I had a stroke. I survived it. I'm truly so grateful to still be here today.
I know politics can be nasty, but even then, I could *never* imagine ridiculing someone for their health challenges. pic.twitter.com/0fJHESjt4l
— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) August 24, 2022
It’s been a *thing* since at least the Roman republic: Rich guy decides a Senate seat would be the perfect centerpiece for his vanity room. Buying a sports team or sponsoring this year’s hot-celebrity tour is *much* less risk of embarrassment, guys!
The crudité is the point. https://t.co/NzTwVI4RAK
— lanekisonak (@lanekisonak) August 23, 2022
just wait until jeffrey toobin runs for congress https://t.co/PXokE4OTEw
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) August 23, 2022
Compare and contrast!
God, Dr. Oz is apparently using his former health-celeb site as his official campaign website. The idea makes sense, but now he has old tweets that look like this ?? https://t.co/ej0uq3jBP8
— Makena Kelly (@kellymakena) August 19, 2022
I remember him lugging it out of the house and me being so confused about where it was headed. Today I found out where our wood stove went. ???? pic.twitter.com/ShSfNx8IOD
— Gisele Barreto Fetterman (@giselefetterman) August 19, 2022
If the last few years should have convinced you if anything it’s that we need a more collectivist society. People refusing to do the bare minimum to protect their communities put hundreds of thousands of bodies in the ground. https://t.co/EOIF6oxdm1
— Jort-Michel Connard ?? (@torriangray) August 21, 2022
Mike in NC
Oz is another bored rich prick with too much money.
Benw
Anecdata from working the polls in the NYS closed Republican primary for CD-1 today, to replace the ambulatory tapioca TFG leg-humper Lee Zledin: Republican voters in my area are not fired up by any of the openly racist, fascist candidates (which is all 3 of them); or maybe the voters just think they are ALL racist and fascist enough to be a fine choice in the general?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Looks like Nadler, Maloney and Goldman all won handily in NYC
dmsilev
You’d think that the Oz campaign would have a self-imposed moratorium on mentioning “crudite”, “veggie tray”, “asparagus”, and indeed any plant-based edible subjects. Guess not.
Shalimar
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Nadler beat Maloney. She didn’t win handily. You’re thinking of someone else.
Lyrebird
Thanks for sharing these nuggets Anne Laurie!
Seems like McCloskey himself is quite a character, and a good one.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I haven’t followed that race closely, but I thought Nadler and Maloney were vying for the same seat, thanks to redistricting. How can they both “win handily”?
ETA: n/m, I see there is a different Maloney running in a different district. Was not aware of that.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Shalimar: Sean Patrick Maloney, beat Alexandra Biaggi by about two-to-one
Tom Q
Also Goldman hasn’t been declared winner yet. Still relatively close. And NY is pretty lenient about mail ballots, so there may not be a final call on the race for a week.or two.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
Christ, what an asshole.
Another Scott
This might be another good sign in FL – BoltsMag.org:
So, Gantt won. Interesting. A sign of some fired-up FL Democrats, maybe?
(I’m no expert)
Cheers,
Scott.
RaflW
@Mike in NC: Honestly. Every one of these jackasses is making the case for a return to Eisenhower-level income taxes.
They’re bored with their insanely rich and wasted lives. And punishing the rest of us with their dilettante, fragile, pissy egos.
The Oracle of Solace
I don’t have much to say about tonight’s primaries, so I’m just going to say that Requiem is a very cute kitty.
RaflW
Sean Trende seems to be having a moment. Maybe someone can hand him a tissue.
RaflW
This seems a good follow up to Sean’s tweet!
@DecisionDeskHQ · 9m
Decision Desk HQ projects Pat Ryan (D) is the winner of the special election for U.S. House District 19 in New York, defeating Marc Molinaro (R)
(Indeed it *does* matter what happens in NY-19!)
Westyny
Looks Like Pat Ryan is going to beat Molinaro
ETA: Beat me to it!
Hoppie
@RaflW: I used to have a game when I was a high-level frequent flyer: I would ask my first class seat opponent (ff speak, my seat opponent was always a Repub) if he preferred Reagan taxes, Bush taxes, or Eisenhower taxes?
They ALWAYS ignorantly preferred Eisenhower taxes, even though those would have been much higher for them. Every one.
Those people are profoundly ignorant, even if powerful.
