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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Excellent Links / Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Some Things Don’t Change, Some Do

Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Some Things Don’t Change, Some Do

by Anne Laurie|  July 7, 20217:19 am| 136 Comments

This post is in: Excellent Links, Open Threads, Something Good Open Thread

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Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary on July 7, extending their record as the longest married presidential couple in American history. The 96-year old calls his marriage to 93-year-old Rosalynn Carter a full partnership https://t.co/RwhPLqQ6Bo

— The Associated Press (@AP) July 4, 2021

Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter will celebrate their 75th anniversary Wednesday. Fun fact: Jimmy was 3 years old when Rosie, as he calls her, was born next door. His mother, Ruth, a nurse, took care of the newborn. So Jimmy saw his future wife through the slats on her crib. pic.twitter.com/jQegmJUhrY

— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) July 5, 2021

On the other hand…

Fox News is launching a weather channel.

Lightning will now be called Jesus Jolts and 30% of the country will be out in the rain wearing colanders on their heads.

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) July 6, 2021

Opinion: What the programming list for Fox’s new weather channel will look like https://t.co/GeCv82XCWO

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 7, 2021

Wow! Little did I know that Rupert Murdoch hung on my every word and that Fox was in the process of starting a weather channel where people will get the best, most correct weather news out there — fair and balanced in a way no weather news has been yet!

I got an advance glimpse of the programming list, and it’s going to be a thrilling, action-packed 24-hour cycle…

4—6 a.m.: Cloud Caravan Shaped Like All Your Worst Nightmares Is Almost to Your Neighborhood…

8—9:30 a.m.: Tucker Carlson Asks Whether Anyone (Dr. Fauci?) Can Explain Why Clouds Look So Much Like Sheep If We Aren’t Being Programmed to Obey…

1—2 p.m.: It’s Not Raining Anywhere We Have Sent Correspondents! America Is Doing Much Better Than Other Stations Would Have You Believe!…

5—5:30 p.m.: Rainbows: Fine in The Privacy of Their Own Homes But I Don’t Need One Over My Workplace…

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  1. 1.

    debbie

    July 7, 2021 at 7:22 am

    Bowling angels would like to have a word with the Whisperer.

  2. 2.

    Spanky

    July 7, 2021 at 7:23 am

    30% of the country will be out in the rain wearing colanders on their heads.

    So the numbers are decreasing, then?

  3. 3.

    Nicole

    July 7, 2021 at 7:25 am

    Huh. So FOX News pissing on viewers’ legs and telling them it’s raining will no longer be metaphorical.

  4. 4.

    Baud

    July 7, 2021 at 7:28 am

    Not surprised. Regular weather people have started to mention climate change as the cause of extreme weather events.  Fox viewers need a safe space from all that CWT (Critical Weather Theory).

  5. 5.

    Baud

    July 7, 2021 at 7:47 am

    Was everyone else raptured?

  6. 6.

    NotMax

    July 7, 2021 at 7:48 am

    Morning eye candy.

    How about a pretty picture that conveys … well, damned if I know.

  7. 7.

    germy

    July 7, 2021 at 7:48 am

    just found out they're launching Fox Weather and I'm really looking forward to reporters standing in the pouring rain talking about how sunny it is

    — shauna (@goldengateblond) December 10, 2020

  8. 8.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    July 7, 2021 at 7:49 am

    @Baud: So basically it will be the Fossil Fuel apologetics channel?

  9. 9.

    Baud

    July 7, 2021 at 7:52 am

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: 

    I don’t know if they will simply ignore climate change or if they’ll aggressively argue that it doesn’t cause extreme weather. Depends on their business model for the channel.

  10. 10.

    germy

    July 7, 2021 at 7:53 am

    Joel Greenberg, the Matt Gaetz ally who pleaded guilty to child sex-trafficking and wire fraud, has asked for a delay in his sentencing because he said he's still cooperating with prosecutors. https://t.co/Wft63qzQxu

    — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 7, 2021

  11. 11.

    rikyrah

    July 7, 2021 at 7:58 am

    Good Morning Everyone ???

  12. 12.

    Baud

    July 7, 2021 at 7:59 am

    @rikyrah:

    Good morning.

  13. 13.

    rikyrah

    July 7, 2021 at 7:59 am

     

    The Associated Press (@AP) tweeted at 5:19 AM on Wed, Jul 07, 2021:
    BREAKING: Official: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse assassinated at home, first lady hospitalized amid political instability.
    (https://twitter.com/AP/status/1412717875664756741?s=03)

  14. 14.

    Amir Khalid

    July 7, 2021 at 8:01 am

    Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter have spent a lifetime together quietly going about the business of being good people. That’s how the actual good people do it.

  15. 15.

    germy

    July 7, 2021 at 8:01 am

    An old cartoon, but still relevant:

    https://thenib.com/what-will-climate-change-deniers-say/

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    July 7, 2021 at 8:02 am

    @Baud

    Word seems to be that Rupert is the climate change pooh-pooher; his son (who will be more hands on) is on the other side of the fence from the old man on this subject.

