Dayum!
.@SpeakerPelosi on Republicans: "They seemed to have reached rock bottom with their statement that what happened on January 6th was normal political discourse…legitimate political discourse…Take back your party from this cult." pic.twitter.com/LNfPBi4fuU
— CSPAN (@cspan) February 9, 2022
As we know, for Republicans, rock bottom, like peak wingnut, doesn’t exist. But I’m glad she called the Trump movement what it is: a cult. Open thread.
RandomMonster
She calls it like it is!
Sure Lurkalot
It’s too bad if the truth hurts.
The Republican party is inviting truckers to “convoy” D.C. Tucker Carlson thinks it’s a good idea for truckers to boycott “cities” like a siege from the Trojan War. Tucker lives in D.C. Just like Tucker is vaxxed and goes to a workplace with mandates and howls on the TV about tyranny.
It’s a fucking cult, all right. Nancy does not lie.
danielx
Nancy SMASH!
trollhattan
Tell it, Madame Speaker. Direct. To the point. Needs saying. And in case the party is looking for a unifying message, begin right here.
[Also, how dare she run again, I mean, right?]
mrmoshpotato
Nancy SMASH!, and the rest of us, have had enough of the Dump-humping, fascist bullshit!
Throw yourselves into the Sun, or….well, just fucking throw yourselves into the Sun!
rikyrah
Good Afternoon Everyone ???
Baud
@rikyrah: Good afternoon.
rikyrah
Nancy Smash ?
Mike R
The key part of her statement that republicans seem to have hit bottom is a little bit off, there is no bottom for the evil that the republican party has become. They are a black of hole evil and greed.
Leto
OT? Christian revival at school prompts student walkout in W.Va.
Apparently this was organized by students, somehow none of the administration was involved, or saw a problem with it? Fuck if I know. Can’t wait for the illegitimate 6 to say it’s totes good.
Fair Economist
Is she trying to break the nuttiness or is she trying to tie the Republicans to the boat anchor? Maybe a little of both.
Steeplejack (phone)
@rikyrah, @Baud:
Good afternoon! ?
This is weird.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Sure Lurkalot:
They decide to convoy block DC, they’re not gonna like the result. It ain’t Ottawa, filled with nonviolent Canadians and timid cops.
I want to see clubbed and tear-gassed drawling wingnuts crying, busted up F-250s, hauled off semis and a bunch of CDL holders finding themselves jobless because their licenses are pulled.
Examples need to be made. So be it.
Baud
@Leto:
Sounds completely nondenominational. /Alito
Ocotillo
Since it is an open thread, Ms. O will be working the primary elections soon here in Texas and the new election laws are in effect. One interesting thing is should a voter ask an election worker a question while they are at their booth, a poll watcher has the right to come over and observe the interaction and after the voter has completed and printed their ballot, they can ask to look at the ballot. The ballot is a printed record of whom the voter selected and is inserted in a machine that serves to count the ballot and store them to be transported to the election office.
I asked if the voter can refuse and she tells me they did not say. I told her I would like to come down to try and provoke such an action and refuse to show the poll watcher my ballot.
Poll watchers are designated by candidates and come to poll and do just that, watch what is going on but the new law is giving them more leeway to be shall we say intimidating.
Another new part of the law, election judges now may pack heat. Hooray.
Old School
According to CNN:
So someone intentionally changed it to “legitimate political discourse.” We’ll see if it is determined who that was.
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
D.C. will never let the trucks in. It’s a security hazard if nothing else.
Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan
Since this is an Open Thread…
Today marks six years since Mrs. Cisco’s passing, and nearly five since my dad’s/his mom’s.
I wanted to make sure I got the chance to thank this community for what it did during those times.
I’m a firm believer in telling people things while they are still around, mostly because I’ve had the misfortune of not always taking advantage of the opportunity. This way is better.
This place, this crazy amalgam of snark, humor, and fury that is an almost-top 10,000 blog has been an oasis for me, and I am very much appreciative.
So thanks again.
Ben
germy
Pure genius.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Leto: FCA is truly fucking evil organization. They have some ugly affiliations.
Ocotillo
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I was wondering why someone in Ottawa has not taken a baseball bat with some nails in it and started flattening some tires by cutting some sidewalls?
germy
Pure genius.
Baud
@germy:
Access to meth and crack pipes are a white privilege that needs to be dismantled NOW.
Baud
@Ocotillo: Wouldn’t they use hockey sticks in Canada?
