After taking yesterday off due to light rain, Sen. Ted Cruz joined The People's Convoy in Hagerstown this morning and will lead the truckers as they head back to the Beltway. With Cruz leading, they will try again to take up two Beltway traffic lanes despite failing in days past.
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) March 10, 2022
There continues to be plenty of infighting among The People's Convoy, with truckers that don't want to storm D.C. accusing the truckers that do wish to bum-rush D.C. of being with "antifa."
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) March 10, 2022
Still plenty comic relief to be had:
Babe you get that driving on the Beltway even if you aren't part of a trucker convoy https://t.co/3FZxhqEmi0
— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) March 10, 2022
So does Ted, wherever he goes.
— Leanne???????????????? (@Laighe) March 10, 2022
"We're slowing down traffic, we have no real unifying cause, and we're polluting the roadways, and they don't even thank us??"
— Pious Men (@dirtyfiends) March 10, 2022
One hand washes uses the other! Per the local paper (Washington Post):
… Cruz visited the “People’s Convoy” at the Hagerstown Speedway, telling crowds their voice was being heard. He then boarded a truck and detoured just pass noon to head into Washington, where he and convoy organizers called for an end to such mandates.
“These policies are cruel and they are immoral and I think it is time to end them all and let people live their lives,” Cruz said outside the Capitol while the rest of the convoy circled the Beltway.
Though many pandemic-related restrictions at the federal and local levels have been blocked or rescinded, convoy organizers have rallied supporters by calling mandates an infringement on their freedoms.
“There ain’t no ignoring a senator riding in the lead truck,” Brian Brase, the group’s organizer, told the crowd at the Hagerstown Speedway. “That’s basically an endorsement of what we’re doing.”…
Law enforcement authorities in Virginia and Maryland said there have been no major incidents from the convoy’s circling of the Beltway other than some minor congestion. Maryland State Police said one pickup driver was issued a warning Thursday for impeding the flow of traffic on southbound Interstate 270 in Montgomery County.
Brase had urged the convoy to continue the ride around the Beltway as those with Cruz rode to the nation’s capital. Brase said the convoy will continue to protest until mandates for health workers, federal employees and military personnel are eliminated, but he warned the convoy against heading into Washington.
“If you deviate from the plan, meaning you decide to break rank and bring your happy butts down to D.C. proper … you are not representing the ‘People’s Convoy’ in doing that,” he said. “Do not do that. Stick to the plan … It’s working. They’re coming here now.”…
The group arrived in Hagerstown on Friday with some of its members coming from Adelanto, Calif. Its members have set up at the Hagerstown Speedway, more than an hour outside Washington.
This morning, days after asking my question about trucker demands, Ted Cruz felt the need to re-address it while suggesting I am "not all that bright." "What the men and woman want here is for the government to leave you the hell alone," he says, which still lacks detail.
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) March 10, 2022
Truckers with The People's Convoy are now debating what handle Sen. Ted Cruz should be referred to over the CB radio. One trucker suggests Cruz go by "the rubber duck."
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) March 10, 2022
The People's Convoy: Just like the DC Beltway itself, it has no end.https://t.co/gWuM8ODE6f
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) March 10, 2022
Two weeks after departing Victorville, California—with the humble goal of completing a few laps around the D.C. Beltway—the only real commerce that the right-wing People’s Convoy trucker protest seems to have interrupted is the business of some of its participants.
But despite some initial confusion and a handful of bloopers, the protest is still going, if not strong then at least steady…
The group has already stuck it out longer than previously expected, and they don’t seem to have plans of quitting anytime soon. Organizers told The Daily Beast that the size of the convoy, already about 10,000 strong, has actually increased this week amid a surge of media coverage. But the longer they hang around, the more questions arise—about the money, the mission, and the people behind it all.
And in the small, fractious world of independent trucking, the rumors have already begun to fly.