Another Scott
@Westyny:
Hmm… Wasserman isn’t usually one for hyperbole, I don’t think.
:-D
Cheers,
Scott.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@RaflW:
Not counting chickens…. not counting chickens…..
I think I heard this race covered on MSNBC today, in the car so not paying too close attention, but I think it was framed, including by the candidates, as freedom of choice vs inflation. If that was Molinaro, they played a quote of him talking about people needing to drive half an hour to work or to pick up groceries, etc.
dnfree
@Shalimar: there were two Maloneys, the one who won being a different Maloney in a different district. I wondered if they were related.
zombie rotten mcdonald
I had a heart attack. my diet had nothing to do with it, you fucking snake oil hawker. I was saved by modern medicine.
Origuy
Good news from a local election in Alabama.
Ken
I agree with the Connard tweet, but there must be a better word than “collectivist”, which to me has some not great connotations. Maybe “responsibility”.
Jackie
@zombie rotten mcdonald: Glad you’re still with us!
Another Scott
@Origuy: Excellent.
I’m liking the way these results are turning out tonight.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ken
It’s interesting to compare the reaction times of the Fetterman and Oz campaigns.
Oz makes his “legitimate” houses remark, Fetterman team drops their Family Feud spot within a day.
Oz buts his crudites, Fetterman campaign (and rest of world) laugh, a week later OZ comes up with this tweet.
Lyrebird
@Westyny: ETA: you know all this, I am just tipping my hat here.
bellwether, yep, and Delgado’s win was not a given by a long shot. Big grassroots push. He is local (Delgado) but also he is not white. Remember those “OH NOES RAP!” ads? They were targeting Delgado, who did some brainy rap lyrics before he went off to be a Rhodes Scholar.
Glad Ryan prevailed!
SFAW
After watching his audition for the Jeopardy! host role, I figured he was a grifting, self-important asshole. [I hadn’t seen him before that.] But that “stroke” comment is about seven levels of assholery beyond that. What a scumbag.
HumboldtBlue
Am I the only one who couldn’t log onto the blog due to a 502 error a few hours ago?
Also, there are some heartening results from primaries tonight.
eclare
@The Oracle of Solace: Very cute!
Brachiator
I absolutely love this!
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@HumboldtBlue: There’s a post asking about site issues a few posts back.
So no, you were definitely not the only one!
Anotherlurker
@HumboldtBlue: No, you are not alone with log in difficulties today. All day and as recently as 9pm Pacific time, I had trouble logging in.
I think it’s back to normal now.
eclare
@Origuy: Awesome! Thanks for sharing.
HumboldtBlue
This is really good news.
Dems needs a new corps of young lawmakers. And those issues are stone-cold winners, particularly abortion rights. I’m hoping that my sense I am getting that Dobbs has shifted the political playing field is spot-on. Women, young and old and I would suspect an awful lot of young men are gonna vote for abortion rights and that’s a win for Dems.
@Anotherlurker: @Alison Rose 💙🌻💛:
thx
BeautifulPlumage
OT, but poking around Twitter landed me on this trailer for a new Hillary and Chelsea series starting soon. I’m contemplating a subscription to apple + just to see it:
https://mobile.twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1562124214538313729
Old Man Shadow
What, pray tell, Dr. Oz, is wrong with communities watching out for each other? Pulling together to make sure everyone has food and shelter from the elements? Helping out members having a hard time? What’s wrong with everyone pitching in a little so they can more for their neighbors than if only one or two felt compelled to give?
What’s wrong with doing unto others so that if I’m in the same position one day, others will help me out?
That sounds like a much better world to me than the war of all against all and every man for himself of individualism.
Mai Naem mobile
I don’t understand Alaska’s ranked voting system but Dave Wasserman says the Dem has stretched her lead over Palin and may win depending on the second choice numbers from next week. I was wondering why Nick Begich was an R instead of a D like his dad. I think I understand now. https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1562305696200380418?t=TUp8aA7ufyUJ_E_nlIP-RQ&s=19
bjacques
@HumboldtBlue: several decades late, but okay. Shame he didn’t also campaign on lowering the voting age.
14 OR FIGHT!
Now looking forward to free doses of LSD to over-60s, even if I have to wait a year.
HumboldtBlue
Here’s a thread:
HumboldtBlue
Words, when wielded by a wordsmith.
HumboldtBlue
Who knew?
