Since I believe we might all be a bit tightly strung today. At least I am.
Me voting in 2016 vs me voting in 2018 pic.twitter.com/wM8l1uGvLe
— Jennifer Reitman (@JenniferReitman) November 5, 2018
Pretty much. And something a little different:
Donkey nannies in Italy.
Each year in Italy, grazing animals are moved from high pastures down to the plains. Newborn lambs are unable to make this journey on their own. Instead, they ride in the pouches of a specially made saddle on the back of a donkey or a mule nanny. They are taken down at rest stops and returned to their mothers for a bite to eat and a bit of nuzzling. Photo: medeamoon
I’m struggling to catch up with work that piled up while I was on “vacation.” How is your afternoon going?
Open thread.
TenguPhule
Those baby sheep look like bunny rabbits.
trollhattan
Awww, lambs in a blanket. Seconded on the wolf; really enjoyed dropping my ballot off last week.
Mary G
Well, I just posted this in the last thread, but I don’t want it to get lost:
Yutsano
Obligatory.
geg6
I am now in love with donkey nannies. Too cute!
I am, unfortunately, so caught up at work that I have way too much time to spend online. I blame my high level of anxiety for making me so productive and efficient. So I’m trying to find ways to not think about my high level of anxiety. Which leads to even more anxiety.
The only treatment for this, I have found, is animal videos. It’s the only thing that calms me and make me laugh. One way or another, tomorrow should end this free floating anxiety. Not sure where I’ll be emotionally when that happens. Which totally dependent on what happens. Which makes me anxious. Which leads to….
Damn. I’m off to watch some animal videos.
TaMara (HFG)
@TenguPhule: Speaking of baby bunnies, thanks to help from you guys, my friend’s bunny rescue group won $1000!! Thanks and thanks to WaterGirl for pushing the voting links while I was away.
TenguPhule
@TaMara (HFG): Congrats.
TaMara (HFG)
@geg6: HIghly recommend the whale researcher who was saved by a whale.
TenguPhule
@TaMara (HFG): Speaking of whales, the one of the fisherman jumping on a humpback to free it from a rope was exciting.
Yarrow
That tweet – that’s me. I’ve been running on rage for two years. I could have chosen the straight ticket Dem option but I didn’t because I wanted the satisfaction of actually voting for each Dem candidate in every single race. It was very satisfying.
@geg6: Did you name your kitten yet? When you said she had cat-eye eyeliner I thought of Amy Winehouse.
@TaMara (HFG): Yay! I voted for them!
germy
A Benchley “Miniature” from 1938
How To Watch Football
Back when men wore neckties and women wore fur coats to football games.
C Stars
@Mary G: Angell’s prose has the kind of clarity that must come of almost 100 years of refinement. And the last sentence is of course a bit of a tearjerker:
Mnemosyne
The big takeaway from the thread below for me is that I really need to re-read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Maybe after NaNoWriMo is done and I get my manuscript submitted to the Golden Heart contest.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Upping from the last thread:
Betty Cracker
I’ve been working my ass off ever since we moved — cleaning, patching walls, painting, cutting and placing shelf liners, figuring out where to put stuff, spelunking through boxes to find random shit like can openers, etc. It’s exhausting, but the upside is that I’m no longer fretting over the decision to move since that’s done, and I’m generally too busy and/or tired to worry about politics all that much. And since I’m now smack-dab in the middle of nature all the time, I have that source of solace constantly instead of as a special treat I have to make an effort to access.
germy
@Dorothy A. Winsor: “Boy, political correctness is really out of control in this country!”
(reader comment section of every local newspaper online in my town probably)
Raven
@germy: No surprisingly the entrance tunnel looks like the Rose Bowl.
germy
@Raven: Leather helmets for the players and pocket flasks for the fans.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Mnemosyne:
I remember reading it in high school and I think the hardest part about it was the fact that it was a first-person narrative written in dialect. I agree with you that Huck realized that he was living in a corrupt society that devalued entire groups of human beings. In fact, I might reread it since you brought it up.
Might reread A Streetcar Named Desire, too.
LuciaMia
Ya THINK!!?????!!!!!
Aiiieeee!
Chip Daniels
For anyone who is anxious about tomorrow, one thing to keep in mind is that no matter what happens, we are still in for a long war over freedom and justice.
