Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The lights are all blinking red.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Republicans in disarray!

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

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Sunday Morning Open Thread: I Give Up

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So… for the last couple days, getting tweets to show up in my posts has ranged from ‘problematic’ to ‘impossible.’

For a brief shining moment between midnight Saturday and 3:30am Sunday, EST, things were back to normal, only better — both embeds *and* links showed up as full visual tweets!

I made the mistake of leaving my computer for a few minutes, so (of course) between 3:45-5:15am neither method worked.

I was setting up this EMOT (Early Morning Open Thread) with a stripped-out image from Meg Elison’s tweet, since nobody sent me any garden-related photos this week… and the twitter function started working again.

I know my limits, guys. Time to quit while I’m ahead. See you later, after I get some sleep.

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  1. 1.

    OzarkHillbilly

    I know my limits, guys. Time to quit while I’m ahead. See you later, after I get some sleep.

    If I had to deal with what you are dealing with, I’d have gone postal long ago. Sleep well Anne. You’ve earned it.

  2. 2.

    mrmoshpotato

    Well, if you wanted pictures of store-bought spinach and a head of lettuce from many different angles on my kitchen counter…

    Dahlink, you look wonderful, so expressive and so green.

  3. 3.

    Betty Cracker

    I call bullshit:

    “Anticipating a very busy 2020, the President is taking advantage of a free weekend here in Washington, D.C., to begin portions of his routine annual physical exam at Walter Reed,” White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement.

    Josh Dawsey, a White House reporter for The Washington Post, tweeted this quote from Grisham after Trump’s Walter Reed visit: “After a quick exam and labs, the President is headed back downtown. The President remains healthy and energetic without complaints, as demonstrated by his repeated vigorous rally performances in front of thousands of Americans several times a week.”

    By “vigorous rally performances,” she means Trump leaning on a podium, babbling nonsense and occasionally waving his arms around. This is supposed to be a form of exercise that demonstrates his fitness now?  Something is up with the shitgibbon’s health.

  6. 6.

    Anne Laurie

    @Betty Cracker: Snark twitter is suggesting Somebody had a panic attack, which in an obese elderly man can ‘present’ as chest discomfort & shortness of breath.  But given the odds — especially since another 2020 candidate’s “chest discomfort” actually was a heart attack — Somebody’s handlers decided they would rather risk an emergency visit to Walter Reed & the ensuing media uproar than, well…

     

  7. 7.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Betty Cracker: “I’m the bigliest at health!  How else could I scream all this bullshit for hours on end to braindead, racist morons in a mostly empty arena?”

     

  17. 17.

    WereBear

    @Betty Cracker: Something is up with the shitgibbon’s health.

    As a sad expert on how stress affects the body — he’s feeling it. Considering the state of his circulatory system on his drug of choice, fast food, it would probably be showing in blood pressure and worsening confusion.

  21. 21.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @OzarkHillbilly: My husband’s wanted one of those for years. I’ve promised to buy him this one if we ever win the lottery.

    www. silohome. com/adirondack_atlas_missile_base_for_sale_military_missile_bases_for_sale_the_world.htm

     

  22. 22.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @OzarkHillbilly: My husband’s wanted one of those for years. I’ve promised to buy him this one if we ever win the lottery.

    www. silohome. com/ adirondack_atlas_missile_base_for_sale_military_missile_bases_for_sale_the_world. htm

  23. 23.

    Montanareddog

    @Anne Laurie: obese white male – check. Dysfunctional family – check. Organized crime ties – check. Panic attacks – check. Maybe the ducks flew away from the White House pond.

     

  26. 26.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @OzarkHillbilly: My husband’s wanted one of those for years. I’ve promised to buy him the one in the Adirondacks if we ever win the lottery.

    http://www.silohome. charlie oscar mike /adirondack_atlas_missile_base_for_sale_military_missile_bases_for_sale_the_world.htm

  28. 28.

    (((CassandraLeo)))

    I am reading a lot of tweets about Trump going to Walter Reed hospital. Everyone should stop for one moment and consider that he has a family. If something is wrong, if he’s actually sick, we should all join together and pray it’s contagious.
    — Country First USAF Vet (@USAirForce92) November 16, 2019

    Ceterum censeo factionem Republicanam esse delendam.