For starters, many Convoy leaders are actually experienced industry lobbyists, and some participants are wondering what their angle may be. For many of the actual truckers, they put their jobs on hold to join the rolling demonstration. And yet, those who signed up for action watched with disappointment and frustration as the project appeared to morph into a last-minute lobbying campaign. Some donors have expressed confusion about the funding and the mission, wondering whether the convoy will “finish what they started.”
The ad hoc, figure-it-out-as-we-go mentality has raised all sorts of questions about whether the organizers have hewed to the law—or if the People’s Convoy has been, intentionally or not, a scam…
After announcing Wednesday’s rain-out, organizer Brian Brase walked the dirt-track facility with a reusable shopping bag, asking for donations.
“I would like to organize a donation for this bag for the next 10 minutes,” he declared. The money, he said, would go to “volunteers” that have been riding along with the convoy in “support vehicles” on the Beltway.
Tactics like passing the plastic shopping bag only cast more doubt that the nonprofit is properly tracking donations…
Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan
Saw the title and thought Pence’s debate companion was back for an encore.
bbleh
… or if the People’s Convoy has been, intentionally or not, a scam…
Whaaat? Is UNPOSSIBLE that a “spontaneous” right-wing “popular” protest with unknown sources of funding could EVER be a thinly-disguised lobbying campaign, or a totally Astroturfed publicity stunt, or an ongoing scam to squeeze yet more money out of credulous couch-potato small-money donors! (Or all three.) Why, when has such a thing ever happened? Oh, well recently, I mean. Oh … well …
Suzanne
Oh my God.
Why do I find this so hilarious?!
They’re TrIgGeReD by getting flipped off in traffic?!
The reason these people hate urban dwellers is because they absolutely could not deal with city life for even ten goddamn minutes.
Baud
I should sell bird bumper stickers to decent people so they can keep their eyes on the road.
H.E.Wolf
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan: *That* fly was a hero. I hope it’s happy in Fly Heaven, after gallantly indicating whom not to vote for in 2020. :)
The convoy has a Canadian Red-Arsed Fly bumming a ride. Not the same calibre of insect at all.
Wyatt Salamanca
Just the latest example of Ted Cruz’s approximately infinite douchebaggery.
Baud
Convoy to Cancun would be a fun movie.
RaflW
I’ve never been able to fathom how Republican voters don’t read Cruz as the sniveling twit that he so obviously is. Even thinking, “Well, he’s our sniveling twit” just doesn’t compute.
dexwood
So, the lead truck in the Freedumb Convoy was a clown car?
Another Scott
In other news, dick_nixon traveled to the UK…
Yet another reminder that the pandemic isn’t over. Be careful out there.
Cheers,
Scott.
Cameron
I would be smug about Ted Cruz. Except I live in Florida. Shit.
mrmoshpotato
SHITHEAD TED!
This is all so fucking stupid, but I’m sure the gas station owners are loving the money.
Cameron
@Baud: “From Canada to Cancun: The Ted Cruz Story,”
bbleh
@RaflW: I think they like him because he sneers so well. I mean, his expression is pretty much a permanent sneer. And he sneers at the people they hate, so that’s good enough.
Their politics is all emotion and no substance.
Almost Retired
This whole convoy thing has had a loser stink from the beginning. So Ted Cruz is clearly a brilliant tactician by attaching himself to this effort.
If they don’t want to risk circling the White House, maybe the convoy can aim for Comet Ping Pong and liberate some underage sex slaves from the basement.
Argiope
@dexwood: they’re all clown cars.
robmassing
A literal example of the adage, “I must find where the people are going, so that I may lead them.”
Villago Delenda Est
Good lord. I’m sure they’ll make it possible, but it’s hard to imagine these dickweeds being any lamer than this.
Anomalous Cowherd
Re-posting my comment on LGM:
: I see Trucker Ted spent today as usual, Cruzin’ around the District, spinning his wheels, going nowhere and accomplished nothing. Just another day ending in “y”.
