Amy Comey Barrett is the last Maytag and the last case of Cutty Sark they are gonna get, and they know it.
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Amy Comey Barrett is the last Maytag and the last case of Cutty Sark they are gonna get, and they know it.
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West of the Rockies
ACB is an ideological hack. Klobuchar and co. made that clear to all. The GOP will get their judge… At the cost of their integrity and soul. I hope they choke on it.
Also, I am one of apparently 18 people who has never seen Goodfellas.
GregMulka
@West of the Rockies:
It’s good to meet another one.
Jerzy Russian
@West of the Rockies: Make that 19
ETA: make that 20
A Ghost To Most
Desperate people do desperate things. Combined with their unwavering committment to doubling down, things will get dicey. Are you ready for some Calvinball?
H.E.Wolf
I agree with the other folks who have said they prefer to speak of her by her full name: Amy Comey Barrett.
Spitting 3 times is optional.
Mike E
Poll: Trump losing ground in NC
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@A Ghost To Most: They Conservatives are upset that Biden was so rude as to tell Trump to shut up with Trump was talking over Biden and Trump has made YMCA the theme song for his campaign, we are already there on Caliven Ball.
International Mikey
@West of the Rockies: Watch the movie. It will take your mind off of all this other crap.
Roger Moore
@West of the Rockies:
The GOP won’t lose their integrity or soul over this nomination, because they haven’t had either one in at least a generation.
WaterGirl
@West of the Rockies:
Nineteen!Make that 21.But I enjoyed the clip just now.
misterpuff
Why do serial killers and SCOTUS noms always have three names?
WaterGirl
@misterpuff: These fuckers are trying to make her “a thing” like Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
As if.
edit: They don’t understand the concept of earning anything.
Booger
@misterpuff: How about Amy Wayne Barrett?
narya
@West of the Rockies: 21.
And I know I can’t see it because I know there’s a bunch of graphic violence, and I just can’t watch that stuff. Gives me nightmares.
RobertDSC-iPhone 8
As long as the GOP end up like Morrie, Carbone, Stacks, and Tommy, I’m fine with it.
Oklahomo
The nomination, the voter suppression, and don’t forget the census. A live census taker came Saturday. Seems that the online census that I completely way back in March didn’t take, the data was lost, what can you do, amiright? Hopefully this data makes it.
Roger Moore
@misterpuff:
There is a category of women who keep their maiden name as a middle name and make a point of using it as a way of making some obscure political point. It isn’t always the same point, though. For some women (e.g. Hillary Rodham Clinton) it’s a way of showing they haven’t completely subsumed their identity into their husband’s. For others (e.g. Ronna Romney McDaniel) it’s a way of highlighting that they’re from a political dynasty. I’m not sure why Amy Covid Barret does it.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
I always refer to her as:
Amy Covid Barrettthe Handmaidjapa21
@narya: 23.
SiubhanDuinne
Thom Tillis brought a note from his doctor, and apparently wants a cookie.
Also, I have never seen Goodfellas.
misterpuff
BTW I just voted and dropped it into The California Approved Drop Box.
The whole nation should make it as easy to vote as here.
Steeplejack (phone)
@SiubhanDuinne:
No surprise. Jeez, we just got you to watch The Godfather a year or so ago.
geg6
Dang, I hate mobster movies and even I have seen Goodfellas multiple times. Only because it’s vastly superior to the Godfather, which I think is a terrible series of films. Much less romanticizing these creeps, IMHO.
gene108
@H.E.Wolf:
I prefer the more traditional Mrs. Jesse M. Barrett. Seems more fitting based on her ideology.
zhena gogolia
@misterpuff:
My ballot just came. Can’t wait to fill it out and take it to the dropbox!
Virginia
@gene108: I have taken to calling her Amy Coathanger Barrett.
Seems a lot more fitting.
lurkypants
Because her parents were big wheels in the People of Praise.
