Determined corgi tries to get his lethargic friend to go on a walk https://t.co/EXP08NowPk pic.twitter.com/1y0wj3rgbQ
— Colin Campbell (@colincampbell) July 27, 2018
Note that the ‘lethargic friend’ is holding their end of the rope in their teeth, so it’s more game than trial.
This poor little dude, on the other hand…
Party with your doggo while he's wearing this lit vest pic.twitter.com/0iKC8MkRhr
— Mashable (@mashable) July 28, 2018
Stay positive!
A number of Republicans glumly agree that the Democrats’ tidal wave looks big enough right now to wash over the seawall they’ve built with gerrymandered districts https://t.co/28kGM11amx
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) July 27, 2018
… In more than a dozen interviews with top strategists in both parties conducted by TPM this week, every Democrat and all but one Republican said that the Democrats have the upper hand heading into the homestretch of the campaign. But there’s plenty of disagreement about how sure a bet that is. Different plugged-in Democrats guesstimated their chances of winning control as between 55 percent and 80 percent. Two Republicans put their party’s chances of control as low as one in three, while one optimist put it at 60 percent likelihood.
That’s a wide range of opinions held by people with access to a lot of private polling and modeling information, as well as the opposition research and TV ads that have yet to air, though the majority of strategists in both parties put Democrats’ chances of winning at between 50 and 60 percent. The one thing all strategists, granted anonymity so they could speak candidly, agree on: Democrats’ chances of winning the 23 House seats needed for control look significantly better than they did even one month ago…
Democrats’ enthusiasm gap advantage remains large. Independents are breaking for Democrats by double-digit margins nationally and in most districts. The map of true tossup races seems to keep shifting Democrats’ way. With Sunday marking 100 days until the election, the unofficial start of the campaign’s homestretch, professional Democrats are a lot cheerier than their Republican counterparts as they look to get their clients to Congress…
In a special preview for Axios readers, @Redistrict of Cook Political Report unpacks the GOP's daunting math: "With 102 days to go, Democrats remain substantial favorites for House control." https://t.co/dJ1FF6YcFz
— Axios (@axios) July 27, 2018
SRW1
One day I also wanna wear such a disco vest when I pee on a street corner.
satby
Spotty Wi-Fi at my hotel but The NYC meet up was a smashing success! And my visit with my exchange son and his family was wonderful. More later.
Good morning all
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone ???
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
rikyrah
@satby:
Hi satby?
Glad you are there, safe and sound
satby
@rikyrah: I am! Different hotel since yesterday, this one in Brooklyn and pretty basic, but they have coffee!
And props to Reddirtgirl, because she called the taxi fare practically to the penny. I was pretty tired last night, so didn’t want to cope with an unfamiliar subway system. Today I won’t be lugging my bags, and will be taking it to meet my former coworkers.
I introduced my exchange son to the blog too, he works in the financial end of the health insurance industry, so I showed him the Mayhew on insurance” posts category. Hoping he joins the jackals at some point.
The meet up was excellent, great crowd of local folks and bonus NotMax! We were even able to circulate a bit so we could all talk to everyone. LAO has some great stories she kept us entertained with. More when the pictures come out.
satby
Awful slow commenting today, is something up with the blog?
MagdaInBlack
Leigh Ann Caldwell
@LACaldwellDC
Charles Koch also said: “We all bear responsibility” for the divisiveness in the country.
But is Trump to blame for the dissolution of discourse?
“I’m into hating the sin not the sinner.”
1:08 PM · Jul 29, 2018
* Isnt that nice.
rikyrah
@MagdaInBlack:
I don’t bear responsibility for shyt??
RedDirtDirl
@satby: good morning, Satby, and everyone! How was your cab ride back to your hotel?
RedDirtDirl
@SRW1: Having goals in life is a good idea!
Schlemazel
@MagdaInBlack:
So are they all, all honorable men, – Marc Anthony
The sad part is he will be permitted because it fits the media’s bothsiderism
Schlemazel
@satby:
Glad you are having a good time
Ben Cisco
@MagdaInBlack: Screw that guy, seriously.
Good morning everyone.
LAO
@satby: I’m blushing, what a polite way of saying I talk too much! Glad you made it to your hotel and very glad I was able to meet you.
To the rest of meetup participants, thanks for a fun evening and a special thank you to NotMax for setting the shindig up.
