Jewish Grandpa vs Yurtle The Racist Turtle, who ya got? https://t.co/fvHLRznHig
— Fuzzy Trousers ?????? (@Old_Ironpaws) August 9, 2022
It’s been a busy couple of days. pic.twitter.com/zA0G71fAyj
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 10, 2022
Breaking: President Biden has just signed into law the PACT Act, which will provide life-saving care to veterans who've been exposed to toxic burn pits.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 10, 2022
CNN: Yellen directs IRS not to use new funding to increase chances of audits of Americans making less than $400,000 https://t.co/lZcI5CeHxW
— Lily Adams (@adamslily) August 11, 2022
Dobbs had a huge political impact because it creates horrible outcomes touching millions of Americans, Inflation also impacted people directly….the raid touches the griftosphere and GOP electeds looking at primaries
— vocational politics stan account (@Convolutedname) August 10, 2022
You all need to vote like it's going to be close, but white women are furious at the GOP and will put us over the top if we turn out https://t.co/7v9j5flG9q
— ProofOfBurden (@ProofofBurden) August 10, 2022
I was a bit skeptical (though it seemed *reasonable*) of the analysis that the GOP holding unpopular views constrained by the court mooted those positions to normie voters. Happy to post this L!
— ProofOfBurden (@ProofofBurden) August 10, 2022
Publicly, they point to RSC types going to Bedminster this week as a microcosm of what the party is doing. Rah rah in the wake of the FBI search. Urging Trump to run. But post Kansas, and with probes mounting and sprawling, few are priv confident they know how this all plays out.
— Robert Costa (@costareports) August 11, 2022
Democrats would hate for Trump to announce his candidacy in September and make the midterm election a referendum on him and his search warrant. They would definitely not want him to do that. https://t.co/fb7YshXJdh
— I, Fred, will knock you all down!! (@LesserFrederick) August 10, 2022
Nothing, NOTHING would make me happier than this all going down in a blaze of paranoiac finger pointing
— Lord Businessman (@BusinessmanLego) August 10, 2022
On The Road – Kabecoo – Botswana
Baud
I am concerned Biden’s historic success is a distraction from the abortion issue.
Danielx
Frist!
eta: I should known.
Baud
@Danielx:
I helped you get the coveted second spot. You’re welcome.
germy shoemangler
Danielx
@Baud:
Of course you did.
WereBear
Something just occurred to me: a lot of what went viral lately was Democrats swearing righteously and I think we may have found our Republican kryptonite.
Can they cuss? Are they helpless before our foul mouths and shrill voices?
I’d be happy to see it continue.
Baud
I happened to catch a little MJ and they were gushing over Biden. Anne Laurie could have ghost written the show.
The Thin Black Duke
Sooner or later, it’s always the “kitchen table” issues that nail the GOP. After the noisy rhetoric goes away, voters are going to want someone who plows the roads, put food on the grocery shelves and keep the heat on in the winter (looking at you, Texas). Problem is, voters need to remember that voting Republicans back into office after the Democrats fix everything (again) is a vicious cycle that only makes things worse.
Baud
@WereBear:
Who besides Beto?
germy shoemangler
Baud
@The Thin Black Duke:
If we can break that cycle this time around, it would be earth shattering.
lowtechcyclist
That ‘last 10 days’ thing is great. The DNC should be buying 15-second TV ads and getting it on as many screens as possible.
America needs to get the message, over and over again, that Democrats are doing good shit for the country, and that the Republicans’ only agenda is to try to block the Dems from doing good shit.
germy shoemangler
I saw Gladwell on the CBS morning show. He must have a new book to sell
Old School
It’s great to see Biden use the “I did that!” sticker to point out accomplishments. Similar to the Dark Brandon stuff, it is taking the right wing stuff and turning it to the Dems advantage.
germy shoemangler
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: We can. Step 1 is to ignore whatever the Punditeriat is saying on a given day.
lowtechcyclist
What are black women, chopped liver? Does @ProofofBurden think they’re any less affected by this?
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
But Biden is sooooo ooooolllllldddd.
Baud
@lowtechcyclist:
Also, how would people vote if it wasn’t close?
ETA: I think the tweeter isn’t worried about black women voting.
germy shoemangler
oatler
Been hearing an earful of AZ hate-radio on the bus the past week, and apparently a state of civil war now exists, with “reports” of troop movements and hints to arm themselves, stand back and stand by.
clay
I’m no fancy law-talking’ guy, but it seems to me that innocent people don’t have to get all paranoid about which close associates have flipped on them.
Baud
@oatler:
Your bus driver is allowed to have hate radio on?
SFAW
@germy shoemangler:
And yet “American Liberty News” or “Patriot Update” (RWMF “news” sites) is/are telling me that it’s Biden’s fault that Iran [so to speak] was able almost to kill Bolton.
germy shoemangler
@oatler:
I guess they don’t use earbuds because they want other passengers to hear and appreciate the message?
germy shoemangler
@Baud:
I thought it was a passenger with the radio
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: As opposed to these toddlers?
germy shoemangler
@SFAW:
Fox News was expressing concern about “mom & pop gas stations” who are now suffering because of lowering gas prices.
