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You are here: Home / Elections / Biden-Harris 2020 / Democratic National Convention Open Thread: Day FOUR

Democratic National Convention Open Thread: Day FOUR

by Anne Laurie|  August 20, 20208:50 pm| 479 Comments

This post is in: Biden-Harris 2020, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

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I think Donald Trump has president envy.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) August 20, 2020

To be crude, I really hope the Squatter-in-Chief’s staff managed to get an extra dose of tranquilizers into his hamberders tonight, because I don’t want to give the GOP a chance to promote Pence atop some kind of Reconciliation! Look forward, not back! ticket at this point.

“If you want a president who defines the job as spending hours a day watching TV and zapping people on social media, he’s your man.” https://t.co/neYYvPu5W8

— John Cassidy (@JohnCassidy) August 20, 2020

Obama is making the important point we need to hear, even before Trump: We are the masters of our own democracy and there is no substitute for taking responsibility for that, no matter how disaffected you might feel.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 20, 2020

Obama’s Spock quality is useful in discussing Trump. When he informs you Trump is a repulsive garbage barge of filth he’s just delivering a cold, clinical analysis.

— Francis Wilkinson (@fdwilkinson) August 20, 2020

A Gladiator quote… in a race against a needy, paranoid narcissist who has impure thoughts about his blood relatives and spends all his time consuming mass media entertainment … would have felt out of place, to be honest. Not seeing it. https://t.co/FBn6R3CGBL

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) August 20, 2020

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 8:55 pm

    Another grandma call!

  2. 2.

    Wapiti

    August 20, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    It feels like Day 4, but time is out of whack for me.

  3. 3.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    You will be hearing from my attorney pic.twitter.com/TW69U2jD3B

    — David Smiley (@NewsbySmiley) August 20, 2020

  4. 4.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 8:58 pm

    Gavin!

  5. 5.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 8:58 pm

    To be crude, I really hope the Squatter-in-Chief’s staff managed to get an extra dose of tranquilizers into his hamberders tonight

    I doubt it given that he went full reactionary Christian herrenvolkism in his speech in Scranton earlier today.

  6. 6.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Deploy the Sharpie Of Hurricane Forecasting!

  7. 7.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    @Baud: 200 yards to safety, death was 50 yards behind.

  8. 8.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 9:00 pm

    @Wapiti: I’m pretty sure this is Day 3945 of the DNC and Day 345938 of this election cycle.

  9. 9.

    Kent

    August 20, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    Wait…there’s a hurricane?

  10. 10.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    @dmsilev: The wall will stop it. The one Bannon and Kolfage have been raising money for. It’s weatherproof.

  11. 11.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    August 20, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Not that I want anybody to get hurt, but I’d love one of these storms to destroy Mar a Largo

  12. 12.

    L85NJGT

    August 20, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    Rake 50000 sq/miles of chaparral.

     

    They’ll get right on that Donnie.

  13. 13.

    cain

    August 20, 2020 at 9:02 pm

    @dmsilev:

    You still have to roll a 4d8 and make a save vs dipshit.

  14. 14.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    August 20, 2020 at 9:02 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Also, stay safe! For you and all other Floridians

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 20, 2020 at 9:03 pm

    @Kent:

    According to my radar map, its name is, and I am not making this up, “Thirteen.”

  16. 16.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 9:03 pm

    @dmsilev: And it’s not even halfway over!

    EDIT: I have a friend who is a dead ringer for Daniel Dae Kim.

  17. 17.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 20, 2020 at 9:03 pm

    @Baud: If we had only raked.

  18. 18.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 9:03 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: As the renowned documentary Pacific Rim makes clear, walls do not perform well against threats emerging from the deep ocean.

  19. 19.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    @Kent: There may be a hurricane sometime over the weekend into the early portion of next week.

    Image

  20. 20.

    cain

    August 20, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    time to bring out some nice gin martinis.

    Also fuck McConnell.

  21. 21.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    @Wapiti: Thanks for catching that — I’m gonna claim yesterday was so much fun, I want it to happen like that all over again!

  22. 22.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    @cain: I will remind you that this is the d20 convention.

  23. 23.

    CaseyL

    August 20, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    The DNC’s own feed is having problems syncing up the audio, so I switched over to (of all things) the Lincoln Project’s feed, which is synced up just fine.

  24. 24.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    Yang!

  25. 25.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 20, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    I’m liking this “How I want things to be this time next year” segment.

  26. 26.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: fuck it, this didn’t work and I’ll just give up.

  27. 27.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    August 20, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    Also apparently, not everybody likes the “Florida Man” meme:

    There has been backlash to the meme, with the Columbia Journalism Review calling it “one of journalism’s darkest and most lucrative cottage industries” where “stories tend to stand as exemplars of the mythical hyper-weirdness of the Sunshine State, but more often simply document the travails of the drug-addicted, mentally ill, and homeless.”

  28. 28.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 20, 2020 at 9:07 pm

    @dmsilev:

    I traveled to San Diego in January, it feels like it happened in 2018.

  29. 29.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:07 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    I blame Silverman.

  30. 30.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 9:07 pm

    @CaseyL: DNC feed seems fine for me; audio and video are synched nicely.

  31. 31.

    West of the Cascades

    August 20, 2020 at 9:08 pm

    Punce!

  32. 32.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 20, 2020 at 9:08 pm

    OK, that was awkward

  33. 33.

    trollhattan

    August 20, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Depression Thirteen would make a good name for an airport bar.

  34. 34.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: According to my radar map, its name is, and I am not making this up, “Thirteen.”

    According to our local weatherguys, if the winds pick up sufficiently, it’ll be Tropical Storm / Hurricane Laura.

    But in 2020, I think continuing to call it “Thirteen” would be nicely accurate!

  35. 35.

    NotMax

    August 20, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    Oh my. Let’s eighty-six the forced light banter onscreen, okay?

  36. 36.

    trnc

    August 20, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    Does anyone back there have a large cane?

  37. 37.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    August 20, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    Julia Louis-Dreyfuss!

    I love their choice of hosts. And the Veep is the perfect one to host Joe Biden’s night.

  38. 38.

    RinaX

    August 20, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    Please make JLD stop with the “banter.” Please.

  39. 39.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    “Joe Biden subscribes to the Amtrak in-ride magazine” seems, in retrospect, inevitable.

  40. 40.

    trollhattan

    August 20, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    Pity.

    Does CJR not yet understand internet-Twitter memes?

  41. 41.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    @L85NJGT:

    Democratic National Convention Open Thread: Day Four

  42. 42.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 20, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    Danica!

  43. 43.

    trnc

    August 20, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    @NotMax: I looooove Julia Louis-Dreyfus. And I really wish she were somewhere else tonight.

  44. 44.

    TS (the original)

    August 20, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    And he’s on about raking again. The hate the man exudes for states that  did not support his election is a major way he has stepped all over democracy as it used to be.

  45. 45.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 20, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I did as well.

  46. 46.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    @RinaX:

    I’m sure she’s just reading what they gave her. I have sympathy for her.

  47. 47.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 20, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    How come women’s fashion gets away with those awesome belts?

    I wear one and I look like a pathetic pirate-cos-play dork.

    Li’l Cedric and the Chicks. Gotta love that.

    That’s a really good arrangement.

  48. 48.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    Julia is kinda awkward.

  49. 49.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    @L85NJGT: He’s got an A+ rating from the NRA!

    Democratic National Convention Open Thread: Day Four 1

  50. 50.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    @NotMax: Pinstripes, banter, kids on your lawn….  What else are you agin?

  51. 51.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:12 pm

    The Chicks!

  52. 52.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 9:12 pm

    Chicks!

  53. 53.

    West of the Cascades

    August 20, 2020 at 9:12 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: You will pry my rake out of my cold, dead hands.

  54. 54.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    Chicks.  Live ones who made it through the Post Office.

  55. 55.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    Nun!

  56. 56.

    HeleninEire

    August 20, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    I love the Dixie Chicks.

  57. 57.

    Betty

    August 20, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    The Chicks!  Great choice.

  58. 58.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    Anthem from the Dixie Chicks.

  59. 59.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 20, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    @Yutsano: I’m a huge fan. And I really hope she’s done with the stand up.

    Sister Simone Campbell! Nuns on the bus! I am a huge fan of her, as well.

  60. 60.

    WaterGirl

    August 20, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    @RinaX: it’s like bad Oscar/Emmy banter.

  61. 61.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

  62. 62.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 20, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    @Baud: That’s generally a good answer to all of our ills.

  63. 63.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    Now THAT was an anthem!

  64. 64.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: For the sake of you & Betty & the other Florida jackals, here’s hoping Depression #13 will not get any stronger.

    But dang, even the weather gods can’t keep up with the timing this year!   IIRC, the Jacksonville portion of the RNC next week was cancelled, the business portion will be held in Charlotte, and the Dumpster Fire Pagentry will be staged in the Rose Garden…

  65. 65.

