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Maxwell Frost!

by WaterGirl|  June 3, 20235:48 pm| 160 Comments

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Hopefully someone cooler than me will know the backstory for this!

Wow. @MaxwellFrostFL just joined @paramore on stage at Capitol One Center in DC.

She asked him to speak and the first two words out of his mouth: “fuck Ron DeSantis!” pic.twitter.com/sFTx7lsqNz

— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) June 3, 2023

Very grateful for this moment. I’ve been practicing in the shower for YEARS pic.twitter.com/vbXueib9Ec

— Maxwell Alejandro Frost (@MaxwellFrostFL) June 3, 2023

I have to agree with the folks at MeidasTouch on this one – Maxwell Frost is the coolest congressman, and it’s not even close!

paramore have brought congressman Maxwell Frost of FL onstage for miz biz, calling out Desantis once again – “fuck Ron Desantis” 🗣️ pic.twitter.com/4SFngxzXCG

— jen (@YELYAHG00N) June 3, 2023

lol they’re so mad 😂😂 https://t.co/GxPRzWa8SU

— Maxwell Alejandro Frost (@MaxwellFrostFL) June 3, 2023

I said what I said https://t.co/WdHIKIVljY

— Maxwell Alejandro Frost (@MaxwellFrostFL) June 3, 2023

 

Open thread.

 

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  1. 1.

    Jeffg166

    June 3, 2023 at 5:51 pm

    Palpitations from the very serious people shortly.

  2. 2.

    tokyokie

    June 3, 2023 at 5:56 pm

    My congressman used to be Martin Frost, but despite the same surname, he wasn’t nearly as cool.

  3. 3.

    schrodingers_cat

    June 3, 2023 at 6:02 pm

    I have no idea who this is.

  4. 4.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2023 at 6:03 pm

    I know that Hayley Williams did just tell fans that, if they vote for DeSantis, they are dead to her. This all may be related. This Paramore song may resonate with many Juicers.

  5. 5.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 3, 2023 at 6:04 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Maxwell Frost was elected to Congress at the age of IIRC 25. No idea who Paramore is but I am…. not 25

  6. 6.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 6:05 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Maxwell Frost is 26 years old and is the first Gen Z congressperson.  The blog father has written about him before, I believe.

    He is in Florida.  Orlando, to be specific.

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 6:05 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yeah, I am hoping someone can tell us about Paramore, also!

  8. 8.

    trollhattan

    June 3, 2023 at 6:08 pm

    Texas: “Hey California, how you like us now? Hurr-hurr!”

    Sacramento-area religious congregations are seeking donations after 16 migrants from Venuzuela and Colombia were flown from El Paso, Texas, to Sacramento and dropped off Friday in front of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento’s offices in Curtis Park.

    “The group had been promised jobs and put on a plane from Texas. Upon arriving, they had no idea where they were, and had only a backpack’s worth of belongings,” according to an email from Sacramento ACT, a collaboration of area religious congregations seeking donations for the migrants. The group was seeking clothing, toiletries, food, legal support, Spanish-speaking volunteers and transportation for the migrants. According to Sacramento ACT, after being processed at the border, the migrants were approached by “individuals representing a private contractor” who said they would assist them with getting to a migrant center where they would find jobs and free support.

    The migrants, upon arriving in Sacramento, had no idea where they were, Sacramento ACT said. The group said that the migrants all have pending court appearances, and that by transporting them to California under false pretenses, there will be a disruption in their legal due process.

    “What has occurred recently with the deceiving drop off of our undocumented brothers and sisters into the Sacramento area grieves my heart. This political polarizing act is heartbreaking and yet I rejoice that I am part of a movement that brings the love of God and goodwill upon the injustices and political wickedness that impacts our vulnerable brothers and sisters,” said the Rev. Efrem Smith, Sacramento ACT president, in a statement.

    Rabbi Mona Alfi, of Congregation B’nai Israel, said that what happened to the migrants was “a moral travesty” and that “these are human beings, no different than you or me, who simply want to take care of their families and live a peaceful life, and they deserve to be treated better.”

    Eddie Carmona, director of campaigns for PICO California, a faith-based community organizing group, said in a statement that the migrants “are members of our families, communities, and part of the fabric of our state.” This is not the first time that migrants have been flown to California’s capital.

    https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article276070496.html#storylink=cpy

    Southern hospitality.

  9. 9.

    smith

    June 3, 2023 at 6:10 pm

    @Jeffg166: Any calls for decorum from the very serious people are going to sound a little hollow after our having to endure the daily antics of the Treason Caucus.

  10. 10.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2023 at 6:11 pm

    @WaterGirl: ​
      I gave you ungrateful bastards a song link.

  11. 11.

