Totally front page worthy!
The Devil Went Down To Georgia
by Maxim
The devil went down to Georgia
He was looking for some votes to steal
He was in a bind ’cause he was way behind
He was lookin’ to make a deal
When he heard Brad Raffensperger
Was counting votes the way that he ought
He made a perfect phone call
And said “Boy, let me tell you what …
I guess you didn’t know it, but I’m the winner fair and true
And if you find some votes (14,000 ought to do)
Then we can get me crowned again,
The way I ought to be,
And I won’t have to badger you to be a friend to me.”
But Brad had his recorder on
And Georgia said “No way,”
Now one peachy indictment’s
Headed bigly DT’s way.
What is this? It’s as if they’re all coming home to roost. pic.twitter.com/I7XuPUXSdp
— Butter Emails 🙏🏼 ⚖️ (@NicoleL333) August 14, 2023
Open thread!
BeautifulPlumage
Fiddle around find out?
dmsilev
Well, someone isn’t getting a Mar-a-Lago themed Christmas card this year
(WaPo liveblog)
Baud
Jerzy Russian
Charlie Daniels was kind of a DeSantis when he was alive, and probably still is a DeSantis now that he is dead. Nonetheless, I have always loved that song. However, I love Maxim’s version 100 times more. Pure genius!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Baud: But why should citizens have a say in their representation? /OhioRepublican
WaterGirl
@dmsilev:
Harsh words, but fair. Crying out to be a rotating tag and a category for posts.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@WaterGirl: I agree. I could at least see myself having a normal human conversation with Herschel Walker
Perhaps about vampires…
WaterGirl
Okay, I’m gonna take one for the team. I am going to go shower, which means they will surely announce the indictment in about 90 seconds. You can thank me later!
UncleEbeneezer
Baud
@UncleEbeneezer:
Oh jeez, so it might take a while before it’s announced.
bbleh
@UncleEbeneezer: well ya gotta hand it to WG. Perhaps she has the Sight.
Scout211
And in the documents case:
Trump Has No ‘Law or Precedent’ for Building Secure Facility to See Classified Evidence, Jack Smith Says
[court filing at the link]
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@bbleh: I think we call it bad luck. It’s like the phenomenon where my texts don’t get answered while I’m already out, but pulling into my neighborhood. Now I gotta decide whether to go out again.
dmsilev
@Baud: Maybe they use those rapid-scan optical forms? Shouldn’t take long to count with the right machines…
UncleEbeneezer
@Jerzy Russian: My old cover band did a funk version of it that always made the crowd go wild. Wish I had a video or audio clip.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Baud: Knowing nothing about the process, I’d guess they have to go count by count for each charge for each defendant. So I’ll try not to look at the clock for… let’s say half an hour.
Who am I kidding? (Refresh, refresh, refresh)
MazeDancer
The Grand Jury is votng now.
Georgia law requires immediate release of indictments.
LAO
It feels odd not to root for “no true bill”
I guess I’ll get over it. 😉
bbleh
@Baud: or maybe it’s subject to the jury-room-at-4pm-on-Friday effect.
“Jeez, okay already! Yes on 1, 2, 3, and 5, no on 4 and 6, okay? Deal? Everybody agree? Can we all go home now?”
Wyatt Salmanca
Georgia On My Mind – Ray Charles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggGzE5KfCio
Oh Atlanta – Little Feat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTz8g8yh8GY
Midnight Train to Georgia – Gladys Knight & The Pips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0F9lh8TiSM
Baud
@Wyatt Salmanca:
The country of Georgia gets a lot of nice songs for free.
WaterGirl
I’m back, did it work?
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@WaterGirl: It half worked. They’re voting.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: But spell it right.
Omnes Omnibus
@LAO: It is weird, isn’t it?
Hoodie
@bbleh: From what I’ve read, they only need a majority to indict. However, wonder if they can do a straw vote or, if a formal vote is close, they can withdraw the count. Seems to me the DA would still have discretion to drop certain counts for tactical reasons even if approved by the grand jury.
