This year’s Halloween winner is… pic.twitter.com/IPmcGWkDWf
— Travis Akers (@travisakers) October 26, 2019
Pupdate: Being a taco is tiring. pic.twitter.com/GcPQxqecTw
— Matthew Simantov (@mattsimantov) October 31, 2019
HALLOWEEN COSTUME WINNER.
Allow me to introduce Planned Parent-Hood.
If you know who they are please tag them or let me know.
Donate to Planned Parenthood here: https://t.co/qWjyK2u6fS pic.twitter.com/Bsv6I82Coe
— Rachel R. Gonzalez (@RachelRGonzalez) October 31, 2019
Bailey is 2 cents…
No tricks, only treats for @FirstDogBailey! pic.twitter.com/M35LtsfD1z
— Travis Akers (@travisakers) October 31, 2019
i’m rudy giuliani pic.twitter.com/4c16cNgbJc
— Pam Vogel (@pamela_vogel) October 30, 2019
Happy Halloween from my pitbull dressed as Pitbull pic.twitter.com/nwE7YLKNaM
— Katie Rich (@katiemaryrich) October 31, 2019
Gonna put the horrible, stomach-churning, NSFW stuff below the fold…
This wasn’t a Trump rally. Trump wasn’t there. And neither was Vice-President Mike Pence or any of the Trump children or the more famous characters from the administration. https://t.co/wNrUfgrzVv
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) November 1, 2019
On the night before Halloween, as congressional Democrats prepared to vote to formalize the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, a small group of the president’s supporters came together 95 miles north of Washington for a celebration.
“I need to ask you all for a big favor,” Mercedes Schlapp said. A veteran of Fox News and Trump’s White House communications department, Schlapp, who goes by Mercy, is now a surrogate for the president’s re-election campaign. She was dispatched to Manheim, Pennsylvania, for the “Witch Hunt Party,” an official Trump-Pence 2020 event, the invitation to which contained no description because it is self-explanatory to the believers…
“It’s someone’s birthday today, and I want to make sure I capture it on video so I make sure she knows. It’s Ivanka Trump’s birthday!” She lifted her phone in the air as the crowd cheered. On the count of three, they erupted in song for dear Ivanka. Schlapp posted the video on Instagram, where Ivanka does not follow her and was not among the 454 viewers of the video more than 24 hours after it was posted.
Which is more people than appeared to show up in Manheim — and Schlapp even brought a few with her. She was joined onstage by her husband, Matt Schlapp, a lobbyist and the chairman of the American Conservative Union (the group responsible for CPAC), and Diamond and Silk, the virally famous Trump defenders who’ve been around since 2016. They came in costume as judges (complete with gavel). It’s not clear what the Schlapps, who were dressed plainly in business casual, were supposed to be.
“I would say, Diamond and Silk for Congress, don’t you think?” Mercy said. “Let’s take out AOC! Let’s take out the squad! Let’s put in Diamond and Silk!”…
This is what the room looks like from the press area that a Trump campaign staffer just told reporters they must stay inside of. Not sure why the campaign wants reporters to have a view of a sparse crowd, but here it is: pic.twitter.com/RN1J8XQdec
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 30, 2019
We all like to do a little roleplay but dear lord keep it in the bedroom. https://t.co/nub4fPfq2h
— Weedle-the-Wisp (@weedlewobble) November 1, 2019
Ruckus
Republicans are the most useless people on the planet.
And they keep flushing themselves down the toilet and stopping up all the plumbing.
Damn are they aliens or some creatures from the deep or just the most sorry excuses for humans ever? They lack all the normal emotions except greed, but that list of missing for sure includes any self awareness whatsoever.
Mary G
What the heck is Jr. holding? A skeleton gun?
eclare
@Mary G: Looks like some kind of bow.
Bruce K
@Mary G: It looks like a gonadically-challenged wastrel’s interpretation of a heavily-accessorized compound bow.
WereBear
@Ruckus: They are what happens when you don’t mature.
We should look at it and shudder! Bad enough when such people are not in charge of much. They have embraced, in the Instagram age, the certainty if their followers on social media think they are awesome, they really are.
Anne Laurie
@Mary G:
It’s a hunting crossbow. They’re more popular than you’d expect — for one thing, the bowhunting season is longer.
JoyceH
Not Halloween related, but does anyone know how tall Tim Morrison is? The news kept showing footage of him going into and out of his deposition, and I kept thinking ‘aw, look at the cute little cops’. But wider view showed that everyone was ‘cute little’ when he was in the picture.
Rob
I like Planned Parent-Hood.
From Olivia Nuzzi’s article, I found this particularly horrifying:
“This is phony impeachment. They had a phony vote to start the phony impeachment.”
Jay Noble
Personalized, top of the line, tricked-out compound bow. Unfortunately, he does know how to use it.
Ruckus
@WereBear:
Past 5 yrs. If that much.
I mean none of us are perfect, I’m sure not. But to be that un-self aware and immature and be revered for it by anyone……. And then to be so self superior about it all.
Anne Laurie
@Bruce K: The two longest ‘crossbars’ at the bottom are, I believe, bow quivers. Hunters use them to have an extra arrow (bolt, in the case of a crossbow) or two within immediate reach — easier than the over-the-shoulder Robin Hood maneuver, especially for someone shooting a running animal from a tree stand.
(And now I have just about exhausted my bowhunting expertise — I only know this much because my late father-in-law was in the business.)