  31. 31.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @OzarkHillbilly: If I could afford the place, I could afford to add elevators.

    (I have a trick knee. I’m relearning out how to navigate stairs right now after having it go walkabout roughly a year ago.)

  32. 32.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @OzarkHillbilly: If I could afford the place, I could afford to add elevators.

    (I have a trick knee. I’m still learning how to navigate stairs after having it go walkabout roughly a year ago.)

  37. 37.

    mrmoshpotato

    @OzarkHillbilly: Dump is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being at going up or down stairs.  Ever.  Period.

     

    And I will hit you with my podium if you so much as snicker!

     

    -Sean Spicer

     

  38. 38.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:

     

    If I could afford the place, I could afford to add elevators.

    True, but the cost depends upon the structural elements in place.

    Sorry about your knee. Neither of mine are doing so well these days. Turns out all that crawling around in caves was detrimental to them. Whoocouldanode?

  46. 46.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @WereBear: Hyman’s in Charleston has a beautiful wrought-iron spiral staircase in the restaurant. I think it was original to the warehouse before they switched to the restaurant business. It goes nowhere now, just an ornament.

  51. 51.

    Raven

    This is the Snake House that my buddy designed and built. The snake sculpture in the driveway dwarfs the Jeep. You can’t really see it but the spiral staircase with the copper snake railing is a tree with the treads built into the side. This guy went to Vancouver with a Japanese and Norwegian carpenter, picked the logs, rough built it and then trucked them to Georgia.

     

    https://flickr.com/photos/81659333@N00/sets/72157653194976310

  57. 57.

    Jeffro

    @Betty Cracker: The slightest little thing that leaks – like he had some chest pains, or a panic attack, or stroke symptoms – and the GOP will flip out saying that it’s the Democrats’ fake impeachment yadda yadda and it MUST STOP NOW.

     

    These people are going to be so lost without their Orange Raging Id venting for them publicly all day every day.  Until the next one pops up, of course.

     

  58. 58.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Raven:

     

    Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards reelected, beats Eddie Rispone despite Trump’s campaigning

    That’s a funny way to say “because of”.

  60. 60.

    Raven

    @WereBear: It was quite the project. Many local trade peeps worked on it for a couple of years. The owner had a foreman who worked with my pal and they had a great relationship. Basically my pal sat in his truck and came up with ideas and cashed checks!

     

  61. 61.

    NotMax

    Still marveling at a little something which occurred. Had phoned in a cigar reorder to the concern in Florida where I usually get them at somewhere between 1 and 2 p.m. (Florida time) Thursday. They’re shipped via USPS Priority and generally take 4 or 5 days to arrive.

    Box was dropped off here on Saturday – not only that but the post office truck came up the driveway to drop it off a few minutes before 8 a.m. Hawaii time, an unprecedented time of day (in the 36 years have resided at this address have never had a mail delivery show up before noon; it’s usually more like 2 p.m.).

  64. 64.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @WereBear:

      My pig farming buddy with the civil war barn and the 1850s cabin, 1870s post and beam addition, 1890s balloon framed addition and 2010 modernization, has the same kind of stairs to the 3rd floor attic/guest bedroom. Not for the faint of heart… or anyone over the age of 70.

  65. 65.

    Jeffro

    @WereBear: Yeah, I think that’s mostly right.  It would be hard to get the level of name recognition, familiarity, previous exposure, reputation for tweaking the opposition (via Twitter) perception (and I stress that it is only the perception) of success in any other candidate they could put up.

     

     

     

     

     

  66. 66.

    Steeplejack

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    [. . .] I’d have gone postal long ago.

    Back in Atlanta I had a friend who worked for UPS. She said they joked about “going parcel” during the holiday crush. Always made me laugh.

  67. 67.

    Jeffro

    @Baud: I think they’d say Dems’ efforts are making him sick and as soon as they stop, he’ll get better and can resume making America blech again.

     

    I can see it on Fox already: “They’re trying to kill him, Sean/Tucker/Laura…it’s unprecedented, the way that they would harass a president* like this”  Said without a trace of irony, of course.

     

  69. 69.

