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You are here: Home / Civil Rights / LGBTQ Rights / LGBTQ Rights Are Human Rights / Friday Evening Open Thread: No Republican Wants to *Work* Any More

Friday Evening Open Thread: No Republican Wants to *Work* Any More

by Anne Laurie|  July 22, 20227:03 pm| 117 Comments

This post is in: LGBTQ Rights Are Human Rights, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality

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PetSmart manager stands up to Kari Lake supporter Ethan Schmidt, kicks him out of the store for harassing employees over a pride flag. pic.twitter.com/YGvFMG4cU9

— PatriotTakes šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø (@patriottakes) July 22, 2022

(h/t BoingBoing)

 
Big, hulking, apparently quite physically healthy Ethan Schmidt is trying to make a career out of harassing retail clerks instead of doing honest work. And he can’t even be arsed to do a half-decent job on his self-promotional videos, because as long as he blarts out the worship words often enough, he figures his marks philosophical fellows will throw money at him.

Of course, he’s just following the template of his Republican betters…

a thing that genuinely enrages me and i cannot seem to ever let go of is how absolutely fucking useless at and disinterested in their actual goddamn jobs the average republican house rep is. https://t.co/nQ6eSINAzK

— GONELIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) July 19, 2022

Friday Evening Open Thread: No Repub Wants to *Work* Any More

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117Comments

  1. 1.

    NotMax

    July 22, 2022 at 7:09 pm

    “What, me worry work?”

    //

  2. 2.

    Baud

    July 22, 2022 at 7:10 pm

    It’s always projection.

  3. 3.

    Albatrossity

    July 22, 2022 at 7:10 pm

    Frankly, it’s probably a good thing that they are lazy SOBs

  4. 4.

    Dan B

    July 22, 2022 at 7:16 pm

    So, I have questions.Ā  Why does this guy think “sex” Immediately when he sees a Pride Flag?Ā  Has he ever looked in the mirror and asked himself why?Ā  Has he ever asked friends why he thinks of sex, and children?

  5. 5.

    Baud

    July 22, 2022 at 7:18 pm

    Heh. The asshole said Petco instead of PetSmart.

  6. 6.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    July 22, 2022 at 7:21 pm

    I wish anyone of those workers just said, “Go fuck off and die under your bridge, troll.”Ā  What a douche.

  7. 7.

    lgerard

    July 22, 2022 at 7:21 pm

    At least Lee Zeldin is tackling the tough issues

    Zeldin says Earth is indeed round when challenged at campaign stop in North Country pic.twitter.com/hCT6u7HKRa— Zach Williams (@ZachReports) July 22, 2022

  8. 8.

    Baud

    July 22, 2022 at 7:21 pm

    That PetSmart was very empty.

  9. 9.

    JaneE

    July 22, 2022 at 7:21 pm

    He objects to the pride flag but he goes out in public looking like Snidely Whiplash?Ā  Enticing kids by looking like a cartoon character maybe?

    It is really too bad that the employees have to be polite to the customer even when he is a jerk.Ā  And he doesn’t even know where he is.Ā  On something or just that stupid?

    He should know that all the BS he was spouting is just that – BS.

  10. 10.

    Baud

    July 22, 2022 at 7:22 pm

    @lgerard:

    So he’s the so-called reasonable republican the media keeps talking about.

  11. 11.

    CaseyL

    July 22, 2022 at 7:22 pm

    Madison Cawthorne made it clear when he was being oriented along with the rest of the freshman class that he wasn’t interested in policy, just “coms.”Ā  He said the secret part out loud (like he did about cocaine and orgies amongst the GOP): not a single GOP politician is the slightest bit interested in policy.Ā  They’re only there to pass laws favoring their donors, and otherwise grift.

  12. 12.

    Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›

    July 22, 2022 at 7:27 pm

    @Dan B: Because they’re the sick perverts, not us. They are the ones who think consenting adults in a relationship is no different than pedophilia, bestiality, and whatever else. They come up with that shit in their heads, yet they call us sick.

