NEW POLL: Biden opens nine-point lead over Trump in Senate battleground states https://t.co/RuLwjBFcUu pic.twitter.com/rlPedor5vB
— The Hill (@thehill) May 8, 2020
It didn’t have to be this bad. The hard truth is that Donald Trump was simply not up to the job. https://t.co/sUd5GjD6cl
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 8, 2020
Real presidents lead. Reality TV presidents don’t. pic.twitter.com/2lMwnRXLcG
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 7, 2020
Despite all the well-earned abuse, Meghan McCain’s got a point about Joe Biden — he’s a genuinely decent human being, as even a none-too-bright Republican legacy kid can understand.
Smart and insightful read from @Lis_Smith. @JoeBiden's greatest strength (and best contrast to Trump) is his empathy. That can't be taught and it translates well on TV. How the campaign moving off the trail and onto our screens provides a real opportunity: https://t.co/IkYOYv1kfa
— Matt Corridoni (@mattcorridoni) May 7, 2020
While we may not agree with every tactic proposed by Pete Buttigieg’s campaign manager, she obviously does have an eye for the zeitgeist:
… Mr. Biden’s greatest asset as a campaigner is his palpable empathy. Politicians can learn a lot of tricks — talking points, debate and interview strategies — but personal warmth is something that cannot be taught. It also happens to be a trait that translates well on TV…
This human touch is especially important at a time when voters are looking as much for a “healer in chief” as they are a commander in chief. It also sets up a stark contrast with President Trump, who in crisis after crisis has demonstrated a lack of empathy and inability to feel Americans’ pain…
His campaign should analyze the primary media consumption habits of the voters they need to put together for a winning coalition. For voters under the age of 40, it’s on mobile screens and social media; for black voters, local TV news; for Latino voters, Spanish-language TV and radio news outlets like Univision, Telemundo and La Mega, along with English-language local media in metro areas with large Latino populations…
By going everywhere, Mr. Biden will meet voters where they are, on their terms. Being able to do so without leaving his makeshift home studio gives him a tremendous advantage.
It’s only fitting that a “return to normalcy” would be achieved through the most abnormal circumstances in recent campaign history.
I for one am looking forward to a president who rarely tweets. And when your enemy's drowning, there's no need to jump and yell. Just sitting on the shore quietly watching Trump flail and asphyxiate isn't a bad campaign strategy right now. https://t.co/xKasji6xq6
— M.S. Bellows, Jr. (@msbellows) May 8, 2020
#Biden2020 pic.twitter.com/0HLdbFWSLX
— Judy (@JudyKautz6) May 8, 2020
It seems like common sense to thematically link Trump’s personal corruption to a broader policy critique of plutocracy but Democrats haven’t actually done it much, smart I think to see Biden take that direction. https://t.co/zk46HfJrXx
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 8, 2020
Baud
Excellent.
OzarkHillbilly
A righteous twitter rant:
Villago Delenda Est
“Return respect and dignity to America”
You know, make America actually great again.
Villago Delenda Est
@OzarkHillbilly: Change one word…”investors” to the more accurate “parasites” and suddenly things become clear.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: Not bad, but I’m not a fan of analyses that writes the racist white base out of the equation.
@Villago Delenda Est: I would settle for mediocre at this point.
prostratedragon
Halellujiah! Someone finally checked one of these cover lies out, in the matter of the Ahmoud Arbery murder:
I’d got so tired of hearing “there had been a lot of robberies” or whatever, and no one actually going to the public record to look it up. Give that man the Pulitzer.
OzarkHillbilly
@prostratedragon: Important info indeed, Thanx.
hueyplong
@prostratedragon: Any chance those guys reported the Jan 1 “theft” of one of the guns later used in their crime?
Starfish
@prostratedragon: A hero stole a gun from a bad guy with a gun on New Year’s Day, you say?
Immanentize
Is Joe locked down with his wife? We all know how much Michele helped Barack’s image. I wish Biden would make a viddy with his wife (a Doctor), who he clearly loves, in a “just at home together like you are” way.