Even if the Dems sweep every race, the Trumpists won’t give up and disappear, and neither should we if the reverse is true.
Every election is just another battle in a very long campaign. Let it always be said of us- “Nevertheless, they persisted!”
ruemara
Hmm, levity. Ok, here’s one of my top puppers giving me the greetings of love.
lamh36
Afternoon BJ.
I dragged my younger sister to see Bohemian Rhapsody on Saturday and I told her it would be the #1 movie over the weekend. It did even better than predicted! I really enjoyed it and my sister who did not know Queen like I did, really enjoyed it too.. I said Saturday, after seeing the film, if you are a fan of the music and Freddie Mercury for THE MUSIC then def see it. If you want to see some in depth play by play if the personal life of Freddie Mercury, then this may not be enough for you. But the music…the music…can’t be beat. I would def see it again and def see it in IMAX or Dolby Digital sound!!
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ is a hit all over again: Queen biopic rocks box office with $50M
One thing to dispell, they definitely did not shy away from Freddie Mercury’s sexuality and IMHO and def went up to the line of not crossing over the PG13 rating.
ETA: Here’s my “full” twitter review of the movie. Short review…see it or the music and if you are a fan of the band and Freddie Mercury. Oh and Remi Malek…DEF should be ready for an Oscar nom…even if the critic reviews for the flick was mixed (although the audience cinemascore was an A), the consensus is that Malek IS the stand out!
Snarkworth, short-fingered Bulgarian
@Yarrow: I’m with you about voting for each office rather than punching the straight-ticket button. It feels so good to bash the buttons individually. “Take that (punch) and THAT (punch) aaaand…THAT!! (punch)”
Ruckus
When I was filling out my ballot, every time I got to not vote for republican, I think I looked like the right picture. A take that, asshole kind of thing. Felt good.
Kent
More heart warmers. Little girl catching a fish: https://youtu.be/r7zeMpzaoLQ
TenguPhule
@Chip Daniels:
The battle of Midway and this time we don’t know if we’ll manage to find and sink their carriers first.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@TenguPhule:
Just checking, but we’re cool, right?
Ruckus
@germy:
Saw those in a couple of Dodger’s games I went to with dad in the early 60s. Seemed strange in LA but then suits and ties were still rather common up until about then. And yes, I refuse to talk about the suit mom made me wear for easter one year. Use your imagination.
ruemara
@Ruckus: Bunny ears?
TenguPhule
I will just note that the attempted assassination of multiple Democrats by pipebomb has completely dropped out of the news in favor of non-stop “CARAVAN OOGABOOGA” coverage.
This timeline is so fucking bad. The media has learned nothing from “But her emails!”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Raven: Looks more like the Coliseum.
TenguPhule
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Just rein it in this time. I’ve got a thick skin but you were coming close even for me. Which should tell you quite a lot since I get flack from lots of people here myself.
Spanky
@TenguPhule:
Ahab tried that, and look what happened to him.
Mary G
The young people will win!
Spanky
@C Stars: Being E.B. White’s stepson and getting to watch him work might have helped, too.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@TenguPhule:
Thanks. I got a little worried when you didn’t reply to my mea culpa last thread. I thought you might have been mad at me still.
Anyway, here’s hoping for tomorrow. Plan to watch the returns on TV or just wait until the next day?
TenguPhule
@Ruckus:
You were the basis for the “A Christmas Story” outfit?
Mary G
@lamh36: Happy (belated?) birthday! ⭐??????
I love Queen almost as much as I love David Bowie, I was going to wait until it came out on digital, but I think I will make the teens go with me to see it this weekend, after hearing from you and geg6.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Ruckus:
germy
@Spanky: Possibly his mother had something to do with it as well. She was a writer and editor.
Roger edited “later years” James Thurber, which couldn’t have been an easy job.
Raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: The tunnel or the field?
Spanky
Hey WaPo! What’s so difficult about using the word “lying”?
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Spanky:
The word “lie” would lose it’s mystical powers or something.
TenguPhule
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
I plan to vote, then avoid the media until the day ends. I deserve one night free from all this shit.
Litlebritdifrnt
@lamh36: I doubt if I will see it. Moving in my circles in the 80s Mercury was a known pedophile. I have no plan to celebrate that.
