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Sunday Afternoon Open Thread

by WaterGirl|  July 2, 20233:38 pm| 94 Comments

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Well, my internet is still down, but my neighbor across the street has boosted his signal for me, and my open wireless network on his router.  He named my new temporary wireless Henry, which I loved.

So I am now catching up on work for my clients, but here’s an open thread, with an image I found.

Sunday Afternoon Open Thread 19

That’s the full version, but I’ll probably going with this one.  Looks like we may have occasion to use that one a lot.

Sunday Afternoon Open Thread 20

Open thread.

Update: on a more positive note, here’s my first tomato of the year!

Sunday Afternoon Open Thread 21

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  1. 1.

    DarbysMom

    July 2, 2023 at 3:46 pm

    Pretty sure that blonde in the pic is Claudia Conway, George and Kellyanne’s daughter.  (HA!)

     

    Frist!!?  Me!?

  2. 2.

    WaterGirl

    July 2, 2023 at 3:48 pm

    @DarbysMom: If that’s her, she has grown up since the last photo I saw of her.

  3. 3.

    RepubAnon

    July 2, 2023 at 3:51 pm

    It’s the Scumsucker 6, not the other 3…

  4. 4.

    TaMara

    July 2, 2023 at 3:52 pm

    @WaterGirl: That is her. 

    More power to her and I hope she finds sanity coming from that crazy-assed family.

  5. 5.

    Scout211

    July 2, 2023 at 3:52 pm

    This is my world today:

    Affected Area
    Northern and central Sacramento Valley, Northern San Joaquin Valley, Northeast Foothills and Motherlode

    Description
    …EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING… WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures of 105 to 112 expected. WHERE…Northern and central Sacramento Valley, Northern San Joaquin Valley, Northeast Foothills and Motherlode. WHEN…Through 11 PM PDT this evening. IMPACTS…Extreme heat will significantly increase the potential for heat related illnesses, particularly for those working or participating in outdoor activities.

  6. 6.

    Central Planning

    July 2, 2023 at 3:53 pm

    @WaterGirl: ​That pic is on her Instagram page, so it might very well be her.​
    ETA: NY Post says she turned 18 and is now a Playboy Bunny

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    July 2, 2023 at 3:56 pm

    I have never grown this variety of tomato before.  Here’s wwhat Laurel’s website says about them.

    Succulent, sweet, perfect. Gorgeous, fruity, juicy and sweet, Dragons’ Eye tomatoes average about 3 to 4 ounces, salad size, grow in incredible delicious bountiful clusters.
    Perfect for fresh eating and roasting–make the best salsa, too!
    Beautiful pink-rose fruits have green streaking that turns gold at full ripeness.  They appear shimmery and luminescent as they ripen on the vine –inside, the flesh is deep dark red.  A real workhorse of a tomato, huge production!  This strong plant does beautifully in containers.
    I am going to walk on the treadmill for a bit, and then I will toast some cheese on a bit of bread, topped with the first tomato!  It’s not even as big as a baseball, but it’s pretty!  If there are any tomato lovers here, I will let you know how it tastes.
  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    July 2, 2023 at 3:57 pm

    @TaMara: Me, too.

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    July 2, 2023 at 3:58 pm

    @Central Planning: Wow.  I didn’t know we still had Playboy Bunnies.  Nice way to say fuck you to the parents.  (well-deserved)

  10. 10.

    TaMara

    July 2, 2023 at 3:58 pm

    @WaterGirl: I’m jealous of your first tomato! I won’t see any until a) I visit my NE family and steal some of theirs in a week or so b) mid-August at this altitude

  11. 11.

    Alison Rose

    July 2, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    @RepubAnon: Yeah, I get the sentiment for sure, but it does feel unfair to Sotomayor, Jackson, and Kagan.

    I wish there was one more last name starting with a vowel among the Stinker Six, so we could try to make a lil’ acronym for them.

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    July 2, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    @TaMara: Really?  I knew baking was different up there, but I had no idea that it affected growing seasons.