Trump could never pull that off. What a clear contrast that would create.
OzarkHillbilly
An amazing and good story: The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
OzarkHillbilly
@hueyplong:
debbie
I came awfully close to punching my television screen last night. The first words out of Trump’s mouth, whatever the question, should not be “It’s not my fault” or “No one blames me.” Yeah, it is, and yeah, I do. It’s your depraved indifference to the majority of the inhabitants of this country that has brought us to this point.
I am heartened at the increased odds of his acquiring COVID-19. The universe sends us the lessons we need to learn.
Amir Khalid
@OzarkHillbilly:
This is a weird argument. It presumes that Those People don’t mind getting sick or injured, because then they get to entertain themselves by going to a doctor.
Anne Laurie
@prostratedragon: Imagined McMichaels dialog: Some (no doubt black) dude stole our gun! Our beloved display-penis! Only death can avenge the slur upon our veritable manhood!
District attorney, nodding along: Any good Southrun fella woulda done the same, boys. The colored, these days — uppity, ever’ one.
Bets against them using a slightly-cleaned-up version of this defense, to the media?
Baud
Arbery certainly isn’t the first unarmed black guy to be gunned down, but it seems like this murder is resonating with people in a way that past murders did not. Or that’s my subjective perception anyway.
hueyplong
@OzarkHillbilly: My question is whether it’s the same one. We all suspect they own dozens of guns.
Anne Laurie
He has! (Normal people loved those videos; the BernieBros / Repubs claimed they proved Biden had dementia, and needed her there as a minder.) I’m sure she’ll be in future clips, as is judged best.
Immanentize
@prostratedragon: when I first heard about the Arbery case, I wondered about why there was a video. I imagined it might have been taken by someone who was working with the McMichaels to upload the takedown later to YouTube. But shit went sideways. They seem never to identify the maker of the video in the news stories. But now we learn the viddy maker, “Roddie” Bryan, is likely to be arrested too.
debbie
@Baud:
I agree. Between the video and the sheriff’s explanation as to why he didn’t bring charges (ie, the minute Arbery grabbed the asshole’s rifle, he was legally allowed to use deadly force), outrage is the only reasonable response.
Immanentize
@Baud: I think it’s the lying in wait aspect. They hunted Arbery down. Action cam and all. And the DA doing nothing as if the video would never be seen.
Baud
@Immanentize: Yeah, from what I’m reading, the guy thought the video was exculpatory and that’s why he released it publicly.
Anne Laurie
Well, those guns are lifestyle accessories. Don’t you own more than one pair of shoes? More than one shirt?
Immanentize
@Anne Laurie: It’s funny, I saw the earlier ones, and they were good, but they weren’t speaking to everyone in the country the same way he can now.
debbie
@Immanentize:
It was reported here that they saw him, went home to get their guns, and returned to get him. Is this true?
WereBear
@OzarkHillbilly: That was a thing of beauty. Thanks.
JPL
This is from the AJC
BRUNSWICK —
SFAW
@Amir Khalid:
It’s an offshoot of the “If we pay those lazy [insert epithet] unemployment money to stay home, why would they ever want to go back to work.”
As if losing 50 percent of one’s wages, by staying home, is something the working poor (and working middle class) want to do. [Response from the wealthy/white whiners: “Na-na-na-na I can’t HEAR you!!!”]
Immanentize
@debbie: I’m not sure on that detail. I know they drove to a side street which he often jogged down and waited for him. I would not be surprised if they had to drop by home to pick up a few more weapons to execute their plan. I bet the phone texts are solid gold for prosecutors.
Also — fucking white trucks! The new signal of supremacy. The color of the only true flag of the Confederacy — one of complete surrender.
Baud
@JPL:
Damn. Usually it’s the prosecutors covering up for the police, no?
clay
@Anne Laurie: Yes, Joe and Jill were on Morning Joe together. They asked Jill specifically a question about how the lockdowns will education, and the Roses screamed of course they won’t question Joe, they know he has dementia, blah blah.