    Kent

    August 20, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    @RinaX:Please make JLD stop with the “banter.” Please.

    Yeah…a little too much Academy Awards host happening there.  But you get what you get when you ask a comedian to host.

  66. 66.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    August 20, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    @Yutsano: The writers are a little weak, they don’t know how to write for her. I forgive her, she’s adorable.

  67. 67.

    TS (the original)

    August 20, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    @CaseyL:  Working for me – restarting it usually fixes any problems

  68. 68.

    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    Nuns on the Bus!  After The Chicks.

    We have all the best women.  And the bravest.

  69. 69.

    CaseyL

    August 20, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    @dmsilev: Yes, I switched back and it’s OK now.

  70. 70.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 20, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    To my absolute amazement, every night this week I have found both the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem not only tolerable but truly uplifting. That … hasn’t happened in a very long time.

  71. 71.

    Marcopolo

    August 20, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    Nuns on the bus! If they are onboard we’ve got almost everyone pulling together—I know a few of them, they are about as left as you can get.

    Edited to add: the sane left :)

  72. 72.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: So Olivia Wilde is going to rain on my house on Tuesday morning? Got it.

  73. 73.

    Sebastian

    August 20, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    OK jackals, admit it, who of you works for Meidas Touch?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pNW_kFWC3s

  74. 74.

    Shalimar

    August 20, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): In fairness, the drug-addled, mentally ill, and homeless are pretty much half the population of Florida, so it still fits.

  75. 75.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 20, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    As an aside, I discovered the someone I used to know was part of yesterday’s group Pledge of Allegiance. I will resist singing the Song That Shall Not Be Named. //

  76. 76.

    lamh36

    August 20, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    Awww…that was Cedric Richmond’s son who lead the Pledge of Allegiance!

     

    https://twitter.com/stefcutter/status/1296616243177361411?s=20

  77. 77.

    Kent

    August 20, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    @Betty:The Chicks!  Great choice.

    I just had to explain the whole Dixie Chicks controversy to my woke 17 year old daughter.  She didn’t know anything about it or who they were.  It all happened the month before she was born.

  78. 78.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    Great prayer, Sister Simone!

  79. 79.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 20, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    @TS (the original): I know, being that I live in one*.

    *Probably the greatest offender of all.

  80. 80.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    @Kent:

    They were cancelled!

  81. 81.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): We have several dozen posts here that resemble that remark.

  82. 82.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    O hai der Chris!

  83. 83.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    August 20, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    @Kent: you get what you get when the whole thing has to essentially happen on TV so eyeballs is all that counts.

    So, yes, the Academy Awards, but with more god-bothering since it’s trying to reach the kind of people who don’t usually watch movies.

  84. 84.

    Betty

    August 20, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    @Anne Laurie: It is the 13th tropical depression. Fourteen is in the Gulf. Marco is concerned that one will be named for him if it becomes a tropical storm. That is a lot of storms so far, and it is still early.

  85. 85.

    Curtis

    August 20, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    Ugh, too much faith. I know why they have to do it, but it’s pretty annoying (to me).

  86. 86.

    cain

    August 20, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    One hopes a visit to Mar-a-Lago

  87. 87.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    @Baud: Blame Florida’s sunshine law. It’s why every arrest has to be publicly posted for the local newspapers to cover.

  88. 88.

    cain

    August 20, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    @dmsilev:  :D

  89. 89.

    WaterGirl

    August 20, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    @Chacal Charles Calthrop: I don’t think the previous 3 nights felt like that, though.

  90. 90.

    Marcopolo

    August 20, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    Chris Coons room rater: looks like he is in a cozy B & B in Maine.

  91. 91.

    WaterGirl

    August 20, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    Very slow start tonight.

  92. 92.

    Mary G

    August 20, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    Nuns on the Bus’s Sister Simone.  Luv huh. Biil Barr and his crew of Nazis who pretend to be Catholic must be fuming.

  93. 93.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    @Chacal Charles Calthrop:

    Swing states suck.

  94. 94.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): @Baud:

    Florida woman opens boat hatch, urinates on sleeping man, then bites him: report https://t.co/D78Mxzxg00 pic.twitter.com/5tuoqzPkbG

    — Orlando Sentinel (@orlandosentinel) August 19, 2020

  95. 95.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 20, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    He doesn’t like people calling themselves “Dr.” unless there’s a stethoscope flung round their neck.

  96. 96.

    Ian

    August 20, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    The Florida man meme is similar to the Karen meme. Its fun and games for the rest of us.  People who actually have disorders who fall into these categories become easy fodder for clickbait stories.  At that point the reporters/ hacks writing the thing become muckrackers.

     

    It is fun to play with, but does little to help our actual understanding of people in Florida or people named Karen and why the do what they do.

  97. 97.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    August 20, 2020 at 9:19 pm

    @Baud:

    Well, it is always his fault //

  98. 98.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 9:19 pm

    Oh Noes!  Biden talking about forgiveness.  He’ll look forward not back!

  99. 99.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Ha!

  100. 100.

    MomSense

    August 20, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    That was a wonderful prayer.

  101. 101.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    August 20, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    @Baud: I have been noticed by the great Baud! I am honored.

    But I am also forced to agree

  102. 102.

    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    Tear gas and federalized troops to get to church.

    LOL.

  103. 103.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 20, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    @Curtis: I’m with you. Sister Simone Campbell and the Divine Spirit, bring it. Chris Coons… not so much.

    Oh no. No. Julia, no. No jokes in between Biden talking about faith and loss and Mother Emmanuel, and transitioning to John Lewis.

  104. 104.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 9:21 pm

    This is sad — they didn’t write “jokes” for Longoria, Ross, or Washington. Poor Julia.

  105. 105.

    Marcopolo

    August 20, 2020 at 9:21 pm

    I’ll live but JLD is killing this (not in a good way) for me. Artificial banter and forced humor sux.

  106. 106.

    PsiFighter37

    August 20, 2020 at 9:21 pm

    Usually I’d love JLD’s humor, but man – it strikes me as a bit tone-deaf for this event.

  107. 107.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:21 pm

    @Yutsano: Always has been. Of course, I think Seinfield was awful and everyone on it was and is awful. So I’m probably not the target demo.

  108. 108.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 20, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I’m with you. Both have their place and time and when done well can remind of us of who we are.

  109. 109.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 20, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    @lamh36:

    Beyond adorable!

  110. 110.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    She’s the only professional comedian of the four.

  111. 111.

    cain

    August 20, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Right? But I think we are also not living in normal times and these things are comforts – like a psalm that might be annoying in the good times – is a salve during times like these.

    (this day seems to be more religious than the other three days)

  112. 112.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    @Marcopolo:

    It’s not her fault! She didn’t write this!

  113. 113.

    Mary G

    August 20, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    JLD is used to bouncing off a cast of live actors and visibly uncomfortable talking by herself to a camera.

  114. 114.

    TS (the original)

    August 20, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    And I really hope she’s done with the stand up.

    Seems not – I’m not liking the presentation as much as the earlier nights. Not fitting the reality of what is happening/has happened.

  115. 115.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Do we know if she was just handed a script or if was she a part of it?

  116. 116.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    @PsiFighter37: The church joke was at least kind of funny. But you can tell this was written by people who don’t normally write comedy.

  117. 117.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    @Baud:

    I know. But I’m sure she didn’t write this stuff.

  118. 118.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    @PsiFighter37: Yeah, this isn’t working. Fortunately, the “host” bits are short and the actual speakers are much better.

  119. 119.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    @zhena gogolia: @Omnes Omnibus: @HeleninEire: @Betty: @dmsilev: And they actually have the vocal range to hit all the notes, which almost no one does.

  120. 120.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    My impression is she’s reading a script, not creating these jokes. She’s not a writer.

  121. 121.

    PsiFighter37

    August 20, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    @Baud: These are serious times. If I wanted funnies about people dying, I’d watch Colbert or Trevor Noah.

  122. 122.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    @Chacal Charles Calthrop:

    The religious stuff isn’t for most of us here, but my guess it’s important to many black church goers and possibly Latino as well. These are people we need to turn out.

  123. 123.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    August 20, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    One of the replies:

    This is America

    Yup

  124. 124.

    RinaX

    August 20, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Who thought this was necessary? The first three nights were fine without the awkward segues.

  125. 125.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:24 pm

    @Anne Laurie: As long as it stays off shore and keeps heading across the gulf, we’ll be fine.

  126. 126.

    tokyocali (formerly tokyo expat)

    August 20, 2020 at 9:24 pm

    Agree that JLD is not fitting with the tone of the event. The joke after Biden talked about the loss of his son and forgiveness, ugh!  Just be an MC and leave the jokes for comedy night.

  127. 127.

    CaseyL

    August 20, 2020 at 9:24 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I think she got this gig because of Veep, not Seinfeld.

    I hope the jokey thing ends.  It jars.  It jars real bad.

  128. 128.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    August 20, 2020 at 9:24 pm

    @Shalimar:

    lol

  129. 129.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 9:24 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Pfft! It’s only an octave and a half!

