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Bark louder, little dog.

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Come on, man.

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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Everything Old Is New Again!

Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Everything Old Is New Again!

by Anne Laurie|  July 6, 20218:23 pm| 103 Comments

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Adam's right. Here's some other rules for identifying the FBI agent in your midst:

/1https://t.co/NT978W87hL

— SchemeToDefraudHat (@Popehat) July 6, 2021

I read Steinberg’s tweet aloud to the Spousal Unit, who happily replied “Norbert the Nark returns!”

/3 If you and your friends talk big but ultimately never get anything DONE, like you're Ibsen characters or something, and your new friend helps you get organized and motivated and directed and have an achievable plan, your new friend is FBI.

— SchemeToDefraudHat (@Popehat) July 6, 2021

/5 If your new friend is very patient and supportive while you attempt to do terrorism despite being out of cell phone minutes and your mom not letting you use her cell phone, your new friend is FBI pic.twitter.com/kXeB0Xbpuk

— SchemeToDefraudHat (@Popehat) July 6, 2021

/7 If your new friend is notably the most competent, sober, hygienic, and acceptably dressed person in your terrorist cell, your new friend is FBI. If your new friend's beard looks like a Mormon Marine's idea of what "scraggly" is, your new friend is FBI.

— SchemeToDefraudHat (@Popehat) July 6, 2021

Unfortunately…

It's important to remember that stupid people can still be dangerous.

— Jerel Wilmore (@JCWilmore) July 6, 2021

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  1. 1.

    Raven

    July 6, 2021 at 8:25 pm

    Throw da book at em

  2. 2.

    JPL

    July 6, 2021 at 8:31 pm

    If the FBI infiltrated the group that planted the pipe bomb, I wish they would arrest those responsible. I’d sleep eaiser.. just sayin

  3. 3.

    Baud

    July 6, 2021 at 8:32 pm

    @Raven:

    A heavy book.

  4. 4.

    Elizabelle

    July 6, 2021 at 8:37 pm

    From the NY Times article:

    Mr. Duong, a Marine Corps veteran of Vietnamese and Chinese heritage …(le sigh) …   and he found the undercover officer.  All the buzzwords.  Freedom and liberty loving.  Guns, of course.

    According to the complaint, the authorities first learned of Mr. [Fi] Duong on the morning of Jan. 6 when he and a man they described as Associate 1 encountered an undercover Metropolitan Police Department officer near Freedom Plaza in Washington. Mr. Duong, 27, asked the officer whether he was a “patriot,” court papers say, and the officer said he was. When asked the same question, Mr. Duong, a Marine Corps veteran of Vietnamese and Chinese heritage, told the officer that he was an “operator,” prosecutors say.
    Within a week, court papers say, the undercover police officer had introduced Mr. Duong to an undercover F.B.I. agent. Speaking freely, Mr. Duong told the agent that he was part of a “cloak and dagger” militia-style group trying to assemble a “robust network” of “freedom-loving, liberty-minded” Second Amendment supporters. He explained that his family had “spent two generations running from Communists” in China and Vietnam and then admitted he had been at the Capitol on Jan. 6 “wearing all black in an effort to look like a member of antifa.”
    By February, prosecutors say, the undercover agent had won Mr. Duong’s trust and was invited to a meeting of the militia group at Mr. Duong’s home in Alexandria — a get-together that the members referred to as “Bible study.”

  5. 5.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 6, 2021 at 8:42 pm

    I would just like to suggest that everyone’s rules to live by should include “Adam’s right.”

    Just saying…

  6. 6.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    July 6, 2021 at 8:44 pm

    @Baud: Maybe OED.  Ya know the one that’s one volume and comes with a magnifying glass.

  7. 7.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    July 6, 2021 at 8:45 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Not sure about that Silverman guy though…

  8. 8.

    eclare

    July 6, 2021 at 8:48 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:  What

    Oh I see

  9. 9.

    bluehill

    July 6, 2021 at 8:48 pm

    @Elizabelle: No discrimination within the ranks of useful idiots.