As if a woman with a Doctorate in Education has no business being asked about her subject of expertise. These are bad people.
debbie
Totally O/T, but Apple’s creativity in the time of COVID-19 ad is the best thing I’ve seen, especially the bit with the father powering his kids through shooting the curl on the living room carpet (at about 1:00). There are a few extra scenes, too.
bemused
@OzarkHillbilly:
Great story! I enjoy all the varied and interesting links you provide.
SFAW
@JPL:
No doubt paragon of honesty and integrity Brian Kemp will have DA Johnson fired. [Yes, I realize that GA governmental structure may not be amenable to that.]
debbie
@Immanentize:
Yeah, one of many ironies. Their mug shots are another.
Baud
@clay:
QFT. We demand conservatives to see Trump for what he is. We should do the same when it comes to bad people on our “side.”
Immanentize
@clay: I’m sorry I missed that — Wait, Morning Joe? Ok, I am not sorry I missed that.
You watch so I don’t have to. I thank you for your service!
Dorothy A. Winsor
We got notice this morning that no new cases of COVID are known to exist anywhere in the facility. Everyone in that Memory Unit has been tested for both active virus and antibodies. The one person who has it is in stable condition. The workers have also all been offered tests though I can’t tell if they all took them from reading the memo. Reading between the lines, it looks to me as if the test results aren’t back yet. I can’t believe how slow the testing is, even for an extended care facility that’s doing it’s best to be responsible.
Immanentize
@debbie: The son is a mouth breather. Literally. Never a good look for a pudgy southern fellow.
Immanentize
@Dorothy A. Winsor: relief!
Steeplejack (phone)
@OzarkHillbilly:
That is a great rant.
JPL
@SFAW: She’ll probably resign before Kemp has a chance to fire her. The police are simply trying to salvage their already bad reputation, and Kemp is upset because the state has been deservedly tarnished.
donnah
@OzarkHillbilly: Thanks for sharing that article at the Guardian. It brought tears, good ones, to my eyes. Amazing!
sanjeevs
This Biden ad is actually really good
https://mobile.twitter.com/fred_guttenberg/status/1258855214695747587
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Excellent.
@sanjeevs: Biden has a good ad team.
OzarkHillbilly
@Amir Khalid: Moral hazard is a disease that afflicts only the poor and the working classes who’s immune systems are suppressed due to their sad but inevitable and well deserved lowly existence. Rich people however are immune.
MattF
@Baud: Even the Orange Disgrace seems to get that something bad happened to Arbery. The narrative of ‘innocent black guy shot down by racist assholes’ is out there, and there’s no law-n-order counter- narrative.
OzarkHillbilly
@hueyplong: Sorry, I misread the question.
Gin & Tonic
For those here who’ve had any connection to NYC, a moment to mourn. Gem Spa is closing for good, I’ve heard. Don’t know where else you can go for an egg cream these days.
OzarkHillbilly
@bemused: I live to serve… bowing most humbly….
Seriously tho, I’m glad you like them.
TS (the original)
Coronavirus has dramatically changed the election campaigning this year. Most countries spend a couple of months campaigning before an election – the US spends years – trump in particular has been campaigning since the day he was elected. Maybe folks can learn this year that campaigns don’t have to cost millions or take years. It is an interesting and different election to watch from afar.
zhena gogolia
@sanjeevs:
Something in my eye.
bemused
@sanjeevs:
Terrific ad!
Baud
@MattF: He hedged his bets.
gene108
I am getting tired of the feeling that anytime I leave my place, I am taking my life into my hands.
I didn’t think it was affecting me this much, but it has.
raven
mad citizen
@Immanentize: I saw this Roddy Bryan on Inside Edition is a short clip. Apparantly a lawyer–maybe “their” lawyer, not clear on that. He sports a beard and long hair with the suit/tie lawyer look–quite a look. Anyway, he said he shared the video thinking it would clear the murderers. Ooops.
I think the reason it resonates is because it shows a racial execution in broad daylight. There is no misinterpreting it.