They’ll spin whatever they need to spin.
oatler
@Baud:
It’s AZ county-funded, so go figure…
WereBear
@Baud: Jon Stewart was using quite a few names, hanging out and shaming Republican senators over the PACT Act.
Others were creative citizens I got to see because their ideas appeared in my social media, but it was around messages about people registering to vote, especially younger voters.
Who are upset. We have been showing it, and I think that’s good.
Baud
@WereBear:
Does Stewart identify as a Dem?
ETA: I agree about the importance of swearing around your people.
schrodingers_cat
@WereBear: Jon Stewart is a both sidery blowhard. It is curious how the media stans anyone but Dems who actually do the work.
SFAW
I’m a-thinking that the actual “rat” was TFG himself: he knew that getting “raided” would cause his standing among MAGAts to spike, and thus cut DeathSantis off at the knees. 13-th dimensional chess, libtards!
I swear, I crack myself up sometimes.
Anne Laurie
@lowtechcyclist: Black women are known to be reliable Democratic voters, for excellent reasons!
White (upper-middle-class, Californian) women… not so much.
If we can get women who’ve always, not always consciously, voted for ‘lower taxes’ and ‘safe neighborhoods’ — i.e., GOP propaganda — to pull the lever for Democrats, that would be a major help at holding, and expanding, our reach.
SFAW
@schrodingers_cat:
Give it a rest.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@germy shoemangler: Is there such a thing as a mom and pop gas station?
sdhays
@germy shoemangler: All they did was arrest him. At least they didn’t cancel him. The republic wouldn’t have been able to survive that!
SFAW
@germy shoemangler:
And a few days ago they were whining about the great jobs report because Sleepy Joe missed his numbers in the “wrong” direction. Or something.
Rupert Fucking Murdoch has done more to destroy functional democracy around the world than just about anyone else.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊
SFAW
@germy shoemangler:
Fucking fascists.
Baud
FWIW, I don’t forced swearing would work very well. Beto was triggered by an asshole who laughed at the murder of children. Stewart by the assholes in the Senate GOP caucus. The context made it work.
I remember when Gillibrand tried swearing in normal conversations with voters. Less effective.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
germy shoemangler
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
“Mom & Pop” and “Small Businesses” are terms the GOP uses to describe large corporations, so that we’ll love them.
They do the same thing with landlords (“just regular little people trying to earn some money”) and then it turns out the landlord owns fifty properties or something.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@SFAW: I once saw someone compare countries that had Murdoch news outlets vs those who don’t: US vs Canada, Australia vs New Zealand. The political differences were striking.
rikyrah
No visibility into scope of evidence?
Then ask Dolt45 for the list of items taken by the FBI. He has that.
Baud
@rikyrah:
They won’t do that. They want to keep the conversation on how unprecedented the FBI’s raid was.
SFAW
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Murdoch’s effect (via his “news” orgs) has been to damage democracy and reality in Australia, England, and here. I used to blame Traitor Turtle for the destruction of American democracy; while he’s certainly done his best to destroy it, he couldn’t have done so without Fox’s lies and propaganda.
And fuck Roger Ailes, too, of course.
geg6
@lowtechcyclist:
I actually saw an ad like that last night on tv. All about the good things that are getting done and how it’s Biden and Democrats bringing us all these good things. It was excellent to see.
germy shoemangler
He’d plead the Fifth.
Gin & Tonic
Am I the only one who thinks the design of that graph in the Lenny Bronner sub-tweet is awful? Those little circles of imperceptible size difference are supposed to represent what, number of voters? Look in the middle of the plot – is there a statistically significant difference among sizes of circles above and below the red line? Colored pixels cost the same as monochrome, use colors in addition to size to distinguish among precinct sizes FFS.
Harrumph!
NotMax
@rikyrah
“The FBI filched my Nobel prizes.”
//
SFAW
@Baud:
And off of how unprecedentedly corrupt TFG was as President.
mrmoshpotato
Brandon has been going. Thanks chickenshit, Trump trash!
WereBear
@Baud: Well no, not like a fourteen year old. But I think it’s a sign that the Democratic Party is trying to connect in a way we have not seen in too long.
geg6
@lowtechcyclist:
I don’t think that is the point. Generally, Black women are going to back the Dems, regardless. Hell, they are the absolute backbone of the entire party and we should worship the ground they walk, tbh. But white women (of which I am one) are less likely to be trustworthy Dem voters, as pretty much every election has shown us. All we need is a portion of new white women Dem voters to make November the midterm for the history books.
PPCLI
Mike Pence’s view seems to be that Trump should have tracked Pence down himself, and personally hanged him.
