Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Republicans would impeach Biden if he bit into a whole Kit Kat rather than breaking the sections apart.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

I’m just a talker, trying to find a channel!

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Bogus polls are all they’ve got left. Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls a year from now.

There is one struggling party in US right now, and it’s not the Democrats.

Democrats are back in array!

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Let me file that under fuck it.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

Biden: Oh no. We’ve upset Big Pharma again.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

I was promised a recession.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about it’s history.”

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N.K. Jemisin, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Mary L. Gray… I’ll bet the ‘Intellectual Dark Web‘ and their downmarket brethren have been soiling themselves ever since the news was released. (Yes, I am sure that the other new Fellows are ‘too progressive’ in their own fields, but you can’t expect someone networking after the cancellation of their NYTimes opinion column to stay up-to-date beyond the bestseller list… )

And despite everything, this made me laugh:

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  7. 7.

    OzarkHillbilly

    trump: “Those McArthur Fellows are a bunch of FAKE genuses. They never give money to REAL genuses like ME!”

  8. 8.

    Anne Laurie

    @debbie: Is he a greyhound?

    Just from that clip, I’d guess greyhound or lurcher (greyhound cross — maybe part deerhound?)

    But a sighthound, to be sure… that open-mouthed ‘laugh’ at the end of the leap is pure sighthound!

  10. 10.

    Betty Cracker

    Debate commission announced that the 2nd presidential debate will be virtual. Typhoid Trump will freak out in 3…2…1

  11. 11.

    Brachiator

    Breaking News:

    The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”

  14. 14.

    Anne Laurie

    @Immanentize: A whippet, of course! — should’ve done my research.

    I love whippets (they have such a wicked sense of humor), but even when we got our first dog 30 years ago, I knew neither of us had the speed or stamina to keep up with one!

  18. 18.

    Kay

    @Betty Cracker:

    Trump is terrible at town halls and Biden is unusually good at them- it’s a break for Trump.

    But I don’t want him around Biden- Trump’s sick and lying about it.

  19. 19.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    Julian Castro:

    “What Mike Pence adds to the ticket is that he lies in a calm voice.”

    I gotta admit that the number of politicians and otherwise feckless media types who now will say “he lies” instead of all the convoluted, euphemisms they’ve resorted to over the years is amazing.  The first time I heard Anderson Cooper use the “L Word” I expected the asteroid to hi.

  21. 21.

    germy

    Pence demanding that Harris answer *his* own personal questions when he won’t even answer the moderator’s is gross, and exemplary of the gender dynamics so many women have to deal with at work.

    — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 8, 2020

  22. 22.

    Baud

     

    @Anne Laurie:

    It’s the MacArthur award tweet.  All the emojis turn into a string of question marks on my phone because I block Twitter, which breaks the margin on mobile.  No worries.  People who don’t block Twitter will be fine.

  28. 28.

    Betty Cracker

    @Kay: Agreed; last night’s debate should have been virtual too, but hopefully Harris avoided the Trump cooties. I think you’re right that it’s a break for Trump not to have to be in the physical presence of non-sycophants. But he’s incapable of faking empathy, so he’ll probably come across like the soulless narcissist he is regardless.

  29. 29.

    Bruce K

    Don’t know if this counts as “respite”, but my mom finally got the download instructions for her absentee ballot, so she, my dad, and my brother can all fill out their ballots from the relative safety of a Greek island, and then put them all in one courier envelope to send in. Side note: the staffers at the New York County Board of Elections, especially the ones at the absentee ballot desk, have been very pleasant to deal with, in circumstances which would probably have three quarters of the jackaltariat tearing our hair out.

  30. 30.

    Sab

    As usual with MacArthur grants, every year I only recognize one name (NK Jamison) so every year I get to learn about amazing people I haven’t heard of and should have already known.

  32. 32.

    Brachiator

    @Immanentize:

    I thought it very cool that the Nobel Prize for chemistry went to two women, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna, who are not sharing the award with a male.

    There are still dopes who denigrate the contributions of women in science and the arts. I remember telling someone that I wouldn’t be surprised if some time in the future, the majority of recipients in every category were women.

    This year, so far, we have women winners of the Nobels in Physics, Chemistry and Literature. I might win my bet sooner than I had imagined.

  35. 35.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Anne Laurie:

    I’ve watched that clip at least 6-8 times over the last couple of days, and I never noticed the “laugh” until you mentioned it. I take it that’s characteristic of sighthounds — kind of a “Got it!” as they close in on their prey?

  38. 38.

    Betty Cracker

    I do not approve of Democrats agreeing to provide commentary for the white grievance network, but Mayor Pete does that wrong thing in exactly the right way.

  40. 40.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Awww — Elizabeth Warren was just on MJ, and as she was saying goodbye, Bailey wandered into the room and had a very cute Zoom moment.

  43. 43.

    Baud

    Progressives unveil 2021 agenda to pressure Biden
    …

    Known as the Working Families Party’s “People’s Charter,” the 1,000-word proposal calls for universal free health care, a jobs program employing 16 million people, retroactive hazard pay for essential employees and the reallocation of resources from policing toward education and other services. It also promotes giving the public an ownership stake in firms that receive bailouts, as well as buying out gas and oil companies, among other policies.

    The platform, shared first with POLITICO, is the latest move from progressives as they prepare to wrangle with moderate Democrats over the scale of new government spending and programs if the party wins control of Washington. It’s part of a different strategy for progressives this year than in the 2016 election: putting more organizational muscle behind Biden than they put into backing Hillary Clinton’s campaign, but also vowing to turn around and place immediate pressure on Biden to stand with them on key issues if he is elected.

  46. 46.

    germy

    Kamala Harris is every Black woman who had to remain calm in a work meeting when lesser qualified white men rudely spoke over them, spouting less than mediocre ideas while the person "in charge" does nothing to stop it and everyone judges *you* for "appearing" frustrated

    — Shanita Hubbard (@msshanitarenee) October 8, 2020

  47. 47.

    satby

    @Betty Cracker: I hate Fox news and watched it destroy my mother as she slowly fell deeper into dementia. But it’s the default “news” source on in public spaces all over, not just in approximately 40% of homes. Boycotting them entirely cedes the entire field to the propagandists and nutters, and hasn’t worked out well for us anyway. Being able to go on Fox and eviscerate their lies while dropping some truth bombs can only help, and Pete is very good at it. We need more Democrats doing that too.