    Still, can’t you see the Chyrons?

    “Hurricane Carlotta (D-FL) kills 73.”

  17. 17.

    Baud

    July 7, 2021 at 8:03 am

    @germy:

    That is spot on.

  18. 18.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 7, 2021 at 8:07 am

    @germy: I think it was Marcy Wheeler who noted that in most cases it is prosecutors who file such motions. Why not this time?

  19. 19.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 7, 2021 at 8:09 am

    @rikyrah: Haitians are the Jobs of the world. Some day the Book of Haiti will be added to the bible.

  20. 20.

    dr. bloor

    July 7, 2021 at 8:11 am

    @Baud: ​
     

    I’d expect a return to OG Blame It On Teh Gays.

  21. 21.

    Baud

    July 7, 2021 at 8:12 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Until your edit, I was wondering what Haiti had to so with Steve Jobs.

  22. 22.

    Amir Khalid

    July 7, 2021 at 8:12 am

    @germy:
    I foresee the judge pointing out to Mr Greenberg that being in jail will not make it even slightly more difficult for him to cooperate with prosecutors. In fact, it will make that task much easier for everyone, especially him.

  23. 23.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 7, 2021 at 8:13 am

    @NotMax: IIRC, it is the good son running National Geographic.

  24. 24.

    Baud

    July 7, 2021 at 8:13 am

    @dr. bloor:

    Anti-gay activism seems to be en vogue in other countries, more so than the US right now.

  25. 25.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 7, 2021 at 8:14 am

    @Baud: Right after I hit post I realized how obscurely that was written and decided to clarify a bit.

  26. 26.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 7, 2021 at 8:17 am

    @NotMax: I like.

  27. 27.

    JML

    July 7, 2021 at 8:19 am

    No one has ever accomplished so much post-presidency than the Carters. I doubt anyone else will come close. They truly are national treasures.

  28. 28.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    July 7, 2021 at 8:21 am

    @Baud: I wonder who they will deflect blame too since that is standard protocol for the Right when they are on the wrong side of an issue? Big Solar for reflecting to much sun light?

  29. 29.

    Geminid

    July 7, 2021 at 8:21 am

    @Baud: Gay people and their allies are too powerful in this country to be attacked head on. That’s why the bigots focus so much energy attacking the rights of trans people, who are used as proxies and scapegoats.

  30. 30.

    Baud

    July 7, 2021 at 8:25 am

    @Geminid:

    You have to always stay vigilant though. Labor was once a lot more powerful than it is today.

  31. 31.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    July 7, 2021 at 8:27 am

    I guess that NYT video about the 6th must have struck a nerve by the way that Hard Right is going on about wanting to charge the cops defending the Senate with murder. I saw the video from the rioters/ assclown side and that was just wow,… they had a group of mall ninjas playing fake cops with assault rifles. And playing is the word because you could see from real cops the difference in focus from the mall ninjas (unlike the mall nijas, you could not see the cops, just their guns and their guns were focused on that door and never wavered, unlike the mall nijas who were pointing their guns at who ever they were talking too). The whole thing reminded me of a bunch of teenagers holding a late night party and laughing at how upset the neighbors are until the cops show up, shut the power off and arrest someone.

  32. 32.

    NotMax

    July 7, 2021 at 8:31 am

    Oldie but goody.

    :)

  33. 33.

    germy

    July 7, 2021 at 8:32 am

    Has anyone here posted this yet? It’s a good thread with some background info on the guy who tried to block Hannah-Jones:

    Meeting with #NikoleHannahJones for an interview this week made me reflect on my June interview with Walter Hussman, the conservative Arkansas media magnate and #UNC megadonor who lobbied against hiring her.

    It’s worth talking a bit about these two people and interviews.

    — JoekillianPW (@JoekillianPW) July 6, 2021

  34. 34.

    Geminid

    July 7, 2021 at 8:33 am

    @Baud: Homophobia has become like antisemitism. Still out there, still powerful, but not public.

    Speaking of labor, the Teamsters seem serious about organizing Amazon’s workers. This task may take years, but the Teamsters could have what it takes.

  35. 35.

    A Ghost to Most

    July 7, 2021 at 8:36 am

    Weather for people who believe in magic could be interesting.

  36. 36.

    Kathleen

    July 7, 2021 at 8:37 am

    Who on Fox will be the first to guarantee viewers will never have to see dark clouds ever again if they subscribe to  premium VPN Cloud service AryanSkies.

  37. 37.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 7, 2021 at 8:37 am

    North America endured the hottest June on record last month, according to satellite data that shows temperature peaks lasting longer as well as rising higher.

    The heat dome above western Canada and the north-west United States generated headlines around the world as daily temperature records were shattered across British Columbia, Washington and Portland.