My newish next door neighbor just bought a new white pickup. I don’t think he’s a racist, he seems really nice and is from the Dem. corner of our state, and moved here to get out of Florida because they couldn’t take the crazy any longer.
Matt McIrvin
When Election Day comes around, Biden has been leading in the polls for the whole campaign, and then Trump mysteriously wins, I’ll look back fondly on these moments.
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@OzarkHillbilly: that’s awesome. Wish my Dad was still around he loved stories like that.
OzarkHillbilly
@sanjeevs: A good ad, brings back memories for me.
Immanentize
@mad citizen: I never said everyone who owns a white truck is a racist. Just that racists now prefer to own white trucks.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
It won’t be mysterious. Everyone understands Biden’s victory is no sure thing. We not going to make the same mistake we made with Hillary (I hope).
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Good piece.
prostratedragon
@Baud: I think it might be the obvious stalking on the video. In other cases, even where one could suspect that was what had happened, it hasn’t been so clearly documented. Also, from Arbery’s attire it was so plain that he was out for an exercise run; the instant the video rolled when I saw it my thought, oh no, they’ve killed a jogger.
Baud
@prostratedragon:
Production value is important these days, I guess.
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: Been talking with my son, and he and his wife are so apprehensive about the potential of Trump winning that they may never return to the US – at least not any time soon.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
I’d wait if I were situated abroad and had no reason to come back.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: The racists in my neck of the woods don’t care what the color of their truck is, just that they get to fly their freak flag.
ETA for some reason or other they like to highlight with the color “rust”.
Immanentize
@prostratedragon: Can’t you just imagine how those good old boys have been yucking it up for two months?
Immanentize
@raven: Great point. I wish people would take it in.
I didn’t know about the Kemp ad. Wow.
Matt McIrvin
@OzarkHillbilly: When I read Lord of the Flies in high school, I remember receiving it with enthusiastic recognition: yes, this is exactly how boys that age would behave. My model was gym class. In hindsight, I think I didn’t realize how much the savagery there was being tacitly encouraged by the adults in charge.
Dorothy A. Winsor
It feels as if the other side lives in lala land. These guys think the video exculpates them. I see on twitter that Trump says the rest of the world looks to the US as a leader on COVID. Even when I know we’re the ones living in reality, it’s still disorienting to hear stuff like that all the time.
Mostly I believe reality will eventually make itself felt. But once in a while, I remember how often they escape it, and then I’m looking into the abyss.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: You know they were.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: That’s because Rust Never Sleeps.
ThresherK
Isn’t being stupid enough to leave a firearm to be taken from a vehicle like that a crime in some places?
(Of course, we all know that this is the kind of thing which should increase whatever compulsory insurance the firearm pays, whether auto, home, or gun. Benign neglect has consequences. You can’t install a swimming pool without a fence around it; this is even moreso.)
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: HA! Good comeback. :-)
ETA and I shouldn’t talk too much, rust is an accessory on most of my vehicles. I’ve had to get rid of a # of them because while I could keep them running, I couldn’t keep body parts from falling off.
Immanentize
@Gin & Tonic: Considering all that is happening in Ukraine, that is quite the indictment.
ThresherK
Have you seen the “Tompkinson’s School Days” episode of Ripping Yarns? It has heaps of that.
Raven
@Immanentize: kemp ad. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/other/brian-kemp-so-conservative–campaign-2018/2018/07/25/46743c34-903c-11e8-ae59-01880eac5f1d_video.html
charluckles
I know I shouldn’t get bogged down in conspiracy thinking, but Biden’s empathy and decentness are a part of the reason I am skeptical of the Reade issue. Facing a disgusting immoral and unethical turd like Donald Trump I firmly believe Biden’s compassion and morality are going to shine like a beacon. It just seems too on the nose for our recent history of ratf*cking that these accusations would come out at this time and be sighted directly at one of the greatest strengths Biden has against Trump.