Ruckus
@ruemara:
Now that’s just mean…..he said giggling
No it was a regular suit for a 4-6 yr old. Boy. My sister gave me the picture 2-3 yrs before she passed, all family pictures over the ages, the album was titled dysfunctionalfamilyalbum. I’d forgotten about the suit, more like blocked it out in my mind, thankfully. The color was the issue. OK and the suit itself as well.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Raven: Tunnel and the area around it, the Rose Bowl doesn’t have stairs going up at the tunnel entrances.
TenguPhule
Oh FFS, this is just goddamn ridiculous.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ruckus: …and the bunny ears.
trollhattan
@Spanky:
“Falsity” sounds like an undergarment.
Yarrow
@Snarkworth, short-fingered Bulgarian: That’s exactly what I did! Every single one of them. Felt good.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@TenguPhule:
Probably a wise choice.
M. Bouffant
@Ruckus: Not a shorts suit, then?
I remember going to a Stanford game in about 1960, no fur coat for mater but my father had at least a sport coat & tie.
Jay
@TenguPhule:
Lawyers, Guns and Money is covering the MSM’s chasing of Still Dead Briebart’s balls.
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/11/fox-friends-americas-assignment-editor
Ruckus
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
OK guys, no fucking bunny ears, those are my real ears, damnit.
And mom could be mean, she wan’t close to that mean.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Yarrow:
“Fuck you Failgunner Ted! Go back to Canada!”
SiubhanDuinne
@Mary G:
Most people (at least most jackals) probably know this, but in case someone doesn’t: Roger Angell was the stepson of E. B. White (of Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, and “Strunk & White” fame).
John Revolta
@germy: I’ve been on a Benchley binge for a couple months. He makes excellent bedtime reading.
He’s got lots of books out and you can find ’em cheap online.
Mary G
Ugh, this is horrible:
They will not go gently.
Kent
@TenguPhule:
Actually a stunningly apt analogy. It’s been since the early part of WWII that we went into major battles not knowing how they were going to come out and only hoping that we have done everything possible to tilt the odds in our favor. Or, in this case whether we manage to overcome all the odds tilted against us in terms of money, gerrymandering, vote suppression, etc.
Brachiator
Donkey nannies. What a world.
TenguPhule
@Mary G:
what. the. fuck.
Jay
@SiubhanDuinne:
Joel White, was his son, and an outstanding artist in his own right, with both boats and words.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Brachiator: Nanny state run amok.
TenguPhule
@SiubhanDuinne:
We should all go back and read this one again.
John Revolta
@Yarrow: @Snarkworth, short-fingered Bulgarian: Also, I heard that there was a
“problem” with the machines in Texas where people who voted straight Dem were being registered as straight Repub. If you vote for individuals you can apparently avoid any such…………….”glitches”.
Jay
@TenguPhule:
Gotta try to steal everything,…..
eemom
Was surprised to see this given what I’ve heard from folks here. Haven’t seen it myself.
Bohemian Rhapsody Is an Insult to Freddie Mercury
I know there are other negative reviews but this one is particularly scathing (e.g., “gay shaming”).
germy
@John Revolta: Benchley could be salty when not in public. He told John O’Hara “John, I’m your friend, and all your friends know you’re a son of a bitch.”
EDIT: When Benchley died, O’Hara inherited his banjo mandolin.
Frankensteinbeck
@Ruckus:
One of these?
O. Felix Culpa
Actually, I’m feeling pretty good about most of our statewide and local races. We should win senator, governor and secretary of state handily. My congressman will win easily too. Much tighter are the races for NM CD-2 (Xochitl Torres Small) and land commissioner, and I am feeling pessimistic about the latter election in particular. I hope to be pleasantly surprised. I’m also going canvassing again tomorrow morning so as not to rely overmuch on hope.
I also think that we’ll take back the House of Representatives by a healthy margin. The Senate, not so much. Every possible digit is crossed for O’Rourke, Abrams, and Gillum. Never learned how to cross my eyes, so someone else will have to do that instead.
divF
Re: the donkey nannies. When Madame was in med school, she participated in an emergency drill during her pediatrics rotation which involved wrapping up newborns and placing them in vests much like the donkey is wearing. They did not go to the next step, which was to climb down a ladder to escape the building.
geg6
@Yarrow:
No, we haven’t named her yet. We’ll have to soon, though. I’m hoping to get a picture to TaMara when I can get her to hold still. Maybe the BJers will have some good options (like Amy Winehouse!).