    The new data reveals this was part of a broader trend that built up over several weeks and a far wider area, which is underpinned by human-driven climate disruption.

    The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service also revealed that June temperatures in North America were 1.2C higher than the average from 1991 to 2020, which is more than 2C above pre-industrial levels.

    This is the 12th consecutive year of above-average June temperatures in the region, and the greatest increase recorded until now.

  38. 38.

    NotMax

    July 7, 2021 at 8:40 am

    @OzarkHillbilly

    “Weather comes in, weather goes out. No one can explain it.”

    //

  39. 39.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 7, 2021 at 8:44 am

    @germy: Anne Laurie front-paged it last night.

  40. 40.

    Kay

    July 7, 2021 at 8:44 am

    Andrew Lawrence
    @ndrew_lawrence
    · 12h
    Tucker Carlson wants cameras in every classroom to make sure teachers arent teaching whatever it is he’s defining as “critical race theory”

    I just can’t figure out where the cancel culture warriors went. Shouldn’t there be 5000 substacks decrying this censorship and the chilling effect on speech? There are a LOT more public schools than there are Ivy League universities. This “cancelling” will actually effect people.

  41. 41.

    germy

    July 7, 2021 at 8:45 am

    @JML:

    Give Obama time.  He’s working on it.

  42. 42.

    germy

    July 7, 2021 at 8:45 am

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Alrighty then.

  43. 43.

    gene108

    July 7, 2021 at 8:47 am

    @Baud:

    Not surprised. Regular weather people have started to mention climate change as the cause of extreme weather events. Fox viewers need a safe space from all that CWT (Critical Weather Theory).

    Yup.

    The Weather Channel, which I guess is their main competition in the 24/7 cable weather channel game, has been good highlighting climate change for years.

    And every adult has noticed how fucking weird and unpredictable the weather’s been the last several years compared to when they were young.

    Reality makes denying climate change harder, but Fox Weather will sure as hell work its ass off to perpetuate the denial of reality, like their “news” channel has done for 25 years.

  44. 44.

    satby

    July 7, 2021 at 8:49 am

    @rikyrah: It’s actually been unstable for most of it’s history, and this particular president has been inspiring street demonstrations and more political instability since he refused to call for legislative elections some (3-4?) years ago. He’s been a dictator since. His party is pretty corrupt, so his replacement won’t be any better.

  45. 45.

    NotMax

    July 7, 2021 at 8:51 am

    “Hey Timmy Ray, come check this out. Looks like we’re in fer a big blow. They brought out the weather chick with the 48 double Ds.”

    //

  46. 46.

    gene108

    July 7, 2021 at 8:56 am

    @germy:

    I like this cartoon that I feel summarizes our current state of affairs

    https://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/c/camp_fire_stories.asp

  47. 47.

    Betty Cracker

    July 7, 2021 at 8:57 am

    The WaPo article on the Carters alluded to in the OP tweet above is worth a read in full. The Carters weren’t always equal partners, but their marriage evolved over the years until they were. Jimmy Carter may not have been the best president ever, but he’s possibly the best human being who ever sat in the Oval Office. The ability to evolve and grow as a person is a big part of why that’s so, IMO.

  48. 48.

    zhena gogolia

    July 7, 2021 at 8:59 am

    JL Cauvin is on it:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQunQs0YiN4

  49. 49.

    Frank Wilhoit

    July 7, 2021 at 8:59 am

    Metal colanders only!  None of this plastic rubbish….

  50. 50.

    Another Scott

    July 7, 2021 at 9:01 am

    @NotMax: Music is math?

    (Of course, everything is math.  ;-)

    Cheers,

    Scott.

  51. 51.

    Nicole

    July 7, 2021 at 9:06 am

    @germy: That was a very good thread; thank you for posting the link.

  52. 52.

    germy

    July 7, 2021 at 9:08 am

    @Nicole:

    It put everything into better perspective for me.

  53. 53.

    Ken

    July 7, 2021 at 9:08 am

    @germy: just found out they’re launching Fox Weather and I’m really looking forward to reporters standing in the pouring rain talking about how sunny it is

    It sounds like parody at first, but then you remember Limbaugh got there first, telling his listeners that a hurricane was a hoax. IIRC he took precautions himself (of course), maybe even leaving Florida?

  54. 54.

    Another Scott

    July 7, 2021 at 9:08 am

    @Baud: Not surprised either.  My dad was a channel flipper, but had The Weather Channel on about 80% of the time.  It has to be the most-watched thing on TV in lots of demographics, especially when storms / unusual weather events are happening.

    They might play it relatively straight, but count on lots of scammy ads to fleece the old rubes…

    :-(

    (TWC was in the news a while ago for having a AGW denier host or something that they had to disavow.)

    Cheers,

    Scott.

  55. 55.

    dmsilev

    July 7, 2021 at 9:12 am

    I take it as given that all the hurricane maps on Fox Weather will be drawn in Sharpie.

  56. 56.