    As a queer person, that video makes me angry, but also just makes me want to cry. And that dude ought to get pummeled just for that fucking mustache.

  13. 13.

    bbleh

    July 22, 2022 at 7:28 pm

    Pure performativeness is more like it. Ā They can’t run on their policies — those are wildly unpopular, if not outright ghoulish — and they can’t state their feelings openly — overt racism is still frowned upon — so all they have left is code-words and acting out.

    They’re like children trying to assert themselves by deliberately misbehaving. Ā It’s sort of sad, and it might be comical at times, except for those assault weapons and stuff …

  14. 14.

    Ken

    July 22, 2022 at 7:28 pm

    @lgerard: I assume “round” is a code word. Sane people assume he means “sphere”, but those in the know understand it to mean “plate shaped”.

  15. 15.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    July 22, 2022 at 7:29 pm

    The J6 Committee is startling partly because they’ve obviously done the work and are concentrating on the task at hand

  16. 16.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 22, 2022 at 7:34 pm

    Video of Bannon being carted off to jail.

  17. 17.

    Baud

    July 22, 2022 at 7:36 pm

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Heh. Poor baby.

  18. 18.

    SpaceUnit

    July 22, 2022 at 7:37 pm

    Ha. Ā That PetSmart manager wasn’t having none.

    That’s the way you do it.

  19. 19.

    Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›

    July 22, 2022 at 7:37 pm

    The Petsmart troll and my comment above reminded me of something. Now, obviously Marilyn Manson has turned out to be a massive pig and a horrid person, and he can fuck off every day and twice on Sundays, but I recall an interview he did when the band was in its heyday. There were always these wild crazy rumors about shit he would do during concerts. Just the most bizarre claims. I saw them in concert twice and the worst thing I ever saw him do was grab a disposable camera (this was obviously many years ago) out of someone’s hand who was in the pit up front, use it to take a picture under his kilt, then toss the camera back into the crowd.

    But there would be these fundie Christians claiming he would throw bags of drugs into the audience, or drag girls onstage and make them strip, or throw a puppy into the pit and say the show wouldn’t start till it was dead. Just the height of insanity. And in an interview, he noted that 1) he never did anything like any of that and never would (though the thing about harming women…yeah, you would do that, and you did, you asshole); and 2) it was these supposed good righteous Christians who were coming up with these sick, disgusting acts. So, he said, which one of us is actually the sick one? It’s their minds creating these scenarios, so it’s their minds where the sickness is coming from.

    Same shit different style with these Q monsters and their LGBTQ IS SATANIC CHILD MOLESTATION!!!!!! bullshit. You’re making all these wild claims about me and my people, yet the sole source for the repulsiveness is your own depraved mind.

  20. 20.

    lgerard

    July 22, 2022 at 7:41 pm

    Science weighs in

    Josh Hawley ran 7.2 in the 40 at the January 6 combine

    I wonder who won the Cheeseberder Toss

  21. 21.

    RedDirtGirl

    July 22, 2022 at 7:42 pm

    @CaseyL: I was just wondering about him today. He’s been awfully quiet.

  22. 22.

    Major Major Major Major

    July 22, 2022 at 7:43 pm

    @Dan B: oh this is their new thing. Any mention of the QUILTBAG community is about sex. That’s why it’s important to pass laws outlawing having a picture of your same-sex spouse on your desk if you’re a teacher. For the children you see

    Same as their old thing really although I’ve noticed I hear less about shoving things down their throats than I used to.

  23. 23.

    RedDirtGirl

    July 22, 2022 at 7:44 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: that could just as easily be video of Bannon being taken to get bathed!

  24. 24.

    SpaceUnit

    July 22, 2022 at 7:47 pm

    @Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›:

    Best thing Marilyn Manson ever did was help Jessicka Addams get Jack Off JillĀ up and going. Ā That band was fire.