MagdaInBlack
@satby:
Takes forever to load.
Happy to hear youre enjoying your trip ✨
JPL
We need our own balloon juice disco jacket.
satby
@RedDirtDirl: very nice actually. Got to sightsee a bit, cabbie had nice soft jazz playing and we had a cordial conversation. You called it too, $27 on the nose.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
OzarkHillbilly
A wholly depressing but necessary read: White threat in a browning America
Baud
Apparently, Trump’s defense is going to “why would you trust anyone who worked for me.”
satby
@LAO: no way did you talk too much! We were all enjoying the backstory on some of the lawyers heard about in the news. Besides, it’s usually me who talks too much ?!
@Schlemazel: @MagdaInBlack: Thanks, having a great time with good company. And yeah, the site seems to be lagging.
NotMax
Fun evening last night. Scintillating conversation, good people, refreshing Irish hard cider. It was the Lake Woebegone table of the pub, the place where all the folks are above average.
Believe it or not, in a glass case above and adjacent to the bar there is stuffed four-footed animal which, if one kind of cocks one’s head and squints a bit, can be mistaken for a jackal.
debbie
@satby:
NYC has changed beyond recognition!
satby
@Baud: Good morning to you! So far I’ve met other jackals in 3 meet ups and when people talk about which commenter they’d like to meet IRL every one wants to meet you. Your fans are legion.
#proudtobeabaudie
Dorothy A. Winsor
On twitter this morning, I clicked to see why Bigfoot was trending. Sweet cartwheeling Jesus.
satby
@NotMax: tell your mom I thank her for the coffee offer. Fortunately this joint has it available 24/7 in the lobby.
NYC is safe now.
LAO
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I made the same mistake. I wish i could travel back in time.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: Baud sucks.
satby
@Dorothy A. Winsor: “White supremacist into Bigfoot erotica” was as far as I got before NOPE took over and closed the thread.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: nobody has met the elusive Baud. As far as I know.
I’d meet everyone if I could.
Baud
@satby: Good morning, satby. I’m glad to hear you are having a nice few days. You deserve it.
Peple want to meet me because they want patronage. But the only way I can remain uncorrupted and pure is to reject not only all campaign donations but also real life, nontransparent human interactions. It’s tough, but it’s what the country needs right now.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
You are an enemy of the people.
satby
@Baud: some just want to touch the hem of your garment.
?
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
Even better is all the current shrieking over Trump Derangement Syndrome by those who happily practiced Obama Derangement Syndrome. “Yeah, but both sides…but here and now…but apples and oranges” and on and on.
debbie
@satby:
I just want to know how he stays on point like a laser and how he always says the right thing at the right time. I could use some of those gifts.
satby
@debbie: ?
You do just fine!
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Don’t leave us in the dark.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: It’s a dirty job but somebody has to do it.
NotMax
@satby
:)
Another shot of some of the flora on her terrace, with the whole planter of those flowers you metioned in the rear.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: More:
Still got a little more to go.
rikyrah
Meghan Markle’s father is like Alex from Fatal Attraction ??
https://amp.thisisinsider.com/thomas-markle-slams-meghan-markle-and-royal-family-mail-on-sunday-interview-2018-7
Immanentize
@Baud:
They make those “companion” dolls see-through now?
rikyrah
@NotMax:
Beautiful ?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@OzarkHillbilly: See Satby at #30
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: OhhhhhhhhhhKaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy…………..
Baud
Baud!/Bigfoot! 2020!
SFAW
@satby:
I don’t recall you being prone to joke like that, so I assume that’s an accurate restatement. (Also since DAW confirms.) Good Christ.
satby
@NotMax: nice! I love the tiered planter, and is that a tomato in the foreground?
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
Semi-related: I’m reading “Bring The War Home,” which sort-of chronicles the rise of the post-Vietnam White Power movement. I don’t think “scary” is the word for it, more like “unnerving,” maybe?
satby
@SFAW: @OzarkHillbilly: Inorite? Some things I really don’t need to be fully informed about, and that’s definitely one.
OzarkHillbilly
So Roy Moore is going to file a lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen. I hope they televise the trial.