Jay Noble
@Anne Laurie: That’s a Compound Bow not a Crossbow and it’s been tailored to him. And is quite lethal. Full Disclosure: I did paste-up of Cabela’s catalogs for 15 years and got ver familiar with the archery equipment. :-)
Chyron HR
What’s sadder: that Don Jr. thinks she really loves him, or that Don Jr. thinks those are really breasts?
OzarkHillbilly
@Anne Laurie: I used to bowhunt with at first a recurve bow and then a compound bow. I’ve never seen anyone hunt with such a contraption. I can’t imagine anybody would ever try to use that thing in anything other than a canned hunt. Hunting as the hoi polloi experience it is too unpredictable. That damn thing would be getting hung up in the brush every time you tried to move. That thing is for target shooting..
WereBear
@Chyron HR: Saddest? They believe this is as good as it gets.
And always will.
Jay Noble
@Anne Laurie: You identified the arrows and quiver correctly! ANNNND you know the differnce between arrows and bolts! We were constantly having to correct bad copy from manufacturers(!) on that. Eliptical cams, split limbs, limb dampeners, stabilzer, string silencer, arrow silencer (biscuit), sight, string stop . . . The frame is specialy cut out to reduce weight.
I’m sure Jr. has a crossbow at home too. It’s kinda funny but crossbows ar now less complicated than bows.
Anne Laurie
@Jay Noble: I bow to your superior expertise.
@OzarkHillbilly:
Well, you wouldn’t expect a Trump to go chasing after some damned wild animal, would you? It’s the job of the ‘guides’ to make the animals come to them!
Poor beasts will be just as dead once they’ve been driven into his range, of course.
(And if my in-laws are any indicator, one reason behind Don Jr’s divorce is that he didn’t keep his mighty weapons out of the reach of their kids. ‘They’re too young to manage that power draw, ya got nothin’ to worry about… ‘)
OzarkHillbilly
@JoyceH: He is 7′-1″ according to Wikipedia.
Jay Noble
@OzarkHillbilly: Very serious hunting bow more for stands and blinds. We sold lot’s of ’em for turkey hunting. And they are quite popular for elk hunting. So they would get hung up in your neck of the woods but that’s not where they are used.
Anne Laurie
@Jay Noble: One thing I can tell you for sure: The inventor / founder of the Kwikee Kwiver Company never did forgive Cabela’s for (a) trying to beat him down for a discount; and (b) as he saw it, patent infringement.
I’m glad ‘my’ branch of the descendants didn’t get the hunting gene, so I don’t have to parse whether ‘we’ would ever buy from that company.
OzarkHillbilly
@Anne Laurie:
No, I certainly wouldn’t. He wants to proclaim himself a mighty hunter, but I’d bet donuts to dollars he’s never gutted a deer.
montanareddog
@JoyceH: Innertubes say 7′ 1″
Anne Laurie
@OzarkHillbilly:
Probably painted himself with the resulting gore, though, like a pre-teen with his first kill…
OzarkHillbilly
@Jay Noble: I haven’t hunted in quite some time so I am, admittedly, out of touch with all the latest fads (I’m so old I remember when a gun was unloaded and put away upon returning to deer camp) but I still can’t imagine trying to hunt with such a contraption, for elk or anything else (I have spent a considerable amount of time out west and know what elk terrain is like) Maybe Mule deer and antelope at lower elevations. Getting to and from a stand is half the damn work… Unless your guide can drive you to it on an ATV.
But I am not a particularly imaginative person.
Anne Laurie
@OzarkHillbilly:
Give him this much credit, looks like Don-Jr does enough gym time to walk to the stand unassisted. I wouldn’t bet that he carried his own tools, though!
Jay Noble
@Anne Laurie: I hadn’t heard of this one and only caught the periphery of some of those type of shenanigans and it’s dismaying how much of that went on/goes on. Not just at Cabela’s but throughout the outdoor goods industry. The internet has leveled the field a bit for the little guy, but it still hasn’t helped out on the deep pockets and lawyer front.
I popped over to the Kwikee site and the short history. The 70’s were such an interesting time.
Jay Noble
@OzarkHillbilly: Special packs and cases and lots of scouting (scouting cams are big business) and/or guides these days so it is a bit of “Here’s your weapon bwahna.” But most of the time for turkeys and larger game like antelope and deer the hunters are mostly locals shootin’ from ground blinds or tree stands out in the back forty.
evodevo
@OzarkHillbilly: Yes, this. If you are hunting deer in my part of the country (Ky), maneuvering a rifle is difficult enough, especially THIS year…with all the rain we look like a tropical jungle. And bow hunters have to make more complicated moves (especially recurve) to get off a shot.
Wilson Heath
Re: what the Schlapps were dressed as, humans. Those are excellent Edgar suits that they were wearing. Barely into the uncanny valley at all.
brantl
@OzarkHillbilly: No, they park their asses in a heated hunting blind and the beaters push deer past them; if they get a beater by accident? Oh, well……
donnah
I love Warren’s dog, Bailey. I see he’s a s-cent hound.
StringOnAStick
@donnah: Thanks for explaining that, I hadn’t gotten the joke and as cat person, I wasn’t likely to.
Our newer neighbors have a young Springer Spaniel named Violet. She got past Sarah’s knee during trick or treat then followed the kids headed to our house, so when the doorbell rang and my husband opened the door Violet ran right in, Sarah hot on her trail. Violet followed my voice because we’re buddies, then came around the corner to one of our cats, saw that arched back and immediately turned around and headed for the exits. Cat was very pleased with herself after that.