    Mai naem mobile

    @Anne Laurie: I am not sure they’re smart enough to think this far ahead and Trumpov may be too proud to go out this way but I wonder if they’re starting the steps of.him resigning based on health issues. I don’t want him to die in office because you damm well know he will be martyred as MAGAing and being cut down in his prime bu the evil Dems.

     

  70. 70.

    JPL

    Since they felt it was necessary to have the fake White House Press Secretary Grisham on Fox last night, something happened.   tump has always been an emperor with no clothes,  and the walls are closing in.

  71. 71.

    Steeplejack

    @JPL:

    [. . .] speculating that he had a panic attack. News has not been great lately, so it’s possible.

    Well, he’s definitely giving us panic attacks, so it’s only fair.

  73. 73.

    satby

    @JPL: No, trying to get my millenials to plan farther than a week ahead is hard, complicated by the fact that the market will be open both the Wednesday before and the Friday after, so no two day span for me to go anywhere. The Chicago contingent usually goes to her aunt’s house in the SW suburbs and I’m always invited, but dinner is later and a four hour round trip for dinner doesn’t sound appealing. I’m hoping to get away for a quick trip to see Qunoot in San Antonio before she goes home Dec.14 the following week, but that’s complicated by finding yet another pet sitter.

     

  77. 77.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Raven: I love that place. I’m pretty sure I have mentioned in the past my silver smith buddy with the “castle” he built above the Gasconade river, complete with turrets (but no arrow slots). Took him decades to finish it. A true work of art.

      Shameless promotion of a friend’s art, Digger did the wedding rings for both my marriages, neither I nor my wife are big on fancy stuff so his design was understated but beautiful.

  78. 78.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @WereBear: I think some of the jackals have been in the Navy. I’ve been on those ships, as a civilian. All the stairs ARE ladders and that’s what they’re called. It’s funny how quick you get used to walking up and down them like regular stairs.

    (Posted, lost edit button, posted correction, got edit button back back on this one)

  79. 79.

    NotMax

    Grrr. That’s twice now over the past few days that the screen background image on the Roku home page has been overridden to display a Disney+ (which i do NOT subscribe to) theme. Have to go into the settings area and reset it to my preference each time.

  83. 83.

    JPL

    @satby: DIL’s mom hosts Thanksgiving and I’ll be thankful that they know not to put on Fox news in my presence.

    Little one is nine months and quite a chatterbox so he’ll keep us entertained.

    Do they play Christmas music at the market?     The few years that I worked retail, I wanted to kill the f..king snowman.

  85. 85.

    Amir Khalid

    @Mai naem mobile:

    I pontificate that such a scheme would depend a lot on Trump’s willingness to go along with it. I can see why he would not:

    • He’d be conceding to the Democrats’ impeachment drive in a walkover.
    • Once out of office, he’d lose the immunity granted by the DoJ’s no-indict-POTUS policy. I’m not too sure even Billbarr could convincingly argue for extending that policy to an ex-POTUS.

     

     

     

  86. 86.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    Edit and reply behavior are definitely strange but I’m just gonna wait a couple weeks and let it settle down. As I said after the release, code fixes now are like having a mechanic clinging to the underside of your car working on it, while you’re driving down the highway at 70 mph. That’s 188000 furlongs per fortnight for those in metric.

  89. 89.

    MattF

    Trump is at that exact stage where you have no choice about making concessions to age. I’d guess that he fell or passed out. And, for the record, yeah, they’re all lying about it.

  90. 90.

    Princess

    It would be irresponsible NOT to speculate.

     

    The WH has a medical unit inside that takes care of basic medical  needs for the president and his family, and also has emergency and trauma capabilities.  I’m sure it could handle diagnosing a panic attack and it could certainly manage a basic physical. If Trump went to Reed it was to have something done that could only be done there. If he had had a heart attack or stroke, they would have admitted him. I am guessing he went in for something that requires a great honking piece of machinery, like an MRI or CAT scan. And since he went home afterwards, I’m betting it is some kind of tumor. I’ll throw my money on a brain tumor.

  91. 91.

    satby

    @JPL: 9 months is such a fun age!

    They play a radio station that will be switching to Xmas music any time now. Fortunately, you can’t hear it on Saturdays.

    I despise Xmas music, so it’s a long few weeks for me.

     

  94. 94.