  130. 130.

    NotMax

    August 20, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus

    One of the duties dumped on me as low man on the totem pole when I was a newsroom writer for a local station in Minnesota was writing the banter lead-ins to breaks for the newscasts.

    A) It ain’t a walk in the park to do so on a tight deadline.

    B) Takes a toll on the funnybone to come up with material which is new, snappy but not too snappy and uncontroversial to fill less maybe 5 or 6 seconds at a time. For both evening newscasts.

  131. 131.

    West of the Rockies

    August 20, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    I’m digging her comic slaps to the face of the tangerine turd.

  132. 132.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    @RinaX:

    They also had awkward segues, but they were serious so you didn’t notice it so much.

  133. 133.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    @Kent: She’s a comedian? When did that happen?

  134. 134.

    PsiFighter37

    August 20, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    @Mary G: Kind of makes you realize how much it might depend on an agent putting their clients in a position to succeed vs. the actors themselves being self-aware.

  135. 135.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    August 20, 2020 at 9:26 pm

    The Dixie Chicks are nice, but I was hoping for the Spice Girls

  136. 136.

    Mary G

    August 20, 2020 at 9:26 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Come sit six feet away from me. I never made it through five minutes of Seinfeld.

  137. 137.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 20, 2020 at 9:26 pm

    also, since I’m sure everyone’s waiting for my commentary: Having watched Andrew Yang, I still very much don’t get it, and get even less why anyone, anyone at all, was tantruming to get him included in the program.

    I hope twitter is sending JLD the same message we would, and that they’re quickly toning the yuks down on the fly

  138. 138.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:26 pm

    @lamh36: Without most of his teeth!

  139. 139.

    cain

    August 20, 2020 at 9:26 pm

    Elijah!

  140. 140.

    Raven

    August 20, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    Speaking of the gulf, we’ve been tuned out of everything for the last three days.

  141. 141.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    August 20, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: 38 years ago when she became a member of SNL

  142. 142.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Oh Noes! Biden talking about forgiveness. He’ll look forward not back!

    Kamala, on the other hand, is already assembling a Truth & Reconciliation task force*…

    (* I sincerely hope)

  143. 143.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Young people. They liked him after Bernie.

  144. 144.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Well thank you for telling us what you really, really want.

  145. 145.

    Raven

    August 20, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I misread the post and thought the JDL was making jokes!

  146. 146.

    trnc

    August 20, 2020 at 9:28 pm

    @WaterGirl: Very slow start tonight.

    I would give a body part for slow. My wife and I cringed and almost crawled under furniture when JLD came on, and we’re both big fans.

    I see that some people like the bits, so I’m hoping it’s just an off night for me.

  147. 147.

    Marcopolo

    August 20, 2020 at 9:28 pm

    The leaders of the March on Washington had Lewis tone down his speech. They felt it was too aggressive.

    Also amazing to see how the protests now reflect the protests then.

  148. 148.

    Bill Arnold

    August 20, 2020 at 9:28 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    Not that I want anybody to get hurt, but I’d love one of these storms to destroy Mar a Largo

    Dorian2019) teased Trump a bit; one or two forecast cones had Mar a Lago on/close to the center line. But the surrounding area is Democratic, I believe (New Yorker here). Too much collateral damage. The stall over the Bahamas before it turned north was utterly devastating.

  149. 149.

    cain

    August 20, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    Cenk was trending – and apparently rose twitter was very unhappy with him saying he would lose respect for anyone who voted for Trump.The toxicity by these people – and I refuse to give them a label because I don’t believe they stand for anything.

  150. 150.

    PsiFighter37

    August 20, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Because there’s a non-immaterial portion of liberal / Democrat voters who want to be conned by a sucker.

  151. 151.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    John Legend.

  152. 152.

    gwangung

    August 20, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    @Anne Laurie:Kamala, on the other hand, is already assembling a Truth & Reconciliation task force*…

    I’m hoping for more of a battle fleet.

  153. 153.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    John Legend again?

    ETA:  With Common, okay.

  154. 154.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    RIP John Lewis.

    Not sure anything else needs to be said.

  155. 155.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    August 20, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I’m everybody’s supervisior!

  156. 156.

    Marcopolo

    August 20, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: I hear they’ve changed their name.  They are just Spice now.

  157. 157.

    cain

    August 20, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    I’m really sad that John Lewis is not able to witness a Black woman running on a major ticket as I am that Obama’s mother/grandmother and Kamala’s mother couldn’t.

  158. 158.

    Kent

    August 20, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    @Baud:The religious stuff isn’t for most of us here, but my guess it’s important to many black church goers and possibly Latino as well. These are people we need to turn out.

    And for my religious white rural dairy farmer relatives in Pennsylvania.  They eat that shit up.  Don’t need to peel very many of them away from Trump to tip the balance.   They are not happy with Trump but afraid of Dem cooties.

  159. 159.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    August 20, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    If you wanna be my president, you gotta get with my friends
    Make it last forever, friendship never ends
    If you wanna be my president, you have got to give
    Taking is too easy, but that’s the way it is

  160. 160.

    MomSense

    August 20, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    What you did there, I saw it.

  161. 161.

    lamh36

    August 20, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    No matter how many times I hear it, “Glory” gets me in the feels every time. It’s just a great song! Kudos to John and Lonnie!

  162. 162.

    TS (the original)

    August 20, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    @Baud:

    Also highlighting the lack of religion/faith/care that comes from trump.

  163. 163.

    MomSense

    August 20, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    It’s the song they did for the movie Selma.

  164. 164.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    August 20, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    Dump thinks Kierkegaard is a foreign porn star

  165. 165.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    @lamh36:

    Yes, this is really good.

  166. 166.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    @Baud: The religious stuff isn’t for most of us here, but my guess it’s important to many black church goers and possibly Latino as well.

    And, to be fair, also to a certain Joseph Robinette Biden.

    The man doesn’t spend half his media time mouthing cheap pieties, but — like our last Democratic candidate! — he’s genuinely a believer in a way most of the Talibangelical Pharisees can’t even imagine, much less live.

  167. 167.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    August 20, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    OK, much as I love JLD, I admit her segments are really cringe-worthy.

    I sang “Glory” with a chorus last year. Very cool to hear the original. It was a showstopper, even with a white chorus and a white guy doing the rap.

  168. 168.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    @Chacal Charles Calthrop: @Baud: It’s also traditional to start with an invocation or benediction, the pledge, and the national anthem and then finish with another benediction. And if they didn’t do these things, every political reporter, every pundit, every talking head, and every Republican politician and their surrogates would crucify them as unpatriotic and anti-G-d. Some things you do because it is an easy way to immunize yourself from stupid responses.

  169. 169.

    NotMax

    August 20, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    @Anne Laurie

    Depression #13

    Wasn’t that the flip side of 19th Nervous Breakdown?

    ;)

  170. 170.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    August 20, 2020 at 9:33 pm

    @Ian:

    The Florida man meme is similar to the Karen meme. Its fun and games for the rest of us.  People who actually have disorders who fall into these categories become easy fodder for clickbait stories.  At that point the reporters/ hacks writing the thing become muckrackers.

     

    It is fun to play with, but does little to help our actual understanding of people in Florida or people named Karen and why the do what they do.

    I still tend to think the “Karen” thing is sexist. Get a load of this spicy meme

    This type of “Karen” stuff is pretty common

  171. 171.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 9:33 pm

    @MomSense: I was surprised at first because Legend had already performed and I am sure there is a long list of singers who would love a spot here.

  172. 172.

    Emma from FL

    August 20, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    So it’s all ruined now?(p.s.) yes, I’m a bit cranky.

  173. 173.

    cain

    August 20, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    This music is really good – a great balance. But it makes the party living in the now, not in the past. Republicans are a bunch of folks living in the past, old white males the majority. Look at us.. the contrast has never been so severe..

  174. 174.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    @CaseyL: I’m sure of it. A whole bunch of Democratic political consultants and beltway insiders were consultants for the show.

  175. 175.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    I’m sure the dynamic duo of Kid Rock and Ted Nugent will have no trouble topping that next week.

  176. 176.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    Legend and Common are making me think we’re going to win!

  177. 177.

    cain

    August 20, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    One of my go of my good friends is named Karen – I refuse to use the Karen meme because she’s such a wonderful, caring person that I could never dishonor her by using that meme.

  178. 178.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    August 20, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Does CJR not yet understand internet-Twitter memes?

    Apparently not. It comes across the school principal scolding the auditorium

  179. 179.

    Wolvesvalley

    August 20, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    I’m cringing at JLD, too.

  180. 180.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    August 20, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    @Baud: I know!  But I’m serious about the “people who don’t watch movies” crack.  When Mel Gilbson’s “Passion of the Christ” came out, a black co-worker of mine who was religious confided that she wanted to see it, even though she lived way outside of the city & didn’t usually see movies.  So I suggested that we see it together, right after work, because (as a classics major) I wanted to see how close the spoken Latin was to Italian (because Mel Gibson was an idiot, the Romans spoke Latin and the Jews spoke Hebrew, even though at the time everyone actually would’ve spoken demotic Greek).  So we saw it.

