Looks like this second rate blog outlived Red State:
The influential conservative website RedState fired a handful of prominent writers on Friday in a move that appeared motivated, at least in part, by purging the outlet of anti-Trump voices.
The Daily Beast confirmed that among those laid off by RedState and its parent company Townhall Media were top editors and writers Caleb Howe, Jay Caruso, Ben Howe, Patrick Frey (who writes under the pseudonym Patterico), Neil Stevens, and Susan Wright—all of whom are often critical of the president.
Fired staffers learned about their dismissal either through their email accounts being locked or via a memo from Townhall general manager and vice president Jonathan Garthwaite. “[W]e are having to make changes to RedState effective today,” the memo read. “Unfortunately, we have reached the conclusion that we can no longer support the entire current roster of writers.”
RedState was founded in 2004, and soon after conservative pundit Erick Erickson was hired as its editor in chief. The site quickly grew into an influential blog among both Republican lawmakers and conservative activists. But the shedding of staffers on Friday marks a new chapter in its history and for some of those let go, it is a reflection of the drift that the conservative movement has taken during the Trump era.
It’ll just pivot into a more pro-Trump website and continue to serve as an important cog in the wingnut puke funnel. Basically, the owners wanted it to be more like the puddle of choad that is Ben Domenech’s Federalist.
schrodingers_cat
Red State, how appropriate, they are all Sovietski now.
TenguPhule
The loyalty purges have begun.
Corner Stone
…a magnet and receptacle for billionaire RWNJ donors and Russian oligarch money. But I repeat myself, myself.
Chip Daniels
Yeah, its like Trotsky in the head with an ice axe, except its a thousand bags of flaming poo mailed to Erickson.
PeakVT
Good bye, and good riddance.
No, wait, I take back the first part.
bluehill
Guess they weren’t red enough. Just call it Truth and be done with it. Putin will appreciate the nod.
Rommie
I’m surprised it took this long; I occasionally scald my eyeballs and click over, and there’s always been a tension between the party line and we’re backing this idiot? in place. Guess that string’s been cut.
trollhattan
Let me dig out my Trikeforce sweatshirt and savor. The news, not the sweatshirt, ya gobs.
Corner Stone
I’ve seen Ben Howe on TV a few times. I have no idea what filth he writes about but on the TV segments his ire was focused on Trump. So usually a good segment because it didn’t seem to cadge about like a Hewitt and don’t recall him whataboutting anything either. So, obviously, he had to go.
TenguPhule
Sorry, my urban slang is a little outdated.
Wut again?
West of the Rockies
First they came for the Red State anti-Trumpers, but I said nothing…
Mary G
LA Times: When ICE sweeps up people, they don’t really know if they are citizens or immigrants. One American was in custody for 1,273 days.
As the dates tell you, Obama let ICE do a sloppy job. Trump has given them carte blanche that has already turned America into a police state.
Tim C.
Another night of the silly-putty sporks?
rikyrah
How’s that free speech thing working out for them?
Uh huh
Uh huh
TenguPhule
@West of the Rockies:
And I said, good riddance.
TenguPhule
@Mary G:
What were the numbers for 2001-2008?
President Obama was the only one I can recall that actually forced ICE to finally have some fucking basic standards.
p.a.
@Mary G: America has been a police state. All slave societies and apartheid societies are police states. For some, of course. It’s been perpetual; just more obvious now with phone cams.
Mike in NC
Maybe Bannon will offer to hire some of these people to work for Breitbart. Nah!
rikyrah
6 writers.
The right-wing media grift was real.
Fair Economist
@PeakVT:
Why? It’s a very good bye.
@rikyrah:
*Is* real. The traitors are still getting paid.
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
Jesus Christ. A post titled “Auf Wiedersehen” from a German American with a sweet little cancer-stricken dog? Don’t do that!
Anyway. Glad to see it was actually about something fun. Freuding the schaden, this is.
TenguPhule
This draft proposal is so stupid I can only shake my head.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Man, when this shit show goes down, a whole fucking lot of loser assholes are going to be left wondering why the hell they signed on to this. You’d think that a sense of self preservation if nothing else would steer some of these people away from this president, but I guess following the herd is a strong instinct.
ruemara
It’s quite amazing. I have so little sympathy.