  13. 13.

    Alison Rose

    July 2, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    @WaterGirl: It almost looks more like a gala apple.

  14. 14.

    MagdaInBlack

    July 2, 2023 at 4:01 pm

    @WaterGirl: For me, the first tomato of the season is always “the best tomato I have had in my whole entire life”….and then I want 10 more.

    Enjoy 😊

  15. 15.

    WaterGirl

    July 2, 2023 at 4:02 pm

    @Alison Rose: Okay, if someone makes an image referencing the Extreme Six on the Supreme Court, I’ll use that one instead.

  16. 16.

    Alison Rose

    July 2, 2023 at 4:14 pm

    @WaterGirl: Oh, I’m sorry if it sounded like I was being critical of you! Not at all, and believe me, I’ve said variations on the phrase many times. I just feel a bit bad about those three ladies getting hit with the shrapnel, you know?

    I would definitely love to be a fly on the wall in a room where the three of them were knocking back a few drinks.

  17. 17.

    H.E.Wolf

    July 2, 2023 at 4:16 pm

    @Alison Rose:”I wish there was one more last name starting with a vowel among the Stinker Six, so we could try to make a lil’ acronym for them.”

     Hmmm.
    Alito Gorsuch Thomas Roberts ConeyBarrett Kavanaugh….
    AGTRCK? Pronounced “Agg-TRUCK”, to rhyme with you can guess. :)

  18. 18.

    H.E.Wolf

    July 2, 2023 at 4:20 pm

    I’m spending the day making bread, in honor of Maya Angelou and all of the other immortals in whose memory we rise.
    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46446/still-i-rise

  19. 19.

    Jeffro

    July 2, 2023 at 4:20 pm

    That’s a pretty cool neighbor, WG!

    Someone with far more Photoshop talent than me (meaning any at all) could put the Slimy SCOTUS Six’s faces on the villains on the cover of Amazing Spider-Man 337, to make a true “Sinister Six”

    (I guess then we would need Spidey, standing there in peril, to be…America?  I dunno)

  20. 20.

    Scout211

    July 2, 2023 at 4:22 pm

    @H.E.Wolf: @Alison Rose:

    TRAGCK ?

    pronounced tragic, of course!

    ETA:  I know the C is missing a B.  So not perfect.

  21. 21.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 2, 2023 at 4:25 pm

    @Central Planning:

    ETA: NY Post says she turned 18 and is now a Playboy Bunny

    I can see that.

  22. 22.

    Alison Rose

    July 2, 2023 at 4:25 pm

    @Scout211: If only Kavanaugh’s last name was Irving or something. The Tragic Six!

  23. 23.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 2, 2023 at 4:27 pm

    @Central Planning: I thought I remembered that all the Playboy Clubs had shut down, and it looks like “Playboy Bunny” doesn’t mean what it used to

    This time, former Donald Trump campaign supervisor’s 18-year-old progeny has a new gig creating salacious content for Playboy.com, the online offshoot of the now-defunct print magazine.

  24. 24.

    H.E.Wolf

    July 2, 2023 at 4:30 pm

    @Scout211:”TRAGCK ?
    pronounced tragic, of course!” That’s pretty good too!
    Or we could use ARGTC(B)K, which sounds sort of like hawking and spitting.​
     

    …Gonna go offline and punch down my bread dough: the only kind of punching down I approve of. I can pretend it’s the craven bellies of the Sad-Sack Sicks/Six. :)

  25. 25.

    Central Planning

    July 2, 2023 at 4:32 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: ​ When I see the words Playboy Bunny my mind goes to the magazine, not the clubs. Wikipedia’s entry on Playboy Clubs says none are open.

  26. 26.

    trollhattan

    July 2, 2023 at 4:32 pm

    How does one boost a router signal? Fiddle with the floppy antennae? I’m at a loss as to the tech side.

    Good god it’s hot.

  27. 27.

    trollhattan

    July 2, 2023 at 4:36 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: ​Even salacious is doing some heavy lifting. Are any adults familiar at all with teen Snapchat?