    Soprano2

    July 7, 2021 at 9:14 am

    So, this happened in my neck of the woods this week.  If I found a copperhead in my laundry, I’d move fast! Geez…..

    Doing laundry can be a mundane household chore, but one Greene County teen discovered a slithery surprise when she went to put her wet clothes into the dryer.

    A copperhead was in the freshly washed load the evening of July 9, said Jessica Bruner, the 15-year-old’s mother.

    “When she pulled a pair of shorts out, the copperhead came out of it,” Bruner told the News-Leader Monday. “It was sitting on top of the clothes, trying to strike.”

    The working theory Bruner has is that the snake somehow crawled into the basket while it was placed on the ground.

    After taking a quick photograph, Brunner attempted to get the reptile with a grabber tool.

  57. 57.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 7, 2021 at 9:15 am

    @Betty Cracker: Jimmy Carter may not have been the best president ever, but he’s possibly the best human being who ever sat in the Oval Office.

    I have often pondered the connection between the 2.

  58. 58.

    Suzanne

    July 7, 2021 at 9:15 am

    I predict lots of meteorology via Sharpie.

  59. 59.

    Ken

    July 7, 2021 at 9:17 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: It’s definitely not anti-correlated, since the worst president ever was also the worst person to occupy the office.

  60. 60.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 7, 2021 at 9:18 am

    @Another Scott: I saw it vice versa: the musicality of mathematics.

  61. 61.

    dmsilev

    July 7, 2021 at 9:18 am

    @Soprano2:

    After taking a quick photograph, Brunner attempted to get the reptile with a grabber tool.

    Remove snake first. Photograph second. I feel that’s the correct order of operations.

  62. 62.

    WaterGirl

    July 7, 2021 at 9:20 am

    @germy: Is there an emoji for rubbing my hands together in delight like an evil villain?

  63. 63.

    Ken

    July 7, 2021 at 9:21 am

    @Suzanne: “The mainstream media will tell you the hurricane is going to hit the South Carolina coast next week, but our forecast shows it turning harmlessly out to sea.  And now this word from our sponsor, the Charleston Convention Center.”

  64. 64.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    July 7, 2021 at 9:25 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Collage Philophy’s professor on comment that Carter’s failing was he mistook his personal morality for the morality of the President.

  65. 65.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 7, 2021 at 9:28 am

    @Soprano2: Monday nights the hounds and I pick my wife up from work to come home. It’s been almost dark when we get here of late. This past Monday we were walking down the walk and I barely espied a slithery form warming itself on one of the concrete steps into the porch just as Billy Jean leaped over the steps. I was even able to see it was a copperhead.

    Very thankful that I was in front as my wife has shit night vision.

    Unfortunately I was unable to corral it because the dogs, who never even noticed it, were happily home jumping up and down the steps. So it is still out there somewhere, probably the woodshed. Lots of mice in there.

  66. 66.

    germy

    July 7, 2021 at 9:29 am

    @WaterGirl:

    He must have a lot to say if he’s still cooperating.

    Gaetz must be deeply concerned.

  67. 67.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 7, 2021 at 9:32 am

    @Ken: Just thinking along the lines of “nice guys finish last”. Being president and getting things done probably requires an ability to be ruthless from time to time.

  68. 68.

    zhena gogolia

    July 7, 2021 at 9:33 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    He’s not really such a nice guy, I think.

  69. 69.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 7, 2021 at 9:37 am

    @zhena gogolia: Mean sumbitches don’t spend time building free homes for poor folks.

  70. 70.

    zhena gogolia

    July 7, 2021 at 9:40 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I don’t think he’s a mean sumbitch, but I didn’t like the way he was with Obama.

  71. 71.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 7, 2021 at 9:49 am

    @zhena gogolia: I didn’t notice, but politics makes for strange bedfellows. And whatever the opposite is.

  72. 72.

    germy

    July 7, 2021 at 9:49 am

    Thread for comedy fans:

    I spent all yesterday writing & deleting tweets, explaining why US comedy is coming up short as Fascism looms, and…I'm giving up. The topic's too big. I'm just going to blast out a bunch of half-baked BS. Enjoy.

    I'm 51, run @BystanderTweets, comedy writer since '90.1/x

    — Michael Gerber (@mgerber937) June 8, 2021

  73. 73.

    schrodingers_cat

    July 7, 2021 at 9:53 am

    Dilip Kumar, the all time great of Hindi movies passed away. He was 98, born Yusuf Khan in Peshawar he along with Dev Anand and Raj Kapoor dominated Indian cinema in India’s fledgling years as an independent nation. All the 3 were born in what was to become Pakistan in 1947.

    Dilip Kumar (his on-screen nom de plume) was the inspiration to other leading men like Amitabh and more recently Shahrukh Khan who followed his footsteps later.

  74. 74.