    MagdaInBlack

    June 3, 2023 at 6:17 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Thank you. I’d heard that but was too lazy to look up the artist of my current anthem.

  12. 12.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 3, 2023 at 6:23 pm

    We have a song link apparently.

  13. 13.

    different-church-lady

    June 3, 2023 at 6:23 pm

    There needs to be an indie band named Maxwell Frost.

  14. 14.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 3, 2023 at 6:25 pm

    @trollhattan: Well past time to give TexASS back to Mexico.

  15. 15.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2023 at 6:28 pm

    BTW Rishi turmeric and ginger tea with club soda makes a good mocktail.

  16. 16.

    Baud

    June 3, 2023 at 6:29 pm

    I am in favor of More Paras.

  17. 17.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 3, 2023 at 6:29 pm

    @different-church-lady: With frontwoman different-church-lady?

  18. 18.

    Baud

    June 3, 2023 at 6:29 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    There needs to be a show called Get Frost.

  19. 19.

    Baud

    June 3, 2023 at 6:31 pm

    “Why won’t Biden say ‘Fuck DeSantis’?”

  20. 20.

    Maxim

    June 3, 2023 at 6:32 pm

    @different-church-lady: Even his name is cool.

  21. 21.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2023 at 6:33 pm

    @Baud: Dollars to doughnuts, he already has.  Several times.

  22. 22.

    Spanky

    June 3, 2023 at 6:37 pm

    I thought Maxwell Frost was Cole’s new cat.

  23. 23.

    bbleh

    June 3, 2023 at 6:37 pm

    @Baud: The Times convened a panel of under-35 voters to discuss the issue, and while responses were mixed, several agreed that this potentially might maybe hurt Biden in the general election.

    @Omnes Omnibus: but with a half-smile and a dismissive wave of the hand.

  24. 24.

    Maxim

    June 3, 2023 at 6:38 pm

    @Spanky: That fine beast is Maxwell Edison.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack

    June 3, 2023 at 6:38 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    Here you go: Max Frost and the Troopers, “The Shape of Things to Come.”

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 6:39 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:  Thank you!

    I liked the music, the lyrics were pretty lame.  But they seem to have a following!

    Generation-Defining band

    Their evolution

    New sound and healthy outlook

  27. 27.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 6:40 pm

    @Spanky: Maxwell Edison?

  28. 28.

    m.j.

    June 3, 2023 at 6:40 pm

    Decorum.

  29. 29.

    smith

    June 3, 2023 at 6:40 pm

    @bbleh: Give credit where credit is due: It was really difficult to scare up enough under 35 voters in those Ohio diners.

  30. 30.

    schrodingers_cat

    June 3, 2023 at 6:40 pm

    @Baud: That’s a mythical stone that turns iron into gold.

    BTW do BJers know what nuts/fruits chimpanzees eat in the wild?

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 6:40 pm

    @Baud: “Why won’t dime-store Jackie Kennedy fuck DeSantis?”

    (I wouldn’t, either.)

  32. 32.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 6:41 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Biden would also approve of your “dollars to donuts”.

  33. 33.

    HeleninEire

    June 3, 2023 at 6:43 pm

    I saw this earlier and I didn’t have a clue. I think that he is the FL Congressperson who, when he won, could not afford an apartment in DC and couldn’t get credit because he spent every penny he had on his campaign. I think I may be right about that.

    That band? No, no, no clue at all. I am an OLD.

  34. 34.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 3, 2023 at 6:44 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    BTW do BJers know what nuts/fruits chimpanzees eat in the wild? 

    Sounds like the start of a joke.

  35. 35.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2023 at 6:44 pm

    @WaterGirl: ​
      No kidding.

  36. 36.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2023 at 6:46 pm

    @HeleninEire: I am not exactly young, but I’m not dead either.

  37. 37.

    Librarian

    June 3, 2023 at 6:46 pm

    Of course, Max Frost was the name of the main character in the 1968 movie Wild in the Streets. He was the rock star who became president. When he was elected, that movie was the first thing I thought of.

  38. 38.

    schrodingers_cat

    June 3, 2023 at 6:46 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: I am serious. I want to find a reference photo so I know which colors to use for the said fruit/nuts.

  39. 39.

    zhena gogolia

    June 3, 2023 at 6:48 pm

    @Librarian: haha that was great

  40. 40.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 3, 2023 at 6:49 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Oh.  I have no idea. :)

  41. 41.

    Jeffro

    June 3, 2023 at 6:50 pm

    Frost rocks!