  25. 25.

    Jeffro

    July 22, 2022 at 7:47 pm

    @Albatrossity: Frankly, it’s probably a good thing that they are lazy SOBs

    I was gonna say the same thing!

    Are we sure we want these clowns to display even a hint of a work ethic?

  26. 26.

    bbleh

    July 22, 2022 at 7:48 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: after a while they relax and it’s not a problem

  27. 27.

    Jeffro

    July 22, 2022 at 7:49 pm

    @CaseyL:not a single GOP politician is the slightest bit interested in policy.Ā  They’re only there to pass laws favoring their donors, and otherwise grift.

    THIS.

    Mallory McMorrow up in MI called them out on it too, about using culture war “issues” to fundraise while doing nothing to actually improve their constituents’ lives. Ā Nota bene, Dems.

  28. 28.

    ColoradoGuy

    July 22, 2022 at 7:49 pm

    We need a name for “Internet-amplified mass psychosis”, because that’s this is. It’s what the Republican party (and their info apparatus) has become.

  29. 29.

    Baud

    July 22, 2022 at 7:50 pm

    @ColoradoGuy:

    Internet-amplified mass psychosis

     
    Rotating tag material.

  30. 30.

    John Cole

    July 22, 2022 at 7:51 pm

    Ethan Schmidt has a long history of this. Is currently on probation and was just arrested again for violation of probation and trying to buy a gun via some gofundme for wingnuts. He was banned from all Target stores and cops are on him for making death threats. He’ll be in jail or dead from suicide after a mass shooting within a year or two.

  31. 31.

    Sister Golden Bear

    July 22, 2022 at 7:51 pm

    @NotMax: Work is for theĀ little people n’clangs, doncha know.

  32. 32.

    Wvng

    July 22, 2022 at 7:52 pm

    They work very hard at performative assholery.

  33. 33.

    Wvng

    July 22, 2022 at 7:55 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: The J6 committee could only be effective by refusing to seat disruptors. If Jordan or another of his ilk was there it would be a zoo.

  34. 34.

    Another Scott

    July 22, 2022 at 7:57 pm

    Speaking of people with too much time on their hands doing disturbing things with video… PetaPixel:

    Researchers from Samsung Labs have developed a way to create high-resolution avatars, or deepfakes, from a single still frame photo or even a painting.

    Called MegaPortraits, the team says they can create megapixel-sized avatars from simple single-frame starting points. The team says that its advances tackled a particularly challenging problem of when the appearance of the driving image is substantially different from the animated source image. For example, it is much harder to operate an effective deepfake of Angelina Jolie when the subject is a short-haired male.

    Impressive, but I’m having trouble thinking of a good use for this while coming up with all kinds of bad uses…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  35. 35.

    Sister Golden Bear

    July 22, 2022 at 7:58 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: They’re now laying back and thinking ofĀ England Jebus?

  36. 36.

    Major Major Major Major

    July 22, 2022 at 8:03 pm

    @John Cole: here’s hoping it’s the former!

  37. 37.

    Dan B

    July 22, 2022 at 8:05 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: Better than thinking of Maggie Thatcher or Ayn Rand.

  38. 38.

    HinTN

    July 22, 2022 at 8:06 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Congress used to behave like that.

  39. 39.

    HinTN

    July 22, 2022 at 8:09 pm

    @ColoradoGuy: IAMP works fine for me.

  40. 40.

    HinTN

    July 22, 2022 at 8:10 pm

    @John Cole: Like your robin’s egg blue, Cole. Welcome back.

  41. 41.

    E.

    July 22, 2022 at 8:10 pm

    One of the most frightening parts of Handmaid’s Tale for me was the flashback to the women getting harassed in the store for their clothing, just before everything changed. The Petco thing brings shivers down my spine. “That’s offensive we can’t have that. Take it down.”

  42. 42.