SiubhanDuinne
@HumboldtBlue:
How beautiful.
SiubhanDuinne
@HumboldtBlue:
How amazing!
Frankensteinbeck
@HumboldtBlue:
I would guess it requires a very different relationship with the cats from the normal house pet. Lions and tigers can be trained, and the behavioral challenges with them are even worse. It probably doesn’t work with a house cat because their whole life is structured around being a pampered object of affection. These are just guesses, though.
MomSense
@Hoppie:
I used to ask a similar question to the tea party morans when they showed up at our health care rallies. They always wanted to go back to somewhere around 1956. I loved telling them what the tax rates were then. Anyway the real reason is that they want to go back before the civil rights act. It’s all about racism.
ghost cat
@Ken: Meet Sophie Ota, Digital Director for John Fetterman’s campaign:
MomSense
@HumboldtBlue:
No fucking way.
HumboldtBlue
@SiubhanDuinne:
Ain’t it? That opening line is, as the kids say, is FIRE
@Frankensteinbeck:
I ain’t never seen a trained cat, and Salad, who literally spends the summer months living in the neighbor’s very high and uncut grass, and who, now, summer begins to wane, demands both lap space and once that is too much, will sit right next to the mouse on the desk.
I type a lot with one hand, and that’s NOT due to all internet traditions.
HumboldtBlue
@MomSense:
Way.
k
HumboldtBlue
@ghost cat:
How crudité of the Fetterman campaign to mock food prices!
Baud
@Another Scott:
That’s good. Media was salivating at a Dem loss in that district.
HumboldtBlue
Baud
I’m curious whether Oz thinks uteri belong to the individual or are owned by the collective.
David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Wrong state for Oz to attack people.
Santorum had a job for life until he started with the “man on dog” stuff. Sunk like a stone and lost by 18 points.
David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
This was from yesterday at DailyKos:
Here’s a guy who was popular, elected, spent a lot money, had big name I.D. in a district rated R+3 and he lost to a unknown Dem, who didn’t spend anything.
Inflation, CBT, a backlash over the FBI search – guess not.
Roll Tide, RollRoe Tide, RoeBaud
@David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
👍
Geminid
More election news: New York state GOP chairman Nick Langworthy beat feral bigot Carl Paladino in the NY 23rd CD primary. With 95% of the vote counted in the southwestern NY district, Langworthy led by 4.2%. Paladino did not concede and his spokesperson said they were looking into voting “irregularities.”
Langworthy is the favorite in the general election; trump would have carried the new district by 9 points.
prostratedragon
@HumboldtBlue: Great letter. In particular, gotta love that postscript.
David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Geminid:
This is a shock. As a rule of thumb, the pro Hitler candidate always wins in a rpublican primary.
satby
@Frankensteinbeck: cats can be trained just like any other pet. They’re more independent and so it takes a bit longer, but consistency is the key. Just like with children and dogs. Most people don’t bother to train cats, but they are trainable.
Geminid
@David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: It actually was somewhat of an upset. Paladino was thought to be leading up until election night. And that clown Elise Stefanik endorsed him.
MagdaInBlack
@satby: Thank you. Affection, treats, affection, treats, affection, treats. And lots of patience. Oh, and also, treats 😉😊
Geminid
@Ken: Fetterman is certainly not a “collectivist.” If I had to pin a label on him, I’d call him a communitarian.
Baud
@Geminid:
I forgot about that endorsement. She’s got egg on her face.
JWR
@satby:
A friend trained her orange tabby to kiss. No, really! She’d always trained her cats to be held, but this little guy learned that the first time she asked for a kiss, he would give her a little nose bump, and the second time, he touched his “lips” to hers. I’m sure one thing that forced him to learn that was because she wouldn’t put him down until he gave her some sugar. ; )
Baud
@MagdaInBlack:
That always works on me.
germy shoemangler
David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
I mean in the past pro Hitler candidates like Goldwater, Dump, Madison Cawthorn easily won rpublican primaries.
This was in 1964 when the stench of World War II was still in the air and rpublicans thought nothing about voting for a Hitler lover.
Gvg
@HumboldtBlue: The post below this one is titled “are the site issues tonight resolved?”
Baud
Both Val Demmings and Charlie Crist will be on MJ in a moment.
And no Joe and Mika!