  28. 28.

    WaterGirl

    July 2, 2023 at 4:38 pm

    @Jeffro: My neighbors are all great, but yeah, doing that was above and beyond. A huge help.

  29. 29.

    laura

    July 2, 2023 at 4:39 pm

    @trollhattan: It’s hotter than two squirrels getting it on in a wool sock behind the dryer.

    I feel for our unused people and animals- there’s almost no where to go to cool down.

  30. 30.

    WaterGirl

    July 2, 2023 at 4:39 pm

    @trollhattan: Signal boosters are a thing.

  31. 31.

    Central Planning

    July 2, 2023 at 4:40 pm

    @trollhattan: ​Most WiFi has an ability to turn up the power so you can get longer range which might over-ride the auto-adjust capability it has.
    If your WiFi can run at lower power, your clients can also usually run at lower power which saves battery.

  32. 32.

    WaterGirl

    July 2, 2023 at 4:42 pm

    So, podcast peeps.  What are you using for your podcast apps?

    I use Sticher, and that’s going away on some magic date in late August, so I need to find a replacement.  Not fond of Apple podcasts.

  33. 33.

    Dangerman

    July 2, 2023 at 4:44 pm

    @trollhattan: I’ve tried something called an Extender. I don’t think they work very well. YMMV.

  34. 34.

    trollhattan

    July 2, 2023 at 4:51 pm

    @Central Planning: ​Ah, okay.
    It must depend on the console–mine (tp-link) doesn’t offer anything resembling a signal strength control, other that switching between 2.4 and 5 GHz (more reach/wider bandwidth).

    As it is, think I’m investing in a mesh system because the house has dead spots and we both WFH.

  35. 35.

    prostratedragon

    July 2, 2023 at 4:52 pm

    @H.E.Wolf:  Ah, the poetry of life!

  36. 36.

    prostratedragon

    July 2, 2023 at 4:57 pm

    Josh Marshall points to an article from The New Yorker on the Titan submersible disaster. It’s free.

  37. 37.

    Kelly

    July 2, 2023 at 4:58 pm

    @trollhattan: A TP-link powerline wifi extender works well in our house. It uses the electric wiring to communicate between the base and the extender. Kinda depends on how your house is wired. Wifi 6 devices seem to reach further if both the router and the device are wifi 6.

  38. 38.

    Central Planning

    July 2, 2023 at 4:59 pm

    @trollhattan: ​There’s always a few things to do with WiFi in the home that can help:
    1. Make sure your client drivers are up-to-date
    2. Make sure your WiFi firmware is up-to-date
    3. Try to place your WiFi device in the middle of your house
    4. Make sure your 2.4Ghz channel(s) are set to 1, 6, or 11 ONLY.
    5. 2.4Ghz signals go further than 5Ghz signals (they penetrate things like walls and people better)
    6. The 2.4Ghz spectrum is filled with shitty devices. Try to force devices to use 5Ghz
    7. If your WiFi device lets you disable data rates, disable anything less than 12Mbps.
    8. If you’re going to start making changes, change one thing at a time and verify your changes with something like speedtest.net
    9. Use wired connections instead of wireless.
    10. If you can enable Quality of Service (QoS) on your device, do that. It might help your interactive voice/video work better.

  39. 39.

    Ishiyama

    July 2, 2023 at 5:02 pm

    @DarbysMom: Wait a minute! I know a DarbysMom. Is that you IRL? Asking from Hilo.

  40. 40.

    raven

    July 2, 2023 at 5:16 pm

    @WaterGirl: Her insta pics remind me of when my niece came from LA and got the Egyptian Symbol of Life tattooed between her boobs and then got really pissed because people were looking at her boobs!!!!

  41. 41.

    Miki

    July 2, 2023 at 5:17 pm

    @WaterGirl: I’ve been using Pocket Casts for, hmmm, over 5 years.  They changed the color of their icon for Pride, if that matters (to me it does). I find everything I want and it’s easy to use.