    JMG

    1. I am 70. About five years ago, I went to the emergency room after a night of what I felt was serious stomach pain and chest pains. It was indigestion, but it felt way worse. Given Trump’s diet, that’s my bet on what happened.
    2. Finally spoke to my son on the topic of Deval Patrick, WTF? Josh was a staffer for Patrick in both 2006 and 2010, and admires him a great deal. But all of his contemporaries from the campaign, then 20-somethings, now 30-somethings, have been discussing Patrick’s announcement and none of them can figure out why he’d do it. They also know no one, absolutely no one, on Patrick’s 2020 campaign. So it’s my guess that Patrick, as charming and earnest a person as you’d ever meet, has fallen into bad company at Bain and has been persuaded by clueless rich people his time is now, which it’s so much not.
  96. 96.

    debbie

    Am I the only one who hadn’t heard the name Firtash before?

    MSM, Say his name when talking about this whole Trump/Giuliani extortion racket.

    He financed it.

    He stood to gain millions from the Naftogaz board changes.

    He got himself a face to face with the DOJ to argue against his extradtion.

    He works for the Russian mob.

    Dmytro Firtash. https://t.co/qyquts3SFy— Agenthades (@Agenthades1) November 17, 2019

  97. 97.

    OzarkHillbilly

    “Deval Patrick was the Governor of Massachusetts and then spent years working for a company called Bain Capitol. This is just what the Democrats need. Somebody with the exact same resume as Mitt Romney.”

     

    -Jimmy Kimmel

  98. 98.

    Amir Khalid

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    I don’t quite understand the new pop-up window for replying to comments, when the one at the bottom of the comment thread is still there and works just fine.

     

    For me, 70mph works out to a simple 110km/h, or about 0.00000000012353117 astronomical units per 14 days.

     

  99. 99.

    Matt McIrvin

    So, are we gonna reenact the end of Warren G. Harding? Dude’s ticker suddenly gives out in the middle of his rally tour while the true dimensions of the corruption scandal engulfing his administration are just starting to become clear?

  107. 107.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @debbie: Oh yeah, he’s the money man behind it all. My theory is it all started for the purpose of getting Yovavovitch out of the way because she was an impediment to corruption. And getting his extradition quashed. Giuliani got trump’s blessing but then trump got to thinking, “What’s in it for me?” And that is when the whole thing went sideways.

     

    If only trump had been patient, he could have gotten hundreds of millions worth of contracts with the scum of Ukraine. But nooooooooooooooo……

     

  108. 108.

    germy

    Just got back from the centrist rally. Amazing turnout. Thousands of people holding hands and chanting “Better things aren’t possible”— Doing fine, stop asking (@InternetHippo) July 1, 2017

  112. 112.

    JPL

    @OzarkHillbilly: There was an old shed and house on property behind me.   At night dozens of bats would come out and they kept my property mosquito free.      They tore down the structures and built two 7,000 sq. ft houses.   Bats went on to greener pasture.  Mosquitoes are back.

    They are fascinating to watch but I don’t need them close up.

     

  113. 113.

    Cheryl Rofer

    @debbie: Those of us following the Russian-Ukrainian organized crime involvement with Trump heard about Dmytro Firtash back when Manafort’s criming was becoming known.

    He’s been big in Russia’s bid to control Ukrainian natural gas. Currently in Austria, trying to avoid extradition to the US for assorted crimes.

     

  114. 114.

    MattF

    @debbie: Also, any Russian oligarch will have a direct connection to Putin. As The Lady Pelosi has noted, connections always seem to end up there.

    ETA: I’d assume Putin’s in charge.

  115. 115.

    germy

    <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Tourists thought they spotted a human face floating through a lake — but it was just a fish with human-like features. ? <a href=”https://t.co/DPZNf7maet”>https://t.co/DPZNf7maet</a&gt; <a href=”https://t.co/UAaxUHVOU4″>pic.twitter.com/UAaxUHVOU4</a></p>&mdash; People (@people) <a href=”https://twitter.com/people/status/1195559618727923713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>November 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
    <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

  119. 119.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @debbie: Putin’s the big dog in any relationship but I wouldn’t necessarily call him Firtash’s boss. More like they have a mutually beneficial contractual arrangement. As long as Firtash doesn’t piss off Putin by not giving him his cut.

