Posted this on Twitter earlier during my trip into town:
RV-driving Shitgibbon fan in front of me at a traffic light. The sticker paints Trump as a martyr for giving up a “great life” to be “slandered, mocked,” etc., “FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.” It’s a wonder someone that dumb can pull a wagon, let alone drive an big-ass RV. ? pic.twitter.com/BWPJIdltTy
— Betty Cracker (@bettycrackerfl) February 5, 2019
This RV driver did a fair job of projecting “gullible asshole” based solely on his vehicle’s rear window, though he loses a couple of points for a lack of pro-gun and anti-choice representation.
I remember being amazed to see a lady at a MAGA rally break down in tears when complaining about how the media treats the orange fart cloud during a TV interview. She and the RV driver seem to sincerely believe a selfish shithead who wouldn’t piss on their heads if their hair was on fire is sacrificing himself for them.
I’ve got plenty of MAGA chuds in my family tree, but they’re garden variety bigots who aren’t quite dumb enough to think Trump cares about them personally. I’m not sure which is worse.
Open thread!
Yarrow
They’re all looking for a messiah. They’ve made him their messiah of the moment. Would guess they’re “good Christians” too.
Citizen Alan
I really do hate Trump voters worse than the man [sic] himself. Ultimately, you can’t blame a narcissistic pig for acting like a narcissistic pig. But it was so obvious what he was. And so many vile disgusting people voted for him anyway. They voted to burn down the country for no purpose except to “own the libtards.” I really don’t consider them to be functionally human, and I don’t mind telling them that to their slackjawed faces.
cynthia ackerman
God bless my fat ass.
Adam L Silverman
Where was she radicalized?
Yarrow
@Adam L Silverman: In the rightwing fever swamp, along with her husband who is current cosplaying as a NeverTrumper.
oldster
The myth that Trump gave up “the good life” is not going to survive the exposure of his poverty and dependence on Russian handouts.
That’s why they are going to fight like hell not to turn over the tax-returns.
rk
I don’t understand why Nancy Pelosi is allowing the moron to give the SOTU before the deadline for an agreement on the Govt shutdown. Now he’s got his speech what stops him from again shutting it down and demanding the wall money. I expect him to talk more crap about the wall. In this at least it seems like he got what he wanted (and he should never be allowed anything he wants). I hope pelosi has something up her sleeve if he acts up again (I’m hoping beating him on the head with her shoes). And I don’t believe he’s learned anything from his earlier defeat. He’s incapable of learning.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
I have a tough time understanding this, too. I have a friend from middle school who let this thing con him. He really believes it cares about him and people like him. He got conned. A whole lot of people got conned. I’m just amazed that this kind of thing still works here.
Keith P
Ask his left ventricle if he’s living the good life. These people really need to get taken for everything they’re worth. They’re practically begging to be shortchanged.
Brachiator
@Yarrow:
For Trump so loved the con, that he gave his only narcissistic Self, that whosoever believeth in him should be suckered, and have everlasting grift
lollipopguild
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): To many people who hate reality(a black guy got elected President twice, REALLY?) voting for trump was their chance to turn back time to whenever they were happy-which is/was never. They would prefer to see the country become a dictatorship run by Putin than see the country going in the direction it was going. Trump was/is their “saviour’.
Frankensteinbeck
Trump was chosen as an act of projection and validation. What they believe is that they should be thanked for their generosity and self-sacrifice by the victims of their spite.
Patricia Kayden
I’ve seen at least one car with a George Bush ‘43 sticker with the phrase “Miss Me Yet?” Hubby and I almost crashed the car with all the laughing we did. I live in the blue state of Maryland so I assume the driver is a troll who likes abuse.
Jeffro
@oldster:
Didn’t he say he was happy to, nay, EAGER to release them? Well, then when they eventually get out, I expect to see a big ol’ smile and a relieved ‘at last!’ from the Mango Menace.
In the interim, though, let’s make sure our national snooze media tries to follow up with GOP lawmakers, Mnuchin, etc who try to block their release. Don’t they want to make Dear Leader happy? He SAID he wanted them released…
Patricia Kayden
@lollipopguild: A savior who does nothing to save them. The working class has gotten zilch from this administration. Zilch. The wealthy have gotten their tax cuts and deregulation.