Roger Moore
@Mike R:
The only way the Republicans have hit bottom is when creeps like Eric Greitens do it in the
bedroomsex dungeon.WaterGirl
Wowser! Best speech I have ever heard her give. Go Nancy SMASH!
The only thing that could have made this better is if she had walked out of the building in her red coat and sunglasses.
Baud
@Leto: Good for young people in W.Va.
Old Man Shadow
In 100 years, our descendants will be fighting over whether they should remove the Ashli Babbett and Buffalo Shaman statues the GOP will probably erect from the town parks.
Roger Moore
@Baud:
Well, other denominations would be free to do the same thing if they could get up the gumption. It’s not the Supreme Court’s fault that the can’t.
Ocotillo
@Baud: Touche, as they would say in Quebec.
CaseyL
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan:
I remember when you first came here – and my GOD, was it that long ago?? Thank you for becoming part of our community! I’ve enjoyed seeing and listening to you at the Book Club Zooms.
dmsilev
The Republican Party responded by saying “pass us that shovel and pick-ax”.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Baud:
Way back when my kids were in our exurban high school, I gave them carte blanche to walk out of any overtly religious assembly (which was starting to become a real threat at the time – it invariably involved that smarmy and insipid evangelical praise music). The rationale I told them to give was. “this trash is not within our family’s Christian tradition of at least the past 1500 years, and the Constitution says I don’t have to listen to it. Call my father for an explanation.”
The school officials were generally afraid of me. I wouldn’t have needed a court case, even.
dmsilev
@Baud:
Curling brooms.
The Dangerman
Ohhhhhhhh, *drool* pie.
/homer
ETA: I wonder if there is a correlation between Republicans doing monstrously stupid things (“legitimate political discourse”) and troll activity. Is there a batshit crazy signal?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Ocotillo:
They’re Canadians. Too polite to do it.
SiubhanDuinne
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
God. I think I just released an egg.
Brachiator
Definitely on point.
Thing is, the GOP did not have to say this. I don’t know where they think they are going with this. It’s not rock bottom. It’s moving further away from democracy.
A cult that has gone off the deep end. There ain’t no bottom for these dopes.
Roger Moore
@Baud:
Baseball has a long tradition in Canada. They’ve had pro teams for basically as long as the professional game has existed. Besides, baseball bats have made an inroads as a weapon with a superficially legitimate sporting purpose even in countries where baseball isn’t much played.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@SiubhanDuinne: LOL.
Worthy of a post-bliss cigarette?
germy
SiubhanDuinne
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan:
I remember very well when Mrs. Cisco passed — although I’m staggered that it’s been six (!) years — and often think of her when I see your nym.
Baud
@germy:
now she’s definitely going to be fired.
Gravenstone
@Leto: We didn’t have quite that level of gawd fuckery in HS back in the dark ages, but we did have a two-faced “evangelist” preacher brought in to an assembly by the wife of the school board president. During our assembly, he was relatively anodyne in his laments about youth lead astray by the evils of rock and roll!! Although I did take direct issue with essentially being called satanic because I liked the Beatles. Perhaps the most disconcerting aspect of that assembly was watching the woman responsible for foisting him off on us sitting in the front row center, genuflecting every few seconds all throughout his diatribes.
Later that evening, he gave another presentation at her family’s church. That presentation, he apparently went full fire and brimstone (a couple of my classmates attended out of curiosity – I didn’t trust myself to remain civil so I chose not to). He railed against many of our classes and how they were corrupting the youth. Foremost among those classes were several elective English courses that focused on specific genres or topics (sci fi/fantasy, horror/supernatural, mass media – I had or was taking all of the above). The following year, each and every one of those electives were gone. I was pissed that this charlatan and his willing conspirators were able to have this much sway because they happened to hold positions of relative power relative to the school district.
While that was my first time seeing religion twisted into a authoritarian cult, it would hardly be the last.
Brachiator
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan:
It is good to know that you found a place that was welcoming and supportive.
Steeplejack
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan:
Glad you’re here, man.
Gravenstone
Breaking and entering, assault, attempted kidnapping… none of these are legal, let alone political discourse.
trollhattan
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Your proposal is accepted.
Note to D.C. cops et al: use the “Antifa is Coming” playbook and not the “Dudes Who love Trump are Coming, so Bring Donuts” playbook. Let me repeat, follow the first, destroy the second. That one didn’t work.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
I can see it now:
WereBear
Seconded.
Mallard Filmore
@Baud:
The trucks only have to park on the 14th street bridge (over the Potomac, between DC and Virginia) to make a mess.