    And because the movie studios knew that a lot of (religious) people were going to see it who didn’t usually see movies, there were previews to just about every single film due to come out in the next six months, just in case they might lure in someone who otherwise wouldn’t have gone.  I have never, before or since, sat through a movie with so many previews of other films. And I found myself explaining Marvel superheroes to her, just because she honestly did not know what they were about.

    So that’s my anecdotal evidence to how I know religious people don’t usually see movies – the movie people know they don’t usually see movies.  And they would know.

  181. 181.

    cain

    August 20, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    “proud to be a nasty nasty woman” – YES – this is not bad.

  182. 182.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    @Yutsano: You do it.

    I’m not even going to try, before you ask. I couldn’t carry a tune to save my life. There was actually discussion of having me lip synch my bar mitzvah.

  183. 183.

    Marcopolo

    August 20, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    Parson Meacham! First time he’s ever endorsed a candidate.

  184. 184.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 20, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    @Mary G:

    May I join you guys? I’ve never watched an episode and couldn’t/can’t to this day understand all the fuss.

  185. 185.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:37 pm

    @Marcopolo: At least a living one.

  186. 186.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:37 pm

    The humor theme sucks, but I’m not going to obsess over it.  JLD ain’t in the ballot.

  187. 187.

    RaflW

    August 20, 2020 at 9:37 pm

    @trnc: Yeah, based on FB it seems some of my friends are loving her, but they’re the on the ‘oh, snap!’ end of my friend continuum.

    I feel a little cringy about her, uhh, jokes.

  188. 188.

    Kent

    August 20, 2020 at 9:37 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): If Florida doesn’t like “Florida Men” they should stop producing them.   Carl Hiaasen did it best a long ago anyway.  As well as Dave Barry.

  189. 189.

    Mary G

    August 20, 2020 at 9:38 pm

    The gospel chorus is safely distanced from John Legend and Common, but pretty close to each other’s aerosols. Hope they had good air circulation. Looks like a big sound stage with a large volume of air.

    Meacham annoys me.

  190. 190.

    PsiFighter37

    August 20, 2020 at 9:38 pm

    I wonder how much JLD is improv-ing. If she is, I would tell her to tone it down and follow the script. How many people does she think watched Veep on a subscription channel?

  191. 191.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 9:38 pm

    @NotMax: For the US single, it was actually Sad Day.

  192. 192.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    @Mary G: How are you doing with the fires? If you want, I can see if we can connect you with other jackals in neighboring states that might be able to give you a safe place to evacuate to well ahead of time. Just let me know.

  193. 193.

    James E Powell

    August 20, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    All taste is taste.

  194. 194.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    @Chacal Charles Calthrop:

    And I found myself explaining Marvel superheroes to her, just because she honestly did not know what they were about.

    In our bubble, we often forget how different the information space in other people’s bubble is.

  195. 195.

    Betty

    August 20, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    @Mary G: Yes, quite pompous.

  196. 196.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    August 20, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    I’m loving JLD

  197. 197.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I made the mistake of watching the Chinese restaurant episode. Agony.

  198. 198.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: I don’t find SNL funny.

  199. 199.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 20, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Can you fit me in as well. Saw a few episodes and just didn’t get the appeal.

  200. 200.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    @Anne Laurie: I really need to do that post tomorrow.

  201. 201.

    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    Why does Jon Meacham get all this time?

    Albeit, delighted he is on Team Biden.

  202. 202.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    @Anne Laurie:

    Yes.  I didn’t mean to imply that it was insincere.  But it was still a choice to emphasize it tonight.

  203. 203.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    @Raven: The only thing funny about those guys is they don’t realize they’re the joke. Often a dangerous and deadly joke, but a joke nonetheless.

  204. 204.

    Mary G

    August 20, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    I want to move to New Mexico just for the gorgeous jewelry.I

  205. 205.

    scribbler

    August 20, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    I’ve got to disagree with the masses.  I love that JLD is taking it to Trump.  The jokes are all really harsh, smashing Trump in his face, and I bet that he hates it.

  206. 206.

    Marcopolo

    August 20, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    Deb!  I supported her campaign in ‘18.  Feels like a lifetime ago.  35th generation New Mexican.  Now that is dry humor!

  207. 207.

    PsiFighter37

    August 20, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    @Elizabelle: I would replace JLD with him as moderator. Not a campaign-changing issue, but it’s the first time where the Biden campaign has let control of the narrative – one they fully have control of – get away from them.

  208. 208.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Don’t push it kid.

  209. 209.

    WaterGirl

    August 20, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    @trnc: By “slow” I guess I meant slow in pulling me in, slow in getting to something I waned to watch.

    So far tonight I have appreciated John Lewis and Legend and Common, a little bit of a Joe clip, but the rest has mostly left me cold.  Tonight is definitely not for me; I hope it’s resonating with someone.

  210. 210.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    USPS!

  211. 211.

    Betty

    August 20, 2020 at 9:43 pm

    Happy to see this segment on the post office.

  212. 212.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 9:43 pm

    Glad to see that the Post Office fiasco is getting attention here.

  213. 213.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:43 pm

    Sarah Cooper!

  214. 214.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    August 20, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    Kierkegaard is trending on twitter

     

    so is “Vice President Poonce”

    HA!

  215. 215.

    Amir Khalid

    August 20, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Seinfeld was a sitcom about four irritatingly self-absorbed people. Apparently, its audience found something there to identify with.

  216. 216.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    OMG! Sarah!

  217. 217.

    Marcopolo

    August 20, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    I like this humor.

    Okay, that was the first time I’ve actually heard her lovely real voice.  This segment is working for me.

  218. 218.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    Nice message. Go Sarah!

  219. 219.

    cain

    August 20, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    Did Ice-T show up there??!

     

    Sarah Cooper!!!

  220. 220.

    MomSense

    August 20, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    Sarah!!

  221. 221.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 20, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    @Amir Khalid: are you talking about me?

  222. 222.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    I’m not sure how I feel hearing her actual voice. Seems wrong somehow.

  223. 223.

    PsiFighter37

    August 20, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    Blaaaaah kill me. What the hell is with the need to try and be funny?? So. Stupid.

  224. 224.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    August 20, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    Sarah Cooper for the win!!!!

  225. 225.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    My childhood babysitter was the first woman, also person, to speak in the “when I cast my first vote” segment. And the last one to speak too.

    I’m watching on a delay, I had to hit pause to take the dogs out.

  226. 226.

    cain

    August 20, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    I think that’s why the last episode irritated everyone – that was the final statement.

  227. 227.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    I think Cooper has a real great speaking voice.  Far better than the one she uses for her bits.

  228. 228.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 20, 2020 at 9:46 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: We don’t have the fires that they have up in NorCal.

  229. 229.

    cliosfanboy

    August 20, 2020 at 9:46 pm

    @Marcopolo: me too. And I hated Steinfield.

  230. 230.

    eclare

    August 20, 2020 at 9:46 pm

    @PsiFighter37: Agree.  So tone-deaf.  Is this the end of democracy or open mic night?

  231. 231.

    WaterGirl

    August 20, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    Most of tonight has felt like preaching or whining to me.  It’s bringing me down.

  232. 232.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    August 20, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    I’m guessing we’re supposed to think of “Veep,” not “Seinfeld,” when we see JLD. But we are old.

  233. 233.

    guachi

    August 20, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    The use of Sarah Cooper was very well done. Using Trump’s own words but mocking them as you use them was perfect.

  234. 234.

    NotMax

    August 20, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear

    Couldn’t grok it as well – until something inside clicked which told me to view it as a comedy science fiction series about 12-year-olds forced to survive in adult bodies.

    Thenceforth, through that lens, it all came into focus.

  235. 235.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    August 20, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    @WaterGirl: Yeah, tonight feels kind of choppy.

  236. 236.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I don’t like the emcee joking.  Otherwise it’s fine.  Not great, but not depressing.

  237. 237.

    TS (the original)

    August 20, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    Interesting evening. Segments definitely for different people. I like this section of voting & the Post

  238. 238.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    Booker!

  239. 239.

    cain

    August 20, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Eh? Example?

    Well, if you want we can talk about Cenk.

  240. 240.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2020 at 9:49 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I still tend to think the “Karen” thing is sexist.

    Not gonna look for it right now, but somebody on twitter pointed out that ‘Karen’ was only popular as a given name for a period in the 1960s-1980s.  And that the (mostly) men swapping those ‘Karen wants to see the manager’ memes were squarely in the age group to have moms named ‘Karen’.

    If it weren’t for You are not the boss of ME!, half the RoseBros and Cosplay Socialists would have no guiding principles whatsodamnedever.

  241. 241.

    Wag

    August 20, 2020 at 9:49 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:   This.