  48. 48.

    Sab

    @Baud: I have a secret crush on Buttigieg’s husband Chasten. He actually enjoys substitute teaching middle school kids.

  49. 49.

    Anne Laurie

    @SiubhanDuinne: I take it that’s characteristic of sighthounds — kind of a “Got it!” as they close in on their prey?

    Well, it’s certainly useful that way.  But Just about every sighthound I’ve ever met takes great joy in being THE COOLEST DOG IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, and that open-mouthed yay me! is totally characteristic.

    (Great Danes, incidentally, are sighthounds — originally developed by crossbreading greyhounds and mastiffs.  So you can check with TaMara, if you want a second opinion!)

  51. 51.

    Kay

    @germy:

    She has a podcast:

    Megyn Kelly is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and The Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald for the premiere episode of The Megyn Kelly Show. Glenn and Megyn talk about “Resistance Journalism” and the decline of the media in the Trump Era, reveal some inside details about MSNBC, talk about Edward Snowden and how Greenwald came to that giant story, NBC and the media’s hypocrisy on the issue of blackface, counterproductive coercive tactics when it comes to social progress in 2020 and a lot more.

    They talk about the media’s hypocrisy on blackface, so it’s kind of niche.

  52. 52.

    satby

    @Sab: He’s such a great guy! And the Buttigiegs  and the Harris-Emhoffs have become good friends, they pop up on each others twitter often.

    Edited: Pete played Pence for Kamala’s debate prep.

  54. 54.

    germy

    @Kay:

    Megyn and Greenwald both use their platforms for airing their personal grievances and disguising it as political commentary.

  55. 55.

    Bruce K

    @satby: Honestly, the only boycotts that’d work at all against Fox News would be boycotts of their advertisers – hit them in the balance sheet, make them hideously unprofitable, and then maybe their influence will start to fade. Of course, doing that is probably going to be labeled as “cancel culture” (as opposed to what they did to the Dixie Chicks, which is just “the free market deciding”).

  56. 56.

    Sab

    @Baud: Or he is good at it. One of my great aunts taught middle school and loved it. She said the kids never failed to surprise her. High school kids were predictable and elementary school kids were cute but boring, but middle school kids were unpredictable.

  57. 57.

    Baud

    @satby:

    The problem is you have to be very skilled to go up against professional liars.  Most of our people, while decent folks, don’t possess that skill.

  58. 58.

    Betty Cracker

    @satby: Dems boycotting Fox News completely has never been tried, so I don’t think we can conclude it won’t work. The network is a cancer on democracy, and Dems appearing on it gives it an imprimatur of respectability that it does not deserve. The network converts that unearned respectability into advertiser dollars so it can keep right on poisoning democracy.

    That said, Pete did good.

  62. 62.

    satby

    @Baud: True, but skills can be learned. Pete’s naturally gifted at it, but others need to learn it because it’s effective. Every crack in the wall contributes to the final collapse.

  63. 63.

    Baud

    @satby:

    I agree with that.  I happen to know that a lot of Republicans take media lessons offered by right wing organizations.  It’s why they do a good job spouting their talking points.

  64. 64.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    You watch. All the town hall questions will be about health care/covid, the economy or broad “character/values” questions – “will you bring us together?”  I personally would ask a school question, since that question has been inexplicably ignored and there are 55 million school age children in this country and that’s not even counting the college students. Biden actually has a very robust children/parent agenda but these idiots would rather talk about “court packing”.

  65. 65.

    Baud

    Not that Pence was as obnoxious as Trump, but Kamala could not have gotten away with “will you shut up, man.”

  69. 69.

    Joe Falco

    @Baud:

    I wonder if Trump will say something about this.

    It’s definitely an opportunity for Trump to accuse the Democratic leadership in NY as Anti-Semitic and being the real Nazis. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone on his staff have already drawn up a strategy for using that in ads.

  73. 73.

    satby

    @Betty Cracker: I agree that Fox and the entire right wing conspiracy spreading media is a cancer on society. Democrats going onto Fox don’t give it  “an imprimatur of respectability” because non-brainwashed people aren’t watching (except by accident in hotels, etc) and the core audience doesn’t respect Democrats. But it does challenge the wall to wall disinformation in the only place the audience may hear it. Edited to add: the cure for cancer seldom is to ignore it.

    That said, boycotting advertisers and making it non-profitable will finally kill it as a media model, so I do that too.

  74. 74.

    Betty Cracker

    Per WaPo, Trump just now:

    “I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate. That’s not what debating is all about,” he said in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox Business Network.”

  77. 77.

    different-church-lady

    @Kay:

    counterproductive coercive tactics when it comes to social progress

    Well there’s something Greenwald should know all about.

  78. 78.

    Betty Cracker

    @satby: The imprimatur of respectability isn’t passed along by Dems appearing in front of non-brainwashed viewers; it’s conveyed when Fox News describes its bona fides to advertisers who might otherwise hesitate to peddle their wares on a racist propaganda network. “See, we’re a real news network — both Democrats and Republicans provide commentary on our shows.”

  80. 80.

    Kay

    @Betty Cracker:

    More of the Right wing exceptionalism. The whole country is following covid rules and learning how to conduct things remotely except for the top tier on the Right, who simply exempt themselves. They’re special.

  81. 81.

    Sab

    @Kay: Yes. My autistic granddaughter is being home schooled this year against Ohio Mom’ s advice from pre-covid times. She can’t learn if her mom isn’t alive.

    ETA: sorry, Not a very respitey comment.

  83. 83.

    Baud

    To be fair to Trump, being on a TV screen is something he’s not used to and it makes him uncomfortable.

  84. 84.

    RedDirtGirl

    The 12 minute video about Spittie was a great thing to take my mind off MTA delays this morning. Thanks, AL!

  86. 86.

    JPL

    Biden should issue a statement and mention that they truly understand why he would bail on the debate because he never wins them.

  87. 87.

    Sab

    @Baud: So don’t sneer at Chasten Buttigieg. He does well what we cannot manage.

    I haven’t actually hugged my granddaughter since March. I am okay with that, but it is really tearing my husband up.

    I am more of a dog person.

  89. 89.

    Betty Cracker

    @sanjeevs: Trump will probably walk this back just like he walked the stimulus rejection back. Like y’all said, he’s the one who has to turn things around. All the data tells us Biden is winning.

  92. 92.