    Comedian Brent Terhune is on fire…well actually, he’s roasting Mike Pence for showing up to Joni Ernst’s “Roast and Ride” in biker gear(!)…here’s a couple gems:

    • “Mike Pence gets heartburn from mayonnaise”
    • “I’d say Mike is “Born to be Mild’ but we all know ‘mild’ is TOO SPICY for Mike”
    • “Mike is like if a glass of milk was a person”
    • “He’s like a wolf in bikers’ clothing”
    • “You know his inner monologue’s gotta be like, ‘maybe if I dress like them, they won’t want to hang me anymore’ “
    • “You know the back of that biker vest says, ‘if you can read this, Mother fell off’ “

    LOLOL

  42. 42.

    HeleninEire

    June 3, 2023 at 6:51 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Same. I am quoting someone else…don’t know who…but my favorite saying now is…”I am too old to be young, but I am too young to be old.”

    And that’s great. I have the best of both worlds.

  43. 43.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2023 at 6:52 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: ​
      When in doubt about chimpanzees, asking Jane Goodall isn’t a bad plan.

  44. 44.

    Jeffro

    June 3, 2023 at 6:52 pm

    @Steeplejack: I saw this and thought it might link to an excellent Audioslave cover…

    …alas.  ;)

  45. 45.

    Dan B

    June 3, 2023 at 6:53 pm

    @Jeffro:  LOL!  Thanks for sharing.

  46. 46.

    Jeffro

    June 3, 2023 at 6:54 pm

    Side note: I know of/have listened to Paramore, I’m not a huge fan but like them ok.

    I thought to myself, “I think they’ve been around for oh eight years?”  (translation: it’s hasn’t been TOO long since I first heard them/I’m not THAT old, right?)

    Googled it.

    OMG they will be celebrating their 20th anniversary as a band next year…

  47. 47.

    Tenar Arha

    June 3, 2023 at 6:57 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    @WaterGirl:

    @HeleninEire:

    She’s a tiny person, & yet a huge stage presence though. Anyway—Paramore just played the Boston Calling Music Festival, and she wore a great tee shirt that said “Fuck the Supreme Court.” 

  48. 48.

    Steeplejack

    June 3, 2023 at 6:57 pm

    @Jeffro:

    They wanted Max Frost, they got Max Frost!

  49. 49.

    Tenar Arha

    June 3, 2023 at 6:58 pm

    @Jeffro: lol, that’s what I said!

    ETA you wanna know the worst thing— I figured out I’d never seen Foo Fighters in concert by figuring out when they were founded & suddenly felt very old.

  50. 50.

    Steeplejack

    June 3, 2023 at 7:02 pm

    @Jeffro:

    I do have a George Benson cover, produced by the inimitable Creed Taylor.

  51. 51.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 7:05 pm

    @Jeffro: You all deserve to see this as punishment for every bad thing you have done.

    BREAKING: DOJ will not file charges against Mike Pence for mishandling classified documents.

    Throw in a quarter and have another ride, Mike. pic.twitter.com/gYBQOYtcW1

    — Jack E. Smith ⚖️ (@7Veritas4) June 2, 2023

  52. 52.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 7:06 pm

    @Jeffro: That last one was very funny.

  53. 53.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 3, 2023 at 7:09 pm

    De Santis tried to wax Churchillian in Iowa. It’s almost like he got hold of a half-written SNL skit and thought, Hey, this is great!

    Acyn @Acyn

    DeSantis: As president, I recognize that the woke mind virus represents a war on the truth so we will wage a war on the woke. We will fight the woke in education, we will fight the woke in corporations, we will fight the woke in the halls of congress.

    Even allowing for Florida, it’s hard to believe that man won statewide

  54. 54.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 7:11 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Oh my god.  I snorted when I read that.

    LOSER.

  55. 55.

    bbleh

    June 3, 2023 at 7:12 pm

    @smith: The Times is puzzled why some people think the patrons eating breakfast at 10:30 at a random diner in Ohio are not representative of the Heartbeat of America.  We convened a panel of lunch patrons at a diner in Indiana to discuss the issue.

  56. 56.

    Baud

    June 3, 2023 at 7:13 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that, if the Florida lasts for a thousand years, men will still say: This was their most ridiculous hour.

  57. 57.

    trollhattan

    June 3, 2023 at 7:14 pm

    @Tenar Arha: ​Think that’s bad? Last weekend we watched Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite. Downtown was kinda busy for the night of a geezer show, turned out on account of somebody name “Lizzo” playing at the arena.

    No buyer’s remorse for me.

  58. 58.

    smith

    June 3, 2023 at 7:15 pm

    @WaterGirl:  Shades of W in the flight suit and Dukakis in the tank! They never learn, do they?

    Now I want to see TFG dressed as a WWE fighter (No, no, not really)

  59. 59.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 3, 2023 at 7:16 pm

    @Baud: LOL

  60. 60.

    trollhattan

    June 3, 2023 at 7:16 pm

    @Baud: Florida has been settled by Europeans longer than Florida will remain above seawater.

