You may have missed this, but here in West by God Virginia, it was, to borrow a phrase, a “big fucking deal”:
We’re not delicate flowers here, so it has been taken in stride:
My plumber is in on the shenanigans, too:
BTW- STEVE IS SO HAPPY.
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Benw
Fuckin A
Oklahomo
Oh thank you for that plumber’s sign, my first laugh of the day.
Miss Bianca
Well, Steve couldn’t have looked more miserable after his bath yesterday, so YAY for Happy Steve!
trollhattan
Organic memes are the best memes. Fuckin’ good on ya, governor.
Citizen_X
I don’t know ASL, so did the signer translate “fuckin’?”
zhena gogolia
I hope you all realize he just stumbled on “follow,” and said “can fo– can follow”
Nancy
Gotta get our attention sometimes. You guv appears to know what works.
I say fuck every other word so it gets little to no attention from those who know me.
CaseyL
@zhena gogolia: Yeah, that’s what he claimed afterwards.
Barbara
Every time I see a sign for Husqvarna all I can say is that my Husqvarna sewing machine is the best damned consumer product I have ever purchased. Although it doesn’t get as much use as it used to, that thing has been going strong for 30 years.
And yes, good for your plumber. I don’t think many business owners are really excited or even indifferent about putting themselves and their employees in harm’s way.
Zinsky
What a knucklehead! Your governor looks like an alcoholic used car salesman. A real class act.
Villago Delenda Est
I am happy that Steve is happy. Now. He didn’t look very happy last night. He looked decidedly un-Steve, that’s how he looked.
Ralphie
An aide to VP Pence has tested positive for the virus..
Stay healthy Madam Speaker…
JPL
Just as we knew they would, Justice Roberts put a hold on Mueller’s grand jury notes. fkffkfkfkfk
Amir Khalid
It’s a sad day when the Governor can say “fuck” on TV. It means the word is no longer taboo. It has been stripped of its magic, and when you say it no one will be shocked anymore. Alas! A lack-a-day!
senyorDave
@Ralphie:An aide to VP Pence has tested positive for the virus..
So if Trump and Pence both got it and died Pelosi would be president? That would probably tens of thousands of lives.
Ralphie
@senyorDave: Trump and Pence would both have to die first.
donnah
@Barbara: Amen to the Husqvarna sewing machines! I bought mine years ago to sew quilts and it was amazing. I had put it away as I pursued rug hooking, but brought it out recently so my sister could use it to make masks. After all that time unused, it fired right up and she made dozens of masks without a bit of trouble.
Ohio’s governor has returned to his Conservative roots, unfortunately and is planning budget cuts to Medicare and education. He had done a good job with stay at home rules. It’s frustrating to see the cuts coming when people here need the funding the most.
HeleninEire
Cuomo CRUSHING Trump on his bullshit “I banned flights from China.” Cuomo proving that the NY cases (and the ones they spread) came from EUROPE, which was closed 2 months after China. He’s not using the name Trump but he is clearly saying between the lines “SHUT THE FUCK UP” to T.
MisterForkbeard
@JPL: Man, it’s almost like all of these Republican judges and appointees are exactly as corrupt and partisan as Democrats said they were!
Jesus H Christ. I really hope future Dem administrations can find a way to fix the courts on top of fixing the DOJ, because hooooly shit are we far down the road to fascism.
Baud
@zhena gogolia: I choose not to realize that.
Brachiator
@Amir Khalid:
So now it’s “George Carlin’s 6 Words You Can’t Say on Television.”
MisterForkbeard
@Amir Khalid: He both apologized and explained it was an audio screwup within about 20 minutes due to outrage/panic. The magic is still there! :)
JPL
@HeleninEire: Where are you these days?
MomSense
@Nancy:
My iPhone auto capitalizes it now I write it so often.
By the way, Mike Dense was caught on a hot mic fake delivering an empty box of PPE to a hospital. Fuck Fucking Republicans.
Frankensteinbeck
So, Pence got caught carrying empty boxes into a nursing home and claiming they were PPE.
Amir Khalid
@MisterForkbeard:
A likely story.
Baud
“My profanity was taken out of context.”
Amir Khalid
@Frankensteinbeck:
I suspect it wasn’t a blunder: the empty boxes did contain as much PPE as the Trump administration was willing to provide.
dmsilev
@MomSense: Remember Paul Ryan pretending to wash pots at some food pantry?
Trump is a symptom. The GOP is the disease.
Brachiator
@MisterForkbeard:
From a quick Google search:
And Trump and McConnell are filling them as fast as they can.
HeleninEire
@JPL: Mostly just lurking. Working a lot on getting my Dad moved here to Queens. The first house deal fell through but now he has another one. Crossing our fingers for beginning of June. But I’m fine, thanks for asking.
HeleninEire
@Baud: That happens to me ALL the time. ?
stinger
Glad Steve is happy!