  10. 10.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 6, 2021 at 8:51 pm

    @Baud: Atlas Shrugged? Has to be good for something, right?

  11. 11.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 6, 2021 at 8:54 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: That guy’s always making me look bad and getting me in trouble!

  12. 12.

    debbie

    July 6, 2021 at 8:55 pm

    These jerks are just too proud of themselves. Stupid seems inevitable.

  13. 13.

    eclare

    July 6, 2021 at 8:57 pm

    @debbie:  We are lucky they are stupid!

  14. 14.

    debbie

    July 6, 2021 at 8:57 pm

    @eclare:

    No doubt!

  15. 15.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 6, 2021 at 9:01 pm

    A good long piece on the insurrection.

  16. 16.

    eclare

    July 6, 2021 at 9:05 pm

    Argentina Colombia

  17. 17.

    eclare

    July 6, 2021 at 9:10 pm

    Messi is amazing

  18. 18.

    featheredsprite

    July 6, 2021 at 9:13 pm

    It has been 50 years since I read How to Identify a Fed.

    Ah, the nostalgia!

  19. 19.

    cain

    July 6, 2021 at 9:16 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: ​
     
    You are trouble !

  20. 20.

    BruceFromOhio

    July 6, 2021 at 9:17 pm

    I read Steinberg’s tweet aloud to the Spousal Unit, who happily replied “Norbert the Nark returns!”

    The funny papers come to life. Except these these stupid witless assholes are trying to bring down the country. Not funny.

  21. 21.

    debbie

    July 6, 2021 at 9:19 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I’m hoping they’re all anti-vaxers and Delta will take care of them for us.

  22. 22.

    Geminid

    July 6, 2021 at 9:19 pm

    Speaking of Adams, it looks like Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams will be New York City’s next mayor. After a count of all but 4,000 absentee ballots, Adams leads former Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia by 8,000 votes out of nearly 1 million cast.

    A former NYPD Captain, Adams is expected to beat Republican Curtis Sliwa easily in November.

  23. 23.

    debbie

    July 6, 2021 at 9:20 pm

    @Geminid:

    I cannot believe Sliwa is still around.

  24. 24.

    Martin

    July 6, 2021 at 9:20 pm

    @debbie: Keep an eye on Lambda. Might spread faster than even Delta. Not yet in US, but spreading fast across the globe.

  25. 25.

    MomSense

    July 6, 2021 at 9:22 pm

    My dad and son went to hear Colin Woodard give a talk today.  They really enjoyed it.

  26. 26.

    eclare

    July 6, 2021 at 9:22 pm

    @debbie:  Same here.  To paraphrase, Darwin take the wheel.

  27. 27.

    Roger Moore

    July 6, 2021 at 9:22 pm

    It’s about damn time the feds started spending as much effort infiltrating right wing groups as they do infiltrating left wing ones.  Maybe if they had taken right wing groups seriously for the past 40 or 50 years, we wouldn’t be in as much trouble as a country.

  28. 28.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 6, 2021 at 9:23 pm

    @Geminid: Will Adams move back to NYC before the general election?

  29. 29.

    raven

    July 6, 2021 at 9:23 pm

    @featheredsprite: See if you can pick the fed in this pic.

  30. 30.

    debbie

    July 6, 2021 at 9:24 pm

    @Martin:

    I googled and jeez, the speed of these mutations!

  31. 31.

    eclare

    July 6, 2021 at 9:28 pm

    @raven:  I remember The Wire dressing someone to go undercover.  You want broken glass in the tread of your shoes.

    Assume it’s the guy in long sleeves! Or maybe the guy with the water bottle?

  32. 32.

    Steeplejack

    July 6, 2021 at 9:28 pm

    @raven:

    Pretty sure it’s that shirtless blond guy who looks like a stand-in for Duane Allman. ?

  33. 33.