Jackie
@MazeDancer: Do they have to vote one at a time or just yell in unison “HELL YES INDICT THE BASTARD!!!”
Only semi snark!
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: 2 Ls on his first name? I had it with 2 and autocorrect told me I was wrong.
edit: I googled and fixed, thank you.
dmsilev
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Do we know that they’re voting on this case? Maybe they’re trying to decide what particular type of take-out to order for dinner?
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@WaterGirl: “Herschel,” I believe.
If they have the priorities right, that’s absolutely what they’re doing.
Alison Rose
@WaterGirl: Missing the c – Herschel
ETA others got there first.
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
Rachmaninoff (Pushkin), “Do not sing in my presence, o beauty, songs of sad Georgia”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8m01E1hbmY
SiubhanDuinne
GJ is voting right now. I’ve been looking forward to seeing Hillary on Rachel’s 9:00 pm program, but now I think she may be overtaken (at least somewhat) by events.
Baud
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
You can’t indict on an empty stomach.
bbleh
@Hoodie: yes 12/23, not like a criminal trial jury. Dunno about prosecutor discretion.
bbleh
@Baud: “If your gut is tight, you cannot indict.”
NotMax
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Media anxiously awaiting puffs of white smoke?
;)
scav
if only there were 11,780 votes to indict . . .
Alison Rose
@SiubhanDuinne: She’ll just sit next to Rachel, chugging a bottle of Chardonnay and flipping off the camera.
WaterGirl
No love for Maxim’s most excellent poem/song?
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
Maybe they’ll share a glass of wine. Or cake!
SiubhanDuinne
@dmsilev:
Lasagna, or tire irons and anthrax?
Sure Lurkalot
Especially since if for some inconceivable reason, Trump doesn’t garner the Republican nomination, he will “pivot” away from the Republican Party and set it on fire. A human can dream!
Baud
@bbleh:
That should be a sign on the wall of the grand jury room.
SiubhanDuinne
@Alison Rose:
I would pay serious cash money to see that!
NotMax
The Night the Votes Came Out in Georgia.
WaterGirl
@WaterGirl: Okay, I’m taking credit for getting the voting started.
zhena gogolia
Cauvin is fire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4LFJEiNkJg
Augteenth! 😂
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
“Another slice of Merlot for you?”
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Then how can you indict a ham sandwich? Checkmate, libtard!
Wyatt Salmanca
@Baud:
They certainly do, although New York also has some nice tunes as well.
If Trump is ever convicted in any of these cases, we need to have a massive celebratory music thread.
LAO
Wow, the waiting really is the hardest part.
JPL
fyi
Could be!
Who knows?
There’s something’ due any day;
I will know right away
Soon as it shows
It may come cannonballin’
Down through the sky
Gleam in its eye
Bright as a rose!
Who knows?
bbleh
@LAO: I dunno, gave me an excuse to finish this beer. And snark some more.
Misterpuff
@Wyatt Salmanca: Oh Atlanta is good but I prefer to think of the Trumpster as The Fat Man in the Bathtub with The Blues.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: Yes, it’s great! I complimented it down on the other thread. (I have to admit, I didn’t know the song and had to go look at it.)
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Omnes Omnibus: You beed to order a ham sandwich before indicating it, or else it doesn’t exist to be indicted.
Alison Rose
@WaterGirl: It’s awesome! I think maybe people commented in the other thread? But it’s very clever :)
LAO
My favorite tweet so far:
https://x.com/docegonspengler/status/1691239751913734144?s=46&t=X9PV5VKSwOZNT_u34CCUFQ
hilts
@SiubhanDuinne:
Speaking of MSNBC, Chris Hayes gets more nights off than Johnny Carson did during his prime hosting the Tonight Show.
Alison Rose
@LAO: Yeah, but it’ll definitely feel like heaven right now if TIFG ever goes to prison.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Alison Rose: It would be his sole contribution to American greatness.