Lapassionara
@OzarkHillbilly: Identity politics is just the current buzz word. My skin is white, but I am old, so I focus on whether Social Security and Medicare are going to be strong, and not just during my lifetime. I lived through the positive transformation those programs made to families, when the grand parent generation no longer had to move in with their children. I think describing people’s concerns as centering on skin color is short sighted.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
Discovery should be interesting, although they don’t normally televise that.
RedDirtGirl
@LAO: Wait til you see what I wrote about you in the odds and ends thread, last night!
arrieve
@NotMax: Thanks for setting it up! It was great fun meeting everybody, and I loved your stories LAO!
I have pictures — just need an email address to send them to.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: I am now fully informed (I had to google it, no resisting the urge) and it’s more strange than anything else. Especially the reactions of some self proclaimed “progressive white men”:
To which I can only say, “What happens in the bedroom between consenting adults stays in the bedroom, but what gets posted on Instagram is fair game.”
danielx
@Baud:
He’s in excellent company.
satby
@arrieve: use the contact list in the menu. And thanks for being the photographer and bringing a real camera!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s kind of sickly fascinating. For details, see here. Go ahead. I dare you. :-)
Also:
ETA: I see you’ve already informed yourself.
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW: Looks interesting, added to the list. Thanx.
danielx
Nice rainy day outside…good thing I have carefully sealed over the section of siding I removed this weekend. Nothing like going to replace a 2 x 3 piece of plywood and finding….termites. Going from a minor repair to fucking catastrophe in nothing flat. Ten years ago I might have tried to tackle this myself, minus the pest control bit. Now it’s going to require a crew of pros, no doubt at hideous expense.
chris
Jeebus!
LAO
@RedDirtGirl: oy. I’m afraid to look. ?. Good morning btw.
Tenar Arha
@Dorothy A. Winsor: @LAO: @satby: I read that last night while everyone was sleeping & meeting ?
Geez, was it only last night I heard that? I was just thinking about how I don’t really care about this guy’s cryptid porn, I care about his likely politics.
¯_(ツ)_/¯ 2018 where open white supremacists running for & in control of government is so much infinitely worse than finding out that Bigfoot porn exists that all I could think was “oookay, that guy’s kink is not my kink.”
Anyway, good morning all! & YKINMK ?
LAO
@RedDirtGirl: I looked. That’s a relief, others have said much worse!
JPL
Mediate has the bigfoot story link
Don’t we all joke about bigfoot e.r.o.t.i.c.a
danielx
in other news, local Nazis have crawled out of the woodwork into the light.
Anti-Semitic graffiti found at Carmel synagogue
As has been noted, when the pot boils, the scum rises.
tobie
Morning folks! I gather the Manafort trial is set to begin tomorrow. Is that correct? I imagine jury selection will take up the first few days, then it’s on to witnesses. I’m thinking of changing my subscription to the Post to a paper version, so I don’t get sucked into the media vortex that will accompany the trial.
MomSense
@satby:
Yay! So happy you are having a good time.
I got home late last night after a quick trip to Mass. Had a sort of panic/melancholy episode while there but when I got home two of my kids were at the dining room table talking and playing music so that cheered me up. My oldest is making plans to have my youngest stay with him for a few days which is sweet. Anyway, we also talked politics and they both inherited my ranting at the idiotic things pundits say. My youngest showed us part of a clip of Reza Aslan being interviewed by a Fox blond that was so stupid (the fox blond) and funny (Reza).
Back to my routine today. Hope all the jackals have a good week.
OzarkHillbilly
@Lapassionara:
From the article:
…………………
You should go read the whole thing.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: That’s a lot of words to say that Hillary should have gone to Wisconsin.
A Ghost To Most
@danielx:
I feel your pain. Nothing is ever simple. I remember our first May in our house in MD, when termite flyers filled our house. I was on vacuum cleaner duty for 3-4 days.
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I couldn’t help myself.
A Ghost To Most
@chris: Sounds like CO in June. Large hail (> golf ball) is incredibly destructive.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@OzarkHillbilly: Wow, that’s great data.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@OzarkHillbilly: Me thinks that’s an over simplification of the issue – civil rights are inherently color blind. Take for example why Conservatives bemoan America is falling because of something like Steel Mills and coal mines, yet ignores things like Spaxe-X, the GOP base is a rejection of the entire modern era.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Heh.
NotMax
@satby
Yup, that’s the tomato plant.
OzarkHillbilly
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
But the enforcement of them has never been colorblind.