The perfect crime!
germy shoemangler
Here’s a good ad from a Democrat who wants to unseat stephanik:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IC3LT8-TLw
(trigger warning: trump’s ass)
MisterForkbeard
To be fair, Gillibrand is also a woman. I could see that causing a problem if she steps outside of ‘acceptable’ discourse
Argiope
@Baud: I’ll believe it’s great for our whole side to cuss when politicians with vaginas also get props for it. Have we seen any of that, yet, or is it just a guy thing? It may be context (regular voter conversations don’t work, authentically demonstrated anger in the moment does) or it may be who is doing it.
ETA or what Mr Forkbeard said
Baud
@MisterForkbeard:
Good point. Like, I’ve wondered if a female Fetterman would be as popular.
ETA
@Argiope:
mrmoshpotato
@germy shoemangler:
Now now. Sean Hannity is poor, working-class slumlord trash just trying to eek out a living.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: We ladies always sound less authentic when we swear. /s
Seriously though, I loved that Beto clip, and so did the crowd. It’s not his first televised F-bomb either — remember “Members of the media, what the fuck?!?”
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: No a female Fetterman won’t win the race for the proverbial dog catcher.
That level of sloppiness would be frowned upon even in a female academic
I will set the bar even lower:
Show me one female politician from any country who doesn’t comb her hair.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: If I had to forego swearing, I’d be mute.
prostratedragon
@germy shoemangler: Someone knows what happened to her actual will and final directive.
Baud
@prostratedragon:
Maybe it was in the Mar-a-Lago safe.
SFAW
@mrmoshpotato:
And besides, isn’t Hannity also known as “Individual 3”? Not “Mega Corporation 3”!! Q, E, and touchdown, libtard!
Geminid
While trump is looking for moles in Mar-a-Loco, Joe Biden is looking at seagulls on Kiawah Island. He and family will spend several days on the island 25 miles southwest of Charleston, South Carolina. The White House declined to answer questions about planned activities or when Biden will return to Washington.
Baud
@Geminid:
He’s earned it.
mrmoshpotato
@schrodingers_cat: No trigger warning? At this hour? Gross!
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
Ayanna Pressley
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Good point. Baud has the last word.
geg6
@schrodingers_cat:
TBF, Fetterman doesn’t comb his hair because he doesn’t have any.
Starfish
@WereBear: Are you talking about Beto?
Geminid
@Baud: Joe Biden will still have briefings but it sounds like he’ll have some nice vacation time. And he can look forward to signing the Inflation Reduction Act when he returns to Washington. The House will pass the IRA tomorrow.
Gin & Tonic
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense trolls russians. This is great, even without any swearing.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Touche.
clay
@Geminid: South Carolina in August is a choice, but not one I’d make.
geg6
@Geminid:
I thought that was today because I’m working from home tomorrow and so didn’t set the morning alarm before I left the house today as I usually do. Dammit. I hate when I lose track of days like that. Haven’t done that since we returned to the office. Did it during 2020 a lot, but being home every day was disconcerting.
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
ETA: I think the tweeter isn’t worried about black women voting.
What he’s saying is that white women are going to come through for us, just wondering why he only mentions them and not black women if he isn’t worried about either group.
mrmoshpotato
@SFAW: He’s a poor, Mom and Pop multi-millionaire slumlord! ☹️😭
schrodingers_cat
@geg6: Good point I was thinking of the likes of Boris and the Vt senator. Politicians who affect an unkempt image are almost exclusively male
Pressley with or without hair is neat as a pin.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Well played.
Geminid
@clay: Hopefully there will be some sea breezes where Biden’s at. The water’s warm and the waves are low, so his grandson should have a good time.
I hope to make it to a beach in South Carolina next month, when the sun is not so high. Huntington Beach State Park is a nice place to camp, 20 miles south of Myrtle Beach. A seven hour drive for me.
Ken
@SFAW: Now you’ve got me wondering how long they’d go along with it. Would we “this is unprecedented, no President has ever been indicted by a grand jury”? “Has ever been arrested for selling secrets to the Saudis before”? “Has ever been convicted and sentenced to prison before”?
Hmm, now that I see it written down, I’m kind of eager to find out.
geg6
@schrodingers_cat:
Yes, you’re right about that. And honestly, Fetterman isn’t unkempt. Yes, he’s extremely casual, to put it mildly. But he looks groomed and bathed. And his wife is an absolute fashionista, in a relatable way. She’s the real superstar of the two of them, IMHO. I love to see them interacting with each other. She runs the show.
mrmoshpotato
@Gin & Tonic: Wow. Glory to Ukraine!
Ken
@prostratedragon: I’ll be very disappointed if the only thing that comes out of the FBI search is a charge of ignoring a final directive. Maybe they can drag in one of those “improper action with a dead body” crimes.
Wanderer
A lot has been said about the warranted seizure of documents belonging to the government. I submit this is not unprecedented because this warrant was earned by the time lag to return the documents. There was a demonstrated lack of compliance in returning them and perhaps a critical change in the government’s perception in the security of the documents contents. This search and seizure was earned imho. The right is saying lots of things but no one is saying anything about tfg’s actions being innocent. This was a point well made by Keith Olbermann yesterday during his podcast.
schrodingers_cat
@geg6: His outfits come across as sloppy to me, something that a minority or woman wouldn’t get away with as a senate candidate.
