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Last Warning: California Dueling Meet-Ups TODAY

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Major Major Major Major‘s spontaneous San Francisco meet-up will convene at 3:30, local time, at the Thirsty Bear.

The LA meet-up that travelling commentor LAMH requested will collect, starting at 6pm local time, at the Grand Central Market‘s “large seating area on the Hill side of the building”.

As a precaution, check back to the original posts, linked above, for any further updates.

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Attendees should take and send me photos. Obviously, the rest of us jackals will judge which city had the best meet-up by the quality of those pics! (/snark)

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  1. 1.

    No Drought No More

    Here’s a topic to kick around: Howard Dean just stated on MSNBCthat contrary to his bravado, Donald Trump was NOT a good businessman, and did not have the respect of the financial community in NY or anywhere else. Dean said it in plain English, too.

    A topic for conversation: why on earth didn’t Hillary make that fact as plain, and then hammer it home during her campaign?

  3. 3.

    WaterGirl

    @No Drought No More: Um, he’s male, he’s not running for office, the election is over, he’s not Hillary Clinton. I’m sure there are many more reasons why it’s okay to say it now. For all I know, Hillary did say that during the campaign and nobody paid any attention.

  6. 6.

    Brachiator

    @No Drought No More:

    A topic for conversation: why on earth didn’t Hillary make that fact as plain, and then hammer it home during her campaign?

    She probably tried to make the point, and was ignored.

    I don’t know whether any of the GOP contenders in the primary tried to drive this point home. In any event, Trump was able to play on his image successfully. Nobody cared about the reality.

  7. 7.

    Mnemosyne

    For LA jackals, the Grand Central Market has a really good website with tons of information about parking and public transit. I’ve never been there, so I’m looking forward to it.

    Who’s bringing the green balloons?

  8. 8.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @No Drought No More: Because the MSM would have attacked her for being “negative” instead of “positive”, which indicates that they didn’t bother reading her web site and see all the “positive” shit therein.

  9. 9.

    BruceFromOhio

    Still want to meet Steve ATL’s aunt in Carmel by sea.

    On station in a chain joint in the ‘burgh waiting for MrsFromOhio to complete an Ikea recon run. Too long a ride to make SF or LA, so sorry. Have fun, jackals.

  11. 11.

    Mnemosyne

    @WaterGirl:
    @Chyron HR:
    @FlyingToaster:
    et al.

    I realize you guys are exasperated as I am that this dumbass asks the same easily answered questions over and over and over again. I still don’t get why it’s Hillary’s fault that he decided to tune out every time she started talking, but the schtick is getting pretty old.

  12. 12.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @No Drought No More: June, 2016

    Hillary Clinton‏Verified account
    Trump the businessman? A total failure. He bankrupted his Atlantic City casinos (but pocketed millions for himself):

    September, 2016, in a nationally televised debate

    However Ms Clinton continued: “Do the thousands of people that you have stiffed over the course of your business, not deserve some kind of apology from someone who has taken their labor, taken the goods that they’ve produced and then refused to pay them.”
    She added: “And when we talk about your business, you’ve taken business bankruptcy six times…

    July, 2016

    “We’re standing in front of the old Trump Plaza Casino and Hotel. Donald Trump once predicted it will be the biggest hit yet,” Clinton said. “Now it’s abandoned. You can just make out the word ‘Trump’ where it used to be written in flashy lights. He had the letters taken down a few years ago. But his presence remains.”
    Not too far from there, Clinton noted, was Trump Marina Hotel Casino. “A few years ago it was sold at a — huge — loss,” she said. “Just down the boardwalk is the Trump Taj Mahal. Donald once called it the eighth wonder of the world. It filed for bankruptcy in 2009. Things got so bad the new management canceled workers’ health insurance and pensions.”
    Clinton argued that the billionaire can’t do the job for American workers and businesses — and that Atlantic City knows that best.
    “Now ask yourself, according to the Donald, isn’t he supposed to be some kind of amazing businessman? So it’s fair to ask, since he is applying for a job, what in the world happened here?” she asked. “Now his excuse for all this failure is that Atlantic City just went downhill, that it’s not his fault. But don’t believe it. His businesses were failing long before the rest of the town was struggling. In fact, other than businesses here did worse because Donald Trump acted so irresponsibly.”

    Wow, that took almost two minutes of googling! Ever hear the thing about horses and water? or was the English not plain enough?

  13. 13.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Oh, fuck, referring to trump’s brief fling, and failure, in ‘business’ in AC put me in moderation for the dumbass

  15. 15.

    Van Buren

    It’s hard to take someone seriously as an expert on just who is and who isn’t a business success when they don’t even follow email protocol themselves.
    Your liberal media, 2016

  16. 16.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Yutsano: the cult of Dean has shrunk, but it remains strong.

    There’s a mustard seed reference to be made to tie this in with all the god talk below

  27. 27.

    Yutsano

    @opiejeanne: You know, if the bullet train between LA & Sf was done it might have worked…

    Will you folks still be around March 24-27? I’ll be back again.

  28. 28.

    randal m sexton

    I am mostly a lurker at this joint, but I will happen to be in the neighborhood of the Thirsty Bear today — See you there :)
    -randalms

  29. 29.

    opiejeanne

    @Yutsano: Maybe, we haven’t figured out when we’re heading to the cabin yet but we may need to be here for taxes and some medical nonsense.

  47. 47.

    Caphilldcne

    Go Jackals! The last meeting IAMH attended in DC brought me out and I got to see the Trump hotel hit by lightning (which in all honesty scared the bejeesus outta me)! So per American God’s I think IAMH is a lightning goddess and may your two cities zap some naughty Rs with her power!

  48. 48.

    Caphilldcne

    PS by zap I’m talkin cattle prod level (not any terrible wishes in poor taste as I am classy that way)

    PPS I’m asittin’ in Birmingham AL waiting for a delayed flight back to DC and dang if this Snake Handler Double IPA from Birmingham Brewhouse isn’t amazingly good should anyone get to Birmingham.

  50. 50.

    HinTN

    @Steve in the ATL: Just got home from seeing The Shape of Water. Sadly, for meet-up purposes, that was in Chattanooga so no being there with your today. Supporting the SF meet-up in spirit.

  51. 51.

    HinTN

    @Caphilldcne: Passing through tomorrow so will glance about for it. Still hoping for a nibble on a Niceville (or Fort Walton Beach / Destin) meet-up Tuesday evening but not holding my breath.

  52. 52.

    Fair Economist

    I’m a-wagerin’ us Southerners have us a better foto-graffer (BillinGlendale does great stuff!)

  53. 53.

    Mnemosyne

    Roger grabbed a table by the Golden Road kiosk, if you don’t immediately see the green balloons.

  56. 56.

    Mnemosyne

    For the LA meet up, we ended up next to the Golden Road kiosk inside the market, so come look for the green balloons.

  57. 57.

    MisterForkbeard

    Just wanted to leave a quick checkin, but the SF meetup was fantastic. We had something like 12 or 13 people show up, and they were all pretty awesome. Well, except for me anyway. I’m a pretty boring dude :)

  58. 58.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Fair Economist: you may have better photos but we had over 100 people at our meet up.

    Full disclosure: I had two California Coolers and may be too wasted to count accurately.

  60. 60.

    Rand Careaga

    San Francisco pictures have been sent. If the tenor of the event is to deduced from the image quality, it might be assumed that we gathered in Abu Ghraib, but in fact everyone had a jolly time. BillinGlendaleCA probably need not look to his laurels.

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