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You are here: Home / Gun Issues / gun safety / Saturday Night Incivility Open Thread: TRUCK FUMP

Saturday Night Incivility Open Thread: TRUCK FUMP

by Anne Laurie|  June 30, 20189:24 pm| 135 Comments

This post is in: gun safety, Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Assholes

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Gazette staffer: “I’m going to need more than a couple days of news coverage and some thoughts and prayers, because our whole lives have been shattered. And so thanks for your prayers, but I couldn’t give a fuck about them if there’s nothing else.”https://t.co/vdFdJWOEyJ pic.twitter.com/T2tZH68C0D

— #1 Rachel (@rachel) June 29, 2018

CNN didn't even bother to bleep it — and she was awesome https://t.co/HyJZyolflU

— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 29, 2018

Senator who has taken more than $3 million from the @NRA is upset a gun violence victim used the word “fuck” after she was shot at by a convicted stalker who had easy access to a gun. https://t.co/4Xnk6aeARx

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) June 29, 2018

to be totally fucking clear, little marco is absolutely referencing last night's grieving, angry journalist shooting survivor saying 'fuck' unbleeped on CNN.

He wants 'fuck' control. https://t.co/9Pddy5oWob

— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 29, 2018

granted 'fuck control' is 90% of the Republican platform.

— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 29, 2018

this is not civil and plays directly into DT's hands and they keep telling us to have higher moral standards than the president of the US so please don't share it pic.twitter.com/5oiYnGApJe

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) June 30, 2018

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  1. 1.

    efgoldman

    June 30, 2018 at 9:39 pm

    Fuckem

  2. 2.

    B.B.A.

    June 30, 2018 at 9:41 pm

    Il Douche recently tweeted something about how “ICE has liberated whole towns from the grasp of MS-13.”

    Not to be uncivil, but what the everloving fuck is this shithead talking about?

  3. 3.

    efgoldman

    June 30, 2018 at 9:41 pm

    And BTW FIX THE FUCKING NYMS!

  4. 4.

    Bruuuuce

    June 30, 2018 at 9:43 pm

    He wants ‘fuck’ control.

    Well, hell, then let’s see what happens if Project Lysistrata (vs the GOP) starts. Sadly, there are too many women too afraid or brainwashed to join. And too many at the top will just continue to buy sex as usual.

  5. 5.

    Charluckles

    June 30, 2018 at 9:46 pm

    Saw a young man walking around a public place yesterday with a “fuck Trump and fuck you for voting for him shirts.” There was a procession of people shaking his and expressing their agreement. A lot of people are just flat done with faux civility.

  6. 6.

    Bruuuuce

    June 30, 2018 at 9:46 pm

    On a much positive note, NYC/Lawn Guy Land Teamsters are now a “sanctuary union” for immigrants:

    Across Long Island and throughout the city, some 120,000 Teamsters are getting prepped to become a “sanctuary union.”

    In 27 shops, business agents, supervisors and front-line workers are getting schooled on their rights under U.S. law — and when and how to challenge federal immigration agents who show up to search their work sites.

    The training is complex and technical — hinging on specific types of warrants and the definition of a raid.

  7. 7.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    June 30, 2018 at 9:47 pm

    I saw that an article that was all about polling on Trump by CNN. I was greatly disturbed that a slim majority of those surveyed thought Trump handled North Korea well. Only 39% of so thought he has handled foreign trade and dealt with our traditional allies well.

  8. 8.

    Mary G

    June 30, 2018 at 9:48 pm

    Don’t cry 4-3 Argentina— Falkland Islands (@falklands_utd) June 30, 2018

  9. 9.

    efgoldman

    June 30, 2018 at 9:50 pm

    @? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:

    I saw that an article that was all about polling on Trump by CNN.

    If you believe any single poll, or any single article allegedly about a poll at this point you’re more naive than I thought.
    CNN is particularly unreliable.

  10. 10.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 30, 2018 at 9:50 pm

    I knew Li’l Marco was distresssd about F bombs dropping, but hadn’t known until now what triggered him.

    Say what you will about CNN — and I do — but good for them for not bleeping out that woman’s “fuck.” Her story would have been immeasurably weakened if they had censored her language. They made the right editorial call, within a 7-second window.

  11. 11.

    chris

    June 30, 2018 at 9:51 pm

    Incivility Thread? Perfect for a little good news

    Fuck Hugh Hewitt! MSNBC finally figured out what the rest of us have known forever and pulled the plug on his Saturday morning show and today was his last.

