really the only tangible activity accomplished by this latest dropped deuce ex machina is setting mike pence up to be labeled a pedophile deep state traitor marked for arrest by the imaginary secret shadow court
— kilgore trout, assless pajama afficianado (@KT_So_It_Goes) December 28, 2020
“His constructional duty.” Of all sad words of tongue or pen… Stupid gonna stupid, and the GOP is busily distilling itself down to the mercury-droplet level of poisonous stupidity. Even Mike ‘Win the Morning’ Allen has taken to pointing out the obvious, now that there’s no ‘but my access’ punishment for doing so — “How Trump caved on the coronavirus relief bill”:
… How it happened: Over many days, Mnuchin and McCarthy — aided by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who golfed with Trump in West Palm Beach on Friday — indulged the president’s rants, told him there was great stuff in the bill, and gave him “wins” he could announce, even though they didn’t change the bill…
Reality check … Republican pollster Frank Luntz, who worked hard to understand Trump, told me: “It may be too late. Too late for him, too late for the economy, too late for Covid, and too late for the Georgia senators.”
One can but hope, she said piously.
Man, if only Al Gore had thought to overturn the 2000 election results when he presided over the unsealing/counting of the electoral college votes. https://t.co/N3UG3Vq0JY
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) December 28, 2020
Donald Trump is the Iraq War of Presidents. In 15 years, everyone who pushed hardest for it will act like it just happened all on its own.
— Jason Kander (@JasonKander) December 27, 2020
SiubhanDuinne
“Deuce ex machina”? Really, Kilgore Trout?
debbie
“Constructional duty” is the perfect ending for this very sad episode in our history.
In the better news department, they just fired a killer cop here. FINALLY.
Elizabelle
@SiubhanDuinne: Deuce can be slang for poop. Embarrassed to know that, but somehow I do.
Frankensteinbeck
…and everyone will agree Democrats are to blame.
Someone here, I think just this morning, predicted that Trump’s aides lied to him to get him to sign it, and that’s why his weird comments. Whoever you are, take a bow.
zhena gogolia
@SiubhanDuinne:
It’s a joke. (“deuce” is slang for feces
ETA: No doubt a play on “number two”
dmsilev
@SiubhanDuinne: I dunno, “shit in the machine” seems accurate to me.
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
I didn’t know that, and was a happier person for it.
However, I’m pretty sure that wasn’t what KT had in mind. I think he just doesn’t know it’s spelled “deus ex machina.”
jl
The election law people have been mentioning this for a while, as one of the last double dog double down triple somersault supercalifragilisticexpialidocious slam dunks to keep Trump in office.
I think the best approach would have been to just spring on everyone when Pence presided over the counting, then try to get Trump acting flunkies on board to try to strong arm the executive bureaucracy to look like it was going along, and be called into court with a fait accompli. But Pence wouldn’t get on board, and started planning his very very very very important foreign trip, I suppose.
Elizabelle
@debbie: Moar about the killer cop, please.
I just put up a fun twitter thread by a blogger who outed a Northern Virginia sheriff’s deputy who has an … exciting Parler account. His ass been fired.
But the thread is so fun. The deputy is an aspiring Country Western singer, huge gun collection at home … all manner of interesting stuff on that Parler account. (Which deputy says has been “hacked.” Uh huh.)
NOTE: commenter name and email keeps disappearing, FYI.
debbie
Elizabelle
@SiubhanDuinne: I’m pretty sure he used deuce on purpose. If not, it was a brilliant error.
SiubhanDuinne
@zhena gogolia:
@dmsilev:
@Elizabelle #11:
Hmm, okay, well maybe. (If so, I must be the only person on the planet who never heard the alternative definition for “deuce.”) If I’m wrong about Mr. Trout, I apologise and
standsitsquat corrected.Uncle Cosmo
Get Outa Here, Moronic Eternal Rethuglican Troll!
zhena gogolia
@SiubhanDuinne:
I disagree. The word “dropped” before it is the giveaway.
Delk
It was ‘dropped deuce’
ETA see above
Anne Laurie
@SiubhanDuinne: Rude pun. ‘Drop a deuce’, per Urban Dictionary.
Hoodie
@Elizabelle: Hence “dropped deuce”, i.e., a turd.
jl
What will be interesting is when the post-inauguration lawsuits will rev up, and how much they will interfere with Biden’s first days in office, or whole first term.
