Baby Trump balloon present at LSU vs Alabama game! pic.twitter.com/CBz3DUvYfc
— CG (@7realitycheck7) November 9, 2019
Trump is working harder to find a sporting event he’ll get cheered at than he has on any piece of legislation ever https://t.co/VqhwU6Rm43
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 9, 2019
Alabama hasn’t lost a home game in four years.
Donald Trump shows up: Alabama loses.
The man is a plague. #LSUvsALA
— Southpaw (@SoCalSouthpaw1) November 10, 2019
Toward the end of halftime, a group of students stood & cheered while wearing shirts that spell out IMPEACH pic.twitter.com/3s4FuZp1Zo
— Jessa Reid Bolling (@jr_bolling) November 9, 2019
This is Trump’s third sporting event in 3 weeks.
At the World Series in DC, he got loud boos & chants of “Lock him up.”
At a UFC fight in NYC, he got chants of his name, boos and middle fingers.
And at today’s Alabama football game, he got cheers, “USA” chants—and some boos.
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) November 9, 2019
Yes, Trump got cheers at a football game in Alabama, the state that almost elected a serial child molester as senator.
— Windsor Mann (@WindsorMann) November 10, 2019
According to the UN: Alabama has the worst poverty in the developed world. 15% of residents are illiterate. 6th worst state in healthcare. That’s @realDonaldTrump’s “real America” https://t.co/HpFIfPBlsX
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) November 10, 2019
The famous Baby Trump balloon has been stabbed and deflated in Alabama. The popular protest symbol was floating among football fans at a game, when a man stuck a knife in it and ran off. He was later arrested.
— Virgin Media News (@VirginMediaNews) November 10, 2019
He’s very STRESSED, you guys!
President Trump posted 82 tweets or retweets today and flew 1,600 miles roundtrip to Alabama for a football game in desperate search of applause. #HardlyWorking
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 10, 2019
Or, you know, a job ??
— firebirdNC?? (@firebird_nc) November 10, 2019
germy
And he votes.
Mary G
I haven’t watched it, but the balloon stabber has started a GoFundMe for his defense fund and put up a video of himself in a Trump 2020 T-shirt, lady panties and a garter belt:
ThresherK
Saw the game, did not realize Alabama had a 4-year home winning streak before yesterday. I can well imagine it, however.
JGabriel
via Anne Laurie @ Top:
And whined that he was the real victim here, because that balloon: assaulted his beliefs.
(/snark)
JPL
@Mary G: Kurt Bardella’s tweet appears to be correct
According to the UN: Alabama has the worst poverty in the developed world. 15% of residents are illiterate. 6th worst state in healthcare. That’s @realDonaldTrump’s “real America”
oatler.
The ABC morning show grossly misreported the balloon incident.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Mary G: Apparently that outfit is ‘shopped. Note the credit for “Paul Lidicul” at the bottom right. I’m reading elsewhere Lidicul is well-known for clever parodies using photoshop.
Here’s some more: https://www.twipu.com/PaulLidicul
germy
@oatler.:
Mary G
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Oh, I am a credulous fool again. Sorry.
germy
dmsilev
@germy: Maybe not. Does Alabama allow felons to vote? Because from what I’ve read, he’s confessed to a felony crime.
germy
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Mary G: Not just you. I’m seeing that video retweeted all over the place and not too many pointing out it’s a parody. It’s just too believable.
It’s just that when I first saw it, it was in a thread where somebody pointed out that it was photoshopped a couple of posts down. So I didn’t have time to get fooled.
mrmoshpotato
@Mary G: I have so many questions.
Added – no more questions. Still not looking at it.
John Revolta
Worst poverty in the developed world………………but only 6th worst state for healthcare!
USA! USA! USA! USA!
Amir Khalid
I don’t think another POTUS has ever matched Trump’s current level of popularity. Not even Nixon got booed at sportsball games, as I recall.
mrmoshpotato
@germy: “We don’t have a press that’s free to kiss my fascist, orange, Putin-loving ass like my Daddy Vladdy does!”
trollhattan
@John Revolta:
Which raises the question: is Alabama jealous of 7th worse or 5th? “Race to the bottom ‘bama, we can do this!