  12. 12.

    EBT

    June 30, 2018 at 9:59 pm

    Let’s talk about the riot in Portland right now!
    Cops firing on counter protestors currently.

  13. 13.

    TS (the original)

    June 30, 2018 at 10:00 pm

    I listened to the video of the man saying “we were just doing our jobs” and my first thought was – “and the students were just going to school”
    And after a few days they are forgotten – this is living with guns – this is what the GOP and the NRA has done to the USA

    I read about the dismay of someone turning up at a protest with a gun. Why would there be dismay – I am in shock about people open carrying rifles into a supermarket. How can anyone shop next to that – murdering students and journalists is well past dismay – I cannot comprehend it at all.

  14. 14.

    chris

    June 30, 2018 at 10:00 pm

    @EBT: Which Portland? Link?

  15. 15.

    efgoldman

    June 30, 2018 at 10:00 pm

    @EBT:

    Cops firing on counter protestors currently.

    For those of us who can’t read your mind, gotta’ link? Who are the protesters and counter protesters? Or you just making shit up?

  16. 16.

    Tim C.

    June 30, 2018 at 10:02 pm

    @EBT: I’m seeing reports of rubber bullets being fired, It’s not the same groups as the the protests this morning. It’s the Alt-Right and a group called Portland Labor against Fascists. No details beyond that at moment.

    Link to one of the non-sinclair broadcasters in Portland.

    https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/police-deem-dueling-protests-riot-in-downtown-portland/283-569513207

  17. 17.

    Tim C.

    June 30, 2018 at 10:07 pm

    Still not clear if it was one of the groups or both being detained and fired on with rubber bullets.

  18. 18.

    efgoldman

    June 30, 2018 at 10:07 pm

    @Tim C.:

    Link to one of the non-sinclair broadcasters in Portland.

    Thanks for the link. Maybe the original poster should learn how to do that instead of trolling for Wilmer.

  19. 19.

    hilts

    June 30, 2018 at 10:07 pm

    These are the times that try men’s souls and in that spirit I say fuck civility and fuck that thumb sucking, bed wetting clown Marco Rubio.

  20. 20.

    debbie

    June 30, 2018 at 10:07 pm

    @B.B.A.:

    MS-13 is the new Willie Horton.

  21. 21.

    Platonailedit

    June 30, 2018 at 10:08 pm

    @chris: Good. Next, that sneering faux blonde.

  22. 22.

    Mike in NC

    June 30, 2018 at 10:10 pm

    @B.B.A.: Fat Bastard blurts out the voices in his head.

  23. 23.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    June 30, 2018 at 10:13 pm

    This coming from the guy who made the first dick joke during a presidential debate. Pretty fucking rich, Marco. Pretty fucking rich.

  24. 24.

    Mike in NC

    June 30, 2018 at 10:15 pm

    @chris: Maybe that cretin can start a talk show co-hosted by Rosanne on FOX.

  25. 25.

    EBT

    June 30, 2018 at 10:16 pm

    @Tim C.: Yeah I am following this on twitter. It’s proudboys and a local group getting into a scuffle.

  26. 26.

    sukabi

    June 30, 2018 at 10:16 pm

    @B.B.A.: he’s clearly fucking delusional…he’s also been bragging about the 200 Mia and recovered bodies brought back from Korean war…also a delusion.

  27. 27.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 30, 2018 at 10:16 pm

    @Platonailedit:

    Next, that sneering faux blonde.

    Jeez, that could be anybody. Could you be a little bit more specific?

  28. 28.

    EBT

    June 30, 2018 at 10:17 pm

    @efgoldman: 1. I voted in my primary for Hillary. 2. I already was talking about the proud boy riot in PDX in a previous thread, so pay attention. 3. Fuck you prick.

  29. 29.

    chris

    June 30, 2018 at 10:21 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Alex Witt? Yeah, I could do without her.

  30. 30.

    efgoldman

    June 30, 2018 at 10:22 pm

    @sukabi:

    he’s clearly fucking delusional…

    He is, but he’s beyond that, every single word out of his face, or his thumbs, or his pen, is an outright lie.
    No more picking and choosing the lies among the truths; assume every fucking thing is a lie, and he can’t help himself.
    This is now beyond clinical narcissism. I don’t know what it IS Maybe a narcissist’s dementia?