Alison Rose
@hilts: He’s got little ones at home, might have to do with that. Which is nice to see, from a dude.
Omnes Omnibus
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Ah, and now we need to enter Plato;s cave and consider whether the ham sandwich exists as an idea before it is ordered and, is so, which ham sandwich is actually indicted.
Baud
@Alison Rose:
Yeah, sweet dreams are definitely made of this.
LAO
@Alison Rose: I’m beginning to think he may be in some trouble.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Mmmmm. The platonic ideal of a ham sandwich.
Wyatt Salamanca
@Misterpuff:
You have a valid point, I simply opted for Oh Atlanta because of the Georgia connection.
bbleh
Offhand, I wonder how the evening’s going at Mar-a-Loco.
Anoniminous
@Omnes Omnibus: The veritable Ham Sandwich from which all other ham sandwiches are mere reflections.
Alison Rose
@LAO: At first I thought you meant Chris Hayes and I was like, oh God, please don’t tell me he’s another pervy news dude. But I assume you meant Trump :P
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Obviously, that would be a jambon beurre.
Baud
@bbleh:
Ketchupocalypse.
WaterGirl
@LAO: That has to be embedded.
Misterpuff
@Wyatt Salamanca: Any Little Feat is fine, you Dixie Chicken you.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Better than most ham sandwiches…
Eta: Classic example why I hate autocorrect. It changed “better” to “benter.”
‘N’ and ‘T’ are nowhere near each other and I’m pretty sure that isn’t a word.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Baud: I’ve had that Platonic Ideal. It’s called croque monsieur.
@Omnes Omnibus:
This would be the moment in the western where everybody in the room stops talking.
Jackie
@Baud: I was so sure it’d be Indictment Tue, I thought Ah Ha! I’ll cook taco meat tonight and be set for Indictment Taco Tues. Now I’m racing to finish getting the meat cooked with the TV volume UP.
That’ll teach me to believe all the political media pundits.
WaterGirl
@Anoniminous: One might say the other ham sandwiches are aspirational, compared to this ham sandwich.
Omnes Omnibus
redacted
NotMax
Only two police vehicles in the foreground earlier in the day of the live webcam view. Now there are four. Whether a shift change or a harbinger, who can say?
Omnes Omnibus
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: ::side-eye::
LAO
@Alison Rose: correct. I like to call him the defendant but since he’s awaiting indictment, it seemed premature.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: ?
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
Who am I to disagree?
Jackie
@hilts: It’s vacation time for those with kiddos before school starts.
LAO
@WaterGirl: thanks. I’m still laughing. An absolutely perfect tweet.
Kayla Rudbek
I’m trying to decide whether I should start making a cake or not. Part of me wants to make muffins instead so Mr. Rudbek can bring them to the bike ride tomorrow.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Failed reply.
WaterGirl
@LAO: What I liked about all the legal indictments and from the Judge earlier this week is that it was “Defendant”, with Trump having lost the right to a name. His name is now Defendant.
Scratch that, I didn’t just like it, I loved it.
Maxim
What was that link for watching MSNBC live? I can’t remember which thread it was in, sorry.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: I can add the @ if you tell me the comment #.
Jackie
@bbleh: Quietly. The hair tearing and ketchup throwing is at Bedminster. 😉
Jay
@Kayla Rudbek:
“Muffin’s” are healthy and working class,
“Cake” is elitist and unheathy, ( see Marie A.)
snark//
WaterGirl
@Maxim: I knew it was in one of my threads. it was Subaru Dianne.
Here is a msnbc live stream. https://www.livenewsmag.com/msnbc-news-live-stream/
wjca
@Wyatt Salmanca: When we have that celebratory music thread, we definitely ought to start with “Marching Thru Georgia”:
Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the jubilee!
Hurrah! Hurrah! The case that makes men free.
That’s the way we’ll sing it from Atlanta to the sea
While we are marching thru Georgia.