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: Oh, they’ve met it – and exceeded it by leaps and bounds. :)
germy
@mrmoshpotato: He’s got Fox, Sinclair, most of talk radio and a bunch of RW online publications.
Mike in NC
Soon Fat Bastard will claim to have never, ever lived in NYC. As a newly minted Floriduh Man, he’ll embrace the legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, who in the early 1900s wanted to destroy the Everglades and make his state a whites-only paradise.
trollhattan
Back on the campaign trail.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
HAHAAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHH
Dump hates Alabama.
He spent most of his life dying to be accepted by the Manhattan elites. He so wanted to be cheered by the urbane set at the World Series. It kills him that he had to schlep to the middle of nowhere and beg for the approval of what he considers the riff-raff
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan: Crimson tide goes in, crimson tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
@germy: only event where attendees spent hours prior to the game in a parking lot getting shit faced.
mrmoshpotato
@germy: You think that’s enough for the orange manbaby who was never loved by his father?
germy
@trollhattan:
Wait… She’s from the midwest?? I had no idea! She rarely mentions it.
mrmoshpotato
@Mike in NC:
How? Somehow filling it all in with dirt and praying to Jeebus that the ocean doesn’t wash it all away?
John Revolta
@trollhattan: Is “tanking” a thing with Federal healthcare bucks?
Maybe it should be!
mrmoshpotato
@germy: Did you know John McCain’s daughter is on The View?
germy
@mrmoshpotato: Did you see her performance art on The View the day Don Jr. and his girlfriend visited?
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
‘Bama loses first home game in 4 years. Or as Rick Wilson would say, “everything Dump touches, dies”
debbie
@germy:
Thought he was going to say that Trump wears ladies’ panties too.
mrmoshpotato
@germy: I saw that posted. I refuse to abuse my eyes and ears that way.
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: Has Dump’s grifter store started selling garter belts yet?
germy
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
Meanwhile, in Georgia … (photo)
trollhattan
@germy:
“Midwest values” You could look it up.
trollhattan
@mrmoshpotato:
Diverting the water to the ocean so it dries out. Turns out Marjory Stoneman Douglas, whose name is unfortunately now sadly associated with a school slaughter, was instrumental in saving the Everglades from that fate. A true environmental hero before we much recognized such folks.
trollhattan
@John Revolta:
I think it gives you a higher draft pick or something.
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan: I assume that involves constructing a giant dam-that’s-a-crazy-idea.
Raven
NOW we get a football thread! I survived my dual purpose party and family visit and the last of the family just left. It really was fun and even the 27-0 drubbing of Mizzou in 38 degree weather was fun. My bride and I are both pretty toasted so I think it’s just lay low for the rest of my 70th and THEN figure this retirement deal out.
phdesmond
@germy: hee hee!
trollhattan
@mrmoshpotato:
In a place as flat as Florida it’s a pretty simple ditch-and-divert. California did it the entire length of the Central Valley, which used to be wetlands from Bakersfield to Redding.
Dorothy A Winsor
I finished reading Louise Penny’s newest book, A Better Man. I guessed the murderer was too early, and I still enjoyed the book. I want to live in Three Pines, Quebec.
trollhattan
BTW, MLS championship is underway. Seattle sold out the Clink or whatever it’s called now. 70k for soccer, which ain’t bad but Seattle’s always been weirdly drawn to the sport.
Dorothy A Winsor
Vindman is being removed from the WH National Security Council.
Kelly
Meet kitten Nora :-)
https://imgur.com/4a5YyHt
We just brought her home. She’s 8 weeks old. She’s living in the spare bathroom until we eradicate her fleas and to give 15 month old Phoebe time to get used to the idea of another cat. First vet visit is Tuesday. She was born in the household of a pleasant but broke and disorganized couple my wife is related to.
Ruckus
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch:
No. It’s. Not.
zhena gogolia
@Dorothy A Winsor:
Oh, my God.
zhena gogolia
@Dorothy A Winsor:
Oh, my God.
zhena gogolia
@Dorothy A Winsor:
Oh, my God.
@Kelly:
So sweet! I love tuxedos!
RAVEN
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the NSC official who is giving impeachment inquiry testimony damning to President Donald Trump’s cause Tuesday, has become the target of xenophobic attacks from the right-wing echo chamber due to his childhood emigration from Ukraine.