  61. 61.

    trollhattan

    June 3, 2023 at 7:17 pm

    @smith: Will this do?

    https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1665127600648343554?cxt=HHwWhMC-5eCu3JsuAAAA

  62. 62.

    kalakal

    June 3, 2023 at 7:18 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    oh that is pathetic 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    To butch up his image I hear he’s going to star in a remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Working title The Georgetown Hedgetrimmer Mishap

  63. 63.

    Steeplejack

    June 3, 2023 at 7:18 pm

    @Baud:

    🧐 Huzzah!

  64. 64.

    Geminid

    June 3, 2023 at 7:19 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

     

    @WaterGirl: Maxwell Frost was elected to the Orlando Congressional seat that Val Demings vacated in order to run for the Senate.

  65. 65.

    Jeffro

    June 3, 2023 at 7:19 pm

    @Tenar Arha: I hear you!  I went to the Foos’ 20th anniversary concert at RFK stadium…EIGHT years ago!  0_0

  66. 66.

    smith

    June 3, 2023 at 7:20 pm

    @trollhattan: How apt! It’s amazing how similar all four faces in that picture are.

  67. 67.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 7:22 pm

    @smith: Yes!  The first thing I thought of was Dukakis in the tank!

  68. 68.

    Tenar Arha

    June 3, 2023 at 7:22 pm

    @trollhattan: 😆 & 😎

  69. 69.

    Jeffro

    June 3, 2023 at 7:22 pm

    @WaterGirl: ha!

    he did not deserve to be hung on J6, but after seeing that pic…

    …I’m just trying to keep it in perspective, is what I’m saying.

     

    (maybe DOUBLE mayo on his next sandwich, for DOUBLE the heartburn…that seems appropriate.  maybe)

  70. 70.

    Geminid

    June 3, 2023 at 7:23 pm

    @WaterGirl: The other bikers call Pence “Iron Mike,” because his riding clothes have no creases.

  71. 71.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 7:24 pm

    @trollhattan: Oh my god.

    Casey Desantis sporting a new jacket at Joni Ernst’s biker event in Iowa today. pic.twitter.com/43twNB4uJ4

    — Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 3, 2023

  72. 72.

    glc

    June 3, 2023 at 7:24 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: A very good plan indeed! That seems to settle matters.

    (My answer to the question would just have been “Yes.” – a fair bet in most such cases.)

  73. 73.

    Jeffro

    June 3, 2023 at 7:24 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    @WaterGirl:

    @Baud:

    they all seem to want to channel their inner Churchill, but fall way flat, don’t they?

    It’s almost like a) we’re not Nazis and b) they’re not Churchill

  74. 74.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 7:26 pm

    @Geminid: The shirt has the crease from the package it came in. :-)

  75. 75.

    smith

    June 3, 2023 at 7:27 pm

    @WaterGirl:  I don’t care, do U?

    Thing I want to know is why her hubby is dressed in a boring ol’ checked shirt — shouldn’t he be dripping in leather and studs?

  76. 76.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 7:27 pm

    @Jeffro: Narrator: They have no inner Churchill to channel.

  77. 77.

    Jeffro

    June 3, 2023 at 7:28 pm

    @WaterGirl: Ron’s going to have to deal with his ‘tribe’ fawning all over Casey for the next year, and by ‘deal with’, I mean he will almost certainly not deal well with that.

    Nickel bet on the first, “Run Casey, not Ron!” op-ed piece in the somewhat-mainstream RWNJ media?  I’m going to guess…next week!  LOL

  78. 78.

    trollhattan

    June 3, 2023 at 7:29 pm

    @WaterGirl: ​ Just missing the matching leather cape. :-)

    Self-awareness is not big with these people. “Woke” having no meaning, is not any better than covfefe as a slogan to wrap your campaign around.

    “Where retirees go to die” would be both ironic and sardonically humorous.

  79. 79.

    Tenar Arha

    June 3, 2023 at 7:30 pm

    @Jeffro: It was a Good Festival Day 1 finale. Enough so I got one of their FF tour t-Shirts, which says on the back “But Here We Are 2023”

    Probably the newest/youngest band I saw at the festival was The Linda Lindas, remember those adorable young punks from the library mid-pandemic?

  80. 80.

    trollhattan

    June 3, 2023 at 7:32 pm

    @Jeffro: Hate to say it but it’s clear that while Meatball loves being in front of a camera, Tacky O is actually polished there. Needs to cut way back on the Addereall, though and god, those fvcking clothes.

  81. 81.

    kalakal

    June 3, 2023 at 7:32 pm

    @Jeffro: To be fair I think romper suits a la Churchill could be the look for them.

  82. 82.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2023 at 7:32 pm

    @WaterGirl: Just wear jeans and tee shirt/polo shirt.  Bikers know you aren’t one of them, so why pretend?  If you do ride*, just wear what you would regularly wear.  It not that fucking hard.