TenguPhule
@ruemara: “How could I have known the leopard would eat MY face?!” sobbed the loyal member of the “Leopards eating faces” party.
Paul Montagu
They might as well rename it TrumpState. I was a diarist there until they yanked my privileges this AM. Now us anti-Trump conservatives will have to go elsewhere.
WaterGirl
Another Lily post, please. With photos!
rikyrah
Something else Black Men can’t do without endangering their lives:
Be mentally ill and taking a shower in their own homes
https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/989933112262995968?s=19
Jay
@TenguPhule:
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3fterm=choad&=true
Lit3Bolt
Oh my god, how many articles can I write saying “Trump is the Living Christ?” – RedState Writer
You can do this forever, my child. There is no God but Mammon. – David Brooks.
Baud
@Mary G: I don’t understand why that hasn’t been litigated. I don’t think what they are doing is lawful or constitutional.
dmsilev
@TenguPhule:
To save time, define a macro with this text. It seems to get used a lot.
dmsilev
Got to hand it to Erick son of Erick of the House of Erick: He cashed out and left long before the purges began.
The Ancoent Randonneur
@Mary G: ICE is filled with fascist scum. If anyone identifies themselves as an ICE agent they’re suspect until they prove they aren’t a racist pig.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mary G: THIS is why madame got a “real ID” driver’s license when she renewed her license this year AND will be getting a passport card when she renews her passport(as will her daughter).
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA): I was a bit concerned when I saw the post title as well.
Yarrow
@dmsilev: I was thinking the same thing. He left a few years ago, right? Now he’s on some website called The Resurgent. And he seems to be at least anti-Trump curious. Don’t really care and certainly don’t trust him, but it is kind of interesting to watch from afar.
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: Reading your links and the ICE story above: battle raging between tears, horror and rage.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: It takes paid lawyers and the courts are slow.
Kay
I’m not a conservative so I could be wrong, but Red State always seemed Bush-specific to me. They came about right at the height of Bush (he went nothing but down from 2004 on) and I felt like they fit perfectly with that version of the GOP.
“Red state” was itself the phrase they used to crow about winning the 2004 election- the “red states” were the Real Americans.
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Count me as #3.
RSA
@Rommie:
I’ve done the same, to see what conservatives are thinking. Not too many years ago, there used to be a few places worth visiting on the right, where you didn’t immediately think, “These people are crazy.” RedState had its crazies and its speech police, but it was readable for longer than many other sites.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Seems like a perfect case for the ACLU.
Corner Stone
@Yarrow:
Erickson is an unmitigated asshole that should be dropped from a plane, without a parachute, off the South African coast during Shark Week.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: It does, but they’re pretty busy.
Mary G
@Baud: They are required to do a legal review within 48 hours. They don’t. I read in a different article I can’t find now that the average American citizen picked up by ICE isn’t released for 180 days. Six months. American citizen.
@?BillinGlendaleCA: My housemates who are naturalized citizens always have their passport card on them at all times, even at the beach, along with having “Real ID,” which I had never even heard of.
Baud
@Mary G: Blatantly unconstitutional. I can’t believe groups are too busy to oppose this.
Jay S
Looks like we’ve got a real Salem witchhunt.
Jay S
@dmsilev: Eric apparently still had the keys to Redstate.com up until this morning when he was locked out
Yarrow
@Corner Stone: I’d watch that! Actually, no I wouldn’t. Too much blood and gore.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mary G: “Real ID” was mandated by Congress back in aftermath of 9/11, but got put off. California has just started issuing licenses that comply with the “Real ID” requirements. You have a choice when applying for a renewal, get a regular license or a “Real ID” license.
ETA: Madame is a naturalized citizen, her daughter is native born. They both have concerns about “Papers Please” under this (mal)Administration.
ruemara
@Mary G: I only have a green card. I’m lucky(?) that I rarely even have the time or the inclination to be out and about except in very much blue area style activities, like women’s marches. My renewal date is in 2019. We’ll see what happens.
@Baud: Come on. We haven’t organized massive marches about it, no wealthy celebrities are tossing money at it and cute, smart little white upper class kids are out there pushing it. Don’t be surprised. If this was targeting cherub cheeked Canadians, Irish & French folks – then it would be on the priority list. it’s not.