    Betty Cracker

    July 7, 2021 at 9:54 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Maybe that was the problem. It certainly wasn’t lack of smarts or confusion about what the important issues were. I barely remember the Carter presidency, but have since learned he was amazingly prescient about the need to kick the fossil fuel habit.

  75. 75.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 7, 2021 at 9:59 am

    @zhena gogolia: I’ve seen it said that he has a streak of Old Testament righteousness, and doesn’t quite approve of any of his successors

    it’s not a race I’ve delved into, but wasn’t he considered part of the more conservative wing of the party in ’76?

  76. 76.

    germy

    July 7, 2021 at 9:59 am

    ‘Someone’s Gotta Occupy Afghanistan,’ Grumbles Dick Cheney, Shoving Firearms Into Suitcase

    https://www.theonion.com/someone-s-gotta-occupy-afghanistan-grumbles-dick-che-1847220332

  77. 77.

    Spanky

    July 7, 2021 at 10:02 am

    @Betty Cracker: Well  the gas crisis of ’79 was enough of a wakeup call, especially following the ’73 shortages. Of course Reagan’s Morning in America put everyone back to sleep.

  78. 78.

    NotMax

    July 7, 2021 at 10:08 am

    @zhena gogolia

    Pleasant, as opposed to nice, would better pigeonhole him, methinks. In an old school, strictly delineated boulevard of pleasantry that brooks no wandering off the pavement kind of way.

  79. 79.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 7, 2021 at 10:10 am

    @NotMax:  “Well, bless your heart, I don’t judge people.

     

    But The Lord will”

  80. 80.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 7, 2021 at 10:10 am

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: “Hurricane season is ramping up.  Why do the Gays cause them?”

    On a serious note, you know we’re going to see a ton of anti-science bullshit come from this little venture.

  81. 81.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 7, 2021 at 10:19 am

    @Kay:

    Tucker Carlson wants cameras in every classroom 

    Totally not creepy!  Fucker definitely isn’t a creeper.  And definitely not fascist.  And I’m completely not being sarcastic.

  82. 82.

    NotMax

    July 7, 2021 at 10:19 am

    @mrmoshpotato

    The gays? Dang, I thought it was all those turbines attracting winds like giant weather magnets.

  83. 83.

    Frankensteinbeck

    July 7, 2021 at 10:21 am

    I think the FOX weather channel will play it pretty straight.  They just know their elderly demographic likes weather channel type pablum and think they can take that market.  Certainly they’ll avoid liberal topics like climate change, but other than that the same style as whatever is on the regular weather channel.

    @Geminid:

    That’s why the bigots focus so much energy attacking the rights of trans people

    I think it’s more than that.  Trans women are everything toxic masculinity stands against.  They are also a minority that used to be the butt of every joke (and VERY recently, too).  Conservatives got off on jokes about ‘men in dresses’ and punishing other men for being too feminine.  They had pervasive, deranged, hostile sexual fantasies about women with penises.  I think that being trans becoming socially acceptable and it becoming socially unacceptable to attack trans women may be as horrifying and infuriating to conservatives as a black man becoming president.  Losing this target to vent their cruelty on hits home and they have to stop it.

    Yes, that’s all disgusting.

    @Kay:

    I just can’t figure out where the cancel culture warriors went.

    Yes you can.  ‘Cancel culture’ always meant ‘punishing bigotry’, and conservatives correctly see it as their biggest enemy.

  84. 84.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 7, 2021 at 10:26 am

    @WaterGirl:

    Is there an emoji for rubbing my hands together in delight like an evil villain? 

    You can post gifs.  May I suggest Mr. Burns’s Excellent?

  85. 85.

    rikyrah

    July 7, 2021 at 10:40 am

     

    Kirk A. Bado (@kirk_bado) tweeted at 8:37 AM on Wed, Jul 07, 2021:
    New ad from DMFI PAC in #OH11 attacks Nina Turner for past comments about Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden

     

    https://t.co/Qrm0SKvFZe
    (https://twitter.com/kirk_bado/status/1412767683561635842?s=02)

  86. 86.

    Kent

    July 7, 2021 at 10:43 am

    @Baud:

    Anti-gay activism seems to be en vogue in other countries, more so than the US right now

    There is plenty of it here as well.  Maybe not in your circles.  But in fundie circles it is pretty much a random grab bag of anti-vax, anti-mask, pro-Trump, pro-insurrection, anti-CRT, and anti-LGBT sentiment out there.  Look how many states recently passed anti-Trans laws along with their voter suppression stuff?  Anti-trans and voter suppression were the two biggest GOP issues in state legislatures this past spring.

  87. 87.

    rikyrah

    July 7, 2021 at 10:43 am

    Thread

     

    Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) tweeted at 6:13 AM on Tue, Jul 06, 2021:
    1/ There’s a tremendous amount of smugness right now on the part of Mitch McConnell and his team, including his all-powerful chief strategist and Consigliere Josh Holmes.
    (https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1412369014974824457?s=02)

  88. 88.

    lollipopguild

    July 7, 2021 at 10:43 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: We have had a few people-FDR, Truman, Clinton and Obama who have proven that you can be a good and succesfull  President and not be a lying racist asshole.

