The Twitter warning labels are getting better. pic.twitter.com/1kD7JTd8OJ
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) November 16, 2020
Am I the only one who thinks that Twitter either needs to ban Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for trying to destroy our democracy, or at the very least that they should change the disclaimers they slap on his tweets.
Perhaps they could get creative. I am all for this: pic.twitter.com/L5f6BRbT4o
— Gerald Weaver (#PrisonTrumpWillBeWayFunnier) (@Gerald_Weaver_) November 16, 2020
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) November 18, 2020
Meanwhile, the would-be conspirators are busily flying up each others’… wormholes:
Sebastian Gorka and the Claremont Institute going to war with OAN over which bullshit election conspiracies their followers can believe https://t.co/lKgnQvFdhU
— proudly overusing "cope" (@MenshevikM) November 19, 2020
as far as I can tell the current schism is whether to stick to conspiracies pushed by the Trump administration itself or whether to adopt a QAnon derived theory about a supercomputer, which is leading to some truly laughable respectability politics pic.twitter.com/h5DAb7kAPz
— proudly overusing "cope" (@MenshevikM) November 19, 2020
the absolute funniest shit on here is elder conservatives lecturing Q people about how to check their sources before recommending Rush Limbaugh and Fox
— proudly overusing "cope" (@MenshevikM) November 19, 2020
On The Road – JanieM – Fall Color, Part II
HumboldtBlue
The bible teaches us that no good can come from muddling the waters.
So let’s avoid the muddle.
Unless they call for a huddle.
Or if you need a cuddle.
You need not befuddle when they come for the muddle.
Another Scott
Obligatory – youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4 (1:41)
‘night all. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
The Dangerman
Shouldn’t the BCA involve creative use of hungry alligators? Just pondering possibilities.
/lake placid, Betty White, etc.
Wag
Confused? Believe all of them, even if the conspiracies contradict each other. If you believe everything it really pwns the libs.
The GOP is idiotic
phdesmond
@HumboldtBlue:
good evening, monorhymer.
Mathguy
My flabber is continually gasted by the RWNJ insanity. There truly is no bottom.
West of the Rockies
@HumboldtBlue:
No more rhymes, I mean it!
HumboldtBlue
@phdesmond:
You gave me a rhymer.
So I took the timer.
To find the reminder.
Of that beach weekend blinder.
@West of the Rockies:
Sorry, homes.
But who muddles the water?
(we ain’t even got to “puddles” yet)
mrmoshpotato
Alexa! Pop all of the corn and launch all of these idiots into the Sun!
Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)
I have a tough time believing these people can make it through the day without mistaking their own feet for food or something. These people need serious help. Or a serious beating. Or maybe both.
dmsilev
Can’t they just act like lazy college and high school students and quote Wikipedia? Or even Conservapedia, which somehow still exists?
cain
@West of the Rockies:
Relevant – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9bXjttMxKY&ab_channel=FrantACs [A pirate I was meant to be – Curse of Monkey Island]
dmsilev
@mrmoshpotato:
Sorry to tell you this, but Jeff Bezos’ rocket company still hasn’t sent anything to Earth orbit, never mind further out. You may …need to ask Elon Musk. I know, I know.
frosty
@HumboldtBlue: I once drove my wife crazy by rhyming everything she said when I responded… I’m lucky to be alive!
cain
@frosty: Then you’ll love the link I posted upstairs – :-) Singing rhyming pirates – of course, he got them at the end. :) “I”m sure we can avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange” – they couldn’t find a rhyme for that :D
mrmoshpotato
@The Dangerman: ??
Hector Cyr: Let’s not overlook the fact that he didn’t eat me.
Jack Wells: ‘Cause he just ate a cow, stupid!
West of the Rockies
Have we no Princess Bride fans here?
The Sicilian: No more rhymes, I mean it!
Fezik: Anybody want a peanut?
Ruckus
At least some are being able to make fun of this fucking disaster of of our country, seeing as how it might just be getting better. The last 4 yrs have been one disaster after another, piled on by someone who thinks far more of himself than a pile of cowshit deserves. Maybe the reality of how badly he’s fucked up every single thing he’s ever done, hinted at, spoken about in faulting, barely english, every deal he’s ever managed to turn into bankruptcy, every hint or scream of racism that fills most every incomplete sentence he utters, every tacky concept he has gold spray painted so he can brag about it……
It’s not even possible to describe how shitty a human being he is and yet people seem to be standing in line to hear whatever asinine bullshit comes out of his mouth, willing to debase themselves for absolutely nothing in return to support him. No one has ever written a book with a storyline this bad, because no one would believe it, that nearly half of our country thinks this is good, or normal, or better than scurvy.
Add in the massively horrible pandemic, and his absolutely worst response because he cares nothing about anyone, not even his family, such as it is, and he was elected to run a country without the absolute minimum skills to even be an actual human, let alone in charge.
I’m just having a, hell not even a crappy day, I’m just I guess tired of seeing life not just slipping away from so many but life being ripped away, from people not seeming to give a fuck about anyone else, and yet even I am having a difficult time seeing things from a bigger perspective. Let’s hope that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris can do as good as I think they can, hell even half as good would be so much better.
mrmoshpotato
@dmsilev: You’re telling me Alexa can’t launch rockets? ?
