
I had to run a couple of errands today. One was at the home improvement big box, where I picked up an order. As we waited for my item to come out of the back, and as we inspected it, the young woman manning the counter and I were chatting. She had kind of an alternative look and a good sense of humor, and we were joking about my order, nothing political. She made some mention of “the orange one” and I said, “Oh, you mean Cheeto Benito.” She thought that was funny.
Anyway, as I was driving to my next destination, I was wondering why she thought it was safe to make a political comment to me. New York is a blue state, but there are plenty of Trumpers in Western New York. I’m a middle-aged white-looking guy, so not an obvious non-Trumper.
Then I got to the grocery store and saw this, and I remembered the obvious: I’m not a humorless asshole, so she could assume that I’m not so far up Trump’s rectum that I even put a Trump sticker on my spare tire.
Jerzy Russian
Fucked up shit is fucked up, I see.
I am glad when they put such stickers on their cars. I can place them in the “asshole” category and move on.
mrmoshpotato
Did that SUV actually have handicapped plates, or was it an alpha-douche being an alpha-douche?
ETA – the ‘Dump – No More Bullshit’ bumper sticker is a nice touch. I’m sure it’s meant ironically.
HRH mistermix, Lord Bombay Sapphire, Duke of Schweppes
@mrmoshpotato: The plates were not handicapped. I didn’t bother to see if they had a hanging tag on the mirror.
Mary G
Prolly one of the armchair warriors who own a pile of guns and talks big about civil war if the president isn’t re-elected, but can’t walk from regular parking into the store.
SiubhanDuinne
O/T, and no surprise to anybody, but Jeebus Crisp is Pam Bondi ever a tool.
(Also inarticulate and incompetent.)
John Revolta
@mrmoshpotato: That was my first question.
Then I thought, either way, “Keep the gubmint outta mah hair, and stay outta mah handicapped parkin’ space!!”
Roger Moore
@mrmoshpotato:
I would phrase that slightly differently: was this a physically disabled person with a death wish, or was it a Trump bro doing his thing?
mrmoshpotato
@John Revolta: “Tell the gubermint to keep their damn hands off ma Medicare!”
RaflW
Did the dudebro (“Brotality”?!?) have a handicap tag on his mirror? Or on his plate? Which, really, you are too kind blotting it.
eta: I see, asked and answered. Gonna guess he’s a douche who thinks these spots are reserved for his convenience.
Leto
@SiubhanDuinne: posted this two threads below, probably dead thread, but repost:
Pam Bondi: living example of why you shouldn’t let your kids eat lead paint chips.
debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
She’s Joannie Ernst’s secret sister. //
mrmoshpotato
@Roger Moore: Would you accept “alpha-trash doing his thing?”
cthulhu
@RaflW: Brotality is apparently a local Christian speed metal band of three young teen boys (age 14 to 17). I think I find this the most fascinating thing about this car.
J R in WV
Sticker, or not, the driver was incapable of parking correctly in the extra room handicapped parking spaces have.
I recently came into one of those handicapped tags for our cars, and I use it. When My knee went (more) out and I asked the doc about it, he said, “hell, you qualified for one of these years ago!” I didn’t ask for one because I could use the exercise from parking way back in the lot. Then I hurt my knee again and gave it up.
People who aren’t old/disabled yet still park in those spaces are always Trumpian monsters.
debbie
@RaflW:
From Urban Dictionary: “Violence done in the name of being dudes. Simultaneous headbutts, chest bumps, and only dual destructive behavior.”
mrmoshpotato
@RaflW: Bro, you don’t know about Broality? Bro……totally gonna have to take away your Bro card, bro.
Gin & Tonic
So Buttigieg posts this gem on Twitter: “In the face of unprecedented challenges, we need a president whose vision was shaped by the American Heartland rather than the ineffective Washington politics we’ve come to know and expect.”
The responses to that post are, how shall I say, not receptive to his message.
RaflW
@cthulhu: Urban Dictionary has some very unchristian definitions of the neologism.
Come to think of it, the U.D. definitions are quite spot on for our most performative christians, ie Trump and his ilk.
(eta: oh hi debbie. The rapey definition also of course fits Orangemandias).