    Another Scott

    July 6, 2021 at 9:28 pm

    @raven: The guy in the pressed jeans??

    :-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  34. 34.

    Jerzy Russian

    July 6, 2021 at 9:29 pm

    @raven:   That dude without a shirt near the right side of the picture looks a bit suspicious.

  35. 35.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 6, 2021 at 9:29 pm

    @Raven:

    @Baud:

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Amateurs!

    Let me know when you three wanna start dropping houses on these Trump trash terrorist bastards.

  36. 36.

    Buckeye

    July 6, 2021 at 9:31 pm

    @debbie: IIRC, the mutations are normally pretty speedy.

     

    As for Lambda, my friend was freaking out over it. But he’s not read anything from sources I take seriously. I’d pay attention to it, but some of the reporting is definitely fear mongering.

  37. 37.

    raven

    July 6, 2021 at 9:31 pm

    @Steeplejack: The dude against the fence with the shades on. I have a series of shots from that day and he’s all over them. That’s Nixon’s chopper on the lawn.

  38. 38.

    Martin

    July 6, 2021 at 9:34 pm

    @debbie: It’ll likely pick up the pace.

    Vaccinations block the variants that can’t spread due to the vaccine and allow the variants that can spread to take over. It doesn’t mean the vaccine doesn’t work, it just means the variant can spread around the vaccine or that the vaccine is just a bit less effective and it can spread a little bit through vaccinated people on its way to unvaccinated targets.

  39. 39.

    Anne Laurie

    July 6, 2021 at 9:34 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: How’s the storm prep going, or am I asking too late?

  40. 40.

    Geminid

    July 6, 2021 at 9:35 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I’ve heard that story. I expect Adams will be closely watched by reporters.

    I wonder if Garcia’s last-minute alliance with Andrew Yang helped or hurt her. Yang had gotten a pretty bad name by the time he told his supporters to rank Garcia 2nd.

  41. 41.

    featheredsprite

    July 6, 2021 at 9:37 pm

    @raven: I would pick the shirtless fellow, because his face shows no inner conflict.

    Good to hear from you! All is well?

  42. 42.

    raven

    July 6, 2021 at 9:39 pm

    @featheredsprite: I was one angry dude in those days. Things are pretty good as I recover from spine surgery.

  43. 43.

    Martin

    July 6, 2021 at 9:39 pm

    @Buckeye: I agree with a lot of overreaction out there. What I haven’t seen is a comparison between Delta and Lambda. Entirely possible that it’s no worse than Delta, just hitting different countries.

    The one preprint I read suggests it has roughly the same advantage against vaccines that Delta does – 94% efficacy with prior variants drops to ~65% with Delta/Lambda. That means jumping from a 70% vaccination target to ~90% for either Delta/Lambda.

  44. 44.

    lurker

    July 6, 2021 at 9:39 pm

    @raven: think people were expecting someone who looked like a marcher in the photo – a bunch of them have weird things going on, some of them potentially stand out as trying to blend in.

    The guy by the fence – my initial reaction was that he was obvious plainclothes security of some sort and not a marcher, so not who was intended.  But yeah, he is definitely a fed.

  45. 45.

    Just Chuck

    July 6, 2021 at 9:40 pm

    @eclare: You also want to memorize your commode story.

  46. 46.

    raven

    July 6, 2021 at 9:40 pm

    KIller basketball game on.

  47. 47.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 6, 2021 at 9:40 pm

    In this story about reporters grappling with the aftereffects of 1/6, John Bresnahan, late of Politico now of the spin-off “Punchbowl News” at least gets honest about where this all started and how he and his colleagues helped it grow

    He says looking back on it, he should have covered events like the early days of the Tea Party movement differently. At one early Tea Party rally he heard a protestor use the N word, but he decided against writing about it because he didn’t think it represented the broader crowd.

