“We take no pleasure in reporting that Cracker Barrel has fallen” might be the funniest sentence ever composed using the English language. https://t.co/HGksFLrimK
— Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) June 9, 2023
Ronny Jackson organizing a MAGA boycott of Cracker Barrel because of a rocking chair. I’m starting to figure out why J6 went so well for them. pic.twitter.com/GWz9W5L9KP
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 9, 2023
When your party leader is *not* under indictment for treason…
36 years ago today, I was sworn in as a Member of Congress and delivered my first speech on the House Floor, which was on HIV/AIDS.
There is no greater honor for me than to speak for and represent the people of San Francisco in the Congress. To this day, I remain endlessly… pic.twitter.com/1FDjcWYGaC
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) June 9, 2023
Thanks to our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we have kicked off 32,000 infrastructure projects across every state and every territory in our nation.
To learn more about projects happening near you, visit https://t.co/kYNuXtHJah. pic.twitter.com/5mD0O5Eu78
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) June 9, 2023
My Executive Order for military and veteran spouses, caregivers, and survivors is about fulfilling our sacred obligation to care for our service members and veterans – and the folks who care for them.
For generations, you’ve stepped up to serve our country. We owe you. pic.twitter.com/YKfN4wPepS
— President Biden (@POTUS) June 9, 2023
People shouldn't have to choose between their pets or a roof over their heads.
Tallulah and I sat down to discuss the Pets Belong with Families Act to ensure housing facilities don’t discriminate based on dog breeds, and the PUPP Act to provide grants to housing facilities so… pic.twitter.com/3HT8cECydU
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) June 9, 2023
frosty
I’ll give you the answer that I give to all my non-retired friends:
“What’s a weekend?”
ETA: First? I’m up too early!
Baud
AAAAARRRGHHH. Tweet cliffhanger!
frosty
@Baud: I know, that was really annoying to have to click through! Just because you get 280, doesn’t mean you have to use all of them.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
lowtechcyclist
@frosty:
Won’t be that much longer until I join you in saying that!
In the meantime, it’s still a weekend. Went on a middling bike ride yesterday after work, and the air quality here in Calvert County wasn’t an issue at all, thank goodness. I’ll probably do a bit longer ride tomorrow.
Today is ‘load-in’ for my local theater group that my son’s been part of since a couple years before the pandemic. They have their productions in the gym of the local Boys and Girls Club facility, so all the set and props are in a storage shed several blocks away, and today is the day we haul it all from the shed to the gym. Lots of loading and unloading U-Hauls. And this afternoon, the HOA for my neighborhood has its annual picnic, and I’ll swing by that once the loading and unloading are done. I’ll probably wear my Dark Brandon tee to that, since the HOA president has worn his “the media is worse than any virus” tee the past couple of years. Time to return fire, so to speak.
Right now, I’m still in my pajamas, watching hummingbirds visiting my feeder outside my office window as the sunlight streams in. I’ve got a crappy workspace when it comes to having room for more than a few papers on my desk, but the view is excellent.
oatler
When The Inquisition went nuts with heresy paranoia and condemned The Netherlands to death, the rest of Europe yawned and “overkill much, dude?”
And now Chik Fil-A is a Soros operative.
WereBear
Could our national schadenfreude drought at last be over? I watched the ENTIRE Jack Smith press conference. It was great.
He took no questions! He gave no Fs!
And he said, “We have one law which applies to everyone,” only better.
Raven
What is a weekend ?
https://youtu.be/zhfpBW-nUWk
WereBear
I was forcibly retired by the job market of the last few years, but it still counts. So, for me, “what is a weekend” is working less on my own projects :)
At least what I do is more of what I want to do, and that is a blessing. Here’s my favorite review:
Baud
@WereBear:
👍
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
hueyplong
News of the front in the War on Woke shifting to Cracker Barrel reminds us that we’re fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them here.
eclare
@WereBear:
Congratulations!
Ramalama
I’m going to the Farmer’s Market in the hippy village next door to me in my own Quebecois village.
I went to Cracker Barrel once, with my extended family taking up one of their rooms. After a double wedding. We’re all there, looking to order, gabbing with one another because .. we’re family and we like each other. Waitress comes up to my partner and asks how she is related to everybody. Partner says these are my in-laws and leaves it at that. Waitress persists. But who are you married to? Partner points to me, says, that is my wife. This is her family. Waitress turns red, goes huffing off, tells other waitrons the exchange, they’re peering at us through the galley door windows. Then someone else deigns to wait on us.
This was a long time ago, granted. But good times, Cracker Barrel.
Suzanne
Once again, liberals are more desirable consumers.
NotMax
Media notes.
1) Weekend long listen. Radio adaptation of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, with Elaine Stritch as Martha. Act I — Act II — Act III
2) For A. Conan Doyle fans, mentioning The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire has shown up on Prime (teaser). Pushes the envelope of Holmesiana in curious directions and extremes while still having a grip on the canon. Hoodathunk Matt “Max Headroom” Frewer would unexpectedly make a quite credible Sherlock? (Apparently this was his fourth outing in that role.)
WereBear
@Baud: :) It wasn’t the destiny I’d planned, but then again, what is?
Duke of Clay
@frosty: Back around 1990 Georgia was having budget problems and the governor floated the idea of cutting all state employees pay by 20% and having them take one day a week off. The big debate among assistant professors at the local state university was whether they should take off Saturday or Sunday.
Matt McIrvin
@Ramalama: Funny how “family friendly” means hostile to your family and mine.
WereBear
@NotMax: I have long been a fan. He’s always full of surprises.
rikyrah
Congratulations Amir!
I hope that you share pictures of your new housemate🤗🤗
Rusty
Off to the Pride parade in DC with a couple of my daughters. It’s my first one. Then tonight a casual reception at my college roommates house for his son’s wedding that happened last week. A busy but what should be a fun day.
Raven
@Duke of Clay: I worked at the BOR and we had mandatory “furloughs”
Sanjeevs
Meanwhile in the U.K. the British Trump, Boris Johnson has resigned as a Member of Parliament.
In the morning he released his honours list. He gave out awards to various cronies, crooked donors and his hairdresser (!).
in the afternoon he resigned as an MP denouncing an Inquiry which would likely have found he lied to the House which would likely have resulted in eventual removal.
Geminid
There were a lot of good articles about Rep. Pelosi’s career last November, when she stepped down as Democratic House leader. One in the Washington Post recounted a 1977 dinner veteran California Representative George Miller hosted to introduce Pelosi to her new colleagues. Representatives Boxer, Durbin and Schumer were among the guests. Miller told them, I want you to meet the first female Speaker of the House.
WereBear
@eclare: My other favorite it is the one who complains I “use too many words.”
Almost Retired
I’m heading back to Los Angeles on the airborne torture chamber known as Allegiant Air – which operates affordable, non-stop flights between LA and a bunch of smaller cities no one really wants to visit very badly.
Affordable until they hit you with seat-choice fees, fees for water and cookies, resort fees, etc.But, we had a lovely visit with my nearly 90-year-old mother who moved to Kansas 30 years ago, as well as an enjoyable side trip to Arkansas (take that Facebook friends posting their pretentious Paris vacation photos)!
I will now return home with my knees in my face because the Allegiant seat pitch is designed for the comfort of under-developed children or Wizard of Oz extras, but not 6′ tall men. I bought a good book for the flight, if I’m allowed to read without a surcharge.
HinTN
Now, now, @OzarkHillbilly:, lighten up. @Raven: already nailed it.