Yarrow
So I guess today’s firings show what we already knew–The Republican party is the party of Trump and conservatism (whatever that means) is Trumpism.
HumboldtBlue
Bit off-topic …. but ummm… Oh sweet mother of pot stickers. IF YOU ARE WHOLE FOODS AND YOU WANT TO OPEN AN ASIAN-THEMED RESTAURANT AT YOUR LONG BEACH STORE DO NOT, SWEET MOTHER OF ALL THAT IS FUCKING HOLY, DO NOT NAME THAT RESTAURANT YELLOW FEVER!
?BillinGlendaleCA
OT: Milky Way photo with light pollution reduction.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@HumboldtBlue: Oh My…
Scamp Dog
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That is gorgeous. Thanks!
Baud
@ruemara: If only they were capturing metadata…
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Damn.
HumboldtBlue
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Yeah, I know.
Your photo is gorgeous. Nice.
rikyrah
@HumboldtBlue:
Uh uh uh ??
Sebastian
@HumboldtBlue:
It’s a LA chain founded by Kelly Kim, an Asian.
https://nextshark.com/kelly-kim-yellow-fever-restaurant-california-interview/
rikyrah
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
That is fabulous ?
Baud
@HumboldtBlue: Now I’m rethinking my plan to invest in the Cholera Café.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Scamp Dog: You’re welcome; same photo, just added some light pollution reduction. I also didn’t change the white balance in this one.
debbie
@TenguPhule:
I’ve heard manufacturers aren’t willing to go backwards on standards.
SiubhanDuinne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Spectacular, Billin.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: It’ll make a mint.
это курам на смех
@HumboldtBlue: It’s better than Yellow Peril.
HumboldtBlue
@Baud:
What about the PB&TB?
Soup, salad and smallpox?
The Fox and malaria?
(all names shamelessly stolen from tweet)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah:
@SiubhanDuinne: Thanks.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: They are not. Just one example.
VOR
@?BillinGlendaleCA: TSA will soon only accept ID which complies with Real ID. They announced it some time ago and have had to extend the deadline. In Minnesota, the Republicans passed a law preventing the state DOT from even planning for a Real ID compliant driver’s license. Not sure what the reasons were.
HumboldtBlue
@Sebastian:
It’s still a terrible name, no matter who came up with it.
Yellow Fever is a killer disease, not a place to get delicious Asian food.
It’s also uncomfortably close to the racialized and sexualized term “Asian fever”. All in all it should be changed ASAP.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Sebastian: Hmmm, looks sort of like bibimbap.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s good, but a different issue.
MomSense
I remember during The Drone Wars when I was accused here of being a red stater and then again during the Wikileaks/assange/Snowden/Greenwald scam I was an authoritarian for thinking they were less than forthright. Anyhoo, I’ve never read red state and I’m not about to start now.
debbie
@Yarrow:
I see this as good news.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@VOR: Odd, especially since Republicans pushed for it in Congress.
Frank Wilhoit
@Jay: Right, so it appears that Cole has confused choad with chunder.
Ben Cisco
@HumboldtBlue: That’s…unfortunate.
Baud
@HumboldtBlue: Bubonic BBQ?
TenguPhule
@Corner Stone:
Why would you poison sharks like that?
Dave
@HumboldtBlue: Not going to lie I actually love total when WTF were you thinking ideas make into the public. There is something almost precious and beautiful about how during whatever process happened no one at any time pointed out what a terrible terrible idea this is (assuming the end result is a product of stupidity and not malice that is). It’s why I always make a point to state the obvious because every once in a while it turns out no one actually did that super obvious thing we all just assumed would happen. Not sure if this is cynical or what.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I’m there!
The Lodger
@Baud: Liz’s ‘Teria? Salmon Ella’s?
Jay S
Some history of Redstate, started as a conservative bloggers Joshua Treviño, Ben Domenech, and Mike Krempasky joint venture in 2004. Interesting in moving from disinviting Trump in 2015 to excising the never Trumpers today.