    “We used a lot of euphemisms. That was white rage and we should have covered it as white rage, and we didn’t, we covered it as conservative backlash. They were booing John Lewis, for god’s sake,” he said.

    yes, that should indeed have been a tip-off, but as Charlie Pierce always says, it couldn’t be about race because nothing is ever about race. They can’t see inside people’s hearts!

  48. 48.

    Another Scott

    July 6, 2021 at 9:40 pm

    @Geminid: So does NYC have a vice-mayor?  Who takes over when if he has to leave early??

    Just amazing.

    dick_nixon says he appeals to normal people outside the island of Manhattan. Maybe so, but it’s hard to see him being other than a continuing train-wreck for the city government.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  49. 49.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 6, 2021 at 9:44 pm

    @raven:  Best thing about the game is that the Hawks aren’t playing in it.

  50. 50.

    raven

    July 6, 2021 at 9:46 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: yea yea

  51. 51.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 6, 2021 at 9:50 pm

    @Anne Laurie: We’re as ready as can be. Unless something really weird happens between now and about 3 AM, we’re looking at some 45 to 55 mph wind gusts, heavy rain, and maybe some thunder and lightning. Nothing really changes if Elsa is a Cat 1 at 75 mph or a tropical storm at around 70 mph. We’ll be on the dirty side of the storm for an hour or two depending on whether she maintains speed or slows down again. Our power doesn’t usually go out, but we’ve got all the emergency lighting either charged or just finished recharging. We basically maintain our prep supplies year round as it’s just easier that way. Last week we had a torrential monsoon with thunder and lightning that lasted between 8 and 10 hours. We got 4 to 6 inches of rain and had wind gusts up to 50 mph. We’re not going to get anything worse than that for a couple of hours tonight. The people that will get hammered are north of me and just north of BettyC.

    Frankly, the most likely problem I’m going to have is stressed out dogs who keep me from getting a good night’s sleep. They’ve had their first CBD treat and once things pick up I’ll put their thunder shirt sports on them. Beyond that it’s just waiting for it to get her and then move through.

  52. 52.

    Another Scott

    July 6, 2021 at 9:50 pm

    Me: Guess what! Good news!

    Wife: [skeptical] What?

    Me: The CDC says if you're exposed to COVID and are fully vaccinated, you don't have to quarantine! The County agrees!

    Wife: Why are you bringing this up?

    Me: You know that guy I deposed today?

    Wife: . . .

    Me: So how's your day?

    — SchemeToDefraudHat (@Popehat) July 7, 2021

    :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  53. 53.

    chrome agnomen

    July 6, 2021 at 9:52 pm

    time for Norbert’s flying lesson!!!

  54. 54.

    Geminid

    July 6, 2021 at 9:58 pm

    @Another Scott: On June 24, New York City magazine Gothamist had an informative analysis of the primary results, titled “A Tale of Three Cities.” It describes Garcia’s strength in more affluent Manhattan and Brooklyn areas, Maya Wiley’s strength in gentrified portions of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, and Adams’ strength in working class Black and Latino areas of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

    Adams made public safety a top campaign issue. In one poll taken a month before the primary, 56% of New Yorkers listed rising crime as their top concern.

    Two heavy hitting New York Congressmen, Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn and Greg Meeks of Queens, endorsed Wiley as first choice, Adams as second.

  55. 55.

    Brachiator

    July 6, 2021 at 10:01 pm

    @Geminid:

    A former NYPD Captain, Adams is expected to beat Republican Curtis Sliwa easily in November.

    I don’t know squat about New York City politics, but does Adams have anything to recommend him besides being a former NYPD captain? Have New Yorkers lost their minds?

  56. 56.

    Elizabelle

    July 6, 2021 at 10:04 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:  The doggos doing CBD treats, and gonna wear their thunder shirts.  Give them a hug for me.

  57. 57.

    Omnes Omnibus

    July 6, 2021 at 10:04 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: ​
      My grandfather used have a saying: Wish in one hand, shit in the other. See which gets full the fastest.