Jeffro
Also how does that RV not have a big “molon labe” and a couple “baby killers must die” stickers on it, like Betty says? Is that even possible to still be all-in on trumpov at this point, and NOT be a ammosexualist/forced-birther? That’s pretty much all he has left, I thought…
Betty Cracker
@Keith P: A while back, a Trump supporter started a GoFundMe to raise money for the WALL and got more than a million bucks in pledges before the platform shut down the effort and made him offer refunds. If I were an unscrupulous marketer, that list of suckers would be my holy grail.
Kristine
Awaiting the arrival of the first ice storm in 9 years here in NE Illinois. Initial word is that the worst will be over by early morning, at which point it will change over to mere rain. Take care all you Chicago-area folks who need to commute this evening.
Frankensteinbeck
@Patricia Kayden:
He ripped brown babies from their parents, left Puerto Rico to die, banned transgendered soldiers, told the cops to be more violent to blacks, Nazis are marching in the streets, and he whines loudly from the tallest pulpit in the land on a daily basis. As far as Trump’s voters are concerned, he is the most successful president in history.
NotMax
“He lied for your sins.”
‘Cross of gold’ two-point-o.
Roger Moore
@Yarrow:
The Republican Party has done what it’s threatened to do since Reagan and devolved into a personality cult.
NotMax
@Roger Moore
“Landru, save us.”
;)
Mandalay
Randy Rainbow’s Cell Block Tango!
He was already in a league of his own, and he keeps getting better.
Ghost of Joe Lieblings Dog
@Jeffro:
As I understand it, some gun fetishists are backing off of “ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ!” because it’s too easily mis-read as “MORON LABEL”.
I kinda doubt it but … who knows?
Brachiator
I hadn’t realized that some people were so … stupid .. and so insistent on Trump’s munificence, which of course is contradicted by what is plainly in front of them.
But it is noteworthy how this Trump worship, and assertions that he is God’s Own Chosen, is intensifying even as his rank cupidity and incompetence become more blatantly obvious to sane people.
It also continues to amaze me that the Establishment, historians, journalists, pundits, are still reluctant to publicly declare that Trump is clearly a lazy, stupid fraud.
low-tech cyclist
Anyone mentioned that today is the tenth anniversary of John Cole’s classic “tire rims and anthrax” post?
It was true then, and Lord have mercy on us all, it’s WAY more true now than it was 10 years ago.
Immanentize
@NotMax: Nice one, Spock
Betty Cracker
@rk: She probably figures even Trump won’t be dumb enough to set his own dick on fire again, and if he does, oh well!
NotMax
@Brachiator
Guess who also leapt aboard the God express?
Steve Bannon says in revealing doc that he did ‘the Lord’s work’ in Trump White House
Betty Cracker
@Mandalay: He is incredibly talented. His mock interviews are hilarious!
Brachiator
@NotMax:
Jesus!
NotMax
@Brachiator
When other roads peter out, go back to shilling the rubes.
A Ghost To Most
@Ghost of Joe Lieblings Dog: I’ve seen that sticker on winger trucks. I couldn’t figure out how to google it. What’s the translation from xian fascist?
Raven
These people want to fuck with YOU. It’s really not any more complicated than that.
Leto
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Racism is a hell of a drug. – Rick James
OT- today was a nice warm day (low 60s) which felt incredible after the previous feed weeks miserable winter weather. Avalune took me to a follow up hematologist appoint (all good, though I’ll be on blood thinner for an additional 6-13 months), we got tacos afterwards, stopped by Asimov for some dessert, and followed that up with a small walk along the riverfront. Now it’s time to relax and keep reading Michelle Obama’s bio, “Becoming”. Infinitely better way to spend the evening than watching Trumpov spout bullshit.
WaterGirl
@Kristine: Actually, rain is good after an ice storm because it melts the ice. Snow after an ice storm just covers the ice and is a lot more dangerous.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Adam L Silverman:
The sound cuts out for me. Is that supposed to happen?
WaterGirl
@low-tech cyclist: Wow. That certainly holds up well!
NotMax
@Leto
Most encouraging thing read this week!
Ghost of Joe Lieblings Dog
@A Ghost To Most:
Supposedly “come and take it” or something like that. (It’s Greek to me…) A variation on the theme of “you can take muh gun when you pry it from muh cold dead hands,” which stopped being used much after Men In Black came out.