Elizabelle
Happy Monday, all. Los Angeles Times today. Virginia Heffernan, with the issue that is front and center: Was the 2016 election legitimate? It’s now definitely worth asking the question
Do not let that fucker have another Supreme Court justice. Ramp up pressure on vulnerable GOP senators (and Lisa Murkowski and Lucy with the Football Collins). We can delay Kavanaugh, and possibly even stop him. No Trump appointment until the Mueller case is clear of the Supreme Court.
rikyrah
@lynnv378: And yeah I’m gonna say what no one will say. @JakeTapper’s attack on Barack Obama would not have happened if Barack Obama was White.
https://twitter.com/lynnv378/status/1023770472482316289?s=17
Shalimar
@JPL: Never thought to joke about Bigfoot pron before now, but also not surprised it exists.
Tenar Arha
@OzarkHillbilly: Just to confirm…you mean this —> White threat in a browning America
Steeplejack (phone)
@Tenar Arha:
Yes, he’s got a link at #20.
tobie
@OzarkHillbilly: Thanks for the excerpts. I will go read this article. I was talking to a German acquaintance this summer and we were both marveling at the rise of racism in Germany and the US at a time of relative economic prosperity (e.g. low unemployment). It kind of upends the traditional argument that economic conditions led to the rise of Nazism in the 1930s.
ETA: Someone posted here that the mainstreaming of racial animus in political discourse began around 2014 with the rise of Black Lives Matter. This would fit with the argument in the article.
JAFD
Good morning, fellow Jackals !
‘Twas grand meeting you last night, and am hoping to see you again in future.
Thinking that planning a NYC-area BalloonJuice meetup twice a year would Be A Good Thing, and that the weekend of MLK day would be a good time.
I would volunteer to do the planning, but (sorry about that), first, my knowledge of Manhattan pubs and taverns is small, and second, a Newark venue would probably have to be a short walk from Newark Penn Station, racking brain to think of place suitable and reasonably priced (Going a bit farther afield, is establishment combining good Portugese diner and indoor soccer field…)
Your thoughts are invited.
Tenar Arha
@rikyrah: It’s clear to me that even if the news network isn’t entirely run by sexual assaulters, men who discriminate in one way, will do it in another. Jake, as someone who got one of their big byline breaks by dating, & then later deciding to turn that into an article about the woman he dated should get the ? for everything.
White guy has a history of biased coverage of women, there’s likely some internet name for the corollary of “Yep, there’s bias too in his coverage of black men & women.”
tobie
@Elizabelle: Exit polls had HRC winning Penn by 4.4% on election day. Just saying…we’ll never know about the integrity of the ballot but we can track is the disenfranchisement campaign carried out in various states.
Shalimar
@tobie: Relative economic prosperity, but also continuing wealth concentration. It isn’t nearly as good for most of us as the numbers suggest.
rikyrah
@satby:
Not words you see in a sentence everyday..LOL
OzarkHillbilly
@Tenar Arha: Yes, linked to it in my first comment on it.
OzarkHillbilly
@tobie:
Yes, what could be less disagreeable than the simple statement that black lives matter? And yet look at the backlash.
Tenar Arha
@Steeplejack (phone): thanks! Skimming too fast today.
danielx
@rikyrah:
More than I wanted to know.
Tenar Arha
@OzarkHillbilly: Thanks! Seems I am truly skimming too fast today.
RedDirtGirl
@MomSense: Hi MomSense. Sorry you’ve been having a rough time of it lately. I’ll be up on MDI the week leading up to Labor Day. If you find yourself nearby and want to kayak out to Gott’s Island again, drop me a line.
ivankathrowup at gmail dot com.
rikyrah
@tobie:
I will say it again…
the number of people denied the franchise through Voter Suppression in those pivotal states was TWO TO THREE TIMES the size of Dolt45’s ‘victory’.
never ever forget that.
RedDirtGirl
@NotMax: You mean the “Tree of Knowledge”, don’t you?
tobie
@Shalimar: I’m not saying that everything was peachy-keen. Income inequality is a big problem. But in 2016 the country did log the first significant growth in wages in decades, the housing market had stabilized, health insurance rates had risen dramatically, we were at full employment even if many jobs were low-income etc. We had emerged from the great recession, and Europe was starting to emerge as well thanks to the introduction of quantitative easing in spite of German resistance. All in all people had reason to be ‘cautiously’ optimistic but that’s not the way things turned out. Trump and Wilmer intoned daily at broadcast rallies how much the people were suffering and made it seem like we were still living in the great depression.