     

  121. 121.

    Baud

    @germy:

    Tourists thought they spotted a human face floating through a lake — but it was just a fish with human-like features.

    That’s much worse than a human face.

    ETA: Baud!/Human Face Fish! 2020!

  125. 125.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @JPL: As a caver being close to bats never bothered me, the only time it did bother me was when trying to sleep in the jungle and one would hover over me. Hard not to think vampire at that point. I never got bit tho.

     

  130. 130.

    CliosFanBoy

    some years back (1990s??) my wife and I stayed in a  B&B in Dayton, Ohio (my home town). During the night I felt someone at the foot of the bad. I thought it was my wife so I asked if she was having trouble sleeping. No answer. I looked over, my wife was sound asleep next to me. I looked back. No figure at the foot of the  bed.

     

    Never stayed there again.

     

    Actually, as an introvert I HATE, HATE, HATE B&Bs.  Breakfast with strangers????  There’s a workable definition of hell.

     

     

  131. 131.

    Another Scott

    ‘morning all.

    Several non-FPers have been able to post graphical tweets.  Is this a new feature, or a buglet??

    Testing – Embedding full Tweet code (including the script line at the end)…

    Tune in to @FaceTheNation tomorrow at 10:30 am ET to catch my complete conversation with @MargBrennan about our ongoing work #ForThePeople and the effort to #DefendOurDemocracy. https://t.co/Et7vgzgcfL— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) November 17, 2019

    Well?

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  132. 132.

    CliosFanBoy

    @debbie: which is actually a myth.  Dr. Grayson, Edith Wilson, and Joseph Tumulty (WW’s secretary/chief of staff) acted as gate-keepers to keep information that might upset him from reaching him.  That was the doctors’ recommendation.  Still a bad situation, but they did not make decisions for him.

     

  135. 135.

    Immanentize

    Trump’ s tweets this morning don’t sound like his own.  No raging against Democrats, no witch Hunt blather, no hating the budget guy, no whistelblower must be executed.   Just mostly praising other Republicans and his vile pardon of war criminals.  They must have a load of pre-written tweets to fill in between Trump’s own mess–ages  They are using a dozen this morning.

  137. 137.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @debbie: Think of it as a pecking order. It’s a lot easier to be subservient as long as there is somebody below to shit on.

     

  138. 138.

    rikyrah

    @debbie:

    If you watch Maddow….she has highlighted him.

    And , the fact that their one way tickets were to the city where Firtash is holed up as he fights extradition to the United States.

     

  140. 140.

    WereBear

    I am kept informed by comedians on Youtube. It’s all I can stand.

     

    However, I am delighted by the Republicans doing what they’ve always done… and it doesn’t work! They  just look stupid! This has never happened before! World upsidedown!

  151. 151.

    Barbara

    @WereBear: Having watched my brother deteriorate over the course of weeks from brain metastasis, he was the same irascible person but with less and less complexity of thought and articulation.

     

  155. 155.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Raven: He does extraordinary work.

    He had a placer sapphire mine in Montana that he’d work every summer (hence all the sapphires in so much of his work) and was friends with the brothers (? I think they were brothers) who owned the only mine producing the famed Yogo sapphires. IIRC it closed about 15 years ago and hasn’t been reopened.

    My wife got the last Yogos Digger had for her rings. My ring is actually an earring (I had to cut off my first wedding ring when it got crushed at work) and has a much smaller (not a Yogo) sapphire. As I remember, it almost tripled the price of her rings and she hemmed and hawwed over whether to spend the extra $ until I finally just said, “Honey, these are the last wedding rings you are ever going to wear, get what you want.”
     

  158. 158.

    MattF

    @Immanentize: I’m a bit irked that the news reports all say it was a ‘narrow’ win. Forty thousand votes is close, but not so narrow– Trump was definitely beaten.

     

  161. 161.

    Another Scott

    @Jeffro:

    Maybe Donnie and his BFF had a spat yesterday.

    Mr. Chairman, Joe Biden may be Sleepy and Very Slow, but he is not a “rabid dog.” He is actually somewhat better than that, but I am the only one who can get you where you have to be. You should act quickly, get the deal done. See you soon! https://t.co/kO2k14lTf7— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 17, 2019

    Young Old love can be so sweet creepy.