WaterGirl
@Kayla Rudbek: Muffins are still cake, just in another form.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl:
Not necessary. Thanks though.
bbleh
@Omnes Omnibus: @Baud: @Anoniminous: @Ceci n est pas mon nym:
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/b04a68be-2dfd-4f09-916b-6e3332b51704
brantl
@Baud: HOT DAMN!!!
SiubhanDuinne
@hilts:
As I’m not a huge Chris Hayes fan, that observation doesn’t unduly upset me.
LAO
@WaterGirl: whenever I submit papers, I never refer to my client as “the defendant,” its sort of liberating, I get way prosecutors do it.
WaterGirl
@brantl: Ohio is fired up and ready to go.
Ken
This is interesting. I’m starting to see why some people get all obsessive when waiting for a new Pope to be elected.
Also, the discussion has validated something I’ve always thought about Platonic ideals; viz., that it’s all very well to say “the ideal ham sandwich”, but everyone immediately translates that into something fairly concrete in their mind, and it the ideal breaks down in a fight over mustard or mayo.
brantl
@WaterGirl: Do you sing in the shower?
Spanky
Ooooooo! This is better than Fitzmas!
(Low bar, I know.)
WaterGirl
@LAO: Of course you wouldn’t, you are on their side. I am on whatever side puts Trump in his place.
Omnes Omnibus
@LAO:
No, you want to humanize your client at every opportunity while the prosecution does not.
WaterGirl
@brantl: I do not. And if you’re about to call me a fat lady singing, I must protest! :-)
Alison Rose
ETA this is from the NYT live blog, the second line came first.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Wait, the French serve ham with butter and I’m just finding out now? What a fool I was for taking Spanish…
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Is it wrong that I am all for dehumanizing Trump at every opportunity?
Jay
@WaterGirl:
Heresy.
My apple, fresh ground cinnamon/crumble muffins are nothing at all like my apple, fresh ground cinnamon/crumble coffee cake.
LAO
@WaterGirl: I obviously share your sentiments as I sit in my apartment listening to Andrew Weissman drone on. MSNBC.
bbleh
Ruh-roh, NYT reporting that clerks are positioning and judge has taken his seat.
“I’ve been told the convoy is mobile,” Judge McBurney says, indicating that an indictment is on its way to his desk.
(ETA: dang, scooped again!)
Baud
@Alison Rose:
Ché is the hero we all need.
Alison Rose
Eolirin
@Ken: Platonic ideals are supposed to be unknowable though. There’s no way to conceive of the ideal ham sandwich. Any such conception would itself be a pale reflection of the true ideal.
Alison Rose
@Baud: Hippie.
LAO
@Omnes Omnibus: indeed. Very thankful that I’m not in the position of humanizing this particular defendant.
Baud
@Alison Rose:
OMG, they need multiple semis to deliver the charges!
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Movement in the courthouse!
This has been the latest update in the NY Times current story, now about 35 minutes old.
These just got added
Spanky
Y’all better keep up the play by play. This is the only “news” outlet I’ve got atm.
Alison Rose
@Baud: Maybe it’s coming on a taco truck.
scav
If they complain about the indictment of ham sandwiches, well then what could one possibly say about the party that nominates them?
repeatedly.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Baud:
Yes, this is exactly what Ohio needs, not the redistricting process designed to fail that was completely ignored by the state GOP
Man, I’d really like to be able to sign this petition
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Spanky: And the only one you need.
Baud
@Alison Rose:
Haha. That would be poetic justice.
smith
From Wapo:
japa21
I have about 10 minutes before my body crashes. Please hurry.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
A little muffin music with which to pass the time.
;)
Omnes Omnibus
@Ken:
How about the Ur-ham sandwich? Also, the jambon beurre. It might not be the tastiest, but it is as close to the essential essence of a ham sandwich as one can get. Plus, it is pretty tasty.
WaterGirl
new thread up.