    Mary G

    Favorability ratings of the VP candidates, before and after the debate, according to the CNN post debate poll:

    Kamala Harris: 56% → 63%
    Mike Pence: 41% → 41%
    — Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) October 8, 2020

  93. 93.

    RedDirtGirl

    @sanjeevs: There is something under Pence’s shirt, just above the belt on his left side. Some wag on Twitter thinks it’s a p&nis-restraining device, since he couldn’t have Mother near.

  94. 94.

    Betty Cracker

    @Sab: The best teacher my daughter had in K-12 was her homeroom and English teacher in 7th grade. The kid loved her, and she was the most impressive teacher we ever met at parent conferences. She understood and sympathized with kids that age in a way that is vanishingly rare for adults.

  95. 95.

    Kay

    I knew Trump would chicken out of the debate. It’s not just his incredibly bad performance last time- he doesn’t want to reveal that he’s short of breath. I wonder how long they can safely keep him pumped full of drugs and propped up.

  98. 98.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Kay: Not much longer. I was giving him 7 days from his release before he went back in. The more they keep him hidden, the more I think it might well be less.

  99. 99.

    Kay

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I don’t think he’s going to go back in unless he’s unconscious, but he’s not well and it’s obvious he’s not well. I keep thinking of those physicians who kill celebrities by giving them everything they demand.

  100. 100.

    A Ghost to Most

    I see there’s another book banger uprising in Brooklyn over COVID restrictions. People need to be disabused of the notion that their sky fairy tales supercede the Constitution.

  101. 101.

    Betty Cracker

    @RandomMonster: You may be right — reporters on Twitter say Trump now says he’ll do a rally instead of a debate, and supposedly he’ll have posted numerous negative COVID tests between now and next week. Good God, what an idiot.

  104. 104.

    germy

    @Betty Cracker:

    It looks like he’s doing his own makeup.

    His last appearance, it was really caked (sprayed?) on.

    He has a future in mortuary science if he ever grows tired of this whole “politics” thing.

  105. 105.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Kay: The wild card in my prediction is my lack of knowledge as to just exactly how extensive the WH medical facility is. I know it’s up there. I’m basically betting that with his age, weight, diet and exercise regimen, it’s going to be bad for him no matter what they do, and that sooner or later he’s gonna end up in ICU.

  106. 106.

    cmorenc

    @Anne Laurie:

    I agree the dog is a sighthound, most likely a greyhound.  We have an Itslian greyhound (a miniature variety if true greyhound)., and she has the same springy athleticism and love of taking large leaps at speed as the dog in the clip.
    on chilly early mornings when one of us, my wife or i, would get up to let her out to p , whomever stayed in bed would need to keep an esr out for the sound of the door opening to let her back in – lying in bed you had to be prepared for the dog to dash into the bedroom and take a spectacular leap at speed straight into your lap – better have the family jewels protected.  Fortunately, itslian greyhounds only weigh aoc 10 lbs

  108. 108.

    MomSense

    Love that whippet!  My grandmother had them growing up and always talked about them.  She had “coach dogs”, too which is what they called Dalmatians apparently.

  109. 109.

    Jeffro

    @Baud: I think progressives are going to be surprised at how quickly Biden turns over the keys, so to speak, after the first few months of the new administration.

  110. 110.

    JPL

    trump was yelling that Hillary needs to be indicted because she didn’t turn over 33,000 emails to Congress.   Maybe it’s time for the House to start indicting trump’s folks.

  114. 114.

    Jeffro

    @Betty Cracker: Yup.  “Maria, there’s just no point…if I can’t talk over the guy all night and possibly infect him with a life-threatening disease, it’s a complete waste of my time.”

    Run ‘against the media’, loosely defined to now include the debates commission, trumpov.  Nobody cares.  Just cough your way through the finish line and await your indictments.

  116. 116.

    Jeffro

    I love it!  Rubio’s tweet from last night, posted along with a GIF of missiles launching

    Think hard about what you just saw…then decide who you want just one heartbeat away from the Presidency

    Marco, Marco…this is not the winning issue you think it is.  But please explain at greater length across the rest of the week/here, let me give you some more rope.

  118. 118.

    Joe Falco

    The pandemic and last night’s debate has revealed that Trump and associates were dead all along. Well, I for one welcome this administration’s attempt at providing representation for the most overlooked group in American politics: the dead.

  120. 120.

    sdhays

    @Kay: This is exactly what I thought as soon as he actually left the hospital on Monday. They reportedly convinced him to go to the hospital as early as they did by telling him he could either go now on his own two feet or in a few hours on a stretcher. That argument isn’t going to work now.

  123. 123.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @prostratedragon:

    Wow! That was wonderful! (“Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most” is just about my all-time favourite jazz standard. Such a great song.) Many thanks for sharing that link.

  124. 124.

    Chyron HR

    @Baud:

    Known as the Working Families Party’s “People’s Charter,”

    I’m old enough to remember when the Working Families Party were neoliberal stooges plotting against Ay Oh See.

  125. 125.

    Ken

    @Baud: I’m starting to think Trump won’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.

    It’s the Year of the Woman.  They’re giving it to Harris.

  128. 128.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    Today I need to make a 60 second video giving my favorite memory of a long time friend whose 70th birthday is Saturday. Her sons are making her a surprise montage of 70 such videos as a gift. The task probably sounds simple for most of you, but it will be a new skill for me. So yay? Yay!

  129. 129.

    eric

    @Kay: virtual learning is okay for children, but an adult cannot virtually debate.  good look for trump.  easy ad for LP or Biden.

  130. 130.

    Gin & Tonic

    @OzarkHillbilly: My wife says the treatment protocol is supposed to be 6 mg of dex per day for 10 days. If that’s done for Trump, he’ll be living in a Ralph Steadman drawing before it’s over.

  131. 131.

    Morzer

    Well, now that Trump has run away from doing a virtual townhall with Biden, I hope that Joe will say that he’s not afraid of the voters and offer to show up and take questions anyway.

  132. 132.

    Spanky

    Have I missed a comment somewhere that points out that last night was another example of Pense being unable to answer questions on the fly?

  133. 133.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Joe Falco:

    That would probably work had it not been for the Hasidic community being a bunch of assholes toward women in all too many of those neighborhoods.

  135. 135.

    Spanky

    @Anne Laurie: Watch the video again and notice that there’s something dangling just above his head as his mouth is open. Looks a bit like a pork chop.

  136. 136.