Will Trump be able to keep ahead of his creditors long enough to keep a fixed address? Will he match Aaron Burr in the rate at which he has to skip around the states? When he gets his Army of Restoration together, will they putter up the Mississippi in old and oil coal barges? That would be fitting symbolism to keep some fossil fuel money flowing, and inspire the MAGA dead enders.
zhena gogolia
@SiubhanDuinne:
Haha, I probably wouldn’t know it if it weren’t for JL Cauvin.
Uncle Cosmo
@SiubhanDuinne:
SiubhanDuinne
Okay, okay, okay everybody! I get it now!
SiubhanDuinne
@zhena gogolia:
I don’t remember his using the term, and I thought I had watched them all.
Delk
Now, if he was blinded by the light, that would be an all together different deuce.
different-church-lady
@SiubhanDuinne: “Drop a deuce” is slang for excretions of the bowel kind, so I’m pretty certain it was deliberate.
debbie
@Elizabelle:
It just happened, so there’s not a lot. But here.
This was the second of two cop killer incidents in four days here. This cop had a record that made the cop who killed George Floyd look almost like a Boy Scout. One hundred incident reports (though one incident could have multiple reports; someone estimated that 80 would be a more accurate number). The city had to pay out a settlement after he bashed a driver’s head against his car during a DUI stop.
And don’t even get me started on what happened at and after this specific shooting.
Baud
I see SiubhanDuinne has gotten us off track again.
Another Scott
TheHill:
Make Moscow Mitch block it. Give Warnock and Ossoff yet more ammunition to drink his milkshake.
Cheers,
Scott.
Elizabelle
@debbie: Thank you. Checking your link out.
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne:
Deuce Bigalow Ex Machina Gigolo!
(Not the least bit sorry!)
Geminid
Republican leaders are “shining” trump on until the Georgia Senate runoffs, which they are desperate to win. After that, they’ll keep their heads down and hope he doesn’t do something really stupid the last couple weeks of his term, like start a war. They are cynical and gutless.
Baud
@debbie:
I assume you mean killer cop. Cop killer is the inverse.
different-church-lady
@Uncle Cosmo: deuce femmes, un coupe?
(I’m so, so sorry for this…)
Elizabelle
@Baud: She pulls that deuce a lot.
mrmoshpotato
IT IS TIME TO FIRE THE WRITERS AND CANCEL THE SERIES!
This garbage would be hilarious as farce. As a seditious real political party with actual power, not so much.
Suburban Mom
@SiubhanDuinne: Given that he wrote specifically “dropped deuce” I am pretty sure he knew exactly what he was saying. (Sorry). After years of driving half of a high school football team home after practice, I’m kind of a grossness expert.
debbie
@Baud:
Gah! Missed the edit window by seconds
ETA: But, yes, I meant killer cop.
randy khan
@Another Scott:
Once again, Trump has been playing -11th dimensional chess. I am interested, actually, that there were enough Republicans on board to cross the 2/3 threshold in the House. I don’t know that it makes any difference in the Senate, but it’s still interesting.
Baud
@jl:
Unlike Trump, Pence doesn’t want to go down in history alongside Benedict Arnold and John Wilkes Booth.
Baud
@randy khan:
Yes. I thought it was going to be a straight majority vote. I’m impressed.
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: Haha, my brain must’ve autocorrected to “Constitutional,” and now it hurts.
The Assclowns Who Couldn’t Traitor Straight
zhena gogolia
@SiubhanDuinne:
He has a podcast with it in the title, and Drumpf on the toilet:
https://www.amazon.com/Fireside-Craps-Explicit-J-L-Cauvin/dp/B0878WQQP9
debbie
Ha, this’ll eat at Trump:
Steeplejack (phone)
@SiubhanDuinne:
Redacted because you have suffered enough.
Elizabelle
Did any of you guys check out the match.com youtube links I put up this morning?
Satan finding happiness with 2020. I liked them. I see they’ve been up since early December, but they were new to me. Maybe not to you … I’ll take funny Satan over nonfunny and stupid Louis Gohmert (and confederates) any day of the week.
VeniceRiley
It makes Steve Deucey’s name a description.
Another Scott
@Baud: Apparently if they couldn’t get 2/3 they had a backup plan in the works to get it via a simple majority. I’m glad it didn’t come to that.