Oh yeah, “birds aren’t real,” so I don’t know what they’re seeing on the beltway. Probably antifa drones surveilling them. Better watch out, Cletus.
dexwood
@bbleh: Bet he sneers at his family. What a fucking, immoral asshole.
Villago Delenda Est
@Cameron: I can be ultra-smug. I live in Oregon.
Repatriated
Seems to be a typo in that last word.
Suzanne
@Villago Delenda Est: DOOD THEY’RE SO LAAAAAAME!!!
I bet none of them have gotten laid in at least a decade.
Kalakal
Now there’s the best invitation for social media mockery I’ve seen in years.
“The Flat”, “Skidmark”, “The Grifter”, “Billy no mates” , “Clown 1”, “The Blockage”, “Attentio Seeker” the list is endless
Baud
I wish more DC people had CB radios so they could really mess with these mothertruckers.
MagdaInBlack
I knew they weren’t truckers. What trucker hasn’t been flipped off a million times in his career?
Baud
@Suzanne:
What happens in Hagerstown stays in Hagerstown.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud:
Fue la oscuridad de la luna el seis de junio
debbie
@Almost Retired:
Or visit their spiritual home, Four Seasons Landscaping.
Dorothy A. Winsor
It’s incredible to me that people ever took Cruz seriously as a potential presidential candidate. I mean, people besides Cruz
Doug R
I remember a popular breakfast restaurant chain which is now considered extremely racist had a story in their menu.
A kid was being chased by tigers and he somehow tricked them into running in a circle which turned them into butter, like that on the pancakes.
Maybe that’ll happen if these idiots circle the beltway often enough.
Miss Bianca
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan: Me too! Or that he had hitched a ride with Pence somehow, but I just couldn’t really see Pence joining in.
Miss Bianca
@mrmoshpotato: I’m thinking, “the rubber dick” would be more appropriate for Cruz.
@Repatriated: great minds, great minds…
narya
@Suzanne: And these are probably some of the “fuck your feelings” folks who love lib tears or something.
This whole thing . . . is it laughable? stupid? both? What do they actually WANT, ffs? And how will they know when they get it? And yeah, someone is likely skimming something from somewhere (cash in a reusable bag? really?).
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Villago Delenda Est: While we do have a sane State gov (for now), we’re surrounded by meth-addled crackers and gun nuts. In one of the whitest States in the USA. I’m not feeling too smug…
Suzanne
@narya:
They want whatever pisses off the most libz, updated daily.
They want to feel superior.
StringOnAStick
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: We moved from Colorado to Oregon almost 2 years ago to retire. There really wasn’t any other state or town we were interested in and staying on the edge of the rapidly expanding Denver area just wasn’t how we wanted to go out. I will say though that the level of scary backwoods here is high, just as it is in the smaller towns of Boebert’s district (where I was born and raised, still came out liberal). Sometimes I think it is just feeling a bit discombobulated from moving away from my old state, but I will admit that the level of rural whackness is scary to me.
Baud
Via reddit (so subject to correction), the new baseball rules.
matt
I would consider Ted Cruz authentic if he learned how to play the banjo.
JaneE
They care about health care workers? Since when? They want to be sovereign citizens? Fine, just stop using any public services funded by the real governments.
I hope they all wind up with no jobs and repossessed trucks.
delk
It was just like Ottawa! They got a Canadian to ride shotgun.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@StringOnAStick:
Don’t get me wrong – there’s lots to love about Oregon, and it’s my home. I just wouldn’t put it on a pedestal.
narya
@Baud: The DH is an abomination. And figuring out how to handle pitchers in the batting lineup was one of the few remaining actual strategic things in the damn game.
JDM
@Villago Delenda Est:
We Oregonians can’t be too smug when we’ve got white supremacists continually targeting Salem and Portland, and too often getting police help in their Portland excursions. And that’s in the sane part of Oregon.
Villago Delenda Est
@StringOnAStick: We’ve got it in Oregon, too. There’s Art Robinson, from the shithole that is Josephine County. There are pockets of crazy even in the Portland metro area.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
Slightly revised foam fingers. Shouldn’t be too hard to retool the equipment.