Gravenstone
@Ocotillo: If you want to be stealthy, just wander through pulling the valve stems from a few tires. That’s a pretty cheap tool to get, and readily concealed in a pocket.
dmsilev
@germy: “…and to prove my point, here are a list of people persecuted by this Committee who only attended the rally and came nowhere near the Capitol.”
(for some completely mysterious reason, that seems to have been lost in editing. Odd. I blame Obama, because why not.)
mrmoshpotato
@Old School: Hot! Damn! Someone need a savage beating with a Merriam-Webster hardcover edition!
Ya know! Discourse!
SiubhanDuinne
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Two. One in each hand.
Gravenstone
@WaterGirl: Needs the giant ceremonial Gavel of Head Cracking.
BC in Illinois
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
I was in elementary school [suburbs of Washington DC] and brought home a form for my parents asking for information about (if I remember correctly) race, occupation, income level, or that kind of thing. My father wrote in NOYDB. I asked him what that meant. He told me what it meant. I said, “Dad! You can’t do that!” He said just to try it.
Looking back, I think he was giving a message to me as well as to the Montgomery County schools
ETA – – This was during the Eisenhower administration.
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
What is he even talking about??
Baud
@Mallard Filmore:
I see renewed interest in the long derided civil forfeiture laws.
RandomMonster
mrmoshpotato
@germy: What the actual fuck?
There really is no bottom with these shitstains.
As for the meth (I can’t believe I’m typing this), isn’t that more of a poor, white, rural problem?
Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan
@germy: Source for that stupidity from Cruz:
(wingnut alert)
https://cnsnews.com/article/washington/michael-w-chapman/biden-hhs-fund-crack-pipe-distribution-part-30-million-harm
Don’t say I didn’t warn you…
Also, the document that literally does not have the words “crack pipe” anywhere therein:
https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/sp-22-001
These people are certifiable!
Baud
@mrmoshpotato: Hence the need for racial equity.
Cermet
Whether this white man’s democracy falls in 2024 or not, it can’t stand thanks to AGW. All through the world as nation States crumble in forty to fifty years when wet bulb temperatures exceed human tolerance for sufficiently long enough times, fascism will rise. This isn’t maybe but what will be. Most of India/Pakistan/Iran, South East Asia, equatorial regions of South America/Africa and the Middle East will all become places that humans will not be able to live for weeks at a time (i.e. without AC you die.) Billions will be displaced – borders will be over run – famine will occur on a scale never before seen. These are facts and frankly, nearly everyone is ignoring this coming disaster – much of this is already ‘baked’ in.
trollhattan
@Gravenstone:
Middle school friend of my kid went to the fancy Catholic all-girls school instead of the public HS. A guess speaker in one of her classes lectured the rosy-cheeked young things on the HORRORS OF THE ABORTIONS from the perspective of a former client, at a time she had been led astray. And also, too, did you know abortion clinics sell fetus tissues to the highest bidder? They totally do!
During the disquisition, the girl began face-timing mom with the presentation. Mom, a noted OB-Gyn was NOT pleased and the girl transferred out, back to the local HS where, so traumatized was she from the experience she only made it into Princeton.
The end.
Baud
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan:
Sounds like funding for syringe exchanges, among other things. That’s been going on for a long time, I believe.
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
Medicare causes Covid.
That’s just science.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan:
What an utterly vile article, especially the gratuitous swipe at Hunter Biden in the last paragraph.
Almost Retired
@germy: That explains the Biden crack pipe meme I noticed on my Facebook feed this morning. It made no sense (they rarely do), so I just shrugged it off. But now I see the source.
Lil’ Marco has lost his ever-loving mind. And those ears! They’ve grown! Pinnochi-ears. He could fall out of an airplane mid-flight and glide safely to earth. Yeah, making fun of someone’s physical appearance is not sophisticated political commentary, but fuck it.
RaflW
Oh, look. Glem G. has a new neighbor!
From the article:
Captain C
@Baud:
I’ll believe that when they allow the Church of Satan to hold in-school rallies with mandatory attendance and participation. Preferably with Slayer blasting over the PA.
Sure Lurkalot
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan: my sympathies…I share this date as my dear sister passed away 2 years ago on it. It was also my mother’s birthday, she would’ve been 100 had she not passed away at 90.
trollhattan
“Causes Covid, which totally doesn’t exist.”