Uncle Ebeneezer
@Mary G: For anyone who wants to hear a much more strongly worded argument, check out Rod’s rant at the beginning of yesterdays episode of TheBlackGuyWhoTips. TLDL- he calls out and eviscerates the activists who are urging people not to vote or making excuses for doing so. It’s brutally honest and great. (starts around the 7 minute mark)
Note: it is specifically directed at Black non-voters, but the same principles apply to the White people who choose not to vote or throw their vote to a 3rd Party while pretending that they are not choosing to fuck over marginalized groups.
Death Panel Truck
@lamh36: That movie rewrites history in quite a cynical fashion – it has Mercury telling his band mates he was HIV+ just before Live Aid in 1985, when in reality he wasn’t diagnosed until 1987. If the filmmaker is willing to tell the big lies, he’s willing to tell the small ones, too. Hard pass.
Platonailedit
Just watched a 30 min panorama piece on bbc. The ‘reporter’ kept going back to the same 3 or 4 trumpturds in W Va, who claimed fealty to him despite their shitty lifes, and predicted armageddon like ‘civil war’ if the traitorous thug is impeached. On fucking bbc. Journalism is dead.
John Revolta
@germy: Heh. That line reminds me of Franken’s line about Ted Cruz. I wonder if Al coulda read some Benchley in his comedy days……………………….
SiubhanDuinne
@Mary G:
Say WHUT now?
PaulWartenberg
I’m with Saturday Night Live about this Tuesday’s election: I AM ANXIOUS LIKE A MOFO.
http://noticeatrend.blogspot.com/2018/11/midterms-2018-anxiety-yes.html
And yes, all because 2016 we saw Hope give us NOTHING because of questionable polling, targeted voter suppression, likely Russian hacking, and an antiquated Electoral College system that skews results to small states that mock the nation’s majority of voters.
I mean, the polling NOW is supposed to be better… and here in Florida I see a LOT MORE enthusiasm for Gillum that can translate into a broader Blue Wave here in a battleground state… and for all the voter suppression efforts by the GOP they can’t stop ALL of US, hopefully.. and the odds all favor Dems taking the House, right? RIGHT? RIGHT!??!?!?!!?!?!!?!!?!!?!?!! (gasp) (inhale) (panicked praying to Old Gods and New)
Yeah, Tuesday night is gonna be a night where I wish I developed a sense of smell to drink beer early and often.
Yarrow
@TenguPhule: You know the caravan story will be off the news on Wednesday. Just like Ebola was after that election.
germy
@John Revolta: Good question. Some contemporary comedians have never heard of him, and some idolize him. Hell, twenty-something standup comedians are giving humorous powerpoint presentations. I imagine the Harvard grads know all about him because of the Harvard Lampoon and Hasty Pudding, etc.
Have you read the biography his son wrote? It’s charming while ignoring the sensationalistic aspects of Robert’s adventures.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
I’m hopeful. I’m terrified. I’m hopeful. I’m terrified. I’m hopeful…
I’m assuming there will be lots of live-blogging tomorrow night. I’m going to try to distract myself till 9 pm before I start looking.
PaulWartenberg
@Mary G:
Dear China:
ARE YOU NOT IN A TRADE WAR AGAINST trump OR WHAT?! >:(
Catherine Pierce
My car engine started hissing last night when I turned it off. I’m currently waiting for the dealer to get back to me so I can find out if driving 6.6 miles will make it explode.
Does the Balloon-juice hive mind have an opinion? The internet says it is either an overheating problem or a leak in a vacuum line.
Yarrow
@Mary G: I cannot wait for Kremlin Barbie to pay for her treason. Azerbaijan and China are where she’s going to be in big trouble. So her nonexistent company got trademarks. Add it to the charges. Her turn is coming. Tick tock.
TenguPhule
@PaulWartenberg:
Cultivating a turncoat requires carrots as well as sticks.
TenguPhule
@Yarrow:
We can only hope. Because if its not, its Riechstag time.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Listening to John Kasich, Republican governor of Ohio, bragging about how he implemented Obamacare, which word he’s careful not to use, and talking about how he doesn’t see leaders in either party and he doesn’t know what Democrats stand for.