WaterGirl
@Leto: You are walking!?!?!?!!!! You really are a miracle. :-)
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
Give the wingnuts credit, they figured out “Blue Lives Matter” was nonsensical. “Police Lives Matter” still is, but just less obviously
Mandalay
@Betty Cracker: That Trump Cell Block Tango was cloned from the older Kim Davis Cell Block Tango, which was a lot edgier.
He rolls his eyes and laughs at Trump, but there was (understandably) some menace in the Kim Davis video.
Brachiator
@Patricia Kayden:
To be “fair,” the working class have received pennies while the ultra-wealthy have received dollars.
Worse, Trump (and the no Deal BREXIT leadership in the UK) promise that their supporters will also be rich one day, if they expel all immigrants and oppress the “unworthy.” A false promise, or one that can never be fulfilled, is good and plenty for the dopes who believe in Trump.
WaterGirl
@Raven: Saw your note on Dorothy’s site. You have led such an interesting life I’m sure anyone would love to read a book if you wrote it.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@oldster:
Just use this old standby on them: “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear”.
Let’s see how they’d react to that!
Mike in NC
In other words, just another day in TrumpLand.
A Ghost To Most
@Ghost of Joe Lieblings Dog:
Your proposal is acceptable.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@A Ghost To Most:It’s Greek; what Leonidas said the Persian as Thermopylae – “come and take them (our weapons)” These idiots ignore the Persians did just that.
Frankensteinbeck
@Brachiator:
The thing is, they believed this long before Trump came around. This has been Republican voter doctrine since at least 1980. It was a big part of how Reagan united the evangelicals and the plutocrats. It was spelled out plainly in that interview with a sick woman who said she voted for Bevin because once medicaid was taken away and all the lazy moochers had to fend for themselves, she would get a great job and be able to buy her own insurance.
NotMax
@Enhanced Voting Techniques
Well, you know what they say –
One man’s Mede is another man’s Persian.
:)
dexwood
Last week, while stopped at a light, the Subaru in front of me did have the usual pro-gun and pro-life stickers covering its bumpers, but the newest looking bumper sticker said Ivanka for President 2020. I didn’t know whether to laugh or rear end the jerk.
Aleta
@dexwood: both sounds good
Ella in New Mexico
Because I’m starting to see the cracks in the level of support in some of the Trumpers my husband and I know, I’m really hoping that we’re finally starting to get down to the true level of support for Trump which I’m guessing is no where near his 37-40% job approval ratings in most polls. I’m thinking we’re gonna start seeing 30-35% ranges pretty soon, particularly because of people like we know who care about national security and are disgusted with “the wall” his anti-immigrant rhetoric (many are Hispanic first gen with parents who came illegally but eventually became citizens) and what they’ve done to kids and families at the border. And they’re also all sick of hearing about his “Goddamn Tweets”.
I really think the fanatical folks Betty saw are more like less than 20% of R’s right now. They’re the ones who live in such a bubble of RW news/radio etc. that all they get is how wonderful the guy is. They’re soft minded and incredibly limited in their ability to ever make use of any cognitive dissonance that might occur in their internal dialogues. The rest of his “supporters” are more transactional right now–anti big government, low tax, anti “socialism”, pro-gun, Republicans who never supported Democrats and never will but who are not seeing Trump as some kind of messiah or religious figure–he’s a means to an end for them. THEY are the ones who will support him until he crosses a line that matters to them–as long as he’s replaced by someone equally able to fulfill their means to an end.
NotMax
@dexwood
Fewer than a handful of times, but have seen Kanye West ’20 bumper stickers.
Some people are too obviously an inherent danger on the roads to be permitted to use them unsupervised.
rikyrah
Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) Tweeted:
Great find: @staceyabrams circa 1993, already an activist on the rise. Stacey’s response to the Trump SOTU could be a major data point in this troubled era. (No pressure though!)
https://t.co/Vpfd3uUWBf https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1092872539276279808?s=17
Dan B
Re. SOTU, there’s talk that Trump will promote an HIV campaign promoted by Robert Redfield, CDC director. It will “target communities with high rates of infection”.
