Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

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Saturday Evening Open Thread: Pride

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  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    Where is the Secret Service for the VP?  Maybe they are the double-secret Secret Service.  Or the Invisible Secret Service.

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    JoyceH

    These days you can almost identify the Secret Service because they’re just about the only ones who aren’t pointing Iphones at the protectee.

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    Kelly

    The untucked shirt guys all have wired earpieces with the wire going into their shirt at the collar. Ordinary people would have bluetooth or an exposed wire.

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    Baud

    Kamala Harris is first sitting VP ever to march in a Pride event

    I can’t believe Mike Pence didn’t go to one.

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    dmsilev

    @zhena gogolia: Back in the mists of time, Al Gore was the keynote speaker at my college graduation. We were told that there were snipers on the roofs among other things. It was a more innocent time: no metal detectors to walk through  or anything like that.

    My class did manage to semi-successfully prank him though. That was the ‘information superhighway’ etc. era, and we passed out ‘buzzword bingo’ cards with similar phrases to all the graduates, with all the nineties era buzzwords on them, and anyone who made bingo would hold up their card. I say semi-successful because someone gave Gore a heads-up though. At one point he had an applause line and responded to the cheers with ‘what, did I just say a buzzword?’. And then got even more cheers of course. And, so far as I know, nobody made bingo. I have this vision of some poor speechwriter frantically redlining the text just before he went out onto the stage.

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    SiubhanDuinne

    @WaterGirl:

    Which picture of the world leaders? I checked all the tweets and I’m not seeing it. If it’s the “family photo” from last night, I’ve seen it and I agree — they are much of a type, physically, anyhow.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    What about all our gay war dead???? Why can’t she honor their sacrifice????

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    satby

    So, back on OP for those of us who went to or contributed to Pride events, there were several around South Bend. Sadly, none official at the farmers market now that the new manager is under the thumb of the troglodytes running the place. BUT, several of the vendors, including me, had Pride regalia, signs, rainbows, trans visibility signs, etc up. The rainbow sugar cookie fundraiser for my friend’s org sold out both weeks of June so far. And no negative comments or blowback at all. The culture warriors have lost another war, in spite of the skirmishes that continue.

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    Baud

    @satby:

    And no negative comments or blowback at all. The culture warriors have lost another war, in spite of the skirmishes that continue.

    They stood no chance against rainbow sugar cookies.

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    Feathers

    Several figure skaters decided to come out of the closet yesterday, Jason Brown being the most well known.
    The world is healing. It’s really astonishing that freaking figure skaters are told that coming out of the closet will ruin their careers. On the other hand, it is a judged sport, and Russia is the most powerful country. Their ex-champions and coaches curry favor with the Putin regime by publicly spouting homophobic bullshit in interviews all the time. I mean, they probably do believe what they are saying, but might not be so loud and obnoxious about it if they didn’t think it would help them. If you are wondering why Russia is so powerful, it is because when the USSR split up, it basically created 15 countries for Russian skaters to compete for and, more importantly, judges to control. Former republics send their skaters to Moscow to train, and Russian skating officials get citizenship in those countries and become international judges. Sigh.

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    Kelly

    During the 1976 primaries Jimmy Carter visited the U of O in Eugene. I happened to catch a glimpse an impressive, well organized, arsenal along with several large first aid cases in the trunk of a Ford Crown Vic. A Secret Service guy was getting a small case out of the trunk. I don’t think he noticed me at first then gave me the stink eye until I moved on.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    Unrelated to Pride:  The second season of Lupin is available on Netflix.  Go now.  Watch it.

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    Gvg

    @zhena gogolia: Definitely on the roofs. I was in line at 5 am for tickets to Gator growl which happened to be when candidate Bill Clinton was due to speak in a few hours right beside it. There were secret service guys setting up all over, especially on the roof, but when the crowd arrived they weren’t that obvious.

    For a planned event, they can do a lot of prep.

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    JoyceH

    I got my first shingles vaccination today and now I can’t decide if I’m genuinely tired or if I subconsciously plucked tiredness from the list of possible side effects as an excuse to be lazy. Either way, I’m going with it. Nap time.

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    Mike in NC

    We rented “Wonder Woman 1984” and one of the villains was based — by the director — on Donald Trump (played by Pablo Pascal, who slightly resembles the odious developer 40 years ago). He even says, “I’m not a con man, I’m a television personality and respected businessman”.

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    zhena gogolia

    So in addition to the sound on HBO Max being crappy, I read an interview with Miranda, Hudes, and Chu today, and found out that they cut “Sunrise.” THEY CUT THE BEST SONG IN THE MUSICAL.

    I am really not happy with my “In the Heights” experience.

    They also cut the Priscilla Lopez character!

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    zhena gogolia

    @zhena gogolia:

    Okay, we watched another half hour of the movie tonight and I’m liking it a little better because

    MARC ANTHONY IS IN IT

    Why hasn’t anyone mentioned that salient fact?

    (But of course he doesn’t sing. Because it’s that kind of movie. Sigh.)

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    Kent

    Put a giant rainbow flag on the house this month for pride and because I have an LGBT daughter and we seem to be the local gathering place for LGBT kids. Half expecting some sort of pushback from the HOA in this upscale purple suburb.  But only thumbs up from neighbors and dog walkers so far.

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    satby

    @Baud: The rainbow sprinkle buttercream frosted sugar cookies won over many a skeptic, and every small child. They are freaking delicious.

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    dnfree

    @JoyceH: I did fine with the first shingles shot, but with the second one I had bad flu symptoms (fever, chills, muscle aches) that kept me in bed for two days, miserable. I’m still glad I had the shots, but wish I’d known.  Fortunately I didn’t have major obligations those two days.  Schedule carefully.

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