    Kay

    Maggie Haberman Retweeted
    Manu Raju
    @mkraju
    ·30m
    “This monster,” Trump says of Harris, calling her a “monster” twice

    Political media now live blog all Trump interviews, just in case we’re not watching Fox. They cannot quit him. They’re gonna need a support group if he loses.

  138. 138.

    Kay

    He knows now he’s going to lose. That’s what all the insane lashing out is about this morning.

    It’s a dangerous time for the country.

  140. 140.

    Matt McIrvin

    Trump has been literally demanding that Barr arrest Joe Biden. (And Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.)

  143. 143.

    Kay

    @Matt McIrvin:

    There is going to come a time in the next 30 days where decent lawyers in the DOJ are going to have to stand up. I don’t know that they have it in them- they haven’t had the spine to stand up yet- but they’re going to be the only people who are in a position to act. Keep your fingers crossed that one or two of them have some courage.

  144. 144.

    LurkerNoLonger

    So if Trump stays true to his word (why start now?) and skips the virtual debate next week, does the debate still go on with Joe alone taking questions from the virtual town hall?

  146. 146.

    Ken

    @Kay: He knows now he’s going to lose.

    You think he’d pinned his hopes on Pence for a knockout debate performance?  I guess we can blame it on the dex.  If so, he’ll certainly be angry at Pence, so extra schadenfreude for everyone!

  147. 147.

    Kay

    @BruceFromOhio:

    reveal some inside details about MSNBC,

    Because that’s of vital interest to the public, right? Who gets hired and booked onto MSNBC.
    I have never seen people who think their own work is so endlessly fascinating that they not just write and appear on tv for a living, so we see their work there, but have a whole category of analysis that is “me and my work- let’s talk about it”.

  149. 149.

    Baud

    @Kay:

    It’s not the work that’s fascinating.  Nothing about Hillary’s emails were fascinating.  What they like talking about is how liberals as devious and untrustworthy, elitist and otherwise bad people.  Nearly half this country has adopted a subculture that depends on hating us.  The specific topic is just grist for the mill.

  150. 150.

    Kay

    Kathy Gray
    @michpoligal
    ·1h
    Conservative operatives Wohl and Burkman turn themselves in over bad robocalls. Detroit arraignment at 10:30

    Good. I’m in favor of law n order white collar crime crackdown.

  152. 152.

    artem1s

    @JPL:

    trump was yelling that Hillary needs to be indicted because she didn’t turn over 33,000 emails to Congress.

    so he’s entered that stage of dementia where he can’t differentiate the past from the present and doesn’t remember what year it is?

  154. 154.

    TS (the original)

    @JPL:

    trump was yelling that Hillary needs to be indicted because she didn’t turn over 33,000 emails to Congress.

    From the man who continually goes to SCOTUS to keep his records private.

    If he thinks, which is doubtful, he must be petrified about losing the election &  all the accusations and congress enquiries that will follow.

  155. 155.

    A Ghost to Most

    If you haven’t seen Mike Lee’s latest tweets, you need to. He’s laying it out there like t** on ‘roids. Barbara McQuade is calling it the scariest tweet ever.

  156. 156.

    Kay

    Political Polls
    @Politics_Polls
    ·7h
    Seemed more focused on uniting the country than dividing it:
    Harris 62% (+28)
    Pence 34%
    .Spent more time attacking their opponent
    Pence 56% (+20)
    Harris 36%

    I know we all hate this but the fact is voters keep saying they want more unity. You can’t just ignore it. Maybe they don’t know how to get there but that is what they say they want, with the exception of Pence’s 36, who are the Trump base.

  157. 157.

    Humanities Prof

    @LurkerNoLonger: Insert shrug emoji here?

    Biden’s campaign has already said “Our guy’s happy to be there, whether or not Trumpov shows up.”

    Jimmy Carter skipped the first (and only) presidential debate in 1980, and it went on without him.  Reportedly Carter had refused to debate if John D. Anderson was included, Reagan’s camp had refused to debate if Anderson was excluded, and in the end the debate went forward with only Reagan and Anderson present.

    I had been unaware of that prior to today, but bad move on Carter’s part.

    The precedent seems to be that the presence of both major party candidates is NOT required in order for the debates to take place.

  161. 161.

    Kay

    Jennifer Epstein
    @jeneps
    ·21m
    Biden on Trump’s threat to skip the next debate: “We don’t know what the president’s going to do. He changes his mind every second.”

    BTW, Jennifer Epstein does a good job covering Biden. It’s just straight reporting, if you’re interested in someone other than Donald Trump.

  164. 164.

    germy

    We’re not a democracy.

    — Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) October 8, 2020

    Ronald Reagan said “Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”

    And now the GOP has been reduced to this. https://t.co/5qjTTSJzAL

    — Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) October 8, 2020

    It’s always good to shame them by quoting their Saint Ronnie to them.

  166. 166.

    Ken

    @germy: That’s a very… primitive understanding of government.  Has he read the Constitution?  The writers came up with a fairly long list of things that the government should do, relatively few of which have to do with coercive force.  Does he think our freedoms are being crushed because we all have to use the same system of weights and measures?

  167. 167.

    Sab

    Useless trivia: when I was an exchange student in UK in 1970s, their student slang for cramming for an exam was “whippet stuffing” because you cannot quickly feed a whippet enough to get it fat.

  169. 169.

    JPL

    Not sure that trump’s closing message that Kamala is an unlikable, communist monster is gonna win over the suburban mom.

    btw what happened to the soccer mo

  170. 170.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Ken:

    Does he think our freedoms are being crushed because we all have to use the same system of weights and measures?

    There was literally a hilarious fight on Twitter a few months ago in which some Twitter Marxist was claiming that the use of units of measure was oppressive and un-Marxist. (I think he was hung up on the old stories about using the king’s foot.) I don’t think even the other Twitter Marxists were going along.

  171. 171.

    p.a.

    Why not let Biden debate Alec Baldwin as Trump for 90 min? -costal elite barbie on twitter

     

    ETA: Not sure I agree w CEB.  No matter how low AB goes, can’t out-tRump tRump.

  174. 174.

    Sab

    Eavesdropping on my husband’s coffee klatch. Parochial scholl alumns. Mostly male, but dominated by one retired woman teacher. She is so cool, and they all love her. So do I and I am only eavesdropping.

  178. 178.