Barbara
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s this kind of thinking that looks at trying to appeal to women’s concerns as “special interest” politics when women make up more than half the population and probably more than half of all voters.
john r
The fix is already in, so don’t get your hopes up. I see a republicant wave gaining them 50 seats. Of course, that will be the result of the hacking of voting systems they are going to allow adversaries to perform.
MomSense
@RedDirtGirl:
Ooh, that sounds like a nice thing to do. I’ll look at my schedule. Have a couple of family reunions close to that week.
tobie
@rikyrah: Do you know of a site that has the statistics on voter disenfranchisement in one table or text? If I’m not mistaken, 2 million people were stricken from the voter rolls in Ohio. 45,000 according to the article were removed from the rolls in WI. I’d love to have the figures for states like NC, FL, GA, and MI.
MomSense
@rikyrah:
I haven’t forgiven Jake Tapper for his fucking Benghazi nonsense.
OzarkHillbilly
@Barbara: I had a mother. I have sisters. I have a wife. I have daughter-in-laws. I have a granddaughter. Wouldn’t a better world for them mean a better world for me?
MomSense
@tobie:
Omnes says it was a lot more than 45,000. He was saying 200,000 IIRC.
satby
@JAFD: it was very fun! If there’s one in a year or so I may have to plan to come back. We’ll have to check back in a couple of months.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Obama is apparently supposed to undo state legislative elections in KY, WV, AL and MS by skipping a concert in 2018. Does George W Bush go to concerts? Does Jake have any ideas about what he could/should be doing to fix the GOP?
RedDirtGirl
@MomSense: I have another odd Maine/Internet connection. My go-to site for pop culture, with a side of politics, is Pajiba. I was getting weird warning messages when I clicked on it recently, so I emailed the site founder. I already knew he was based near Portland, from various comments, so I mentioned my Maine connections, specifically Mt. Desert Island. He wrote back that he and his family spend time near Echo Lake and so I mentioned Gott’s Island. Turns out his wife’s family rented a house out there for several summers when she was a kid. Blew my mind. Don’t think I met her, though.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Your questions are uncivil.
LAO
@RedDirtGirl: Rabbi Wolk would be so excited to see that his teachings live on.
LAO
I see on the twitter machine that (unsurprisingly) Team Trump is once again shifting the goal posts.
rikyrah
@tobie:
I do not know, but I say google Ari Berman twitter. if anyone has the stats, he does.
LAO
Holy Crap! I wanna go back to bed.
tobie
@rikyrah: Will do. Thanks.
Baud
@LAO: I’m beginning to think the meeting wasn’t about adoptions.
MomSense
@RedDirtGirl:
Maine’s population is just over a million so chances are if you meet someone from Maine there will be a connection.
Steve in the STL
@tobie: my wife was stricken from the rolls last year in Georgia, which we found odd since (1) we have lived in the same house for 19 years, (2) the other three voters in said house were not stricken, and (3) we live in a very, very red district.
Maybe because we have voted in democratic primaries?
schrodingers_cat
@OzarkHillbilly: I for one am tired of reading about how the feelings of some people in a democracy are more important than other people’s lives.
rikyrah
Obviously there are bigger things going on, but one of the least discussed losses of Trumpism is a First Family that is capable of love and joy.
There was something healing and inspiring about watching that every day for 8 years.
It was good for the soul. pic.twitter.com/GnsxoBdjhd
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) July 29, 2018
SRW1
@LAO:
At least not when the president does it. Faint smell of deja vue.
rikyrah
Funny how the economic anxiety argument has gone right? Proud to lose their savings and jobs under Trump. If they are proud to lose their $ under Trump, why would “free college” or “single payer” from Dems change their minds? Glad people see economic anxiety arg was a farce https://t.co/06yUtzXP9r
— Marcus H. Johnson (@marcushjohnson) July 30, 2018
rikyrah
“Historically Precipitous Decline.”
This is how @jaketapper just described Obama’s term… Obama who didnt lock children in cages or separate them from their parents. Who didn’t rape his wife or several other women, who didn’t pay several women for sex while with his 3rd wife.