JaySinWA
Another non Goodfellas viewer. Have we accounted for all 18 yet?
lurkypants
I like to call her Serena Joy.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@JaySinWA: (Raises hand)
Also haven’t seen Pulp Fiction or any Godfather movies. Or Reservoir Dogs. I’m way behind on my mandatory Guy Movie list.
I did see Big Lebowski but I don’t get why it’s so popular.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jerzy Russian: 21
A Ghost To Most
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: This is pre-game festivities.
pamelabrown53
@SiubhanDuinne:
Hah! Haven’t seen “Goodfellas” either. Don’t care for gangster movies, boxing movies or sports movies (unless the sport is ancillary to a more personal plot).
raven
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: because it’s funny, sheesh .
frosty
@narya: @West of the Rockies:
24 unless someone beat me to it. I don’t like mob or hit man movies. Especially “light” ones like Grosse Point Blank”
schrodingers_cat
@Jerzy Russian: Make that 25
satby
Never saw Goodfellas either.
And I call her Amy Covid (NO RELATION!!!).
WereBear
@lurkypants: I understand the mini-series was really good, but I knew I couldn’t watch it.
Much like some can’t watch Goodfellas.
In my case, I can handle gangster movies because all these people signed up for it. Unlike oppressing the innocent and powerless.
Shakti
@H.E.Wolf:
@misterpuff:
She will be Covid Barrett to me and given what we know about her taking her maskless self and her maskless kids to a White House superspreader event and then back to their school(s), multiple fatalities are only a matter of time.
ETA: Amy Coathanger ‘Bortion also works, but more syllables.
cope
@japa21: 26, apparently.
geg6
@lurkypants:
My sister and I call her Aunt Lydia.
CapnMubbers
Another non Goodfellas watcher.
I’m a new resident of Utah and made sure to register to vote. This county is by mail only and they are mailing ballots from October 13 to 27. Seems awfully late.
ETA: I will return my ballot to the county clerk’s office, not depend on the mail.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack (phone):
I was even going to see The Godfather: Part Deux this summer, but the Rona had other ideas.
Kay
@lurkypants:
That’s what my daughter said “why do they call her a handmaid? She’s Serena Joy”
Obviously
West of the Rockies
@Roger Moore:
I should have said “They will lose the last vestigal shadow of their last shard of their integrity.”
scribbler
No “Goodfellas” here either. Have we reached 100 yet?
Yarrow
Some good news for Cole:
West of the Rockies
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Wait. You didn’t like Lebowski?
I don’t even know you anymore.
WaterGirl
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: I kind of liked the Amy Coat-hanger Barrett Idea that someone came up with a day or two ago.
I’m going with Amy Covid Coat-hanger Barrett myself
Hellbastard
I got my ballot in the mail today here in Washington State. Get to fill it out at my kitchen table and walk it over to the ballot drop box. Feel a bit guilty having it so easy.
Ohio Mom
I’ve never seen Goodfellas either but I’ve seen enough clips to get the general idea.
And I grew up in New York back when the Mafia was part of the landscape.
Ohio Mom
Deleted. (I thought the comment system was double-posting idiot-proofed. Apparently not.)
West of the Rockies
I’m not a mob movie fan either. Never saw any of the Godfather films, nor a single episode of The Sopranos. But I did enjoy Hell’s Kitchen and The Gentlemen. A History of Violence was kind of fun, too. None made romantic or heroic the actual Mafia though.
WaterGirl
@Ohio Mom: I grew up in Chicago, where we would refer to the mafian peeps with a reference to “knowing someone whose name ends in a vowel”.
One of my classmates had a dad who was very high up in the mafia.
Betty
Another non-Good Fellas viewer. I like to call her Little Miss Amy in light of her submissive demeanor.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@West of the Rockies: I didn’t dislike Lebowski. Just kind of meh. I don’t get the big appeal.
And while we’re talking mandatory guy stuff I’ve never seen, subcategory gangsters, I never watched a single episode of The Sopranos. Or Breaking Bad.
Nothing against either one, I heard great things, just never got around to them.
Jeeze, they’re gonna come knocking at my door and take away my card.