  58. 58.

    eclare

    July 6, 2021 at 10:04 pm

    @Just Chuck:  Never seen that movie, looks good

  59. 59.

    Omnes Omnibus

    July 6, 2021 at 10:05 pm

    @eclare: Milwaukee Phoenix

  60. 60.

    Brachiator

    July 6, 2021 at 10:06 pm

    @Buckeye:

    As for Lambda, my friend was freaking out over it. But he’s not read anything from sources I take seriously. I’d pay attention to it, but some of the reporting is definitely fear mongering.

    Every time I see Lambda, I keep thinking of a Latin dance.

  61. 61.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 6, 2021 at 10:07 pm

    @Elizabelle: Will do!

    We’ll be fine. This isn’t going to be anywhere near as bad as Maria in 2017.

  62. 62.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 6, 2021 at 10:08 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: You get the email I sent you the other day?

  63. 63.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 6, 2021 at 10:10 pm

    @Brachiator: No; yes.

  64. 64.

    Ksmiami

    July 6, 2021 at 10:13 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I find my doggo is calm if I act calm but big guys  tend to be hyper focused on their owner’s moods.. stay safe!

  65. 65.

    Eunicecycle

    July 6, 2021 at 10:14 pm

    @Just Chuck: yuck when I clicked on the link there was an ad for JD Vance. I guess YouTube knows I am in Ohio.

  66. 66.

    brendancalling

    July 6, 2021 at 10:14 pm

    @debbie:  I am so so so so f’ing sick of these people and their bullshit.

    ”some humans ain’t human/some people ain’t kind…”

  67. 67.

    Omnes Omnibus

    July 6, 2021 at 10:16 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I had missed it.  Just saw it now.  I don’t see why Greenfield had a problem with it.  Maybe Whitefish Bay or Shorewood, but not Greenfield.

  68. 68.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 6, 2021 at 10:17 pm

    @Ksmiami: I’ve got a pair of lab mixes. They weigh between 45 and 50 lbs. If it starts to thunder and lightning I can be sound asleep, which is about as calm as I can get, and they still freak out. Nothing like being woken up from a sound sleep by one lab mix sitting on your head and the other whining, shaking, and pawing at you.

  69. 69.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 6, 2021 at 10:18 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I figured you’d appreciate it being a Redleg.

  70. 70.

    Amir Khalid

    July 6, 2021 at 10:18 pm

    I didn’t know this: kids in Britain are using cola, fruit juice, and other soft drinkss to spoof Covid-19 tests into giving false positive results so that they can cut school. BBC link.

  71. 71.

    Geminid

    July 6, 2021 at 10:19 pm

    @Brachiator: Well, Adams is Brooklyn Borough President. I know little about his record in that post. There is a ton of local reporting on Adams and the other candidates for those interested in a fuller picture than will be had from national media.

    I lack the base of knowledge to evaluate Adams’ potential as Mayor. But my impression of New Yorkers is that they are levelheaded and knowledgable about their city and its politics. And my own personal biases make me think that people in the City’s working class neighborhoods know as much about their city’s needs as do Brooklyn hipsters and Manhattan liberals, probably more.

    In any event, Adams will be a change from the current Mayor, who seems to have everyone mad at him.

  72. 72.

    Suzanne

    July 6, 2021 at 10:21 pm

    @Amir Khalid: That’s kind of hilarious and I admire their moxie.

  73. 73.

    Omnes Omnibus

    July 6, 2021 at 10:24 pm

    @raven: Blond dude with no shirt.  Obviously.

  74. 74.

    Starfish

    July 6, 2021 at 10:27 pm

    @Elizabelle: Someone should please introduce Andy Ngo to an undercover FBI agent so we don’t have his nonsense anymore.

  75. 75.

    Andrya

    July 6, 2021 at 10:27 pm

    Brings back fond memories of the anti-Vietnam war movement of the late 1960s- early 1970s.   Guys in crew cuts would show up saying “we should plant bombs!   It would be groovy!”.  Everyone assumed that they were FBI.