Since it’s an Open thread, I want to say that I attended a town hall last night for one of the Democratic candidates for Joni Ernst’s seat. The DNC has already made its choice, for reasons I’ve never actually seen spelled out (replace a woman with a woman, perhaps?), but Iowa Democrats haven’t, and I strongly support retired Admiral Mike Franken. If you have a little cash to throw toward defeating Ernst, it might be better to give to a specific individual than to the DNC/DSCC pool, at least until after the Iowa primary on June 2.
Suzanne
@MomSense: Another incredible detail about that: the box was empty, and he still struggled to lift it. So he set it down, blocking the operation of the sliding door. You know, the door that keeps hot air out.
The FSM is straight-up trolling us right now.
waspuppet
@CaseyL: If he had any brains he’d say “Fck yeah it was no accident,” even if it was.
He knows a lot more English than I thought!
middlelee
@MomSense: My iPhone is still trying to autocorrect to duck and ducking.
Eljai
I work for a large firm with offices around the country. One of the higher-ups asked if anyone had first responders and front-line workers in their family, so we could thank them. Just read an email highlighting some of the stories. One employee has a cousin who is an emergency medical tech who performs intubations on Covid-19 patients. The employee makes cloth masks to fit over and extend the life of her cousin’s n-95s. Another employee has a sister who works at a VA Hospital in the Midwest. Because PPE is scarce, the sister wears a face mask to work made by their mom. The sacrifice made by these people is not lost on me, but Jesus H. why are we still relying on good-hearted people’s craft projects to protect our medical personnel this many months into the pandemic? Oh, nevermind. America, fuckin’ A.
Gin & Tonic
@Barbara: Every time I see that logo I think of chain saws, and on this pic I was wondering why a plumber needs a chain saw. Then I remembered it was West Virginia.
BTW, my Husqvarna chain saw gave up the ghost, so I’m not all that happy.
MisterForkbeard
@Suzanne: To be fair, maybe he was pretending to have problems lifting it so that it’d look like he was lifting a full box? Haven’t watched it, but… Sigh.
Why am I trying to find a reasonable explanation? They’re just this bad. I should accept it.
Amir Khalid
@middlelee:
I think the best fix for this issue is to type “fuck” a whole lot more often.
japa21
@HeleninEire: Good to see you. I’ve been wondering where you were.
Suzanne
@MisterForkbeard: Pretending to struggle to lift a box is maybe even worse?
These people are as impotent as we think they are.
cmorenc
Fuck-n – A, Governor!
MattF
The Strong Language blog has a post on Swearing in the Time of Coronavirus.
Ohio Mom
donnah@17: DeWine is cutting MediCAID not MediCARE. Medicare is the program for people over 65, Medicaid is for people in poverty, people with disability, and for people covered by the ACA expansion.
But you are right that DeWine is being needlessly cruel — he could dip into the state’s rainy day fund to cover the shortfall.
I hate Republicans more every day.
Baud
@MomSense:
YOU get an empty box. YOU get an empty box. EVERYBODY gets an empty fuckin’ box.
Ohio Mom
HeleninErie: I was just thinking g about you the other day. Glad to hear you’re doing as well as anyone can.
Old Dan and Little Ann
SNL had a funny bit years ago about store called “Sofa King.”
khead
Where have you been Cole? I posted this shit here a long time ago.
trnc
I wonder if he just happened to come down with it 3-5 days after Pence got back from the Mayo Clinic.
MomSense
Oh and they removed some staffers from Air Force One who had contact with the Pence aide who tested positive. These Fucking Fuckers can do daily testing and contact tracing. They want us to die.
Feathers
@Brachiator: One of the things that the new administration needs to do is to go through the resumes, security clearance forms, etc. of all these new judges and kick out anybody who lies. Which, because Republicans, will probably be fairly high.
Rule of law, baby, rule of law.
HeleninEire
@japa21: Thanks
@Ohio Mom: Thanks
We’re, every one of us, just hanging in there doing the best we can.
Doug R
As a 22 year veteran of Purolator which is a nationwide overnight courier here in Canada, that dolly should have been set on 2 wheel, much easier to maneuver. You only block the door with a box if you have more than one dolly’s full of boxes-not at all if it’s an auto door with a sensor.
Of course dense Pence lifts with his back-that man hasn’t done manual labor for decades, obviously.
Amir Khalid
@Old Dan and Little Ann:
There’s a real furniture shop by that name in Scotland. And the slogan “Our prices are Sofa King low!”
trnc
Believe me, I hate to say it, but it turns out that Pence made a crack about empty boxes but didn’t actually take them out of the truck.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jimmy-kimmel-mike-pence-carrying-empty-boxes-video-2020-5
I’ll give him a pass on the stupid joke. He has a lot more to answer for about the covid 19 response than a wisecrack. For example, a photo op of carrying one box of masks while his administration fails to get more masks delivered or outright steals masks while being delivered.