    Joe Falco

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    That would probably work had it not been for the Hasidic community being a bunch of assholes toward women in all too many of those neighborhoods.

    Point taken, but it’s not as if Trump goons would ever let the truth get in the way of telling lies, no matter how big the lie is.

  183. 183.

    NotMax

    @LurkerNoLonger

    Empty threats (e.g., “I’m going to sue!” ) are the coin of the twisted realm in Trumpland.

    Frankly, I lump all the intimations of challenging votes in the same category.

  184. 184.

    different-church-lady

    @Gin & Tonic: I think this lends a lot of credibility to my theory that newspaper op-eds were the original troll posts before the internet. I think they publish a lot of crap in the spirit of “Can you believe what this nitwit wrote this time?”

    Either that or there’s something about stupid ideas presented in a convoluted way by hyper-sensitives that really tickles publishers. And that would be a lot worse.

  186. 186.

    p.a.

    The ^ we see concerns about deficits/debt expressed, the ^ we can be sure the usual suspects realize even the vote cheating schemes of the right won’t put tRump over the top.  If their numbers grow dim for holding the Senate, we may even see spending bills move forward.  Preemptive sapping of the new admin.

  187. 187.

    Kay

    CookPoliticalReport
    @CookPolitical
    ·40m
    NEW: House rating changes in #IA03 #NY24 #NC11 #PA07 #PA16 #TX07 #VA07
    Read
    @Redistrict’s deep dive into all 58 competitive House races

    Every single one in D’s direction. He’s still falling. Yippee. I thought it would tighten, go in the other direction.

  188. 188.

    Redshift

    @Ken: It’s an idiotic libertarian thing (but I repeat myself.) They think it’s a clever rhetorical trick to say that it’s only the threat of force that allows government to do things like collect taxes (because you can be locked up for tax evasion) and so government is thuggish and bad. In reality, it just makes you sound like a teenage boy whining that you can’t make him do his chores.

  189. 189.

    Jeffro

    @germy: yep, that’s all government does Mike Lee – no possibility of coming together to maintain a civil society, promote the common welfare, join together to do the things that individuals and the blessed market cannot

    yeesh what a loon

  191. 191.

    Kay

    Dave Wasserman
    @Redistrict
    ·38m
    Of note: we’re updating our
    @CookPolitical
    House outlook to a Democratic net gain of 5-10 seats, with anything from 0-15 seats possible.
    And, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’s former #NC11 moves from Likely R to Lean R as both parties now regard it as competitive.

    Ha.

  193. 193.

    Peale

    @Matt McIrvin: At my Marxist grocery store, fresh produce shall be sold to you at prices based on my proprietary ability/need calculation, so no need to weigh those bananas anyway.

  195. 195.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @NotMax:

    It was only this week that I learned that a buttload is an actual measurement unit.

  196. 196.

    different-church-lady

    @Kay: See, the thing about manipulators is that eventually they alienate everyone around them. Four years ago, it was a kick to help Trump, but now nobody wants to hang with him, nobody wants to defend him, and nobody wants to be manipulated by him anymore.

    With everyday manipulators, when this happens they just move on to a fresh group of people to manipulate and the manipulate/alienate cycle continues. But Trump has alienated an entire country, and he has no fresh group to work with.

    Or as William S. Burroughs put it: “But if the first one is a fake you can’t underwrite a shit house.”

  197. 197.

    dmsilev

    @Kay: He’s spent the last ten days very very blatantly reminding the country why he’s a disaster in the job. Seems counter-productive four weeks before the election, but I’m no Very Stable Genius, so maybe I’m missing the grand strategy here.

  198. 198.

    Shalimar

    @Spanky: Kay has pointed out repeatedly that Pence seems smart because he has talking points memorized and he can speak endlessly with variations of them, but he is too dumb to think on the fly and spontaneously answer any of the actual questions put to him.  It’s an excellent observation.

  200. 200.

    different-church-lady

    @Peale: I thought the Marxist grocery store just distributed food based on need — no purchasing involved.

    Also: no food involved.

  201. 201.

    Redshift

    @different-church-lady: They pay Hugh Hewitt to be a columnist. I read his drivel for laughs (and the comment section) yesterday. It was his argument that “yes you are better off than you were for years ago,” and it ended with him literally saying that you won’t hear about these things from most of the media because 95% of them are lying because they hate Trump.

    The idea that the WaPo wants the trolling is a more rational explanation than any I’ve thought of for why they keep him on staff.

  202. 202.

    hueyplong

    I read you all and rotated around 8 twitter sites throughout the debate, because I don’t enjoy watching them live.  Then I read the post-game samples posted here and elsewhere.

    1. Criticism of Harris seems to be pretty much limited to the fact that she’s a bit uppity for Megyn and the usual white male commenters.  I would have her do nothing differently.  She lost no votes that weren’t going to Trump anyway, solidified the ones Biden already has, and added a few on the margin.  The CNN poll supports that and pretty much no other view.

    2. Twitter was severely stress-tested after the fly landed on Pence’s head.  I flipped from account to account and it was blowing up.  The internet was instantly filled with pics of Jeff Goldblum (which I consider an affront to Vincent Price, but that’s a side issue).

    3. They know they’re going to get swamped and that if they steal this it will be in the face of a really lopsided popular vote.  Mike Lee’s repugnant message is simply an admission that they’re now going to try to normalize/legitimize the concept of minority rule, in the poll-poison instance of the Supreme Court appointment and secondarily in the individual state shenanigans that will be employed to keep seats.  “Minority” in this case meaning old white male hardcore conservative and not PoC.  Their masters may be in Moscow, but their role models are from old school South Africa.  Killing time once while scouting out a Mississippi judge’s courtroom actions for an upcoming trial, I read a bunch of resolutions passed by their legislature in the early 1960s, and they specifically cited the liberty-loving South Africans as role models.  That’s where the current GOP is going.

  204. 204.

    OldDave

    Spitfire is a whippet.  Our daughter is active in dog sports and there are two whippets in her family.  On Tuesday I sent her a link to Spitfire’s record breaking jump and she replied she was “very aware of spitfire”.  I take it he is famous in those circles.

  207. 207.

    hueyplong

    Forgot to add

    4. Patton Ostwald posted that Pence and Le Chiffre share the same tell.  That was the only thing that made me laugh out loud.

  209. 209.

    Steeplejack

    @Anne Laurie:

    Yes, I think it’s a greyhound. Also LOL that the very end is cut off, because 1% body fat is not pretty when it’s immersed in water.