But in a film of Ken Burns’ 1985 “America” series, spotted by the eagle-eyed Philip Bump of the Washington Post, the Vindmans are revealed to have such a compelling and classic story as to be featured in “Statue of Liberty,” an ode to the immigrant’s American dream.
The famed documentarian was pounding the pavement of 1980s New York when he came upon an older woman sitting on a bench in Brighton Beach with young twin boys: Alexander and Yevgeny Vindman. The family had come from the then-Soviet Union. The boys would both one day serve in the Army and now work at the National Security Council.
raven
@zhena gogolia: He serves at the pleasure of the president, this is a surprise?
DCrefugee
Referring back to Betty’s post below, one thing about contemporary Republicans that still amazes me is that they all seem to be marching in lockstep. By now, you’d think there would be some party-switching (Amish doesn’t count), but it seems they’ve all bought into the whole gig.
Party unity uber alles
trollhattan
@RAVEN:
I pity the next person who thanks him “for his service.”
Trump maladministration is hollowing out our government as fast as Nazis stripping European museums. There won’t be any professionals left.
joel hanes
@trollhattan:
Race to the bottom ‘bama, we can do this!
obligatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVG7U9UDi2E
zhena gogolia
FYWP
Catherine D.
@Dorothy A Winsor: I’ve been working my way through the series and enjoying them.
MisterForkbeard
@Dorothy A Winsor: We all knew this was going to happen. Seriously, the guy defied Trump to testify, and that would have been enough even if his testimony hadn’t been really damaging (which it was).
In a normal administration that was actually concerned about looking like it was trying to intimidate witnesses, this would be a problem. But we know that Trump and Republicans are all in on this, and that the media has basically not to care that Trump is forbidding literally any contact with the impeachment inquiry, told witnesses they’ll be in trouble if they cooperate at all, and believes that anyone in his cabinet has “absolute immunity” to everything and doesn’t even have to show up when asked.
JPL
@Dorothy A Winsor: So do I.
Rob
Bolivian president Evo Morales is stepping down
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/bolivian-military-asks-morales-resign-ensure-stability-191110200759194.html
zhena gogolia
@JPL:
I read one of them and found the town a little claustrophobic!
Shana
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch: I bet both he and Melania are pissed that they had to stay for the whole game too, except possibly heading out a little early to not screw up everyone else’s leaving at the end of the game.
Even though he once owned a league he never struck me as much of a sports guy. Could be wrong though, didn’t he play baseball in high school?
RAVEN
@Shana: He wrecked the league.
Betty
@Kelly: She looks like a sweetie
zzyzx
@trollhattan: Not just sold out: impossible tickets. I used to go back in the old A League days and wanted to go again but there were no tickets to be had.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@RAVEN: Everything he touches, turns to shit.
Geoduck
@trollhattan: As someone living in Seattle’s general area.. it’s not that surprising. We have no hockey team (tho I guess one is coming..) The NBA allowed the local basketball team to be moved to Oklahoma (and then deliberately prevented an attempt to bring one back), our baseball team sucks and always has. There are, what, eight or so Seahawk games each year. And the Sounders actually do well.
opiejeanne
@zhena gogolia: It’s an English-settled enclave in Quebec so there’s a reason it’s claustrophobic, as well as presenting as a modern-day Brigadoon.
The part of my family who left after the Battle of Saratoga (John Freeman’s Farm) didn’t fool around, went straight to Montreal arriving just as the city experienced a terrible smallpox outbreak, and all but three died. Luckily Thomas Freeman, my gr great grandfather, survived.
opiejeanne
@Geoduck: Well, stealing the Kings from Sacramento wasn’t really a nice thing to propose, but they won’t let the league expand so Seattle could build a new team here.
zzyzx
@Geoduck: Hey the M’s were pretty good for that decade there between 95 and 04.
But yeah… it’s been sad for a while.
Yutsano
@Geoduck: Associated football does seem to have glommed onto the west coast quite nicely. It’s also a bit unexpected on my part but hey I enjoy a little footie every now and again.