The Have-it-both-ways Party®
Betty Cracker
@germy: I clicked on McDaniel’s petulant screed from a media aggregator without realizing it would whisk me to the Clown Hall site. But since I’d already sullied my IP by visiting that wretched hive of scum and villainy, I read Ronna’s rant and a sampling of the comments under it.
Most commenters were abusing McDaniel for condemning the violence and railing against the treatment of the great patriotic Capitol attackers. My guess is that’s how the controversy is playing out across Wingnuttia, and it really is a conundrum for elected Republicans and apparatchiks like McDaniel, who are trying to have it both ways. Good!
Captain C
@germy: Projection on lil’ Marco’s part? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Spanky
@trollhattan:
She never made it out?
Captain C
@Brachiator:
Many of them seem to think they’re going to the one-party white supremacist dictatorship of their dreams.
Captain C
@germy:
FTFY, Ronna Romney
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Yeah, strategic error on her part. The condemnation should have been on a mainstream media outlet, while the cheering of Jan. 6 seditionists as patriots should have been on Town Hall.
danielx
The jokes, they write themselves….
Congress is turning attention to mental health
Not that this is not an important issue and a laudable goal (per WaPo), but our solons do not need to look far afield to see mental health issues live and in person **cough**Louie Gohmert**cough**.
RaflW
@germy: So Massie wants them to not just die of Covid, but also to leave their families destitute and being chased by hospital collection agencies?
Very harsh, but perfectly on brand for the party that has done all it could (but thankfully, pretty incompetently) to end the ACA.
HumboldtBlue
@Baud:
Not in Toronto. The Blue Jays have more recent success than the Leafs.
The Dangerman
Oh, goody. The stupid domestic mother truckers are threatening to shut down LA for Super Bowl Sunday. I suggest blocking the 405 near the airport because Angelenos have NEVER dealt with that previously…
…and they do know about LA Road Rage, right? Born and raised LA (since evacuated, but I am there a lot) and I can just about guarantee that anyone intentionally blocking a freeway with a big truck is gonna get their ass beat down. We aren’t Canadien nice here.
Captain C
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Is it wrong that I wish some disgruntled locals had access to a steady supply of panzerfausts if these idiots invade D.C.?
RaflW
@Almost Retired: Marco has seemed very, very sweaty about the Jan 6 Committee lately. I dunno what’s lurking there that has him spooked, but it’s horrifacinating to watch him loosing what few shreds of composure he once had.
Gravenstone
@Baud: Someone ask Mikey Pence how stopping just such a needle exchange worked out for him when he was IN Guv…
Betty Cracker
@Almost Retired: His hairline is retreating faster than a CIA-funded invasion force at the Bay of Pigs.
Baud
@Almost Retired:
Obama has famously big ears, but Marco is heading into Ferengi territory.
Dan B
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Word is that the government of Ontario does not want to do anything about the convoy blockade*. I believe Trudeau would have to declare Martial Law in order to supersede Ontario.
Also, most of the rigs are owned by the company so the drivers are out of jobs but not under financial liability.
*Insert euphemism here.
Captain C
@Dan B:
If that’s the case, I’m sure those owners are loving the lack of revenue that those trucks, probably financed, are bringing in.
trollhattan
@Spanky:
You know how it is, you finally get to Jersey, you just don’t want to leave. :)
Ksmiami
@Mallard Filmore: let a bunch of drones turn them into rubble
Baud
@Dan B:
And the company doesn’t care?
danielx
@Gravenstone:
Badly, that being one of several reasons he was going to get his ass handed to him in his gubernatorial re-election effort. And how he ended up as VP – If I recall correctly Trump claimed he was responsible for reviving Pence’s political career, and he wasn’t wrong.
mrmoshpotato
@The Dangerman: Time to print up shirts!
I Went To LA To Be A Fascist Dipshit In Super Bowl Sunday And All I Got Was My Ass Kicked
danielx
@Dan B:
I’d wondered about that. If those are company-owned rigs, I’m sure the owners are thrilled about having six-figure pieces of equipment a) not being used to produce revenue and b) used as stage scenery,
RaflW
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan: Trying to talk about harm reduction and addiction is difficult even when all the parties discussing it are making good faith efforts to understand it.
But of course morally vacuous people like Rubio will gladly run with the most absurd deductive (un)reasoning about giving addicts safe housing and call it ‘giving them crack pipes.’
I am an annual donor to a housing nonprofit that gets HIV+ people off the streets and into efficiency apartments. In addition to being good humanitarian outreach, It’s a quite effective method of reducing HIV transmission as people in supportive housing tend to take their HIV-suppressing meds, and are more open to messages and supplies for safer sex, needle exchange, etc.
