lmao this place is gonna go broke so fast https://t.co/uomV31Yw31
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) December 28, 2020
However, the NYTimes, armored in its impenetrable smugness, continues to insist that only Repubs deserve to hold office:
Did the NYT complain about the experience of Tommy Tuberville? Donald Trump? Madison Cawthorn? https://t.co/tICAIWnmdn
— staying home stan account ?? (@Convolutedname) December 28, 2020
I assume you opposed Tommy Tuberville, whose main accomplishment was losing winnable games? https://t.co/Zwz3ahmGGX
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) December 28, 2020
No, see, only Democrats can have a "thin resumes"; Republicans are "political outsiders". It's very different
— yarrriv (@yarrriv) December 28, 2020
Jim, Foolish Literalist
what’s on Mrs Sprecher’s resumé?
as for trump properties, I’m schadenfreudische with anticipation (I’m sure the Germans have a single portmanteau about eight feet long for that) is the drop in renewals of membership for Mar-A-Lago
mrmoshpotato
Fuck these fucking motherfuckers.
Another Scott
(Insert Baudism™ here.)
Cheers,
Scott.
Suzanne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I read one of those “Millennials are killing” articles a couple of years ago, and it was about country clubs. Apparently the industry can’t figure out why young people aren’t joining them. I can’t imagine paying like $50K to hang out with Republicans. And Mar-a-Lago?! Lord have mercy. There is a long, long list of places I’d prefer to be. It *might* include jail.
mrmoshpotato
@Suzanne: LOL! George Carlin put it best, and correctly, when he said that golf courses should be turned into housing for the homeless.
Kent
Country Clubs….shudder.
We lived in Waco TX for 13 years while my wife was in her medical residency and then her early part of her career. So we got invited to a LOT of events at the local country club. Because where else do rich old doctors hold events?
If I have to look at another plate of warmed-over prime rib with a baked potato at one of those events I will gag. So glad to be out of Texas and away from that. And yes, even young TX doctors had no use for country clubs. Too busy for that shit honestly. Unless you are a hard-core golfer it isn’t worth it. And those who are usually buy into golf communities with their own courses so they don’t need the country club course down the road.
Suzanne
@Kent: I hate golf. I’ve done it twice, was terrible both times, and I should learn so that I can participate in the occasional business event…. but then I remember that I’d rather scrub my toilet.
It seems like the kind of thing that old people do. I don’t know anyone under 50 who lives in a golf community or has a country club membership.
Suzanne
@mrmoshpotato: Hahaha. Back in AZ, a bunch of the golf courses were going out of business. So much opportunity for development, but the neighbors wouldn’t be happy!
HumboldtBlue
Some James Acaster is always welcome.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@mrmoshpotato: I tell ya country clubs and cemeteries are the biggest waste of prime real estate. Buncha dead people! – Al Czervik
@Suzanne: Marjorie Merriweather Post was an interesting person, but that is one butt ugly place. She left it to the government, and they gave it back to the family cause it was useless and expensive to maintain.. Too bad she didn’t leave the land to some kind of nature conservancy. Could’ve been an alligator refuge
The Oracle of Solace
So Republicans much more often than not lose federal elections to control Congress and the presidency, they don’t run on their policies because their policies are cartoonishly evil, and they are an openly authoritarian ethno-nationalist party that represents only a minority of Americans, yet the Failing New York Times tells us it’s the Democrats who are running the weird outlier candidates. Huh.
trollhattan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Can we do this now, as in today? Release the gators!
Ms. Deranged in AZ
@trollhattan: Can we nominate that, “Release the gators!” to our rotating tagline banner on the front page?
smike
@Kent:
Hunched-shoulder-double-shudder. Not unlike the feel of an old Twilight Zone episode, that place is. The black and white ones, because that is about as colorful as the place gets. The Branch Davidians thing did not happen there by coincidence.
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan: LOL! Yes.
mrmoshpotato
@Ms. Deranged in AZ: Click on the Nominate A Rotating Tag link. :)
Anne Laurie
Not sure it isn’t, already. Have you seen some of those Marred-A-Largo club members, grinning for the cameras?