    Jay

    July 22, 2022 at 8:16 pm

    When I worked retail, we had to deal with morons during Pride and other occasions.

    I dealt with the homophobes by interrupting them, pointing out that homophobia was a mental illness, left untreated destroys the brain and the heart, that there were a wide array of treatments ranging from talk therapy to chemical castration, and that they should seek professional help before it was to late.

  43. 43.

    Betsy

    July 22, 2022 at 8:19 pm

    In a country founded in slavery, obviously no one wants to work.

    This is what labor abuse does to people – work is hell, so what idiot would work?

    And conversely, if you work for a living, then you must be an idiot or a dupe — and obviously one of god’s non-chosen people.

    Want to stop the grift and the grifters? Support labor.

    Make work pay. Ā Make it a choice rational people want to make, instead of right-wing grifting, quackery, etc.

  44. 44.

    Betsy

    July 22, 2022 at 8:21 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: Ā Exactly /s

  45. 45.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 22, 2022 at 8:22 pm

    @RedDirtGirl:

    Hah!

  46. 46.

    different-church-lady

    July 22, 2022 at 8:23 pm

    At some point we’re going to have to address the aspects of our electoral system that reward sociopathic narcissists with increasing frequency.

  47. 47.

    Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›

    July 22, 2022 at 8:25 pm

    @E.: Yeah. But also, I love how they’re all going all in on the “the rainbow is from God and gays corrupted it and we have to take it back” thing. I’m like…sorry bitches, God gave it to us, it’s ours now. You can make one out of Earth tones.

  48. 48.

    different-church-lady

    July 22, 2022 at 8:28 pm

    @Albatrossity: This is probably the very reason Liz Cheney wants to put Trump away: she knows that true power takes work, and Trump keeps fucking up the machine.

  49. 49.

    different-church-lady

    July 22, 2022 at 8:29 pm

    @Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›: Holy Christ, nobody is saying straights can’t have rainbows. These people have brain worms.

  50. 50.

    Ksmiami

    July 22, 2022 at 8:33 pm

    @Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›: Somehow, sometimes – someone out there is having a good time and it absolutely enrages Republicans. Trash party of trash people. Democrats will leave you the fuck alone unless you bring a gun to a parade…

  51. 51.

    Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›

    July 22, 2022 at 8:34 pm

    @different-church-lady: It’s not that they think they can’t–it’s that we gays have made it all icky by getting our gayness all over it. They think we’ve perverted it by making it our symbol.

    Plus TBH I don’t love when straight people wear stuff with rainbows on it. It’s hard enough as a useless lesbian figuring out if a chick is into you. Like literally a girl could stick her tongue down your throat and you’re like…………….I don’t know if she likes me like that, though.

  52. 52.

    trollhattan

    July 22, 2022 at 8:39 pm

    Mood. Digby posted this video of sea lions clearing the beach of jerk hoomans. Tell me that’s not how you feel right about now. Call a sea lion!

  53. 53.

    Ksmiami

    July 22, 2022 at 8:40 pm

    @different-church-lady: the prion disease Charles Pierce coined has fully taken over the GOP. Once you stop looking at government as a way to make people’s lives better thru civil society, Ā the whole thing becomes about performative grifting, or worse, a power trip to hurt the ppl you hate.

  54. 54.

    Urza

    July 22, 2022 at 8:43 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Same as their old thing really although I’ve noticed I hear less about shoving things down their throats than I used to.

    I think this was their personal fantasy about Obama, seemed to mainly be used then and tapered off quite a bit as soon as he wasn’t the main boogeyman.

  55. 55.

    cliosfanboy

    July 22, 2022 at 8:43 pm

    I’ve never heard of this clown before. Good on the managers for tossing him out.

  56. 56.

    Doc Sardonic

    July 22, 2022 at 8:44 pm

    @Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›: Not a lesbian, just an old dude that has been around the roller rink a few times, but if a girl wants to play tonsil hockey don’t ask questions just go where the tilt-o-whirl takes you.