Cheers,
Scott.
zhena gogolia
This is a really shitty thread.
mrmoshpotato
@Uncle Cosmo: Nice!
Anne Laurie
To be honest, for the first couple years, I thought ‘Steve Deucy’ was a vulgar pun on some Fox dude’s *real* name…
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
Those are both very clever. Thanks!
zhena gogolia
Speaking of JL Cauvin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO49G3alKqY
zhena gogolia
@Anne Laurie:
Well, to be fair, it is spelled Doocy.
West of the Rockies
Truly, the GOP is now Gilligan’s Island but with 6 Gilligans and a Sarah Palin Maryanne. It’s just non-stop stupid.
West of the Rockies
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’ve heard Dukey but not deuce.
WaterGirl
@West of the Rockies: That is funny but also true.
dmsilev
Post:
Elizabelle
@West of the Rockies: Green Day! Dookie!
patrick II
@debbie:
They had to get a four syllable word in there to sound smart.
Baud
@dmsilev: ?
raven
It’s “number two” you dorks.
hilts
More clueless douchebaggery from Trump:
He tweeted out a campaign-style video 8 weeks after Election Day
h/t https://www.mediaite.com/trump/watch-trump-bizarrely-drops-campaign-style-video-8-weeks-after-election-mimicking-decades-old-beef-its-whats-for-dinner-ad/
mrmoshpotato
@patrick II: Proofreading is hard for these idiots.
debbie
Steeplejack (phone)
@Elizabelle:
Your send link is suboptimal because it forces youvto a “desktop” view of YouTube, which is tiny on phones and (some) tablets.
Fixed here: When Satan met 2020.
jnfr
@debbie:
Thanks for posting that. I didn’t realize he was donating his profits and I’m glad to hear it.
Very happy the bill passed the House.
dmsilev
@hilts: It’s just filled with weirdness, like for instance the Nobel medallion that makes a cameo appearance. Guess ‘somebody’ really wants that Peace Prize.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Steeplejack (phone):
“Second” link.
mrmoshpotato
@hilts: I refuse to sully my memory of Beef: It’s What’s For Dinner.
(Goes off to watch the original ad)
cain
@Baud:
I keep thinking that this is some kind of play to remove Pence running for President. I figure Trump would get quite upset if he refused to comply with that lawsuit.
SiubhanDuinne
Since we’re sharing things that amuse us, and since this is the 141st anniversary of the horrible (not at all amusing) Tay Bridge Disaster, I’d like to present for your delectation the best worst poem of all time. Here is William McGonagall’s 1880 masterpiece, “The Tay Bridge Disaster.”
McGonagall wrote volumes and volumes of this kind of stuff. No, he didn’t mean to be funny, any more than Jon McNaughton does in his hideous paintings. (They both make me ashamed to share Scottish ancestry with them.)
cain
@dmsilev:
I’m curious to know what his reaction is going to be.. Will he simply deny it ever happened at all and proceed to still bully them as if they had never passed it ?? Or will he suddenly take credit for it and congratulate himself on a well managed “deal”?
Doc Sardonic
@VeniceRiley: Very descriptive if you use the Asian convention of surname first…..
lamh36
The Dems in the house passed the bill to increase the COVID relief payments to $2000 like Chump claimed he wanted. Now it goes to the Senate and guess what…watch the strategy. McConnell will let Perue and Loeffler vote YES to benefit them in the GA runoff, cause he already knows he has enough NO votes to tank the bill. Who wants to bet, that it’s gonna be “Pelosi’s fault” or “neither side cares” to some folks.
debbie
This is sure not to end well.
The Nobel Committee doesn’t permit unauthorized use of its medal:
Elizabelle
@debbie: The firing of Adam Coy, killer cop, made the hourly NPR news recap.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
all due respect to Mr Kander, it won’t take fifteen months for trump to become a thing that just kinda happened
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack (phone):
I watched it on a phone and had no problems at all.
Elizabelle
@Steeplejack (phone): Thank you, Steep.
Doc Sardonic
@zhena gogolia: Well bowels and their function, or lack there of, do tend to take up a lot space when oldsters talk….
Yutsano
@hilts: Ah yes. Using music from a gay composer that many Americans will associate with beef commercials from the 80s. Heckuva job there!