  76. 76.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 6, 2021 at 10:27 pm

    @Suzanne:

    That’s kind of hilarious and I admire their moxie.

    I doubt their parents find it to be a laugh riot.

  77. 77.

    James E Powell

    July 6, 2021 at 10:30 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    People all over the internet, including here I think, were documenting the racism at the core of the “tea party” movement – with supporting photographs and pointing out that it was being financed by right-wing money.

    They said we were shrill, out of touch, etc.

  78. 78.

    Kathleen

    July 6, 2021 at 10:32 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Thanks so much for sharing this. Very powerful.

  79. 79.

    Anne Laurie

    July 6, 2021 at 10:33 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Nothing like being woken up from a sound sleep by one lab mix sitting on your head

    Our late lamented rescue Zevon used to do this during thunderstorms; I referred to it as waking up ‘suddenly wearing a hat made of elbows’.

    But Zeev weighed under 20lbs — wouldn’t want to endure that with a bigger doggo!

    Zevon came to live with us when he was five (the people who turned him over to the breed rescue group included his medical records, so we had an actual DOB for him).  He was unbothered by thunder for at least five years *after* that… and then he decided to be deeply phobic about it, beyond the help of CBD / thundershirts / et al… but after a few years of Panic At the Barometric Pressure, he decided it was no longer an issue.

    We could never figure out what triggered his terror, or why it suddenly stopped.

    (Emergency substitute rescue Sydney briefly tried being thunder-phobic when Zevon gave it up, but it was definitely an attention-seeking attempt; he gave it up when he didn’t get a reaction from us.)

  80. 80.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 6, 2021 at 10:34 pm

    I just switched to the local cable weather. And the storm appears to have fallen apart. The meteorologist just said the same and he wants to see what the 11 PM update looks like.

  81. 81.

    Kathleen

    July 6, 2021 at 10:37 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: My grandson in Tampa texted there was light rain and no wind. I’m so glad. I worried about them.

  82. 82.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 6, 2021 at 10:37 pm

    Sweet Jesus fucking up a clean breakaway! What the fuck was that Argentina!​

  83. 83.

    Ruckus

    July 6, 2021 at 10:38 pm

    @raven:

    The guy right behind you, just a bit to your right?

  84. 84.

    Starfish

    July 6, 2021 at 10:39 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: What kind of shampoo do you use that attracts all the dogs to your head?

  85. 85.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 6, 2021 at 10:41 pm

    @Brachiator:

    I don’t know squat about New York City politics, but does Adams have anything to recommend him besides being a former NYPD captain? Have New Yorkers lost their minds?

    You don’t know squat about him, but you assume that people who voted for him have lost their minds?

  86. 86.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 6, 2021 at 10:42 pm

    @Anne Laurie: My dogs never had a problem when they were younger. My vet has explained that their sensitivity increases as they get older. Regardless, I found a good source for CBD oil for them – they get a few ml with their dinners each day – and for CBD treats to supplement them when the storms rolled in. TaMara recommended them. They’re a Colorado company called Lichin Living. Here’s the link:

    https://lichenlivin.com

  87. 87.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 6, 2021 at 10:45 pm

    @Kathleen: So the meteorologist was back on with updated radar and it definitely doesn’t even look like a tropical storm anymore. He’s pretty sure that either wind shear or a column of cooler, dryer air or a combination basically just took it apart as it moved past Sarasota. All the reds and oranges on the radar are gone. Right now it doesn’t even look like a bad summer monsoon/thunder storm on the radar.

  88. 88.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 6, 2021 at 10:46 pm

    Colombia is hanging on by their shoelaces, Argentina with the heavy pressure with 10 minutes left.

  89. 89.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 6, 2021 at 10:46 pm

    @Starfish: Head and Canines.

  90. 90.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 6, 2021 at 10:50 pm

    @Kathleen: The 11 PM advisory is still listing ti as a hurricane, but the meteorologist is saying flat out “right now it is nowhere remotely looking like a hurricane or winds that are even close to hurricane strength”.