  57. 57.

    Kropacetic

    July 22, 2022 at 8:50 pm

    Why won’t you accept these claims I’m making aboutĀ  a whole group of people at face value? I don’t have an obvious agenda or anything…

  58. 58.

    different-church-lady

    July 22, 2022 at 8:51 pm

    @Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›: I’m learning so much here!

  59. 59.

    Jay

    July 22, 2022 at 8:52 pm

    @Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›:

    God gave it to us, it’s ours now. You can make one out of Flat Earth tones.

  60. 60.

    different-church-lady

    July 22, 2022 at 8:53 pm

    I’n going to look at the weather report for the weekend. Please pray for me.

  61. 61.

    Subsole

    July 22, 2022 at 8:58 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    I have never heard that expression for LGBTQ before. Kinda neat. Is it cool for the straights to use it?

     

     

    @bbleh: Ohhh, my…!

  62. 62.

    different-church-lady

    July 22, 2022 at 9:01 pm

    @ColoradoGuy:

    We need a name for ā€œInternet-amplified mass psychosisā€

    I kinda like the name Ā ā€œInternet-amplified mass psychosisā€ as it is.

  63. 63.

    Jay

    July 22, 2022 at 9:01 pm

    @Subsole:

    https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/QUILTBAG

  64. 64.

    Subsole

    July 22, 2022 at 9:02 pm

     

     

    @Wvng: Is it really work if it’s second natute?

  65. 65.

    different-church-lady

    July 22, 2022 at 9:02 pm

    @Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›: Naw, straights will make one out of white and off-whites.

  66. 66.

    Subsole

    July 22, 2022 at 9:05 pm

    @HinTN:

    Media Exacerbated Mass Delusion.

    “Oh shit, Uncle Steev’s all Meem’d again. Who left Tucker on?”

  67. 67.

    James E Powell

    July 22, 2022 at 9:08 pm

    @Baud:

    SoĀ he’sĀ the so-called reasonable republican the media keeps talking about.

    He was a happy, well-adjusted person until he read an article about pronouns & micro-aggressions.

  68. 68.

    different-church-lady

    July 22, 2022 at 9:08 pm

    @Another Scott:

    I’m having trouble thinking of a good use for this while coming up with all kinds of bad uses

    You’ll be rich in Silicone Valley in no time!

  69. 69.

    Subsole

    July 22, 2022 at 9:09 pm

    @Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›: Huh. The things I learn here.

     

    Do you mean like, it’s hard to tell if they’re just using you for sex, or like, they’re just exploring their identity and you happened to ge there, or what? Not trying to pry, just genuinely confused.

  70. 70.

    Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›

    July 22, 2022 at 9:10 pm

    @different-church-lady: LOL! “White, off-white, eggshell, cream, ivory, vanilla, snow – a veritable rainbow of paleness!”

  71. 71.

    Subsole

    July 22, 2022 at 9:13 pm

     

     

    @Jay: Thanks. The fact it says it was coined as a self-designation makes me think I’d best stick to ‘LGBTQ’ if I want to avoid giving offense. Correct?

  72. 72.

    Subsole

    July 22, 2022 at 9:16 pm

    @Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›:

    “We got both kinds here – bleach andĀ chalk!”

  73. 73.

    Jay

    July 22, 2022 at 9:19 pm

    @Subsole:

    for now, probably. It’s not a ā€œcommonā€ term outside of certain communities.

  74. 74.

    Subsole

    July 22, 2022 at 9:23 pm

    @Jay: Cool. Thanks.

  75. 75.

    DMcK

    July 22, 2022 at 9:30 pm

    @Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›:

    Ken Nordine: Beige

  76. 76.

    Lyrebird

    July 22, 2022 at 9:34 pm

    @Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›: ​
     

    TBH I don’t love when straight people wear stuff with rainbows on it.