Yarrow
@Baud: Typhoid Margarita.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Other investment opportunities to consider:
The Ebola Eatery
Diarrhea Diner
Gangrene Grille
International House of Typhoid
Crapplebee’s
TenguPhule
@Baud:
Typhoid Tamales?
ruemara
@HumboldtBlue: What? Holy crap. Racism for lulz is not ok. And yeah, I see it’s founded by an Asian. That’s an internal joke that should be kept internal.
TenguPhule
@SiubhanDuinne: Black Plague N Chicken?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TenguPhule: I think you can get Typhoid Tamales at SD’s ‘International House of Typhoid’.
TenguPhule
@VOR:
I’d think the reason is completely obvious.
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I thought they specialized in Bloody Marys?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TenguPhule: They don’t want their population to use air travel?
TenguPhule
@HumboldtBlue:
Apparently now its both.
Mary G
WaPo has more stuff on Lyin’ Ryan’s chaplain firing, in a shocking revelation, Ryan says nothing to do with the Muslim Imam subbing that time, or the tax bill day prayer:
One of the Republicans:
A Democrat demanded a committee to investigate chaplaingate:
Another unhappy Republican:
Ryan had implied that Nancy SMASH was OK with it, then changed that to that she had not objected. Not so fast, says she:
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Among other things. It might encourage people to leave the state.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne: Gonorrhea Grill.
Anotherlurker
@HumboldtBlue: How about a Kosher Deli named “Jew Eat?”.
Just puttin’ the idead out there.
TenguPhule
@ruemara: Crazy Rich Asians
Gin & Tonic
@SiubhanDuinne: Reminds me of Firesign Theater’s Beat the Reaper routine.
HumboldtBlue
@TenguPhule:
Ba-dum-tssh!
trollhattan
@TenguPhule:
One day after Ford announces they’re ditching the car bidnez to focus (heh) on ess-you-vees and TRUCKS. Co-inky-dink?
Time for a zesty round of $4.85/gallon gas.
Yarrow
@Mary G:
That’s hilarious. This guy sounds hopelessly naive.
Planetpundit
Show Trials! We want the Red State Show Trials!
Also Moar Lily
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TenguPhule: But the folk leaving would be folk that use air travel, that doesn’t make a whole lota sense.
TenguPhule
@Mary G:
Interesting how Paul Ryan just ignores a woman saying no. Wonder how many times he’s done that in other settings.
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I remind you that Republicans are the ones making the proposal.
ETA: The Horse Buggy lobby may have made demands.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: I looked a little deeper. It seems that the ACLU is providing attorney to get the US citizens out and then filing civil suits for damages, but they have not yet filed a suit attacking the practice as a whole. You are right though. Detain some one where they can’t access their documents and then saying that you can’t release them until they show you their papers is both evil and a due process violation of massive proportions.
ruemara
@TenguPhule: Yeah, I know. Still doesn’t change the issue with Yellow Fever.
Brachiator
But I keep hearing that Trump is just a typical Republican, and that there’s nothing new or different about anything they might do.
I never read RedState. It will be interesting to see whether any conservative resistance arises, or whether this bunch is so used to laying down for authoritarians that they will meekly surrender whatever values they have left.
TenguPhule
@trollhattan: We went through that here in Hawaii after Bush Jr. invaded Iraq.
I understand California also hit that point.
Not fun times.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan:
It’s creeping up here. Odd thing, when I went to do my last Milky Way shoot, I was running low on gas in the Prius. So I thought I’d get a couple of gallons at Frazier Park, when I saw the price, it was cheaper than Costco in Burbank, so I filled up the tank.
SiubhanDuinne
@TenguPhule:
Dave & Puster’s
Dave
@Anotherlurker: The thing is I can totally see the path to how that becomes a thing. A thing that should not be. All it needs is group think and a failure to state the obvious. Of course sometimes people can be so committed to bad ideas they ignore it when people do speak up a great example is when my Civil Affairs company deployed to Afghanistan in 2011-2012 with the call sign Crusaders. About half the company brought up multiple times that this was a horribly stupid idea and a stupidly horrible one but dumb people were attached to it so deploy with it we did. Until about 24hrs in the unit we were attached to called our CO up and was “WTF are you thinking?! Change it” pointless stupid own goal. Not sure why I’m sharing this on this thread I’m a bit worked up at the moment.