SiubhanDuinne
I’m bored with this “no editors” thing at newspapers, and I would like the Washington Post to hire one please and thank you.
Almost Retired
@Baud: Wait, baseball has nine innings? Aren’t you supposed to leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning to avoid traffic? I learn so much on this blog.
Brachiator
There is just something inherently ridiculous about Ted Cruz. And yet his people continue to vote for him.
This mild faux insurrection is just his speed.
RSA
@Almost Retired:
But they are circling the White House! …at a discreet if not valorous distance.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Well that certainly does suck.
Not crazy about that either.
HinTN
@Villago Delenda Est:
Now there’s an epithet I haven’t heard in a while.
Also too, “the rubber duck” has a nice ring to it.
Villago Delenda Est
@SiubhanDuinne: Don’t look at Fred Hiatt. He’s nothing but another reactionary hack.
Villago Delenda Est
@SiubhanDuinne: An “NFL type formula”? That’s a recipe for utter fail.
SiubhanDuinne
@narya:
Word.
SiubhanDuinne
@Villago Delenda Est:
Yup. Baseball (MLB) has just about ruined baseball (the game).
hells littlest angel
Uh, I’ve got some news for you …
SiubhanDuinne
@Villago Delenda Est:
Oh, I agree, but I was just talking about a simple ink-stained wretch of a copy editor.
SiubhanDuinne
@hells littlest angel:
No shit, he died? How did I manage to miss that?
hells littlest angel
@SiubhanDuinne: Except in the Post, it wasn’t exactly front page news.
delk
My husband went back to his office today. We’re celebrating with takeout from Portillo’s.
Villago Delenda Est
@hells littlest angel: Well, good riddance to bad rubbish. Now, if we can just hear about untimely demises of just about every last hack at the Vichy Times…
realbtl
In 1946 Bernare DeVoto wrote of the western mentality as “Get out and give us more money.” Seems to have spread to a good percentage of the rest of the country.
MagdaInBlack
@delk: Bacon double cheeseburger and the chocolate cake?
Kay
Here’s the bill
MagdaInBlack
@Kay: Ya. I just read that. It’s horrifying. They’re officially trying to kill us.
danielx
@narya:
That thought has crossed my mind. WTF are they trying to accomplish? If all they want is to publicize that they are pissed off at (nonexistent) government mandates, they could have pooled their money and taken out a full page ad in the FNYT, a la TFG, and gotten the message out with a lot less trouble. Yes, it would be giving money to the lying librul media but if it’s good enough for Trump…
Of course, if they want to publicize that they are assholes, well, fair enough – wish granted.
delk
@MagdaInBlack: beef and cake! Last time they were out of cake. ?
Kay
@MagdaInBlack:
I can’t imagine the discussions these nutcases are having.
A group of people sat around a room and drafted that bill. Do they even know what it means? They know she’ll bleed to death and die, right?
JMS
@Villago Delenda Est: This isn’t the first time someone made a comment that made me wonder if everyone knows Fred Hiatt is dead. He’s dead. Maybe his ghost can do something.
James E Powell
@SiubhanDuinne:
I favor the DH over watching pitchers flail or just stand there. But I mostly favor the rule being the same in both leagues.
The expanded playoffs bother me because the season is already too long. If they went to like 140 games, I’d be okay with expanded playoffs.
MagdaInBlack
@delk: Bastages !!! I hope you got a whole cake just to make up for that.
MagdaInBlack
@Kay: No, they probably don’t know that. Or care.
Jeffro
If Ted Cruz is your champion, you DESPERATELY need to rethink your cause.
In other, much anticipated news, it looks like Tulsi’s on her way to being outed as a paid Russian sympathizer. Who could have guessed?
Tucker, you’re next!
