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Late Night Squishable Open Thread

by WaterGirl|  August 27, 202212:27 am| 27 Comments

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I don’t see Anne Laurie in the back room, so I’ll put up this squishable open thread, as Betty likes to call them.

I just listened to Charlie Crist’s speech from election night, and it really was good.  It’s hearting to hear him, and President Biden and others, describing the stakes in black and white.  Who was the young kid to Crist’s left?  Grandson?  He looks like a character.

I am heading to bed, so here’s your open thread.  Use it for music or dancing or whatever you like.

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  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2022 at 12:28 am

    *thanks to Lyrebird for finding the link to the speech for me.

  2. 2.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2022 at 12:34 am

    We can dance? I’m all up for some dancing.

  3. 3.

    Another Scott

    August 27, 2022 at 12:37 am

    Crist’s remarks (as prepared).

    YouTube of the speech (11:08)

    Dunno who the youngster is.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  4. 4.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 27, 2022 at 12:43 am

    A spectacular Iridescent pileus cloud filmed in China:

    https://mobile.twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1563167052567019521

  5. 5.

    phdesmond

    August 27, 2022 at 12:45 am

    Biden’s speech in Rockville, MD, was dramatic:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08b4fht5Mz0   (seven minutes)

  6. 6.

    Alison Rose 💙🌻💛

    August 27, 2022 at 12:47 am

    Dancing? What next — free sex? I’m not here for that!

  7. 7.

    jonas

    August 27, 2022 at 12:57 am

    @phdesmond: ​
    Gosh, I’m shocked. I heard he was a doddering old fool confined to a hover-round who could barely string two words together.

    I will disagree with POTUS on one thing: MAGA isn’t “semi-fascism”. It’s full-bore fascism. Watch Triumph of the Will. Watch newsreels of Mussolini and his blackshirts and then watch a Trump rally or even just a segment of Tucker Carlson. Fascism isn’t a set of policies or even a coherent ideology. It’s a mood, or spectacle. It’s an incoherent array of grievances and resentments that the demagogue dramatically evokes and then directs towards a set of enemies and opponents that only he alone can defeat if only he is given the absolute power to sweep aside any opposition. That’s MAGA. And it’s straight-up fascism. It’s only a matter of time before Republican rallies are accompanied by goose-stepping parades of armed paramilitary squads.

  8. 8.

    eddie blake

    August 27, 2022 at 1:01 am

    @HumboldtBlue:  only if you leave your friends behind. because if they don’t dance, they’re no friends of mine.

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 27, 2022 at 1:03 am

    @BeautifulPlumage: wait, what? Is that real?

  10. 10.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 27, 2022 at 1:07 am

    @jonas:   Let’s not complain.  Everyone heard him use fascism and MAGA together; the semi will be forgotten.  Like Joe said to the reporter, “You know what I mean.”

  11. 11.

    prostratedragon

    August 27, 2022 at 1:11 am

    Tango Suite for 2 Guitars,  Piazzolla.
    Duo Pace Poli Cappelli
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MMYGeFPxFgU

  12. 12.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 27, 2022 at 1:12 am

    @eddie blake: Do they do all sixteen dances?

  13. 13.

    Leto

    August 27, 2022 at 1:14 am

    Jeff Craven@jeffbcraven

    If you’re wondering what led to the sudden shift in the official White House Twitter account’s posting strategy:

    8:17 PM · Aug 25, 2022·Twitter Web App

    Megan Coyne, the voice of New Jersey, is headed to the White House
    Livingston native leaves post as governor’s social media director to join Biden administration

    By David Wildstein, August 02 2022 3:06 pm

    Just five years after interning on Phil Murphy’s 2017 gubernatorial campaign, Livingston native Megan Coyne is on her way to the White House.

    Coyne, one of the architects of New Jersey’s hugely successful Twitter account with an attitude departed last week as Murphy’s social media director to join the Biden administration.

    “It’s an absolute dream come true to be joining the Office of Digital Strategy as Deputy Director of Platforms,” Coyne said on Twitter on Monday. “So excited for the journey ahead.”

    Coyne and her boss at the time, Pearl Gabel, brought life and a quintessential New Jersey manner to a once dull state-run Twitter account that began to take off in 2019.

    “Who lets New Jersey have a Twitter?” tweeted someone with 88 followers.

    The reply – “Your mom” – had nearly a half-million likes and 85,000 retweets.

  14. 14.

    JaySinWA

    August 27, 2022 at 1:21 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Are we sure he’s not talking about the [semi] fascist truckers?

  15. 15.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2022 at 1:21 am

    @eddie blake:

    Nice!

  16. 16.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 27, 2022 at 1:22 am

    @JaySinWA: Hey, he said what he said.

  17. 17.

    Mai Naem mobile

    August 27, 2022 at 1:31 am

    @Leto: is the writer  the same David Wildstein of Bridgegate fame? I imagine David Wildstein isn’t a super uncommon name but two David Wildsteins in NJ political writing/politics seems a tad unusual.

  18. 18.

    eddie blake

    August 27, 2022 at 1:32 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: omg, they’re all such BABIES.

    (i loooooove the b-52’s.)

  19. 19.

    JaySinWA

    August 27, 2022 at 1:39 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:he said what he said.

    And that’s all that he said,
    he’s Biden the POTUS man.

  20. 20.

    Winston

    August 27, 2022 at 1:43 am

    Olbeman

  21. 21.

    brendancalling

    August 27, 2022 at 1:50 am

    Open thread? Here’s the Daiquiri Queens.

    Y’all can thank me later.

  22. 22.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 27, 2022 at 1:54 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: yes! Her next tweet links to a Wikipedia about “scarf clouds”. The sun has to hit just right for the colors, the formation doesn’t last long, and the often indicate bad weather.

  23. 23.

    prostratedragon

    August 27, 2022 at 2:10 am

    @BeautifulPlumage:  Wow! Seen some strange cloud formations over Lake Michigan, but nothing like that.

  24. 24.

    Cameron

    August 27, 2022 at 2:35 am

    @Mai Naem mobile: Dunno if they’re the same guy, but I know the Bridgegate dude and happen to like him. He’s actually a good guy and pretty interesting, too. Anybody can screw up.

  25. 25.

    Nelle

    August 27, 2022 at 3:17 am

    @Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: Reminds me of the old joke – Why can’t Mennonites have sex standing up?  It might lead to dancing.  (I grew up in a strict non-dancing Mennonite household.)

  26. 26.

    oatler

    August 27, 2022 at 4:53 am

    @HumboldtBlue:

    MFSB!

  27. 27.

    Betty

    August 27, 2022 at 8:50 am

    @jonas: That is a great way to explain fascism to people who are afraid to say it.

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