WereBear
@Ramalama: On a long-delayed return to the home town, I was greeted with, “You’re not from around here, are you?” And a turned back.
The breathtaking rudeness stole my power of speech. Which doesn’t happen very often.
Kay
I went to a Sherrod Brown re-elect event last night. He’s lobbying for this:
I bolded the two R reps because Sherrod said he asked the other Ohio Senator, JD Vance, to join but Vance said the armed forces are too woke so wouldn’t sign on.
Brown told us he needs 1 out of 6 Trump 2020 voters to win – he’s confident he’ll get 1 out of 6 – not the Trump base but the loosely attached Trumplestilskins.
OzarkHillbilly
12m Americans believe violence is justified to restore Trump to power
Not that anybody is surprised. Among the subjects queried:
Yeah, America has a surfeit of whack jobs. On the positive side was this:
I’ll take that as the glass is 3/4 full.
frosty
@Raven: Perfect! I’d never seen that.
WereBear
I must say that over a decade ago, when a relative took me to Cracker Barrel, everything was cooked as I remember from my midwestern childhood.
Where that’s a good thing or not depends on one’s childhood :) Great for desserts, not so much for elbow macaroni, where the ethos of “cook it ’til it’s dead” applies to things that were never alive in the first place.
Chris Johnson
And the award for Unspeakable Adversity goes to…
Raven
Damn, 8:30 and not a soul at the dog park, Artie haz the sad!
Chris Johnson
@OzarkHillbilly: I like that the trump violence contingent is BELOW the crazification factor. As it should be.
Raven
@frosty: Maggie is awesome!
WereBear
@Sanjeevs: What good news, though damage lingers on…
lowtechcyclist
@hueyplong:
News of the front in the War on Woke shifting to Cracker Barrel reminds us that we’re fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them here.
Never thought I’d see the day when their side was boycotting Cracker Barrel and Chick Fil A. They’re really backing themselves into a corner there.
Which reminds me, given that Wal-Mart is keeping their whole lineup of Pride Month merchandise while Target backed down to them, are they boycotting Wal-Mart or did they realize how much of a challenge that would pose, especially for their demographic?
@Suzanne:
Exactly. Projection again – no ‘woke mob’ here, we’re just a growing market and they’re a shrinking market.
Also, we’re probably better-behaved customers on the whole, since the boycotters are the sort of people who spend their lives getting off on being riled up about nearly everything. Who wants to be around people like that?
HinTN
@Raven: How’s his reprogramming going?
Ben Cisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
I am home and NOT working, so I get to clean up the house.
That Jack Smith fellow is impressive. Looking forward to a lot more from him.
Cracker Barrel doing the “corporate allyship” thing was NOT a move I saw coming, yet here we are…
Strange days indeed.
Baud
@Kay:
I’m glad he’s confident, but I’m sad for Ohio generally.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Not about to go on a hunt for it but do recall a survey from some years back reporting that one-quarter of American adults believed the Sun orbits the Earth.
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.”
WereBear
@Ben Cisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️: There’s a doc on DS9 I watched the other day, a really good one. This was the “neglected series,” so it was nice to see some recognition. Probably old, but I’d not seen it before:
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Deep Space Nine
Especially for Avery Brook’s acting, which was stellar, in all meanings that might have :)
HinTN
In terms of the specified subject at top, if I can compel my lazy self to do it I will dig Surprise Lilies and peonies from the defunct bed and transplant them to the new pride of place location before the projected (and VERY needed) rains arrive tomorrow morning.
OzarkHillbilly
@HinTN: That was me lightening up. ;-)
Geminid
@Geminid: Well, now I see that Schumer was not a Congressman until the early 80s, and neither was Durbin. So Rep. Miller must have hosted that dinner to introduce Rep. Pelosi to the new Reps.
It’s too nice a morning to search for the exact story in my jumbled notebook, though. What a mess!
Suzanne
@lowtechcyclist: We’re also, generally, “cooler”. Very few people who are not already in the tribe look at Divorced Dad With Punisher T-Shirt and Mega Karen and think that we want to buy the same clothes or the same car or go to the same places.
NotMax
@Suzanne
“Going out to gas up the Hummer, dear.”
“What, again? Didn’t you just do that this morning?”
Kay
@Baud:
It is sad. My youngest asked me if he could switch his voting reg to Michigan. He can- he can decide to be a Michigan resident with some document switches – but for now he’s an Ohio registered voter so we need him to sign the petition to get the reproductive rights initiative on the ballot. I fret a little about that- maybe we should have instead run a campaign to defeat the R effort to kill citizen initiatives which come for a vote in August?
The base Democrats in attendance at the Sherrod event were very excited about the Trump indictment .I feel like it’s profoundly good for the country- important. Exactly the kind of “medicine” we need to get back on track and perhaps survive Right wing crazy. We pushed this stuff under the rug and hoped it would go away for far too long. It’s better to have the fight.
OzarkHillbilly
@Chris Johnson: Yeah, it’s not all bad news, just a warning about the potential for violence, maybe the probability of it. I rather suspect that in the wake of the J6 prosecutions most of these whackos are all bark, no bite, but we’ve all seen the carnage a single person with an assault rifle can inflict.
tobie
I’m on Day 14 of packing up my house for my sabbatical. I finished packing my stuff on Day 1 but my spouse Mr. Tobie is a hoarder. There is now light at the end of the tunnel but boy, oh boy, has this been a tough move.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Of course not 100% but for the bulk they lean a lot more armchair than Rambo.
OzarkHillbilly
Not in rural America where WalMart is the only game in town. Nobody is going to drive 20 or 40 miles or more to reach an alternative.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: Yeah, like I said to Chris at #52, most are all bark no bite, but we’ve seen the damage a single whacko can do with an assault rifle, time and again.
Suzanne
@tobie: Throw that crap out.
Geminid
@Kay: Rep. Max Miller was one of the four Republicans who accompanied House Foreign Relations Chairman McCaul on a trip to Kyiv last February, right after President Biden’s visit. They met with President Zelenskyy and pledged their continued support for Ukraine.
Baud
@Suzanne: She might be emotionally attached to Mr. Tobie by now.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@WereBear: Go you!
Betty Cracker
@Almost Retired: Check this YouTube out — a brilliant musical sketch about chiseling airlines.
Nukular Biskits
Mornin’, y’all!
John S.
@Suzanne:
The terms “He seems nice” and “Bless her heart” come to mind when normies are subjected to those whackos.
WereBear
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Thanks. It was from the heart! I’m still thrilled.
Kay
@Geminid:
Oh, that’s nice. I was in Cleveland with my husband for part of last week – he’s working there for a bit- and Clevelanders are still flying their Ukraine flags
The last time I was there – trip before this last trip- I saw an elderly lady driving a very expensive sedan with a “Fuck Putin” bumper sticker – just slowly cruising along downtown :)
Suzanne
@Baud: My grandparents were Depression kids and developed all of the neuroses around stuff. When we moved from NY to AZ, they had been living in the same house for almost 40 years and had just terrifying amounts of stuff in the basement. Someone could have probably thrown out entire boxes of stuff without looking at it and it would have been fine.
There was a Mile Birbiglia special about parenting, and there’s a moment in which they drop just this monstrous pile of baby stuff from a net above the stage. I remember watching it the first time and feeling a horror worse than any movie. The amount of kid stuff just makes me crazy.