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I’m so old I remember when rising gas prices were a major concern and to be blamed on whoever was occupying the White House.
SiubhanDuinne
@TenguPhule:
Flu 4 U
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TenguPhule: But since wealthier folk tend to use air travel, that would seem to work against their own constituency. Guess they’re not all that sharp.
Aleta
@SiubhanDuinne:
Chicken Box
TenguPhule
@ruemara: I only have one face and two palms.
MomSense
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Oh wow!! BillinGlendaleCA, that is gorgeous.
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Their donors use private jets. The rest can eat shit and die as far as they’re concerned if it means less votes for a Democrat.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TenguPhule: $3.40 @ Costco, Burbank per teh Google.
TenguPhule
@Brachiator:
Implies values not in evidence.
Frankensteinbeck
@Anotherlurker:
50% of Jews would be horrified and offended. The other 50% would laugh so hard they’d work up an appetite and go eat there.
Betsy
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Wow! Great photo!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TenguPhule: Yes, but many of their voters don’t use private jets. If anything that would produce a greater Democratic advantage.
@MomSense:
@Betsy: Thanks.
Jay S
@VOR: Minnesota Real ID summary ETA general opposition is at the http://www.realnightmare.org main page.
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
White Republican voters will not be challenged for IDs at the polling place.
Brachiator
@SiubhanDuinne: I got dibbs on Denque Dinner.
Also, Lottsa Botulism Cafe
TenguPhule
@Brachiator: Got Crabs Shack
TenguPhule
@SiubhanDuinne: Phlegm & Jerry’s.
TenguPhule
@Aleta: Jack in a Botox.
MomSense
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Do you sell prints of your photos? I would be interested in purchasing some.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TenguPhule: Yes, but if they leave the state because they can’t do business there due to not being able to use air travel, they won’t be voting there anyway.
Aleta
Grainuloma
?BillinGlendaleCA
@MomSense: I’m setting up a store, probably on Smugmug.
ETA: I’ll use a custom domain(already purchased) called billinglendaleca.com.
Aleta
@TenguPhule: @TenguPhule: ha
Omnes Omnibus
@TenguPhule: Lechona in the Time of Cholera.
MomSense
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
That is great news. Two of my kids and my dad would really appreciate that photo.
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Which leaves less educated white voters who don’t normally use air travel (coming into regular contact with other regions or countries) as the remaining unquestioned majority voters.
Brachiator
@TenguPhule:
Guillain-Barré and Grill
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
So apparently Ford is going to stop selling cars in North America and is only going to sell trucks and SVUs domestically. I hate this country.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TenguPhule: I don’t think they require a college degree for air travel, these less educated white voters have money(usually because the own a small business). So not being able to travel by air could adversely effect their business.
Chip Daniels
A French/ Soul food fusion restaurant called C’est Wat
SiubhanDuinne
@TenguPhule:
Smeggma Omelettes
Jay
@Brachiator:
What values?
They’ve stripped their “values” down to just Cleek’s Law for a very long time.
Gin & Tonic
I can’t believe we haven’t yet seen Sal Monella’s Pizza & Calzones.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?: From what I saw on the local news, Ford is drastically reducing their line of cars to 2 models(IIRC).
Mandalay
@TenguPhule:
At least that makes him a better man than Tom Brokaw. (“Allegedly” of course.)
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@trollhattan:
It’s 2.70/gal where I live last time I checked.
Millard Filmore
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Maybe its to keep the poor from flying. Or taking the train. Or an interstate bus.
SiubhanDuinne
@Brachiator:
Whooping Coffee Shop
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I’m not gonna take any bets for them to blame the correct party for that predicament.
Aleta
@TenguPhule:
Croak Madame’s
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Millard Filmore: But that’s my point, it doesn’t just hit the poor, it really hits WWC’s.
trollhattan
@TenguPhule: @?BillinGlendaleCA:
Acquired the habit of recording my gas purchases (because, reasons) and the fuel cost yo-yoing over time is instructive. We (NorCal) came really close to $5/gal and yet a couple years ago were down at about $2.50. Memories are short and the fleet of Sequoias, Suburbans, Tundras and Eff-One-Fiddys has never been more prominent, in an urban center to boot.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I’m pissed. I hope other car makers don’t follow. I like cars, I have no need for trucks or SUVs.