MagdaInBlack
@Baud: I’ll make note of that. 🤗
Baud
Haha. Some anti-choice group is running ads against Biden on MSNBC.
Suzanne
@David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
Not to mention….. if Oz ever left New Jersey and took a look around PA, he would see a lot more people with the body type of John Fetterman than with the body type of Dr. Oz. (And a lot of those people are the voters Oz needs.) He basically fat-shamed Fetterman. Christ, what a jagoff. His campaign needs fixed.
David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Baud:
Good! I hope they keep talking about it. Every bit of publicity counts (even unintended) to remind voters they can no longer take choice for granted.
Baud
@David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
The ad pitched the issue as about burning churches, not abortion. Compared themselves to the civil rights movement. Really insulting to trmye average MSNBC viewer.
David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Suzanne:
True. They look like the late great Jack Murtha
Baud
@Baud:
trmye = the
Autocorrect is really giving me fits this morning.
Suzanne
@David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: Oz’s voters are a lot more pizza-wings-hoagies than they are arugula-and-crudité. (Speaking of which, I remember those long-ago days when Obama was called an elitist for eating arugula and Dijon mustard, so one would think that Republicans have learned to stay away from talking about enjoying vegetables.)
Baud
Crist is pretty religious. Invoking God a lot.
Ken
@Geminid: @germy shoemangler: I was expecting this — not from Paladino and Loomer specifically, but Republicans refusing to concede primary losses and crying fraud. More infighting, please, and if we can figure out a way to attach the “sore loser” tag to Republicans via these races, it may be useful in November.
davecb
Anne Laurie wrote “It’s been a thing since at least the Roman republic: Rich guy decides a Senate seat would be the perfect centerpiece for his vanity room.”
The ancient Greeks, around the time of Socrates and Plato, considered elections to be an aristocratic form of government. People who were well-known or rich tended to win them.
The Greek democracies preferred the same scheme as we have for selecting juries: everyone who hadn’t served lately got put into a pool, and were probabilistically given jobs. (I can see reaching into an amphora and pulling out a blank tablet, or perhaps one that said “assistant dog-catcher”, to see what I needed to do for Athens this year. Assuming Athens had dog-catchers, of course (;-))
Betty
@Suzanne: Despite being large, I wouldn’t have considered Fetterman to be fat. Besides that, his condition was not diet-related. He was inconsistent in taking his prescribed medicine. Coming from a heart specialist, that comment is unusually egregious.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: The abortion ruling was a game-changer.
We are well and truly pissed.
In fact, I’m not sure there is a word for what it feels like to move from first-class citizen to no longer having control over your own fucking body. No control over whether you become a mother or not. No control over whether you are forced to carry the fetus of your rapist or your brother or your uncle for 9 months.
Livestock is the closest I’ve seen yet.
WaterGirl
@HumboldtBlue: If you look at his website, Abortion is not in his short list of issues. That was disappointing.
WaterGirl
@JWR: My best friend trained his two cats to sit up, roll over, high five, etc. One of the cats would pick up the trick first, then the other would learn from watching the other cat.
Tony G
@Old Man Shadow: Oz’s parents were affluent, with his mother, in particular, coming from a wealthy family in Turkey. Many people (there are exceptions) who grow up with wealth grow up thinking that people who are not wealthy are lazy and undeserving of help. I guess Oz is one of those people.
Tony G
@Betty: Years ago I was getting my annual checkups from a cardiologist in New Jersey who started to recommend to me the wisdom of Dr. Oz. I switched to a different cardiologist, and I’m satisfied with the new one.
Chris Johnson
@Origuy: Well, in fairness, Trump is a fucking traitor selling nuclear secrets to Russia so what do you expect even Alabamans to do?
The guy is a fucking traitor.
Tony G
@zombie rotten mcdonald: In general, people who hawk their Miracle Supplements and Superfoods tend to blame people with health problems for bringing illness upon themselves by not consuming their miracle cures. Gary Null (ostensibly on the “left”) is another example of that.
Tony G
@Chris Johnson: Many Americans (not only in the Deep South) love traitors. That’s why they make a fetish out of the Confederate battle flag.
Kevin McCloskey
@Lyrebird: Hay. Thanks for the shout out, Lyrebird. If I knew that my Fetterman sketch would go so far I would have drawn a better one!
WaterGirl
@Kevin McCloskey: First comments have to be manually approved, and I just spotted your comment. Welcome!