  211. 211.

    PJ

    @different-church-lady: in the pre-internet days, writers would get an op-ed gig for being decent writers and for supposedly representing a particular constituency.  George Will would get hired to represent the “principled, intellectual” conservative, while Cal what’s-his-name would get hired to represent the “raving batshit loony” conservative.  But now they seem to get hired to present very niche perspectives – E. Bruenig is the “convert TradCath Texan right-winger who wants Medicare for All and student loan forgiveness”, Russ Douthat is the “convert Catholic right winger who thinks sex is icky”, Freddie deBoer is the “thin-skinned provocateur with ill-thought out pseudo-left-wing policy stances who hates women and will gladly libel anyone who proves him wrong.”  In other words, they are weirdos.  There’s nothing wrong with that, per se, but none of them are insightful or even self-aware writers, and so the papers are elevating these very strange perspectives as if they represented something significant in contemporary life, when they are far from it.

  213. 213.

    Peale

    @hueyplong: On three, their loyalty to Trump even to the point of supporting him as he claiming that his case of COVID was personally sent by God, makes me think that they are moving towards something more akin to the type of monarchy where everyone worships a deified emperor. Something like pre-war Japan or Thailand.

  215. 215.

    Ken

    @Kay: electoral-vote.com has moved Texas from “barely Republican” to tied! Florida and Iowa also moved toward the Democrats.

    The favorable moves for Republicans are Montana from “likely Rep” to “solid Rep” and Arizona from “likely Dem” to “barely Dem”.

  217. 217.

    hueyplong

    @Ken: Does the AZ one include polling after the debate this week?  Hoping not, because it seems like Kelly outperformed McSally.  Hate the idea of an “AZ voters are coming home to the GOP” meme.

  218. 218.

    TS (the original)

    @hueyplong:

     secondarily in the individual state shenanigans

    There is going to be some serious voter suppression in regard to voting by mail. It may not even be deliberate although the GOP are not fighting to alleviate problems, quite the reverse.

    A LOT of mail-in ballots are being rejected in North Carolina.

    With higher rates of mail-in voting comes a higher number of rejected ballots for mistakes such as a missing signature or other minor errors, a total that is also running a bit less than double the entire 2016 sum. Disturbingly, it appears that Black voters’ ballots are being rejected at a massively disproportionate rate, according to University of Florida elections expert Michael McDonald.

    The saving grace is that North Carolina allows voters to cure mail-in ballot deficiencies. But that process has been held up pending court action. The board of elections agreed to allow voters who had not met witness requirements to sign and return letters certifying that their ballots are genuine. But President Trump’s campaign and other Republicans have challenged this procedure in federal court. A ruling against the board of elections might force a more complex process, obliging voters to complete new ballots.

  219. 219.

    Jeffro

    Trumpov was complaining earlier this morning that the electoral college means that the Democrats already start with New York, California, and Illinois’ votes.

    He’s upset about all the Republican votes that count for nothing in those states.

    People, there’s never a bad time to ramp up the national conversation about abolishing the electoral college!

  220. 220.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    I just had an interesting thought – a thread where we all LARP commentary in this election like we’re Chris Matthews, Mark Halperin, Matt Lauer, etc.

  222. 222.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Baud: Hence the reason most health professionals recommend going straight to grandparenting and skipping the parenting step.

  225. 225.

    Kathleen

    @Matt McIrvin: Part of me would not  be surprised. Rethuglicans are rabid jackals with teeth bared and mouths foaming. They are being driven by something deeper than hatred or irrationality.  To paraphrase my favorite line from Casablanca,  the devil has the Rethugs by the throat.

  226. 226.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @TS (the original): Just saw a new YouTube spot with Wanda Sykes going over the procedure for PA ballots in detail and emphasizing how important it is to get every step right.

    Nice relief from the pro-Trump YouTube ads. The one that always makes me want to throw my computer across the room is the lady who says “It’s undeniable that President Trump has built the strongest economy in history…”  I settle for hitting the mute button.

  228. 228.

    Ken

    @hueyplong: Arizona poll is Ipsos, Sep 29 to Oct 7, so both sides of the AZ debate.  It has Biden 48%, Trump 46%.

    They also have two AZ Senate polls, Ipsos (Kelly 51%, McSally 41%, same time span) and High Ground Inc (Kelley 50%, McSally 44%, Sep 28 to Oct 5).

  229. 229.

    dmsilev

    @Jeffro: Does he realize that it’s only because of the Electoral College that he won last time? Or is he still clinging to that fantasy that he actually won the popular vote last time?

    Or has what’s left of his brain finally melted?

  231. 231.

    Miss Bianca

    @germy: Has Pete B always been this good at trolling the GOP and I just hadn’t noticed before? Or has he just upped his game in recent months?

  232. 232.

    dmsilev

    @Eunicecycle: Hugh Hewitt, Henry Olsen, Gary Abernathy, Marc Thiessen. All well worth reading just to watch the WaPo commentariat rip into.

    Edit: For instance, from Thiessen’s column on the debate:

    “Harris failed to wish the president a speedy recovery before launching into her blistering attack — a missing grace note whose absence was glaring”

    Well, Marc, she didn’t want to lie.

  233. 233.

    Kathleen

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: I contacted my local BOE in Hamilton County to ask what process was for handling mail in ballots when information was missing or questionable after citing my concerns about what was occurring in North Carolina.  The person I spoke with said I would be contacted. I dropped off my ballot at BOE yesterday so I’ll start tracking it.

  235. 235.

    Miss Bianca

    @Jeffro: So, Mike Lee, you gonna quit your job in the REPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT now that the ‘rona has caused the scales to fall from your eyes? No?

  236. 236.

    Jeffro

    @dmsilev: no, yes, and yes

    he is just reaching for anything that he thinks might improve his losing hand here.  He interrupted Maria Baritomo at one point just by blurting out “arrest Hillary Clinton!”  He was offering free drugs – “a CURE not a therapeutic!” Yesterday in that wacky video.  It is sinking in with him that nothing he does or says will turn this thing around for him, and I am SO here for it.

  238. 238.

    Kay

    I think an incumbent is different than an open seat in two ways- it’s more difficult to get to the point where people will take the step to fire the incumbent, but once they’ve decided to fire him it’s also more difficult to get them to not then follow thru and fire him.

  239. 239.