  31. 31.

    chris

    June 30, 2018 at 10:22 pm

    @Mike in NC: Not yet but soon maybe, article says he will still be an NBC contributor.

  32. 32.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    June 30, 2018 at 10:23 pm

    @B.B.A.:

    At this rate, in 10 days, two weeks tops, he’ll be ranting about entire movie theaters being cleared of PG-13’s.

  33. 33.

    Ruckus

    June 30, 2018 at 10:27 pm

    @efgoldman:
    Fuckem indeed.
    Fucking assholes can’t seem to get it into their fucking tiny little minds that there are lots of people who are fucking pissed off. They were pissed off before this immigration crap, but this is the thing that crossed the fucking line.

    And Marco, FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING ASSWIPE ENABLER OF FUCKING TRUMP.
    And John Fugelsang – Fuck your civility. I’m supposed to be fucking civil while kids are kidnapped from their mothers, jailed for doing nothing wrong and mishandled, possibly sold into whatthefuckever, corps are making money off this bullshit and all in my and your name? Fuck you, you must be as big a fucking asshole as your friend drumpf if you think civility is going to make one fucking bit of difference.

  34. 34.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 30, 2018 at 10:27 pm

    @EBT:

    I already was talking about the proud boy riot in PDX in a previous thread, so pay attention.

    He’s had a bad couple of days as he’s mentioned in a previous thread, so cut him some slack. And a link is considered the decent thing to do or excusing if tech prevents.

  35. 35.

    Platonailedit

    June 30, 2018 at 10:29 pm

    @Ruckus: Sure fuselsang was snarking.

  36. 36.

    sukabi

    June 30, 2018 at 10:31 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: pretty sure he’s referring to megyn Kelly…

  37. 37.

    EBT

    June 30, 2018 at 10:32 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: That’s no reason to accuse someone of liking Sanders.

  38. 38.

    efgoldman

    June 30, 2018 at 10:32 pm

    @Ruckus:

    And John Fugelsang – Fuck your civility

    Righteous Ruckus rant.

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    a link is considered the decent thing to do or excusing if tech prevents.

    Punk doesn’t bother me, but thx.
    Maybe some day he’ll learn respect.

  39. 39.

    sukabi

    June 30, 2018 at 10:35 pm

    @Ruckus: pretty sure fugelsang is being sarcastic…

  40. 40.

    MobileForkbeard

    June 30, 2018 at 10:37 pm

    @Ruckus: Fugelsang is being sarcastic here – he’s sharing something and saying “Its not civil, dont share it!”

    Tongue in cheek.

  41. 41.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    June 30, 2018 at 10:37 pm

    @efgoldman:
    You don’t have to insult me. “Even more naive”.

  42. 42.

    Amanda in the South Bay

    June 30, 2018 at 10:37 pm

    @efgoldman: EBT is not a man, thank you very much.

  43. 43.

    efgoldman

    June 30, 2018 at 10:38 pm

    @? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:

    You don’t have to insult me.

    Handsome is….

  44. 44.

    Platonailedit

    June 30, 2018 at 10:38 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Maybe some day he’ll learn respect.

    Ironic given the thread. Also, too, fuck that shit when you are the one that piled on EBT.

  45. 45.

    Ruckus

    June 30, 2018 at 10:39 pm

    @Platonailedit:
    He may have been but he’s lousy at it if he was.
    I’m with Maxine Waters, this is no fucking time for civility. Now she didn’t use the word fuck in her speech today but a couple of others did. The crowd wasn’t shocked, they approved. The first person to say it was a young (to me a lot of people are young) woman and she apologized but the crowd was fine with it. The second was a slightly older woman with a trans organization and she has as big a potty mouth as I do. I sort of liked her speech but she was a bit angry and it showed. But no one seemed to be bothered by her swearing a lot.

  46. 46.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 30, 2018 at 10:41 pm

    @Ruckus:

    And John Fugelsang – Fuck your civility. I’m supposed to be fucking civil while kids are kidnapped from their mothers, jailed for doing nothing wrong and mishandled, possibly sold into whatthefuckever, corps are making money off this bullshit and all in my and your name? Fuck you, you must be as big a fucking asshole as your friend drumpf if you think civility is going to make one fucking bit of difference.

    Pretty sure Fugelsang was being snarkastic. You may want to adjust your meter.

  47. 47.

    debbie

    June 30, 2018 at 10:41 pm

    @MobileForkbeard:

    That “something” would make a great t-shirt.