But then I am not his audience. If it gets him elected, good.
different-church-lady
“Will Biden run out things to accomplish too far before the midterms?”
tam1MI
What little judgement Gillibrand had deserted her after her antics concerning Al Franken blew up in her face.
mrmoshpotato
Amir Khalid
@WereBear:
Swearing won’t work as an affectation. It has to come naturally, in the context at hand. E.g. Beto really was pissed at that guy giggling over the Uvalde victims; his anger was appropriate, and his use of “motherfucker” was instinctive and authentic in that context. As entertaining as the results would be, you can’t ask Democratic politicians to start deploying F-bombs to seem more relatable. It isn’t natural in most contexts, and chances are it won’t work as a strategy.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: I can answer the Fetterman question. No, no, she wouldn’t.
TS
@germy shoemangler:
A town of 2500 people with a police force of 9. Is everywhere in the US overpoliced to this level? In my part of the world a town of 2,500 might have 1or at the very most 2 policemen/women.
How do these towns ever raise money for their salaries – no wonder they have few, if any, other services.
kindness
@germy shoemangler: re: Fox news crying for the Mom & Pop gas stations. I can only imagine what Fox will despair when 1/2 of us are driving electric cars and never buy gas.
Ocotillo
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Interesting, the could have added the UK vs. name a European country and it would have been the same. Truly despicable.
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic: Moskali trusiat.
mrmoshpotato
@Wanderer:
Apparently that’s even a bridge too far for the Rethuglican trash!
oatler
@Geminid:
“Don’t even turn to see the wreckage.”
OzarkHillbilly
@different-church-lady: Heh. Sad but true. eta we know somebody is going to say that.
Geminid
@schrodingers_cat: I wasn’t a big Fetterman fan, but Pennsylvania Democrats chose him by a wide margin over two good candidates so I’ll take their word that he’s a good politician. He might even do as well as the relatively staid Bob Casey, who won reelection in 2018 by 600,000 votes.
I see his work clothes and tattoos as a Gen-X thing. I noticed this among his contemporaries 25 years ago.
different-church-lady
Huuuuge difference between casual cussing and righteous cussing at a sociopath.
(p. S. Or what Amir said better at 94)
prostratedragon
@Baud: Check! Or one of those porcelain “safes.”
brendancalling
@germy shoemangler: Tyler Mahan Coe does a very good podcast about the history of country music, “Cocaine and Rhinestones.” His takedown of Gladwell talking shit about the genre is GLORIOUS.
schrodingers_cat
@zhena gogolia: That’s what I said. BTW we have both been proven right about Sarah Grifty Doomzior.
WereBear
@Amir Khalid: I wasn’t serious, and I’m certainly not a political consultant.
I guess I remember for the days when a US politician would go down like the Hindenburg over such an outburst, then Trump sailed through with that leaked tape all over everywhere.
We all knew what he was. As always, the Republicans had to rub it in. But I think the bully is getting pushback at last.
prostratedragon
@Ken: Oh, it would just be a kind of grace, or rather graceless, note of course. Another side note from the NYAG suit is the possibility of the corporate death penalty I’ve heard about. Can such a judgement reach assets beyond NYState? What would a receiver of the golf course do?
Booger
@Gin & Tonic: You sound like Edward Tufte.
NotMax
@Baud
Number of women with a goatee who have won an election: zero.
;)
Geminid
@WereBear: Trump’s more like a hot air balloon that’s running out of propane. Republicans need to land the thing soon and flee before they’re trapped by the deflating balloon. Or hit a powerline.
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat: I haven’t paid much attention to her lately. I’m afraid to look.
The Moar You Know
@clay: I did this a few years back for my dad’s birthday. We were right on the beach and had A/C. Still not great. The ocean is pure mud, loaded with silt and absolutely disgusting to this Californian. Looks great from a beachside rental, though.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Saying “I’m sure they found a lot of damning evidence of crimes but it was all planted by the FBI, I tell you. He wuz framed!” doesn’t count as “saying he’s innocent”?
SiubhanDuinne
@WereBear:
FWIW, I nominated Beto’s line as a rotating tag last night, and am reliably* informed that it’s already been added. Showing up soon on a Balloon Juice banner near you….
*WaterGirl
eclare
@schrodingers_cat: Who is Sarah Grifty Doomzior?
Booger
@kindness: The economics of gas stations are interesting. Fuel is low margin, high-volume, high risk (regulatory compliance), which is why virtually all fuel places make their money on marked up beer/cigs/snacks/soda. It shouldn’t take much of a percentage shift from internal combustion to electric or hybrid to force gasoline/diesel into a downward spiral from a retailer’s perspective.
There are still “Mom & Pop” stations around, but like so many things, gas stations will go slowly at first then all at once.
different-church-lady
@SiubhanDuinne: It ought to be the only tag now ‘til November.
SiubhanDuinne
@germy shoemangler:
I wish you had provided a trigger warning for that trigger warning.