OzarkHillbilly
Another item for the “Things That Will Never Happen in America” file:
Police watchdog investigates London stun gun shooting
Concerns raised about ‘disproportionate’ use of force after young black man is seriously injured
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
prostratedragon
@Immanentize: You know they did. Turns the stomach. Like lynching souvenirs. Sometimes people who had such things in the old days would show them around to Black folk. A family friend who experienced that sort of hinting as a teenager got the hell out of Mississippi, leaving parents behind, and never went back.
@Baud:
Yeah. Ever see a movie called Gun Crazy? This looked kind of like that to me.
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: It’s a different problem from 2016. This election is going to be so disrupted by the plague, I don’t see how we get high turnout or a legitimate election process in most of the country. And Trump is going to be doing his best to make sure the pandemic is still raging and ramp up the chaos–whether he wants it or not, it’s the only thing he knows how to do.
His best strategic bet for November probably is for things to be so bad that it’s impossible for people to vote properly or have any confidence who really won, then declare a landslide victory.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Wisconsin suggests you are incorrect about the plague deterring our voter turnout disproportionately.
MomSense
It is snowing here.
OzarkHillbilly
@MomSense: Not here. I spent an hour last eve covering plants in the garden and it only got down to 36.
Gin & Tonic
@Immanentize: Given how the US treats immigrants, maybe it’s just logical.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@prostratedragon:
Yup – loping pace, casual running clothes, no burglary bag.
MomSense
@OzarkHillbilly:
If you hadn’t covered your plants you would have had snow and ice!
prostratedragon
It’s 38 at Chicago Midway, but very sunny. Supposed to get a rain/snow mix tomorrow night. I haven’t much knowledge here. Does the temperature gradient from north to south or poles to middle flatten with warming at the poles?
Baud
@MomSense: Like the umbrella rule.
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: Turnout was way down, though. Who knows what the margin would have been in the counterfactual?
Nicole
@OzarkHillbilly: That was a great read! Thanks for sharing it.
NotMax
Tired of waiting for any dedicated movie threads (watch, one will now mystically appear) so gonna drop this here before it gets any more stale.
Some second-string possibilities (including kooky obscurities) for passing the time – B Movies Available for Free Download.
Keith P.
I predict that the media will not be doing the “Which candidate do you want to have a beer with?” bit this cycle.
Omnes Omnibus
@Matt McIrvin: Turnout was way down by what measure?
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
You can speculate any scenario. When you look at available evidence, however, it’s hard to justify wringing our hands about losing. It’s a possible outcome, but not a likely one.
Just because we rolled snake eyes in 2016 doesn’t mean the odds of it happening again have changed.
JPL
@charluckles: The news media needs to ask Tara if she would allow Congress to release her personnel records.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@NotMax:
Man, a lot of that is some sloppy viewing.
I liked my crap movies in the past, but find them difficult today (my faves of all time were “Hot Rods to Hell” and “Panic in the Year Zero”).
MomSense
@Baud:
Exactly!
rikyrah
@Villago Delenda Est:
Folks have come around to your view on the GOP and MSM
Wipe them out. All of them.???
WereBear
@NotMax: Thanks! I’m an Ed Wood fan :)
rikyrah
Nicole
@Gin & Tonic: There are plenty of places in NYC that still serve egg creams. I mean, not at the moment, obviously, but the egg cream will survive. It’s New York Tough.
Embarrassing to admit, as I used to live on 5th and B and I’m sure I walked by it oodles of times, but I can’t remember if I ever went to the Gem. Probably stopped in at some point, but I’m not sure. There were so many bodegas down there back then.
Always sad when a fixture goes.
rikyrah
Baud
@rikyrah:
Perfect.
rikyrah
rikyrah
Phuck this racist heifer??
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
Washington Square Diner.
(The Lumberjack breakfasts are huge!)
rikyrah
RIP ????
Omnes Omnibus
@rikyrah: RIP
rikyrah
OzarkHillbilly
@MomSense: Yep.
Matt McIrvin
@rikyrah: I’ve been following this same fight going on in New Zealand–Maori communities running checkpoints and white people getting upset over it. But the majority I’ve heard seem to be pointing out that the Maori are protecting everybody by doing this.