    I don’t see the “Straight but Not Narrow” bumper sticker anymore, I wanted it before I had a car. Guess it sounds kind of old school.

  77. 77.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 22, 2022 at 9:36 pm

    This soldier’s body armor has additional protection. In addition to the usual armor plates, there is also a drawing made by his daughter which will “protect dad from the evil russians.”

  78. 78.

    tom

    July 22, 2022 at 9:41 pm

    @Subsole: I’m a gay man and honestly this is the first time I’ve heard this expression.

    Maybe I need to get out more.

  79. 79.

    BeautifulPlumage

    July 22, 2022 at 9:43 pm

    If Dan B is still around – thank you for the lovely garden pics. I especially lived the irises bred for PNW. Both of them were gorgeous.

  80. 80.

    BeautifulPlumage

    July 22, 2022 at 9:44 pm

    @Jay:Ā  hahahahaha love it!

  81. 81.

    ColoradoGuy

    July 22, 2022 at 9:51 pm

    OK, “Internet amplified mass psychosis” it is. Since I design vacuum-tube power amps as a hobby, I guess I missed the obvious acronym.

  82. 82.

    Anotherlurker

    July 22, 2022 at 9:56 pm

    The video at Petsmart is infuriating. Ā These bible humpers are really low life.

    BTW the jerk sports a handlebar mustache that would make him fit right in in a Bear Bar . Ā However, I hope he stays out of gay bars and leaves the customers alone.

    On 2nd thought, he is probably a coward who likes to punch down on retail workers and would piss his pants if he got any serious push back on his hateful nonsense.

  83. 83.

    dnfree

    July 22, 2022 at 9:58 pm

    @Ken: I have had that very conversation with a fundamentalist relative.Ā  He says that the Bible (which is always correct) refers to the earth as “round”.Ā  But the Bible actually uses the two-dimensional term for a circle, apparently, not a sphere.

  84. 84.

    Kropacetic

    July 22, 2022 at 10:05 pm

    @tom: I’m a gay man and honestly this is the first time I’ve heard this expression.

    Same here. I like it, though. Pithy.

    @Anotherlurker: BTW the jerk sports a handlebar mustache that would make him fit right in in a Bear Bar . Ā However, I hope he stays out of gay bars and leaves the customers alone.

    On 2nd thought, he is probably a coward who likes to punch down on retail workers and would piss his pants if he got any serious push back on his hateful nonsense.

    If you need to get your feelings out, retail workers are cheaper than a therapist. Less likely to help provide insight. This man needs help worming through whatever emotions he is sublimating.

  85. 85.

    Major Major Major Major

    July 22, 2022 at 10:08 pm

    @Subsole: sure? I picked it up on a writing forum. You got all those letters, might as well spell something nice.

    Nobody will know what you mean if you say it out loud, but it’s pretty clear spelled out cuz of the caps.

  86. 86.

    Xavier

    July 22, 2022 at 10:08 pm

    @Jeffro: R’s want two things from government: protection of private property rights and preservation of the status quo of privilege. They regard any attempt at promoting the general welfare as a threat to those rights and privileges

  87. 87.

    Kropacetic

    July 22, 2022 at 10:11 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: You got all those letters, might as well spell something nice.

    “QUILTBAG” definitely carries a pleasant queer vibe, too. YMMV.

    @Kropacetic: I effed up my second blockquote here. Should include second paragraph.

  88. 88.

    JaySinWA

    July 22, 2022 at 10:15 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:Nobody will know what you mean if you say it out loud, but it’s pretty clear spelled out cuz of the caps.

    Some will think you are yelling at them, especially after they learn what it stands for.

  89. 89.

    Kropacetic

    July 22, 2022 at 10:16 pm

    @JaySinWA: That may be a matter of context.

  90. 90.

    Jackie

    July 22, 2022 at 10:18 pm

    @Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›: My granddaughters love wearing rainbows and unicorns. With glitter. I think 75% of their wardrobes consist of a combination of these – plus pink and purple lol

    I don’t think they’ll surrender these anytime soon!