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
I try to be fair to everybody! I watched it and that’s what happened.
But then, whoever it was didn’t say “keep fucking that chicken,” either.
SiubhanDuinne
@middlelee: Your iPhone is a fucking prude.
zhena gogolia
@Frankensteinbeck:
Again, I can’t get outraged about this. These things are always theater.
danielx
@Ralphie:
One can always hope (he says piously).
Elizabelle
Trump has just stepped in it again. Just listened to the NPR hourly recap. Trump has seen the video of Ahmaud Arbury’s shooting. He says justice must be done. And then added, per reporter — there could be something on the tape people did not see.
As in — AA was in some way a threat to these brave southern white males? He deserved what he got?
That one will get us even more votes. Cannot vote this sociopath out soon enough. Fucking bastard.
Old Dan and Little Ann
@Amir Khalid: Ha. That is the gist of the skit.
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
You haven’t been the US in a while have you? I believe that I hear the word fuck more than the word the. 8 to 80 it is rather common usage. Especially discussing anything in US politics the word fuck is often said more than once in the same fucking sentence.
Rich Webb
As an old, I’m surprised — in a good way — to see fuck and shit actually showing up in print in respectable publications like (pretty sure; have to dig through the stack to find actual instances) The Guardian, New Yorker, and The Atlantic. Most often (nearly always) in a quoted conversation. It seems much more honest than “That tornado scared the **** out of me!” or “Neighbor’s house burned down. Such a ****ing shame.” Everybody knows what’s left out — be honest and print what people say the way they say it.
JPL
Aaron Rupar’s twitter feed sent me into an absolute meltdown. He believes that trump will bring Obama and his administration up on charges.
I am sick
Ruckus
@middlelee:
Same here. I believe that this is the one place that apple is decades behind the times, the iPhone spelling gizmo. It always tries to autocorrect my swearing. Every other damn word. Now it doesn’t do that on the iMac.
trollhattan
@Ruckus:
Peak fuck might have been when somebody yelled at my friend, who was taking too much time walking his son to the car in a mall parking lot: “Fuck you, you fucking fuck.” Verb, adjective, noun–the trifecta.
trollhattan
@JPL:
What, they’re charging the Obamas for being awesome?
JPL
@HeleninEire: Please take care, and I hope that the house works out.
JPL
@trollhattan: Grinell has been going through documents cherry picking items to make it look as though the Russian investigation was a hoax.
Ruckus
@Eljai:
Simple explanation. Few or no wealthy profit skimmers are involved in PPE because it’s such a common and low margin product which costs their healthcare investments money. They import most of it from China because it’s even cheaper. That’s how shitforbrains knows who to call to find out when shipments are coming in to steal.
rikyrah
@JPL:
Try it, Muthaphucka ??
khead
Read your blog and catch up.
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
Doesn’t fucking work.
Amir Khalid
@Elizabelle:
Trump can’t help but defend the deplorables who make up his base. He is, after all, one of them.
MattF
@JPL: Hmm. Bringing charges against Obama has the additional feature of simultaneously ratfucking Biden. Could happen.
Emma from FL
@JPL: I say, bring it on. Discovery will be a doozy.
Amir Khalid
@Ruckus:
I was last in the US during the Clinton administration.
Baud
@JPL: They didn’t get Hillary, they couldn’t even indict the DOJ lead guy that they fired (name escaping me), there’s no way they can get Obama. Maybe they’ll try with some DOJ underling, but no one important.
Twitter wants attention. Best not to give it.
The Thin Black Duke
@rikyrah: I second this emotion.
Ruckus
@Old Dan and Little Ann:
There was a bit on Friends about the Sofa King as well.
Amir Khalid
@Ruckus:
Really? That’s a fucking pity.
NotMax
@HeleninEire
Hey there, no longer absent lass!
Baud
@HeleninEire:
I said “out of context.”
germy
Nelle
@stinger: Where are you? I’m in Urbandale and strongly in favor of Franken. The Des Moines Register endorsed him last night. If you are in the area, we have an extra sign for Franken, if you would like it. The scuttlebutt that I heard was that the DNC promised Greenfield support for this election if she would go quietly when there was a problem in her run for the House two years ago. It’s frustrating as hell, because they endorsed her immediately and didn’t let the primary play out. Then they funneled immense amounts of money to her, thereby choosing to ramp up name recognition for Greenfield. So, in essence, they’ve cut the Iowa voters out of the game. With the pandemic, Franken has been hobbled while she runs the same ads over and over in prime news time. Since when is being a widow a qualification for Senate? And I guess being a senator is a starter job in politics, just like being a president is.
Elizabelle
@JPL: Sick with laughter?