Another Scott
@lowtechcyclist: I haven’t kept up with the details, but I wonder how much of the reporting about Target is accurate. E.g. if I look at Target.com for “pride” it lists all kinds of stuff in stock at my local NoVA store, and more available online. Isolated stores may be different, but it doesn’t seem to be a corporate-wide caving to the monsters.
YMMV.
Cheers,
Scott.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: I hope Brown gets lucky and draws a sketchy opponent, such as that twitchy, sweaty dude who ran in the last Repub primary and whom Trump suspected of an unspecified perversion.
Frankensteinbeck
@WereBear:
My favorite was the 10 year old thanking me for not dumbing down my books. “We get harder words on vocabulary tests.”
Then there was the 1 star review saying that not showing anybody dying made You Can Be A Cyborg When You’re Older pointless.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Woke up this morning, remembered the indictment, and smiled.
At 7am, there was a fox outside the grocery store parking lot. This is in the small downtown of a Chicago suburb.
Almost Retired
@Betty Cracker:
Hilarious!
Roger Moore
@frosty:
This is 100% Elon’s fault. Twitter is trying to force people to click through to their site by not showing the whole tweet. Before Elon, they had no trouble showing a massive 280 character tweet on the embed.
Frankensteinbeck
@Another Scott:
As I recall, the caving was some stores removing one item and moving the rest farther back within the store. Any caving is gross, but they still kept the Pride display.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
LOL. He won’t be that lucky. They think they can beat him in this red state- not a bad bet. But a bet I think they will lose. Sherrod is very, very good at Ohio campaigns and he’s not a bullshitter- he never exaggerates. If he says he thinks he can get 1 out of 6 Trump voters that’s what he believes.
MomSense
Kids are playing a big gig in Massachusetts today. Tomorrow they are playing a music festival. They had photos taken and somehow they all look like they stepped out of the 1970s. None of them are fashion aware so it must just be a long hair, scruffy, Levi’s and boots thing?
My niece and her kids are visiting from Montana so I’m going to take my mom to see them tomorrow.
Layer8Problem
@Ben Cisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️: “I am home and NOT working, so I get to clean up the house.”
What an amazing coincidence, same here. The big semi-demi-hemi weekly dust-vacuum-mop cleaning. What fun!
NotMax
@Betty Cracker
Last pre-COVID year traveling, 32 hours door-to door to get back from NYC to Maui, due to weather, cancellations and delays (normally 13 to 15 hours).
When resumed visiting in 2022, 31 hours.
Fingers and toesies crossed to smash through the 30 hour barrier this year.
Have not yet marshaled the grit to begin checking airfares.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
Vance is another step down for Ohio, though. Sherrod and Portman occasionally worked together- Portman would have backed Space Force in Ohio, because it’s good for Ohio. Vance is too much of a dumb, clownish hack to do it. The quality on that side just keeps declining and the decline is driven by their rabid base who would much rather have a senator screeching about The Woke than a Senator who gets them a huge economic bonus for the state.
WereBear
@Another Scott: It was a regional basis. Where employees were getting threats and harassment, probably.
WereBear
@Frankensteinbeck: And I still get incensed over the people giving 1 star for delivery/download problems. They have missed the plot.
tobie
@Suzanne: Could you have a word with Mr. Tobie? He won’t listen to me. Like all hoarders, though, he’s long since lost track of what he has, so I’m able to cart off boxes to Goodwill. Good thing I rise everyday two hours before him.
WereBear
@MomSense: No, I hear signs. ’70’s coming back. New funk would be cool.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
If it’s actually up to Biden and if there’s a location for Space Force in a blue state that is a comparable or better location than Ohio on the merits I hope Biden picks the blue state. A GOP President would never put a new federal facility in a blue state- Biden shouldn’t put one in a red state unless it clearly and uniquely superior on the merits.
WereBear
@Kay: Those bases were put in the red states to quell more treasonous attempts. Now an economic driver they hate to talk about.
NotMax
@Kay
21st century Harold Hill: “That’s woke. It rhymes with jamoke. And it stands for fool!”
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sab
@Kay: Max Miller is much less awful than I expected. JD Vance, on the other hand, is truly vile.
Betty Cracker
@NotMax: That sounds hellish! I remember reading an interview someone did with Fran Leibowitz in Australia. She went there for an event, perhaps not quite realizing how such a long flight would affect her chain-smoker’s nicotine levels. She told the interviewer she couldn’t face a return flight, said Sydney seemed nice and she might just have her stuff shipped to her there.
NotMax
@WereBear
“Play
FreebirdDisco Duck!”:)
Betty Cracker
A Dem from South FL effectively needles House Repubs over their dumb, failed tantrum about nonexistent threats to gas stoves:
LMAO!
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
White working and middle class in Ohio in the northern part of the state should be the biggest Biden backers in the country. Manufacturing is booming and Biden’s investments in infrastructure and energy are genuinely creating good jobs- a lot of them are UNION jobs. He is the best President for their family finances that they will ever see. If you hear Lefties moaning about abandoning the working class be aware they live in Brooklyn and have no earthly idea what is going on in the rustbelt. It’s good news.
So I have no sympathy. If they love guns, telling women what to do and racism more than they love a secure financial future for their families then they are making that choice. They won’t get any better than Joe Biden.
twbrandt
I’m spending this weekend prepping for my trip to Norway and Sweden. I leave Tuesday. I hope to have a couple of OTRs out of it.
Ken
@Kay: But Ohio is uniquely qualified to be the home of Space Force. Their state quarter has an astronaut.
I assume Senator Brown and the others have better arguments.
NotMax
@Betty Cracker
Heh. Friends at one time suggested I’d have a viable case suing Fran Liebowitz for ripping off my shtick.
;)
Kay
@twbrandt:
Oh, fun. We’re going back to Denmark at the end of the summer. I’ve really started to love it there, ALTHOUGH I would not move there. I like the chaotic US energy – not THIS chaotic- the normal, pre 2016 chaotic.
NotMax
@twbrandt
Pining for the fjords? :)
Approach with caution when it comes to the salted licorice. Just sayin’.
Sure Lurkalot
Spoke to a classmate I didn’t know at a reunion event last weekend. I mentioned plans to do some vacationing in New Mexico this fall after a wedding in Texas where he was from. He said his wife really wants to visit New Mexico “but, you know, politics.” Wink wink.
It never ceases to amaze how many right wingers simply assume people agree with their fucked up world view as a given. I told him I was living the good life in my true blue state and that was the end of that.
Drove from Denver to St. Louis and saw only 2 trailers outfitted with Trump signs parked in the fields along I-70. And only one person in a Trump hat. And at least in St. Louis, many out and proudly themselves.
Kay
@Ken:
Oh, they do. I think Ohio should be in the running. On the merits. It’s just if it were me and I had Ohio as “qualified” and a blue state as “qualified” I myself would pick the blue state because fuck these people- they wanted Vance. They got him. They can have the Anti Woke Forces base.
lowtechcyclist
@OzarkHillbilly:
I guess they they realized how much of a challenge that would pose, especially for their demographic.
ETA: I suppose there’s always Dollar General, which services areas where there isn’t enough business for a Wal-Mart, but based on my brief look inside a DG, it would be a really poor substitute.
NotMax
@Kay
Denmark? Everything’s so … clean. Makes Geneva look cluttered. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
If haven’t already seen it, will highly recommend both Rita and its mini spin-off Hjordis on Netflix. Bingeworthy.
twbrandt
@NotMax: I’ll try anything – once :)
Ramalama
@Matt McIrvin: Yeah America is obsessed with that notion. The closed entity of family. Except for us bothersome ‘exceptions.’