Old Dan and Little Ann
I live and breathe baseball for 6 months. I haven’t paid any attention to the bullshit this winter. Today’s news made me happy. Why anyone will miss watching pitchers try and hit is beyond me. April 7. Whok-hoo!
Kalakal
@Kay: The complete and utter bastards. That’s murder.
Baud
@Jeffro:
Hillary Clinton
Baud
@Old Dan and Little Ann:
I prefer it when position players pitch.
danielx
@Kay:
We all know that actual knowledge and expertise on a given subject is not a requirement for legislators. The asshole(s) in Missouri is not alone in his ignorance, and if that means some women have to die in consequence, well, everybody knows making omelets is hard on a few eggs.
A sponsor of an Ohio abortion bill thinks you can reimplant ectopic pregnancies. You can’t.
Argiope
@MagdaInBlack: I suspect they drank the koolaid some quack was selling re: relocating ectopic pregnancies —which is not just hogwash but dangerous as fuck. Should never be attempted. Sigh. Another lawmaker that knows absolutely nothing about lady parts making laws about lady parts without bothering to learn because they are already sure they are right. Jesus hopscotching Christ.
Mike in NC
We’re watching an absolutely deranged movie called “Suicide Squad” starring Margot Robbie and Idris Elba.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@danielx: I tell myself these bills can’t possibly pass. We’ll see, I guess.
Shalimar
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Ted Cruz finished 2nd in 2016. 2nd place in 2012 was Rick Santorum. So not only are Republican candidates terrible, but the cliff from 1st to 2nd is incredibly steep.
Kay
@danielx:
Ban insurance from covering birth control. There it is. They lie constantly. I knew they were going to reach birth control and they knew it too.
Ohio Mom
Somehow I managed to get goat cheese in the part of the cellphone the charger wire goes into. I succeeded in removing one glob using a toothpick but a box popped up telling me moisture was detected and I would not be allowed to charge the phone, which was done to 24%. And yes, the phone refuses to charge.
For the first time in probably a year, maybe longer, I am using my laptop to read Balloon Juice. It looks funny on the big screen. I miss my phone terribly. I can’t wait until the You Broke It, We Fix It shop opens tomorrow.
Meanwhile, as I fight my grief, Ohio Dad is muttering how much cell phones cost.
MagdaInBlack
@Kay: Are we going to ban hysterectomies too?
danielx
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
This bill was passed in 2019, but evidently was struck down by the courts; WaPo article is from 2019.
Suzanne
@Ohio Mom: RICE! Put it in rice!!!
Kay
@MagdaInBlack:
They can do anything they want to women. Who’s going to stop them? Their Supreme Court? Packed with religious fundamentalists who don’t recognize or follow current law?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@danielx: Cripes.
Old Dan and Little Ann
@Baud: Hey it happens a few times a year in big blowouts. Always entertaining.
Taken4Granite
@Repatriated: “Rubber Duck” is the CB handle of the narrator in the song “Convoy”. I’m not sure whether that trucker was praising Cruz or throwing shade.
debbie
@Old Dan and Little Ann:
I haven’t watched baseball in years, but I thought making pitchers try to bat made them look like chumps.
Ohio Mom
@Suzanne: It’s in rice, specifically inside the tupperware labeled: Wet Cell RIce DO NOT EAT.
MagdaInBlack
@Taken4Granite: I believe “Rubber Duck” was ” about to put the hammer down”…..so unfortunately, probably praise.
It’s just embarrassing I still know all the words.
Suzanne
@Ohio Mom: What kind of rice?
Kelly
Art Robinson is so weird people wouldn’t accept him as a movie character. Freshly resigned statewide GOP head Dallas Heard is merely weird enough to be a movie character but he’s still young, give him time.
Ohio Mom
@Suzanne: Just generic white rice. Every couple of years it gets used to dry out either a cell phone or the meat thermometer after it gets wet. If the end of the world comes, we’ll probably break down and eat it.
Kay
I love how little media coverage these draconian laws regulating pregnancy get.