  48. 48.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 10:44 pm

    @efgoldman: How, exactly, is the content of this comment different than (checks card with site statistics) 87% of your other comments?//

  49. 49.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 10:44 pm

    So I was at a wedding for most of the day, anything exciting happen while I was gone?

  50. 50.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 30, 2018 at 10:45 pm

    @Platonailedit: Yes, let’s have an internecine fight after a good day because someone didn’t link to an article. Great idea.

  51. 51.

    EBT

    June 30, 2018 at 10:45 pm

    @Platonailedit: I don’t care about his tone, he is some fuck off nobody I won’t ever meet. But the bastard owes me an apology for saying I like Bernie.

  52. 52.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 30, 2018 at 10:46 pm

    @chris:

    Alex Witt? Yeah, I could do without her.

    @sukabi:

    pretty sure he’s referring to megyn Kelly…

    As I said, could be anybody. Hundreds of interchangeable blondes.

    (If I ever put together a girl group, I’m going to call it Siubhan and the Interchangeable Blondes.)

  53. 53.

    Ruckus

    June 30, 2018 at 10:47 pm

    My basic theme is sarcasm, I have to watch myself not to use it more than I do. I get sarcasm, I work it, I breath it, revel in it even. But taken out of context that wasn’t a sarcastic comment. Maybe with some context it might have been. But in this time, given all that is at stake, we need to be careful of the use of sarcasm. Done without the proper usage, it doesn’t work at all. I know, I have to explain myself every so often, that I was being sarcastic. When people know that it changes everything. When they don’t it usually ruins it.

  54. 54.

    Platonailedit

    June 30, 2018 at 10:47 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Tell that to your pal. And to yourself.

  55. 55.

    efgoldman

    June 30, 2018 at 10:49 pm

    @Platonailedit: OK, enough of this shit.
    EBT got on my case for not seeing some other thread(s) on some other day(s). No-one, not even the most ardent jackals, can hang around here all day. As it happens, I have and had other things that I must do. So the first statement is stupid on its face.
    I had (and still have) no idea whether EBT is male, female, or something else. Why should I? And what the fuck does that have to do with anything else.
    S/he sounds to me like a Wilmerbot. S//he denies it. So i was wrong.
    EBT Posted a headline without any context or link. Not useful to anyone who is 3200 miles from there. wasting people’s time.

  56. 56.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 30, 2018 at 10:49 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I didn’t hydrate enough. Which is odd because my OCS company commander had a mania about it because he once had to be packed in ice – god, i hope it wasn’t some weird necrophilia thing (a greater concern if he had been AR not IN).

  57. 57.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 10:51 pm

    @B.B.A.: He’s lying. It’s like his comment that he saw Muslims celebrating on rooftops in NJ on 9-11 (he was in Mar a Lago at the time) or that he went to a lot of funerals for friends who were killed on 9-11 (he didn’t, partially because he doesn’t have any friends). I’ve actually done training inservice for ICE (I’m planning a post on that later, probably tomorrow) and they don’t have the personnel to do this. Moreover, the vast majority of MS 13 members are American citizens. There are only about 10,000 MS 13 members throughout the US. There’s a cluster in a couple of towns on Long Island, in the northern VA suburbs of DC, a chunk in the LA area. Largely they prey on other Salvadoran Americans and Salvadoran immigrants in the US. This is not surprising as this is the usual pattern for almost all ethno-national criminal gangs and organized crime groups. The odds of someone in the US who is not of Salvadoran descent or a Salvadoran immigrant running into 1) an MS 13 member and 2) winding up being on the receiving end of a criminal interaction with that person are slim and none and slim is terminally ill.

    Obviously not my tweet, but how can you go wrong with commentary from some guy named Adam?

    (This never happened) pic.twitter.com/cvUjDkxe9Q

    — Adam Serwer ? (@AdamSerwer) June 30, 2018

  58. 58.

    A Ghost To Most

    June 30, 2018 at 10:52 pm

    @chris: That’s Fuck Fugh Fuckwit.

  59. 59.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 10:53 pm

    @Bruuuuce: What if we do a GoFundMe for high end rechargeable batteries to get the ladies through to the end of the campaign?

  60. 60.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 10:54 pm

    Commander Trio deploys a tri cobalt weapon:

    How do you feel about not voting for @HillaryClinton now, Susan? There wouldn’t have been a reason for a march today if people like you hadn’t been so stupid. #DeadToMe https://t.co/0NnJbJkyQo

    — Marina Sirtis (@Marina_Sirtis) June 30, 2018

  61. 61.