Canada is v different in that respect, thank Jod.
Note: I’m an American expat living in Quebec.
Cheryl from Maryland
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Some species of Wildlife have been slowly adapting to human environments. Foxes are often the most surprising as they can function in urban areas, whereas deer need the suburbs. When I worked for the Smithsonian, I had a vision of an exhibition entitled “Urban Wildlife,” but it didn’t materialize. But foxes are a well-studied group, especially in London.
Betty Cracker
Gift link to a WaPo article about Tesla “Autopilot” crashes, which are far more common than previously disclosed, per the report. An excerpt:
Why is this lying far-right weirdo allowed to endanger random pedestrians and motorists?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Kay: The local NPR station is doing fundraising, and yesterday one of the announcers asked people to donate even though she “knew it had been a bad year for the economy.” Then she mentioned gas prices. I guess that sticks in people’s minds, because otherwise, I have no idea what she was talking about.
Geminid
@Kay: Colorado is another state contending for the Space Force headquarters. When the Space Force was set up, it was temporarily based at a Colorado Air Force base.
It was a skeleton command; they borrowed an Air Force band to play “The Space Force March” at ceremonies.
Kay
@NotMax:
The clean thing is nice and the Scandinavian ability to function as a society with really robust public subsidies is nice but there’s a downside to all that order and sameness– it can be a little stifling in the same exact way that small towns in the midwest can be stifling- which isn’t suprising, since a lot of them were built by Scandinavians!
Danes brag about how they don’t have blinds or curtains on their windows – the idea is they have nothing to hide- but they’re also peering into their neighbors windows, which is weird and nosy :)
I just prefer the US. It’s chaotic but it’s also interesting and never dull.
NotMax
@Dorothy A. Winsor
“The Incredible Unaffordable Egg.”
//
Kristine
@NotMax: Oh–must watch Sherlock vampires.
I have Prime but I don’t check it out often because their layout/search system is crap.
OzarkHillbilly
Gawd save me. I already lived thru the 70s once (not that I remember much) and feel no need to do it again.
Anyway
@Sanjeevs:
What does this mean? I thought the Queen did the honours list…individuals make up lists too?
Ramalama
@WereBear: Fun time you had.
Who belongs is such an annoying concept. I’m probably guilty of that any time I see stickers on venues in the US prohibiting guns on the premises. Guns Don’t BELONG anywhere, I growl to myself.
I guess there are responsible people who carry. I find myself limiting my visits more often now. Family needs to come up North.
Kay
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Finance and tech had lay offs so according to media “the economy is bad”. This is the best economy I have ever seen in the rustbelt – ever. They may be paying more for a gallon of 2% but they are ALL working and they are in the drivers seat as far as wages. Joe Biden shoudk be a fucking hero of the white working class. They’ll blow this opportunity- you watch. Too fucking bitter to profit off and build wealth on the best economy they have had in 50 years. Wah Wah wah. They’re giant crybabies.
tobie
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Maybe I don’t drive enough but I have to say it’s not at the gas pump where I feel inflation. It’s at the supermarket…and I attribute that to climate change, the war in Ukraine, and corporate monopolies in food production, packaging, distribution and retail.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Dig out that turquoise leisure suit and Qiana shirt lurking in the recesses of the closet.
Layer8Problem
@NotMax: I kinda liked Rita, and the character’s attitude too. Every once in a while I watch an episode. Hjordis is the new teacher, right?
We just finished another Danish miniseries, The Investigation, about the Kim Wall/submarine murder, with Søren Malling and Pilou Asbæk, the television news editor and the spin doctor from Borgen, and thought that was pretty good as well.
twbrandt
@Kay: non-chaotic has a lot of appeal right now :) I’ve been reading up on hygge and trying to incorporate more of that in my life.
different-church-lady
@Baud: She just remains endlessly.
OzarkHillbilly
@Geminid: I have read that due to the fact that so much space force infrastructure is already in Colorado, they are the logical choice.
NotMax
@Layer8Problem
Yes on Hjordis, who blossoms into flower in the three episode spin-off.
OzarkHillbilly
If my observations are any indication, they are very few and very far between.
UncleEbeneezer
Watching the French Open women’s final which is about to start, before I head to work. I think Swiatek will likely prevail. She’s the reigning champ and best player on the women’s side of the sport for the past few years. But Muchova has been impressive so she has a chance. Probably gonna skip the Men’s Final because…Djokovic. He just makes me sick to my stomach. Ugh…
Otherwise, we had to run to Hollywood yesterday so we used it as an excuse to finally get some Kyochon again, after many years! Kyochon is a Korean double-fried chicken (fried in peanut oil) to create the most amazing, delicious soy-garlic and spicy wings I have ever had. Unlike many wings places, they don’t use any batter on their chicken, but they get just as perfectly crispy and yummy even without it. We’ve tried so many good wing places over the years (and have a couple solid ones that are much closer to home) but Kyochon really is in a league of its’ own.
Watched the movie Eiffel on Amazon last night. It was good. Solid historical drama with gorgeous people in gorgeous costumes. Emma Mackey is perfect for these sorts of films, but she’s such a talented actor hopefully she won’t end up being type-cast and have them be the only work she can find over her career. She can also do gritty/dark drama and comedy too, as both are highlighted in the tv show Sex Education.
Layer8Problem
@Kay: There was a phrase the TV news editor used in Borgen that I had to look up, the Law of Jante. Don’t stand out, don’t stick your neck out, you’re no better than the rest of us. Rita’s character is the total opposite of that.
Ken
@Kay: I also hope the competitors understand the downsides of hosting Space Force. It’ll be the primary target when the aliens attack.
sdhays
@Kay: If the only criteria is politics, I’d put it in Georgia or Arizona.
OzarkHillbilly
NotMax
@Ken
“We come in peace.”
:)
Layer8Problem
@Ken: I’m still trying to figure out what precisely Space Force!!! (cue Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a Half Century sound effects) does that the Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office wasn’t already doing. I mean now they get to do Starship Troopers cosplay?
Jackie
@lowtechcyclist: Our Target in a MAGA Red county has a large PRIDE section. What with all the boycotting hoopla in the media, I was pleasantly surprised 😊
Danielx
@NotMax:
The horror…the horror…
JPL
Just returned from errands and I saw a colorful bouquet of flowers with the saying love is love at Fresh Market. The Pride bouquet was a little pricey or I would have purchased it.
different-church-lady
And there it is, right on cue: Trump’s indictment is bad for Biden!
Anoniminous
@WereBear:
Oh please no.
raven
@HinTN: She’s going to have some training next week.
Almost Retired
@UncleEbeneezer:
That sounds delicious! There’s a Kyochon in K-town on 6th. Is that the one you’re referring to?
Roger Moore
@Kay:
Vance is an example of the nationalization of politics. He’s the creature of Peter Thiel, rather than the organic result of Ohio politics. His top priority is pleasing his sugar daddy, and second is playing to a national audience. Caring about the specific needs of Ohio is about as high on his list as reconsidering which brand of hand soap to buy.
Miss Bianca
Oh, no. Adam Schiff with a Husky.
I may have to start contributing to his Senate campaign after all, despite my vow to limit my limited funds to CO candidates.
NotMax
@Roger Moore
Oil of Oy Vey.
//
Another Scott
@Roger Moore: I was pleasantly surprised to see that Brown and Vance co-sponsored a train derailment bill in the Senate.
Vance is a monster – no doubt. But there are occasions when we can work with them (and have to work with them to get anything done).