    *Pence manifestly does not.

    @smith: He actually got it almost right.  Probably by accident.

  83. 83.

    Ihop

    June 3, 2023 at 7:35 pm

    @trollhattan: tiny arms, tiny hands

  84. 84.

    scav

    June 3, 2023 at 7:44 pm

    @trollhattan: FL’s got bigger ambitions than just retirees — between gun-policy, building regs, vaccination-aversion and forced pregnancy, they’re aiming to kill loads more and that’s before drowning as many as possible.

  85. 85.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 3, 2023 at 7:45 pm

    This is drag.

  86. 86.

    kindness

    June 3, 2023 at 7:45 pm

    Casey seems to revel in the attention she’s getting.  I find her tacky as hell.  She thinks she’s gonna be a queen but I think she’ll never rise above groupie.

  87. 87.

    kalakal

    June 3, 2023 at 7:46 pm

    @Ihop: A creature with a brain the size of a walnut

  88. 88.

    kalakal

    June 3, 2023 at 7:49 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Born to be slightly miffed.

    I admire the way they’ve cropped out the training wheels

  89. 89.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 3, 2023 at 7:49 pm

    does Casey De Santis have a fan base? I admit I’m in an MSNBC-ish media silo, but from what I can see, his campaign is straining to make her a thing, or else pushing the notion that “she should be on the cover of Vogue!” as something to add to the grievance list

  90. 90.

    Juju

    June 3, 2023 at 7:56 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Isn’t Rishi Turmeric a prime minister or something?

  91. 91.

    cope

    June 3, 2023 at 7:58 pm

    Just wondering if Maxwell has a silver hammer.

  92. 92.

    MagdaInBlack

    June 3, 2023 at 8:04 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Authoritarians love their “uniforms.”

  93. 93.

    Jeffro

    June 3, 2023 at 8:06 pm

    @Tenar Arha: Linda Lindas = RAWK!!1!

    My kids know I am always interested in new music, so they play me stuff, and I’m like, “where. are. the. grinding. electric. guitars. and. pounding. bass??”  ah well

  94. 94.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 8:09 pm

    @trollhattan: These people have no substance.  Just anger, hate and a desire for power.

    So they play dress-up.  It’s not about wanting to serve, or about helping people.  It’s looking the part so they can get the power they want.

    It’s just so ugly, and there is an epidemic of that in the Republican party.

  95. 95.

    Jeffro

    June 3, 2023 at 8:10 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Just wear jeans and tee shirt/polo shirt.  Bikers know you aren’t one of them, so why pretend?

    I have to both second and third this.  Just be yourself and maybe even poke fun at it a bit:

    Version 1: “I was going to do this in my usual suit and tie, but I thought I’d go all-out with my rebel self” (suit jacket, shirt, tie, and…jeans)

    Version 2: “I know this isn’t going to cut it – I only ride a few times a year – but I swear this is the most ‘biker’ polo shirt I own”

    It’s not that hard, Mike!

  96. 96.

    Baud

    June 3, 2023 at 8:10 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    So “Where woke goes to die” won’t be a rotating tag?

  97. 97.

    Tony Jay

    June 3, 2023 at 8:11 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    That’s a joke, right? He can’t have actually said that, because even a third-rate Wallace clone like RoDS couldn’t be stupid enough to burble out what’s clearly a Hitler speech with ‘Jew’ replaced by ‘Woke’.

  98. 98.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 8:12 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: That deserves an embed.

    This is drag. https://t.co/6J0v17lJZm

    — Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) June 3, 2023

  99. 99.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 8:12 pm

    @WaterGirl: See previous comment about playing dress-up.

  100. 100.

    John S.

    June 3, 2023 at 8:13 pm

    @Jeffro:

    My daughter is in love with K-pop at the moment. God help me.

  101. 101.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 8:13 pm

    @kalakal:

    I admire the way they’ve cropped out the training wheels

    Nice!

  102. 102.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    June 3, 2023 at 8:14 pm

    Driving that train
    High on cocaine
    Casey DeathSantis you better
    Watch your speed
    Trouble ahead
    Trouble behind
    And you know that notion
    Just crossed my mind

  103. 103.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 8:15 pm

    @cope: I’m gonna guess that he carries a tiny one on his keychain that he pulls out every time someone makes that joke.

    When I taught human sexuality, i must have heard the same joke 1,000 times: “Those who can’t do, teach!”

  104. 104.

    Tony Jay

    June 3, 2023 at 8:16 pm

    Also, too, before tonight I was vaguely aware that Paramore existed, but I’d never heard anything by them. Now I like their back catalogue, think Hayley Williams is wonderfully hot and applaud the fuck out of their in your face politics.

    Which is nice.