The Oracle of Solace
I know everyone wants to be the heroes of their own stories, but watching conservatives come up with increasingly implausible lies to tell themselves (to reassure themselves that despite all the active harm they are doing to other Americans, and despite the joy they derive from their cruelty to the weakest of us, they are still the heroic good guys defending the country) has more than a touch of Shakespearean tragedy.
mrmoshpotato
@Ruckus: Amen.
oclib
just some random thoughts: Will Sharpies be banned from a Biden oval office? (just to be fair, I personally like sharpies)
Since the cockwomble cancelled his Thanksgiving trip to maralogo, how many turkeys will he pardon next week?
Mary G
@oclib: All of ’em, Katie.
frosty
@cain: … while my life swings like a door hinge.
h/t Kurt Vonnegut
Yarrow
@oclib: He’ll pardon the turkeys if the turkeys can tell him what’s in it for him.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
So the Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory of Q-anon has collapsed to a Conspiracy Big Bang. Truly a golden age of bullshit.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@oclib: At this point I would not be surprised if Trump serviced himself with one the turkeys on national TV next week while screaming about the Democrats don’t respect Thanksgiving .
Amir Khalid
@Yarrow:
If Trump pardons the turkeys, they can be compelled to testify against him. He needs to be made aware of that.
scav
Um, won’t some of the truly devout have to turn on their great raddled orange leader for blasphemy for his implication that demoncrats are, in fact, actual Americans and not ipso-facto foreign to these holy cis-male shores?
mrmoshpotato
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Well, it’s official Balloon Juice After Dark!
oclib
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
interesting dilemma for network censors :)
Splitting Image
In hindsight, the only thing Berkeley Breathed got wrong back in the day was that Bill the Cat started selling secrets to the Russians before he had Donald Trump’s brain stuck in his body.
Everything else about that orange twerp Breathed got exactly right.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
“In a break with tradition, the president pointedly ripped up the papers pardoning the turkeys without having signed them immediately after announcing he’d named them Joe and Kamala, leading those assembled in the chant ‘Off with their heads!'”
//
lgerard
Old and busted Wingnuts: “These votes could have come from Mars”
New improved Wingnuts: “The Martians, under orders from George Soros, are switching votes from trump to Biden in the middle of the night”
oclib
@NotMax:
since we all know the cockwomble doesn’t like the sight of blood, he will excuse himself and Steve Bannon will enter with a sword and a pike….
smike
@NotMax:
Wow, I think you’ve cracked the tRump id!
Don’t dwell. There be monsters there…
Sab
@Yarrow: I hadn’t even noticed what happened to the turkeys the last three years.
lgerard
@Sab:
What do you think they served at the trump hotel on Thanksgiving?
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Given what a vengeful, loser, sack of shit Dump is, this would not surprise me.
mrmoshpotato
@Sab:
Oh? What else has caught your attention in the past 3 years?
Dan B
@Sab: Me too. The pardoning of the turkeys, as with so many simple traditions, are lost in the whirlwind. But did Trump actually hang out by the turkeys. Does he view them like he did the eagle? Would turkeys pick up on the malevolent dark hole that is Trump and attack?
My money is on attack. Turkeys don’t mess.
Winston
A tough week or so for me. But I’m still here.
I spilled some beer on my keyboard. Don’t recommend doing that. The calculator on the right side is kaput but the top numbers all work and all the letter keys. Depending on the app, I can now use this old POS laptop.
Watched Bushwick on Netflix. The lost cause States secede again and send a private army into the center of Brooklyn to establish a toehold to negotiate. They think it will be easy because it’s a no gun zone. There are guns, however and it turns into a kill anything move zone. Kinda violent and unlikely, or not.
Watched Chicago 7 again and there was never a time that the slogan was “fry the pigs” as stated in the first few minutes. Fuck the pigs was what it was and that originated in California.
Planning my Thanksgiving dinner. I am still undecided on Hormel’s Completes Turkey Breast and dressing or Chicken Breast and mashed potatoes. I checked my inventory and have both.
Have been reading the threads and agree with just about everything. We got Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and Pa, That this is a revenge tantrum by Donnie Dooku to falsely accuse Dems of vote fraud because of his fantasy that he was accused of real vote fraud in 2016, just makes so much sense, suggests it will be over soon.
Rudy hair dye dripping, hands in pants is such a good depiction of the Gopee.
Cheers to all. Keep the faith.
Sab
@Winston: Cheers to you. No cranberry sauce? I have cranberries on my fridge from last T day just waiting to be sauced.
Sab
@mrmoshpotato: You on BJ. Retired. Dad has dementia. His nurse’s aide lost two close relatives to covid. My dog died. Biden won the election. I like my new councilman. Sherrod Brown got re-elected.
ETA My autistic granddaughter couldn’t start school in meatspace
ETA I think there was some much worse than flu bug circulating.