I actually watched the stupid thing. It really is a “why the fuck would you release this now?” sort of dog headtilt.
Roger Moore
@mrmoshpotato:
FTFY.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yutsano:
And it ends with that flag-porn image. Ugh.
Spanky
@SiubhanDuinne: My god, what a disaster!
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne: I cried.
Geminid
@SiubhanDuinne: Well, they just don’t write poems like they used to…thank god!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@lamh36:
Villago Delenda Est
@West of the Rockies: Dawn Wells libelz!
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Damn. Is he talking about LGM or Twitter?
Yutsano
@SiubhanDuinne: It almost made me wonder if it was a big troll.
Almost.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne:
You know who else is Scottish?
waratah
@randy khan: Trump made sure his base knew he asked for that amount. I live in a blue collar working neighborhood in a red state I know they have heard about this. I was surprised that Republicans are fighting it.
lamh36
BREAKING: The House votes to override President Trump’s veto of the defense bill, sending it to the Republican-led Senate for an override attempt in that chamber https://cnn.it/3aP0zZJ
dmsilev
(LA Times)
jl
@Baud: I haven’t read about the Trumpsters lining up any bogus alternative slates.
Anyone know if any state GOPs have appointed alternative slates? Or is that on the to-do list over the next week?
Edit: if Baud XXXX! could get enough alternative slates appointed, pass them off to the GOP as Trumpster EC votesm, then a miracle is nigh. Wammo boffo! Victory from the ashes! Don’t let victory slip through your fingers again.
danielx
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
And the technology already exists, per Driftglass.
They marched and they cheered and sang lots of brave tunes,
About how great Beck was, and how Lefties were Loons.
For one thing, of course, had remained just the same
The Left and their schemes were always to blame.
Because there is no need to be careful or watch what you say When your past is as squashy as modeling clay.
Villago Delenda Est
@hilts: That is an obscenity.
debbie
@Yutsano:
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@lamh36: now that’s a surprise, I didn’t think they’d get to two-thirds on that
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack (phone):
Thank you, Steep. I don’t know what you wrote and redacted, but thank you for understanding.
Villago Delenda Est
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Sometimes Scottish IS crap. Not usually, of course, but there are notable examples. Like Donald, whose mother was an immigrant from Scotland.
dmsilev
Via Josh Marshall, check this out:
I didn’t think it was possible to outdo Jon McNaughton.
SiubhanDuinne
@Spanky:
@Baud:
@Geminid:
I know, right? I love that poem. It’s so awful.
mrmoshpotato
@debbie:
Wait. Dump is going to get a beatdown from the Nobel Committee?
debbie
@dmsilev:
I like that the face is orange and there’s a hint of orange in the hair. But you know Trump would never carry a pistol like that.
Kent
Why would the GOP-ers in the House not vote for it? They are just following Trump’s orders. Let McConnell and the Senate take the heat for blocking it. Seems like a no-brainer if you are a House GOPer.
Frankensteinbeck
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
The Rose Twitter explanation is that Pelosi and McConnell are working together and he provides her political cover.
debbie
@mrmoshpotato:
Probably just a pithy remark meant to insult him.
dmsilev
@debbie: We could send him to the Moon without too much trouble.
Just don’t ask about the ‘soft landing’ or ‘safe return’ parts.
mrmoshpotato
@Roger Moore: ?
debbie
@Kent:
You answered your own question, no?
dmsilev
@mrmoshpotato: Just to spite him, they’ll give a special set of not-Trump Prizes to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden.
jl
@dmsilev: Trump likes the biggest and most spectacular, the best, the classiest, arrivals. He’s always been big on most terrific disasters.
geg6
@SiubhanDuinne:
He definitely meant to say “deuce.” No doubt in my mind. I laughed as soon as I saw it and thought “perfectly apropos.”
SiubhanDuinne
@hilts:
You know what, I saw that ad earlier today and figured it was from early in the campaign and I had simply not seen it before. Had no idea until some of the commentary that he just released it today, eight weeks after the election. Delusional.
Frosty Fred
@SiubhanDuinne: Then surely you must be a fan of Julia Moore, the Sweet Singer of Michigan.
mrmoshpotato
@danielx: Ah the Bush-Off Machine. From a simpler time when the Rethuglican party was a god-damned fucking pile of shit then!