Politics is messy, and slow…
Cheers,
Scott.
UncleEbeneezer
@Suzanne: If he doesn’t know already you might wanna warn him that Punisher logo/merch is very popular with right-wing, Blue Lives Matter sorts. So much so, that I know that when I see it, fairly or not, I assume they are most likely MAGA.
UncleEbeneezer
@Almost Retired: The very same :)
Frankensteinbeck
@Cheryl from Maryland:
Some haven’t been slow. In an example of ‘hyper evolution’, seagulls have learned to pack hunt whales. They’re believed to have learned it from feeding on garbage barges, and they’ve been passing the knowledge around to other seagulls around the world.
I did not provide a link because it is Nature at her most red in tooth and claw, and Balloon Juicers are animal lovers. Fascinating scientifically, though.
Roger Moore
@Betty Cracker:
I find this completely unsurprising. When you let a company like Tesla self-report this stuff, they’re going to cheat like crazy. I understand the dangers of over-regulation and regulatory capture, but we have gone way too far in the direction of deregulation and self-regulation. Businesses just can’t be trusted to control this stuff themselves.
Kay
@Layer8Problem:
Yup. The part I bolded is so true. My daughter in law is a thoroughly modern person but she cleans their already spotless apartment in Copenhagen like a maniac when she’s hosting moms group in because she knows they will all talk about her and judge her if she doesn’t. They will anyway, I tell her. They’ll find something to be scandalized about.
I think US Lefties misunderstand Scandinavians. The uniformity and order is the essential element, not the generosity of a robust welfare state. They’re temperamentally conservative.
NotMax
@,a href=”https://balloon-juice.com/2023/06/10/saturday-morning-open-thread-so-whats-up-for-the-weekend/#comment-8866788″>UncleEbeneezer
What to make of this?
Talk about yer mixed messages. //
different-church-lady
@Another Scott: Is Vance in favor of derailments?
Suzanne
@UncleEbeneezer: No one I care about has Punisher logo merch. It’s the ultimate bat signal for toxic masculinity and rageaholism.
Suzanne
@Kay: Many American liberals are temperamentally conservative. Honestly, probably most of us here, me included.
NotMax
Slight coding fail. Fix.
@UncleEbeneezer
What to make of this?
Talk about yer mixed messages. //
Roger Moore
@Layer8Problem:
Nothing. Not that that’s necessarily an argument against having a separate space force. The Air Force used to be part of the Army, and it didn’t start doing anything special different when it was split off into a separate service, but that doesn’t necessarily mean splitting it off was a bad idea. My impression is that the idea is that by separating these things into their own service, they’ll be able to focus better on their own specific mission rather than being subordinate to the Air Force doing Air Force stuff. I don’t know if that’s necessary, but sometimes that kind of bureaucratic separation is helpful.
scav
And another UK conservative MP quits with immediate effect, despite already announcing he wasn’t going to run again. The Exit (Texit? Cexit?) is getting pretty crowded. O! for a TonyJ on fire to at least make it amusing if not entirely comprehensible.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: I like. I see RW heads exploding everywhere.
NotMax
@scav
Sexit? Irresponsible not to tabloidicate.
;)
Miss Bianca
@WereBear: oh! Is that documentary new? If not, I wonder whether it might be out on DVD.
Just finished a deep dive into DS9 – it was the first time I had watched it all the way through- and I gotta say it’s my favorite Trek so far.
catclub
slightly OT: the key line in that wonderful twitter feed for me was:
catclub
@Roger Moore:
Actually it has turned into a bad idea the way it was implemented.
Air support of Army operations should be run by the Army. There is a guy at LGM who wrote a book on it.
scav
Most prefer at least a somewhat orderly and predictable existence. The critical difference is what is being conserved, if not strengthened. Conserving the rights of all, even non-white non-males, to bodily autonomy and to marry whomsoever and to wear whatsoever they please seems on the plate right now.
Matt McIrvin
@Layer8Problem: The Space Force is just the Air Force Space Command re-branded. It happened because Trump thought it would sound cool.
rikyrah
@WereBear:
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
catclub
@Cheryl from Maryland:
Leopards yes, Lions and tigers, no. SciAm article a while back on leopards in India.
MomSense
@Miss Bianca:
I already started. It’s not much but I really want him to be the next Senator from CA.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Definitely should choose a Blue State, IMO.
MomSense
@WereBear:
That’s awesome!
Another Scott
@Matt McIrvin: Mostly true, but they were also wanting to steal space-related stuff from the Navy and elsewhere to build up their empire. It could have been hugely disruptive for lots of people, and for lots of missions, if it had rolled out as initially envisioned. There was pushback, and lots of talking, so the other services and DoD space-related agencies still have (most of?) their space-related stuff where it makes sense.
It still seems ridiculous to me, but …
Cheers,
Scott.
Sure Lurkalot
@UncleEbeneezer: There are 3 Korean fried chicken restaurants within a 5 mile radius of my Denver abode. The two I’ve tried are quite good. I don’t have gluten issues but one restaurant uses rice flour instead of wheat so that’s a draw for a lot of peeps who haven’t been able to have fried chicken.
Gvg
@OzarkHillbilly: some of the 10% who think the government is run by satan worshiping pedophiles are rational observers of the loudest self proclaimed “christian” politicians who aren’t anything of the sort. In fact, I am an atheist but I still have opinions about hypocrisy and basic lies. Trump was not Christian at all and all of the supposedly christian voters who supported him for “religious” reasons were liars all along. It’s not a coincidence that conservatives have been voting to cut help to the poor all the time for decades. They are not real Christians. They are like the fake veterans using borrowed valor. They use borrowed religiosity and the sincere are taught in churches not to question too much. That innocence is a shield against sin….they needed to guard their reputation better.
The prosperity gospel preachers are also not Christian in my opinion.
so surveys like this have to ask the right questions to be sure the answers mean what you think they mean.
Gigi
Delurking to ask if anyone can explain something from the indictment I just read (finally). When SHITGIBBON says “he was the one who deleted the 30,000 emails because they basically dealt with her scheduling,” who is he referring to? Can someone clarify what that was about?
Layer8Problem
@Matt McIrvin:
“. . . just the Air Force Space Command re-branded. It happened because Trump thought it would sound cool.”
If the truth were known, that’s my biggest objection, that that dope “founded” it, regardless of any possible reasonable excuse. Anybody else would actually have examined whether it was good or useful, and I would trust their judgement more.
oldgold
Has anyone heard an “expert” opine as to the likelihood that the documents at Mara largo were compromised by a foreign adversary?
Ohio Mom
@Another Scott: I think I’ve said this before, I go to my neighborhood Target pretty frequently — in part because there’s a CVS inside where we get our prescriptions — and the Pride stuff is right in front of the store. It’s hard to miss, most of it is very brightly colored.
The Red, White and Blue merch for July 4th is right behind it.
trollhattan
Tallulah broke the husky video rule: she’s not talking, singing, complaining. Spouse is hooked on husky videos and my god, they’re a noisy bunch!
She is, obviously, a Good Girl.
Kay
@catclub:
My younger sister is a lawyer too- a fancier and more serious lawyer than me- and she and I have just enjoyed the trials and tribulations of the Trump lawyers so much :)
She won’t usually play with me this much – she is very serious about the legal system- but apparently she’s making an exception. I have some sympathy for them. Like 1/4 of my clients are Trumplike.
Bill Arnold
Nearby neighbor is up to several hundred rounds fired in the last hour and a half.