— Sir James The Second… watch my shows on HUeMAN TV (@NotOnMyWatchTV) July 29, 2018
schrodingers_cat
@rikyrah:All politics in this country according to the likes of Tapper and botlets of the mainstream media revolve around imaginary and manufactured grievances of the most privileged group in the country. The only demographic that still favors T by a huge margin.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Indeed. Bullshit analysis is bullshit.
Jeffro
@debbie:
Hmm…I was thinking about this and then rikyrah’s comment came along
@rikyrah:
…and I thought about all the things we didn’t get under Obama:
– alienating NATO allies
– bashing the E.U.
– sucking up to tyrants around the globe
– “Infrastructure Week” every frickin’ day
– Spicer, Scarmucci, Pruitt, Omarosa, Hicks, the wife-beating guy who had to go, the Fox News slime ball who just got hired, etc etc
– crazy-ass deficits from fake tax “reform”
– twitter attacks on American businesses
– racist attacks on NFL players
– golfing every 4th day
– lining his own pockets EVERY day
– “fixers” paying off Playboy models and porn stars with laundered campaign funds
– and on and on and on
rikyrah
Kavanaugh ruled for Trump casino in 2012 unionization case
Source: The Hill
WaterGirl
@satby: Some want to take him to… oh, never mind.
trollhattan
@satby:
This acolyte would prefer said garment would be washed more frequently.
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Could this e a rotating tag, please?
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: Here dad is kind of a train wreck, isn’t he?
Miss Bianca
@OzarkHillbilly:
Still on my first cup of coffee for the day, and I thought this sentence ended with, “hunting where the dicks are.”
Then I saw what it really said, and went, “Oh.” And then I realized that it worked just fine either way.
trollhattan
@OzarkHillbilly:
Am sure Cohen can afford some spiffy lawyers. Let’s see what they can uncover in discovery.
“Judge Roy Moore has nothing to hide!”
“Put your pants on, judge.”
MomSense
@rikyrah:
What pisses me off is the failure of pundits to ever acknowledge the structural disadvantage Democrats face. It’s more than just the electoral college. In 2010, 12, 14, and 16 we had more votes for our members of the House of Representatives but that still doesn’t give us a majority. The same for the Senate although that is part of the design. I’m sick of the laziness when it comes to political analysis. IMHO Obama was so extraordinary that all these mostly white male pundits were determined to knock him down a peg. They may not know that’s what they were doing but they aren’t exactly the most self aware bunch.
rikyrah
Nothing but truth
I think the criticism of President Obama dancing with his wife is another example of the erasure of black joy. We can’t dance, barbeque, sell water, wait for someone etc. without white folks “snitching”. PBO worked until he was gray but he can’t live his life. https://t.co/SWlEkFAhVJ
— Loves2Read (@MarciaPoulson) July 30, 2018
WaterGirl
@tobie: I used to say that I would have been the perfect juror for the OJ trial – I was on vacation at a summer house on a lake, no TV or newspapers and no internet to speak of back then. I came home and people were talking about the car chase, etc. I was possibly the only person in America that didn’t see any of that.
I find myself this morning wondering about the people who know nothing about Manafort. I’m thinking that unless they were at the summer house on a lake – for, say, the past year and a half – anyone who knows nothing about Manafort doesn’t deserve to be on the jury.
OzarkHillbilly
@schrodingers_cat: Your snarklmeter needs recalibrating.
if you haven’t read it than you really don’t have a clue to what you are talking about, do you?
MomSense
@satby:
Wait whut?? When so went to bed there was some discussion pandas I didn’t understand but Bigfoot erotica? I’m guessing we are not talking about Cole’s pet picture posts.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Speaking of the crime of being seen by white people, has the one Cole called Taxi Nazi Tina— called the cops on a woman waiting for Uber in front of an apartment building– been ID’d yet? Looks like she was either really drunk or off her meds
as many people have said, municipalities need to start fining for frivolous 911 calls
WaterGirl
@LAO: So now I guess we can be absolutely certain that Trump DID ATTEND that meeting. Thanks, Rudy!
Steve in the STL
@LAO: isn’t the crime being investigated conspiracy against the US, not collusion?