    Ruckus

    June 30, 2018 at 10:56 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    I had no idea who he was so I googled him before I commented. I still didn’t get that he was being sarcastic. Maybe I should have clicked and read his twitter.
    But this shows how much on edge people are. Who do you give the benefit of the doubt? EFG is taking grief for crying out loud. Sometimes we have to take a step back and revalue our priorities, make sure that we are not letting our emotions run away with us in tow.

  62. 62.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 30, 2018 at 10:56 pm

    @Ruckus:

    But taken out of context that wasn’t a sarcastic comment. Maybe with some context it might have been.

    He put up a “Fuck Donald Trump” cartoon and said “Please don’t share this.” Commenters on both his twitter thread and this BJ thread had no problem seeing it as sarcasm, except you.

  63. 63.

    Bruuuuce

    June 30, 2018 at 10:57 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    He’s lying.

    Well, yeah. It used to be that we could say that was always the case if his mouth was moving and he was making a noise, but now, I guess, it applies to his teeny pudgy fingers, too.

  64. 64.

    Mike in NC

    June 30, 2018 at 10:58 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Apparently there were some marches by snowflakes who don’t condone putting children in cages. Womp womp! //

  65. 65.

    Platonailedit

    June 30, 2018 at 10:58 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Fuck SS?

  66. 66.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:01 pm

    @EBT: Apparently the Antifa folks decided to show the white supremacists at the “Patriot” Prayer Rally what they thought of them.

  67. 67.

    Jeffro

    June 30, 2018 at 11:02 pm

    @debbie:

    MS-13 is the new Willie Horton.

    See, now THAT fits on a bumper sticker – nice!

  68. 68.

    Jeffro

    June 30, 2018 at 11:04 pm

    @sukabi: @efgoldman: This is what it looks like when a narcissist no longer has adults around him – just psychos and losers who tell him what he wants to hear.

  69. 69.

    MobileForkbeard

    June 30, 2018 at 11:04 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I’m pretty sure that’s a Thalaron Radiation weapon. Ouch.

  70. 70.

    efgoldman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:05 pm

    @debbie:

    MS-13 is the new Willie Horton.

    Except Willia Horton was real, if taken our of context by Atwater and Bush41

  71. 71.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 30, 2018 at 11:06 pm

    @Ruckus:

    But this shows how much on edge people are. Who do you give the benefit of the doubt? EFG is taking grief for crying out loud.

    I agree with you, we are all (most of us, anyhow, and I include myself) edgier and more snappish than usual. It’s not a good look, but I’m afraid it’s yet one more manifestation of this awful “new normal” we’ve been living in since November 9, 2016.

  72. 72.

    efgoldman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:07 pm

    @Jeffro:

    This is what it looks like when a narcissist no longer has adults around him

    I am not trying to play MD/shrink here, but where he is now it certainly looks like there’s an element of dementia in his behavior and utterances.

  73. 73.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:07 pm

    @EBT: @chris: @efgoldman:

    BREAKING: While most of today's protests have been peaceful — this in Portland, Oregon. Police over megaphones deeming it a "riot" no longer a protest. https://t.co/TfWwXuTMy1

    — Andrew Dymburt (@DymburtNews) July 1, 2018

    Portland Police revoke permit for Patriot Prayer march @fox12oregon pic.twitter.com/cAfhNgawVR

    — Sarah Hurwitz (@sehurwitz) July 1, 2018

  74. 74.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 30, 2018 at 11:07 pm

    @MobileForkbeard: I have no idea what you people are talking about. And I am okay with that.

  75. 75.

    sukabi

    June 30, 2018 at 11:08 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: maybe…but Megyn has a long history of being a nasty, inciteful bigot on FOX and has a lot of nerve trying to play the ‘civility card’ now that she’s on NBC…girl needs to just STFU she’s got no room to talk at all.

  76. 76.

    clay

    June 30, 2018 at 11:08 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Damn! Set phasers to burn!

  77. 77.

    Ruckus

    June 30, 2018 at 11:09 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    Once again, had I gone to his twitter account, I probably would know that. I didn’t. I said I didn’t. I said I had no idea who this guy was. I know now.
    I WAS FUCKING WRONG. Is that OK with everyone?

    ETA And I see that our comments crossed streams. I’m still apologizing, I was still wrong.