  42. 42.

    prostratedragon

    July 2, 2023 at 5:21 pm

    @raven:
    Heh. Ever hear the funeral scene from Aknaten act 1? “Ankh, ankh en mitak; Ankh!! Ankh!!

  43. 43.

    Jay

    July 2, 2023 at 5:22 pm

    Watched the birb channel for a while today. A juvenile Golden Eagle, ( basically just a fledgling) trying to figure out how to fly around 25 story apartment buildings and hunt pigeons in the parking lot. Trying to figure out glass railings, patio doors and what purpose a lounge chair has.

  44. 44.

    raven

    July 2, 2023 at 5:23 pm

    @prostratedragon: Sure haven’t!

  45. 45.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    July 2, 2023 at 5:25 pm

    @WaterGirl: I, at first, saw an apple until I read then took notice of the vineage on top. That is a beautiful fruit.

  46. 46.

    Tony Jay

    July 2, 2023 at 5:25 pm

    Alito, Gorsuch, Thomas, ConeyBarrett, Roberts, Kavanaugh. Mmmmmmmm…

    ALGOROCOKATH?

    KAALTH GOROCO?

    KAAL ROCO GOTH?

    ALCO THRO KAGO?

    “KAGO ALCO THRO, WE WANT YOU TO GO! KAGO ALCO THRO, OUR COUNTRY TELLS YOU NO!”

    Needs more work.

  47. 47.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    July 2, 2023 at 5:27 pm

    @Tony Jay: ALGOROCOKATH?

    KAALTH GOROCO?

    KAAL ROCO GOTH?

    ALCO THRO KAGO?

    You’ve decoded the evil summons. We need a containment team before this moves past a top 10,000 blog.

  48. 48.

    Highway Rob

    July 2, 2023 at 5:28 pm

    @Tony Jay: Stop it, you madman, you’ll summon the elder gods if you keep that up!

    ETA: Or what @The Kropenhagen Interpretation: said.

  49. 49.

    The Moar You Know

    July 2, 2023 at 5:29 pm

    I was reading through some of my old psych textbooks and noted that the old definition of “sadistic personality disorder” has been removed: apparently there was quite a bit of concern that the diagnosis would be used as a criminal defense.  I think that concern is legitimate, but I also think it needs to be revisited, because “sadistic personality disorder”, subtype “enforcing sadism” fits Ron DeSantis a little too well.

    Bad people, people rotten to the core with literally not one redeeming value, people who are a danger to society and everyone around them, are out there.  And he is one of them and he is looking for power.

    ”tyrannical sadism” is what he’s looking to level up to.

  50. 50.

    Tony Jay

    July 2, 2023 at 5:30 pm

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation:

    Too late, I’m getting all kinds of weird stuff happening in my fridge and I’m pretty sure that that thing in the cupboard isn’t a dog.

  51. 51.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    July 2, 2023 at 5:31 pm

    @Highway Rob: We don’t want to invoke, on accident, something Republicans have spent decades building towards.

  52. 52.

    Anyway

    July 2, 2023 at 5:36 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    So the neighbors have internet but not you?

  53. 53.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    July 2, 2023 at 5:36 pm

    @Tony Jay: I’m pretty sure that that thing in the cupboard isn’t a dog.

    One of the scariest phenomena associated with the curse upon the Supreme Court, an involuntary transvaginal ultrasound.

  54. 54.

    trollhattan

    July 2, 2023 at 5:37 pm

    @Central Planning: ​
    👍👍👍 Much obliged!

  55. 55.

    Anyway

    July 2, 2023 at 5:38 pm

    Tragic Six doesn’t connote the evil and reactionariness that is the hallmark of the SCROTUS Six.

  56. 56.

    Sister Golden Bear

    July 2, 2023 at 5:41 pm

    @trollhattan: if you’ve the money to buy new equipment, a mesh router set up is you’re best bet.  It acts similar to two cell towers where you Wifi connection is seamlessly handed off between routers, so to your Wi-Fi-connected device it all looks like part of the same network.