Ohio Mom
Watergirl: yup, exactly what I meant by “part of the landscape.”
prostratedragon
The Godfather has a romantic surface because it looks as if it were shot by gaslight.
japa21
@WaterGirl: Used to work with a Sicilian lady. She always said that if I or Mrs. Japa were being hassled to let her know. She “knew people”.
hueyplong
As that apparently rare person here who has seen Goodfellas, I’d say the bustout has been going on for nearly four years. The GOP is bitter because the country is large and rich enough that they need 8 years to clean it out completely.
matt
Oh, I think in the lame duck period there will be considerably more pinata party action. Assuming they somehow don’t steal it.
Faithful Lurker
Hellcat,You got your ballot already?I’m very jealous. Our county says they’re mailing ours out tomorrow. I intend to haunt the mailbox. Where are you in WA state? I’ve been waiting for 4 years to vote the bastard out and now I’m counting every minute. Broken glass, man, broken glass.
Calouste
@Yarrow: The month is still young.
I noticed on electoral vote that the most recent poll in Arkansas only had Biden down by 4 or so, and that poll was from June. That could be an unexpected pickup. We’ll know if the campaign sends Bill C. there to put in a few words for Biden.
Benw
Amy Conan Barbarian, what is best in life?
TO CRUSH THE GAYS, TO SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU, AND TO HEAR THE LAMENTATION OF THE LBGTQ COMMUNITY
cain
@JaySinWA:
I have not seen it. :P
cain
@Yarrow:
Ahh, West Virginia – where the 27% is us.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@japa21: A high school buddy got extremely drunk at a class reunion and made me a similar offer. He’d been in construction in NJ, which apparently means it’s almost mandatory that you’re going to deal with the Mafia but that you could stand to make a lot of money if you play ball with them. So he claimed anyway.
So yeah, he said he knew people.
Kent
Two generations. One generation ago was Nixon and Reagan. You gotta go back to Eisenhower to find national GOP leadership with integrity.
mrmoshpotato
@H.E.Wolf:
Fixed.
.
divF
@japa21: My Italian-American father grew up in highly multi-ethnic neighborhoods on New York’s East Side in the 1930s. My Grandmother had only one rule regarding his playmates, which was not to hang out with the Sicilian boys, who were “too rough”.
billcinsd
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: I prefer Roy Edroso’s Goody Godlywench.
Also, I have never seen Goodfellas, nor The Sopranos, nor The Wire, nor any of The Godfather films. Never really wanted to, either
prostratedragon
@hueyplong: I’d say it goes back to the housing crisis, though that wasn’t nominally a Republican caper. That’s also about when mere centimillionaires became hoi polloi.
Citizen Alan
@geg6: I’ve called her Serena Joy for the same reason.
Nutmeg again
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: I’ve adopted “Any Coathanger Barrett.” It doesn’t scan well, but it gets the point across. Have also seen Amy Covid Barrett, of course
(eta, ah–WaterGirl)
JoyceH
Just heard Pelosi tell Wolf Blitzer, “With all due respect, you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
rp
Of course I’m not expecting this to happen, but it would be absolutely hilarious if after all of this preening and posturing and gloating and fake piety, a handful of GOP senators just said “meh, I don’t like her and I don’t want her to be my legacy.”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JoyceH: Heh, she’s right.
jackmac
@West of the Rockies: I’m also among that elite group that has never seen ‘Goodfellas.’ I’ve never seen ‘A Christmas Story’ either, mostly because a boss I really hated just loved it. Not gonna bother.
RaflW
Supremes won’t take a Census case, meaning the count is suspended, I believe.
I’m not a galaxy-brain Republican, so I’m unclear on why undercounting in TX, AZ, FL and other diverse, immigrant containing states helps them.
Does Rhode Island or Michigan not losing a Rep in reappointment matter to the GOP? And if aid to states is based on the census, do Republicans think that east Africans working in the massive chicken plant in Lexington, Nebraska got counted?