Redfield seems okay but has evangelical Christianist ties. The plan calls for mandatory HIV testing for “those communities” and reporting to local health departments. Redfield kept HIV+ recruits out of the military and supported segregation and quarantines. He’s on the board of an evangelical group that promotes abstinence.
It seems to cut from the same cloth as John Birch Society messaging: Create fear and disgust of the radical and of “the disease they spread”. There’s also a hint of “a solution” that will finally stop this plague.
It’s also reminiscent of the “War on Drugs” targeting minorities and the sexually profligate.
Anyone else creeped out by this “hopeful sounding” salvo?
MCA1
I’m not sure about down there in Floriduh, Betty, but around these Yankee parts a Gadsden flag has generally come to be synonymous with gun humping idiot bullies. Which is unfortunate, of course, given that its origins have fuck all to do with the 2nd Amendment. Its general connotation in the North has unfortunately become either (i) I’m overcompensating for something and lurve me some guns, and/or (ii) this is the dog whistle replacement for the Confederate battle flag I wish I could fly but those PC libruls won’t let me.
I’d love to find a way to reclaim it. But in the meantime just wanted to note that had I run across that RV, I definitely would have checked off the “Gun Nut” box on my MAGA Bingo card.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Mandalay:
Check out the Just Be Best parody. Completely shreds Melania. The first thirty seconds is killer.
mrmoshpotato
@dexwood: Quite the bumper sticker typo there. I believe it should’ve read Ivanka Dies In Prison Or The Gallows ASALP (As Soon As Legally Possible)
sdhays
@rk:
People focus on how Nancy broke Trump, but she also broke McConnell and the Senate Republicans. He folded the day after a Senate majority voted for the Democrats clean bill and McConnell told Trump he couldn’t hold the line much longer. Giving the ASSet his “Glory to Dear Leader” time sacrifices nothing, provides positive reinforcement, and establishes her clearly as a tough, but reasonable negotiator. She actually means what she says and will stick by her commitments, no matter how foreign a concept that is to the White House.
I don’t think we’re going to have another long shutdown.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@dexwood:
Why not both? At the same time!
MomSense
And the hits keep coming. One of my son’s high school friends died. The teachers and counselors have been great but they can only do so much. His brothers have swooped in to help which makes me so grateful. Some of his friends have been at the house getting their dog fix in. For a high strung psycho pup she is amazingly comforting when needed.
And the drama with my friend’s family is just infuriating. The estrangement makes more sense the longer I interact with them. I haven’t seen the cat in two days – I hope she’s just hiding and hasn’t escaped.
On the good news front, my mom’s recovery from eye surgery has been so easy. Because of the Patriots parade today, the surgeon canceled her follow up appointment so we didn’t have to do the 8 hour round trip to Boston today. We sent him some photos and he gave the all clear.
Tonight we are watching stupid movies and I’m making red velvet Whoopi pies. There may be wine, too.
Sebastian
@Ella in New Mexico:
People are doing their taxes and suddenly realizing they owe a lot of money instead of getting a refund. His numbers are going to free fall.
Frankensteinbeck
@sdhays:
Yep. Trump was McConnell’s scapegoat. It was McConnell’s decision then to have a shutdown, and it will be McConnell’s decision in the future whether we have one.
NotMax
@rk
Because she communicated that the invitation was rescinded and would not be offered again while the government is in shutdown and she’s a woman of her word.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
They’re white American conservatives, ergo they’re invincible //
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Dan B: HIV now? Trump’s got his brain firmly stuck in the ’80s.
Mary G
@Leto: So happy to read this! Sounds perfect, so glad the recovery is going so well.
dexwood
@Aleta:
I settled on a disgusted, mocking chuckle and curse before going about my business firm in my knowledge that some are too stupid to be allowed out in public.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Have we heard any news of JPL’s grandchild? This morning he said it would be today.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Sebastian:
Shit. I hope my tax return isn’t going to get fucked up. I’m not a homeowner in a blue state, just a college student working a part-time job.
dexwood
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
I did think it over while wishing I was driving my old 71 Ford F100, a vehicle made for that sort of thing.