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
Right, thanks. Sufficient number of people on this thread have set me right, and I did apologise for getting it wrong. Somehow I’ve never come across that piece of slang, and as I told (I think) Elizabelle, I was happier in my time of innocence.
SiubhanDuinne
@Frosty Fred:
Any relation to Sarah Binks, the Sweet Songstress of Saskatchewan?
hilts
@dmsilev:
@mrmoshpotato:
@Yutsano:
@Villago Delenda Est:
The decision to use music written by Aaron Copland achieves a trifecta. He wasn’t simply gay, he was a gay New York jew.
I think St Elizabeths Hospital
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elizabeths_Hospital
should be preparing a room for Trump right now because after Jan 6th, he will descend to peak batshit crazy.
Jay
@Villago Delenda Est:
sadly, lot’s of examples. Crap load of Scots left the Island to fight for freedom. Crapload of others left the Island in furtherance of Empire.
NotMax
As it’s open thread –
FYI, first season of the British series Flack is coming to Prime on January 22nd (Amazon picked it up to produce a third season after it was canceled).
Personally have problems with its ululating undertow of unpleasantry but will note that those who like the show really like it. While other folks wax lyrical about Anna Paquin in the lead, for this codger’s (limited) money it’s Sophie Okonedo being part of the cast which made me check it out in the first place, having never been less than strongly impressed with her camera charisma in other productions.
Frankensteinbeck
@SiubhanDuinne:
It’s just another way of stamping his foot and screaming, “Nuh-UH, I won!”
mrmoshpotato
@dmsilev: “Congratulations to you three on not being traitorous, orange, whiny ass titty babies.”
jnfr
@hilts:
I can’t believe they included him hugging the flag. That’s so horrible.
I assume that overall it was made as another ego boost for him.
hilts
@SiubhanDuinne:
That’s Trump’s middle name and once the election results are made official on January 6, he will redefine insanity. Maybe, he’ll try to fire Pence or have him arrested.
mrmoshpotato
@jnfr: You misspelled “humping the flag.”
Sounds like that video is quite vomit-inducing.
geg6
@SiubhanDuinne:
Sorry, I replied before I read the thread. I’m shocked you’ve never heard that before. Thought it was quite a common saying.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@jnfr:
Oh yeah, the boat parades are dead give away. I wonder how many of those videos he has on his phone. And the fact that he thinks that flag-hugging is something people want to see
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6: It probably is. I’m always kind of amazed at the slang and pop culture I’m totally ignorant of.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Had to fix for you.
ETA: Or what moshie said.
Elizabelle
@geg6:
It is now!
hilts
@jnfr:
Until Trump came along, I never imagined that a politician could be driven horny by the sight of an American flag.
SiubhanDuinne
@hilts:
Oh plz oh plz oh plz oh plz oh plz oh plz oh plz
billcinsd
@jl:
The Republican portions of the legislatures of Michigan, Georgia, Arizona and Michigan sent alternative votes at the EC voting deadline
Elizabelle
@dmsilev: Benedict
ArnoldDonald!jl
Jan 6 is Trump’s Alamo. All GOP elected officials must support him on Jan 6 or they are toast.
“…. You will NOT be re-elected…. ”
https://twitter.com/jamespmanley/status/1343715864810500096
Technically, that omits Loeffler, but a nuance that will escape MAGA, probably Trump as well.
The GA election will probably be very close, so just a few resentful, disillusioned and resentful Trumpsters sitting it out, and a just a few more charged up Dem voters can make all the difference.
jl
@billcinsd: Thanks for info. I haven’t seen that reported.
Another Scott
Interesting! – if it actually happens that way.
(via LOLGOP)
Cheers,
Scott.
Bex
@hilts: Somewhere, Aaron Copeland is really embarrassed.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@debbie:
Saw that on the news. The POS killed that guy in his own garage and they declined to render the victim aid ?
Baud
@Another Scott:
I didn’t think one could object to an override vote.
Baud
Guy filling in for a Chris Hayes is a douchebag.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: I think it’s very important to frame Republican malfeasance as a failure for Nancy Pelosi
(Medhi Hassan, arguably the least clownish clown in the clown car known as The Intercept, so… still a clown)
NotMax
@Baud
So, an improvement?