It would be good to compare the coverage of the “Canada truckers” + the “US truckers” with the coverage of these proposed laws that involve tracking women when they travel outside a state and this latest, which will kill women. It’s not hard to tell who is important in this country, whose “rights” matter to our media. Interview some more Trump truckers driving around in circles. Let’s hear some more about how their rights are threatened.
Another Scott
@Ohio Mom:
IFixIt thread
There’s also a reddit thread out there where someone dropped their phone in some nacho cheese. At least you didn’t do that. :-) One of his steps was trying to suck as much of the cheese out as possible. It sounds kinda gross, but maybe it’s worth a try? After that, dry it as well as possible (yeah a baggie of rice may help) before trying to charge it.
Good luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
this seems like a big fuck you to the Kremlin Goblin from what I’m sure he considers a client state
Sister Golden Bear
It’s worth noting these snowflakes started their convoy in Adelanto, CA — which is east of LA in the high desert on the other side of a mountain range — probably because they couldn’t deal with SoCal traffic. And/or no one would even notice their attempts to slow down traffic… Because LA rush hour traffic.
Roger Moore
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Not to me. The Republicans have a weak bench. Any Republican governor or senator who talks a halfway good game about running will be treated seriously until they’ve thoroughly shown their ass in public. Yeah, Cruz as president is a ridiculous prospect, but you could say the same thing about every other candidate in 2016.
Ruckus
@Villago Delenda Est:
That’s not being very nice to dickweeds…
I mean damn, show a little respect.
OK not that much.
Ken
IIRC, the next sign is the moon turning red as blood, and then the four horsemen ride.
Ohio Mom
@Suzanne: Just generic white rice. Every couple of years it gets used to dry out either a cell phone or the meat thermometer after it gets wet. If the end of the world comes, we’ll probably break down and eat it.
Kelly
Obviously NOW & Planned Parenthood need to create a fleet of mobile abortion clinics on large trucks so the media will realize this is an important issue.
Redshift
People working in a business which depends far more than most on government telling people what to do just want “government to leave them the hell alone.” Sure, Ted.
Ohio Mom
I take some hope in what happened in Lebanon, a small town just north of Cincinnati. Early last year, the city council enacted a law against both getting an abortion within the city limits or helping someone get an abortion. The two nuts responsible for this overreach were promptly voted out in November.
I continue to believe there will be a huge backlash eventually, like there was in Ireland. But there will be a lot of avoidable suffering and loss of life before that.
Redshift
@Sister Golden Bear: DC drivers had the same reaction. “Bring the Beltway to a standstill? We do that every day without any help from these clowns.”
danielx
@Roger Moore:
Heh…I recall a few years back when there were FOURTEEN Republicans trying to get on primary ballots, including the late Herman Cain. I well remember thinking I could not believe this parcel of dimwits each looked in the mirror and saw presidential timber looking back. Some of them could barely emit a coherent sentence, let alone enunciate a policy position.
hedgehog mobile
@SiubhanDuinne: Preach.
Suzanne
So O/T: I am in Philly (headed home tomorrow), and I went to Reading Terminal Market after work and got a pastrami Reuben for dinner. It’s the first time I’ve had one in twenty years. I forgot how delicious they are. I missed Jewish delis when I was in the southwest. Of course, the Mexican food here is bad.
I still have never had a cheesesteak.
Uncle Cosmo
@Old Dan and Little Ann: Forget “position players pitching.” You want entertaining? Try a relief pitcher pitching with a position player dressed as a catcher behind the plate:
You could look it up. :^D
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@SiubhanDuinne: without the double switch the game is dead to me
Uncle Cosmo
Sheeyit, if you’re willing to settle for horses’ asses instead, you can pick any quartet from the next GOP primary field. (Cf. danielx at #111 supra.)
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@JMS: No kidding. So he’s having dinner with his buddy Augusto Pinochet. Lot of good news today (albeit belatedly).