JoyceH
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Glad she did, because he was driving me nuts. He kept asking her, why don’t you accept the president’s $1.8 trillion proposal? It’s $1.8 TRILLION! And she kept trying to explain to him, “Because I know what’s in the bill and you don’t!”
Dorothy A. Winsor
@JoyceH: Blitzer had Andrew Yang on yesterday opining that Pelosi should take the deal Trump offered. Yang’s opinion probably has about as much informed validity as mine would. Blitzer took it seriously and is using is to lecture Pelosi on what she should do.
Calouste
@rp: I wonder if Mitt Romney wants to put the shiv in the shitgibbon, just like McCain did with the ACA.
Ksmiami
@RobertDSC-iPhone 8: They’re gone and there wasn’t nothing we could do about it…
Abnormal Hiker
@JoyceH: I understand why the Villagers hate Nancy. But I love her. That was magnificent. Deserves to be front-paged!
JoyceH
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I know! It’s like all they’re looking at is the dollar amount and not what it’s spent on. Yeah yeah yeah, people want to put food on the table, but does this bill DO that? What? ANOTHER tax cut for the wealthy, paid for by cutting the earned income tax credit?
SiubhanDuinne
@jackmac:
I was forced to watch it, about 15 years ago. I hated it and I can’t think why anyone finds it funny.
hueyplong
@Calouste: “I wonder if Mitt Romney wants to put the shiv in the shitgibbon, just like McCain did with the ACA.”
Narrator: He doesn’t. Not on this point.
Kent
He’s never held elective office and has no background in economics. So yeah, why are they even talking to him? Are they going to ask Marianne Williamson next?
A Ghost to Most
@JoyceH: Wolf Blitzer is the shame of Buffalo.
Hellbastard
@Faithful Lurker: I’m in the eastern side of the state, near Pullman.
Baud
@A Ghost to Most: And for that the Bills are forever thankful.
Kent
A REALLY boss move by a couple of GOP Senators would be to re-instate the SCOTUS filibuster right on the eve of a Democratic president. Announce that they will only be willing to support a SCOTUS nominee if that nominee gets 60 votes, and that the quid pro quo will be an absolute guarantee of the same consideration during the next Congress. It would make them absolute kingmakers during the next administration
I could see Romney joining in that sort of effort. He doesn’t oppose Barrett or any other Trump nominee. He just expects them to get bipartisan support.
rp
@Calouste: I had the same thought. Romney said earlier he supported moving forward, but I think it’s possible that he did that intending to shiv Trump in the actual vote. This is probably Romney’s last job, and he doesn’t need money, so he’s not really beholden to anyone. And I think he cares about his legacy.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Me too! I was a classmate of Marie Accardo, whose father was Tony “Big Tuna” Accardo, longtime boss of the Chicago Outfit.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@A Ghost to Most: I thought that was Tim Russert.
Faithful Lurker
@Hellbastard: I’m in far western WA. We’re way behind you guys.
I’m still jealous.
LuciaMia
But why did she make her children sit thru these (I’m sure to them) interminable hearings?
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: You were in Oak Park, right? I was right next door in Berwyn.
Bill Arnold
@Kent:
It’s a Civil War move. And it’d make too many unstable people (330 Million US population) think about how the “lifetime appointment” language can be …. uhm … gamed.
WaterGirl
@LuciaMia: They aren’t children, they are props! Who are surely used to being “seen and not heard”. Ugh.
FelonyGovt
@misterpuff: I dropped mine into a (real) CA drop box last Thursday, but Ballot Trax still doesn’t show it as received… should I be concerned yet?
Kent
Honestly, no one who isn’t already a partisan really gives that much of a shit, at least I don’t think. Trump has already normalized every possible version of crazy. This would be a “principled stand” and the villagers would cream their pants in praise.
Yutsano
@Faithful Lurker: I’m in the Tri-Cities. Per the SoS our ballots get mailed Saturday. Jealous, I is.
SiubhanDuinne
(REPLY BUTTON NOT WORKING!!)
@WaterGirl: Correct, this was at OPRF-HS. I knew you were from the Chicago suburbs, but don’t think I knew that you were from Berwyn. So close!