//
Odie Hugh Manatee
@zhena gogolia:
No shit… :)
jnfr
@mrmoshpotato:
My bad.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I felt like Jefferies was about to let out a “WTF, man?”
raven
Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airman
Truckin and Fuckin
Everybody’s dancin’ and truckin’
Everybody’s swingin’ and fuckin
Truckin’ (truckin’) fuckin’ (fuckin’) everybody’s doin’ it now
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@billcinsd: I remember at least one photo of the “alternate electors” trying to get inside the venue where the vote was being certified, but security wouldn’t let them in. “The electors are already here.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: to me, the answer to the “new leadership” troll should be: Who and what would they have done differently?
I turned it off when he brought Reich on. I assume Sam Seder and Michael Moore are waiting in the wings
Another Scott
@Baud: I guess his plan is to object to the process before the actual override vote. Or something. TheHill:
It’s good to see them fighting for this. Make Moscow Mitch show his yellow underbelly and stacked deck.
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
They wouldn’t have settled. Duh.
Luciamia
Truly Pence seems like the last person you’d want to draft into this scheme. He looks like he’d shit his pants at the very thought of it.
debbie
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Not only did they not render aid, they didn’t even bother to call EMS. The cop that showed up after the supervisor is the one who ended up calling them.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s hard when that happens because when they are replying, they don’t know that 18 people have already answered it.
If I’m around, I am always willing to edit the original comment to indicate that the question has already been answered. (on request)
But if we all read all the comments before replying, no one would ever comment! :-)
M31
@hilts: gay, New York, communist Jew, to boot
WaterGirl
At this point, wouldn’t it HELP the Republicans in Georgia if there is a vote for the 2,000? Loeffler and Perdue can’t get on Trump’s bad side by voting yes, because Trump is for this. People in Georgia also surely want the 2,000.
So aren’t we hurting our chances in Georgia by forcing a vote on the 2k?
I know everyone desperately needs assistance. But if we can win the senate, they can get the extra assistance right away after Jan 20, I would think. I don’t understand the Bernie/Markey strategy here.
sab
@WaterGirl: I am kind of disturbed that so many jackals knew the term.
NotMax
@sab
So much for those who say the jackals don’t know sh*t.
;)
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: There are a multitude of ways that it could/will fail in the Senate: Johnson will object yet again. Moscow Mitch doesn’t want it and he controls the clock. The 116th Congress ends one second before noon on Sunday January 3 – less than 6 days from now. He and a bunch of other senators want to go home doing the least work possible. Who knows, he may try to spin things and say that Bernie and other Democrats are tying his hands with their cloture demands and he can’t bring the $2000 bill to the floor in time, and by the way, the NDAA over-ride failed because those Democrats Hate the Troops™.
Early voting is going on and has been since December 14. If Moscow Mitch were worried about COVID relief affecting the GA senate races, wouldn’t he have done something earlier?
My $0.02. We’ll see.
Cheers,
Scott.
moonbat
@WaterGirl: Well, there’s the fact that people could actually use $2,000 if they can get it and Dems have been pushing for that all along.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: What I don’t want to happen is:
WaterGirl
@moonbat: That is true. But us getting the senate is everything, and if we can get the senate, we can do so many things that will make a differences with the pandemic, climate change, everything else.
If we don’t win the senate, I don’t think there’s any more aid for disaster relief.
The thing is, I don’t think it passes the senate, so our best chance for disaster relief in 2021 is to win both seats in Georgia.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Oh, no worries. I suspect a lot of people read the threads the way I do: when a new thread appears, read the OT, then the comments in order. HOWEVER, if you see something commentable, by all means comment without bothering to see if anyone else has commented earlier, better, more concisely, and more wittily.
Once you’ve gone through the first batch of comments, close the window and wander off for a while. Check Wonkette, see if Charlie Pierce has posted anything yet, take a shower, make a tuna salad.
Upon returning to BJ, check out all the new threads, comment or not, and then — this is key — return to the original BJ post, hit the down arrow, and start reading comments, and commenting on them, from the bottom up. Makes for hours of confused and chaotic fun, every time!
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s all part of the charm of the BJ experience. ;-)
But I do recall an instance recently-ish where everyone jumped on a person, who by comment 5 or 7 or 10 acknowledged their mistake/bad wording/whatever and apologized, and got jumped on another 15 times, and that can be overwhelming – even if you logically know that people aren’t ganging up on you.