OzarkHillbilly
@Jerzy Russian:
I have the opposite type of stickers on my truck which puts me in the “asshole” category too.
mrmoshpotato
@cthulhu: Bullet belts and ripped jeans for Jesus? (Seriously, an adult should’ve vetoed the name.)
Roger Moore
@mrmoshpotato:
No. These guys are absolutely not alphas. The louder somebody proclaims what an alpha they are, the less you should believe them. If they try to prove they’re an alpha by sucking up to somebody more powerful than them, it just proves they are not.
Mike in NC
Yesterday I spotted an older white woman leaving the liquor store and getting into her SUV with a “Trump 2020” bumper sticker on the rear window. She was carrying a liter and a half of Grey Goose, which might have been her daily ration.
SiubhanDuinne
@Leto: Lead paint chips would seem to be the least of her issues. She’s just awful.
(Completely O/T, but did you see that I “graduated” from physical therapy early? Met or exceeded every single goal weeks before we had targeted, so last week my PT basically said “Go with god but keep doing your home exercises,” and off I went. Feel pretty chuffed about this; it’s like skipping seventh grade because you’re just too smart and read books way beyond grade level!)
SiubhanDuinne
@debbie:
LOL, poor both of them!
Steeplejack
@HRH mistermix:
And, let me guess, no handicapped sticker/tag on the car
ETA: Didn’t read the comments. Suspicion confirmed.
mrmoshpotato
@Gin & Tonic: How many responses are telling Pete to just fucking primary Trump then?
RaflW
@Roger Moore: It’s almost like you are talking about Seb Gorka. (His pride in his4 cylinder Mustang convertible helps make the case too).
NotMax
@J R in WV
After years of my imploring her, soon to be 92-year-old Mom finally asked one of her docs to sign off on her getting a placard.
Still gives me the “But I don’t plan to use it because I’ll feel guilty about taking a space from someone who really needs it.” At least got a grudging promise she will try to remember to use it when it’s snowy and icy.
P.S.: She’s prone to shortness of breath from time to time, and currently has stitches in one cornea (eye doc confirms she can drive).
Mike J
I’ve seen several cars with a trump sticker, but this weekend I saw my first with a Bloomberg.
mrmoshpotato
@Roger Moore: I disagree. They’re definitely alpha at being trash. :)
mrmoshpotato
@Mike in NC: Did….ummm….did she think that was a version of the US flag on the bottle?
ETA – Also – vodka – how ‘Murrican!
cain
@cthulhu:
Isn’t that how Hanson started out? 3 teenagers with “Christian values”. Look at them now, all grown up!
NotMax
@Mike in NC
Obviously oblivious to it being
*gasp*
a French vodka. Enough to have her deplorable card rescinded?;)
trollhattan
@SiubhanDuinne:
Add blonde and you have a future Trump cabinet member and/or Fox News installation piece. It’s how they roll.
mrmoshpotato
@cain:
As a Christian thrash metal band? ?
PersistentIllusion
@RaflW: Need an ice pick? I think popping two tires would tie that douche nozzle up for the better part of the day. An act of patriotism.
mrmoshpotato
@PersistentIllusion: Probably a 4WD SUV too, so a flatbed will be needed to haul it in for the tire changes.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Hummer must have been in the shop.
//
A Ghost To Most
I have several stickers on my 4×4, but the two that elicit reactions are Smokey Bear saying “Only you can prevent fascist liars”, and an Iron Front sticker that says “Sometimes anti-social, always anti-fascist”.
lollipopguild
@mrmoshpotato: Bro, bro, bro, your boat gently down the stream………….
debbie
@A Ghost To Most:
Years ago, I had a bumper sticker supporting a NH teachers strike (I worked in a regional union office). Lost my windshield over it and will never have another bumpersticker about anything, no matter how much I want to.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Probably getting a Dump paint job.
misterpuff
@Gin & Tonic: Sez the candidate whose vision was shaped by McKinsey & Co.
mrmoshpotato
@lollipopguild: …broily broily broily broily life is but a brofest, bro.
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: Well, where do you last remember having your windshield?
debbie
@mrmoshpotato:
On the car, of course!
Sab
I am sneaking around town with my Warren magnetized bumper sticker. Nobody but me and the Trumpsters out there.