  242. 242.

    guachi

    August 20, 2020 at 9:49 pm

    Though overall it feels like tonight is lots and lots of filler. It’s a 4-part miniseries with only enough material for three parts.

  243. 243.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 9:49 pm

    @Baud:

    I like this first hour better than last night’s.

  244. 244.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 9:50 pm

    I wonder if some people are disappointed with tonight’s proceedings because it’s a bit of an anticlimax because the people they really wanted to hear have spoken already.

  245. 245.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 9:50 pm

    @Elizabelle: He has executive style hair.

  246. 246.

    Doug R

    August 20, 2020 at 9:51 pm

    So much kvetching about the jokes. What is this, a convention?

  247. 247.

    Marcopolo

    August 20, 2020 at 9:51 pm

    Corey Booker is who Clinton should have tapped for V.P. That is all.

  248. 248.

    WaterGirl

    August 20, 2020 at 9:51 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: That’s not the issue for me.

  249. 249.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 9:51 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I think that’s definitely what’s happening. JLD is the worst emcee, but it’s not that bad.

  250. 250.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 9:51 pm

    Booker is killing it!

  251. 251.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 9:51 pm

    It’s possible that in the scramble to make this virtual, certain segments are less polished than others.

  252. 252.

    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2020 at 9:52 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    bit of an anticlimax because the people they really wanted to hear have spoken already.

    I think that is what is happening.  Although — Joe!

  253. 253.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 9:52 pm

    @Marcopolo: Delete your account.

  254. 254.

    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2020 at 9:53 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:   ESH.

  255. 255.

    JCJ

    August 20, 2020 at 9:53 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Nicely done!

  256. 256.

    WaterGirl

    August 20, 2020 at 9:53 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: There was a lot of yesterday’s convention that wasn’t the “big” people speaking.

    Too churchy for me, too preachy for me, I don’t even care for the way they talked about the post office, and I hated hearing Donald Trump’s voice.  Ugh.

    This conversation between Joe & this fellow feels canned and insincere tome.  7 minutes to the second hour, hopefully there will be a change then.

  257. 257.

    PsiFighter37

    August 20, 2020 at 9:53 pm

    @Marcopolo: 100% agreed. Honestly, I think he might have been a better VP pick than Harris, but I’m not going to complain.

  258. 258.

    Raven

    August 20, 2020 at 9:53 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Hence my surprise!

  259. 259.

    Chetan Murthy

    August 20, 2020 at 9:53 pm

    @Anne Laurie: Huh.  I thought the first one was “Barbecue Becky”, no?  I do agree, that “Karen” has stuck.  But it seems pretty anodyne by contrast to the way we all characterize the deplorable males: it starts with Cletus (a pretty blistering insult already) and heads downhill.  Not that I’m arguing we shouldn’t: these racist/misogynist/homophobic males deserve every bit of what they get, and then some more.

    I’d have thought that limiting it to calling them “Karen” and ridiculing them was actually going easy on them — I mean, that monster Amy Cooper (was that her name?  The one in Central Park) is pretty goddamn evil, and it seems to me she got off easy, just being called “Karen” instead of the fucking attempted murderer she actually is.

  260. 260.

    Ken

    August 20, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: it’s a bit of an anticlimax because the people they really wanted to hear have spoken already.

    I’m still holding out hope for a surprise Republican speaker tonight.

  261. 261.

    NotMax

    August 20, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    @Doug R

    And the punch lines are so small!

    :)

  262. 262.

    trnc

    August 20, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    @WaterGirl: I agree about the way it started. The schlocky jokes weren’t working for me, but I think it’s getting better.

  263. 263.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 20, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    @James E Powell:

    As my mother used to say, “you’r taste is all in your mouth.”

  264. 264.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    @Elizabelle: I think a good number of people here are still lukewarm about Joe himself while being very enthused about getting him elected.

  265. 265.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I don’t find SNL funny.

    I’ll have you know I was finding SNL unfunny back in the Phil Hartman / Bill Murray era, whippersnapper.

    Cringe humor, I just do not like.  Even Christopher Guest — Spinal Tap was fine, for what it was, but his other movies just seem like middle-school kids at the ‘nerd table’ making fun of the ‘short-bus luzers’, in hopes of attracting some positive attention from the Kewl Kidz (like Lord Guest).

  266. 266.

    Amir Khalid

    August 20, 2020 at 9:55 pm

    It’s a good thing My City of Ruins is one of my favourite Springsteen songs. I’m not sure there’s another song that wouldn’t irritate the heck out of me if I kept hearing the same two snippets every couple of minutes.

  267. 267.

    West of the Cascades

    August 20, 2020 at 9:55 pm

    Surgeons general!

  268. 268.

    tokyocali (formerly tokyo expat)

    August 20, 2020 at 9:56 pm

    @WaterGirl: Agree. Last night captured me and I wanted to see everything! I connected. Tonight, I feel more like an observer. Some of it’s good, but it’s not drawing me in like last night. There’s still more to go, so we’ll see how the rest plays out.

  269. 269.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 20, 2020 at 9:56 pm

    @Ken:

    I’m still holding out hope for a surprise Republican speaker tonight.

    Okay, that made me laugh.

  270. 270.

    Marcopolo

    August 20, 2020 at 9:56 pm

    For me one of the high points of this format is how it allows so much more “every person” content. I like hearing from regular folks (even though I realize they are probably sorted/ vetted ahead of time). And the absence of the crowd noise makes it a more intimate conversational experience.

  271. 271.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 9:56 pm

    Tammy B!

  272. 272.

    TS (the original)

    August 20, 2020 at 9:56 pm

    The doctor was good

  273. 273.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 20, 2020 at 9:57 pm

    Dr. Murphy was very impressive!

  274. 274.

    guachi

    August 20, 2020 at 9:57 pm

    Final night should have just been 60 minutes. 15 minutes of intro and 45 minutes of Biden.

  275. 275.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 9:57 pm

    Apparently I didn’t miss much when I was iff feeding the dogs.

    Tammy Baldwin!

    EDIT: that pre-existing story was a powerful one.

  276. 276.

    PsiFighter37

    August 20, 2020 at 9:57 pm

    No JLD for a while. I wonder if they decided to yank her offstage midstream.

  277. 277.

    Marcopolo

    August 20, 2020 at 9:58 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:  Mike Pence would really bring down the house if he showed up.

  278. 278.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2020 at 9:58 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I really need to do that post tomorrow.

    I always look forward to your posts, sir!

  279. 279.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    Why is it that “effing” sounds more obscene than the actual word to me?

  280. 280.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    “And yes, it was a big f’ing deal”

  281. 281.

    guachi

    August 20, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    Gotta admit, I hate when people go to whisper voice to sound impassioned. I hate it.

  282. 282.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    @PsiFighter37: No.

  283. 283.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 20, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    @trnc: I think the jokes are out of sync with the overall tones, but also JLD’s delivery isn’t helping.

    If you’re gonna throw cut someone down to size, you need to be cutting. JLD needs to embrace her inner drag queen throwing shade.

  284. 284.

    TS (the original)

    August 20, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    @PsiFighter37:  Quick rewrite  before her next appearance

     

    Edit: And I now have to refresh the screen every time she appears to get the sound back in sync with the picture

  285. 285.

    L85NJGT

    August 20, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    Trump is pro-Covid.

     

    Fuck that guy.

  286. 286.

    Jeffro

    August 20, 2020 at 10:01 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: I hear you.  We were talking about that tonight over dinner… Everything and anything feels like it took place five times as long ago as it really did

  287. 287.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 10:01 pm

    @zhena gogolia: F if I know?

  288. 288.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 10:01 pm

    Here’s your secret Republican.

  289. 289.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:01 pm

    @Ken: Here he is.

  290. 290.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 20, 2020 at 10:02 pm

    okay, the “take’s one to know one” joke was well-timed and funny

  291. 291.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 10:02 pm

    Okay now THAT one stuck the landing. I think they are re-writing on the fly.

  292. 292.

    guachi

    August 20, 2020 at 10:02 pm

    Okay, WW II vet is pretty good way to start the ten o’clock hour. Need more of him.

  293. 293.

    NotMax

    August 20, 2020 at 10:02 pm

    @guachi

    and 45 minutes of Biden

    >

    But modern attention spans are—

    —ooh, shiny!

    //

  294. 294.

    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2020 at 10:02 pm

    I am Edward Good.  (Veteran, Republican, NRA member, 95 yo.)

    … I think Trump is the worst president we have ever had.

  295. 295.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:02 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: Does everyone have an inner drag queen?

  296. 296.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    There’s the Republicans segment. Blah.

  297. 297.

    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    Army vet!

  298. 298.

    Mary G

    August 20, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Cross your fingers, no fires close to me yet. Only one about 90 miles away that’s 95% contained.

    Geologically my town isn’t as susceptible because we have no narrow canyons and passes to compress and accelerate the hot winds.  Lots of rich people with very expensive houses around me assure we’ll get resources poor places won’t. I am all set up to go, so I won’t have to, just like it never rains when I have an umbrella. NoCal is a nightmare. Hope all the jackals up there are OK.