  91. 91.

    Marmot

    July 22, 2022 at 10:26 pm

    @Xavier: Heck, that’s just one thing—protecting the traditional social order.

  92. 92.

    Tony G

    July 22, 2022 at 10:32 pm

    @John Cole: I’d never heard of this particular asshole before today, so I used the Google-machine to look him up. Ā Twenty three years old, apparently, and this is apparently what he does all day instead of working for a living. Ā When I was 23 (in the Stone Age) I’d been working for 7 years, two years full time. Ā I wonder who’s paying this guy’s bills — buying food, mustache wax, etc. Ā Is he just freeloading off Mommy, or is some wealthy fascist supporting him? Ā What a worthless lump of protoplasm.

  93. 93.

    Tony G

    July 22, 2022 at 10:36 pm

    @Dan B: To paraphrase “The Onion” — why are all those gay men making this guy horny?

  94. 94.

    Darkrose

    July 22, 2022 at 10:36 pm

    @Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›: The real question is when does the U-Haul get rented? That’s usually a pretty good hint. In my case, it was when she helped me pack and drove across country with me.

  95. 95.

    Jay

    July 22, 2022 at 10:39 pm

    @Tony G:

    douchebag’s name?

  96. 96.

    VOR

    July 22, 2022 at 10:43 pm

    I think it was The Daily Show when Jon Stewart was the host, did a piece on Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), then a Representative and now a Senator. They showed clips of her on Fox talking about how she couldn’t wait to ask questions of someone, how she had a long list. The day of the hearing comes. She asked 1 question, yielded the rest of her time, then rushed out into the hallway to do an interview. All about the soundbite.

  97. 97.

    Burnspbesq

    July 22, 2022 at 10:52 pm

    @Baud:

    Big-box pet stores are, simply put, big boxes. Rarely crowded unless you go on Saturday afternoon.

  98. 98.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 22, 2022 at 10:56 pm

    Middle of 9

    Blue Jays came to Boston to play football.Ā  28-5 right now.

    Also, Boston Beaneaters, 30 — vs. Detroit Wolverines (8) on June 9, 1883 hehe

  99. 99.

    prostratedragon

    July 22, 2022 at 10:57 pm

    Young runner just crushed the WR in 400 hurdles at the World Championships.Ā  Sydney McLaughlin.Ā  Looks like Secretariat at Belmont.

  100. 100.

    Burnspbesq

    July 22, 2022 at 10:58 pm

    @Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›:

    The word ā€œincelā€ was invented to describe sick, bitter assholes like that guy.

  101. 101.

    Jay

    July 22, 2022 at 11:01 pm

    @Jay:

    never mind,

    https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/26/ethan-schmidt-lgbtq-hunt-pride-month-target-joann-fabrics/

  102. 102.

    caphilldcne

    July 22, 2022 at 11:10 pm

    So I’m late to this conversation. Please don’t give this idiot any oxygen. He’s a complete anti-masker fool who’s been banned from the grounds of the Arizona state capital. Prior to this he was famously owned by some DARE kid – admittedly funny:
    https://twitter.com/SamHaft/status/1441068604179374083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1441068604179374083%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgod.dailydot.com%2Fethan-schmidt-dare%2F
    The kid lost his job then got it back – I’m pretty sure he’s smart enough to stop repping DARE. Anyway, this guy is a grifter and he doesn’t need the publicity Ā unlike John, I don’t believe he’ll shoot anyone up because he’s a grifter Ā he’ll just find another scam Ā will he get someone killed for being gay or trans Ā he wouldn’t think twice about it
    Sent from my iPhone

  103. 103.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 22, 2022 at 11:40 pm

    This is insane.

    Trump now claims he actually finished the border wall (warning, Trump voice)

    Elsewhere, Henry Hill’s grandson is putting in work.