Not once have I felt like I’m buying anyone a ‘crack pipe’. (I’m a long-sober drunk, so I think I have some views into harm reduction & addiction, too.)
Dan B
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan: Hugs to you.
sdhays
Well, add this to the signals that we just may have the GQP civil war that we’ve been praying for coming sooner rather than later:
Let’s you and him fight!
bjacques
@Captain C: How effective is a Panzerfaust against a troll, Heinz?
Almost Retired
@The Dangerman: Exactly. Sure, wingnuts, bring your trucks to Los Angeles and tie up traffic on the 405 on Super Bowl Sunday. Like we’d even notice. When they’re done bringing snarled traffic to LA, they can take coals to Newcastle next.
Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan
@CaseyL: It has been a good bit. I hung out under a different nym even before that, so yeah, a long time.
RaflW
@Captain C: Well we can see why Ken Paxton is so upset about that GoFundMe for the poor, beleaguered truckers getting cancelled.
On that topic, can we even imagine how the TX A.G. would react if, say, Canadians shipped a million bucks across the border (electronically) to fund Prius Parades around his state to rag on Abbott and his crappy electric grid?! Insta-lawsuit. Like, neck-snappingly fast.
Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan
@SiubhanDuinne: @Brachiator: @Steeplejack: Thank you all.
Dan B
@Gravenstone: Truckers in Ottowa are reportedly deflating their tires and abandoning the rigs, presumably the trailers not the actual rig. Don’t quote me.
Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan
@Baud: Exactly!
@SiubhanDuinne: That, and the bleg were what I showed the person who asked me about this to show it was in bad faith.
@Sure Lurkalot: You have my deepest sympathies.
The Dangerman
@mrmoshpotato: They should definitely remember their Confederate and Trump flags. That shit will play so well here. I suggest Signal Hill. Maybe all these assholes know about LA is watching Baywatch.
I was too extreme in my first post. I said everyone would get beat down. No. But random violence is guaranteed.
JMG
@The Dangerman: Since 9/11, the Super Bowl has been a designated national security event. Lots of Feds, lots and lots of cops. You don’t want to mess with that. Plus I wouldn’t be surprised if members of the US “trucker” groups are either informants or undercover feds.
Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan
@RaflW: Yeah, it’s just so on-brand for those nihilists to stir up fake outrage – it’s the only thing they’re any good at
Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan
@Dan B: Thanks man
HumboldtBlue
@Almost Retired:
I drove a lot of miles on the 405 and yeah, go ahead, give that a shot.
Captain C
@bjacques: Extremely effective, Karl. Trolls seldom have any armor to speak of.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Durst one check to see if Do Something! Twitter is pleased with the Gerontocracy now?
Or does this not count because it’s too late or it wasn’t in prime time or she didn’t drop and F bomb or….
Dan B
@Captain C: I keep thinking of the big trucking CEO’s donating the max to the GOP. The Leopards will surprise their faces. Oh, they already are! The GOP wants their revolution but doesn’t want to get caught in the chaos. Oopsie…. Forgot to read history.
HumboldtBlue
This Leeds v Aston Villa match is just non-stop up and down action.
And now Villa have a defender sent off!
Dan B
@Baud: I’m sure the CEO’S are SHOCKED!! SHOCKED, I tell you! They wring every last penny out of their contractors and then donate to RWNJ Pols who want to keep the peons down and then find the stresses don’t stay safely at a distance. They don’t see the chaos coming back at them.
topclimber
If companies own the trucks maybe they have the keys? That would seem to negate what I had read was a problem with a shortage of towing trucks that can handle the big rigs (and perhaps of MAGA-friendly operators who do the towing).
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’m gonna have to start writing down my political donations cause stuff like this makes pull the trigger on my credit card in moments of white-hot fantod enthusiasm
HumboldtBlue
OMG! NANCY PELOSI’S GAZPACHO POLICE ARE ON THE LOOSE!
That woman really is as dumb as she looks.
Dan B
@danielx: I’d like verification on this from some Canadians or people with good sources. This came second hand from Thom Hartman who is usually reliable.
Gin & Tonic
@HumboldtBlue:
Uhm, it’s not B-J After Dark yet.
Gin & Tonic
An update on the Ukraine situation that I think this crowd will enjoy.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
?
Brachiator
@The Dangerman:
Oh, these poor little misguided fools. They believe that the public is on their side and that law enforcement will look the other way. But if they try to fuck with the Super Bowl, even organically holistic vegan hipsters will come out and kick their ass.