PsiFighter37
Timothy Egan has a good and very sobering editorial on the whole mess and how Trump is just living in a completely different reality. We’re fucked. We need actual leadership now, but the dithering from him and McConnell is going to get tens of thousands more killed (if not more) and will probably put us in a long-term economic depression. The fact that nothing is going to change on a federal level for at least another 8 months is a disaster. And if Trump cheats his way to another win…I am going to read up on Canadian immigration rules, because this country may just not be worth it anymore.
Just One More Canuck
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Surf Nazis Must Die? Earth Girls Are Easy? Young Einstein?
WereBear
@rikyrah: RIP.
Sab
@gene108: I have to apologize to my husband every time I go to the grocery! He says send the kids. The kid next door is a single mother of a six year old autistic child. So I should send her to buy our groceries?
mad citizen
@rikyrah: This makes me sad. I believe he has been living out his final years on top of a Nashville hotel, if I recall correctly. When I hear a Little Richard song on the satellite radio (Underground Garage mostly), his voice and energy leap out of the speaker. This man transcended the art form.
I’ve heard a bit of his later stuff–1970s–still very interesting. My childhood memories of him are seeing him on the Mike Douglas show, or Merv Griffin, thinking, “what the hell is this?” And he was the performer who would tell the audience to “Shup Up”, I think.
bemused
Mackay Coppins wrote a good piece in Atlantic about the stress of flying on a full plane recently. Masked passengers very edgy being close to each other on plane. At least all or most passengers seemed to be taking Covid 19 seriously. I can only imagine how much more anxiety producing it would be to fly on a plane packed with reopen, trump supporters.
I think Coppins’ opinion “false promise of a return to normalcy” is sadly correct.
Sab
@Matt McIrvin: When I first read Lord of the Flies as a twelve year old girl, I thought yes that is exactly how boys would behave.
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah: Hmmmm, Shannon County MO did the same thing. I don’t recall reading any communications from the Feds that they had to “consult and come to an agreement with the state of Misery before closing or restricting travel on state or US Highways.” I wonder why that was?
Sab
Pie filter is getting weird. What is with the 18th century rider standing over his dead horse?
NotMax
@Sab
Road apple pie?
:)
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
???????
JMG
For the truly paranoid, I wish to point out that Trump could lose both the popular vote and electoral college and still get re-elected. Enough states have Republican state legislatures to give Trump 270 simply by passing laws making the legislatures the selectors of electors. This would be entirely constitutional, as one justice whose name I forget helpfully pointed out in Bush v. Gore.
Of course, this would probably lead to a significant number of dead legislators, so I don’t think it will happen.
Sab
@NotMax: Ick.
feebog
Good morning everyone from SoCal. Golf courses opening this weekend, albeit with restrictions. Going to be beautiful the next few days. Get out, soak up some vitamin D and put that depression aside for a few hours.
rikyrah
They ?are ? not ? playing ?
debbie
@rikyrah:
Good. And he brought up Flynn, too.
raven
@mad citizen: He didn’t have a hit after 1958!
Havin some fun. . .
MagdaInBlack
@Sab:
Beating a dead horse…..for THOSE threads ??
eta: Ms Crackers suggestion, I recall.
JMG
@feebog: Golf courses reopened here today in Mass. It snowed this morning and is now 38 with 30 mph winds in my town, so I don’t think they’re getting much play.
Miss Bianca
@rikyrah: Oh, man – RIP, Little Richard.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@feebog: (Looks outside)
It’s cloudy here in Glendale.
RIP, Little Richard.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Sab: I think that’s usually a GIF, “beating a dead horse”.
Lapassionara
@mad citizen: I adored Little Richard as a teen. I went into mourning when he left music and went into the ministry. A highlight was seeing him at the House of Blues in Atlanta, during the Olympics.
Miss Bianca
@Sab: Is it the guy flogging his downed horse? I believe Betty Cracker introduced that meme the other day when we were all…ahem…doing something she deemed similar on a thread.