  89. 89.

    germy

    July 7, 2021 at 10:46 am

    2. In April, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a law banning trans youth from participating in school sports.

    In early June, @ATT signed a letter opposing that kind of discriminatory legislation.

    A few days later, AT&T's corporate PAC donated $5,000 to Iveyhttps://t.co/S0uppunPqJ

    — Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 7, 2021

  90. 90.

    JPL

    July 7, 2021 at 10:48 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: I was attaching a political flyer onto a mailbox, and there was one sitting on top of the box sunning.   I didn’t like it.

  91. 91.

    ian

    July 7, 2021 at 10:49 am

    @Kay:

    Tucker Carlson wants cameras in every classroom

    Wasn’t he freaking out like (checks notes) 2 minutes ago about being spied on by the government?

    New day, new fascist take with that one.

  92. 92.

    schrodingers_cat

    July 7, 2021 at 10:51 am

    Dilip Kumar in Naya Daur (New Era) from 1957

    Dilip Kumar in Madhumati (1958)

  93. 93.

    NotMax

    July 7, 2021 at 10:52 am

    @ian

    Maybe he sees it as an opportunity to look up millions of schoolgirls’ skirts.

  94. 94.

    germy

    July 7, 2021 at 10:53 am

    Press secretary Jen Psaki said this morning that the W.H. wouldn't "take any of our health and medical advice from Marjorie Taylor Greene," a response to the lawmaker's remark a day earlier comparing the Biden administration's vax campaign to Nazis https://t.co/kGt4fKHqjI pic.twitter.com/bwe8ZsucO6

    — POLITICO (@politico) July 7, 2021

  95. 95.

    NotMax

    July 7, 2021 at 10:55 am

    @NotMax

    Amended.

    Maybe he sees it as a pay-per-view company’s opportunity to look up millions of schoolgirls’ skirts.

  96. 96.

    JPL

    July 7, 2021 at 10:59 am

    The real snake is having a news conference in a few minutes to announce his intent to sue facebook and twitter.   In other words, same old, same old bullshit.

     

     

    @germy: ???

  97. 97.

    Almost Retired

    July 7, 2021 at 11:02 am

    Am I a bad person for noting that young Rosalynn Carter was smoking hot?  Like WWII era pin-up girl painted on the bomber nose hot?  Like noir film star teasing and rejecting Fred MacMurray hot?  Just sayin’

    Also she is a very good person.

  98. 98.

    Baud

    July 7, 2021 at 11:04 am

    @germy: 

    a response to the lawmaker’s remark a day earlier comparing the Biden administration’s vax campaign to Nazis a question from the press corps that should never have been asked but because the press feeds off GOP extremism, it was

    Fixed.

  99. 99.

    zhena gogolia

    July 7, 2021 at 11:06 am

    @Almost Retired:

    She was always beautiful.

  100. 100.

    Baud

    July 7, 2021 at 11:06 am

    @lollipopguild: FDR was pretty racist, probably the worst of the people you named.  He was no Woodrow Wilson, however.

  101. 101.

    Soprano2

    July 7, 2021 at 11:08 am

    @dmsilev: She probably thought no one would believe her if she didn’t take a picture of it.

  102. 102.

    Ken

    July 7, 2021 at 11:14 am

    @Kay: Tucker wants cameras in every classroom?  Of course that is totally illegal.  Do you know how many permissions and waivers you need to get from every single parent just to put a camera in ONE classroom for the purpose of something like national board certification?

    He is just jacking off, of course.  But privacy laws would completely stop any of that sort of nonsense in its tracks.  Kids have a right not to be filmed, and parents have a right not to have their kids filmed by the government.

  103. 103.

    Mike in NC

    July 7, 2021 at 11:16 am

    An article in the local rag reported that our county commissioner — who I had never heard of or voted for — will seek the Republican nomination for US Senate. Among his priorities are the southern border and the Second Amendment. These fuckwads never do change, do they?

  104. 104.

    rikyrah

    July 7, 2021 at 11:21 am

    ?????

     

    https://twitter.com/MackBeckyComedy/status/1412626460712464387?s=19

  105. 105.

    rikyrah

    July 7, 2021 at 11:22 am

    @Almost Retired:

    Young James Carter in his Navy uniform didn’t look bad either?

  106. 106.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 7, 2021 at 11:24 am

    a well-done thread from Liliana Mason– political scientist who was on the Hayes program last night–about what the trumpist GOP is, and the need to break down the non-partisan habits of both sides journalism

    First, the people who really like Trump in 2018 are the same ones who really disliked Blacks, Muslims, LGBT+, and Hispanics in 2011. It’s NOT THE SAME for the GOP in general, or even for Ryan or McConnell. Trump is drawing on this particular group of people to a unique degree.