There is a lot of money invested in the Super Bowl. It is also a preview of the 2028 Olympics. They ain’t gonna let no bubba truckers mess with this.
Consider the annual Rose Parade. Nationally televised. There is a massive amount of security on display and in the background, there to make sure that everyone has a good time. You have rarely, if ever, seen anyone misbehave. And you have rarely read stories about any negative incidents.
Cacti
Just saw that Dave Chappelle got the city council in his town of Yellow Springs, OH to scrap an affordable housing plan by threatening to withdraw his businesses.
Wow.
What a fucker.
HumboldtBlue
@Gin & Tonic:
HAH!
It ended 3-3, fantastic match, but Stevie G really needs to do something with that Villa defense.
Baud
@Brachiator:
Not to mention the entire city of Cincinnati. They have been waiting a long time for this.
Baud
@Cacti: He’s really been showing his ass lately.
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: I’m always wary of that soup busting down my door. Or would it just seep under?
Steeplejack
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.Hugo Lowell:
And, if you think someone is joking or misunderstanding a joke—video!
@HumboldtBlue: Damn it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: Tim Ryan says let Joe Burrow play!
Brachiator
@RaflW:
Hmm. How ironically circular. Dude probably used one of the escape routes formerly used by Nazis escaping to South America.
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Live shot of Lil’ Marco:
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Betty Cracker:
Martin
BTW, the game is up. McConnell and Graham throwing Trump under the bus, in the face of the RNC actions tells us that Trump and his crew are in a fuckton of legal trouble that McConnell won’t be able to get them out of. Their focus now is saving as many republicans as they can from going down with Trumps ship. My guess is that the 1/6 committee got enough out of Pence’s people that the insiders all see the writing on the wall – Pence didn’t suddenly get brave and principled – he’s publicly making it known that he doesn’t want to go to prison with the rest of them. The rift in the GOP is too glaring to be anything else. The folks hooked into Congress are very loudly backing away while the folks not hooked into Congress keep backing Trump. I don’t know how quickly this will go, but I’m guessing they have Trump dead to rights, and probably a lot of other people in his circle as well, including members of Congress. I mean, just look at McCarthy today. Even he knows it’s over.
WaterGirl
@HumboldtBlue: I am pretty sure that means the Jan 6 committee has requested the lists of people that Gazpacho Girl took through the building in the days before Jan 6.
Kathleen
@WaterGirl: I just saw your post about your morning adventure. I’m glad you’re OK!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
if you enjoy non-violent twitter-murders, click to find out which jealous has-been NHJ lays waste to twice in this mini thread
CarolPW
@Martin: I usually take your opinions/thoughts/analyses/conclusions to be almost as inerrant as the word of the God. Please let this be so!
Betty Cracker
@Martin: I really, really, really, really want to believe this but have been burned too many times. That said, it does explain the phenomena you listed. Please FSM, let it be so…
Dan B
@danielx: Companies are starting to wake up that some drivers are using their trucks in the blockades unauthorized. There’s a site convoytraitors.ca that is naming and shaming the companies. An Ottowa based IT guy debuted it on Feb. 6th.
Kathleen
@Baud: Word.
mrmoshpotato
@Martin: In a life of stupid, running for office and winning might be the stupidest thing Dump has ever done.
Martin
@The Dangerman: Are these idiots aware off what happened to a truck driver in that neighborhood back in the 90s? And that guy was actively trying to not antagonize things.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Betty Cracker: my reaction too. We’ll see which way Lindsey spins a week from now.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Dear god, we’re being governed by people who don’t know the difference between gazpacho and gestapo.
Baud
Rolling Stone, via Reddit
trollhattan
@Gin & Tonic:
Hah, no wonder they’re paying attention. Book title: “The Ratline”
Kathleen
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan: I remember those tough times. I appreciate your post and reminder that we need to make sure we let people know how much we appreciate them. I wish you continued joy and peace.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: Did Greene take anyone through the Capitol building prior to Dump-humpers trying to overthrow the government?
Dan B
@Martin: It dawned on me that the Trucker Convoys and Trumpsters have no clear goals or clear end result except damage. With no clear end game there is no possibility of victory. They’ve gotten way out over their skies and could both crash and burn with great rapidity. Pence and the trucking companies’ owners are the fulcrums that allow small efforts to produce massive results.
trollhattan
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Takes real shoots-pah. :-)
OTOH the Gestapo seldom needed refrigeration.
