DON’T LET TINKERBELLE DIE, YOU CYNICS!
oh then someone get me three pontoon boats with Big Green Egg grills, a few bags of charcoal, some rope, and a wind forecast. https://t.co/WZUgiB7BgQ
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) August 16, 2020
Reminder, for chroniclers of Donald the (Im)Prudent:
… Many ships were wrecked on the coasts of Scotland and Ireland and more than a third of the initial 130 ships failed to return. As Martin and Parker explain, “Philip II attempted to invade England, but his plans miscarried. This was due to his own mismanagement, including the appointment of an aristocrat without naval experience as commander of the Armada, but also to unfortunate weather, and the opposition of the English and their Dutch allies, which included the use of fireships sailed into the anchored Armada.”…
J. Hogan Gidley, “National Press Secretary Donald J. Trump for President”, admires another man’s thigh tattoo:
Epic: I attended my FIRST, EVER @realDonaldTrump boat parade this past weekend in Clearwater, FL and it did NOT disappoint. These videos and pics do not come close to doing it justice but it was amazing. Thanks to all those freedom-loving patriots who made it happen. God bless! pic.twitter.com/dPusa4O2hq
— J. Hogan Gidley (@JHoganGidley) August 16, 2020
— J. Hogan Gidley (@JHoganGidley) August 16, 2020
RaflW
Bitcoin scammer will have serious tattoo regret in a couple years (if his liver lasts that long).
mrmoshpotato
Mom, are you sure “cult” can also be spelled T-r-u-m-p-t-r-a-s-h?
Yes, honey. It became accepted spelling in June 2015.
SiubhanDuinne
Well, that’s grotesque.
jl
Do not joke with Trumpsters you know about his oleandrin cure, you might end up in court on a charge of some kind of manslaughter. That is a very seriously powerful deadly cardiac toxin if not used very carefully. Commenter Sab in previous thread says the experimental drug is made from flowers not other parts of oleander species plants, so maybe not so powerful as other forms. But generally that shit is super dangerous, and you think his dumbass followers will be careful?
Trumpeter bigshots are murderous idiots.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato:
@jl: It’s a death cult.
Brachiator
Spanish armada. The Death Star. What’s next? The Hindenburg?
So much projection with these dopes, maybe they unconciously are asking to be stopped.
It’s only fair to give them what they want.
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You will enjoy reading in previous thread about my dumbshit experiment as a tweener putting an oleander leaf in my mouth to see if it was as bad as my grandpa said. Even that much packs a punch.
Trump is unbelievable.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: Oh, I already read it. I believed them when they told me that oleander was poisonous.
Baud
What was the previous world record?
Baud
@jl: Death does tend to stop the virus.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Yup, stops it right in it’s tracks.
Sister Golden Bear
@RaflW: What’s the over/under on when he gets the cover-up tattoo?
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: World record of what? Assclowns gathering?
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
I don’t know. What’s the chyron in the first tweet referring to?
mrmoshpotato
@Sister Golden Bear: How would you cover up that monstrous monstrosity – a rectangle of black ink?
Seriously, that tattoo is gigantic.
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: well, but you’re smart. Not fair.
As for post, typically if you know any HS history at all and want to convey overwhelming might, you just say ‘armada’ and leave off the Spanish part. If you want to convey a threat ending in humiliating deadly debacle, you add it.
Brachiator
The pandemic is having an impact on a country’s elections.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: World record gathering of assclowns it is! ?
Feathers
Looks like the parade was a bunch of assholes maximizing wake and swamped a boat they overtook. Didn’t seem to be offering much aid to the people who ended up in the water either. Can someone who knows better offer more commentary?
jayjaybear
Man, the only thing that tattoo needs is a case of needle-induced hepatitis…
jl
@Baud: Baudism was in with that kind of innovative thinking long before the Trumpsters. But they’re running this joint and you’re not. Quite a mystery and not fair.
Baud
@jl: My fault for joining the reality-based political party.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@jl:
If only Trump would take it. I wonder if he ever really took hydroxychloroquine like he claimed he was and if he did suffered adverse consequences. I’m going to guess either he lied or he was given a placebo
mrmoshpotato
OT –
“Danbury, Connecticut can eat my whole ass!” -John Oliver
Calouste
@Brachiator: Charge of the Light Brigade?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Feathers:
All the Trump cultists in the comments are trying to deflect blame.