Soprano2
@germy shoemangler: Are you fucking kidding me? Don’t they know that those stores barely make anything on the gas they sell, all the profit comes from everything else!
Gin & Tonic
@eclare: Sarah Kendzior. You can find her on Twitter as @sarahkendzior.
different-church-lady
@Booger: Why would they not convert to charging stations?
Gin & Tonic
@Booger: I can only take that as a compliment (yes, I own all his books and have gone to his public lecture.)
Amir Khalid
@eclare:
Sarah Kendzior. schrodingers_cat no like Sarah Kendzior.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: Tom Perez, too. It was kind of embarrassing.
trump’s howler monkeys whoop and hoot like sixth graders when he says a swear at his rallies
Geminid
@different-church-lady: Slower customer turnover?
eclare
@Gin & Tonic: Thank you.
prostratedragon
@Booger: I wonder if Tufte would suggest fewer than 5 categories. Hard to distinguish more than 3 or maybe 4 without making the graph very busy. Seems he wants to show the larger ones consistently above the red line, while the rest are scattered on either side. So, they can be all one color, but just make one “large” category and a medium and small, or even just small, and have the smaller ones be fainter so the large ones pop out.
Eunicecycle
@Booger: we have a friend who owns a gas station and can confirm: He says he makes almost nothing on gas. He has a nice repair business and he does a good job, so that’s where he makes his money.
NotMax
@Soprano2
Gas station sushi. Mmmm.
The gift that keeps on giving.
;)
Citizen Alan
@Baud: I suspect the beard would be a bigger issue for a female candidate.
eversor
@WereBear:
Nobody likes a pussy or a coward. There’s a lot to be said for being “toxic masculine” and shouting people down and hurling insults like a sailor at a bar, I say this as a sailor. When you’re on the side of what’s right and you pull your punches you look like a fucking fool and people can smell the stench of weakness and your cause deflates like a sad balloon. On the other hand if you’re on the side of right and go off on a fucking rampage people will grant you a lot of leeway in what you can say and do becuase you are RIGHT ANGRY AND SPEAKING FOR THEM. So hurling cocksuckers and motherfuckers gets cheers.
I’m not shocked that calling people motherfuckers got a standing ovation and caused the usual suspects to go for the smelling salts. But this is how people actually speak. “might be funny to you motherfucker but it’s not funny to me” is a hell of a lot more real than “I respect your opinion, but you are wrong, here’s my plan to fix this sir, vote!”
We need more of this. Call them the fuck out and hurl venom.
gene108
What I find curious is how dismissive the media is to Congressional Republicans calls to defund the FBI. The MSM were a lot more concerned that protestors and activists could deliver on their commitment to defund the police, than they seem to be that actual members of Congress who actually control the FBI’s budget could do this.
I think part of it is Republicans cry wolf so often these days about every damned thing, it’s hard to take them seriously. Yet J6 showed when a small number of them become serious, they can cause a lot of damage.
Booger
@different-church-lady: They retain the liability for the underground storage tanks, which is not trivial; they would have to spend lots of money to build out new infrastructure which is completely different from what is in place. If you look at most independent gas stations, they certainly don’t seem to have a lot of liquid capital sitting around to make big changes.
They will go all in on marked up impulse buys and overpriced groceries for those within walking distance, and completely divorce themselves from the fuel business…as they have virtually all done with the service business.
Now the big chains like Wawa and Sheetz ARE going all in on charging stations as they build new facilities and upgrade older facilities; but this only hastens the decline of the ‘Mom & Pops.’ In a lot of communities, the biggest ‘restaurant’ is a 24/7/52/365 fuel-n-food emporium.
Wanderer
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I view it as an attempt to muddying the waters. That type of statement actually assumes guilt and the attempt is to deflect attention.
Booger
@Gin & Tonic: Likewise. I work for an organization where it appears everyone owns all his books and nobody reads them.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@The Moar You Know: I did SC in August but don’t remember anything in particular about the beaches or water as I was there to fulfill a lifelong dream and chase a total solar eclipse so I was looking up.
My bad memory of that trip is about Expedia, who was apparently showing a full hotel as still available, and giving away rooms to people making reservations that day, locking out people like me who had prepaid months in advance but arrived at 6 pm.
Ksmiami
@kindness: the gas stations will switch to electric charging stations and adapt. They make more on their convenience stores anyway
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Booger: Ha! you could do some kind of twitter query: “What books does everyone in your field own, but never read?”
Kay
Big round of applause for our “public intellectuals” who flogged the stupid CRT panic to boost substack sales, dumped a truckload of shit on every public school in the country and then sashayed away to appear on Bill Maher and promote themselves.
More low quality hires. The work they do is junk. That they all came out of America’s most expensive educational institutions is embarrassing and says something about quality for price too.
I’m baffled why they barged into public education anyway- an area none of them know anything about. Good Christ- isn’t there something productive they could be doing?