A Ghost To Most
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
“I’m older, and I have more insurance”.
sdhays
@Frankensteinbeck: McConnell didn’t actually want a shutdown, especially since he knew that there was no plan to end it – Trump pantsed him after he had his Senate unanimously pass the compromise CR that Trump had agreed to hours before. But he then allowed it to happen and then allowed it continue. I figure at least part of it was a tactical decision to see just how strong the House Democrats would hold (and was surprised at how firm Nancy was able to keep them) and also to teach Trump how stupid he is for going around saying how much he WANTS to shutdown the government over which he “presides”.
JR
@Ghost of Joe Lieblings Dog: 300 reference
Literally comparing themselves to the Greeks at Thermopylae
A Ghost To Most
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
The marks have discovered they've been conned, and they are pissed
Leto
@NotMax: @WaterGirl: @Mary G: I am! I mean, I use a walker but still it’s improvement. Fun story: when Avalune and I celebrated our anniversary last month we went to see Spider-Man. The theater was empty (Tuesday’s at noon are perfect) so I decided to do some walking around in the big empty theater. I was still clunky (still am, who am I kidding?) and I thought that I resembled, and sounded like, a rumbling AT-AT. I commented on this to Avalune who then proceeded to film me walking, but synced up my movements to the sound of an AT-AT. Pretty darn funny! As always, laughter is the best medicine. :)
trollhattan
@low-tech cyclist:
Seems as though my Google calendar should have memorialized this. Wonder why it didn’t, seems to know everything else.
Ten fvcking years?!?
Leto
@A Ghost To Most: It’s an older reference, sir, but it checks out.
Emma
@Sebastian: Just had my taxes done yesterday. I missed having to pay only because I had deductions relating to Hurricane Irma. There were a couple of cubicles where growls and nasty words were coming from.
trollhattan
@NotMax:
Those Kardashian assholes own a fuckton of cars, so maybe it’s just them.
Gelfling 545
He needn’t keep making such stupendous sacrifices on my behalf. As far as I’m concerned he can quit at any time. Sooner rather than later for preference.
trollhattan
@MomSense:
Ugh, I hate kids dying more than anything else. My best wishes to your son and friends, and the boy’s family.
Local paper has an article about a guy who spoke about suicide to a local high school. He’s a (very) rare survivor of jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge, which he did as a teen and now is active in suicide prevention. Says the nanosecond his hand let go of the railing he knew it was the wrong decision. Probably reason #1 we need guns put away–you have better odds being fished from the Bay than you do of stopping that bullet.
MattF
Rick Wilson’s take on the SOTU. Warning: Rick is not being affable here.
danielx
@Betty Cracker:
You’ve given me an idea I’d like to follow up, but….no, those dumb fucks have too many guns. Although it’s not like Limbaugh’s advertisers haven’t made a shitload from peddling gold and survivalist supplies to them. I can even somewhat understand the gold part – negotiable anywhere on the planet and unlike your 401k and social security, unlikely to be stolen by politically connected looters. Ordinary thieves another matter, of course…..
Yutsano
@ Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) : Eh. You should be fine. You’re not old enough to be eligible for Earned Income Credit yet so you won’t get that kicker just yet. You’ll probably get around $400-500 which is nice pocket change. Assuming you didn’t fall under the withholding curse.
The Midnight Lurker
@Yarrow:
Trump, HuckaSands, Falwell, and all the rest need to go to Sunday School. Forget the Bible. Just make them memorize the Ten Commandments.
#1 with a bullet:
I am the LORD your God:
You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make for yourself a graven image,
or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above,
or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the water under the earth;
you shall not bow down to them or serve them;
for I the LORD your God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children to the third and the fourth
generation of those who hate me*,
but showing steadfast love to thousands of those
who love me and keep my commandments.
* Don Jr. – Saint Peter is looking at you!
debbie
Well, now Mr. Trump knows how it felt when he slandered his predecessor on a daily basis. Law of the universe: You get back what you put out, Asshole.
The Midnight Lurker
And does anyone else here suspect that there is a really nice portrait of Kellyanne hidden under a drape in her attic?
Gelfling 545
@NotMax: Lord Voldemort? Lord Vader?
Frankensteinbeck
@sdhays:
McConnell has passed other budgets Trump didn’t like. Do you think McConnell and Ryan didn’t consult? Ryan blocked the budget from being voted on before the congress switch, and McConnell blocked it after. McConnell could have overridden Trump’s veto at any time, although evidence suggests strongly Trump would never have vetoed it in the first place. This was McConnell’s shutdown. My guess is he was trying to break Nancy, but as the saying goes, Nancy is as good as McConnell thinks he is.