“The boat was overloaded”
“Yeah, like they purposefully tried to sink the boat. It was likely just from a lack of proper boat maintenance.”
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Brachiator:
I guess this goes to show that all that talk about the rest of the world having the virus under control and how much the US is a “failed state” was a tad premature.
I mean make no mistake, we’re doing worse than any other comparable developed nation, but this virus is a contagious bugger
mrmoshpotato
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Mmmmm…..Sunday night cesspool.
Chief Oshkosh
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I don’t remember anyone saying that the rest of the world has or had the virus under control. I remember a lot of people pointing out that we’re doing worse, which still seems to be the case by orders of magnitude, with no hyperbole.
Maeve
Allegedly my ancestors were descended from the Spanish Armada
– “Black Irish”. They’d have to not only get shipwrecked but really get around to account for all the dark haired Irish.
That’s only half of my ancestry. The other is very American and includes 19th century German and Austrian immigrants as well as those who go back to the 1600s and includes both slaves and slave holders.
Viva BrisVegas
@Brachiator:
Do you think that there is a single conservative party in the Western world that would have given up an unfair advantage?
What is it about liberals that they always give the other guy a break even as he prepares to kick them in the balls.
I say kick first, let them bleat later.
jayjaybear
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Republicans, the party of personal responsibility…
jl
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): @Chief Oshkosh:
No. Many other countries have it under control in 2 ways. First, they can maintain the prevelance of infection and death to 1 to 3 orders of magnitude below ours and maintain a functioning society and economy. Their ‘new normal’ is sustainable and livable, even if a pain in the butt, but without mass death.
Brachiator
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Getting the virus under control is one problem. Keeping the virus under control is another problem altogether.
The US as a whole is failing at both tasks.
And this is all on Trump.
jl
@jl: Second, when there is an outbreak, they can ID where it came from, how it is moving through society and fix the problem without prolonged and ineffective shutdowns. Victoria Australia is in a massive shutdown, but that because of a massive control policy snafu that they are fixing.
Absolutely no reason to wallow in futility with this disease.
opiejeanne
@SiubhanDuinne: Yes, it is grotesque.
The hand int the photo has “LOST’ tattooed on the fingers, I wonder what’s tattooed on his other hand.
opiejeanne
@jl: Growing up, we heard all sorts of stories about people poisoning themselves by using oleander sticks to toast marshmallows or hot dogs.
Oleander and castor beans were the two scary poisonous plants in great abundance in Southern California, and every summer we’d hear on the news that some kid would ingest castor beans and die, or nearly die as a result.
jl
Every time their has been an outbreak in another country there are doom and gloom reports in the US about how hard it all is and report it like their shit is all falling apart. But guess what? They control the outbreak. S Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Australia. Croatia is only country that had a resurgence that threatened to wipe out their whole control effort and be as bad as their first wave. But they controlled it. Wasn’t in the news because US media are useless slobs but if they wanted a scare story they should have written about that.
Worst outbreaks now are due to corporations negligent in worker safety: Spain, Poland…
Mai naem mobile
@jl: all I know about Oleanders is that they’re super dangerous to dogs. That’s the reason I’ve never planted Oleanders even though they’re one of the few easy super bloomers kind of shrubs to plant in the desert.
scav
NZ currently has 69 cases — clearly that demonstrates how utterly unfailed the US response has been. But hey, a spike is a spike is a spike.
jl
Right now New Zealand is reacting to an outbreak about 12 percent of its first wave, which was small compared to many countries. I still haven’t seen reports of continuous community spread from new outbreak. Evidence indicates a problem screening visitors. I think their problem is completely different from ours.
Anne Laurie
Yeah, that particular myth was invented back when a dark-haired Spanish lord was considered ‘more respectable’ than a mere Irish peasant immigrant.
The dark-haired, blue-eyed Irish folk (like both my parents), if not actually ‘the original Picts’, were around long before the red-headed (like me) Viking invaders.
Insufficiently known fact: The archetypically ‘Irish’ surname Finnegan, as in Finnegan’s Wake, means ‘son of the fair-haired foreigner’.
See also: Dublin.
Mai naem mobile
We have an extended family whatsapp gp going and I have Aussie and Canadian relatives needling us about our actions on COVID. I know this is not on my top concern of the year list but its embarrassing. I remember relatives making jokes about Clinton/Monica but here they’re laughing at us as a country.
jl
@scav: That is total active current cases, right?
