenwald, and how terrifying it must hsvd been for his family.
Betty Cracker
@Mike J: Since Spencer can apparently use “who” and “whom” correctly in a sentence, perhaps he can redirect his energies toward schooling the minions on the basics of grammar. I’ve often thought if Twitter would only develop a program that could ban users for the incorrect usage of “your” and “you’re,” 10K Nazi-MAGAts would be silenced instantly!
Shalimar
Morning Joe just referred to Trump’s first national security advisor, and I was thinking, #2 McMaster has already lost credibility and it is only May. Trump could get up to 4 or 5 NSAs by the end of the year. Clown shows don’t have this many stooges.
Scarborough is also being very clear that he thinks Trump has dementia and is deteriorating rapidly.
Central Planning
@ruemara: It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Central Planning
@Kelly: You need to teach them how to kill.
Shalimar
@Adam L Silverman: I’m assuming that dude doesn’t have a dress jacket of his own and that is the only ugly-as-sin one his significantly thinner friend was willing to loan him.
Quinerly
@Shalimar:
Never watch Morning Joe but am listening as background. Out of the loop yesterday and wanted to catch up. The show is actually worth it this AM.
Bupalos
@Mnemosyne: They couldn’t give a shit. As someone who gets bitched out for “defending” trump voters, its disgusting how they actually kind of like it (in a resentful, wounded way) when their racism comes up in any context. It operates on their “basket of deplorables” lobe.
Woodrowfan
Seriously? it’s on the other side of the f’ng state! It’s a good three hour drive on a good day!!!!!
(I assume you mean the DC one since he’s HQed around here. Or did you mean the small one around Charlottesville? In which case, I apologize).
Applejinx
@hovercraft: Impossible.
The Russians have been running a dedicated campaign trying to get people to paint Bernie Sanders as ‘just wants to excuse all forms of racist, sexism as economic anxiety’ in order to drive a wedge between Dems and the Left.
Those in the Dems who go along with this are useful idiots or actively trolling, knowing that nothing enrages the hard Left and pretty much the whole younger generation so much as open mockery of people’s shitty economic condition. Painting the whole Democratic Party as ‘let them eat cake’ technocrats serves Putin’s needs just fine. He’s wrecking the Republicans really well, he sure doesn’t want a unified Left, much less under the Democrats (least of all the dreaded Hill-zilla!) so it’s starkly obvious what is going on.
Those in the Left who go along with all the Dems being point-and-mock Jon Stewarts who are happy as long as they can sing ‘na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye’ no matter who starves or dies, are likewise being taken for a ride. That’s not the whole story and those people are being actively herded in that direction by enemies of the USA. There’s just a hell of a lot of shit-stirring on both sides of the aisle, with really REALLY long spoons that reach over to where Sarah Palin can see from her house.
You’re not gonna deny the Republican side, I’m just saying it’s becoming obvious that Putin doesn’t want liberals to win either. We are all being trolled like nobody was ever trolled. Be careful when people want you to point and mock and cry ‘economic insecurity’, because it actively serves Russian interests, and honestly it would be better if we managed not to balkanize into a series of armed camps in 27-way civil war.
Pluky
@Kelly: The stalking and pouncing are hard wired. Killing and eating are learned behaviors, usually taught by mama. Given the youngling enough time, and she’ll probably figure it out on her own. I took my previously city apartment cat about 3 months after we moved to an old house in the woods.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
The @efgoldman:
Going by everyone I know in collage right now – frats are just the refuge of rich dumb kids who want to party for four years.
David Stearns
@Bruce K:
Betty Cracker
@Applejinx: I’ll consider the possibility that Democrats are being trolled to shit on Bernie Bros when you admit that the opposite is happening in spades and that there’s actual evidence of this, i.e., WikiLeaks, etc., endless trolling about BERNIE WUZ ROBBED! How about that Jokemon Hiffbabble Barfnow asshole who shows up here to shriek at us “neoliberal shills” every two weeks or so?
Think people like that scumbucket might have something to do with our crankiness about the Bros? And the people who came to the DNC to boo our speakers like spoiled brats, even when our candidate was running on the most progressive platform ever and Sanders acolytes had been welcomed into the platform committee?
In my local Dem organization, actual Democrats who voted for Sanders in the primary are working with actual Democrats who supported Clinton all the way to beat back the goddamned fascists. This is how house-trained grownups make change: We piss outside the goddamned tent.
Czar Chasm
Ahem.
@Anne Laurie: Why did you not mention the counter protest that occurred the following evening? It’s one thing to mock the racists, but if progressives are also going to embrace hope, these types of events also need adequate exposure.
J R in WV
@Adam L Silverman:
There are also chaise lounge chairs, which were also related to the older term “fainting couches” – Mrs J tells me that it is more accurately a “chaise longue” – french for long chair. There was one of these in our newly renovated swank hotel room in downtown Florence, which also had a great waterfall shower and Jacuzzi whirlpool tub in the bathroom.
My folks had a fainting couch aka chaise lounge made from walnut recovered from a pioneer cabin built of walnut over in Monroe county by someone in my maternal grandmother’s ancestral family.
When the old cabin had to go, the cousins and sisters of the current generation had the wood milled into high-end seasoned (hundred year old) lumber and built into a whole bunch of furniture, so everyone got a physical bit of the old family pioneer homestead’s history to keep. We still have a dresser made from that wood.
My paternal grandmother had a chaise lounge, which I’m pretty sure was spelled chaize lounge back in the finishing school days. But maybe not. It was from the same batch of walnut from that old cabin, and had springs and horsehair upholstery, which was the nuts at one time. Kinda prickly, but shiny and long lasting. Don’t know where that went, hoping a cousin has it and knows about the family pioneer cabin’s wood being repurposed.