Winston
@Sab: Going with avocado lettuce salad with blue cheese and rice vinegar for the side.
the pollyanna from hell
61 more days. I urge my sensitive friend Boatrocker to expect distressing news, and ignore it all as meaningless. But when she calls I tell her it means we are winning, and I quote BJ to prove it. Some of you try to demoralize us, and the steady result is to remoralize me and all the friends I can reach. Thanx, guys!
Sab
@Winston: That sounds delicious. My husband hates avocados although he has never actually tasted one. Maybe I will try the “you are just eating Spanish lawyers” argument.
Dan B
@the pollyanna from hell: I agree there is a lot of demoralizing news but there are some tidbits that might mean something. Most of the news is a distraction from things like troop withdrawals and Mnuchin and McConnell denying any Civid stimulus so as to crash the economy in 2021. We need to be raising holy hell about those. The Trump conspirators want these moves to be kept quiet. It’s a similar approach to Covid. Make em work to persuade that crashing the economy is essential because … whatever BS. A good percentage of the public won’t bite.
Dan B
@Sab: Never tasted an avocado and I hate them is the Rube Goldberg of logic.
I have a wicked idea to make chocolate avocado ice cream pie and tell him afterwards.
Okay, enough devious plots…
Winston
@Sab: Avocados are cheap and available all year long here in Florida. Like 39 to 79 cents each. It takes a feel to select them, though. The hard ones will keep in the refrigerator for a couple of weeks. The soft ones are not worth buying, and the just right ones, have a springy, not hard, not soft feel that are for immediate use.
smike
@Winston:
This is true.
Sab
@Dan B: I did make the vegan chocolate cake with avocado frosting and he loved that. I did not tell him about the frosting because he would not have eaten it.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@cain: Los Angeles had an attraction called Monkey Island in the years just before WW2, it’s now the Hollywood Freeway.
Sab
@Winston: His latest argument is that Mexican drug cartels control the avocado trade. In my experience that never stopped anyone from smoking marijuana, so that argument won’t fly with me.
Sab
@Dan B: Do you have a recipe for that?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mary G: Don Jr., Ivanka, Jared….
Sab
@Sab: Just googled. Yikes. There are dozens of recipes
ETA stepson is getting one for his birthday Saturday.
Califlander
@Winston: Bushwick was a surprisingly entertaining movie for having been inspired by a single line from “Casablanca.”
Winston
@Sab: I saw a documentary on that a few months ago, relating to the midwest consumption. But California raises more than Mexico and Florida does too. We also have these green skinned ones down here that are $1.50 and equal to 4 Hass and keep longer.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Califlander: The Grand Central Airport here in Glendale was used for filming the airport scene in Casablanca.
Mo Salad
@Dan B: I really don’t know how to describe it. It was like the turkeys mounted a counter-attack. It was almost as if they were… organized!
Winston
I didn’t know that. I thought at first it was an alien invasion, what with the guy running on fire and her BF looking like a blaster hit him. The rest of it was depressing. I was “Fuck you Rebs”. I wish it had continued to the point of a US counter attack.I was sorry the two main characters bit it.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mo Salad: With God as my witness…
David ?Booooooo!? Koch
This “Bushwick” movie looks like fun (trailer); the Hasidim and the Brothers open up a can of whoop ass on Texas – reminds me of “The Warriors“
David ?Booooooo!? Koch
Dump will pardon the turkeys, he doesn’t want to piss off Erdogan
AlaskaReader
@cain:
“I”m sure we can avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange”
Surely we are nervy if we dust it first with sporange.
My apology is real, yo
AlaskaReader
@mrmoshpotato: Does maternity wear have a paunch pocket?
…can’t help it.
Chyron HR
@Winston:
You need to spill some coffee on the keyboard to sober it up.
debbie
@Dan B:
I made chocolate pudding with avocados once. What a waste of avocados.
SFAW
@West of the Rockies:
We all got it. We’re just too polite to step on your punchline.
[Note for the advanced student: see if you can spot the lie in the preceding sentence. Now eff off.]
SFAW
@oclib:
He’ll have Melanie go to Market Basket and picked up a couple of frozen 12-15 pounders that he can pardon.
Just kidding, she would never go to New England willingly.
SFAW
@debbie:
You got issues.
SFAW
Although it goes against everything I’ve believed, I might be willing to consider a revision of the First Amendment, wherein something like “except when uttered, tweeted, or otherwise disseminated by a fascistic, lying, moronic dictator-wannabe” is added
I hope I make it to President Biden’s inauguration in one piece. Actually, I hope the US does.
evodevo
@Dan B: Anyone else besides me remember that Sarah Palin/turkey video? Now that was some world-class obliviousness there…
SFAW
@evodevo:
You have to ask? A few of the Juicers (looking at you, NotMax) even remember “54 40 or fight!”
burnspbesq
Georgia is likely to certify results today.
SFAW
@burnspbesq:
Being slightly paranoid, I probably won’t relax until Kemp signs it. Given his history of cheating, it’s not a totally-irrational concern. But I’ll try to maintain.
Miss Bianca
@Sab: My God, me too. Altho’ at this point, they are actually self-craisining.