So far not much intimidation. A pleasant change. Obama stickers drove certain drivers nuts.
And the Bernie folks. But they still have their old stickers.
Baud
Maybe she was sweet on you.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: Yes, but what shade of orange?
The Dangerman
A vehicle that has obviously never been driven in California in the past few years. I’d give it a few hours to being keyed and a few days to needing new tires.
Martin
So, State evacuated a bunch of expats from Wuhan to March AFB and best as I can tell, Californians are all cool with this, but brave patriots in Indiana and South Carolina are losing their shit over it.
They’ll be quarantined for 3 days. They’ve already been under observation for several more. Should be just fine.
CarolPW
@mrmoshpotato: They are part-time 4WD, and the tires change like in regular vehicles. I have an X Terra in the same color but the sport model. Mine it is also much cleaner even though I use it to go cross-country in shrub steppe on wind farms for my environmental work (which is the only reason I own it). No Trump sticker on mine though.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
anybody know how long the Senate farce is supposed to last ?
Roger Moore
@Martin:
Fear is the defining characteristic of the conservative mind.
Sab
6600 people have died of flu this flu season in US, but people I know can’t be bothered to get flu shots, yet are freaking out about this virus.
M. Bouffant
Why doesn’t the Trumpazoid put his silly stickers on the body of his dirty furrin rice-burner? Do they come off windows more easily?
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: :)
Seriously, what happened?
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA: The most disgusting shade of orange.
mrmoshpotato
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Too long?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
sounds like Dershowitz really lost it this evening
trollhattan
Members of EU Parliament sing “Auld Lang Syne” after vote ratifying Brexit deal. How very distressing this must be, like waving so long to a glacier as the last remnant melts into the ocean.
chopper
@Mary G:
yeah, i love those guys. they’re ready for civil war cause they know all sorts of dumb shit about guns in spite of the fact that they get winded licking stamps.
debbie
@mrmoshpotato:
I was going home for Christmas and let my boyfriend use my car. He parked it on the street while visiting his parents in Portsmouth NH. He said he didn’t hear anything, but when he went out the next morning, the windshield was totally destroyed.
At the time, the teachers in the Timberlane School District were on strike. All they wanted was collective bargaining, but the governor (a dick) refused. The owner of the Manchester Union Leader (William Loeb) was a real fascist and got people all worked up about it.
As the link says, it was the longest teachers strike to date. They lost, sadly
ETA: I worked in a regional office of the New Hampshire Education Association (as an office slug) which is why I was sporting the bumpsticker. This was in the mid-1970s.
trollhattan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I’m not sure this plan to get back onto Vineyard A-lists is working to his advantage.
Spanky
@trollhattan: Or a not-so-coded message to Scotland?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Gin & Tonic:
Ah, great, the Real Americans card, again. And whatever infatuation Iowa Dems have for him is probably gonna hand Bernie a big victory as Buttigieg heads to oblivion.
J R in WV
@M. Bouffant:
Do they come off windows more easily?
Yes, you can use a razor blade to scrape gluey trash off the glass, while that would scratch the paint job on the metal body.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I listened to most of it while working. It’s tough choosing which of them was the stupidest.
MomSense
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I thought Nadler was brilliant in his rebuttal.
Ugh a bad thing happened to one of the students in my son’s school. He’s a kid who is troubled and has said really racist and inappropriate things, but no one would wish this on him. Lots of rumors flying right now about his condition.
At some point we are going to have to figure out how/when/if we can rehabilitate the 60 plus million trumpers.
debbie
@trollhattan:
Ah, I’d bet he could get Trump to issue an executive order mandating invitations for all parties.
debbie
@MomSense:
Yes, Nadler was great! And everyone was calling him old and bumbling.
divF
@Martin: I was having trouble sleeping last night, and every time I woke up I would check on where that flight was using flightaware.com .
The flight was routed Wuhan-Anchorage-March ARB. The 4+ hour stop in Anchorage was used to refuel and to perform a preliminary health screening on the passengers, all done in the old international terminal, which is completely isolated (physically separate, and a separate ventilation system), and not in use this time of year.