SiubhanDuinne
@Maxim:
Here you go.
https://www.livenewsmag.com/msnbc-news-live-stream/
MazeDancer
The camera in the courtroom is so powerful.
Watching Trump get arraigned will be quite something.. The trial will be monumental.
Jeffro
@Baud: Have you heard Jason Isbell’s album of Georgia-related cover songs? He did it as a thank-you for GA winning the Warnock and Issoff elections.
bbleh
I just hope whoever is delivering the actual paper to the clerk and then the judge is using back stairs or something. Otherwise, s/he will disappear in a huge dogpile of reporters and will never be seen again.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Manyakitty
Would be so sweet to see Hillary Clinton give color commentary on this Willismas evening.
Spanky
@WaterGirl: TWO new threads up.
scav
And, Ché?! The writers on this episode are much improved!
Omnes Omnibus
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
What sheltered life you must have led.
@WaterGirl:
No, it is not wrong.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@WaterGirl:
Absolutely! I’m feeling very optimistic about this fall : )
bbleh
NYT: “A sheriff’s deputy just walked up to the clerk’s office with a large stack of papers.”
Old Dan and Little Ann
Rack him!
Dr. Jakyll and Miss Deride
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Churchy La Femme in Pogo once sang: “Spring, sweet spring, it’s a wonderful thing,/So welcome after winter;/And in summer’s sun I will have fun/In a place I haven’t binter.”
Jackie
Hilary might get to watch the indictment announcement live with Rachel Maddow!
raven
Here come de judge!
Anoniminous
@Eolirin:
But we can only know an instantiation of ham sandwich, what Heidegger would call the Ready-at-Hand, because of the timeless, absolute, unchangeable Idea of a ham sandwich.
Maxim
@SiubhanDuinne: Thanks!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Spent most of my adulthood trying to rectify that.
bbleh
“On top of the large stack of papers that was brought to the clerk’s office and then into the courtroom was one that said, in part, “Certification that grand jury indictments returned.”
Ok I’ll stop now
raven
Pretty funny “Was it all you expected it to be”?
BeautifulPlumage
@WaterGirl: yes, below post but will give al the kudos! Perfect fit for the melody and not a word wasted.
billcoop4
I love regular order.
BC
Ceci n est pas mon nym
I’ve also been giving minute by minute updates to my wife who is trying to read a few feet away from me. She’s getting annoyed.
Ken
Oh really. I didn’t see anything about Wonder Bread, Singles, or Miracle Whip in the descriptions I found.
dnfree
@Dr. Jakyll and Miss Deride: Any mention of Pogo gets a thumbs-up.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ken: You are dead to me.
brantl
@WaterGirl: Speaking of Fat Ladies singing, whatever happened last year w all the anti-voting bills the Repukes were trying to passed, nationwide?
Old Dan and Little Ann
Ted Cruz said on hannity that Biden should be indicted and sent to jail. So there!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Old Dan and Little Ann: For…?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
For being a libtard Democrap, of course! Don’t you know only Republican presidents are legitimate?
/s
NotMax
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation
PWD.
Presidenting While Democrat.
//
Omnes Omnibus
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
For Bidening.
Old Dan and Little Ann
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: i can only handle several seconds at a time. I don’t know. Spin the wheel of fox grievances and take your pick.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Presiding?
@Omnes Omnibus: I would watch a movie called “The Bidening.”
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
Starring Dark Brandon!
@NotMax:
You win the internets, sir. I must step up my comedy game
sab
@Baud: Ohio election reform. What is the point? Our last redistricting effort won by 75% and all our elected officials ( governor, attorney general, secretary of state, state legislature and supreme court) fucking ignored it and did their own thing.
LiminalOwl
@WaterGirl: I love the song, but am late as usual so you might not see this. (I confess to a love for the original, too, despite absence of love for Charlie Daniels himself.)
LiminalOwl
@Jay: Qu’ils mangeant des brioches. “Cake” is a mistranslation, perhaps because “brioche” was so elitist that Americans weren’t expected to have the word in their vocabulary?