They just dove underwater every fucking time I took a picture. Seriously, so many dolphins!
As far as I can tell, the crew on that boat are the only working folks in this town today, aside from bartenders, cooks and wait staff, who are VERY busy.
Earlier, we were at a tavern populated almost exclusively by folks a decade or two our senior, which happens less and less these days since we’re no spring chickens ourselves.
There was a jukebox that I was controlling via an app, and I realized from the surrounding conversations that none of the other patrons knew this was possible, because they kept questioning each other about who played what song with their quarters.
It never occurred to them it could be us, since we never got near the jukebox. We acted totally innocent.
Before we left, I considered queuing up a solid hour of “Delta Dawn,” but I was afraid it might cause actual bloodshed.
It’s the little things, friends.
We’re heading home from our long weekend tomorrow. I’m a little sad about that, but I can’t wait to see the doggies. Their sitter sent this photo:
What a handsome boy!
Other news: Big, fat liar Trump called Justin Trudeau “dishonest” and had a general hissy-fit over the way his bullshit was received at the G7 summit.
Hubby and I were talking about it, and I wondered if we (America) could ever come back from this. Even if Trump proves to be a fart in a whirlwind, the rest of the world now knows we’re dumb enough to elect such a pariah — or at least lax enough to let a 3rd-rate power like Russia sleaze such a destructive moron into office.
Hubby pointed out that some of the aghast parties — namely Germany and Japan — came back from a lot worse. Good point!
Open thread!
Van Buren
Will the world forgive and forget?
Sure, in about 40 years.
Corner Stone
They were both virtually destroyed first.
debbie
According to Trump, Canada puts a 270% tariff on American milk. I find that unpossible.
rikyrah
Grudge
@grudging1
Grudge Retweeted Melissa McEwan
Manafort not only chose Pence. He grounded Trump’s plane to make sure it happened. Pence was very important to *Paul Manafort*. Wonder what that guy is up to.
TaMara (HFG)
So glad you’re having fun.
True story – I was walking down Santa Monica beach one morning and there was a pod of dolphins moving along with me. I was enjoying them and thought it would be nice to point them out to others on the beach as I walked along. But every time I went to do it – they went under. I started to think I must be hallucinating them. LOL
rikyrah
AWE…Grandma’s not letting Baby Girl go out with a raggedy looking flag :)
https://twitter.com/lexie_galaxie/status/1005441154316414979
rikyrah
How bad is it?
Stonekettle
@Stonekettle
Stonekettle Retweeted GOP
Welp, here’s the harsh truth: There’s not one damned thing you can do and it’s going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. And then, we’re going to have DECADES rebuilding.
I warned you sons of bitches. When you said “BURN IT ALL DOWN,” I fucking warned you.
Corner Stone
At some point, don’t other world leaders just have to start speaking plainly? Call Trump an irrational liar and that he is a danger to the free world and there’s nothing he says that is true or can be trusted.
rikyrah
Badger is soooo cute :)
Corner Stone
The repeated jabs at the US press before Trump left Canada were also priceless.
rikyrah
UH HUH
UH HUH
Vanita Gupta
Verified account @vanitaguptaCR
Vanita Gupta Retweeted Hansi Lo Wang
BREAKING: DOJ docs prove that Kobach and Bannon are behind Census citizenship Q. Kobach emails say he talked to Sec Ross “at the direction of Steve Bannon.” In email, Kobach proposes specific language for the citizenship Q, says it’s essential” and “needs to be added to census.”
rikyrah
Posted a story about a confrontation with Border Patrol. Here’s more from the person involved:
https://twitter.com/Calichicaa/status/1005541352866607104
OzarkHillbilly
Indeed.
RobertDSC-Mac Mini
@rikyrah:
Cute.
SiubhanDuinne
@Corner Stone:
Well, you’re comforting.
rikyrah
update on the Brooklyn Pizza Delivery Guy nabbed by ICE
https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/1005585346397179904
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
Glad you’re having fun on your trip! And what a cute dog too!
The obvious rebuttal is that it can happen anywhere and to anyone, eventually. It’s also happened in Italy, the UK, and almost in France; Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, etc are also experiencing a resurgence of right-wing authoritarianism. I hope the rest of the world is watching the special elections here in the US to know that we are the majority and will start the process of locking out the far-right from power, just as was done in France: by outvoting them.
Sab
So what happens if I don’t answer the census citizenship question? Am I not counted, or am I in trouble, or what?
catclub
@rikyrah: there is a simple solution – just lie on the census. Say, if they ask, that Yes I AM a US citizen.
Mike R
You could have played “what’s new Psystar” for an hour or so, heard a comedy routine with that as the vehicle of misery. Mrs R and I are looking forward to the opportunity.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@rikyrah:
Half of the comments on that thread (tbf, there’s currently only 4) are awful.