The last time they were that busy with their gunfire was the weekend after DJT was declared the loser of the 2020 election. Perhaps upset with the indictment and worked up by the calls to prep for civil war.
Not sure which neighbor it is. Have seen a blue line/grey American flag cop flag flying on a pickup truck; perhaps them.
There are Oath Keepers (/types) in the area; Stuart Rhodes showed up at a local protest a few years ago.
Citizen Alan
@WereBear: Every time I have ever eaten at Cracker Barrel, which I have not done in over 10 years, has reffirmed my strong conviction that the food came from reheated frozen TV dinners decoratively arranged on a real plate Instead of an aluminum one.
Sebastian
@Betty Cracker:
The Why Is He Allowed is a question many folks are asking themselves.
Autopilot is not safer than the average human. The statistics here are deeply flawed as they do not compare equal miles traveled on different roadways. Highway driving has much fewer accidents per mile than city driving. Tesla fudged the numbers big time.
Look for Ed Niedermeyer, who has written about this for years.
zhena gogolia
@Bill Arnold: Oh, I hope you stay safe!
K-Mo
The woke mob made him/her/them an offer they/she/he couldn’t refuse
frosty
@Citizen Alan: Don’t eat anything from Cracker Barrel except breakfast. We stop once on each Road Trip for the pecan pancakes.
Ohio Mom
@Kay: God knows, Dayton could use the business the Space Force headquarters would generate.
They lost the car factories, they lost NCR, they probably lost some other big factories and businesses I don’t remember. There’s practically no reason for Dayton to exist anymore except for the Air Force base and the small ring of defense contractors nearby.
I think I will call Vance’s office on Monday. Not that it will do any good but there have been a lot of frustrations in Ohio Family lately and I might as well channel it productively.
Scout211
Sorry, not sorry for spamming bj with Trump’s TruthSocial screeds, but this one really made me feel special.
I hope it brightens all of your Saturdays, you bunch of RADICAL LEFT MARXISTS, FASCISTS, COMMUNISTS, LUNATICS, & DERANGED MANIACS. 😊 Happy continued indictments days! May they keep coming.
Kirk
@Layer8Problem: So you may have noticed all the recent security violations. In fact it’s gotten bad enough that the House is going to have a major fact-finding hearing on it.
You know, on the non-terrestrial vehicles that crashed and were seized by the military?
So this is actually a ‘secret in plain sight’ security measure toward our future global “defense” (in the department of
wardefense meaning doncha know.)trollhattan
@Bill Arnold: Ye gods. My sympathies. How thick are your walls?
trollhattan
@Scout211: Cap key still stuck, I see.
Anoniminous
Someone’s off their meds
Ben Cisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
@WereBear: Yes. I went to see it in a theatre when it was first released…
Baud
@Scout211:
Nominated!
Barbara
@Kay: Trump was using his lawyers to give false information under oath. These lawyers are lucky in that Trump has so many other lawyers they can quite outright. Most of the time it’s incredibly ugly to try to get out of representing someone even when they are using you to perpetrate fraud. I am not surprised that Trump does this on a more or less routine basis, but I am surprised that so many lawyers seem to think he won’t do it to them.
scav
@Scout211: For More Tears! For More Tears!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@trollhattan: Even apart from the lunatic content, it’s so hard to read. I can’t tell where sentences start or end.
narya
Went for a run/walk this morning, and stopped by the farmers’ market to get some steaks, in preparation for the upcoming camping/Indycar-watching trip, and I’ll spend some time today baking sourdough hamburger buns, chocolate chip cookies (to go with our dessert beers), and oatmeal cookies (because why not), and then making some pizza dough so tomorrow’s post-beer-run dinner is simple. Listened to the latest Popehat podcast about the indictments and . . . I am not going to ruin everyone’s morning with one possible nightmare scenario. I am going to maintain my faith in Jack, and in Fani, to make sure there are ample indictments available.
Last night we (neighbors, friend, me) enjoyed Indictment Champagne, with cake and strawberries.
Tony Jay
@Anyway:
Former Prime Ministers are allowed to reward people with honours (knighthoods, damehoods, etc) as well as peerages (putting them into the House of Lords), the idea being that during the course of a Premiership (usually at least five years) a lot of people will have given great service to the country, to the Party, or just personally to the Prime Minister, and deserve some kind of recognition.
Flobalob has, of course, blown up that norm as well. He’s already made so many new peers that something like 10% of the House of Lords are his creations, and this new tranche are drawn from the worst dregs of his period in office, including lots of people involved in the Partygate scandal and his loyalist MPs like Jakobivs Rhesus-Morgue, the vile Patel and Andrea Jenkyns, infamous for standing outside Downing St and giving the middle finger to striking schoolteachers.
Sunak would be well served by using Flobby’s disgrace to put a sword through this honours list. It would show him making a clear break with the Clown Prince of Toryism and put him in a position to nix Lettuce Truss’ own list when it comes out, because the 34 Day Queen of Spleen really should not get one.
Will he? The weakest Prime Minister in history? Mmmmmmm, twill be seen.
Joey Maloney
@Kay: I’m going to the Tønder Festival in Denmark the last weekend of August.
Layer8Problem
@scav:
A big, strong, burly, MANLY America, with tears in its eye. Maybe it was Stewart Rhodes.
sab
@Kay: I just read your #31 comment to my husband and he is now in orbit about JD Vance.
laura
I’m surprised that Humboldt hasn’t posted this- but my deeply disturbed childhood neighbor and playmate’s last known victim has been identified. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/huge-break-in-case-of-norcal-serial-killer-18142168.php
Shalimar
@Citizen Alan: I have never worked at a Cracker Barrel, but it absolutely wouldn’t surprise me if some of the menu items are prepared in a central location and shipped in to be reheated in the restaurants. A lot of the cheap chain casual dining restaurants do this. Cheaper than paying cooks who actually know how to make dishes from scratch.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@narya: I want to eat at your house
Omnes Omnibus
@Scout211: I am a bit puzzled. Am I a LUNATIC or a DERANGED MANIAC?
suzanne
@scav: Agreed. I love order and organization (like any good architect). I just also have cognitive empathy.
I view history as highly disordered by racism, classism, sexism, etc. I, oddly, want to conserve progress.
persistentillusion
@OzarkHillbilly: Yes, the 70s have a lot to answer for. Disco and cocaine being good places to start.
Eolirin
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes.
Shalimar
@Scout211: Do the fascists and the communists meet in the same hall? That seems like it would be a fire hazard.
persistentillusion
@OzarkHillbilly: We also have five military installations already; Fort Carson, USAFA, Peterson, NORAD and Cheyenne Mountain. Fifth highest population of retired military, 20% population turn-over every year because of deployments. Can you tell I’ve lived in COS nearly 30 years?
Eolirin
@Kay: I get the emotional appeal of that, but I think if we’re going to really set the groundwork for a future in which we can make congress functional, we should be doing everything we can to strengthen and grow red state cities and economies. If we let the red states shrivel and suffer we put their senate seats out of reach forever.
Good jobs and strong cities attract and retain younger people, and more educated people, and that can start to reverse some of the demographic shift and urban decline that’s making so many red states increasingly rabid in their politics
That has to be the hope for the success in Ohio’s booming economy as well; not that it’ll make the people who voted for JD Vance suddenly start voting for Democrats, but that the economic boom will start attracting and keeping in state, people who have or otherwise would leave, who are amenable to voting for Democrats, and that eventually those numbers will shift in our favor. The previous status quo was a spiral toward bitterness and resentment politics. But it’s going to take years for this to play out.