  105. 105.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 8:17 pm

    @Baud: Yeah, it’s in the “nope” bin along with “I don’t care, do U?”

    Why make people feel angry and nauseous when they see it?

  106. 106.

    Jeffro

    June 3, 2023 at 8:19 pm

    btw OT but enjoyable (and maybe important): Senate GOP not thrilled about having to rubber-stamp McCarthy’s debt-ceiling bill

    Did Senate Republicans regret outsourcing the negotiations to McCarthy?

    “I probably better not comment on that,” Sen. John Thune (S.D.), the No. 2 GOP leader in the chamber and a big supporter of the Pentagon, told reporters Thursday.

    “Do I regret that decision? That wasn’t my decision,” said Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the top Republican on the Appropriations Committee.

    Indeed, Collins was one of just six Republicans to not sign a letter that effectively told Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) that McCarthy had their proxy and they were united “behind the House Republican” position in the talks.

    To his credit, McConnell stuck to his word and immediately embraced the Biden-McCarthy deal, repeatedly praising it. He rounded up enough GOP votes to overcome a filibuster attempt from his own ranks.

    “Nobody gets everything they want,” he said during a floor speech on Wednesday. “But in this case, it means the American people got a whole lot more progress toward fiscal sanity than Washington Democrats wanted to give them.”

    McConnell made several similar moves in 2019 and 2020, when he deferred to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as they negotiated a debt-ceiling-and-budget deal, a new North American trade deal and an early coronavirus pandemic response measure.

    Each time, Senate Republicans expressed outrage after Pelosi, a negotiating legend, won major concessions from Mnuchin, an investment banker and Hollywood producer with no prior experience in government.

    This time, with a Democratic president and a Republican speaker, Senate Republicans ended up with the same bitter taste.

    We all know McConnell is a snake, but he’s a snake with pretty good instincts, and he knew that a) McCarthy was dealing with vipers of his own and b) despite the “both sides” media’s best attempts, Republicans would be held accountable for any default.  Nevertheless, it’s good to see that the Senate Rs’ brightest lights were peeved by the lunacy in their own party!

  107. 107.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 8:20 pm

    @Tony Jay: You’ve gotta admire their “If you vote for DeSantis, you’re dead to me!”

  108. 108.

    kalakal

    June 3, 2023 at 8:20 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Mike Pence – Rolling Blunder

    All that effort and I bet the fly is still clinging on, untouched by the wind in his hairspray

  109. 109.

    Tony Jay

    June 3, 2023 at 8:20 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Holy Fuckballs, even for a guy with resting coma face, Mike Pence has never looked more like a confused old fella who has no idea how he got on that man’s bike, but a fairly good idea of what Duke Iron Rod is going to do to him when he comes out of that truckstop toilet.

  110. 110.

    Jeffro

    June 3, 2023 at 8:21 pm

    @John S.: ye gods

    just remind her – no K-pop at breakfast, and whoever’s driving calls the radio station/Sirius/CD selection!

  111. 111.

    Tony Jay

    June 3, 2023 at 8:23 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Oh, I do. In these fucked up times that’s genuinely dangerous, but some people just have the cocos to lay it out there and screw the backlash.

  112. 112.

    Baud

    June 3, 2023 at 8:24 pm

    @Jeffro:

    Republicans would be held accountable for any default

     
    I agree, but we’re in the minority.

  113. 113.

    El Muneco

    June 3, 2023 at 8:28 pm

    Had a co-worker in the late 2000s – twentysomething male Asian software dev – who was a _massive_ Paramore fan and turned me on.

    Not only have they been together for 20 years, those 20 years have taken Hayley from age 16 to age 35. They’ve reinvented themselves several times, but I saw the video of their most recent work and although definitely different than “Misery Business” (the very early song that the Congressman joined them for), it’s still quite the banger.

  114. 114.

    Sister Golden Bear

    June 3, 2023 at 8:34 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Cole’s theme song.

  115. 115.

    Ken

    June 3, 2023 at 8:35 pm

    @Jeffro: McConnell made several similar moves in 2019 and 2020, when he deferred to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin

    Tell me you have no political skills other than obstruction, without saying that you have no political skills other than obstruction.

  116. 116.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    June 3, 2023 at 8:37 pm

    Pence rails against teh gay and then dress up like a member of The Village People

  117. 117.

    Kelly

    June 3, 2023 at 8:37 pm

    OT: My summer has begun. Just back from my second river swim of the season. First swim was yesterday. Our swimming hole is about a hundred yard from the house. We share access with a couple dozen neighbors on both sides of the river and in Oregon just about all rivers are public access if you travel via the water. Had the beach to ourselves which is the way it works out about half the time. Crystal clear 66 degrees. Warm enough for an active swim.

  118. 118.