Gelfling 545
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Probably for the best.
Yutsano
@Frankensteinbeck: My kingdom for Yertle in an unemployment line. I know that will never happen because of his wife’s money but still…
Van Buren
@low-tech cyclist: Tempis fugit
The Midnight Lurker
And if the front pagers are going to keep posting RWNJ bumper collage projects, can we please, please turn it into a contest?
Because I live in Texas and will nuke you.
Hey, I wonder if I can still find a Nuke a Gay Whale for Jesus bumper sticker. Ten bucks says ‘yes’!
debbie
@MomSense:
I’m so sorry for your son. There really are no words.
trollhattan
@The Midnight Lurker:
It’ll be tough to top the unsuccessful pipe-bomber’s everything-Trump van, but that could lead to a Florida-Texas smackdown, which I heartily upvote.
SiubhanDuinne
@The Midnight Lurker:
Haven’t thought of, let alone seen, that for years. The version I knew was Nuke a Commie Pinko Gay Baby Seal for Christ.
Sab
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: You will probably be fine.
The people who are really getting screwed are those who itemize with high state/local taxes, and those with lots of kids. They lose $4050 per head exemption for taxpayer, spouse and each of the dependents (children or otherwise.) The offset is supposed to be almost doubling the standard deduction (no use if you still itemize) and a doubling of the child tax credit (not available if the kid is over 17.)
I have been rereading last year’s conservative press about the tax changes and it was mostly egregiously inaccurate (deceitful?) A lot of these taxpayers have been completely blindsided. I have been warning people I know for a year to not count on last year’s refund.
jl
I forgot exactly what ‘chud’ stands for, though remember it has to do with cannibalistic humanoids.
The mention of chuds was jarring, since the average Trump supporter seems to me to be just what your average garden variety chud is looking for.
Aleta
Here’s something I imagine. They go to a rally, racetrack, fair, or anywhere else; a carny herds them in to the table of hats and plastic drinkwear. Hand over your card and a hired lady shoves the clipboard for yer name address phone email in front of yer face as part of the transaction. Maybe the receipt to sign is set up with a donation line, promising free extras and discounts, and she smiles right at you. Every so often a bumper sticker in this month’s theme comes in the mail. With a signup sheet for neighbors who’re smart enough to see the direction we’re headed. Email us 20 contacts and get a commando leader cup sleeve. Now the outside of the envelopes say “Hey Duke, Freedom ain’t free. Pay up your dues you owe and win a trip to a Trump memorabilia display.” With some coupons and numbers to call. The next bumper sticker comes with some extras, give a couple away in the parking lot at work.
cope
I am conducting a thought experiment. Regardless which of the infinite universes we live in (trump is impeached, trump resigns, trump is crushed in 2020, trump wins in 2020, trump’s good genes turn on him), it helps to realize that at some point, he will no longer be president.
The experiment is imagining what his life post-presidency will be like, who will pay attention to him, who will be plastering “Bring Back Trump” bumper stickers on their coal-rolling pick-em-up trucks, who will look to him for salvation, who will shower him with money. Try it, it’s fun.
SiubhanDuinne
@Kristine:
The temperature reached 71° in the north Atlanta suburbs today. We may hit 76° by Thursday. Very comfortable weather, for certain, but the Eeyore in me is convinced we’ll pay dearly for it in a month or three. And even the south needs something resembling winter when it’s supposed to happen.
The Midnight Lurker
@jl: Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller.
Don’t ask.
Amir Khalid
@Brachiator:
No, not Jesus, obviously. Bannon was doing Lord Sauron’s work..
debbie
@Yutsano:
Do you know if they ended up changing the rules on when a penalty for underpayment kicks in? The explanatory statement Congress issued last year said it was changing from 10% to 5%. The 1040 instructions talk about “frivolous” returns or “substantial underpayment,” but provide no specifics. Is this something we should be worried about?
Aleta
@dexwood: Perfect—fortfying and toxin-free.
SiubhanDuinne
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
(JPL is a “she.”)
I’ve promised to take her out for a celebratory lunch once the grandson has arrived, so I hope it’s soon!