  78. 78.

    efgoldman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:09 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    While most of today’s protests have been peaceful — this in Portland, Oregon. Police over megaphones deeming it a “riot” no longer a protest.

    Context: Long after the peaceful protest march was over.

  79. 79.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:09 pm

    @sukabi: If the DPRK does what they normally do, and if they actually send any remains back, we’re going to get back a bunch of mismatched non human remains. So a lot of families will have gotten their hopes up and then have them dashed. Wonder who the President will blame when this happens.

  80. 80.

    Jeffro

    June 30, 2018 at 11:10 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    He’s lying. It’s like his comment that he saw Muslims celebrating on rooftops in NJ on 9-11 (he was in Mar a Lago at the time) or that he went to a lot of funerals for friends who were killed on 9-11 (he didn’t, partially because he doesn’t have any friends)

    Adam, please be civil: I’m sure the president* saw it on Fox or OANN, read (lol) it on Breitbart, heard about it on Rush, or perhaps a friend of Pam Gellar’s mentioned it to him. Stuff that confirms what he already wants to believe isn’t necessarily false, is it? Not when you’re Donald Frickin’ Trump!

    Ok, he’s lying

  81. 81.

    efgoldman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:11 pm

    @Ruckus:

    I WAS FUCKING WRONG. Is that OK with everyone?

    No, sorry. Old farts gotta be right ALLA’ TIME or we’re on our way to the home.(*)

    (*) Just thinking: you and I in the same home would drive the staff way beyond drink.

  82. 82.

    Platonailedit

    June 30, 2018 at 11:11 pm

    @sukabi: There can’t be any black santas was her crowning moment.

  83. 83.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    June 30, 2018 at 11:11 pm

    @efgoldman: MS-13 is real, but as Adam noted, in isolated places like Pico-Union here in LA.

  84. 84.

    sukabi

    June 30, 2018 at 11:12 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: is that a trick question? You and I know he’ll blame 1) Obama 2) Hillary and 3) the “Deep State”

  85. 85.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:13 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I am sorry to hear that. Hopefully you’re relaxing with a cool drink.

  86. 86.

    MobileForkbeard

    June 30, 2018 at 11:13 pm

    @Ruckus: Fine with me. I’m okay with Ruskusing (Its a verb now) the shit out of anyone who spouts off on civility.

    Occasional and nonlethal friendly fire can be tolerated.

  87. 87.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    June 30, 2018 at 11:14 pm

    @efgoldman: Just don’t be a dick to me

  88. 88.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    June 30, 2018 at 11:14 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Wonder who the President will blame when this happens.

    Easy , Democrats.

  89. 89.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:16 pm

    @Mike in NC: Are you sure? I was under the impression that this was the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave? I cannot imagine that any right thinking, patriotic American would countenance such an injustice and insult to the Constitution.//

  90. 90.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:16 pm

    @Platonailedit: Not with your schvantz!

  91. 91.

    sukabi

    June 30, 2018 at 11:18 pm

    @Jeffro: at this point I’m not sure he’s even listening to the psychos and losers…pretty sure he’s full on delusional and or his tertiary syphilis has rotted even more of his brain.

  92. 92.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:18 pm

    @MobileForkbeard: That would work too.

  93. 93.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 30, 2018 at 11:19 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: More than one. Thirty years ago, I was doing exercises in southern GA in full gear. I have become old.

  94. 94.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 30, 2018 at 11:21 pm

    @efgoldman: I have one of the remaining ice floes reserved for you.

  95. 95.

    Platonailedit

    June 30, 2018 at 11:21 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Got any link? Otherwise, you are just being mean in Yiddish.

  96. 96.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:21 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Marina Sirtis, the actress who went after Sarandon, was a series regular on Star Trek The Next Generation. The reference is to a fictional missile from the greater Star Trek fictional continuity. Now you’re up to speed.

  97. 97.

    Ruckus

    June 30, 2018 at 11:24 pm

    @efgoldman:
    Or to stiffen up our tepid water so that we refrained from saying Fuck every other word. Of course with us that probably would backfire.
    Have a buddy, his mom had Alzheimer’s. He said she was the nicest, kindest person, he’d never heard her use a swear word once in all his 50+ yrs, but when it got it’s hooks in her she was a terror who spoke like a raving potty mouth. You know, like an ex marine who joined the navy just to hear the rest of the swear words available in the english language. Or we could be like my dad with Alzheimer’s. Went one Sunday to visit him, checked in and went to his room, 8 am ish. Bed hadn’t been slept in so I went back to the desk and asked where he might be. He’s probably in Mary’s room, knock and see. Sure enough he and Mary, both with Alzheimer’s, far enough in not to really know what’s going on but not so far in they were no longer potty trained. Life goes on no matter what we think or where each one of us is individually.