  91. 91.

    Wag

    July 6, 2021 at 10:50 pm

    @raven:   Guy with the canteen and the guy against the fence

  92. 92.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    July 6, 2021 at 10:58 pm

    @raven:  “Things are pretty good as I recover from spine surgery.”

    May they continue to be pretty good as you get better while you heal and return to being OK.

    I just had to do that… ;)

  93. 93.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 6, 2021 at 10:58 pm

    @Geminid:

    and Adams’ strength in working class Black and Latino areas of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

    A demographic that a certain kind of very on-line white liberal often swears they’re going to pay attention to in politics, but one which often disappoints said VOLWLs by picking the wrong candidates.

  94. 94.

    Arclite

    July 6, 2021 at 10:59 pm

    The FBI: “Goddammit Ken White, stop giving us away!”

  95. 95.

    NotMax

    July 6, 2021 at 11:07 pm

    @Adam L. Silverman

    So close.

    Shed & Shoulders.

  96. 96.

    Captain C

    July 6, 2021 at 11:07 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: Now on penalties.

  97. 97.

    Martin

    July 6, 2021 at 11:10 pm

    @Starfish: Bacon grease is a hell of a good conditioner.

  98. 98.

    Another Scott

    July 6, 2021 at 11:24 pm

    So I’m catching up on JD. He apparently has ties to Peter Thiel who is (still, AFAIK) on FB’s board. OpenSecrets.org says that in 2020 Theil gave at least $2M to “Free Forever PAC”. OS tells me that FFPAC is a single-candidate “Carey Committee” that only supported Kris Kobach and that raised and spent $2.13M.

    Carey Committee: A Carey committee is a hybrid political action committee that is not affiliated with a candidate and has the ability to operate both as a traditional PAC, contributing funds to a candidate’s committee, and as a super PAC, which makes independent expenditures. To do so, Carey committees must have a separate bank account for each purpose. The committee can collect unlimited contributions from almost any source for its independent expenditure account, but may not use those funds for its traditional PAC contributions. See also: Super PAC, Independent Expenditures, Political Action Committee

    Yeah, not-affiliated, separate, independent. My wife, Morgan Fairchild, says that I’ve got the same body I had at 25, also too.

    This is yet another illustration that campaign contribution rules are meaningless for most of us.

    Grr…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  99. 99.

    Geminid

    July 6, 2021 at 11:25 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: You’d probably like the Gothamist article I reference above.

  100. 100.

    Another Scott

    July 6, 2021 at 11:27 pm

    @Another Scott: This is supposed to be upstairs.

    (sigh)

    Stay safe BC and AS and everyone else – I saw some report of 15 foot waves out at sea from what’s left of the storm…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  101. 101.

    Brachiator

    July 7, 2021 at 1:52 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: 

    You don’t know squat about him, but you assume that people who voted for him have lost their minds?

    My musings got some thoughtful responses, so I am okay with how I posed it. Often, it seems as though police officials and big city mayors have very divergent visions of their cities. And there was a lot of Yang bashing on the grounds that he was a neophyte looking to become mayor of a city with an economy larger than that of many states, and probably larger than some countries. So I don’t think it odd to wonder, in emphatic terms, whether New Yorkers thought the probable winner was up to the task.

  102. 102.

    Brachiator

    July 7, 2021 at 1:58 am

     

    @Amir Khalid:

    I didn’t know this: kids in Britain are using cola, fruit juice, and other soft drinkss to spoof Covid-19 tests into giving false positive results so that they can cut school.

    There may be hope yet for the future of Great Britain.

    The kids are alright.

  103. 103.

    montanareddog

    July 7, 2021 at 3:28 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

     

    I would just like to suggest that everyone’s rules to live by should include “Adam’s right.”

    Thread is probably dead but, since Adam is also my kid brother’s given name, I strongly beg to differ.

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