  57. 57.

    Tony Jay

    July 2, 2023 at 5:41 pm

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation:

    It would be extremely damned involuntary! For a start it would have to come with a complimentary vagina.

    Now that’s a great band name.

  58. 58.

    Tony Jay

    July 2, 2023 at 5:46 pm

    @Highway Rob:

    I’m already regretting it. Alito’s sneering head just manifested in a jar of pickled cucumbers, a rat with Thomas’s face ran off with all the bacon, and every time I go into the kitchen Kavanaugh’s disembodied voice starts tearfully demanding beer and asking where the drunk college chicks are.

    I need Combat Exorcists. Stat!

  59. 59.

    prostratedragon

    July 2, 2023 at 5:48 pm

    The funeral scene should start here, and it runs for about 9 minutes until the chorus leaves the stage. There is a little sync problem, but audio and visual are still in phase.

  60. 60.

    Jeffro

    July 2, 2023 at 5:50 pm

    @The Moar You Know: don’t we call that being a psychopath?

  61. 61.

    Jeffro

    July 2, 2023 at 5:52 pm

    Btw I know there are Klein haters out there, but this is really good: Biden is Running Right At trump’s Greatest Strength

     

    Trump said that elites had sold you out. They traded your job to China. They let your bridges and roads and buildings crumble. They respected the work they did — work that happens behind a computer screen, work that needs fancy degrees, work that happens in offices rather than factories and cities rather than towns — and dismissed the work you did. They got rich and you got nothing. Exit polls found that Trump won large majorities among those who thought the economy was “fair” or “poor.”

    Trump did not, during his presidency, turn that critique into an agenda. There were islands of action — trade policy foremost among them — but the order of the day was incoherence. Infrastructure weeks came and went. Tax cuts were tilted toward the rich. There was no strategy to restore America’s manufacturing prowess or rebuild bargaining power for workers without college degrees.

    But Trump had the good fortune to take office during an economic boom. And he kept that boom going. He worked with congressional Republicans to tax less and spend more, budget deficits be damned. He appointed Jay Powell to the Federal Reserve, and Powell kept money cheap and the labor market hot. Unemployment, in February 2020, was 3.5 percent. Wages were rising and inflation was low.

    Then Covid hit, and Trump worked with Speaker Nancy Pelosi to flood the economy with trillions of dollars in support payments. Joblessness spiked, but workers overall didn’t suffer. This is Trump’s deepest well of strength in a 2024 rematch. Only about a third of voters approve of the job Biden has done on the economy. Polls show Trump is the more trusted economic manager, by far.

    On Wednesday, in Chicago, Biden previewed the counterargument he’ll make in a much-hyped speech defining “Bidenomics.” Biden’s case is this: What Trump only promised, I delivered.

    Biden set his economic policies in contrast to “40 years of trickle-down.” Trickle-down economics usually describes the theory that tax cuts at the top will lead to prosperity at the bottom. Biden is using it to describe a more expansive economic order — what sometimes gets called “neoliberalism.” Trickle-down, in his telling, was the philosophy that “it didn’t matter where you made things.” It “meant slashing public investment” and looking the other way as “three-quarters of U.S. industries grew more concentrated.” Forty years, as alert readers will note, encompasses not just the administrations of Donald Trump and George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, but Bill Clinton and, yes, Barack Obama.

    This is a point worth dwelling on. The Biden administration is thickly populated with veterans of the Obama and Clinton White Houses. But it doesn’t see itself in comfortable continuity with those legacies. It sees itself, in key ways, as a break with them.

  62. 62.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    July 2, 2023 at 5:54 pm

    @Tony Jay: It’s an evil spirit. It could be a spiritual vagina.

    @Tony Jay: I need Combat Exorcists. Stat!

    That would be a good show or movie. Like some kind of Rest in Peace Department, out there bustin’ ghosts.

  63. 63.

