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Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Adding Insults to Injuries

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  1. 1.

    Major Major Major Major

    The hurricane is highlighting how limited his verbal repertoire is and how ingrained his weird tics are.

    Didn’t the guy who ghost-wrote The Art of the Deal say that trump has a functional vocabulary of 400 words or so? Wonder if I somebody has done a lexical analysis of presidents’ extemporaneous vocabularies.

    Off-topic: Went to the Museum of Anthropology at UBC today and wow! That was, in terms of the execution of the craft, hands-down the finest museum I have ever been to. Thanks so much to all who recommended it. Here are pictures in the round of one of the collection’s jewels, Raven and the First Men. One interesting tidbit that I picked up from a passing tour: the piece is actually installed on top of an old WWII gun emplacement, and once she said that I realized that the concentric pedestal and whatnot looked EXACTLY like the ‘ruins’ at Baker Beach in SF and was, indeed, a WWII coastal gun.

  2. 2.

    Eljai

    The stories and video coming out of Texas today are heartbreaking. It’s just downright painful to see this asshat tweeting. He’s broken every norm for all time.

  3. 3.

    joel hanes

    Wonder if I somebody has done a lexical analysis of presidents’ extemporaneous vocabularies

    I’ve noticed that he very seldom employs similes or metaphors, even the common idiomatic ones.

  4. 4.

    WaterGirl

    I have always loved the water, and I remember thinking when I was about 7 years old how cool a flood would be. You could just swim everywhere! In my little 7-year-old version of the flood, the sun was shining and the water was all perfectly clear like a pristine swimming pool. At least I had an excuse; I was only 7.

    Trump is really not a well man and it’s terrifying.

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    Gemina13

    I have a good friend who’s been incommunicado since last night. She’s legally blind, and she last emailed that she and her husband were stranded in their Houston home, with water having already caused damage. A bunch of us have tried to reach her. So far, the prevailing hope is that emergency services have gotten the two of them out, and they just left their cell phones behind.

    And now I read Trump’s tweets.

    Fuck him and every single scumbag that voted for him.

  12. 12.

    mouse tolliver

    Thanks? Who was he thanking? Is he thanking God for drowning the immigrants he wants to deport? That tweet makes no sense. When you imagine a president saying those words in the middle of a disaster it seems even worse.

  15. 15.

    Eljai

    @Gemina13: I thought I heard earlier that cell networks were having issues with outages along the Texas coastline. I hope your friends are safe.

  16. 16.

    Gemina13

    I’m getting scared now. It’s been over 19 hours. :(

    A friend shared a couple of stories that have me shaking my head, despite my intentions not to snarl about Texas politics or sheer arrogance. She related how one couple she knows decided not to leave Houston because (hah hah) they’re outdoors enthusiasts and thought their skills would help them. They have an 18-month-old child. Guess who’s stuck in their house with no way out?

    Her second story concerned a knitting buddy’s father. In the last decade, the man has become a Fox junkie, drinking the Kool-Aid at an alarming rate. He heard the news reports about Hurricane Harvey, but dismissed it as “fake news.” Well, “fake news” turned his street into a river and his yard into a moat. Good times.

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    BethanyAnne

    2 friends have been flooded out of their homes. I just realized a 3rd lives in a really hard hit area, no way he’s in his, either. Mom and I are still fine. I saw a thread on Reddit that looks handy for the flooded out here.

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    Amir Khalid

    That damning photo of George Walker Bush contemplating a flood-devastated New Orleans from aboard Air Force One with that sucks-to-be-them expression was at least not accompanied by stories about Bush making inane and insensitive remarks. Any such words, if uttered in private, wouldn’t have been publicised. Trump, the loosest cannon in Presidential history, publicises his own inanity and insensitivity on Twitter with no one getting an opportunity to hush it up.

  19. 19.

    jl

    I hope, and will pray, people on Gulf Coast stay safe.

    I read someplace that the head of FEMA kind of had to be competent. After Katrina, Congress passed a law that required FEMA nominees to have 5 years experience in state level disaster management, or something equivalent. So, Trumpsters were forced to nominate an experienced person.

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    hellslittlestangel

    @mouse tolliver: My guess is someone told him he has to be nice, so he said thanks because that’s a nice thing to say. He’s a fucking simpleton.

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    Origuy

    @Major Major Major Major: Glad you liked it. I took a few pictures of the WWII gun emplacements in SF a couple of weeks ago, plus one of the Golden Gate Bridge I’m kinda proud of. I’ve been meaning to send them to Alain. One looks like the base of the Reid sculpture, I’ll be sure to include that.

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    Arclite

    I understand that there’s at least someone with experience running FEMA?

    So maybe there won’t be a “Brownie’s doing a heckuva job!” moment?

    I hope everyone in that part of TX makes it out okay.

  28. 28.

    Anne Laurie

    @Arclite: Yup:

    Of course, Trump being Trump, there will probably be a ‘Heckuva job’ comment, but hopefully it won’t be Brock Long’s fault.

  29. 29.

    TriassicSands

    @Major Major Major Major:

    I was one of the people who strongly encouraged you to make the UBC MOA a priority. It’s an incredible museum; world class.

    As I wrote in an earlier comment, The Raven and the First Men is one of the most moving and impressive works of art I’ve ever seen. I’m so glad you were able to get there. For me, once I’d been there, all I could think about was going back. Fortunately, I’ve been there several times times now, but it never gets old.

    On such a short trip, with no car, the trip from downtown Vancouver is both good and bad. It eats up time, but it also gives you a chance to get a good look at the city and university, which is very nice.

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    WaterGirl

    @Gemina13: I read something here last night about the Cajun Navy coming to help in Houston – asking for specific location information of people who are stranded and need help. I got to that from a link here, but maybe you can google it.

  32. 32.

    Gemina13

    @WaterGirl: Thank you. I’m going to try – it’s been over 24 hours now, and none of us have heard from her. I’ve gone from worried to scared.

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    @Gemina13:I’m sure your friend will appreciate your looking out for him/her. If you give us a general address on BJ, maybe some Houston folks here might know how hard hit that neighborhood is? Have you tried social media? You might just save a life!

  34. 34.

    No One You Know

    When Columbia SC went underwater a year or two back, their state police set up some information lines so that people could leave word about incapacitated or solitary people. Is there anything like that set up for Houston’s residents?

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