  299. 299.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    @guachi: Combat jump into Germany.  That’s serious shit.

  300. 300.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: I don’t think there’s enough room in that dress for both her and a drag queen.//

  301. 301.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    This is your segment Leto and Avalune!

  302. 302.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 20, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Edit window got me. Obviously, that’s Dr. Murthy — which is what I originally typed, but apparently Autocorrect didn’t believe me.

  303. 303.

    trollhattan

    August 20, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    [Raises hand.]

    TBF I also watch (and cringe at) “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

  304. 304.

    WaterGirl

    August 20, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    @Yutsano: That’s me tonight.  I can go brush my teeth during this one.  Now that it’s dark, I can go close the blinds, close the front door, etc. during this part.

  305. 305.

    NotMax

    August 20, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    Glad the WW2 vet has come around to supporting that young whippersnapper Biden.

    ;)

  306. 306.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    August 20, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    There was a lot of party star power last night. After all those rock stars it was kind of inevitable that there’d be a little feeling of anticlimax tonight. Guess they wanted Joe to have the spotlight alone.

  307. 307.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    You guys are really going to get sour when Bloomberg comes on.

  308. 308.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 10:06 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    I’m looking forward to Pete.

  309. 309.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 10:06 pm

    @Mary G: Alright, just let me know if you need me to put up the Jackal signal.

  310. 310.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 20, 2020 at 10:06 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I didn’t think he was Irish.

  311. 311.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 10:06 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: He looks damn good for 95.

  312. 312.

    Barbara

    August 20, 2020 at 10:06 pm

    @Anne Laurie:

    If it weren’t for You are not the boss of ME!, half the RoseBros and Cosplay Socialists would have no guiding principles whatsodamnedever.

    That was funny!

    I think, perhaps, that four nights is perhaps just one night too many?

  313. 313.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    DUCKWORTH!!!

  314. 314.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Operation Varsity.

    https://armyhistory.org/operation-varsity-the-last-airborne-deployment-of-world-war-ii/

  315. 315.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    @Baud: Tammy B, Tammy D, Pete, and Joe are pretty good mix.

  316. 316.

    Marcopolo

    August 20, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    Tammy Duckworth is awesome!  Since I live in MO I consider her an adopted Senator from across the river.

    Interesting VP vetting story that said Biden & his folks liked her but her birth situation was a minus since they didn’t want to face a possible legal challenge.

  317. 317.

    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    This is so perfect, because Trump is the most weasely*, least qualified Commander in Chief we have ever had.  He is a joke.  He is a coward.

     

    ** with apologies to actual weasels, who have a lot more going on.  Hyenas too.

  318. 318.

    JCJ

    August 20, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    Tammy Duckworth!  Go Thailand!

  319. 319.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 10:08 pm

    Tonight’s segments seem clearly aimed at swing and casual voters, not us.

  320. 320.

    Jeffro

    August 20, 2020 at 10:08 pm

    Whoa – Duckworth going there with ”coward in chief” ?

    ??????

  321. 321.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:09 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Yep.

  322. 322.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 10:09 pm

    Tammy rocks!

  323. 323.

    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2020 at 10:09 pm

    Coward in Chief.

    Yep.  It is what we have.

    JB would never let tyrants manipulate him like a puppet.

    … unlike Trump, JB has common decency.

  324. 324.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 10:09 pm

    Duckworth was good.

  325. 325.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 10:09 pm

    @JCJ: Does she speak Thai? I would love it if she finished her segment that way.

  326. 326.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:09 pm

    @Baud: If casual viewers tune in, it’s for the last night.

  327. 327.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 10:10 pm

    Annnd tears.

  328. 328.

    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    @Baud:   Yep. And at Republicans that Joe can pick off.

    And there may be more than we suspect.

  329. 329.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 20, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yes, but they require sufficient quantities of the-higher-the-hair-the-closer-to-God wigs, oversized lashes, glitter, costume jewelry, and stripper heels to come out.

  330. 330.

    Emma from FL

    August 20, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    One question: who pissed on your cornflakes?

    Democratic conventions are never going to be tasteful and restrained. There will be folks there you don’t particularly like. We’re a coalition. Live with it.

    p.s.add me to the “who said SNL is funny” crowd

  331. 331.

    West of the Cascades

    August 20, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    No one will ever say words like this about Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr.

  332. 332.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    Tonight’s onion chopping.

  333. 333.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 10:12 pm

    Pete!

  334. 334.

    Kay

    August 20, 2020 at 10:12 pm

    Matt Walton
    @Matt4VA
    ·1h
    In 2005 I was walking around Capitol Hill & ran into
    @JoeBiden
    . As a college student on winter break Sen. Biden took time to talk w/ me about my love of politics & govt, but also about how important it is to be a good citizen.
    This year I’m a Republican 4 Biden

    I find this very endearing about Biden- not that he talks to people, but that you always get the sense he feels incredibly lucky to have his job and just loves it. He’s so old and he’s still like “I can’t believe I’m here! I have really made it!”
    It’s great.

  335. 335.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: That sounds expensive.

  336. 336.

    guachi

    August 20, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    MILITARY!!!!!

    I think I sense a theme here.

  337. 337.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 20, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: As St. Dolly said: It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

  338. 338.

    gwangung

    August 20, 2020 at 10:14 pm

    @Marcopolo: That’s OK. She can be Kamala’s VP.

  339. 339.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 10:14 pm

    “future former Republicans”

  340. 340.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:14 pm

    Future former Republicans.

  341. 341.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 10:14 pm

    i still think Pete could run for Senate in Indiana. And win.

  342. 342.

    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    @Yutsano:   I hope that he will.  Senator Pete.  Would be great.

  343. 343.

    guachi

    August 20, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    Buttigieg is good at gauzy uplifting speeches like this.

  344. 344.

    NotMax

    August 20, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    Thought Buttigieg is old enough to have learned how to shave by now.

    //

  345. 345.

    Marcopolo

    August 20, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    @gwangung: I think she’d make a very credible Sec. Of Defense.

  346. 346.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    OMG they got Bernie for this segment.

  347. 347.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    Test…

  348. 348.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    Okay, Booker’s Sanders joke was funny.

  349. 349.

    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    Bernie has a charming smile in this segment.

  350. 350.

    Jeffro

    August 20, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    @Baud: yup…Dems could not be any more behind him, and he’s over the 50% mark nationally.  The only folks left are the few disenchanted/weekly attached Republican voters, and occasionally-voting independents

    and lord knows young ‘uns aren’t watching this ?

  351. 351.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    @Barbara: I think, perhaps, that four nights is perhaps just one night too many?

    Nah.  IMO, the big star power people pumped everyone up last night, and it was wonderful.  But the earnest nerds deserve their time, too — they’re the ones who made all this possible, and who will keep working through Election Day and beyond.  And Joe Biden, of all people, appreciates him some earnest nerds!

  352. 352.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 20, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    Alfred E. Neuman looking motherfucker.

  353. 353.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    @Marcopolo: No! No denuding the Senate.

  354. 354.

    Marcopolo

    August 20, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    New thread?

  355. 355.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 10:18 pm

    Memo to the Senate: “Joe Biden is Watching You”.

  356. 356.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 20, 2020 at 10:19 pm

    The folks who were voted off the island on Survivor. This is a good segment!

    ETA: Although where the hell are Tulsi and Marianne?

  357. 357.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 10:19 pm

    Pete spoke very well. I look forward to his further career.

  358. 358.

    Jeffro

    August 20, 2020 at 10:19 pm

    I’m watching this panel and I don’t think neckties are ever coming back

  359. 359.

    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    Everything JRB does becomes the new reasonable. — Andrew Yang.

  360. 360.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    @Marcopolo: Interesting VP vetting story that said Biden & his folks liked her but her birth situation was a minus since they didn’t want to face a possible legal challenge.

    It is what it is.  But also, I always wondered if Duckworth really wanted to take on a job as big as VP while her daughter is still so very young.  Senator Duckworth is young enough, in political terms, to have other chances in her future.

  361. 361.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    @Jeffro:

    Pete disagrees!

  362. 362.

    NotMax

    August 20, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    Six Democrats and an old fart.

    //

  363. 363.

    Jeffro

    August 20, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    @Jeffro: whoops…”weakly” ?

  364. 364.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    That O’Rourke guy could have a good future in politics.

  365. 365.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 20, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    Bernie has very pink cheeks. He looks like a cockatiel.

  366. 366.

    satby

    August 20, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    @Yutsano: nope.

    @Elizabelle: it would be nice, but after living here, I’m sometimes surprised he won South Bend. The red state stupid is strong here.

  367. 367.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    Bloomy.

  368. 368.

    Monala

    August 20, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I’m okay with them not being there, but why isn’t Julian Castro part of the group of Dem candidates?

  369. 369.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    Fuck this guy.

  370. 370.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 20, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    Ha! Bloomberg actually made me laugh!