    Jackie

    July 2, 2023 at 5:54 pm

    @WaterGirl: My first garden tomato is always a sandwich. Bread, mayo, tomato with salt and pepper, eaten over the kitchen sink as the juices drip. Alas, ours aren’t ripe for a few more weeks; I’m already anticipating though! 😋

  64. 64.

    trollhattan

    July 2, 2023 at 6:02 pm

    If Melon were in charge you’d need to be a parent to vote (considered and rejected: land owner) and to him I must issue a second challenge: parents must be able to name each of their children and provide present locations.

    Could he do it?

  65. 65.

    DarbysMom

    July 2, 2023 at 6:05 pm

    @Ishiyama: Nope. Life long San Diegan here.

  66. 66.

    Jay

    July 2, 2023 at 6:06 pm

    @Tony Jay:

    did something inside the fridge, close the fridge door?

    If not, you are okay.

  67. 67.

    Tony Jay

    July 2, 2023 at 6:15 pm

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation:

    When the ghosts get tough

    The tough learn Latin

  68. 68.

    Tony Jay

    July 2, 2023 at 6:17 pm

    @Jay:

    I’m not sure what it’s doing in there, but when I went to get some cheese it started jabbering about ‘textual constitutionalism’ and ‘the Major Questions of legislative overreach’ so I just opened a tin of tuna and sat in the corner until it went quiet.

  69. 69.

    WaterGirl

    July 2, 2023 at 6:19 pm

    @raven: Hmm, sounds like your niece might not have thought things through.

  70. 70.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    July 2, 2023 at 6:19 pm

    @Tony Jay: A fearsome endeavor.

  71. 71.

    Tony Jay

    July 2, 2023 at 6:20 pm

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation:

     spiritual vagina

    Isn’t that the name of Marianne Williamson’s new yacht?

  72. 72.

    WaterGirl

    July 2, 2023 at 6:21 pm

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation: It was good flavor, but was not an AWESOME SUMMER TOMATO.

    That one was way out in front of the others, which are still totally green, so we’ll see if the next set is awesome.

  73. 73.

    WaterGirl

    July 2, 2023 at 6:21 pm

    @Tony Jay: hahaha

  74. 74.

    WaterGirl

    July 2, 2023 at 6:23 pm

    @Anyway: All my neighbors (directly across or right next door) have gone to I3 broadband instead of comcast.

    I haven’t done that because i LOVE my Tivo box that records shows, and when I looked into it when I3 first came out, I wouldn’t have been able to use Tivo. sigh

  75. 75.

    Tenar Arha

    July 2, 2023 at 6:23 pm

    @WaterGirl: I bought Overcast by Marco Arment years ago. I can make playlists, remove pauses, listen at higher speeds, there’s also an annual Premium level that I don’t use, but probably should bc you can eliminate banner ads on the playback screen that way ;)

  76. 76.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    July 2, 2023 at 6:27 pm

    @WaterGirl: What constitutes an awesome summer tomato. What properties should it have that you might appreciate less in the winter?

    @Tony Jay: It might also be the name of my new meditative practice.

  77. 77.

    The Moar You Know

    July 2, 2023 at 6:28 pm

    don’t we call that being a psychopath

    @Jeffro: they are very much different things.

    Psychopathy is merely a lack of emotional/empathic responses; there are plenty of psychopaths out there who have never and will never harm anyone.

    Sadistic personality disorder people do harm and actively enjoy doing harm.

  78. 78.

    trollhattan

    July 2, 2023 at 6:29 pm

    @WaterGirl: Our ISP decided to get out of the cable teevee business entirely and pushed us into Direct Stream. As a result, our DVR went bye-bye and it’s been rasslin’ with the Medusa head that is the collected streaming services. EVERY ONE has different controls, features capabilities, reliabilities, quirks and of course, content. A couple have virtual program recording, but it’s a tiny sliver of the total.

  79. 79.

    Tony Jay

    July 2, 2023 at 6:30 pm

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation:

    The Tik Tok adverts for that should be quite the thing.