Yutsano
@zzyzx: A good friend of mine who’s a doctor in the Dallas area (and is an old friend of Jamelle Bouie) keeps posting clips from those by gone eras on Twitter. I cri evry teim.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
You may already be aware of it; I recently discovered that the free streaming service Airy TV includes a dedicated rugby channel. Some more info about them, including about apps.
Barbara
@RAVEN: And sometime before moving to New York their mother died. It is hard to think of someone with a more compelling biography.
NotMax
@NotMax
Now that’s passing odd. The channel (numbered 801) was there over the weekend when I was checking the service out over the weekend but it doesn’t seem to be there today. Maybe it is one of those that comes and goes as events air?
Jay
Jay
SFBayAreaGal
@Dorothy A Winsor: Me too. I love her books and I want to live in Three Pines. Of course alive not as a murder victim ??
Jay
@SFBayAreaGal:
Yeah, no, it’s too much like Oxford, the Glades, Hawaii, Battle Creek, etc.
Way too many complex murders per capita.
You could be next.
Jay
SFBayAreaGal
@NotMax: Hmm, of course I had to try channel 801 and it brought me to the “ADULT” on demand service (Xfinity is my cable provider)
Geoduck
@opiejeanne: Yes, it would have sucked for the the Sacramento fans, and at that level, I am happy for them, but.. When Chris Hanson tried to buy the Kings, he was totally open about what he planned to do, unlike the crap Clay Bennett pulled with the Sonics, with the active support of commissioner Stern. And then Stern again actively stepped in to stop Hanson’s efforts. Grump. It all pissed me off immensely, and I don’t even like basketball!
SFBayAreaGal
@Jay: Could be. Also Midsomers is another place that has a high murder rate.
Jay
Another Scott
In other news, BBC:
(Emphasis added.)
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
Jay
@SFBayAreaGal:
Yup, and the Shetlands, and a bunch of other places. I miss the good old days when Miami just had a drug problem. ; )
ET
I am a Bama grad. I have been slowly giving up football and pulling away from any college feelings. This is just a reminder it is a good decision. If I had been a student my protest would have just been not to go… Not that one person not going would have been noticed.
But the new hash tag is appropriate #ETTD
Also, how long before he tweets something that gives away his confusing all those students in red with actual MAGA zombies and/or uses some image of that game to represent one of his campaign rallies?
KSinMA
@SFBayAreaGal: Yep. Friend of mine calls it Midsomer Mass Murders.
SFBayAreaGal
@KSinMA: So true. At least 2 die in every episode.
debbie
@Dorothy A Winsor:
It doesn’t seem realistic (even with this Administration) that he would expect to keep his job. I’m sure he weighed consequences when coming forward. I wonder about the blowback against his brother, though.
The Lodger
@Another Scott: Obviously the police were interfering with the professor’s right to bear arms.
TS (the original)
@Dorothy A Winsor: And …… who didn’t see that coming. Is Sondland still an ambassador?
Jay
Jay
trollhattan
@Geoduck:
This Chris Hansen?
Billionaires gonna billionaire.
Jay
@The Lodger:
Does not apply in the UK, nor can one arm bears.
Jay
Jay
Steeplejack
In a nutshell:
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Bonus Popeyes tie-in:
eclare
@Steeplejack: So, so true.
NotMax
@SfBayAreaGla
Heh. 801 on the Airy TV streaming service, not 801 on your cable service.
Swear I was not hallucinating – it was there a couple of days ago. Must only show up in the grid when there’s live stuff to stream.
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
Maybe it was a temporary channel for the Rugby World Cup.
NotMax
Fix.
@SfBayAreaGal
Heh. 801 on the Airy TV streaming service, not 801 on your cable service.
Swear I was not hallucinating – it was there a couple of days ago. Must only show up in the grid when there’s live stuff to stream.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
That’s probably it.
Bex
@Dorothy A Winsor: Moi aussi. I also crave chocolate covered blueberries thanks to Ms. Penny. Have you read the new Joanne Harris novel, “The Strawberry Thief”? Vianne Rocher is back!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Well you got the give the Alabamians some credit; they live and shit hole and are pushing for radical change, good enough. I mean say want you want,. Trump certainly is not business as usual with the Republicans. Hopefully at some point it Albama will push for viable radial change.