ETA: I don’t use the pie filter so I miss out on all the cute new graphics that have been introduced for it. Like the sea lion chow bag.
debbie
@rikyrah:
I am convinced Trump and FEMA have hoarded wipes and Purell into hidden warehouses. I am so fucking sick of looking for these things every frggin’ week, I could scream.
debbie
@rikyrah:
Local station was playing him just last week. ?
germy
@Lapassionara: And he got his first break from the great Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
mad citizen
@raven:
Yes, amazing–his stuff was so different I think it took a few decades for people to realize how great it was. Friggin’ Pat Boone’s versions of the Little Richard songs charted higher–wtf? Little Richard said he sang Long Tall Sally faster to make it harder for Pat Boone to copy him.
Just watched the 17 minute 1974 performance in the RS obit–a movie called “Let the Good Times Roll”–highly recommended clip! Just crazy energy. Raven you should watch it will take you back. I loved that music festival photo of yourself from back in the day that you shared, by the way.
Betty
@Immanentize: They did that with granddaughter discussing his love for ice cream – with lots of kidding.
Amir Khalid
@rikyrah:
RIP Little Richard. There’s nothing else in rock like the raucous energy of his early work, and for many he was rock’n’roll’s first gay icon.
StringOnAStick
@bemused: My current assumption is anyone you see in public without a mask is a tRump MAGAT and has likely taken to doing the opposite of social distancing, since the base is now all in on it being a hoax. I know it never crossed my mind in the Before Times that a pandemic would be so heavily politicised.
The dental office I used to work at is reopening this Monday. I’m so, so glad I decided to retire as of March 13. I suspect that most of the patients who will be coming for dental hygiene care are tRumpers, and all the rational, careful ones will only make an appointment for emergency dental.issues. That’s what my husband and I are doing. I feel so sorry for the people I used to work with.
Jeffro
@Villago Delenda Est: @Baud:
not merely ‘great’ again…OBAMA-level great!
This suffering country (well, half of it anyway) deserves nothing less.
Sab
@MagdaInBlack: I think I will switch to the aphorisms side of the pie filter.
Jeffro
@sanjeevs: That’s amazing – go Uncle Joe!
raven
@mad citizen: The clip I posted is from that show.
zhena gogolia
How do we ever survive this mess?
Gin & Tonic
@feebog: Do I get much Vitamin D when it’s 40 degrees with 20-30 mph winds gusting to 40? Asking for a friend.
Anya
Sorry for the OT.
I feel so much better after I unfollowed Yashar Ali.
Biden’s ad team are really good.
Baud
@Anya: Is he a Bro? I try to keep a mental list so I know who not to trust.
WaterGirl
@Sab: Okay, that was me! Betty Cracker posted a great GIF of a soldier beating a dead horse in response to a troll the other day, and I liked it so much I threw it in the pie filter.
Likely won’t stay, but it was fun for a little bit
Sadly, the GIF-ness didn’t stay when it was added to the pie filter.
bemused
@StringOnAStick:
Agree. Can’t trust people who don’t wear a mask or social distance or any sensible action to protect themselves or the rest of us. Also those people who keep whining about losing their constitutional rights while claiming to use “common sense” protections against virus. I don’t trust them either even if they haven’t been out protesting.
Omnes Omnibus
@bemused: Um, what are mask wearing and social distancing if not common sense protections?
WaterGirl
@Sab: I just took the guy beating the dead horse out of the pie filter. He did sort of change the mood. :-
If you refresh your screen, you won’t have the horse anymore.
VOR
Agree, Joe and Jill Biden seem to have a real relationship unlike whatever it is between Trump and Melania. But just to clarify, Jill Biden is not a medical doctor but instead has a Doctorate of Education (Ed. D.). She is a life-long teacher.
Immanentize
@raven: I love a horn section.
different-church-lady
I’d feel a whole lot better if Pennsylvania had been part of that battleground poll.