  371. 371.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 20, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Sanders’ Booker joke was funnier (and I’m rather cool to both)

    OKay: I give Booker major points for saying that choosing not to vote is a gross act, and abuse, of cultural privilege. I still remember an angry Joe Conason column making this point in 2000 about the Bore and Gush crowd.

  372. 372.

    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:  Not enough vinyl in the background.

    Loved that in yesterday’s video.

    What does he have?  Maybe a lot of T Bone Burnett.

  373. 373.

    Jeffro

    August 20, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    @Baud: he’s outvoted four to one

    ugh, Bloomberg.., I better read about some serious Mike Cash dropping for the Dems in next two months in order to justify this

  374. 374.

    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    Bloomboig.

  375. 375.

    TS (the original)

    August 20, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    @Jeffro:  Mr TS gave them away in 1970. Had to go to court once in the 1990s & someone in the courthouse gave him a tie to wear. Only time in 50 years.

  376. 376.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: The phrase “put your money where your mouth is” comes to mind for some odd reason.

  377. 377.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    Why is Bloomberg in Colorado?

  378. 378.

    guachi

    August 20, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    Still don’t know why Bloomberg was giving time in the 10 o’clock hour except if he’s going to attack Trump and drive him crazy.

  379. 379.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 20, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    @Monala:

    Or Gillibrand?

  380. 380.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 20, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    @Baud: He looks older than he did before Liz Warren got to him.

  381. 381.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 20, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    @Jeffro: the arc of the moral universe is long….

    ETA: @Yutsano: a “ranch” near Telluride, between Ralph and Oprah? Now that I think of it, I think I have read that he owns a couple of hundred acres near Aspen, bought it from somebody else whose real estate transactions make Page Six

  382. 382.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: Yes, but they require sufficient quantities of the-higher-the-hair-the-closer-to-God wigs, oversized lashes, glitter, costume jewelry, and stripper heels to come out.

    Don’t forget the support garments.  Really supportive support garments, for some of us!

    (I didn’t have a defined waist when I was a size 12, and that was almost fifty years ago… )

  383. 383.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    @Baud: OMG they got Bernie to comb his hair for this segment.

  384. 384.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    @guachi:

    Based on the speech, it’s to appeal to small business Republicans and independents.

  385. 385.

    Gin & Tonic

    August 20, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    @Yutsano: Didn’t he buy some super-expensive property there?

  386. 386.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    This is a good speech by Bloomberg.

  387. 387.

    WaterGirl

    August 20, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Beto ?

  388. 388.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    Alright, a real billionaire taking it to Trump over business.  Still, pony up, motherfucker.

  389. 389.

    NotMax

    August 20, 2020 at 10:25 pm

    @Monala

    Or Swalwell. Or Bennet.

  390. 390.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 10:25 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    He does look more aged.

  391. 391.

    Mary G

    August 20, 2020 at 10:25 pm

    Bloomberg is actually doing a good job on this speech. Now cough up the cash, Mike.

  392. 392.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 10:25 pm

    This is the “I’m an actual billionaire and I have contempt for Trump” speech.

  393. 393.

    guachi

    August 20, 2020 at 10:25 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Yeah. I want to hate it but it’s actually good. A direct attack on Trump.

  394. 394.

    Marcopolo

    August 20, 2020 at 10:25 pm

    So that fly I’m seeing is on Bloomberg’s side of the screen, yes? If so, too funny.

  395. 395.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 20, 2020 at 10:25 pm

    @Baud: Agree.  I think it’s useful for that audience.

  396. 396.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 10:25 pm

    @NotMax: Five Democrats, an old fart, and whatever the fuck Yang is politically/ideologically because he’s not a Democrat.

  397. 397.

    cain

    August 20, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    I must admit that Bloomberg is doing good. He’s making a good case to small business. He’s trolling Trump pretty good.

  398. 398.

    Leto

    August 20, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: He still hasn’t replaced all the blood lost from that night.

  399. 399.

    Ken

    August 20, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    @guachi: Still don’t know why Bloomberg was giving time in the 10 o’clock hour except if he’s going to attack Trump and drive him crazy.

    Bloomberg doesn’t have to attack Trump to drive him crazy, merely being successful in a way Trump never managed is enough.

  400. 400.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    @Kay: I find this very endearing about Biden- not that he talks to people, but that you always get the sense he feels incredibly lucky to have his job and just loves it. He’s so old and he’s still like “I can’t believe I’m here! I have really made it!”

    Seconded!  And I think that’s the voters this night is pitched for — not us cynics, but the people who unironically believe in the American Dream where any kid can grow up to be President.  Even the female / non-white / non-straight kids, these days!

  401. 401.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    @Monala: Maybe they asked him and he didn’t want to be.

  402. 402.

    cain

    August 20, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I am not a Yang fan.

  403. 403.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    August 20, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    One thing I’ve been grumpy about this whole convention: the two-camera shoot on so many speakers. I can’t see what is gained by staring at the speaker’s ear for a few seconds every minute or two.

  404. 404.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    If Bloomy would have ended by whipping out a check book….

  405. 405.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    Stutter segment.  Very nice.

  406. 406.

    Gin & Tonic

    August 20, 2020 at 10:28 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    with apologies to actual weasels, who have a lot more going on

    Indeed they do.

  407. 407.

    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2020 at 10:28 pm

    Yea Braden.

  408. 408.

    guachi

    August 20, 2020 at 10:28 pm

    THIS KID ROCKS!!!!

  409. 409.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 20, 2020 at 10:28 pm

    I’m crying

  410. 410.

    dmsilev

    August 20, 2020 at 10:28 pm

    Prediction: Trump is going to Tweet something absolutely disgusting about this segment.

  411. 411.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    This is the best segment of the night so far.

  412. 412.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    Where’s Suzanne? Shout out to speech therapy!

  413. 413.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    Oh Christ.  What a brave kid.

  414. 414.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 20, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    Somebody who’s sentimental and doesn’t have a cold, black piece of anthracite where there heart should be might be moved by this kid. I wouldn’t know any thing about that.

  415. 415.

    zhena gogolia

    August 20, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    Oh, I’m blubbering.

  416. 416.

    Ken

    August 20, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    @Marcopolo: New thread?

    No, but we haven’t even hit a TBogg unit yet.

  417. 417.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    @dmsilev:

    Yeah, they’re turning on the signal jammers at the White House right now.

  418. 418.

    guachi

    August 20, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    I saw tweets about this funeral. AWESOME!

  419. 419.

    HeleninEire

    August 20, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    @Baud:

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Yes. By a million miles.

  420. 420.

    Anya

    August 20, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    I am standing in my family room clapping for that awesome kid. This was the awesomest moment in the whole convention and there were many moments to choose from.

  421. 421.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 20, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    Oh, that was amazing. Great kid, powerful message.

  422. 422.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 20, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    @Anne Laurie: The drag queens’ rule of corsets: If you can complain about how tight it is, you’re still breathing. If you’re still breathing, it ain’t tight enough.

    Plus some of my drag queen friends wear four pairs of pantyhose so they don’t have the shave their legs (it takes that many to cover up the hair).

    Beauty knows no pain. //

  423. 423.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:31 pm

    Grand-daughters….

  424. 424.

    Mary G

    August 20, 2020 at 10:31 pm

    @dmsilev: yep, Braden got me in the feels.

  425. 425.

    NotMax

    August 20, 2020 at 10:32 pm

    Four thumbs up for the kid segment. More power to ya, sonny.

    @ Ceci n est pas mon nym

    Mining the motherlobe.

    ;)

  426. 426.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    August 20, 2020 at 10:32 pm

    The grandkids can’t get their story straight about the ice cream flavor! Ice Cream Gate!

  427. 427.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 20, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Who started chopping onions in my living room?

  428. 428.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    @NotMax: Thought Buttigieg is old enough to have learned how to shave by now.

    He’s at the stage where he needs the beard shadow to reassure elderly doubters like you that he’s old enough to shave.

  429. 429.

    Mai naem mobile

    August 20, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    Jeezus. I don’t remember getting emotional about any convention. Not even Obama’s. I’ve been running late all day and am listening to this on the radio in a parking lot trying to hide,umm, the dust from the dust storm getting in my eyes lol.

  430. 430.

    Ken

    August 20, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    Possibly a not-so-subtle reminder to a lot of grandparents about why their grandchildren can’t visit?

  431. 431.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: He likes what they like when he is with them.  I’ve watched my father with his grandkids.

  432. 432.

    Anya

    August 20, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    Riley Curry for president

  433. 433.

    JCJ

    August 20, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    @Yutsano:

    Yes she does.

  434. 434.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 20, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    Joe Biden and Julia Louis-Dreyfus sneak some ice cream, get busted.

    Joe and Julia, it begins. The first shot is total Jackal-bait.

  435. 435.

    Marcopolo

    August 20, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    Steph Curry outside of the bubble! And this adorbs family. You don’t get this in a normal convention.