A spike that has a source you can understand and can be controlled is completely different from one that you don’t and cannot.
OzarkHillbilly
Total current cases in New Zealand- 66
Total current cases in US- 42,181
We don’t even belong in the same conversation as New Zealand.
Gvg
Oleanders are planted, extensively in Florida along roadsides as they are drought tolerant. We were taught as kids that you had to throw away the trimmings and never ever burn them because the smoke was poisonous. I didn’t want to deal with all the cautions so I’ve never planted one. There are several nice plants that seemed too much worry to be worth it. On the roadsides though I don’t think they are trimmed.
joel hanes
@Brachiator:
Spanish armada. The Death Star. What’s next? The Hindenburg?
Children’s Crusade
OzarkHillbilly
@Mai naem mobile: I’m laughing at us as a country. Why should they have all the fun?
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly:
Just laughing, or following it with the obligatory “Oh for fuck’s sake!” as well?
OzarkHillbilly
@mrmoshpotato: I tend to start with “Oh for fuck’s sake!”
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: That works too.
OzarkHillbilly
@OzarkHillbilly: Adjusting for population, to get into the same Covid conversation as NZ, our current cases would have to be in the neighborhood of 5412.
ETA: and now I’m going back to bed in the vain hope that I can resume my charlie horse interrupted sleep.
jl
@OzarkHillbilly: Adjusted to US pop, NZ would have about 4600. Your approx 50 K is new confirmed cases. Total active confirmed cases is about 10 x that, since most cases take 7 to 12 days to resolve infection, unless you so sick you go to the hospital.
But still, yeah, not in the same league. And they know to control their spike, and high probability they will,, we got nothing.
jl
@OzarkHillbilly: yeah, thanks. I’m too lazy to do the exact arithmetic.
Xenos
@joel hanes: re. “Children’s Crusade”, the Q contingent has already gone there. Really.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Chief Oshkosh:
@jl:
@Brachiator:
Fair enough
mrmoshpotato
Happy 77th to Robert DeNiro!
Gvg
I wonder if any of the Trump trash boasting about his boat parades have ever heard of the Vol navy?
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
The Aristocrats!
Ruckus
@Feathers:
Harbors are relatively small and too much speed creates too much wake. Not wake as in not asleep but wake as in can fill a small boat with water. It’s the primary reason that there are pretty slow speed limits in harbors. Yes I owned a 30ft sailboat that I sailed in the pacific. Also most boats do not have the degree of control like a car so more room is needed to manage. A 30 ft sail boat is bigger than a car but at slow speed handles more like a motorcycle with flat tires than a car and while a car accident can be disastrous there are seat/shoulder belts, air bags and a crush frame around you and you aren’t near as likely to drown if there is an accident. A group of drunk – and I’m considering some of them must drink a lot, to get a tattoo like that – people who don’t give a shit about others, and who would get a tattoo like that don’t give two shits about themselves.
jl
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Just want you to keep your chin up and be optimistic. US could get it under control like other countries within 3 months if we made a good effort. Even train wrecks like UK and Sweden are turning it around after they ditched their misguided race to herd immunity nonsense.
jl
When we write to congress to ask what they going about criminal WH, should also tell them we could get covid under control like other successfull countries in 3 mos if we tried, so WTF is the problem?
patrick II
That tattoo is pretty horrifying. Who would want Trump tattooed on his body? Let alone a horribly angry Trump with face tattoos? And the tattoos are interesting. MAGA, Self Made are prominent (and also pretty insane). 2020 on the chin, but other things are even more interesting. There are a couple of illuminati symbols above and to the right of his right eye, and on his left cheek a goat head — which I don’t get at all.
If you look closely though, you will see the tattoo artist had the last laugh, shaping his hair like a dead duck, with the bill just above his right ear and the eye just above that, the body lying across his scalp with the feet above the outer part of his left eye and ear.
I have seen tattoos emblematic of a person’s inner struggle with sanity before, and this one ranks right up there — horrifying mishmash of mental incoherence and turmoil, and distressing to look at.
mrmoshpotato
@jl:
Pat, I’d like to solve the puzzle. THE FUCKING REPUBLICAN PARTY
JPL
Mock the boaters all you want, but we have at least thirty percent of the population who think it’s cool.
we are so f..ked up
Luciamia
Oy, that tattoo. Looks like a minor demon from one of the Hellraiser movies.
jl
@mrmoshpotato: Congrats! You win Trump tattoo. You want it with or without the duck?
mrmoshpotato
@Luciamia:
That’s a terrible thing to say – about the Hellraiser series.
jl
@patrick II: thanks for catching that duck, which does look rightly dead. Who says tattoo isn’t an art? Not me.