  98. 98.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 30, 2018 at 11:26 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I really didn’t need to know.

  99. 99.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:26 pm

    @efgoldman: Tracking. Apparently one of the “patriots” threw a heavy trash can lid he had as a DIY shield at a much smaller woman after someone threw a cardboard sign in his direction. At that point it was on. The rally was organized by a white supremacist running for US Senate in Oregon as Republican, who does these things hoping there will be a riot:
    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/alt-right-rally-portland-declared-riot-right-wingers-go-violent-rampage-brawl-breaks-streets/

  100. 100.

    Ruckus

    June 30, 2018 at 11:27 pm

    @MobileForkbeard:

    Ruskusing

    I’m famous now?
    Damn, all it took was fucking profanity? I should have been famous long ago then. But that’s OK I’ll take it.

  101. 101.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:27 pm

    @efgoldman: Have you all considered trying a fresh belt onion? Maybe that might help?

  102. 102.

    Tim C.

    June 30, 2018 at 11:27 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: SO SAY WE ALL!!!! Wait… okay to mix intellectual properties like that?

  103. 103.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:29 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Usually beats the hell out of the alternative. My understanding is it was in the high 90s to 100 up your way. As someone who grew up in central Florida, that’s rough regardless.

  104. 104.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 30, 2018 at 11:29 pm

    @Platonailedit: Pathetic. Really.

  105. 105.

    Ruckus

    June 30, 2018 at 11:31 pm

    @sukabi:
    He has tertiary syphilis and Alzheimer’s?
    That would explain a lot, with the exception of why people would vote for someone with tertiary syphilis and Alzheimer’s. Wanted to vote for one of their own?

  106. 106.

    hilts

    June 30, 2018 at 11:32 pm

    @sukabi:

    Megyn Kelly is a clueless doofus. It was breathtakingly dumb of NBC executives to shell out millions of dollars to her. Watching an hour of dead air is more insightful than watching an hour of Megyn Kelly.

  107. 107.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 30, 2018 at 11:33 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: It was brutal. I hate the heat and humidity thing. My OCS graduation was a survival thing as much as anything else.

  108. 108.

    Platonailedit

    June 30, 2018 at 11:33 pm

    No more sign in fuckups. Guessing Alain slain it?

  109. 109.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:37 pm

    @Platonailedit: Same as literal meaning for putz or schmuck in Yiddish.

  110. 110.

    Ruckus

    June 30, 2018 at 11:37 pm

    @hilts:
    I can think of a lot of things more insightful than her.
    Eating a bug.
    Watching a boxing match.
    Organizing a sock drawer.
    Vacuuming a room, the day after you did it last.
    Watching paint dry.
    Smelling the paint that you are watching dry.

  111. 111.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:38 pm

    If anyones been waiting, and I apologize for the delay, the Montana Woman post is up – so to speak…

  112. 112.

    Jeffro

    June 30, 2018 at 11:39 pm

    Btw and Fwiw, Fox News dot com has up: “Trumpov Calls US Immigration Laws Dumbest Anywhere In The World” as its header right now.

    No qualification or fact-checking on that, natch.

    Subhead: “Thousands nationwide protest border policy”

    Um, yeah…perhaps hundreds of thousands nationwide? Perhaps they were protesting this particular, unnecessary part where KIDS ARE PUT IN CAGES?!?

    Watch the polling: per the president’s* tweets, a majority of Rs will soon believe that Dems are not only for abolishing ICE but abolishing all police. THURGONNALETMESSICANHORDZRAPEALLYURWIMMINZ!!!!

    How much fear-button-pushing can one demographic group take? We’re about to find out…

  113. 113.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:40 pm

    @Ruckus: My Mom, an SLP, had a patient at the beginning of her career who had either a stroke or a closed head injury that left him only able to repeat the following: “damn, damn, damn, shit, shit, shit”. And then garbled sounds that made no sense. At first glance it sounds like a punch line, but it’s just sad.

  114. 114.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:41 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m the Balloon Juice Original Classification Officer and decided you needed to be read in.

  115. 115.