  436. 436.

    Ken

    August 20, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    The new thread’s up.

  437. 437.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 20, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    The Curry girls are absolutely adorbs!

  438. 438.

    Subsole

    August 20, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    @Jeffro: I think she’s taking the President’s approval of Russian bounties on our servicepeople a mite personally.

    For some reason.

  439. 439.

    Kropacetic

    August 20, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    I haven’t watched tonight, but if John Kerry had good jokes, how bad can JLD’s be?

  440. 440.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2020 at 10:37 pm

    @Yutsano: Why is Bloomberg in Colorado?

    He’s old.  When the coronavirus was first peaking, I suspect he did the sensible thing & got the hell out of NYC.  And Colorado is, I’m told, lovely at this time of year — Manhattan, not so much.

  441. 441.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    @Yutsano: My Mom’s an SLP. She tried to SLP him through his speech through the TV.

  442. 442.

    Marcopolo

    August 20, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    So yesterday I realized for the first time that I wouldn’t be sitting in a living room surrounded by friends on election night. Cheering or, as was the case in 2016, mourning. 2020 sucks.

  443. 443.

    Anya

    August 20, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: YOU LIE

  444. 444.

    NotMax

    August 20, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    @Ken

    Ragga-fragga phones are rendering Tbogg units extinct.

  445. 445.

    West of the Cascades

    August 20, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    I’m liking Hunter being one of the people to introduce Joe. They know next week’s scuzzbag convention will go after him, and they’re like “bring. it. on.”

  446. 446.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    *Ahem. *  Fresh post, same topic, up top!

  447. 447.

    Mary G

    August 20, 2020 at 10:39 pm

    Love the Curry family and JLD getting a bit choked up.

    Hunter and Ashley are so much classier than the grifter spawn.

  448. 448.

    MoCA Ace

    August 20, 2020 at 10:39 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: I traveled to San Diego in January, it feels like it happened in 2018.

    Yes… Mrs. MoCA and I went to the Rose Bowl in January and we were talking the other day about how it seems like three or four years ago.

    COVID time SUCKS!

  449. 449.

    satby

    August 20, 2020 at 10:39 pm

    @Anne Laurie: He’s that very fair skin / very black hair combo that sometimes requires two shaves a day because the five o’clock shadow really shows.

  450. 450.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 20, 2020 at 10:39 pm

    Pro. Jeck. Shun.

    Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump· 6m
    After the worst debate performance in the history of politics, Michael Bloomberg, commonly known as Mini Mike, is trying to make a comeback by begging the Democrats for relevance. They treated him like a dog – and always will. Before politics, he said GREAT things about me!

    Italics added, and…

    Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson
    He’s so much richer than you he could find your net worth in his couch cushions.

  451. 451.

    Kay

    August 20, 2020 at 10:40 pm

    Andrew Lawrence
    @ndrew_lawrence
    · 40m
    Trump says that on election day he’s going to send law enforcement to polling locations

    I’m glad dumbshit telegraphed Barr’s plans. Gives state Dems and the one or two state Republicans who aren’t sniveling cowards time to block his goons.

  452. 452.

    MCA1

    August 20, 2020 at 10:40 pm

    @Baud: Yes.  Based on my experience, a significant portion of the gettable undecided votes out there are country club Republicans or older Republicans just having the scales lifted from their eyes about what their party has become, who were openly expressing that they would happily vote for Bloomberg in the General if he were the Dem nominee.  So he’s got some cred with that crowd, for whatever reason.

  453. 453.

    Anya

    August 20, 2020 at 10:40 pm

    Why am I so nervous for Joe? Ugh! Did I internalize Rose Twitter’s bad dishonest attacks?

  454. 454.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 20, 2020 at 10:41 pm

    @Kay: what “law enforcement” would he send?

  455. 455.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 20, 2020 at 10:42 pm

    @Anya: Joe’s got this.

  456. 456.

    Baud

    August 20, 2020 at 10:43 pm

    @Anya:

    Yes. And because we freak out at the smallest imperfection.

  457. 457.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2020 at 10:43 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: If Bloomy would have ended by whipping out a check book….

    The Repubs would’ve immediately started claiming he was trying to buy votes.

    I agree he needs to step up & chip in, like he promised, but *not* tonight.

    For one thing, whipping out a checkbook (for a check he never signs) is a Trump podium gesture.

  458. 458.

    Anya

    August 20, 2020 at 10:43 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I am so glad this comic villain doesn’t have a dog. I feel like he tortured dogs when he was a kid. Who the fuck thinks dogs are treated badly?

  459. 459.

    Subsole

    August 20, 2020 at 10:44 pm

     

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Maybe in some backwards-diagonal mirror-universe where the Libertarian party hadn’t been coopted by plutofeudalists and “ackshully it’s ephebophilia” types, he would be a member.

  460. 460.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 20, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    @Anya: he’s not an orator, he’s a chatter. The last couple of months, and this convention, give me confidence that he and his staff know this and they’ve prepared for this moment.

    Holy crap! I’ve never heard that story about Joe’s mother threatening to rip “that bonnet” off a nun’s head.

  461. 461.

    MisterForkbeard

    August 20, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    @Anya: I get a little nervous for him sometimes. He’s a good person and a good speaker when he feels strongly, but he also gaffes sometimes.

    But on his worst day he’s about as bad as Trump at his best.

  462. 462.

    NotMax

    August 20, 2020 at 10:46 pm

    @West of the Cascades

    Could barely detect his Chikrainian accent.

    //

  463. 463.

    Subsole

    August 20, 2020 at 10:47 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    Breaks up the eye-contact and makes it feel less threatening/uncanny valley.

  464. 464.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 20, 2020 at 10:49 pm

    @Kay: As I predicted on the front page last month.

  465. 465.

    Subsole

    August 20, 2020 at 10:49 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    That trick with the hose could look really cool if you layered different patterns…Dear god I bet it’s murder in the summertime, though.

  466. 466.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 20, 2020 at 10:50 pm

    @MisterForkbeard: every Republican president of my political awareness* has been to some degree at war with the English language, even when they had a script, a couple of them. A couple of them got re-elected.

    *I have no real independent memory of Ford–only Chevy Chase’s version of Ford– or Nixon– I remember adults talking about Nixon

  467. 467.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 20, 2020 at 10:55 pm

    @Subsole: Worst show I did was during a heat wave when it was over 90 in SF. On stage it was probably at least 120 (small stage, overly-big stage lights). Thankfully I shaved my legs, so I only had to wear a single pair of hose. But I still think I sweated off five pounds during my number.

  468. 468.

    NotMax

    August 20, 2020 at 11:05 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear

    Singing Heat Wave, When You’re Hot, You’re Hot or Steam Heat?

    :)

  469. 469.

    trnc

    August 20, 2020 at 11:14 pm

    Wowzer! NICE!

  470. 470.

    Dan B

    August 20, 2020 at 11:39 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: You got the Saint part right about St. Dolly!

     

    Now we can debate the part about how to address honorary Doctorates….

  471. 471.

    Dan B

    August 20, 2020 at 11:42 pm

    @gwangung:  I was reading Sister Golden Bear’s commant about St. Dolly and thought for a moment about a Kamala / Dolly ticket.  Or at least my mind inserted Dolly for Tammy Duckworth.  Ha! Would be fun for all.

  472. 472.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 11:43 pm

    @Dan B: That would be interesting. However you and I both know Dolly would politely decline in the most Dolly way possible.

  473. 473.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 20, 2020 at 11:48 pm

    @Yutsano: True. But just floating the idea would be a great way to watch heads explode across Redneckistan.

  474. 474.

    Yutsano

    August 20, 2020 at 11:55 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear:  It would almost be worth it just to watch Tennessee struggle to go Democratic. But I’m holding out this weird hope for Senator Taylor Swift.

    Which reminds me: there was a push about 15 years ago or so to get Tim McGraw to run for the Senate in Louisiana. The thing is he probably would have won and would still be there.

  475. 475.

    Booger

    August 21, 2020 at 8:20 am

    @dmsilev: Great. Next thing you know we’ll be building Jaegers.

  476. 476.

    Booger

    August 21, 2020 at 8:25 am

    @Adam L Silverman: All due respect, you should be so lucky.

  477. 477.

    Uncle Cosmo

    August 21, 2020 at 11:33 am

    @Adam L Silverman: I think Seinfield was awful and everyone on it was and is awful.

    @Mary G: @Adam L Silverman: Come sit six feet away from me. I never made it through five minutes of Seinfeld.

    Amazing, there are a few folks here I actually have something in common with!

    Swinefeld in four words: Repulsive characters behaving reprehensibly.

    (Or in more political terms, “Deplorable characters behaving despicably.”)

  478. 478.

    Uncle Cosmo

    August 21, 2020 at 11:43 am

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Floriduh’s Founding Father Fathead, Pence deLoon….

  479. 479.

    taumatugo

    August 21, 2020 at 11:45 am

    @guachi: The DNC had $18 million reasons.

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