    We haven’t really talked about them – except in extreme and isolated ways like talking about the KKK. But Trump served as a lightning rod for lots of regular people who hold white Christian supremacist beliefs. We neglect to name and identify them at the peril of democracy.

    Their current control over the GOP makes it seem like a partisan issue. But this faction has been around longer than our current partisan divide. And calling it partisan is a misdirection (even if it is facially true).

    I also think we need to find a different way to talk about their “Christianity”. MAGAts aren’t militant for feeding the poor, caring for the sick and loving their neighbors.

  107. 107.

    Ken

    July 7, 2021 at 11:24 am

    @Mike in NC: Well I can’t blame him. Much of your southern border is with the too-large-to-be-an-insane-asylum state.

  108. 108.

    dnfree

    July 7, 2021 at 11:27 am

    I thought it was the pastafarians who wear the colander headgear.

  109. 109.

    WaterGirl

    July 7, 2021 at 11:33 am

    @rikyrah: Terrifying.

  110. 110.

    Major Major Major Major

    July 7, 2021 at 11:33 am

    Speaking of things that do change, more of this, please!

    ?? Biden is about to order the FTC to ban non-compete clauses which trap workers in abusive, low-paying, or just bad jobs. Noncompetes have become increasingly common for restaurant workers, retail workers, journalists, and day care providers.https://t.co/AkyrU4gaOw

    — Sejal Singh (@Sej_Singh) July 7, 2021

  111. 111.

    WaterGirl

    July 7, 2021 at 11:34 am

    @germy: Actions speak louder than words.  Unfortunately, the words get play with no effort, and checking on the actions takes a huge amount of time and follow-up.

  112. 112.

    WaterGirl

    July 7, 2021 at 11:36 am

    @Major Major Major Major:  Wow, that is a really smart move.  Not to mention that it’s there right thing to do!

  113. 113.

    Almost Retired

    July 7, 2021 at 11:36 am

    @Major Major Major Major:  Thank God (or Biden, in this case).  Non-compete clauses are just plain evil.  Thankfully, they’re banned here in California, but my employment lawyer friends in other states have horror stories to tell.  Texas is especially bad in this regard — I think a former employer can legally lock you in the basement for a year to enforce a non-compete clause. Exaggeration, of course, but only slightly.

  114. 114.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 7, 2021 at 11:38 am

    Huh, did one of Tucker’s gossip buddies in the MSM decide to burn him? I’ve seen a handful of journalists from big brand media are following Soledad’s NFLTG path

    Justin Baragona @justinbaragona
    “Yesterday I learned — and this is going to come out soon — that the NSA leaked the contents of my e-mail to journalists in an effort to discredit me.”

    So Tucker now making it obvious the NSA claim is him trying to get ahead of a very negative story.

  115. 115.

    Ken

    July 7, 2021 at 11:39 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    First, the people who really like Trump in 2018 are the same ones who really disliked Blacks, Muslims, LGBT+, and Hispanics in 2011. It’s NOT THE SAME for the GOP in general, or even for Ryan or McConnell. Trump is drawing on this particular group of people to a unique degree

    Having lived for over a decade in TX, I suspect this is also why Trump’s percentage of the Hispanic vote also went up.  A lot of blue collar Hispanics (especially men) share more with the famous white working class than any other group.   Go to any construction site in TX and talk to the Hispanic guys swinging hammers and you’ll find the same hotbed of anti-Black, anti-Muslim, anti-LGBT sentiment you would find in some random batch of rural white men working in a factory in Ohio.  And Trump’s macho posing also appeals.  And blue collar Hispanic guys like them some big expensive trucks just as much if not more so than rural blue collar white guys.

  116. 116.

    frosty

    July 7, 2021 at 11:53 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: To simplify*, there is the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, and the Confederate Party, which was only out in the open in the 1860s, went underground again with the Democrats, and switched to join the Republicans after Nixon. At this point it appears most non-Confederate Republicans are leaving the party. Possibly, once they are in the open they may be easier to fight.

    * h/t D Greene

  117. 117.

    Just Chuck

    July 7, 2021 at 11:53 am

    @NotMax: I suspect they’ll just give the storms their own names.  Hurricane Pelosi, coming right up.  Come to think, I actually kinda dig that.

  118. 118.

    catclub

    July 7, 2021 at 11:54 am

    @Baud: Fox viewers need a safe space from all that CWT (Critical Weather Theory).

     

    CRT (Critical Rain Theory)

  119. 119.

    burnspbesq

    July 7, 2021 at 12:00 pm

    @JPL:

    The complaints are out there. They’re f***ing jokes.

  120. 120.

    Soprano2

    July 7, 2021 at 12:02 pm

    @ian: Wasn’t he freaking out like (checks notes) 2 minutes ago about being spied on by the government?

    New day, new fascist take with that one.