Ken
@Villago Delenda Est: I did think this part sounded more suited to a collectible card game than to the sport itself:
Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan
@Kay: I shared this on the tweeter machine earlier:
I helped raise three, and I couldn’t love them more if we had had them ourselves, but that loss still hurts, compounded by the fact that I wound up losing her 20 years later.
These “people” make me mighty stabby sometimes…
Ella in New Mexico
I really don’t get how a guy as fucking dumb as Ted Cruz managed to graduate from Harvard and a part of me resents it as a proud state university gra
and believe me, I get his SAT’s or grades could have gotten him in but, seriously?
He has absolutley no social intelligence.
Doug R
@Mike in NC: The Suicide Squad is wonderfully deranged and it leads into the Peacemaker mini-series on HBO Max. Which if you like the movie, you should enjoy.
moops
Stop feeding these goobers attention. That is all.
Ken
@moops: But… but… duty calls!
El-Man
Regarding Cruz, I used to call him Rafael, but now he’s Reek (re: GoT)
SiubhanDuinne
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan:
Your tweet seems almost excessively mild and contained. I’d be frothing at the mouth.
Big hugs to you.
Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan
@SiubhanDuinne: Thank you. It’s been a long time since it happened, and I don’t talk about it much. If I were to dwell on it overly long, I’d be little more than a ball of incoherent rage.
Mike E
@Ken: The fookin’ Cubs finally winning in ’16, after Babe and goats and shit, opened up the Hellmouth so that particular ship has sailed, hate to break it to ya.
@Suzanne: you really can’t go wrong at the RTM. I’m from there and I haven’t had a cheesesteak in years, though I’m craving a roast pork sammich right about now (a Philly pretzel and mustard too!)
Quiltingfool
I looked up Missouri House Bill 2810, which forbids all sorts of things pertaining to abortion, including no abortion for ectopic pregnancy. The bill was filed by State Representative Seitz, some preacher asshole from Branson. I just now sent an email to my State Representative (who is a woman) expressing my extreme anger over the bill. Doubt it will do much good, but just maybe some folks will remove that part of the bill. Not holding my breath, these fucking assholes are bound and determined to kill women for God.
frosty
@Uncle Cosmo: I remember listening to that game. It was awesome!
laura
@Quiltingfool:
these fucking assholes are bound and determined to kill women for God. Not quite, they are bound and determined to kill women because they want to kill women.
Suzanne
@Mike E: My office is only a couple of blocks away, but I don’t get to go the the RTM often because it closes early. I decided I earned leaving at 5 today, tho.
Restaurant recommendations for Philly Center City/Rittenhouse Square gratefully accepted. Especially Italian.
mrmoshpotato
@Miss Bianca:
Sure. And fuck all of this trucker trash for trying to steal from Sam Peckinpah.
eclare
@Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan: Oh gosh that’s awful. I’m so sorry, and these insane bills must bring up painful feelings over and over again.
Liminal Owl
@Villago Delenda Est: Great minds think alike.
(For those wondering about “Rubber Duck” as a nym : https://youtu.be/Sd5ZLJWQmss )
ETtheLibrarian
If anyone needs a laugh there is apparently a live stream of this thing.
https://twitter.com/inminivanhell/status/1502064171432697856?s=10
This clip seems to capture what some other truckers feel about them.
vigilhorn
As far as I’m concerned, Ted Cruz can drive around the Beltway till the end of time.
Miss Bianca
@Another Scott:
@Ohio Mom: Dead thread, but drying out the charger space with a hair dryer – or blowing it out with an air compressor – seems to help as well.
misterpuff
@Mike in NC:
When you are done you can go to watch “Peacemaker” om HBO Max. It’s awesome.
LongHairedWeirdo
Just a technical note: the “bum’s rush” refers to pitching a “bum” out of your eating (or, more likely, drinking) establishment, by grabbing them at the seat of the pants, and the nape of the neck (usually, the collar of their shirt), keeping their center of mass *below* their hips, so they can’t get any purchase, until you heave, and they land, most likely in the muck, if there’s muck to be had.