    :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  162. 162.

    WereBear

    @NotMax: Ahead of ya. I got it on DVD a few months ago because this has decades. Also, bit of a Beverly Garland fan, and this shows why much better than The Alligator People.

     

  163. 163.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Testing testing…

    Wondering if the blog masters have decided that I shan’t be allowed to comment here anymore. The last 2 disappeared into the ether.

    So one finally showed up but the other is gone gone gone. FYWP.

  164. 164.

    NotMax

    @Another Scott

    See you soon!

    Um….

    North Korea said on Thursday it had turned down a U.S. offer for fresh talks, saying it was not interested in more talks merely aimed at “appeasing us” ahead of a year-end deadline Pyongyang has set for Washington to show more flexibility in the negotiations. Source

  165. 165.

    Barbara

    @WereBear:  Thanks. It was awful, but I say it because a brain tumor doesn’t have to change your petsonality.  It was probaly like a kind of  accelerated dementia.

  167. 167.

    geg6

    Fuck, fuck fuck.  Just read in the local paper that Chuckles Todd has a year long project covering five counties in battleground states.  Fuck me.  One of them is my own, Beaver County, PA.  Just fuck it all.  Well, I guess you can all get a picture of the nutcases I deal with every day.  There are good people here, but it will undoubtedly be the majority who are total Trumpian assholes of the first degree.  Goddamn it.  Well, if any of you other jackals live in Milwaukee County, WI; Kent County, MI; Miami-Dade, FL or Maricopa, AZ, you too get the opportunity for every idiot in your vicinity to embarrass you on national tv for the next year.  Fuck.

  168. 168.

    ThresherK

    Reince Priebus was just “interviewed” on CBS Sunday Morning about Anonymous’ book. CBS continues its slide downhill.

     

    Priebus called Trump a “force of nature”. Not “an increasingly indulged toddler throwing larger and larger tantrums”.

     

    Do you know who was a force of nature in the White House?

     

    TR, who “wanted to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every christening”.

     

    LBJ (obligatory “fuck LBJ” here), who wanted to “be the quarterback, running back, and run his own interference on every play”.

  171. 171.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @debbie:
    I know, I post in text tab every time and compose in it most of the time. It happens anyway. The first time this happened to me in the text tab, I thought maybe I forgot to and hadn’t. I don’t think that anymore. And it seems to be happening more and more. We’ll see how long it takes this time
    ETA  This time it showed up right off the bat, probably because it knows you are watching.

  173. 173.

    Betty Cracker

    @Another Scott: Pretty chummy tweet considering that Trump was addressing a remark in which Kim said Biden is a “rabid dog” that should be “beaten to death with a stick.” They’re both psychos.

     

  174. 174.

    Keith P

    The Airbnb rules don’t look too different from the BJ.com posting rules….after about 3 of them, the words start to blend into one big word-cloud

    @Betty Cracker: Oh, yeah, I’m sure of it.  This was probaby a case of Trump feeling chest pains (should get leaked word of *something* soon) and getting sent over to Walter Reed to check his enzymes.  What I bet happens is that the media gets so distracted by the odd timing that they never think to ask to see the doctor’s summary of this supposed annual checkup.

     

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    Immanentize

    @ThresherK: You are thinking of “force of nature” as a positive thing. I think of it as an amoral power capable of great destruction but of little help to humans.
    See, reperspectivize!

    To add:. Crossfire hurricanes are man made but pretty damn destructive too!

    https://youtu.be/hdlVfuaKwRI

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    lamh36

    Good morning!

    Seems Chocolate city NOLA showed up and showed out! Orleans parish and even Jefferson Parish, Steve Scalise’s district! Chump won Jeff parish last time.  If there is any lesson be learned here for ANY Dem candidate, if u think you are gonna beat Chump without a good or better than good amount of Black voters…you may want to think again!

     

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    Amir Khalid

    Liverpool are live-streaming the women’s team match at Anfield against local rivals Everton. No score in the first half. The technical skill, decision-making, and tactical organisation are not up to the level of the men’s side, but this is a very competitive mach.

  182. 182.

    Amir Khalid

    Damn. The Liverpool keeper fumbles a shot into the net, and Everton lead 1-0 on the stroke of halftime.