“Justice will be served and Jose here will be deported.”
“Why is it on hold? Ridiculous.”
catclub
@Sab: just say you are a US citizen, whether or not.
rikyrah
John Harwood
Verified account @JohnJHarwood
ex-Obama UN ambassador Samantha Power after Trump, while fighting allies, asks for Russia to rejoin G-7: “He doesn’t even try not to seem like the Manchurian candidate”
debbie
@Sab:
We should all refuse.
catclub
@OzarkHillbilly: yabut wisdom is learning from the mistakes of others without making them yourself.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Sab:
It means Donald Trump is going to personally deport you //
chris
@debbie: It’s a real number, yesterday Trump was saying 300%. The reason for it is that there are large American Dairy operations who could supply all of Canada’s needs. Surprisingly our dairy farmers don’t like that idea.
Another Scott
@Van Buren: Things can change very, very quickly.
Remember the 2001 Hainan Island Incident.
Things were very tense between the US and China immediately after that, but then 9/11 happened.
Cheers,
Scott.
scottinnj
Sheila Broflovski was right: Blame Canada. It’s all Terrance and Philips fault
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@scottinnj:
They aren’t even a real country anyway!
/I absolutey despise anything South Park related otherwise
Corner Stone
@scottinnj: That didn’t work out too well for the US.
eclare
What’s wrong with an hour of Delta Dawn? There are much worse songs.
Mike R
Correction on comment #20 meant What’s new Pussy cat. Tried using kindle auto correct got me then the darn thing froze.
M. Bouffant
@Corner Stone: Destroyed, then occupied by foreign powers while both countries became giant education-in-democracy camps for around a decade.
Baud
Whether America comes back from this or not seems like a purely academic question to me. It really doesn’t change what we need to do.
WereBear
@rikyrah: I saw that on Twitter and loved the pic, too.
Baud
@Corner Stone:
Small price to pay for single payer. /Stein voter
Corner Stone
@TaMara (HFG): “You got to hand it to them. Those dolphins just wanted it more.”
/Simpsons
jl
@Baud: I apologize for saying mean tings to Baud 2020! last week. It was the night before the election, or maybe it was election day, and I was nervous about the fate of the nation. I issued myself a punch in the neck but didn’t do it because it was too much trouble it might hurt.
Sab
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: To where? My ancestors got here about three hundred years before his did, also some came a hundred years before his from the same tiny Scottish island. Desperately hope we are not related.
chris
Heh. This is the president of Canada’s auto parts industry association replying to Agent Orange.
TS (the original)
@debbie:
That’s where the disbelief comes in. To call other people dishonest when he disavows anything signed by the US before he was elected is beyond compare. Self delusion, he reflects himself in his speech – a dishonest liar is the president* of the USA.
Baud
@jl: Already forgotten. Literally.
jl
So, according to wiki, the average bottle nose dolphin weighs around 700 pounds. So, a ton of dolphins is about 3 dolphins. If the Crackerpic shows 10 tons of dolphin under the water that would be around 30 dolphins. So, that is pic of up to 30 dolphins?
Thanks to Lady Cracker for an epic dolphinpic! One I will never forget.
Dorothy Winsor
@scottinnj: We used to think South Park’s “Blame Canada” was funny because of how absurd it was. Joke’s on us, I guess. For some definition of “joke.”
jl
@Baud: Good thing I didn’t punch myself in the neck.
?BillinGlendaleCA
“Believe Me!”
Mr Stagger Lee
@debbie: And the Milki industry is already hurting. But hey they voted for Trump Don I’ll, so let them enjoy ruination the the bastards
Morzer
Trump is probably the end of the idea that America is the indispensable super power, although the rise of the EU and China had already made it increasingly questionable. Whether he also manages to be the end of the Republic seems like a more important question to me.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
Why not?
Elizabelle
Justify!
And Badger. I am happy. That is all.
Sab
@jl: A ton of dolphins is three of them. That is much cooler, to me than a friedman unit.
Dorothy Winsor
@chris: The guy might as well give up on explaining because first he’d have to explain to Trump who actually pays the tariff/tax. Hint: It’s not the Canadian company.
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You never responded to my comment that contained a proof, using strict geometrical logic, that you are from Simi Valley.
And, why can’t you be nice, like the Baud 2020! boy?
jl
@Sab: I told Cracker to be careful with those damn motorcycles. I think this trip has affected her mind. Sad to see.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Agreed. We need to focus all our energies on 2018, everything else is just noise at this point.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Sab:
Do you think King Donald or his goons are going to let inconvenient facts like that get in the way?
//I’m joking in case you couldn’t tell
Corner Stone
@Mr Stagger Lee:
The price of milk around my parts has dropped by about half over the last year or so.
Sab
I am old, and I have never had to answer a citizenship question. It pisses me off. If I don’t answer, what happens? Do I not count? Am I breaking some law?