All the MSNBC panelists are being very polite and not calling him on his bullshit
ETA: my god, he’s a rambling idiot
TenguPhule
@PaulWartenberg:
Hell, the voting machines and processes were supposed to be better. I asked this last year and was told about all these people and organizations working on making sure that THIS TIME it gets done right. And still the same old shit from the same usual suspect States. Its maddening.
Mary G
geg6
@eemom:
Bullshit. There were no bad faith moments in the film. His bisexuality was definitely covered. Mary, the female love interest, was in his life until he died and he left her a large portion of his estate. His last lover was portrayed very sweetly and sympathetically. And the idea that this was some kind of bitter slap by Brian May and Roger Tayler is ridiculous. It’s a loving portrayal of him. I’m sorry, but if the Sasha Baron Cohen version of this film had been what they went with (with graphic sex scenes and all), it would have been not only a film that wouldn’t currently be topping the box office, but a repudiation of the privacy that Freddie Mercury always erected around his personal life. The asshole that wrote that review knows nothing at all about Queen and their creative process and nothing at all about Freddie Mercury. Yes, there are some things that are changed from the complete facts, but that is true in any biopic that wants to clock in at less than five hours. None of my LGBTQ friends felt the way this reviewer did about the film. I’ll take their word (all OG Queen fans) over this idiot’s.
oldgold
The photo in the post reminds me of a quip Winston Churchill made about his political opponent Clement Attlee: “A sheep in sheep’s clothing.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
it’s barely a blip on the radar of filth at this point, but…. ew
germy
@geg6: Do they use the original Queen recordings or did they recreate all the music? That must be the toughest part of a movie like this, getting the music right.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Since when is not being incestuous “PC” now?
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
In moderation. Help?
Jeffg166
I put my limited Christmas decorations up this afternoon. If it isn’t up for two months why bother.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: You know what you did. //
Brachiator
@eemom:
What a load of crap.
Here is the only thing worth quoting from the article you linked to.
And the movie is true to this.
I was not a huge Queen fan. But I really enjoyed this movie. I totally understand that Freddie Mercury is a gay icon, but I don’t know that he was trying for this himself (I think he would happily accept it). The film greatly succeeds in two huge areas: given a sense of Mercury’s emotional life and in showing off the amazing musicianship of the band. And of course, Mercury’s incredible stage presence.
You can also see how this is an “authorized biography,” which means that the surviving members of the band, and perhaps Mercury”s family and friends wanted to make sure that the most acceptable image of everyone is depicted. Otherwise you would not have any movie at all. But the music, and other views of Mercury and Queen can be found by anyone who wants that sort of thing. In the meantime, the film itself rocks.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Well, he already said he wanted to “date” his daughter. I guess the “PC Press” won’t report that his daughter gives him a woody.
geg6
@germy:
They use the original. Although I read an interview with the cast and they said that they always sang during the scenes because, with the original tracks playing, they could and they said it made them get into it more. Also, the scene where Roger Taylor is recording the “Galileo”s is actually the actor. I was impressed to learn that.
John Revolta
@germy: I haven’t. I’m a prewar comedy junkie but Benchley slipped under my radar until recently. Guess I’ll look it up!
SenyorDave
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Trump just complained that PC culture doesn’t allow him to say that his daughter is beautiful
He’s pissed because he can’t call her a nice piece of ass like Howard Stern did while Trump was on the show, and you can hear Trump laughing in the background. If I was in a similar situation I’d be looking to take Mr. Stern out back and kick his ass.
Tracy Ratcliff
@Catherine Pierce: @Catherine Pierce: Did you smell anything unusual? If you heard hissing, and it was the cooling system, you should have had a strong odor of antifreeze.
Gin & Tonic
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: The word for sexual relations between close relatives is a FYWP no-no, IIRC.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Brachiator:
Pretty much.
Mary G
Come on Iowa, do the right thing:
germy
@Mary G: He seems nice.
catclub
@TenguPhule:
It is almost as if you needed a Voting Rights Act to impinge on the equal dignitude of some states that cannot seem to produce fair elections.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
@Gin & Tonic:
Damn. Did not know that. WordPress sucks.
catclub
@Gin & Tonic: Intercourse the penguin!