SiubhanDuinne
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
Been $2.75 here (metro Atlanta north) for close to a week. Jumped overnight from $2.61.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TenguPhule: Doesn’t matter, if they can’t do business in the state, they’re not voters in the state.
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Wait, how can you tell if your CA DL is a Real ID? I got a new one last fall and don’t remember having that option.
Aleta
@SiubhanDuinne: Plaguette Sandwich Shop
TenguPhule
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?: Prepare to buy a lot of Japanese car brands in your lifetime.
SiubhanDuinne
@Aleta:
Nobody Needs This Crêpe
p.a.
For red states: Trump Traittoria.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?: Me either, I bought a (used) Prius last year. The kid’s thinking about a new car, her sister is pushing for a SUV, I’m like why. She only works 3 days a week, but drives from the eastside of LA to the westside of LA.
ETA: I’m pushing her to get a hybrid.
TenguPhule
Wapo friday news dumped.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: You didn’t have the option, they started issuing “Real ID” driver’s licenses in January. Your’s isn’t one.
ETA: You have to request a “Real ID” DL, and I think they charge more as well.
Aleta
@SiubhanDuinne: Plagues Florentine
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Armored Transport?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TenguPhule: She’s a nurse.
Brachiator
@SiubhanDuinne:
Casual Teas
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Dog owner?
My aunt uses an SUV for her dobermans.
Jeffro
So at first it surprised me that the Red State thread had over 5x the comments that the see-no, hear-no thread about Nunes just below it.
Then I read through and saw that, per usual at BJ, the Red State thread is about most everything but Red State.
This blog oughta be called “Off Topic”!
/crank-in-training
Also, fuck Red State AND Devin Nunes
TenguPhule
@Jeffro:
Actually, that’s the Jackal unofficial blog motto.
chopper
@SiubhanDuinne:
Sam & Ella’s
TenguPhule
@SiubhanDuinne: A Hole Lotta Crepe.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TenguPhule: She can’t have a dog where she is now.
ETA: Also, she works 12 hour shifts; so a dog would be a problem.
Frankensteinbeck
This blog needs an ‘I Outlived Red State’ shirt.
EDIT – For the blog, I mean. Not us. Wait, I’ll come in again and start over.
TenguPhule
Poly Pho.
Aleta
@TenguPhule: Alopizzia
Aleta
@chopper: win
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Then I join in your puzzlement as to why she would need an SUV.
Aleta
@Brachiator: also win
Ksmiami
@SiubhanDuinne: the ecoli@TenguPhule: Ryan’s a closet case… I have that on good authority
Corner Stone
@Jeffro: And another thing. What is this shit the yoots call “music” these days?!
In my day, people with stupid haircuts knew three chords. And we liked it!
TenguPhule
@Corner Stone: Jpop or go home.
JPL
I haven’t read the thread so not sure if this video has been posted, but this is the asshole talking about the Paralympics..
https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/989967420314943490
I went to the opening for the Paralympics in Atlanta when Al Gore spoke. The participants are the heroes.
Aleta
@Brachiator: Coffee Tea or Measles
Actual shop in London: Fuckoffee
MomSense
@Corner Stone:
???
Chet Murthy
@Corner Stone: Schweet! I hadn’t listened to any Yes in *eons*, and you made me remember!
zhena gogolia
@JPL:
Nauseating. Like everything that comes out of that ugly mouth.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL:
Did he talk about inventing the Internet?
TenguPhule
@Aleta: Herr Peas: the best tossed salad in town.
JR
@Aleta: I liked RImsky Korsakoffee house in Portland Oregon.
chris
Speaking of diseases, Jill Stein is just a citizen, right? Can she really refuse a request from the Senate Russia investigation?
https://thinkprogress.org/jill-stein-refuses-to-comply-with-russia-investigation-9d745b85ff57/
TenguPhule
@chris:
She can if Congress refuses to enforce its request.
Jay S
@Jay S:
Where is your wikipedia entry then, eh?
ETA they aren’t quite dead yet. Just a few amputations.
Jeffro
@Corner Stone: Right! Exactly! Or at least two chords and a good effort! Not four turntables and a pair of headphones and shit. “Artist” – yeah RIGHT!