I do not mind breaking some law. I do mind not counting.
Another Scott
@schrodingers_cat: We can multi-task, but we do have to keep our eyes on the prize.
150 days to go.
Cheers,
Scott.
CarolPW
@Sab: Pisses me off too, and I plan on saying I am not a citizen (despite family going back to before the Mayflower). Because why would someone want to admit they are a citizen in a country that would elect this administration? Fuck it.
Shell
Badger definitley looks like hes quite the master of his domain.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: You never responded to my comment about your lack of knowledge about Southern California geography, what do they teach up in that Central Valley Cowpatch?
chris
@Dorothy Winsor: And show him that Windsor is right across the river from Motor City.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Sab:
Serious answer: Not unless the survey says it’s mandatory:
Sab
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Thank you for a serious answer to a serious question.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Sab:
No problemo. What kind of survey were you sent?
Sab
Curious. Have you found a GOTV venue?
Responding to GOKU.
Brachiator
@Corner Stone:
It may happen slowly, but it’s going to happen. Trump is escalating his insults of Trudeau, calling him “meek and mild” before he supposedly turned on Dear Leader.
Also, Trump is now going to have to call the foreign press fake news, since they are calling him on his bullshit.
It’s sickening.
The crazy thing is, Trump believes that he is going to roll into Singapore and take Kim’s lunch money.
Another Scott
@CarolPW: FactCheck from 2010:
The thing we should do is support everyone who is trying to make sure that the citizenship question isn’t on the 2020 Census.
NPR from April:
See the original for embedded links.
Eric Holder at NDRC:
There have been citizenship questions on the Census in the past, but it was never tied to VRA. It’s clearly tied to an effort to disenfranchise even people (because (as we know) it’s the only way the GOP can win elections going forward). TPM:
We need to be fighting them over this now, not when we get the forms in 2020.
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Sab:
I’ve been kind of busy and honestly kind of forgot I was going to do it. I start school again in 2 months as well, So that will limit my time. I was looking into Vote Riders or Sherrod Brown’s campaign
Mayim
@catclub: @Sab:
Citizenship questions have been asked before ~ definitely from 1900 to 1940. Answers allowed for anyone of foreign birth were AL (alien), PA (papers pending/intention filed), and NA (naturalized).
Before 1922, women and minor children were naturalized when their husband/father were. And, for a while in the early 20th century, U.S. born women lost their citizenship if they married a non-citizen…. so you can find WWI era alien registrations for women had never left Kansas or Nebraska in their lives, but who had married a German immigrant.
Brachiator
@Another Scott:
Right now, today, undocumented persons would be fools to believe that the law or past precedent will protect them.
Yeah, voting these bastards out is essential
NotMax
@Another Scott
Gotta have the most precise info available. Don’t want to fritter away money that could be used for tax cuts to the wealthy by overbuilding the detention camps! //
J R in WV
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Yet you have the brass to put an american flag emoti in your nym? Just wow. Way to beat the Nazis, dude!!!!!!
I’m “kinda busy… forgot…” ! Way to go.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@J R in WV:
You’re fucking with me right?
Chet Murthy
@catclub: A quick google search confirms that it’s a crime to lie on the census.
catclub
@CarolPW:
Because the GOP will use that to [try to] reduce representation for your state in proportion to the number of non-citizens.
So instead, whether citizen or not, say you ARE a US citizen.
catclub
@Chet Murthy: No doubt. But how many people have ever been prosecuted for doing so? I suspect very few.
Aren’t there also laws that limit the census department from making referrals to other government agencies? Like no IRS referrals?Certainly it is known they cannot share info with other agencies.
Tehanu
@Morzer:
I have a theory that the Kennedys were the Gracchi, Dick Cheney was Sulla, and Dump is (obviously) Crassus. With any luck, he’ll end up the same way as Crassus: slaughtered in the Middle East, but preferably without taking a whole army with him. Don’t even want to think about who’ll be Pompey and Julius.
dww44
@Another Scott: In what ways do we support them now? Send the ACLU money in support of its suit to block the question from being added to the census? What else?
Another Scott
@dww44: Money helps, of course. So does paying attention to what they’re doing, and helping to spread the word.
Otherwise, I dunno. Unless someone calls a rally and 500,000 people show up, it’s hard to get the press’ attention. :-/
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: VoteRiders is all about helping people get registered to vote. They’re not a GOTV outfit.
Cheers,
Scott.
cwmoss
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Cowpatch, or Copwatch?
Cookie monster
@catclub: This is a very bad idea. False claims to citizenship, if exposed, can get you deported with a permanent re-entry ban.
One of the questions when you apply for citizenship is if you’ve ever misrepresented yourself as a citizen. (I went thru that process).
suilebhan
Delta Dawn?!? I love your sense of humor, but now I’ll have this earworm all day.