JPL
So now trump is pushing another miracle cure which contains oleander? What’s next oleander mixed with bleach. What do you to lose.
Raven
And we just were given the beach house for a week!
JPL
@Raven: Sweet!
Anne Laurie
I think the Illuminati symbols have something to do with QAnon. And the goat could be a ‘Greatest Of All Time’ callback?
But this is pure guesswork on my part, assuming that anyone who’d get a Trump tattoo that large would also be hospitable to (shall we say) related hard-for-sane-people-to-decipher gestures…
Sab
Coast Guard in Ohio announced it has had a record number of search and rescue operations this number, attributable in part to record number of new boat owners. Newbies in boats on a great lake. What could go wrong?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
The Spanish Armada was the original invasion by the Others for the WASPS too.
SFAW
It’s kind of depressing that my “happy place” is wishing for a latter-day* Kevin Uxbridge to deal with the Republican officeholders and their supporters/voters.
* Although I guess, technically, he’s from the future, not the past.
SFAW
@Sab:
I see that phrase, and I think about submarine bases in Kansas. I mean, I guess the Ohioans consider the lake shore a “coast,” but, seriously? There’s a 200-plus-acre pond in my town; maybe I should call the local beach the “coast”?
OldDave
@opiejeanne:
Mind?
patrick II
@Anne Laurie:
The Knights Templar were condemned for worshiping a goat, often shown in the form of a goat’s head. I looked it up after.
Knights Templar had nothing to do with Illuminati, but you are probably right, it’s Qanon and to them that makes little difference.
tokyokie
@Brachiator:
Kublai Khan’s glorious invasion of Japan would be my guess.
sherparick
@Feathers: A couple of boats at the back of the parade broke off to render assistance according to news reports, but there were other boats hanging about not part of the parade.
OzarkHillbilly
@jl: I knew I’d fuck up the math, thanx for the correction.
ETA: or not. I’s cornfused. ;-)
dnfree
@Maeve: I’m way late to this thread, but I had a friend in college (1960s) who said she was Black Irish with the same explanation. I had never heard the term since, so you’re the second one I’ve known of.
oatler.
@dnfree:
Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy was said to be Black Irish, at least in the 1970s.
Jay Noble
FOLKS! I give you Operation Sail 1976. 250 ships from around the world 5,000 boats. Scroll through for some awesome pics
http://www.1000words-a-day.com/2016/07/05/july-4th-1976/
Mo MacArbie
I thought the “B” on the tattoo’s forehead was supposed to be backwards…
Uncle Cosmo
CAUSE. Misspelled.
Uncle Cosmo
In backgrond reading for a report for USAMRMC about ricin, I read that at one time castor beans (possibly lacquered, don’t recall) were set as “stones” in cheap rings distributed in the USA. Sometimes a small kid would get hold of one & chew the “stone” off & swallow it. If the bean had gone down whole, it would pass through the GI tract & be excreted without any effect; but if it had been chewed on & its skin broken….
Needless to say, after a few kids died, those rings were banned very quickly.
Uncle Cosmo
@Anne Laurie: There is no truth to the rarely-repeated rumor that the song “I Get Around” was dedicated to the Norsemen, but it could have been.
I have friends from Germany & the Czech Republic with flaming red hair; there’s numbers of them on the old amber trade route from the Baltic source to Constantinople (did you know that Kievan Rus was founded by Vikings?); and there even are a bunch of fair-haired and -skinned Sicilians dating from ca. 1100-1250 CE, when la Trinacria was ruled by a series of Norman kings (did you know that the Sicilian Vespers and the origin of the Mafia date from disrespect shown to a native lady one Sunday after Mass by a member of the Norman nobility?).
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
@OldDave: Cause? I’m going with the Neo-Confederate vibe.
Uncle Cosmo
@JPL: For you Steely Dan fans:
tomtofa
@OldDave:
FOUN?
J R in WV
@OzarkHillbilly:
I get that too some nights, and other times I get painful numbness in one or both hands… fortunately I very rarely get both cramps and the numbness/tingling/pain in my hands at the same time… it is very miserable at 3 am!
Usually if I can get up and stretch some, drink some water, etc, I can go back to sleep… but not always.