Ms. Deranged in AZ
@mrmoshpotato: harder to find the link on my phone than on a pc but it’s done
Heywood J.
Didn’t even take ownership by Rupert Murdoch to turn the Times into a steaming pile of pseudo-journamalism. They did it all on their own. They can go straight to hell.
Boycott the Times. The handful of actual writers there can ply an honest trade somewhere else. They really don’t have to be the guy shoveling elephant shit at the circus, not wanting to quit showbiz.
prostratedragon
Re: The hotel
Was looking up some songs sung by Thornetta Davis this evening and happened on this:
Bonus track: Ms. Davis singing “Hound Dog”
Leto
@Suzanne: I’m sure it has to cost a fuck ton of money to keep all that useless grass green there in the desert. Also the youngs don’t have the money for useless shit like a country club membership. They need it for avocado toast.
frosty
@Suzanne: Other than pitch and putt as a kid, I’ve played about 3 or 4 golf games in my life. Favorite was against my F-I-L and S-I-L. SIL was an intense competitor. I beat her. Told her “It’s a simple game really, just keep your eye on the ball and let the club do the work.” I got skunked at a game with work colleagues the next time.
BTW, I enjoyed all your comments on hospital design in the previous thread. It’s really great having a variety of experts on this blog. If you ever want to know anything about stormwater, let me know! (Hint: it goes downhill)
frosty
@Ms. Deranged in AZ: Betty Cracker would love “Release the Gators” but I expect raven would object. Bigly.
Brachiator
@mrmoshpotato:
There are 18 holes on a golf course, right? How you gonna fit people into those tiny holes?
mrmoshpotato
@Leto:
Hahaha
Ms. Deranged in AZ
@frosty: I made sure the keep the g lowercase for exactly that reason.
mrmoshpotato
Haha, it’s not releasing the gators against raven’s beloved Dawgs. I think he’d approve.
frosty
@Ms. Deranged in AZ: That’s thinking ahead!
NotMax
Mmmmm. Chowing down on the last of the Xmas Day feast.
(Am one of those who has no problems with eating the same thing for days in a row. Or in this case, four days in a row.)
Peale
Thinnest resume since Joe Biden.
mrmoshpotato
Fuck The Shitpile New York Times.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: But would you chow down on that roast for lunch and dinner in the same day?
daryljfontaine
@Suzanne: My millennial friends have assured me that even were they being paid $50K a year at their jobs, there are still hundreds of industries they’d be killing sooner than country clubs.
D
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Absolutely. If I ate lunch.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Haha. Still monstrous. :)
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Not that it’s in the least something to deliberately store away in memory but presume you’ve come across my offhandedly mentioning at one time or another that have been eating only one meal daily since 1964, that repast during nighttime. Not necessarily seven nights per week, either.
Coffee (black, no sugar) during the day.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: No, I haven’t, but that’s good to know. :)
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
No breakfast, no lunch. Din-din after sunset. Referred to in jest as the vampire diet.
;)
rikyrah
@mrmoshpotato:
????
rikyrah
@Suzanne:
50k to hang out with them?
No, I don’t think so?
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Wakey, wakey!
Also, stop that.
rikyrah
@The Oracle of Solace:
We are so appreciative of the NYT to tell us how young Ossof is.?
Phuck them tricks??
Raven
David and Sonny are cousins not brothers .
rikyrah
@mrmoshpotato:
Did they ever write pieces in the past four years informing us of Jarvanka’s qualifications to do ANYTHING???
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah: Just a sec. Let me take a sip of water and re-read your question.
Procopius
@Suzanne: LOL! That’s the best response since, “I’d love to go out with you but I have to shampoo my gerbil.” I’ve known two guys who play golf, and one of them really got into it because he was a very high level sales type guy and really had to meet corporate CEOs at golf. For myself, I’m old, but I’d much rather play snooker. It gives me enough walking over a couple or three hours. There’s other body weight exercises to take care of the other muscles so I don’t need a gym.