(I’m going to be sooo good at this 20 years from now when I actually do retire)
Also, fuck Red State AND Devin Nunes.
danielx
@TenguPhule:
And all this time I’ve been thinking it was “fuck off! do it today!”. Thanks for straightening that out.
Timurid
Speaking of people and things this blog has outlived…
danielx
@Corner Stone:
And I want those goddamn kids off my lawn!
HumboldtBlue
@Jeffro:
You want me to get off the lawn, gramps?
Aleta
@danielx: Off My Lawn! would be a good blog
HumboldtBlue
@SiubhanDuinne:
Sweet mother of puns, you’re on a bit of a run today.
Corner Stone
@HumboldtBlue:
Bao Buns & Runs
danielx
@Aleta:
Surprised it hasn’t been used already.
gorram
@Baud: They’re too busy defending fascists’ right to march through majority minority or disproportionately Jewish communities
chris
@TenguPhule: Excellent! Time for a 5AM no-knock raid.
Also, fuck Red State and the trike it rode in on!
Corner Stone
@Jeffro:
Ha! Retire. Pull the other one.
TenguPhule
@Corner Stone:
Draw upon Social Security.
JPL
@?BillinGlendaleCA: lol My teenager waited up for me outside the house with garage door open for me wondering why I was so late. He was eighteen at the time.
As for the internet stuff, back in the days I would challenge people who quoted that. Now I say I don’t know that. Funny cause I don’t know that throws them off balance.
Sm*t Cl*de
@Jay S:
Has Josh Treviño / Tacitus been heard from, since he was found to have pimped himself out to the Malaysian gubblement?
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: yay!
JPL
@zhena gogolia: The friend who had the tickets which were front row seats was sent that clip by me. She didn’t vote for either candidate, although I accused her of giving a partial vote to Trump by doing so. Hope she is happy after viewing that disgraceful racist pig.
Sm*t Cl*de
@Mary G:
FECKIN WaPo ILLITERATE TRASH
Amir Khalid
@Mary G:
Whoever wrote that needs to know: “fulsome” does not mean full; it means nauseating.
trollhattan
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
IIUC you can only do it at the DMV and need to bring additional ID.
They’ll become mandatory nationwide to fly within a few years.
SiubhanDuinne
@chopper:
Corner Grill and Barf
SiubhanDuinne
@The Lodger:
Upchuck E. Cheese’s
?BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan: Yup, madame had to go to the DMV anyway and took her expired passport(which the web site said was ok), she had to go home and return with her naturalization certificate.
ETA: This “Real ID” thing is one of my pet peeves, if the federal government wants to require certain things then they should issue their own damned ID card.
Jeffro
@HumboldtBlue: Nah…I’m just a crank-in-training right now, haven’t worked my way up to Full Crank yet. I think Get Off My Lawn! is a 400-level course.
Also, fuck Red State AND Devin Nunes, and then fuck them again.
Aleta
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Glad to know that.
Jeffro
@Corner Stone: It’s more a state of mind than an actual job status, don’t you think? I know my boss certainly feels that I’m semi-retired already…
Aleta
Strange feel to this video of guards who are jogging to surround Kim Jong Un’s limo at the summit
eta It could be a performance on an outdoor stage if it wasn’t what it is.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Aleta: Didn’t realize that they drove into South Korea.
SiubhanDuinne
@Aleta:
Kentucky Fried Chickenpox
SgrAstar
@HumboldtBlue: the Diptheria Diner could be a real winner, don’t you think?
Steve in the SFO
@Amir Khalid:
It certainly is nauseating when you’re stuck inside of prison and that train keeps a rolling on down to San Antone
Iron City
@Aleta: But it is an outdoor stage, and all the men and women on it merely players, they have their entrances and their exits, and each in their time play many parts.
Villago Delenda Est
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Beautiful!
lurker dean
@?BillinGlendaleCA: very nice!
jl
Does this mean balloon-juice is an almost top 9,999 blog now? We get a party?
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: thanks for beautiful MW pix. The the funny colored waterfalls.
Sirkowski
“Now, nobody expects NeverTrumpers to suddenly climb onboard Trump’s victory train, but I do hope they have the good manners to pipe down.”