Maybe they could take some of that “cancel culture” grift cash and donate to a legal fund to protect teachers from the panic they started and promote.
lowtechcyclist
@geg6:
I’ll bet it was! Just hearing that they’re running ads like this warms my heart. I’m starting to think we can win this thing.
cmorenc
@different-church-lady:
How long does a gas-station customer need to hang out at the station/convenience store in order to fill their tank and move one? How long would an EV charging station customer need to hang out at the station/convenience store in order to get an adequate charge and move on? The charging-station model works much better at shopping centers and event locations where people have other stuff to do for at least an hour or longer, and there’s enough space for multiples of charging stations, whereas even large high-volume gas stations like the Sheetz chain would be strained to provide enough charging stations for cars to remain >hr before being ready to leave.
In short, the scale is wrong for it to work well to convert most mom & pop gas stations to EV charging / convenience stores.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I keep hearing that the docs the FBI took from Mar-a-Lago were stored in a basement. How plausible is that? I thought Florida houses didn’t have basements because of the water table levels.
Tony G
@germy shoemangler: The Green M&Ms! In fairness, who among us has not had masturbation fantasies about little pieces of chocolate candies? Not weird at all.
gene108
@The Thin Black Duke:
Also the fact in higher profile races that get much more public attention, they cannot hide the fact that they are fundamentally mean spirited people.
This turns off a large part of the electorate.
stinger
@zhena gogolia: A female candidate can’t even call deplorable people “deplorable”, much less use expletives or profanity.
Tony G
@Kay: The “CRT panic” combines two centuries-old themes on the right — hatred of Black people and hatred of public education. They want to go back to the 1820’s, not the 1920’s.
Soprano2
@lowtechcyclist: I think it’s because he’s talking about white women who he knows personally, and thinks it will transfer to white women as a whole. No one has to mention everyone whenever they make a statement! This is why liberals drive some people crazy; rather than saying “Yeah, that’s right, R’s are screwed!” some of us wring our hands over why they didn’t mention other groups.
Just One More Canuck
@germy shoemangler: What horseshit. The station owners get a straight X cents per gallon, plus a percentage of store sales. Lower prices mean more people driving, which means more people buying Oh Henry bars and Mountain Dew. Lower prices benefit the station owners
OzarkHillbilly
@Soprano2: Yeah they know it but it sounds better than “Think of the poor multibillion dollar fuel corporations.”.
Soprano2
@geg6: Geez, every time a female celebrity changes her hairstyle there’s a huge amount of commentary on it!. So the answer is no, there is no female politician who could be successful and unkempt in the way Bernie and Boris are. None. Any woman who tried would be absolutely savaged by the press and other men and women.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: Me too. I think it’s more in how naturally it falls into the conversation, i.e. during a contentious subject. I swear all the time, and I get very little pushback, but I also manage not to drop f-bombs in formal settings or at other little old ladies while discussing more genteel subjects. Most of whom also swear like truckers anyway.
Barbara
@Wanderer: Not innocent, just presumed to be above the law. But then, this is the same guy who handed Russian diplomats highly classified information on Israeli security services. There is no low point. They will descend to any depths to placate this mob boss.
Obvious Russian Troll
@Booger: I drive down 23 in southern Ohio on a semi-regular basis when we’re visiting my mother-in-law. There are a number of Buster’s Bi Lo gas stations along the road and in the area that all shut down at about the same time. I think it was due to the 2008 meltdown when gas prices dropped, but I could be wrong.
I think my wife went to school with the kids of the guy who owned them.
Nicole
Late to the morning party, but in the how-white-women-vote anecdotes, my GOP-loyal SIL officially registered as an Independent a few weeks ago. It wasn’t Dobbs that broke the bond, though; it was the GOP response to Uvalde. And she and my still GOP brother (sigh) have nothing good to say about Oz (they are Keystoners). There was grudging respect for Fetterman’s campaign, and she mentioned more than once he came up governing some “tough areas.”
So, baby steps.
Baud
@Kay:
Were they naked?
Ksmiami
@Kay: I was thinking about you this am as I sent in another donation to Tim Ryan
eversor
@Barbara:
They realize we are in an religious civil war and the rules are off. One side is going up against the wall and the other gets all the marbles. You need to grasp that.
Baud
@Nicole:
👍
BiogeoJim
@Booger: The geography of charging stations will also be different. Electric vehicles mostly charge between trips, not during. If we had gas pumps in our garage we would need a lot fewer of them on street corners
gene108
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
There are where I live in NJ. Lots of gas stations are basically run as franchises. The owner may own one or two gas stations that sell a certain brand of gas. Definitely not run by the MNC gas companies at the local level.
lowtechcyclist
@Amir Khalid:
I don’t know enough about Kendzior to like or dislike her, but damned if s_c isn’t starting to speak in code like he was a MAGAt or something.
OzarkHillbilly
@cmorenc: Electric charging station/Diner would probably work
Betty Cracker
@Kay: If any one of the cancel culture panic purveyors would even own up to their part in this, I’d be impressed. None have AFAIK.
Kay
@Ksmiami:
I’m only doing anything for Marcy Kaptur who is running in my district but Ryan is running a really good campaign. I do FTF stuff for Kaptur which is fun because I know a lot of the D regulars.