Martin
Props to liberals for having the restraint from burning all his shit down when the emoluments protection completely broke down. I know I was tempted.
Steeplejack
Kick-start the buffer.
Amir Khalid
@rikyrah:
It would be a very short piece.
raven
@Suzanne: “A good walk spoiled”
Soprano2
I wonder, did the Times write a similar piece about Kelly Loeffler when she was appointed to the Senate? Does she even have a resume other than “has money” and “is a tall, blonde woman”? I think for papers like the Times, having that kind of money means you are automatically qualified for anything, especially if you’re a Republican.
SFAW
@frosty:
Don’t you have to be like 100-plus years old for that? How else is anyone going to know what a 100-year event is? Or do you guys just have to live long enough for a 25-year event, and multiply it by four?
Although with global warming, I hear that the 100-year-event timetables have been accelerated.
Kathleen
@Suzanne: Golf spelled backwards is “flog”.
trnc
Yes, I bet Reid Epstein was soooooooooooo concerned with the resumes of the 2016 candidates.
Soprano2
Yes, they need to completely redo those. The assumptions they used for the models would be different now, I think. I can tell you wastewater goes the same way stormwater goes, only it gets treated and we try to keep the stormwater out of the wastewater.
RedDirtGirl
@mrmoshpotato: Took the words right out of my fucking mouth!
JML
I actually like golf. It’s fun, it’s good exercise, and it’s something you can do basically your entire life which is nice. It’s best with friends, but you can play solo. You don’t need to be good to have fun. Unfortunately, it’s also fairly expensive. But who needs a country club to play? Give me the public tracks.
L85NJGT
CC’s are the same hard draw as most modern age social clubs. People have better things to do.
lowtechcyclist
My friends and I used to talk about how there should be a hippy-dippy sort of country club. Instead of golf, it could have disc golf. Instead of a fancy pool, it could have a swimming hole – maybe two, with one being clothing optional, and the other being the one you could take your kids to. Instead of some overly formal restaurant, it could have the equivalent of a diner or lunch counter, or maybe the equivalent of a good hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurant.
It would be environmentally friendly, since disc golf courses mostly go through wooded areas. You’d have to have a stream running through the property which you might have to dam up at a couple of places for the swimming holes, but that’s no big deal. Might want enough lawn so that kids could throw a Frisbee around or set up a croquet game, but no more than that.
Needless to say, membership fees wouldn’t be thousands of dollars per year.
billcinsd
@JML: I used to play quite a bit in Salt Lake City, probably 30 years ago. The public courses were quite good and fairly inexpensive, like $5 per 9 holes. Looks like they now range from $14-$20 per 9
Ruckus
@Suzanne:
I’d rather be sitting at home, day after day, not really seeing or talking to people, a hermit, than going to a country club. And I’ve been homeless, in this century, my friend put me up, in a room on the back of his property, with no heat, no running water. I was better off than at any country club. Because I was around people who didn’t care that I had no income, no bank account, no job, and no prospects. I worked around the house, I worked around the yard, I cooked, I was told by my sister that I was useless, I felt useless – as an adult human. And I was still a better person and more useful to the world than any republican politician or member of a country club. Pompous, arrogant assholes who think their money make them good people and that people with darker skin, or less money are the scourge of the world. All they need to do is look at the pompous, arrogant person in their mirror to see the scourge of the world. Very few wealthy people are actually worth spit, bank accounts not with standing. And republicans today are worth even less.
SFAW
@Soprano2:
And we all know what happens when you cross the streams.
TerryC
@JML: Try my sport – disc golf. Much more fun than ball golf. And quite inexpensive plus egalitarian. There are 120+ courses within 50 miles of my home, a dozen of which I have created; nearly 7,000 in the US with 300-400 new courses built each year. Ball golf is losing courses.
Disc golf is going to eclipse ball golf in my lifetime, and I am 73.
Heywood J.
@Raven: Well, it’s Georgia, so both.
bluefoot
@lowtechcyclist: I would join a club like this.