Kathleen
@Dorothy A. Winsor: You’ve created a new meme for the Right Wing! You should on Twitter and strategically plant references to the latest horrors from the Gazpacho Gestapo and its latest nightmare iteration – Vegan Gazpacho Gestapo.
Brachiator
@Martin:
People are always prematurely predicting Trump’s demise, and the GOP becoming more rational.
The vampire ain’t dead until you have staked it through the heart, sprinkled the body with holy water and set fire to the monster while it is in the coffin.
So until I see the bus actually run over Trump, and he is convicted, fined and/or imprisoned, I will not pay much attention to what McConnell or other Republicans say.
ETA. And this goes double for Boris Johnson and the Tories in the UK.
Gin & Tonic
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I doubt that woman has ever done anything that could be remotely described as “governing.”
bjacques
@HumboldtBlue: well, it’s like they say: revenge is a dish best served cold…
trollhattan
@Dan B:
They probably didn’t realize it would have any…what’s a not-trucking synonym for traction? and were surprised when it got all that sweet attention.
We have had various truck and farm equipment processions around the CA State Capitol (“because new laws are gonna put me outta bidnez”) and they always are 1. permitted ahead of time through the CHP and 2. have start and end times.
I think they know better than to screw with the CHP, but then this is 2022.
HumboldtBlue
@WaterGirl:
Yup, and she’s not the only one.
Also, for the peanut gallery as a whole, when is the start of televised hearings? That’s getting close, isn’t it?
BRyan
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan: six years? i still remember tearing up at — and still tear up remembering — your “she will only have to wait for me to come home one more time.” A lovely sentiment for your parting. But don’t hurry. While she waits for you, time has no measure or meaning, so she won’t mind, and we’d miss you.
Abnormal Hiker
@Roger Moore: The first documented baseball game in Canada was on 4 June 1838 in Beachville Ontario. This is prior to Abner Doubleday’s supposed invention.
The Dangerman
@Martin: Reginald Denny. I remember it well.
I was in Santa Maria on my way to Long Beach when that shit started. I was damn close to being in the middle of it.
NotMax
FYI.
Grindr limits visibility of Olympic athletes to protect their privacy
mrmoshpotato
@Brachiator:
Excuse me. Related question here.
Can we roast garlic over the flames?
HumboldtBlue
@bjacques:
Ba-dum-tss!
Martin
@Dan B: Culture wars tend to look like that. Same with Tucker Carlson’s war on M&M Mars making the green one less fuckable. They need an ongoing persecution story, no matter how stupid and inconsequential it might be.
mrmoshpotato
@Martin:
That’s gonna be on Fucker Carlson’s gravestone.
Who the hell thought that complaining about M&M’s fuckability was a good idea? No one at FOX went, “Let’s reconsider that one.”?
NotMax
@HumboldtBlue
Everything from nuts to soup.
;)
Gbbalto
@Abnormal Hiker: In Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1798) the heroine is noted as having played base-ball
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JMG: I’m studying for my remote pilot exam and have a sectional chart website pinned to my browser. There’s a 30 mile temporary flight restriction around SoFi(the President only get’s about 10 miles when he’s in town).
Martin
@Brachiator: No, I agree. You can’t be too cynical about what a Democratic Congress might fail to do, but some GOP Senators aren’t willing to take the risk.
I just think we should calibrate our cynicism by this new evidence.
I’m not suggesting that Trump will get an orange jumpsuit selfie, but it should at least be enough to make him not be a 2024 candidate. And if that happens, there’s not a hell of a lot of point being on his bandwagon. It’ll just soak up donor money and set it on fire.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Cool.
Martin
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I think I’m 30 miles from SoFi, straight line, which is a county and 3 international airports away.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Martin:
/sigh/
prostratedragon
@HumboldtBlue: Beat me by about an hour.
A friend wants to know how gazpacho from boxed tomatoes turns out.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Obligatory? Soup Nazi.
;)
Brachiator
@mrmoshpotato:
Ha!! I was going to mention garlic, but could not come up with a description that I liked.
Bill Arnold
@Gravenstone:
A small cordless drill can make it super quick, but it is not easily concealed.
HumboldtBlue
@NotMax:
Nice.
topclimber
@Bill Arnold: I understand the sentiment, but, sadly, it makes no sense.
Why do you want to incapacitate trucks you are trying to move out of the way? Why do you want to give a holes and excuse not to budge?
HumboldtBlue
Charlie Pierce: Do not cast asparagus on the gazpacho police!