The Midnight Lurker
@trollhattan:
Yeah, that guy brought home the gold in stupid, but I got a flat Earther not four blocks away who will steal the silver.
I am so down. A winger bumper sticker showdown… IN A STEEL CAGE!!!!
MomSense
@trollhattan: @debbie:
Thanks. We aren’t sure what happened yet. She was a junior but she and my son were math partners and became close friends as nerds do. Something happened with her health about two months ago and my son was helping her with her homework because she missed so many classes. And then all of a sudden her situation was dire.
I reached out to her parents but they must be reeling from this.
SiubhanDuinne
@Betty Cracker:
Colbert had a good one yesterday, albeit without the show tune parodies.
SiubhanDuinne
@MomSense:
How very sad, and undoubtedly devastating to your son. I’m so sorry he has to experience this loss. My condolences to him and of course to the young woman’s family.
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@MCA1: there’s the No Step Snek version, which I first saw on Tumblr, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Anley-Breeze-Foot-Step-Snek/dp/B079NXS1GC”but is now available at Amazon. Somehow, though, I don’t think that what you meant.
MomSense
@SiubhanDuinne:
?? BTW how is not so little anymore Austin?
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Leto: That’s terrific!
Aleta
@cope: Sometimes I imagine how it will feel walking down the street on the day he goes.
Dan B
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: It’s more like the ’70s, 1870’s. Black men raping your wommin folk and then the teens, and then the 20’s with jazz and gin joints, and the 60’s drugs and free love polluting precious youth. These are all propaganda to divide the ranks of people who believe in equal opportunity. Variations on sowing disgust and fearful imagery.
HIV is just the latest disease used to prop up an aloof and heartless slice of the elite.
Yutsano
@debbie: There is an initial grace period before balance due returns are actually processed to allow payments to post, which is usually until the second week of May. But the penalty for non-corporate underpayment right now is 0.5%, increasing to 1.0% after the second notice, calculated monthly. All that is based upon balance owed.
Sorry I got confused with penalty over interest amount. That is the 6% figure I originally cited.
Frankensteinbeck
@Dan B:
You gravely underestimate the sincerity of their hate.
SiubhanDuinne
@MomSense:
I haven’t seen him in a while, but ran into his mother a couple of days ago, and she said he is a real handful — only to be expected, I guess, at 27 months! Full of curiosity, pushing every boundary in sight, fast on his feet and energetic, and growing into a tall blond specimen like his dad.
Thanks for asking. I’ll tell Ryan the next time I see him.
Immanentize
@MomSense:
I cannot express my disassociative shut down reading that.
Thought of this beautiful song:
Casimir Pulaski Day
And he takes and he takes and he takes
Brickley Paiste
@rikyrah:
Did Joy Reid ever find out who hacked her website (and the Internet Archives) to post those homophobic slurs?
debbie
@Yutsano:
Thanks!
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Yutsano:
What’s the withholding curse?
@Sab:
I hope Trump’s approval numbers crater.
MomSense
@Immanentize:
Perfect. “And I’m crying in the bathroom”. Damn that’s what I’ve been doing.
Thank you.
different-church-lady
Oh come now, I bet he’d gleefuly piss on their heads if their hair wasn’t on fire.
NotMax
@different-church-lady
But he’s the pissee, not the pisser.
;)
Ken
@cope:
By day three, he’s arrested for tweeting classified information.
Oh, who am I kidding, they aren’t showing him classified information any more because (1) he doesn’t listen and (2) on those rare occasions when he does listen, he tweets it.
Salty Sam
@Immanentize: Thanks for posting that… one of the best.
J R in WV
@Leto:
Dude, you’re going out with your sweetie for lunch annd strolling with her?!!!? After all the long hospital stay, etc, etc you’re going for walks? That is so good to hear!!
Keep up the good work, do what the PT folks tell you to do, take care and keep in touch. Such good news from your household!!! Yay!
Leto
@J R in WV: I’m telling you, she keeps me busy! She’s been having me walk more and sitting down in booths/regular chairs, where I can. I brag on her every chance I can because she really is an awesome person. A dirty dirty lurker, but otherwise amazing person :)
Tehanu
@NotMax:
Uh, that was the Lord Moloch….