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    Jay C

    @debbie:

     

    It could be worse. We could reenact Woodrow Wilson and Melania could run the country in secret.

    And that would be WORSE than having Donald running it?

     

    Actually, it might: Mrs. Wilson was mainly aided, IIRC, by Woodrow’s “CoS” (more-or-less, the title wasn’t around then) “Colonel” Edward House. House was assuredly a second-rater, but still a cut above the sorts who might be a power-behind-the-sickbed nowadays? Who? Mick Mulvaney? Stephen Miller? Ivanka?  Oy…..

     

     

     

  185. 185.

    Tim C.

    @Betty Cracker: yup.   No tweets last night at all about the LA governors race,  and the tweets posted have a “staffer pretending” vibe.  Just reposts of fox and an absolutely not trump tweet about visiting soldiers at Walter Reed

     

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    Mai naem mobile

    @Amir Khalid:  since Trumpov knows what he is hiding and as POTUS he may have an idea of what the Dems have, he made seeing the fat lady getting ready to sing. He may have to face some bad choices.  There is a very unclear close up pic of Trumpov on twitter which makes it look like he has a bruise/abrasion/skin tear/sutures on the left side of his face near the ear. Or rosacea or lack of make up.

     

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    Mai naem mobile

    @debbie: Colbert has the smartest writers.  I know John Oliver keeps on winning the talk show Emmy and he is good but Colbert’s job is harder than Oliver’s. Colbert  should have gotten one of those Emmys.

     

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    Immanentize

    @NotMax: not yet, but the boiler is insulated, the parts all painted. Reconstruction has commenced.  There was an enthusiasm slowdown of unknown origin.  But check in tomorrow?

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    ThresherK

    @Immanentize: Nah, I, too, consider it amoral, as both TR and LBJ proved capable of positive and negative things.

     

    LBJ’s personal arm-around-the-shoulder persuasive powers were legendary, for one thing. (I have not read a biography of TR.)

     

    Trump is a blowhard who is only “respected” because of the shitstormers ready to DixieChick anyone who wavers. The idea of Trump as a force of nature is just utterly hilarious.

     

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    ThresherK

    @NotMax: And that’s a mechanical recording! TR sounds like he’d have adjusted to radio politicking easily, had he lived in that generation.

     

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    Miss Bianca

    Interesting glitch I’ve noticed…if I click on a link to Twitter or FB from a comment or FP page, I cannot backtrack to BJ, but have to re-open it in a new page.

     

    On an older MacBook Pro, using Safari.

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    Miss Bianca

    @lamh36: I am counting on black voters to help us sort out down to the best candidate.

     

    Speaking of which, what do you think of Kamala’s chances in SC?

     

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    Amir Khalid

    @Immanentize:

    Alas, Liverpool lost their historic first women’s game at Anfield to Everton. 0-1, the keeper fumbled the ball into goal. And yes, Liverpool comes before The Stones.

     

  207. 207.

    Miss Bianca

    @O. Felix Culpa: I’m think I’m just super annoyed at this whole Buttigieg surge. All apologies to satby, I’m sure he’s a wonderful mayor of South Bend, etc., etc., but AAAAGH, so do.not.want.white.guy.in.the.White.House.again.

     

     

     

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    Uncle Cosmo

    @Matt McIrvin: So, are we gonna reenact the end of Warren G. Harding? Dude’s ticker suddenly gives out in the middle of his rally tour while the true dimensions of the corruption scandal engulfing his administration are just starting to become clear?

    Except that in this revival the role of Calvin Coolidge will be played by – Warren G. Harding’s Mini-Me. You think I’m kidding? Observe. And observe.

     

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    mrmoshpotato

    @geg6: You know what you have to do.

     

    “Hey Chuckles!  Why are you so full of bothsiderist bullshit?  Which highly-qualified Democratic candidate is “overprepared” this year, you fuckstick?”

     

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    StringOnAStick

    @WereBear: the second to last house my late BIL bought had a tight spiral staircase into the basement, where the prior owners had build a really authentic sports bar.  The amount of money and effort spent was stunning, and the spiral staircase was part of the sports bar transformation. The problem was that the washer and dryer were also in the basement; it was insane.

     

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