    Jeffro

    @Kay: Amanda carpenter on Twitter: “ So the president can call in to a TV news show and talk all morning but can’t do a virtual debate. OK, got it“

  242. 242.

    dmsilev

    I’m sure this will go over well:
    Trump says Gold Star families could have given him Covid-19

    President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that he might have contracted Covid-19 from Gold Star family members who were too close to him when telling stories of their loved ones who died in the line of duty.
    In an interview on Fox Business, Trump told host Maria Bartiromo that he “figured there would be a chance” he would become infected with the coronavirus, citing his meetings with the families of America’s war dead.

    “Sometimes, I’d be in groups of, for instance, Gold Star families. I met with Gold Star families. I didn’t want to cancel that,” he said. “But they all came in, and they all talk about their son and daughter and father. And, you know, they all came up to me, and they tell me a story.”

    The president proceeded to recount some of those interactions.
    He said the family members would approach him to “tell me a story about, ‘My son, sir, was in Iraq.’ Or, ‘He was in Afghanistan.’ And, ‘Sir, he did this, and he did that, and then he charged in order to save his friends.’ And, ‘Yes, sir, he was killed, but he saved his friends. He’s so brave, sir.’”
    Trump explained that as he was being told these stories about fallen soldiers, “I can’t say, ‘Back up, stand 10 feet,’ you know? I just can’t do it.”

    (siremphasis added)

  243. 243.

    hueyplong

    What I’m here for is when the steroids are discontinued/wear off and he goes into deep depression.

    I guess they could just keep them going.  Certainly no one will pause for something so preciously obsolete as medical ethics.

  245. 245.

    Baud

    @satby: Agreed.  Glad to see him be more visible.  I hope he stays in the spotlight.

    He might want a position in the Biden administration, but he’s so good at messaging I’d hate to see him stop doing that.

  247. 247.

    Peale

    @dmsilev: Trump declared that he’d been cured and that he’s enjoying COVID as a gift from God, so why the need to wish him good health?

  248. 248.

    Miss Bianca

    @satby: I apologize for every nasty snarky thing I ever said about Mayor Pete. Yeah, he may be a white guy, but he’s one of the good ones.//

    @Baud: Press Secretary! I’d watch the *hell* out of any press briefing he gave!//

  249. 249.

    Elizabelle

    Good morning all.

    What is your guess on whether Trump will eventually slide into participating in the virtual debate?  I think he needs the debate more than Biden does, and that might eventually sink into his Covita brain.

    Although, maybe his health will not permit any participating.  For reals.

    Making the next debate virtual is the first good decision this year’s Debates Commission has made.

  250. 250.

    gwangung

    @Sab: I was pleasantly surprised that I knew two people, Jemisin and Larissa Fasthorse, who I interact with occasionally in theatre circles.  Really deserving laureates.

  252. 252.

    Ken

    @Kay: If anyone demands that Pete apologize, the followup can be “I apologize, I forgot the president’s weakened physical condition.”

  253. 253.

    catclub

    @Jeffro: Amanda carpenter on Twitter: “ So the president can call in to a TV news show and talk all morning but can’t do a virtual debate. OK, got it“

     

    The difference is that Fox  does not cut his mic.

  255. 255.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Kay: I know we all hate this but the fact is voters keep saying they want more unity.

    In the immortal words of Tonto, What you mean “we,” paleface?

    I would like more unity. There is more that unites us than divides us, for “us” = the non-RWNJ 73% – and if we can focus on where we either agree, or can calmly and respectfully disagree, we can asphyxiate bigoted/Nazi memes by rendering them unacceptable in social discourse.

    We need to do this because those memes aren’t political so much as they are cultural concepts of status and tribalism – and if we don’t do our best to eradicate them, they will surface in every election until our inattention and laziness allows the fascisti to sneak through, at which point democracy dies.

  257. 257.

    satby

    @Miss Bianca: Think about it: a closeted gay kid growing up not just in Indiana but attending Toxic Masculinity U (aka Notre Dame) for undergrad AND serving in the military in a war zone. He’s had lots of practice honing those skills.

    plus Chasten’s no slouch in the wit department either.

  258. 258.

    Ken

    @dmsilev: So I take it they didn’t invite the Gold Star father who yelled at Trump and blamed him for his son’s death, after Trump ordered a raid that Obama had nixed as being unacceptably risky.  IIUC he hasn’t been back to Dover AFB since.

  259. 259.

    Aleta

    @dmsilev: are you KIDDING me.  Can’t help but think this is preemptive, esp if some of them became infected. It’s heartbreaking.  And Pence, chair of Force-Covid-Operation-Victory let it happen, stood by w/o a mask or one for his wife.  (He maybe got it there too.)

  264. 264.

    Falling Diphthong

    @Elizabelle: I predict that he will talk big about a rally, that won’t happen, Biden will do the debate, Trump will rage tweet for a while, then he’ll try to call into the debate like he does to Fox news shows.

  266. 266.

    MattF

    I voted! Drop box was a ten minute walk from my front door, the box said ‘DROP BOX’, and had a ballot-sized slot in front– so it was only a minor feat of logic to figure out. Now, I live in a blue zip code in a blue county in a blue state– but you gotta do your civic duty.

  269. 269.

    satby

    A friend had someone she knows die of covid last night. Mid-60s like us, was on a ventilator 15 days, but her lungs kept filling with blood clots. Her husband apparently never got it, but the kids (early-mid 30s) both did. My friend said to me “how are we supposed to deal with a disease that’s so random in how it hits?”

    Other than trying to avoid it, I got nuthin.

  270. 270.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Frank Wilhoit:

    Frank, I loved listening to your Serenade. The whole thing is wonderful, but I’m especially partial to the Presto movement. Just a delight all the way through. Saved for future repeat  listening. Who are the ensemble performing? Would love to know a little about the recording process.

    Well done! Thank you for that. 

  271. 271.

    catclub

    wow CNN is not buying Trump’s shit:

    Trump’s appearance did little to reverse impressions of a candidate in denial about the country’s health situation or lost in a web of old grievance and comes just weeks before a presidential election that polls currently show him badly trailing. He called into Fox Business from the White House residence, where he continues taking a steroid as part of his Covid treatment.

  272. 272.