Bill Arnold
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan:
It is in a samhsa.gov document linked by your last link, though:
o Safe smoking kits/supplies;
debbie
@Betty Cracker:
Did you see this from dick_nixon last night?
?
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@trollhattan: California-based people would likely realize that, but how about out-of-state people? I suspect too many of them hear CHIP and think of Erik Estrada.
These aren’t people who strike me as especially knowledgeable or aware that bad things can happen to them, too. Just think of some of the whining we’re hearing from 1/6 arrestees in court.
JustRuss
Just proves what I’ve been saying all along: the politeness is just a facade, Canadians are actually very sneaky, and they have a time machine.
Brachiator
@Martin:
I do not blame Democrats for any of this. Trump continues to have a viable political career only because of the aid and comfort of the GOP.
I am not cynical. I am a very hard-headed realist when it comes to Trump. Many Balloon Juice commenters, and the public at large, have consistently misjudged the success of Trump’s rise and his continued success, from the earliest days of the Republican primary until the present day.
Trump is not smart. But he has a desperate, infantile and fear-fueled survival instinct. He will do anything, except abandon Ivanka, to get ahead.
And the GOP leadership will always fold and capitulate to Trump if he rises again. This is what they have always done.
BTW, in the UK, the Tories had a couple of opportunities to dump Boris Johnson. But like the GOP here, they have instead decided to hitch their future to the whims of an intellectually and morally empty charlatan.
The prospects are not good.
Ruckus
@danielx:
Wouldn’t a company truck that is parked for reasons other than loading/unloading or waiting for a load/unload time because the driver decided to use the company truck for a blockade be a company truck that is out of service – costing them money rather than earning any? If I was the owner of said truck, I’d likely be rather pissed off, and rather likely to be looking for a replacement driver. IOW I’m finding it difficult to believe that everyone of these trucks is owner operated and loan free.
Bill Arnold
@Betty Cracker:
FWIW, Brave (browser) has a usable Tor mode. I don’t particularly trust it, but have confirmed that one shows as being on a (shared) Tor exit node when using a Tor window.
Bill Arnold
@Martin:
This caught my eye back then. Grassley’s staffers later “clarified”. Recall that Pence’s secret service detail wanted to drive him away for safekeeping, but Pence refused. Maybe nothing…
debbie
@Bill Arnold:
That tells me Grassley was in on the plot.
WaterGirl
@Kathleen: thank you!
i’m gonna have to write another post about the last hour-and-a-half, too. It’s like being John Cole for a day.
kindness
Love me some Nancy Smash. Why is it when I see these videos I harken back to a year ago and remember ‘good’ (rose twitter) liberals who proudly proclaimed how terrible Nancy Smash is and how they could never support her.
We are blessed to have idiots as opposition (Trumpers) and as fellow libs (Jill Stein liberals).
evodevo
@Leto:
Nope…not legal…using school property during school hrs…interfering with classes. They need to call Americans United, FFRF or the ACLU and file a complaint.
Another Scott
@HumboldtBlue:
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Martin: Pence and McConnell I know about. What happened with Lindsey Graham today? I must have missed that.
Bill Arnold
@debbie:
The plot (obligatory “if there was at least one plot”) was breathtakingly, stupidly fragile.
And if it had succeeded, there would have been civil war. Low grade, maybe, but it would not have ended well for the Republican officials involved, and with a lot of collateral damage.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl:
Didn’t know you had a Subaru. Can someone lend you a car until you can get yours out of the field?
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: I assume so, at least that was my takeaway from her scrambled Gazpacho video today. When I told a friend about Gazpacho Girl’s stupid video today, she told me that they have video of Greene taking people through the capital shortly before Jan 6. I have not read that but I hope it’s true!
mrmoshpotato
@Another Scott: Really? Hominy was all that Ken could work in there?
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: Oh. I knew about the gun-humping Coloradoan, but not Georgia’s governmental pride and joy.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
True grits?
//
HumboldtBlue
@Another Scott:
Hahahahahahahahaha!
Steeplejack
@mrmoshpotato:
See the whole Twitter thread. He’s got plenty more.
Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan
@BRyan: Thank you.
Central Planning
@NotMax: *golf clap
SFAW
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan:
As with Siubhan, I remember your beloved wife’s passing, and cannot believe it’s been that long. I am glad you’re still here (in both senses).
SFAW
@Martin:
You may be right — I’m hoping you are — but that fascist traitor will never serve time. Unfortunately.
dnfree
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan: I am not among those who remember your great loss, but I’m sorry to hear you’ve been through that. I’m glad you’re here.