Try it, Trump mofos. Moar red meat for the
basewarriors.Ruckus
@MomSense:
Yes. Yes they do.
They think it will strengthen their bottom line. Plus they are fucking assholes.
WaterGirl
@germy: With no context, i have no idea if that is snark or real.
Ruckus
@trollhattan:
Was the son old enough to flip off the person speaking?
And did he?
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
When Bill was not fucking in the WH?
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
Yes. Yes it is.
A blaring fault with the iPhone, autocorrect won’t do swear words. Fucking Prudes……..
germy
@WaterGirl: She’s a comedy writer.
She’s also completely without vanity, judging from her twitter profile photo.
Mohagan
@trollhattan: what about the legendary 5-minute scene in The Wire where “fuck” was the only word of dialogue, repeated many times, as Bunk and McNulty investigate a murder scene. Season 1, Episode 4.
JPL
@Elizabelle: The minority vote would be the highest in history. They should show one of his clips to get out the vote.
zhena gogolia
@Mohagan:
Dostoevsky wrote something similar in the Diary of a Writer for 1873. He overheard drunken workmen carrying on a conversation and realized that “it was possible to express all thoughts, sensations, and even entire, profound propositions using only this one word which, besides, has very few syllables.” He was talking about the Russian word khui, which has something of the status of our f-word.
Amir Khalid
@Ruckus:
This was in 2000, after that business with Ms Lewinsky. But I think he still had an obligation to keep Hillary happy in every possible way, if you know what I mean.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Translation: Steve didn’t kill me in my sleep last night.
trollhattan
@Mohagan:
Classic David Simon, simply classic. Nicely bookended by Clay Davis, “Sheeeeeeee-it.”
trollhattan
@Ruckus:
Sadly, no. One imagines it happening to Walker and Texas Ranger, the sons on “Talladega Nights.” They’d have some responses.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Our previous house was built in the 40s and had all kinds of crazy do-it-yourself stuff done to it, so I had complete confidence in undergoing major projects, secure in the knowledge that I couldn’t make things worse.
One of those involved cutting a leaky cast iron drain pipe behind the kitchen sink. That was my introduction to the magic tool called the “Sawz-All”. Not a chain saw, but close.
Our current house was built in 1890 and has been treated for the most part pretty well, so I’m kind of afraid to do much with it and rely a lot more on pros.
John Revolta
@trollhattan: Fuck. They were fucking selling “Fuck You, You Fucking Fuck” T-shirts in NYC twenty fucking years ago, at least.
Nora Lenderbee
@trollhattan: Fucking go fuck yourself, you fucking fuck.
low-tech cyclist
@Nora Lenderbee: Fuck that shit.
Robert Sneddon
@Nora Lenderbee: Too many non-fuck words. The classic Glaswegian phrase “This fucking fucker’s fucking fucked.” manages 80%.
Another Scott
@Brachiator: Remember the joy in the newscasters’ eyes when they reported that Jimmy Carter said that if Kennedy got in the race that Jimmy would “beat his ass!”.
They lived for that stuff, back in the Before Times.
Grrr…
Cheers,
Scott.
KithKanan
@Robert Sneddon: wow, that beats the 75% of “Fuck the fucking fuckers!” example from George Carlin’s “Usage Of The Word Fuck”
2liberal
doesn’t that have to be done by impeachment, thru the senate?
Another Scott
@Gin & Tonic: In what way did your chain saw give up the ghost, if I may ask?
I have an old string-trimmer that I used for a few years, then it quit working. Gave me an excuse not to worry about the edging any more! But then things got out of hand…
It turned out there was a little metal flake bridging the gap in the spark plug. Cleaned that up, put the spark plug back, fired up good as new! Yay! Now I can do the edging again! :-/ Mumble-grumble.
Maybe your chainsaw has a similar issue and a similarly easy fix?
Good luck.
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
@JPL: Rule #1 – It’s always projection.
Rule #2 – See Rule #1.
Rule #3 – Krugman is generally right.
Rule #4 – If you think Krugman is wrong, see Rule #3.
HTH!
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
@germy: Genius.
Thanks.
[eta:] The “I can’t eat applause” poster (in the comments) was excellent as well.
Cheers,
Scott.
frosty
@trollhattan: Try tjis: Fuck! Fuck the fucking fuckers or they’ll fucking fuck us all!!
Interjection, verb, adjective, noun, adverb, verb (again).
5 of the 8 parts of speech Can’t make it work as pronoun, conjunction, or preposition
frosty
@Robert Sneddon: Better than mine. Add the interjection, delete “the”:
Fuck! Fucking fucker’s fucking fucked! 5 of 8, 100%.
Pappenheimer
There’s a lovely rhythm to Constable Peter Grant’s exclamation in one of the Rivers of London novels – “Fuckity Fuck Fuck Fuck!”. Said hero is not enjoying life at the time