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, that terminal was a major hub for flights between Europe and Asia, since no one except Aeroflot and FinnAir could fly routes across the Soviet Union. I took a flight from Tokyo to Paris in 1984 that had a hour or so layover in Anchorage. We were allowed to get off the aircraft since the terminal was inside of security and immigration. I was thrilled to be able to take advantage of this to make a relatively inexpensive phone call to Madame divF, who was at home in NorCal.
Zelma
Lots of Trump bumper stickers where I live. I live in Cape May County, the home of that paragon of rectitude Jeff Van Drew and recent stopping off point of the Orangetang. I am considered brave by some of my friends because I have my Obama sticker from 2012 and my Hillary sticker on my car. Also a “My Cat is a Democrat) magnet. (I also had a Jeff Van Drew sign in my yard last year, but nobody’s perfect.).
Interestingly, though I have worried a bit about it, nobody has done any damage to my car as a result. I manage to do that on my own – those damn Republican posts in parking lots. Everyone wonders why my car looks so good at eight years old. It helps when two-thirds of the body has been replaced.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
anyone know of a good live blog or tweet thread? I keep seeing stuff like this
and I’m clicking around for details and getting lost in the maelstrom of twitter
MomSense
@divF:
I happen to know that the Anchorage airport has a medical station set up by the CDC for this kind of situation.
divF
@MomSense: Not surprising – it really is an ideal setup for this.
Immanentize
I’m sorry, but what does this mean? One is not white but looks white? Passing? Is “white looking” but only somewhat?
I need enlightenment on this new concept as I will probably face it in my students self-descriptions next year.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: answering my own question, the TPM liveblog is a good place to catch up
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
They’re on dinner break, but The Guardian is live blogging.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
This crap of bringing up Obama again and again is pissing me off.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: Well, that narrows it down…
Immanentize
@Martin:
I so hate the coronavirus agitating. Be afraid! China! Wohan! Maybe snakes even? ?
In the US, every year about 36,000 poor souls lose their lives to the flu. And we can’t get people to get a flu shot. Screw the new scary thing from scaryland. Real shit is real right here right now.
Anotherlurker
@J R in WV: To easily remove a bumper sticker, first peel and remove all you can. Then, for the stubborn clingy remnants, spray on a bit of WD-40. Wait a few minutes and easily remove the rest.
Works like a charm and won’t harm the clear coat.
debbie
@Anotherlurker:
Goo Be Gone (basically orange oil) is pretty good too for that.
Anotherlurker
@debbie: True. It is a good product.
I’m not sure how much of it is actually Orange oil. I might be wrong, but I think it is a Petroleum base, just like WD-40.
Sab
@trollhattan: That must be distressing for all the Scots who voted to remain UK in order to keep in the EU,
debbie
@Anotherlurker:
In the middle of summer, I unknowingly stepped on bubble gum and then drove. Pink gummy stuff all over the gas and brake pedals. Either would have worked, but smelling orange the next morning when I got in the car was better than whatever it is that WD-40 smells like.
SFAW
@cain:
They were outstanding in “Slap Shot.”
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: They brought their fucking toys with them!
Leto
@SiubhanDuinne:
I didn’t! Holy shit, grats!!! That’s fucking awesome!!!!
NotMax
@Immanentize
Enlightening.
Omnes Omnibus
@Leto: I bet you never work as a mob enforcer either.
NotMax
@Anotherlurker
Vodka also works like a charm for that.
J R in WV
@NotMax:
Awesome idea, thanks for passing it along. Vodka is useful in so many ways, in addition to it’s potential as an alcoholic drink enhancement. Pie crust, goo removal, sterilization and first aid, and last but not least, relaxant after a long day of political stress!
Daddio7
@The Dangerman: So now you why Trump voters never want another Democrat in the White house. All you people will run rampant exacting your vengeance.
Alaska Reader
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Too easy, …for as many years as Repugnant Senators continue to be elected.
Alaska Reader
@divF: North terminal not really all that ‘isolated’.
Many administrative offices located in the North Terminal operating year round with personnel traveling between terminals every day throughout the summer and winter.
tam1MI
@trollhattan: After everything the Brexiteers put them through, I’m surprised they didn’t all bellow “Good Fucking Riddance!”