  80. 80.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    July 2, 2023 at 6:32 pm

    @Tony Jay: Oh, my spiritual practices are, at present, entirely for my own edification and no one else’s.

  81. 81.

    Skepticat

    July 2, 2023 at 6:39 pm

    What, WaterGirl—no banana for scale?

  82. 82.

    Jeffro

    July 2, 2023 at 6:42 pm

    @The Moar You Know: sociopath, then?

  83. 83.

    Tim Curtin

    July 2, 2023 at 6:48 pm

    DeSantis is Guantanamo Bay brought home to the US.

  84. 84.

    Geminid

    July 2, 2023 at 6:57 pm

    @Jeffro: I think Klein is overthinking this. For one thing, I do not think the economy is a very strong issue for Trump. It was middling during his presidency.

    On the other hand, the economy is Biden’s strongest issue, and he’d be crazy not to run on it. This is the best economy in decades.

    I guess Klein is suggesting other good issues to run on, and there are, but Biden can walk and chew gum at the same time.

  85. 85.

    NotMax

    July 2, 2023 at 7:08 pm

    @Scout211

    TRAGCK?

    Isn’t that one of Sarah Palin’s kids?
    //

  86. 86.

    gene108

    July 2, 2023 at 7:14 pm

    @Geminid:

    For one thing, I do not think the economy is a very strong issue for Trump. It was middling during his presidency.

    Trump seems to have a hard floor of support somewhere between 40% to 45% of the electorate. Doesn’t seem to matter to them what he does. These are the same people, who felt the economy was terrible on January 19, 2017 and made an unbelievable turnaround on January 21, 2017.

    These folks don’t use facts to reach an opinion.

    Trump’s probably more trusted on the economy.

    What has Biden and his crime family done for people, besides pocketing millions in Chinese bribes? Set record highs on inflation, created all kinds of instability in the labor market with “Great Resignation”, and ran trillions of dollars of debt. // MAGA/Republicans view of things.

  87. 87.

    Baud

    July 2, 2023 at 7:18 pm

    @gene108:

    Every presidential nominee has a hard floor of 40%.

  88. 88.

    Geminid

    July 2, 2023 at 7:25 pm

    @gene108 

    It’s been a while since I cared about the MAGA view of things. There are not enough of them to win an election.

    But what exactly are you saying anyway? That Biden shouldn’t run on the economy?

  89. 89.

    Geminid

    July 2, 2023 at 7:43 pm

    @Geminid:

     

    @gene108: To put it in a maybe less confrontational way, Biden does not need MAGA votes to win, or even votes from the wider pool of Republicans. He can win with votes from Democrats and Independents.

  90. 90.

    sab

    July 2, 2023 at 9:33 pm

    @DarbysMom: Ohio husband was watching Ron Burgundy movie today. I had to laugh when the tv anchors couldn’t describe their actual audience. Glad to see an actual San Diegan describe them. as San Diegans. My sister is retiring to La Jolla where she already has housing.

  91. 91.

    Ishiyama

    July 2, 2023 at 9:47 pm

    @DarbysMom: Quite the coincidence, then.

  92. 92.

    BellyCat

    July 2, 2023 at 9:58 pm

    Voting for “the full version” of the FUCK SCOTUS image. The look on both of their faces says far more than the sign.

  93. 93.

    Manyakitty

    July 3, 2023 at 10:13 am

    @WaterGirl: might be too late on a dead thread, but I like the Google podcast app.

  94. 94.

    Mousebumples

    July 3, 2023 at 12:27 pm

    @WaterGirl – late to the thread, but 2 comments

    1. My android app of choice for podcasts is Podkicker. I use it enough that I paid 1x for the Pro version. Not a ton of features, but it works for my needs. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ait.podka
    2. When I bought my house (almost 10 years ago!), I bought a Tivo box and a lifetime subscription to the service. I have no cable and just over the air tv, but I can use it to record stuff like Jeopardy, Daniel Tiger, and sports. No idea what I3 is/offers, but even if it doesn’t come *with* a Tivo, you might be able to add it on yourself.

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