Ryan has a great ad about JD Vance’s bogus drug treatment program which features a veteran who founded and runs a real drug treatment program :)
I applauded. You may recall JD Vance returned to Ohio for this specific reason- to cure drug addiction. One of his 50 fake personas.
Ryan is still a long shot. It’s a + 8 Trump state but you won’t get better work than what Ryan is doing. It’s a decent investment.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: It is so much a part of my speech it comes out no matter where I am or who I am with. 35 years of working construction has left it’s mark on me. I don’t get embarrassed about it tho, my friends get embarrassed for me.
Geminid
So I checked out Fetterman news and found an article in The [Philadelphia] Inquirer about yesterday’s news conference staged by Real Doctors Against Oz. The medicos ripped Oz over his pushing of dubious diet food and other quackery.
I also found out that Fetterman has scheduled his first in-person campaign event since May, tomorrow in Erie.
Barbara
@BiogeoJim: Higher speed charging stations are emerging, though I don’t know whether they will ever be as fast as a fuel pump. The biggest issue to be overcome is charging for people who can’t rely on at-home charging options — live in apartment buildings or complexes, for instance. Sheetz and Wawa do have a lot of charging stations up and down the East Coast. Even if it takes longer to charge than the typical visit to a Sheetz location, they tend to have such large parking lots that they seem willing to do it and see how it goes.
eversor
@Kay:
JD Vance converted to Catholic and wants a Christian state. Again, it’s all about Christianity. If you aren’t willing to slay that religion the fight is lost.
Fair Economist
@lowtechcyclist:
Kendzior says Nancy Pelosi is a Russian agent. I think that says enough.
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Kay
@Betty Cracker:
Agreed. They’re firmly back in control of “culture” though so don’t expect a lot of humility or self examination. They beat the SHIT out of the 22 year old social workers though! Beat them back from gates. Now we can all ponder their thoughts in the NYTimes with no competition. Safe as houses. The proper Order has been restored. Just one fucking editorial in the NYtimes about what has happened as a result of this panic. Clean up the mess you left.
I love that they all signed that idiotic mainifesto. We need to know who to ignore going forward.
PST
@Anne Laurie:
In round numbers, there are about 100 million white voting-age women in the United States. Even a rather modest percentage of a population that size would have a revolutionary effect on elections if motivated to switch parties or get to the polls.
Omnes Omnibus
No. The word toxic is there for a reason. There is a lot to be said for fighting for a good cause and for righteous anger. Those are different thing to toxic masculinity. I can’t believe I need to point this out. WTF!
Kay
@eversor:
Ohio conservatives are more and more reliant on the religious Right, which includes far Right Catholics.
Vance needs them, and that’s why he’s pandering to them. They backed Mandel who is authentically far Right. It’s been moving this way for 20 years. George W Bush carried the state by flipping enough Catholics on same sex marriage (demonizing gay people). Ohio Republicans crowed about it after.
You shouldn’t think he is authentically religious. He is authentically nothing. Another empty drum.
Anyway
@cmorenc:
Yes, charging stations make sense in office parks and employer parking lots as well. We have 5-6 at my work place and they are pretty much in use all day.
Omnes Omnibus
@lowtechcyclist:
s_c identifies as female.
UncleEbeneezer
Ok where did the pie-filter link go? I need it now as I see we have another misogynist Franken-apologist littering this space and I have zero tolerance for that bullshit.
Kay
@eversor:
I read in the NYTimes that converting to Catholic is fashionable now on the Right, so don’t discount that.
The NYTimes have their finger on the pulse of the 10,000 Americans who get wayyyyy too much attention
They dress up in old timey clothes to go to church- frilly dresses for The Ladies . Hysterical. They should wear veils. I would enjoy that :)
lowtechcyclist
@Soprano2:
It just felt nonsensical to me in that specific context. Usually that’s the sort of thing that flies right under my radar.
lowtechcyclist
@Omnes Omnibus: Thanks for the heads-up, I hadn’t realized that.
Soprano2
@eversor: I think people have to use their own style of outrage. If people don’t normally curse, and then try to in a situation like this, it sounds fake and has a bad effect. You’ve gotta be true to who you are.
When Biden signs the IRA, I hope he whispers “This is a big fucking deal”. LOL
Soprano2
@Booger: We’re getting a Buc-ee’s here. I had never heard of them, but evidently they’re some kind of “super truck stop” that also has a big restaurant and huge shop. People stop at them deliberately just to shop and eat there.
Another Scott
@Fair Economist: She needed a citation for that. But it was 3 years ago.
(I don’t have a dog in this fight; I just think that energy spent getting upset at some Twitter rando – there are many of them – could be better spent elsewhere.)
Cheers,
Scott.
eversor
@Soprano2:
While true people who don’t normally curse than should GTFO out of politics. Most people swear and curse and hurl fbombs left and right. If you can’t pull off “now you listen to me you stupid motherfucker” you have no appeal and shouldn’t pretend you do.