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Mary G:
“Har har, they’re lesbian soshulits”.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Mary G: There’s a good chance the IA delegation will change from 3R-1D to 1R-3D. That may have to be the best IA can do. OTOH, maybe NW IA will surprise me.
ETA: I think of it as the IA version of the 27% crazification rule.
Brachiator
@Uncle Ebeneezer:
I was thinking about posting a link to this. Glad you beat me to it. Definitely worth a listen.
germy
Trump Tries to Intimidate Voters With ‘Law Enforcement Is Watching’ Tweet
Jay
“This is unambiguously fascist rhetoric. These words were spoken immediately after three mass murders were committed by right wingers against perceived enemies of Trump’s white nationalist state, while another Trump supporter attempted to assassinate two ex-presidents, along with other anti-Trump political figures.
Why does the New York Times, which, like the rest of the mainstream media, has been identified by Trump as an “enemy of the people” (again, this is unambiguously fascist rhetoric in its most classic form) continue to treat Trump and Trump supporters as something other than a fascist authoritarian and his collaborators and enablers?”
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/11/new-york-times-publishing-fascist-propaganda
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: It’s the standard sexual predator response, isn’t it? The inability to distinguish between criminal /predatory behavior and normal human behavior.
“Saying you want to screw your daughter is bad”
“See? I can’t even say my daughter is beautiful!”
“Please don’t rape women in your workplace.”
“See? We’ve outlawed harmless flirting!”
Uncle Cosmo
Late to the thread as ever, & rather o/t, but…
One of Fiedler’s singular accomplishments was to propose a SF novel for consideration the National Book Award in 1973 (though the notion apparently fell flat with the other judges). The book in question, The Iron Dream, by the consistently-underestimated-except-by-fellow-SF-writers Norman Spinrad, is still well worth it. Readers with even a nodding acquaintance with the conventions of heroic fantasy & a bit of real-world detachment will have their cage rather thoroughly rattled – particularly in this day & age.
Yarrow
@Mary G: I mentioned this yesterday, but I met Julián Castro and heard him say a few words. He said he couldn’t wait to hear the the news say that J.D. Scholten has won and Steve King has lost. This was not in Iowa. Made wonder if he knows something we don’t know. Maybe that race is closer than we dare think.
Aleta
Only 35?
I counted:
4 locations in Alaska; 4 in AZ
3 locations in FL, 3 in TX
2 locations in CA, GA, MA, NEV, NJ, ND
1 location in IA, KS, NY, OK, PA, RI, SD, UT, VA
(Specifics at @dominicholden.)
Brachiator
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
I’m going to relax, watch a movie, and try not to look at any election coverage until Wednesday morning.
Also, I early voted and don’t have to worry about getting to my polling place.
TS (the original)
@Dorothy A. Winsor: And if you look at the front page of the WaPo at the minute (I refuse to give NYT a click so don’t know about it) 99% of stories are positive to democrats. Not a RWNJ pundit is in sight. After 2 years of supporting trump – suddenly the media sees good in Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. Suddenly the media sees the racism in Donald trump & refuses his ads. Suddenly my a… The media sees a blue wave tomorrow and they want to have access to the winners or be on the right side of history.
Media does what is good for media – I spit on their 2 year support for racist bigots.
Yarrow
@Jay:
Because they’re working for someone else, not the people who buy their papers. When the boss says do something they do it. The boss apparently doesn’t want them to point out the fascism and authoritarianism of the current regime so they don’t.
Kelly
We’re gonna do a little work on a Santiam Pass XC ski trail tomorrow. That’ll keep us out in the fresh air until election results start to come in. Fresh air and a little sweat is always relaxing.
JPL
@trollhattan: lol
Brachiator
@Jay:
They still don’t think it can happen here in the good old United States of America.
Mnemosyne
@Brachiator:
I went to Pasadena to try and early vote yesterday, and I couldn’t get near the place, so I’ll be at my polling place bright and early tomorrow instead. At least my sample ballot is all filled out.
JPL
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Is he talking about Tiffany or has he forgotten about her again?