Gin & Tonic
Tweet from Ecuador’s External Affairs Ministry today: It is in the interest of Ecuador and also of Mr. Assange that the asylum be terminated
Raven
@Steve in the STL: I’m experiencing the criminal justice system from the jury pool
Today?
Steve in the STL
@Raven: that’s better than experiencing it in an orange jumpsuit. And then having to pay LAO to try to fix what Immanentize couldn’t win!
Raven
@Steve in the STL: I’ve been there as well
rikyrah
@Raven:
tee hee hee
BWA HA HA HA HAH A HAHA
JPL
@rikyrah: A gal on the local news showed the clip, and mentioned how good they dance at their age. She quickly realized her error, and said that the fifties aren’t really old. It was actually cute, because it had nothing to do with their race.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: Why would that be good for Assange?
edit: Forgot to say YAY!
LAO
@Steve in the STL: Yes. The collusion argument is, as you would expect, a bait and switch.
LAO
@Raven: Just remember, the magic words are “not guilty.”
I’m joking people — or am I?
hueyplong
@rikyrah: That falling tree makes no sound until Greenwald whines about it.
J R in WV
OK, I understand that some people are astounded at the thought of Bigfoot porn. I am too, kinda. So not my kink.
But Internet Rule 34 states that if there is a thing on the Internet, there is porn about that thing, on the Internet. So Bigfoot is a thing… so porn about Bigfoot is not only not out of the question, it is required. But no one can make someone get off on porn that doesn’t mesh with their set of kinks, so you’re all safe.
Mostly, a few may learn that they have a heretofore unknown kink! Ha… ;-)
Ruckus
@tobie:
I wonder how many of those 2 million in OH were people like me. I left OH in 2005, nothing was done to remove me from the voting.
I’ve moved three times in CA since then and have updated my voting address each time but never informed OH I’d left and I’m not required to do so. How many election cycles does it take before my name is properly removed for non voting? Now I’m not saying that OH it right, I was Ken Blackwell’d when I lived there, may he rest in hell. But how many people are like me, we moved we aren’t required to inform the state voting system we left.
Ruckus
@Miss Bianca:
It works better your way. It’s more realistic. And accurate.
JWL
Deadspin: “The NFL’s new rule on helmet contact is going to force players on both sides of the ball to make some major adjustments this season, but how exactly referees will enforce the rule is a question that’ll likely take at least a few weeks to answer”.
A few weeks? I can answer it now: it will be “enforced” in incoherent cashion. Junior Seau fucked everything up for everybody.
The NFL is simply delaying the inevitable with these absurd helmet-to-helmet “rules” (as if the health of a player’s brain is subject to human dictate). It’s like the captain of the Titanic takeng time to read rules of lifeboat protocol to the mass of doomed passengers milling about on deck as the ship sinks.
It’s a doggone shame, too. Aside from the catastrophic brain damage it inflicts on so great a percentage of NFL players (year in and year out), it is otherwise a truly beautiful game (“liar!”, screamed thousands of ex-players on behalf of their aching knees, hips, and joints)). I played it as a kid, and was a rabid fan for over 50 years. I wish things were different, but they’re not. And that stone cold fact ruined the game’s enjoyment for me.
chopper
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
note the gooper instagram post, and the last name of his opponent who brought it up. it’s just perfect.
Steve in the STL
@JWL: among CTE, the national anthem clusterfuck, and the Patriots cheating to beat the Falcons in the Super Bowl, I am done with the NFL.
Now I can focus on more important issues. SEC! SEC! SEC!
Uncle Cosmo
@tobie: Problem is this runs afoul of the so-called “Shy Tory” Factor.. As in, were the exit polls skewed because voters were loathe to admit they’d voted for Trump, or was there serious ratfuckery afoot? (Maybe both – but in what proportion?)
@OzarkHillbilly: Question re the Enos study: Were the recruited Hispanics sent out iindividually or in groups? If the latter, were they encouraged to speak Spanish amongst themselves? IMO monolingual whites find it far more threatening to hear a language they don’t understand being spoken around them – they all assume the reason Those People ain’t speakin’ good ol’ Murrkin is either that they’re plotting something or they’re making snide comments about the white folks around them. Even people who know better can get caught up in that if they have any vulnerability to paranoia (& jeebus cripes, IMHO anyone who isn’t at least a little paranoid these days isn’t paying attention); I have upon occasion had to remind myself that No, they’re not talking about you…