(EDIT: LOST MY NYM AND EMAIL, TOO!! WTF?)
Sab
@WaterGirl: Seven kids and works full time. Is there a nanny? Is she documented? Was payroll tax paid? If it matters for AG nominee it certainly matters for S Ct nominee.
Roger Moore
@RaflW:
It’s possible that what they’re after is undercounting immigrant-heavy areas in those diverse states. Undercounting those areas would give them an advantage even if there’s some kind of impartial redistricting commission or other attempt to prevent gerrymandering, both at the congressional and state level.
A Ghost to Most
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Good point. At least he’s dead. What is Wolf’s excuse?
Roger Moore
@LuciaMia:
She thinks having her family there helps her image, and that’s way more important than what the kids think. Children are supposed to be seen and not heard, don’t you know.
A Ghost to Most
@Baud: Yea. As a long punked Bills fan, I’m thinking they might pick this fucking asterisk year to finally win it.
evodevo
@West of the Rockies: Well, the reason to see it is to understand a mob parallel to what the Repubs have been doing to our country…the “bustout” scene….I have used it several times on Facebook posts to illustrate a point. You can access the relevant scene on Youtube, which is what I do…it’s very instructive to those who can’t understand GOPer looting…
?BillinGlendaleCA
@A Ghost to Most:
Brain dead.
RaflW
@Roger Moore: But what is the advantage? I guess the GOP gets to screw California, and that’s no small thing.
But many erstwhile Republican states have a lot of people who could be undercounted.
Maybe this favors the midwest & plains states, but I don’t see what the big bonus is. It seems pyrrhic, but it’s what the GOP wants. Huh.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Yikes! on the reply button, the nym and the email. Has your phone righted itself or do we have a problem?
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Morton West, for me.
Anomalous Cowherd
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
I call her Amy Coney Barratry, but that’s because I consider her dissent in Kanter vs Barr an obvious application for the seat. I still maintain that a conservative intellectual of integrity would decline the nomination at this time since the machinations blatantly employed on her behalf will tarnish her reputation – and ultimately, the court’s reputation as well.
Ruckus
@West of the Rockies:
It’s not like republicans are giving away much, they sold their souls long ago and they’ve never really had any integrity.
Calouste
@hueyplong: It’s possibly Romney’s last opportunity to take revenge. It’s not like there’s any shitgibbon-favored legislation making its way from the House to the Senate.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
Well their entire stick is to steal everything, earning is for suckers in their book. The
AnotherBruce
@Faithful Lurker: Yeah, the voter’s guide stated that the ballots would arrive on 10/16. Or, in other words, Friday.
Roger Moore
@RaflW:
The point is that they’re thinking in terms of within state distribution rather than between state distribution. My understanding is that redistricting is unlikely to result in a big swing of Congressional districts between states. Some big blue states might lose a district or two, and some red states might pick them up, but it’s at most a handful of seats. It may be more valuable to them to optimize the distribution of districts within the states rather than between them.
That’s especially true because the census is used for more than just redistricting. It also controls things like where federal money gets spent. Shifting the apparent distribution of people within would help to divert money from the cities to rural areas, which they would very much like.
Ruckus
@japa21:
My background is supposed to be Sicilian, 1 generation removed, and I’ve got none of the know someone or anything like that from any of the family, even back those 2 generations.
KenK
@A Ghost to Most: this is true.
FlyingToaster
@WaterGirl:
Shapiro?
(ducking and running)
ETA the missing reply link
KenK
@geg6: Goodfellas is entertaining. Agree with you on GF series, although GF II is pretty good (IMO). Road to Perdition a good flick.
Kent
It’s not about advantaging or disadvantaging TX vs OH or PA in the national count. It’s about advantaging the white GOP areas within each state at the state level so that they can maintain their grip on power within states like TX. If they drastically undercount blue Houston then they might lose a Congressman (probably a blue one). But they will also be better able to keep a tighter grip on the Texas legislature, which will control restricting and everything else within TX. And that will better enable them to keep control of the TX Congressional delegation through partisan gerrymandering.