    MisterForkbeard

    June 30, 2018 at 11:41 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Are you sure you don’t want to know more? Between the two of us, I’m Adam and I could give you hours of exposition and the relevant theory behind these things, as well as our musings on the socio-political implications of said weapons in the Star Trek universe (Prime Universe, that is – I’m slightly less up to date on the Abramsverse)

  116. 116.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:42 pm

    @Tim C.: Sure. It’s late. It was a rough week. It’s the thought that counts.

  117. 117.

    sukabi

    June 30, 2018 at 11:43 pm

    @Ruckus: pretty sure watching FOX and listening to Infowars and Limbaugh cause the same brain wasting Drumpf displays…there have been studies…

  118. 118.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:43 pm

    @Platonailedit: Why you gotta go and jinx things…

  119. 119.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:46 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Tracking. USAWC graduation every year was outside on what had been the parade ground when the Cav school had been at Carlisle in the 19th Century in June. So hot, humid, and not a lot of shade.

  120. 120.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 30, 2018 at 11:47 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: @MisterForkbeard: No, please.

  121. 121.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 30, 2018 at 11:48 pm

    @MisterForkbeard: I’ve seen all three Abramsverse/Kelvinverse movies. The first was enjoyable, but too much lens flare. Other than Alice Eve in a space bikini in the second one, the second one was terrible. The third one was very enjoyable.

  122. 122.

    Ruckus

    June 30, 2018 at 11:49 pm

    @sukabi:
    I’m not jumping into that cesspool to find out.
    I like being an old man who swears a lot and actually likes other people. Hell I’ll take just being old. Oh and famous, I’m now a verb.

  123. 123.

    Platonailedit

    June 30, 2018 at 11:49 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: See, that wasn’t so hard?

    @Adam L Silverman: Sorry…

  124. 124.

    MisterForkbeard

    June 30, 2018 at 11:56 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I’ve seen them too, but there’s a whole host of secondary content for that universe (books, comics) that I won’t go near.

    Mostly agreed on the Abrams movies too. Though I enjoyed the 2nd one a little, if just to watch Benevolent Cumberwaffle chew scenery. He’s VERY good at that.

  125. 125.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 1, 2018 at 12:00 am

    @MisterForkbeard: While I thought he did a good job as Dr. Strange, I’m neither a fan of Cumberbatch, nor the guy who plays Watson on his Sherlock Homes show.

  126. 126.

    MisterForkbeard

    July 1, 2018 at 12:04 am

    @Adam L Silverman: You don’t like Martin Freeman? You take that back.

  127. 127.

    Bruuuuce

    July 1, 2018 at 12:05 am

    @MisterForkbeard: @Adam L Silverman: Hey, at least he’s one of the few people on earth who can literally say “Fuck you, I’m a dragon!” after voicing Smaug in The Hobbit

  128. 128.

    RedDirtGirl

    July 1, 2018 at 12:22 am

    @chris: That IS some good news!

  129. 129.

    RedDirtGirl

    July 1, 2018 at 12:26 am

    I make my own political buttons, and I think I came up with a good one today:

    Who’s The Snowflake Now?

  130. 130.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 1, 2018 at 12:28 am

    @MisterForkbeard: Don’t like either of them. With the exception of Cumberbatch as Strange, there’s something about how they act that just takes me completely out of what I’m watching. I don’t know what it is, but I find it incredibly off putting to watch.

  131. 131.

    RedDirtGirl

    July 1, 2018 at 12:28 am

    @EBT: You have a point there.

  132. 132.

    Villago Delenda Est

    July 1, 2018 at 12:38 am

    @Charluckles: I wear a Wonkette “Impeach” (White letters on red baseball cap) hat wherever I go. I have had NOTHING but positive feedback…one woman saw it and told me she had to get one! So I use these opportunities to evangelize Wonkette, and encourage people to buy a hat for 20 bucks.

  133. 133.

    cwmoss

    July 1, 2018 at 3:13 am

    @efgoldman: When you and Ruckus are on your way to that home, just say what Terence Stamp’s Wilson said in The Limey: “YOU TELL HIM I’M FUCKING COMING!”

  134. 134.

    burnspbesq

    July 1, 2018 at 3:23 am

    @EBT:

    But the bastard owes me an apology …

    Get over yourself.

  135. 135.

    feebog

    July 1, 2018 at 10:52 am

    @Ruckus:

    Don’t know if someone upthread pointed this out, but Fugelsang’s tweet was snark. He was sharing the cartoon. Maybe a little too subtle for those who don’t follow him closely.

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