    But “this would be different”, since it would be him and people like him spying on those radical teachers who are teaching our white kids to hate themselves and other white people. Can’t you see how that’s totally different? /s/s/s/s/s

  121. 121.

    burnspbesq

    July 7, 2021 at 12:09 pm

    @Almost Retired:

    Not completely banned: if given in connection with the transfer of a substantial equity interest in a business, a seller’s non-compete is enforceable if it’s reasonable in scope and duration. And the rules are a little bit funky for law and accounting firm partners.

    The application of choice of law rules to non-competes is a mess.

  122. 122.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    July 7, 2021 at 12:12 pm

    @germy:

    That was an excellent read. Thanks!

  123. 123.

    Almost Retired

    July 7, 2021 at 12:16 pm

    @burnspbesq:  Yup, I’m an employment lawyer, so I deal with these narrow exceptions all the time.  And indeed, the race to the courthouse issue  (Medtronic case) is a recurring nosebleed in my practice.

  124. 124.

    trnc

    July 7, 2021 at 12:23 pm

    @Kay:

    Tucker Carlson wants cameras in every classroom to make sure teachers arent teaching whatever it is he’s defining as “critical race theory”

     

    I just can’t figure out where the cancel culture warriors went. Shouldn’t there be 5000 substacks decrying this censorship and the chilling effect on speech? There are a LOT more public schools than there are Ivy League universities. This “cancelling” will actually effect people.

    Cancel “culture” only cancels things wingnuts don’t want cancelled. Cancelling anything libs want is a wingnut’s patriotic duty. You say tomato, I say freedom.

    Also, is it any surprise republicans want more cameras on adolescent and pre-adolescent girls and boys?

  125. 125.

    Ruckus

    July 7, 2021 at 12:27 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    They may start out playing it straight, but it’s faux news, it’s impossible for them not to be who they are, money grubbers. And their strengths are lie, cheat and steal. They are not going to do the weather to tell about the weather, they are doing it to get another avenue of revenue – and to shout bullshit to the world. They likely wonder why they haven’t done it earlier.

  126. 126.

    Ruckus

    July 7, 2021 at 12:29 pm

    @NotMax:

    Ya think?

  127. 127.

    Ruckus

    July 7, 2021 at 12:34 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    They bathe in stupidity, they revel in it, they’d marry it if they could.

     

    Oh wait, they may have already.

  128. 128.

    Brantl

    July 7, 2021 at 12:38 pm

    @frosty:  before Nixon

  129. 129.

    Gvg

    July 7, 2021 at 12:50 pm

    @dmsilev: No. if the snake gets away and crawls under something, and you need to get help, you want proof of poisonous snake. Otherwise you may not get help to come, or it may not take proper precautions because they don’t believe your identification. People are always claiming poisonous snake when it’s not.

    That is actually one of the good uses of Nextdoor around here. Lots of actual snake experts calm a lot of amateurs down. Of course sometimes it actually is a dangerous snake and people with kids and dogs like to know. The discussions can actually be interesting too.

  130. 130.

    J R in WV

    July 7, 2021 at 12:52 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter have spent a lifetime together quietly going about the business of being good people. That’s how the actual good people do it.

    Wow, well said. Jimmy and Rosalyn ARE good people, also too~!!~

  131. 131.

    MisterForkbeard

    July 7, 2021 at 12:56 pm

    @germy: Okay, but did MTG mean it as a compliment? We all know how much she likes Nazis.

  132. 132.

    J R in WV

    July 7, 2021 at 1:18 pm

    @Soprano2:

    If I found a copperhead in my laundry, I’d move fast! Geez…..

    My grandma was terrified of snakes. Her basement had the washing machine, and a sloped driveway allowed her to park her car in there when necessary.

    One day she went downstairs to pick up a laundry basket full of clean dry clothes, the kind with an open weave style of plastic runs for sides, when she saw a snake woven into the sides of the basket.

    She grabbed a heavy weeding hoe and chopped the basket, snake, clothes and all into a messy pile of debris… I am thinking it was a relatively harmless but large black snake, didn’t matter — snake gotta die right now !!

  133. 133.

    Doug R

    July 7, 2021 at 1:20 pm

    A “confession” from Environment Canada:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkDvqQKGgDA

  134. 134.

    James E Powell

    July 7, 2021 at 2:17 pm

    @Kay:

    Tucker doesn’t know anything about schools. There already are cameras in every classroom only we call them phones.

    It was about five years ago when one of my students told me that I was “all over snapchat” – I never checked, but there wasn’t anything scandalous because I never got a “see the principal” note.

  135. 135.

    Mike Furlan

    July 7, 2021 at 4:04 pm

    Why try to celebrate the Carters.

    Everyone knows that a truly Godly man has at least 3 wives and countless concubines.

    Make American Old Testament Again.

  136. 136.

    columbusqueen

    July 7, 2021 at 10:26 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Not to mention extremely smart. Rosalynn once said of Reagan, “He makes people comfortable with their prejudices. ” Best description of that bastard EVER.

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