Tony Jay
@Baud:
There’s the wedge for RoDS’ comeback campaign. Trump has been broke and gone Woke, why else give a pass to the TRANS LOBBY & GROOMERS? Eh? RoDS wouldn’t do that, he knows where the new threats to America are coming from. He’s not an OLD man fighting the OLD wars, he’s like Cool & The Gang, fresh, fresh and exciting.
Oh, he mentioned DERANGED MANIACS, didn’t he? That’ll cover it. Back to the chalkboard, boys.
Scout211
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes. 😉
Sister Golden Bear
Going to a nearby city’s Pride celebration and first Pride parade. Being so close to SF’s massive Pride parade/celebration later this month, other Bay Area Pride celebrations are smaller than they might otherwise be, so I want to show them some love.
Ruckus
@WereBear:
When I lived/worked in OH we would go to Cracker Barrel maybe once every month or two for lunch. It was OK. Not the best, not the worst. Haven’t been since, haven’t missed it in the least.
But 2 establishments that I never would have expected to be rainbow places, Walmart and Cracker Barrel, aren’t buckling to the deranged deciding that they have the right to demand that everyone be as shitty as they are. What the hell happened to live and let live? What possible business is it of mine how adults want to live their gay lives? I’ve known a few gay people in my lifetime, related to one who is now passed, and I can honestly say that all of them were very nice, smart, humans who more than added to the human race. Which is far more than I can say for people who think they get to decide to be the most life selfish assholes on the planet. The concept that we all have to be the same, that racism, homophobia, hate are their guiding principals really, really pisses me off. No one is asking them to be homosexual, we are asking them to mind their own fucking business. (Sort of literally asking them that…)
trollhattan
@persistentillusion: Polyester costuming and the Ford Pinto. Simbionese Liberation Army and People’s Temple. Dan White. Munich. Nixon’s pardon.
I’ll stop.
Gin & Tonic
UN representative finally arrives in Kherson, and remarks on the “constant shelling.” I wonder who’s doing the shelling, don’t you? I guess it’s impossible to know for sure.
Ruckus
@NotMax:
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of (the American people) human beings.”
Fixit For You.
I’d bet that yes, while this is an American issue to us, I’d bet actual money that it is far more of a human issue than just the ones here.
Kay
@Barbara:
I once had an incredibly controlling male client try to FORCE me to keep his case. We were a bad fit so I withdrew which just enraged him. He filed a pro se “motion” (rant) and judge had me appear. I can’t say anything in a hearing w/out violating confidentiality so I just stood and said that, citing the ethics rule, and sat down. Judge immediately excused me and granted my motion to withdraw. I never asked what happened after I left. That judge is very polite but firm. He runs a tight ship. I think he probably shut down Mr Anger Bear pretty quick.
I don’t want to know. That’s why he gets paid the big judge bucks, dealing with those situations :)
James E Powell
@Kay:
The fact that Tim Ryan lost Trumbull & Mahoning and barely won Lorain is evidence that some madness has seized the minds of those voters.
Is it accurate to say that those counties are really blue collar anymore? I’ve been away for more than 20 years, so I don’t know.
Juju
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes.
James E Powell
@Ruckus:
Sure makes Target look like cowards.
narya
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I can make that happen . . .
WaterGirl
@Gigi: I just manually approved your comment. Now that we’ve done that once, your future comments will show up for everyone right away.
trollhattan
@Tony Jay: I get that Sunak is a weak PM but can we all presume that Truss would have opposed the Russian invasion through application of vigorous and rapid tax cuts? He frankly seems like an upgrade over her, from eight time zones away.
James E Powell
Apparently, Trump being indicted is
good news for John McCainbad news for Biden.What is wrong with these people?
Juju
@trollhattan: I think of the Gremlin, Pacer or Vista Cruiser as being the ‘70s cars. I honestly can’t recall actually seeing a Pinto that wasn’t on tv, either in the news or a commercial.
brantl
@Sanjeevs: So now, he’s the UK’s Nixon.
Kay
@James E Powell:
Agree. Ryan ran a very good and substantive campaign specifically addressing the concerns of those voters, in a way Republicans never do and would never do if the situation were reversed and they were tryng to attract liberals in a blue state. The white working class told him to fuck off, so no Space Force for them.
They can be soldiers in Vance’s culture wars. They’ll be volunteers, because Vance isn’t sharing any of the Right wing grift money he’s pulling in.
They prefer that to decent stable jobs and good wages for their family- they’re willing to sacrifice as long as they can hate the same people and groups that Vance hates. Their kids can eat clever ripostes on Twitter and Right wing memes. They’ll be broke but they sure owned the libs!
LesGS
@Juju: We had a Pinto. It never exploded, at least not while *we* owned it.
brantl
Remember, lazy’s still lazy.
trollhattan
@Juju: Pinto happened to perfectly span the decade, being produced from ’71-’80 and ironically represents the US car industry’s failure to build a quality compact that people would actually want to own.
It also filled in for the Mustang in the form of the dismal Mustang II, for several years, which was a little like having Tammy Faye Baker substituting for Farah Fawcett.
Baud
@Kay:
Excellent rant.
laura
@trollhattan: you forgot the crazy shoes! Famolares anyone? Earth shoes? Candies and for the gents big giant platform boots. On the other hand 70’s music was mostly fantastic and widely shared until am radio went all talk/all conservative.
geg6
Wow, we had a marauder in our back yard this morning. A great blue heron scared the shit out of me by landing in our back yard as I stood gazing at a beautiful morning that is finally without Canadian fire haze. It was HUUUUGE! At least 4 feet tall. A little later, John went out to feed the fish in our three-level koi pond and every single fish in the middle pond is gone. There were at least twenty of them there. I’ve only seen herons down by the river, never thus far inland.
Another Scott
@Juju: A guy I knew in high school had a minimum wage job after school and bought a new Pinto. (He blew a lot of money on side pipes and fancy wheels and tires that he apparently couldn’t afford because they were gone a few weeks later.) I don’t think any high school kid could do that these days.
Different times.
The Intel 4004 microprocessor came out in 1971, a necessary step for the creation of cheap, universal computing.
The EPA was created in 1970.
Lead was removed from residential paint in 1978, and from car gasoline in 1975.
The ’70s had a lot of bad things, but laid the foundation for a lot of good things.
Cheers,
Scott.
Shalimar
@Gigi: Trump was talking to Corcoran, trying to get him to do what Hillary’s lawyer supposedly did. The name of the Clinton attorney he thought deleted the 30k email was redacted.
I don’t recall anyone ever specifically saying they did it. Stories at the time just said her lawyers combed through the emails and deleted those that were personal and irrelevant to her job.
edit: None of Trump’s exhaustive list of lawyers ever worked for Hillary Clinton afaik, so he isn’t specifically saying Corcoran or any of his other attorneys did the deleting.
James E Powell
@Kay:
Tim Ryan is exactly the kind of politician that people claim they want.
O. Felix Culpa
@Another Scott:
I went to our local Target (Albuquerque Uptown) and looked for the Pride merch, on a whim. It was tucked way back of the store, and not very much of it. So yes, there has been caving.
Apart from the little kids’ cute rainbow tutus, most of the adult merch was butt-ugly too.
Gigi
@Shalimar: Thank you.