    In the early hours of July 11, two armed guards left their Brink’s big rig, giving a gang of thieves a 27-minute window to make the huge snatch, its total value still a mystery. Estimates range from $10 million to $100 million.

  104. 104.

    rikyrah

    July 22, 2022 at 11:51 pm

     

    @John Cole:

     

    And my teeny tiny violin will be played for him.šŸ˜’šŸ˜’šŸ˜’

  105. 105.

    rikyrah

    July 22, 2022 at 11:52 pm

    @prostratedragon:

    šŸ‘šŸ¾šŸ‘šŸ¾šŸ‘šŸ¾šŸ‘šŸ¾šŸ‘šŸ¾šŸ‘šŸ¾

  106. 106.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 22, 2022 at 11:59 pm

    All of a sudden, my bathroom door and its hinges have taken on the squeaking sound of a horror flick, and it’s disconcerting. Two days ago, unannounced and unwelcome, the hinges started squeaking, and I have no idea why.

    Then I wonder why my knee is aching.

  107. 107.

    Jackie

    July 23, 2022 at 12:10 am

    @HumboldtBlue: An oil can may help both issuesšŸ˜‰

  108. 108.

    Ken

    July 23, 2022 at 12:13 am

    @HumboldtBlue: I’d love to see some comedian or performance artist start showing up at Trump events, dressed in the classic white asylum uniform and holding a giant butterfly net.

    But it would be incredibly dangerous for that person, given Trump’s fans are nearly as unhinged as he is.

  109. 109.

    JaySinWA

    July 23, 2022 at 12:33 am

    @HumboldtBlue: Changes in temp and humidity do things to doors, hinges follow. Lubricants may help.

    Joints have similar issues.

  110. 110.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 23, 2022 at 1:14 am

    This is why we watch sports.

    Sydney McLaughlin OBLITERATES her own WORLD RECORD for 400 hurdles World Title

  111. 111.

    NotMax

    July 23, 2022 at 1:14 am

    @Alison Rose šŸ’™šŸŒ»šŸ’›

    The Rainbow Connection Conniption.

  112. 112.

    Ruckus

    July 23, 2022 at 1:35 am

    @different-church-lady:

    That is why I call TFG – SFB, Shit For Brains. He’s one of them. I don’t know what has so fucked their brains, other than right wing politics, money churches – those places that exist to pass the collection plate as often as possible. They have turned politics and religion into a combination of a mental ward and a kindergarten class of people that act like acid heads on a 4 week high.

  113. 113.

    Ruckus

    July 23, 2022 at 1:46 am

    @prostratedragon:

    She looks a lot better than that!

    Oh, you mean her running form……

    OK I stand by my first statement. That was beyond a magnificent run and a new worlds record.

  114. 114.

    2liberal

    July 23, 2022 at 2:42 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Middle of 9

    Blue Jays came to Boston to play football.Ā  28-5 right now.

    Also, Boston Beaneaters, 30 — vs. Detroit Wolverines (8) on June 9, 1883 hehe

     

    the last time sidney sweeney gets asked to throw out the first pitch for the red sox

  115. 115.

    prostratedragon

    July 23, 2022 at 6:59 am

    @Ruckus:Ā  Heh-heh! That was the last time I could think of that a racer beat a world-class field that badly. Guy on tv compared to Bob Beamon’s long jump record, which is another good one; I saw that on the telly when it happened and it really did look like he was flying.

  116. 116.

    PIGL

    July 23, 2022 at 2:54 pm

    @Wvng: And their behaviour exposes weaknesses, or rather fatal flaws, in our notions of and systems of justice. Performative assholery does far more harm than almost any actual crime that people are charged with. It should be treated as the serious matter it is, and subjected to dramatic extreme and public forms of punishment….just like the offense itself.

  117. 117.

    PIGL

    July 23, 2022 at 2:56 pm

    @Dan B: the same thing, really. They were both disciples of Hayek.

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