    Another Scott

    @sanjeevs: “OANN – November 4, 2020 – God-Emperor Don-John was rejected by His people on election day.  He said in a statement on Twitter – “AFTER ALL I DID FOR YOU INGRATES, HOW DARE YOU REJECT ME!!!  YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS, 10 TIMES OVER!!!!  MAGA!!!!11”  Several ambulances were seen speeding to the White House.  Weeping and lamentations were heard coming from the GOP Senate cloakroom, while throughout DC a rising chorus of pots banging and “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” was heard.  3-Percenters, Q Anon, and Russian troll workers are in mourning.  Stock Futures are up 15% in Europe,.  This is truly a sad day for America.  Stay tuned for more updates…”

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  273. 273.

    Miss Bianca

    @satby: so sorry to hear it.

    Meanwhile, the wicked appear to be flourishing like the proverbial green bay tree…

    I fucking hate this timeline, where, just like Republicans, I’m actually rooting for the *right* people to get sick and die. It’s just that my idea of the right people and theirs seems to be vastly different…

  275. 275.

    Calouste

    I like that Biden’s response to a question about the shitgibbon dodging the debate includes the phrase “he changes his mind every second”. It emphasizes that the shitgibbon is unreliable, and that makes him irrelevant in decision making. And it will strike a chord with parents who have (had) kids who change their mind every second.

  276. 276.

    Amir Khalid

    @dmsilev:

    So now Trump is accusing people who had to be tested and proven to be negative before they were even allowed in his august presence? What grace he shows here, what empathy, what class.

  277. 277.

    trollhattan

    Whippet good.

    As with others, I was afraid he would run out of pool before landing. We don’t quite get to see that.

  281. 281.

    catclub

    @LurkerNoLonger: The good side of this is Biden should get an hour and a half alone on all the channels.

     

    The bad part is that the moderators  will be searching for the most insincere, (actually hard core GOP)  undecided voters and their ‘questions’.

  282. 282.

    catclub

    @Amir Khalid: Buttiegieg got in his final line about ‘maybe he does not care about other people’  on Fox news. Ha!

     

    Obviously, normal people would.

  283. 283.

    A Ghost to Most

    @MattF: I suppose there is a non-zero chance these assholes will set up fake drop boxes in blue zones. They’ll do anything.

  285. 285.

    Joe Falco

    @Ken: If it’s on camera, he needs to make sure he really emphasizes the “weakened” part when he says it.

  288. 288.

    Amir Khalid

    @catclub:

    CNN has been laying into the Scheißgibbon like this for months now. They didn’t start as early as many of us would have liked, but they don’t hide any more that they think he’s full of shit.

  289. 289.

    TS (the original)

    Speaking of Nobel prizes, I have no idea who chooses the pictures of the winners to go to the press, but the one at the Washington Post is the same as the one in the Australian media.

    I love that as well as showing Louise Glück, it shows a President with a deep love of the Arts. It reminds me of what has been missing these past 4 years.

    (Also, too, the orange one can’t even get into a picture related to someone else’s Nobel prize)

  290. 290.

    MattF

    @A Ghost to Most: The county issued a map, the drop box was around six feet tall, and, fwiw, located in the middle of a very posh residential neighborhood. A pickup truck with a confederate flag in the rear window would spur a call to the local constabulary.

  291. 291.

    Ken

    @catclub: About the only thing they omitted was “where he continues to take a steroid with a long list of known physical and mental side-effects as part of his treatment”

  296. 296.

    Ivan X

    @dmsilev: I am amazed that you can wade through the slew of idiocy that is the WaPo commentariat. It seems to be 90% trolls, from every side, with the usual playground taunts about another commenter’s intellect or mental well-being. It’s not really much better than YouTube comments.

  297. 297.

    Gin & Tonic

     

    @Amir Khalid:  I remember Beamon’s leap, but if I’m not mistaken, Mike Powell’s world record has stood for longer than Beamon’s did. And in the meet where Powell broke Beamon’s record, Carl Lewis did as well, and only got second place.

    I’m on my phone and can’t research in detail, so I could be wrong.

  298. 298.

    Ken

    @JPL: I received a prednisone shot and five day pack. I just can’t imagine anything stronger.

    That’s cause you haven’t tried dex, man.  See if you can score some.  You’ll feel top of the world and ready to bomb Canada.

  300. 300.

    Kathleen

    @Immanentize: Don’t know if this is related but this morning FBI raided a home in a northern Cincinnati suburb and spent a lot if time there.  No comment from FBI regarding why. My spidey sense kicked 8n when I read your comment.

  301. 301.

    Frank Wilhoit

    @SiubhanDuinne: It’s synthesized.  The toolchain is Sibelius and NotePerformer.  Exporting the audio and synchronized video is one click (of course the score has to be repaginated).

    I’m very glad you like it.  It struck me that it was time for something light(ish).  There is much more at broadheath.com .

    Thanks,

    FW

    .

  302. 302.

    taumaturgo

    @Betty Cracker: I agree that Fox and the entire right wing conspiracy spreading media is a cancer on society.

    Lets keep in mind that like everything else in our society, there is a lot of money to be made because of cancer. Just look at the “jobs creators” sponsoring the propaganda that spreads this cancer.

  307. 307.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Frank Wilhoit:

    That’s amazingly good synthesised sound! I mean, since I’m listening on the phone, everything has a slight edge to it, but I truly thought it was a live wind ensemble. Really nice. Bookmarking your site.

  308. 308.

    Another Scott

    @Humanities Prof: Probably already corrected, but for posterity:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_debates

    The Republican nominee Ronald Reagan participated in both debates. Independent candidate John B. Anderson only participated in the first debate, while the Democratic nominee and incumbent President Jimmy Carter participated in the second debate.

    It was the 2nd debate where “there you go again” and “are you better off now than you were 4 years ago” entered the lexicon.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  310. 310.

    Ohio Mom

    Sab:

    It is true that I think public school is vitally important for kids with disabilities but now, in Covid times, everything is thrown to the wind.

    As you say, just keeping everyone in the family alive and healthy is the only priority, not to mention, enough of a challenge.

    I can assure you, if Ohio Son was younger, he’d be being homeschooled as well.

    As it is, as a young adult, he is stuck at home. No more working with a job coach, no more meeting with his “Community Builder” from the local nonprofit that aims to help their clients um, build a community for themselves.

    And all this unstructured time is bringing out the not-great side of him. So I can imagine how hard it is for your granddaughter.

  311. 311.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    @OldDave: Thanks for the link. What a great story. What a great partnership. I have never heard of diving dogs before, just agility competitions. Very cool.

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