Ruckus
@twbrandt:
@Kay:
Haven’t been to Sweden but Denmark and Norway are two of my favorite places. Haven’t been in decades but they are beautiful and the people I met were very nice. I’m reminded of my times there every time I take the Los Angeles Metro train system because 5 decades ago a lot of people there traveled for everything by the train. It was much cheaper than a car and gas. Which today with $4.50 – $5 and up for a gallon of gas here in SoCal is pretty much like it was back then in many parts of the world. Plus it is often faster than driving, what with LA County having a larger population than 40 states.
Gigi
@WaterGirl: Thank you, too, WaterGirl. I rarely comment but I’ve been here since 2004!
Eolirin
@Kay: And their kids, the ones who can at least, will leave and the state will be completely dominated by bitter dead enders.
Or we could invest in building out jobs that attract people who won’t vote like they do and actually take back the state.
Jay C
@James E Powell:
But only vote for if they have the right letter after their name.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Kay:
Also, didn’t Brown win by something like 300,000 votes in 2018?
Eolirin
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): If we look at 2018 as determinative of anything in a presidential year I think we’re setting ourselves up for pain. That was an outlier year for a number of reasons.
2024 is going to be a heavier lift in Ohio and Montana than it was in 2018. I’m more concerned about Montana but still.
Ascap_scab
New ending for Raiders of the Lost Ark.
https://twitter.com/McJesse/status/1667296912943493120?t=xfNaCJ5cvk-9bh5TG-DETg&s=19
Ruckus
@OzarkHillbilly:
The early 70s really sucked for me. REALLY SUCKED.
Of course I was of age and there was that small event called Vietnam. I enlisted 2 days before they announced the draft lottery and was told I’d get a letter to tell me when/where to show up. I figured when I heard about the lottery that I’d end up in the 300 range, just because that would be, my life. But no, my Bday was drawn 18th. I was going, one way or another. Good times.
sab
@Eolirin: Yes. Tim Ryan ran in a presidential year and we went for JD Vance who has never done anything but disparage Ohio.
kalakal
My week keeps getting better, along with the joint winners of the transAtlantic Politicians with Worst Haircuts* crashing and burning news from the UK is that 5 hours after declaring she wouldn’t resign and force a bye election Boris Johnson’s No 1 groupie the truly dim and bizarre
Nadine Dorries
has resigned a forced a bye election.
I can only hope Putin gets too close to a window before the week is out
* Regarding very bad week for bad hair dos if I was the ineffable Michael Fabricant
I’d be worried
James E Powell
@trollhattan:
Hey! Leave my 70s alone! I graduated high school in 1973, started college in 1977, graduated in 1980.
The 70s was one of the greatest decades ever! Let’s see. Nixon resigned in disgrace. Jimmy Carter was president. College was cheap. Some of the greatest movies of all time. Same with albums. Hank Aaron becomes the home run king. Billie Jean & Arthur Ashe. Ali reclaims his title in the Rumble in the Jungle. The ’75 Series. SNL was funny & edgy. I will stop now.
And another thing. Disco was fun.
Ruckus
@Anoniminous:
Now that was just nasty…..
Eolirin
@sab: He did not?
ETA: Sorry, for clarity, Tim Ryan ran in a midterm election, not a presidential year. Just, not one in which Trump was in office. 2018 is not a result we’re going to repeat with a Democrat in the White House, or during a presidential year, for the foreseeable future. If we can, the Republican party is no longer a going concern.
sab
@Eolirin: Sorry. You’re right. Brain not in gear today.
Ksmiami
@Kay: hence why their famous for the cuckoo clock while Italy birthed the Renaissance…
Ksmiami
@James E Powell: and in LA, the air Pollution was so thick, you could literally taste it at recess…
Omnes Omnibus
@Ksmiami:
That would be Switzerland.
kalakal
@Omnes Omnibus:
Indeed it would
The Third Man
O. Felix Culpa
@Omnes Omnibus:
Thank you. Saved me the trouble.
Ksmiami
@Omnes Omnibus: I know I was saying all the North countries…. Scandi design is cool tho
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@WereBear: That reminds me of the line in the movie Amadeus when the ruler tells Mozart he uses too many notes (!)
kalakal
@WereBear: Now that is a review!
😀
karen marie
@Geminid: If we have to keep it, can it be renamed? I mean, come on. It’s so fucking juvenile.
Ken
@karen marie: It’s all those Buck Rogers serials and Duck Dodgers cartoons. You just can’t say “Spaaaaace Force!” without the long A and the exclamation point.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ksmiami:
Switzerland is not in northern Europe. It has a border with Italy ffs.
Bill Arnold
@trollhattan:
Just basic frame construction. Plenty of distance and a big house though. Anyway, they’ve stopped, maybe out of ammunition or imaginary antifa BLM liberals to kill.
An actual urban hood about five miles away feeds their imagination.
Matt McIrvin
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I think people usually don’t know what they’re talking about when they speak of “the economy”. There were layoffs in the tech sector early in the year. Stocks weren’t doing great but now they kind of are. Unemployment feels like it’s poking along a record-low bottom, probably nowhere to go but up. There are all these nebulous stories about businesses bracing for a recession that is not here yet. If it hits hard before the election it could have an effect, but the timing is hard to predict.
Matt McIrvin
… the thing that fascinates me the most is that labor force participation is shooting up, after a sudden drop during the pandemic. It’s set to rise past the pre-pandemic level. Kind of gives the lie to all the stories about the Great Resignation as a permanent condition, and the complaints that nobody wants to work any more. No, objectively people want to work and are seeking work.
cain
@Geminid: why are we doing space force? It seems like a waste of money to me. Leave it to the GOP to come up with yet another military thing for the govt to waste defense budget on.
Miss Bianca
@Kay: Well, *our* Senators get it – as does the Republican rep for CD-5 Doug Lamborn who, however much of a partisan hack he may be in other respects, *does* know which side of his bread that the military butters, so I have a feeling Space Force is going to come home to CO.
Tony Jay
@trollhattan:
Well, yeah, compared to that vapid lunatic he’s ‘better’. Not over Ukraine; there wouldn’t have been a sliver of difference in their policies other than Truss would have gone looking for more photo ops in that direction while Sunak prefers his on the Trans-Atlantic scene, but in the “he’s not a wide-eyed egotist with a head full of fungus and a mouth full of Far-Rightspeak, he’s just a completely out-of-his-depth money monkey who has no constituency and just blows from crisis to crisis like a squirrel’s gentle fart” sense.
But that’s like having to choose which is ‘better’ between a shit sandwich and a club shit sandwich. It’s not really the right word in context.
Miss Bianca
@Kay: So *that’s* where that Midwestern attitude comes from! It’s all those Scandaavians!
Miss Bianca
@laura: Famolares! That takes me back! I for sure wore those all through my middle school and high school years!
Gvg
@James E Powell: Target and other stores are not police forces, courts, juries, judges, legislators etc and in certain areas they can’t get serious trouble threats and actual attacks stopped because the whole population is so against being fair minded or actual law abiding. So standing on principle will have a good chance of getting employees killed and they can’t even get threat arrested or jailed because the police and other authorities are actually in support of the violence against pride. They can’t win yet in places it’s that bad. Employees in that area know this too and probably quit a lot. Pay isn’t even the issue.
I have thought about this in regards to women not pursuing rape charges. A specific area has to actually support women enough AND so does the culture of all the authorities starting with the police. If it’s bad enough, it doesn’t matter if the law is on your side. Things are not the same everywhere.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Juju: Reminded me of the Doonesbury line “Pinto of a decade”
trollhattan
@Ksmiami: Had never seen yellow sky before my first LA visit, coincidentally in the ’70s. Impossible to describe, had to be experienced in person.