    Jeffro

    June 3, 2023 at 8:43 pm

    @Ken: wait…so you didn’t get a copy of The Turtle’s “My Positive, Forward-Thinking Agenda for American Progress”?

    Why, you must have had your mailbox bolted shut and TV off for the past 16 years!  ;)

    LOLOL

  119. 119.

    Quiltingfool

    June 3, 2023 at 8:47 pm

    Hey, Kayla Rudbek!  I saw your t-shirt question and replied to it on the post downstairs.

  120. 120.

    prostratedragon

    June 3, 2023 at 8:47 pm

    @Spanky:  I feel better now.

  121. 121.

    different-church-lady

    June 3, 2023 at 8:48 pm

    @WaterGirl: Jesus, whatever it was, it must have been when I was black-out drinking.

  122. 122.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 8:49 pm

    @Tony Jay: You could dress Mike Pence up 7 different ways, and he couldn’t possibly appear less comfortable than he looks on the motorcycle.  Even in drag, he would seem more at home!

  123. 123.

    different-church-lady

    June 3, 2023 at 8:50 pm

     

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: “we will wage a war on the woke Batman.”

  124. 124.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 8:53 pm

    @different-church-lady: You’re probably right. :-)

  125. 125.

    different-church-lady

    June 3, 2023 at 8:54 pm

    @WaterGirl: Look, this is just what they’re doing to win over the base for the primary. When they get to the general they’ll pivot further to the right.

  126. 126.

    different-church-lady

    June 3, 2023 at 8:57 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Tellin’ ya man, it’s Ferdinand and Imelda of Tallahassee.

  127. 127.

    different-church-lady

    June 3, 2023 at 8:59 pm

    @WaterGirl: Hey, it worked for Adolf.

  128. 128.

    Yutsano

    June 3, 2023 at 9:01 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: ​That was his speech? Yeesh. He’s like every boring lecturer I had in college. And whoever picked that shirt should be shot.

  129. 129.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 9:06 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: AS PRESIDENT?

    He’s not the fucking president. Perhaps he doesn’t understand the difference between present and future tense?

  130. 130.

    WaterGirl

    June 3, 2023 at 9:07 pm

    @different-church-lady: I’m not sure there is anything to the right from where they already are.

  131. 131.

    Anoniminous

    June 3, 2023 at 9:34 pm

    Has anyone else noted the Bush family has evaporated from the GOP? Where is the JEB! of yesteryear?

  132. 132.

    Ken

    June 3, 2023 at 9:55 pm

    @David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: Now that you mention it, at Iowa campaign events they all dress like the cowboy.

  133. 133.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 3, 2023 at 10:01 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: What would DeathSantis do AS THE JACKASS that HE IS?  Tell us that, Meatball Ron!

  134. 134.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 3, 2023 at 10:04 pm

    @Ken: If you’re ever down in Texas…

  135. 135.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 3, 2023 at 10:06 pm

    @Anoniminous:

    Has anyone else noted the Bush family has evaporated from the GOP? Where is the JEB! of yesteryear? 

    The brush ain’t gonna clear itself at Warcriminal’s ranch.

  136. 136.

    NotMax

    June 3, 2023 at 10:17 pm

    @mrmoshpotato

    He sold off Rancho Photo Op right quick upon leaving office.

  137. 137.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 3, 2023 at 10:20 pm

    @NotMax: Oh.  Didn’t know that.

  138. 138.

    Mike in NC

    June 3, 2023 at 10:29 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:  It was Putin who noted that Dubya owned a ranch without any cattle.

  139. 139.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 3, 2023 at 10:39 pm

    @Mike in NC: Haha!  Ouch.

  140. 140.

    Tenar Arha

    June 3, 2023 at 10:51 pm

    @Jeffro: LL yes! My joints cannot pogo anymore, but I was definitely bouncing on my toes & head banging.

    I figured a few local bands would get me newish music to me, so I tried to see a few bands every day on the Tivoli Audio Orange Stage. Anyway—for some loud guitars check out Summer Cult & Sorry Mom. I liked what I saw & heard of Mint Green on the Blue Stage too.