Patricia Kayden
@Dorothy A. Winsor: It’s amazing that we have an openly racist President and yet 40% of the population are cool supporting him and the entire GOP votes in lockstep to support his policies. I no longer wonder how Germany ended up with Hitler.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@JPL: Heh> I sometimes wonder if Tiffany is gonna turn out to the be the Ron Reagan of the clan
JPL
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I assume that she will write a book with her mom about the trump years as soon as he arrives in hell.
ruemara
@Patricia Kayden: They just don’t believe it will be that bad. In the movies, there’s always that one person who sees their buddy as a zombie, shambling towards them. They’re ALWAYS asking, “Hey, you ok? You need help?” until their now zombie buddy eats their face. The dumbest fucker. Now you know that frustrating character has very large numbers.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Patricia Kayden: it’s profoundly depressing. I keep coming back to Jamelle Bouie’s (I think it was his) about white people who think racism is just bad manners (I think he used it specifically with regard to the political chattering class). I never bought into the idea that we had reached a post-racial world, but it seems like the rot is spreading, or just revealing itself more and more.
Brachiator
@Mnemosyne:
Wow. I guess the word got out. When I went, last weekend Sunday, there were no lines or long waits.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Brachiator: Also, they think of it as a game with no real life consequences.
mad citizen
OMG, trumpov is doing a rally in my hometown of Fort Wayne Indiana tonight for the R senate candidate. Large crowd expected at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum–hey that’s where I saw REO Speedwagon and caught a drumstick at my first rock show.
Although Donnelly is my blue dog Senator I have to vote for, hopefully I’ll get some satisfaction with a victory tomorrow night.
Uncle Cosmo
@Jay: The short answer is that FTFNYT is trying to have it both ways – preserve its reputation as a cultural icon while soliciting clicks from the knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers it despises because they’re stupid enough to buy the shit being hawked by advertisers willing to pay for exposure. Or something like that.
There’s a quote in the comments to that LGM piece: “…[T]he Mercers and Kochs liked what Trump was doing so they threatened to cut off the money if the GOP tried to crown Jeb or Rubio.” Bangalore! The Global Oligarchs are in the same relation to Trump as were the German industrialists with Hitler in 1933: He’s doing (as is Putin) the things they want – letting them loot the planet while destroying any governmental entity that might be strong enough to block them – & they figure they can control his excesses. Bad idea.
catclub
@Patricia Kayden:
Germany voted for Hitler when unemployment was 47%. We are not in that territory at the moment.
Kent
@catclub:
In the last free and fair election in Germany, the German Federal Election in November 1932 the Nazi’s got 33% of the vote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_November_1932 Hindenburg reluctantly appointed Hitler chancelor after a coalition government failed to form. After that the Nazi’s began to dismantle the democratic institutions and seize power through undemocratic means. They held another election in 1933 after the Nazi’s unleashed a reign of terror on other parties and still didn’t manage to win a majority.
A majority of Germans never voted for the Nazi’s in any free election ever.
TenguPhule
@catclub:
Yet.
hueyplong
The last two years have caused me to stop denigrating Weimar Germany.
TenguPhule
And Betty’s new post to the right got eaten by FYWP.
Yarrow
@TenguPhule: I thought it was just me. Where’d it go? It had a lot of comments.
TenguPhule
@Yarrow: Its back. I think the blog weasels haven’t been fed, so they went hunting.
Brachiator
@Kent:
A majority of Americans did not vote for Trump.
Kent
@Brachiator:
You are right of course. But a whole lot more voted for Trump than ever voted for Hitler. In fact a very tiny fraction of Germans ever voted for Hitler directly as it was a parliamentary democracy so they voted for their own local Nazis. They had a separate presidential election in 1932 and Hitler was trounced by Hindenburg. 49% to 33%
The point is that the Nazi’s never came close to a parliamentary or presidential majority ever. They seized power through other means.
Bex
@geg6: I suggested Cher at the end of a dead thread, so I’ll suggest it again!
Amir Khalid
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Trump, of course, doesn’t say “My daughter is beautiful” the way a normal dad says it.
Amir Khalid
@germy:
Tht is usually not done, of course. I do remember reading that the actors who played The Doors in the Jim Morrison biopic actually performed in public as a Doors cover band.
J R in WV
@Catherine Pierce:
A car won’t overheat in 7 miles unless all the coolant is gone from the radiator. A vacuum leak won’t harm much at all, something might not work that needs vacuum. Looking in the radiator for fluid is easy, there’s a push down and twist cap on most of them and it’s safe to look it it’s cool to the touch. There’s usually a mess of spraying fluids if the cooling system is failing and it’s still hot.