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: I’m sure Moscow Mitch is trying to figure out a way to “win”.
Thread:
That last bit sounds like something he would try. But it also sounds like too much work. Why wouldn’t he just let it sit in the pile on his desk with all the other bills the House has sent over??
tl;dr – Georgia is probably already baked except for turnout – the GOP has said NO since May 15. This $2000 bill is just another opportunity for Moscow Mitch to say “NO”. Make them pay for that.
Cheers,
Scott.
TomatoQueen
@NotMax: You’ve been waiting all day (*now night here) to say that, haven’t you.
Bill Arnold
@SiubhanDuinne:
Plenty have covered it, but always check urban dictionary..
I’d neglected this rule here, and not knowing Greek, went to google translate which wasn’t helpful, then to urban dictionary.
Another Scott
ICYMI, warning Politico:
The story notes that “independent” fundraising and spending won’t have to report until after the election. And we know that Moscow Mitch is dumping a lot of money in the race, so who knows which team is really ahead in the money race. But it’s good to know that the good guys have a lot of money to get their message and their voters out.
Forward!!
Cheers,
Scott.
Bill Arnold
@debbie:
The hands are wrong too, unless he got (non-human) hand transplants.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Another Scott: watching MSNBC and they’re reporting that Chuck Schumer is “pessimistic” about Georgia, in part because of “dwindling finances“
Bill Arnold
@moonbat:
As WaterGirl says, the control of the Senate is a very big deal, with downstream consequences e.g. how catastrophic global heating gets (billions of human lives at stake) and more locally, the Democratic domestic political agendas. (plural because progressive agendas are more in possible play if the Democrats win control of the Senate.)
So it’s a legitimate tactical question. It’s in the Senates hands (and then DJT’s little hands) now though. As you say, the $2000 would shift a lot of people from immanent destitution to perhaps not. But the Rs were really opposed to it prior to being for it because DJT.
Another Scott
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I never know what to make of “memos” like that. We’ve all gotten similar emails for decades – there’s always a crisis. Maybe…
I’m just some internet rando, but come on. $50M a month x 2 isn’t enough in Georgia? Really? If so, make the case, don’t just say the other guys have more. (The plutocrats will always have more.)
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Another Scott: Rick Wilson (Lincoln Project is involved on the ground) said it’s about lowering expectations for the election, but he also said it’s not over yet
Another Scott
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Thanks.
We should remember that the whole point of runoff elections in the south was to prevent Blacks from winning elections. So, it’s an uphill fight.
But, Biden wasn’t expected to win either so we have to keep fighting. It’s not hopeless. I’ll probably send some more cash to the troika in the morning (Abrams, Warnock, and Ossoff).
Cheers,
Scott.
rikyrah
@Elizabelle:
Saw the Satan and 2020 one a few weeks ago. It soooo fit.
rikyrah
@NotMax:
Thank you.
Will be on the lookout for it
J R in WV
@WaterGirl:
Gosh, if I worried about a mere dozen people telling me how I am wrong, in 8 different ways, I wouldn’t have my BJ career to keep me busy!
Last post?
;-)
NotMax
@J R in WV
Wrong.
(couldn’t resist) :)
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: Yeah, they didn’t mention the $100 million that came in against Warnock from several donors at $15 million each.
They need to show the whole picture, otherwise this is just intended to discourage additional donating. Warnock is down $54 million, i believe, compared to what the Rs pulled in for Loeffler.
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: Thanks for making it so easy to find previous posts with ActBlue Thermometers.
https://balloon-juice.com/2020/11/14/help-with-georgia-and-listen-to-stacey-abrams/
Donated.
Cheers,
Scott.
J R in WV
The word Deuce is used in many slang ways, including the fecal expression dealt with above.
MA Deuce is a matched pair of .50 caliber Browning Machine Guns mounted so that both are aimed at the same spot, a brutal near-cannon of military destruction.
A Little Deuce Coupe was a Ford 1932 coupe favored by people building hot rods, still well known among speed freaks and Beach Boys fans.
In cards, the two card is often called a deuce, Aces over Deuces is a full house of ones (Aces) and twos (deuces).
ETA: Last post, this time? (couldn’t resist either!) ;~)
SteverinoCT
@J R in WV: Acey-Deucey, the Naval variant of backgammon, where rolling a 1-2 gets special moves.