  141. 141.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 3, 2023 at 11:14 pm

    @Anoniminous: the cowardly silence of the Bush brothers low-key infuriates me, and the fact that almost no one calls them out on it

    also, that nobody talks about how much the ‘loss of trust in our institutions’ that enables trump is a result of the Bush presidency, especially but not only wrt Iraq

  142. 142.

    justawriter

    June 3, 2023 at 11:49 pm

    @smith: Trump wore a diaper at Wrestlemania 

  143. 143.

    justawriter

    June 4, 2023 at 12:08 am

    @schrodingers_cat: Not sure about chimps but …

    “If you’re under 35, and not passionately interested in health food, this one may go over your head. If so, count your blessings: Until very recently, a tribe of killer monkeys lived undetected beneath Greenwich village. To some extent it was not surprising that they escaped notice for so long. They had extremely odd sleeping habits, hibernating for 364 days out of every year (365 in Leap Years) and emerging from the caverns of the Village sewers only on Christmas Day. Even so, one might have thought they could hardly help but cause talk, since they tended when awake to be enormous, ferocious, carnivorous, and extremely hungry. Yet in Greenwich Village of all places on Earth they went unnoticed until last year, when they were finally destroyed. Everyone knows that Yule Gibbons ate only nuts and fruits…”
    ― Spider Robinson, Off the Wall at Callahan’s

  144. 144.

    dww44

    June 4, 2023 at 12:09 am

    @Anoniminous: It’s more likely that the GOP left the Bushes.  Policy differences aside, I don’t believe they are wanna-be authoritarians or fascists. This cult and conspiracy loving  GOP is not the same party they were leaders of 15 short years ago.

  145. 145.

    dww44

    June 4, 2023 at 12:15 am

    @NotMax:  What I remember is that George wanted to reside there but Laura didn’t and they took up residence in Dallas.

  146. 146.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 4, 2023 at 12:26 am

    @NotMax: I thought I had heard that too, but apparently they still use it as a vacation home

    @dww44: I think they’re still trying to make George P happen, and that’s why they’re so muted about trump. Jeb made what I think was supposed to be a splashy endorsement of DeSantis

  147. 147.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 4, 2023 at 12:40 am

    I didn’t know this was a thing, but apparently it’s not a thing anymore

    A retired pro wrestler has passed a paternity test proving he’s not the father of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) – after decades of having been accused that he was by her mother, the Daily Beast reported Saturday.

    Boebert confirmed to the Daily Beast that she and a man who wrestled as “Stan Lane” both took DNA tests in the past month that confirmed he was not her father. Lane, whose real name is Wallace Stanfield Lane, had been the subject of a paternity suit and public accusations by her mother – Shawn Roberts Bentz – dating back to the mid-1980s […]

    “The Toby Keith song, ‘Who’s Your Daddy’ hits a bit differently now.”

  148. 148.

    Gvg

    June 4, 2023 at 12:43 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Excuse me, but who care what torture President says? You think he is more respectable than Trump? He had enough awareness to know he should evaporate from public attention for a good long while. Saying bad things about Trump would just remind us the GOP has been sinking into hell territory for awhile, and it would not  check the scum. After all, he led them into a war that even they realized grudgingly had to be lost.

    Jeb flopped, and part of the reason was because he was George’s brother and people were sick of them.

  149. 149.

    Joey Maloney

    June 4, 2023 at 1:03 am

    I knew that name was familar…Max Frost and the Troopers

    A zillion years ago I was in a garage band that used to play this song as our opener.

  150. 150.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    June 4, 2023 at 3:16 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Party of family values

  151. 151.

    rikyrah

    June 4, 2023 at 5:17 am

    @schrodingers_cat:

    GenZ congresscritter from Florida

  152. 152.

    Miss Bianca

    June 4, 2023 at 10:22 am

    @WaterGirl: @trollhattan: I think personally I would have gone for “Where Woke Goes Back to Sleep”, but maybe that’s too subtle a jab for these intellectual midgets. (With all apologies to actual midgets.)

  153. 153.

    Paul in KY

    June 5, 2023 at 12:36 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Paramore has been one of my favourite bands for many years. Hayley is as cool as the day is long. If you ever get a chance to see them live…you’ll get your money’s worth.

  154. 154.

    Paul in KY

    June 5, 2023 at 12:38 pm

    @WaterGirl: Paramore should go to The Hall one day.

  155. 155.

    Paul in KY

    June 5, 2023 at 12:50 pm

    @Tenar Arha: I saw them at a festival where they played before Nine Inch Nails. Thier mopey goth fans had been hanging there all day. By end of Paramore set, they were cheering like Hell for Paramore!

  156. 156.

    Paul in KY

    June 5, 2023 at 12:52 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I hope Mr. Churchill’s foundation sues him for plagiarism.

  157. 157.

    Paul in KY

    June 5, 2023 at 12:53 pm

    @trollhattan: Lizzo is super badass too.

  158. 158.

    Paul in KY

    June 5, 2023 at 12:54 pm

    @smith: They keep those for playtime….Blech

  159. 159.

    Paul in KY

    June 5, 2023 at 12:55 pm

    @Tenar Arha: Have seen The Linda Lindas. Fine young band. Really enjoyed their set.

  160. 160.

    Paul in KY

    June 5, 2023 at 1:02 pm

    @Tony Jay: Tony, she is a tremendous and underrated performer. Have seen them 6 times and every one has been badass. Glad you have been appraised of them!

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