WaterGirl
@Jeffro: That ad was not paid for by the Joe Biden, but by some other group.
mad citizen
@raven: That one is the first one in the Rolling Stone obit–from the 1950s. I’m talking about this 1974 movie clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EKpydNWqKc
(which is further down in the obit)
I admit I FFd to the music–they introduce him at 4:20. And in parts of this movie they cut in footage from the 1950s clips. Anyway, the 1974 one turns into a crazy vamp with Little Richard doing some stagecraft–climbing the speaker tower, throwing his clothes into the audience, etc. Great stuff.
Matt McIrvin
@bemused: They go on about “personal responsibility” and then actively deprecate any acts of personal responsibility. For them it seems to mean acting as if externalities of behavior don’t exist.
Immanentize
@VOR: The Doctor thing is my little joke, sorry. I live in the Boston area where we are soggy with ‘Doctors.’ We also have a lot of health care professionals.
bemused
@Omnes Omnibus:
The local guy I was referencing carefully won’t say if he uses a mask or not but makes clear in other remarks he is a trumper. It’s the trunpers who don’t outwardly show who they are or say out loud who they are that are not so easy to detect and steer clear of.
bemused
@Matt McIrvin:
Yes.
Brachiator
@rikyrah:
I loved his music. When I was a kid, an aunt and uncle would let me play some of their old 78s. To this day, I associate “Lucille” with the way the needle would dance and bounce over the record as it played.
Years later, when we had moved to California, I was at a magazine stand in Hollywood, stopping off on my way to the movies.
As I turned, I froze as saw a man sitting in the passenger side of a car parked at the curb. Either reading my mind, or simply having had the situation happen so many times, the man looked at me and smiled and said, “That’s right. I’m Little Richard,” and held out his hand to me.
Elizabelle
@WaterGirl: Nooooo! I loved the horse! It was so perfect.
Do we now get PonyCake??
Steeplejack (phone)
@raven:
Your clip is originally from Don’t Knock the Rock (1956).
Another Scott
@zhena gogolia: By being as smart and as careful as we can, and taking one day at a time.
Don’t despair. We’ll get through this, and we’ll vote the monsters out. Things will get better.
Cheers,
Scott.
Elizabelle
@raven: Bill Haley of the Comets is in the audience.
And note that audience: completely segregated. White, white, white; black performers. No alcohol: they’re drinking sodas and ice cream drinks.
From a movie: Don’t Knock the Rock
Little Richard had the most beautiful cheekbones and facial structure.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@NotMax: One of our favorite places and neighborhoods in NYC. We often head straight for the West 4th Street subway stop and just walk around for a few hours, hitting all our favorite places.
Jinchi
I know it feels like years, but it’s only been a couple of months since Super Tuesday. Does Matt Yglesias not remember Elizabeth Warren’s campaign?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Anya:
the guy who’s retweeted a lot and nobody seems to know why?
Anya
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I followed him for the elephants. I am a huge elephant supporter and really liked his focus on elephants survival but he is so freaking insufferable and he is such a sycophant but also a scold. I just can’t anymore.
WaterGirl
@Elizabelle: I can see if there’s something Avalune could do to make something related, that would fit in better with what’s there.
different-church-lady
@VOR: Trump and Melania seem to have gotten a years-long head start on social distancing.
The Lodger
@Immanentize: I hope Neil Young can remember that.
Salty Sam
A-yup.
Salty Sam
Heh- Last year we drove our ‘03 Suburban from Texas to Massachusetts, and sold it after we finished getting our boat seaworthy.
It had been a former ranch work vehicle, stored in a barn when not used- had never seen salted roads in its life. We were amused by the reaction of the Salem boatyard guys’ to a 17 year old beater with NO RUST WHATSOEVER on the undercarriage. At one point, there was a line of guys coming over to take a look. It sold pretty quick!
James E Powell
Way back in 10th grade I went to a Big Rock Concert with five or six bands including Country Joe & the Fish and Cactus and headlined by Mountain. Most of the bands played, but after about an hour wait, they announced that Mountain had cancelled, but they had Little Richard. When he came out, the crowd started booing because of the wait and the disappointment, but two songs into the set, the people caught his energy and he tore down the house. I remember we were all standing on our seats.