The TX GOP would rather have the current delegation of 36 Congressmen with 23 Republicans and 13 Democrats. Than get an extra Congressman by finding more POC in Houston and Dallas and wind up with a delegation of 37 that is split 19 Dem and 18 GOP through loss of gerrymandering
Especially since that congressional seat they will lose will likely go to Ohio and stay red anyway.
debbie
@misterpuff:
By the way, whoever told me a couple of days ago that those GOP drop boxes in CA were no biggie I think is not correct. I just listened to an interview with a GOP representative behind the drop boxes, some of which are in churches and gun shops, and he’s angling to get sued by the state so he can righteously accuse the Dems of voter suppression. He said he’s just following the Dems’ rules, whatever that means.
I hope voters aren’t falling for this bullshit—unless they’re Rethuglicans, of course.
KenK
@Baud: #91; that too.
KenK
@?BillinGlendaleCA: #95; no Russet had the Big Russ (his dad) stories to buffer him somewhat. Blitzer is just a “Kenmore-on”
KenK
@A Ghost to Most: #109; yes the Bills did lose four (SB) in a row, but as a Browns fan, I’m still envious…
debbie
@geg6:
I and a couple friends do too. Aunt Lydia in a Rage.
Eunicecycle
@LuciaMia: I think that’s close to child abuse.
Aleta
The way I view it it’s another day of nearly unspeakable pain, brought upon us by the F-society and the unconditionally corrupt Senate Repubs
RaflW
@Roger Moore:
@Kent:
Appreciate the responses. The in-state apportionment part makes sense, to the extent that any GOP anti-democratic maneuvering ‘makes sense.’
The part about reducing fed aid to cities does seem pennywise and pound foolish (again, it’s the GOP, so that’s standard operating procedure). Making blue cities in red states more broke doesn’t help the net finances of the state. If anything, it increases the risk of the cities being fiscal drags that burden the state.
But anything to punish the libruls and the black and brown folk!
trollhattan
@debbie:
The latest on this stunt.
I know on my ballot envelope is a place for me to authorize somebody to take it in for me, but that would not accommodate putting it in a 3rd party’s box because the person has to be named. Don’t know if every CA county does the same.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@prostratedragon: I liked Goodfellas and The Godfather but Some Like it Hot is the best mob movie ever made.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@KenK: Have you seen You Kill Me? It stars Ben Kingsley as a hitman for the Polish mob in Buffalo… Doesn’t get much lower on the mafia pecking order than that. It’s a pretty funny dark comedy.
JanieM
@JaySinWA: Count me in, whatever the count has gotten to.
Kathleen
@Jerzy Russian: 21 or greater (haven’t read the thread all the way down)
Kathleen
@debbie: Yup. She’s too long in the tooth to be OfTrump.
debbie
@trollhattan:
Ratfuckers. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump used this to invalidate the results in California.
Hellbastard
It’s interesting listening to Senator Kennedy speak at the ACB hearing. Today, with 30 minutes and a lot to say, he is verbally quick. Yet when I see him on TV facing off with the media he has this exaggerated southern drawl with slow speech and sounds like Cletus with a banjo… As if he is trying to eat the clock.
Uncle Cosmo
And Nancy Smash! is the Pride of Baltimore. Fa in culo, Woof!
dww44
@Hellbastard: His drawl and his demeanor are an act. He is a highly educated person, which makes his views and his behavior all the more abhorrent.
Richard
@Oklahomo: @Oklahomo:
Oklahomo i had the same experience. I filled it out way back in May using the website. It was important to me.
Then in September i got two cards wedged into my door and on the third try the census person found me at home. She explained that because of covid-19 they are having to redo a lot of results. I hope they counted me this time. I have my doubts.
MoCA Ace
hello fellow .000006 percenter!
Never seen a Rocky or Godfather either.
Miss Bianca
@scribbler: I dunno, but I’m in there, too!
Tho’ I’ve been thinking of watching The Godfather, finally.