Beto did good.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Yeah, Nancy Pelosi’s a fucking loser
brendancalling
@eversor: This. Very much this. There’s a big difference between performative “tough guy talk” (hi Josh Hawley, you scampering little rat) and “righteous anger.”
Beto’s “motherfucker” is a clear example of the latter. And, he shut down a heckler in glorious fashion.
Mike in NC
Iranians wanting to kill John Bolton. Who could possibly object to that?
eversor
@Kay:
I’ve always found it funny that nobody goes to a city diner on the coasts and asks what they think. There are 100s in NYC alone, why fly out to ass fuck Ohio? Why not check what a bunch of union guys in Philly or NYC think at a diner there? I’m pretty close to a military base (VA go figure) and there is a diner here that’s been around for decades, it’s a blue area though, and has anybody from buck privates all the way up to the 300k mba crowd there daily. Why not ask us?
Omnes Omnibus
@eversor:
Is this really true? I doubt it.
OzarkHillbilly
@Mike in NC: The fact that Joe Biden took steps to stop it makes him suspect in my book.
Kay
This is what public education and public educators have actually accomplished over the last 50 years.
Compare this work to the work of their critics. If this surprises you -that it’s a success- you have been listening to their critics too much.
They’re not smart, they’re not original thinkers, they’re just mediocre conventional wisdom people with a wildly outsized platform. They are going to halt this progress. They should reconsider.
This is a good issue for Democrats. Defend public education. It’s worth defending and in 2018 it won them state races. Bet on it. It’s a good bet.
eversor
@brendancalling:
Yeah and the fun part is the people clutching pearls and reaching for the smelling salts just draw more attention to what stands out as maning the fuck up and not backing the fuck down. He looks bold, confident, sure of himself, angry. It’s all the good sides of male aggression focused into a positive display for the good of others. The crowd loves it.
People want leaders that fight. Yes for them but before you fight for me I need to know you can fight.
Beto and Hawley are both scrawny ass rich boys. But one of them fist pumps and then runs the fuck away and the other one is sitting there calling people motherfuckers in outrage over laughing at child killing. It’s not hard to instantly see who’s the “real man” and real leader and who is a nutless coward play acting.
We need to embrace and encourage this sort of stuff. Anger and agression is not always bad. You just need to aim it in the right direction and make sure it’s genuine.
Eunicecycle
@Soprano2: I love Buc-ee’s! Cleanest bathrooms around and you can buy just about anything! I can’t wait until they come to Ohio!
eversor
@Omnes Omnibus:
Outside of places where it gets you in trouble yes. I don’t know anybody that I don’t hear multiple four letter words fly out of their mouths multiple times a day and I work at a fancy pants place. When with friends most conversations are pretty much “fuck fuck fuck fuck fuckitty fuck fuck fuck”.
People grasp cursing, anybody who’s going to get twisted over motherfucker is a lost cause anyways.
Soprano2
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Normally they don’t. I suppose it could have been a lower level walkout type of basement.
schrodingers_cat
@lowtechcyclist: It was meant for zhena_g who perfectly understood what I said.
@Omnes Omnibus: Is a woman who identifies as a cat in a thought experiment.
oatler
@eversor:
Along with nudity, the last bastion of the FCC. Their laws threaten
fines and imprisonment for “cursing”, Who wouldn’t…?
Amir Khalid
@eversor:
No we don’t.
eversor
@oatler:
I grew up on the east coast in DC my family is from Da Bronx when they first moved here. The f bomb is our theme song I guess. I was also in the Navy, where swearing is a game. Family also now in Philly and Boston. Swearing and being foul is a North East Coast institution. But we are all nice over dinner.
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
No we fucking don’t.
eversor
@Baud:
fuck about and find out
brantl
@lowtechcyclist: Sure, but how many black women (who aren’t in asylums) were going to vote for Rethugs, anyway?
brantl
It never hurts to cut out the middle-man.
Shalimar
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Water tables in Florida make basements extremely rare, especially that close to the ocean, but Mar-a-Lago apparently has 3 underground nuclear fallout shelters. I assume we’re talking about one of them.
Soprano2
@Omnes Omnibus: Depends, do you work for a trucking company? I worked for Prime for a year; it took me 6 months after I left to clean up my language.
geg6
@Soprano2:
I don’t think I said anything different. I was only commenting on Fetterman. Everyone thinks he’s a slob, but he’s not. He’s normal for the place and his age. I don’t know any younger people who wear suits to work. Hell, I don’t dress in “professional” clothes when I go to work most days and I’m a Gen Jones.
geg6
@Barbara:
And pretty much all new Sheetz locations have a cafe now.
Dan B
@Booger: I like your thinking. Sorta. I parked between two Leafs and a Bolt yesterday. One Leaf had occupants when I got back with my groceries. We had a rip snorting great conversation about range and loving our EV’s. It’s great to be part of the solution. I want the Electric Vehicle Owners Association to come back. We need pep rallies to show the country that it’s f’ing fantastic!
Yutsano
@eversor:
Cuz that’s not “real America” libturd!