Looks like we could use one!
How about a couple of conversation starters?
We fixed the income-driven repayment program so borrowers who had been paying on their loans for 20 years get the debt relief they earned.
Today, I announced that we have approved an additional $9 billion in relief for 125,000 borrowers under that program. pic.twitter.com/0s3JBujUpM
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 5, 2023
Not quite sure exactly what preceded this, but I like her in your face message.
Contrary to how McCarthy’s defenders are behaving, men failing up is not a Constitutionally protected right.
The man made risky decisions and faced the natural consequences of them. I am not his mom, and my job is not to put pool noodles around hard corners for Republicans.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 4, 2023
What kind of people enter government so they can destroy it?
Chaos caucus requirements of the new Speaker:
1. Defund the DOJ investigations against Trump.
2. Defund Ukraine and help Russia win the war.
3. Impeach Garland and Mayorkas for political theater.
Let’s rumble. pic.twitter.com/7EJ1Peh9gM
— Jack E. Smith ⚖️ (@7Veritas4) October 5, 2023
Open thread.
Westyny
Per last tweet: Are pants required?
ETA: Frist?
WaterGirl
@Westyny: This is an open thread, nothing formal. No pants required.
Major Major Major Major
Open thread… let’s see… tomorrow is Momo’s birthday! The big one-nothing. At least, according to her paperwork. I’ll go ahead and write up a whole post about it for y’all :)
And, I could use some gardening pointers. What overnight low do you consider to be too close to the frost point to risk it? We have a low of 39 on Saturday, but I’d like to give the peppers as much time to ripen as I can before I transplant them…
Scout211
WaterGirl, were able to fix X-Twitter on your laptop?
Westyny
@WaterGirl: Then I think we should nominate one of our own!
Anoniminous
If The Squad showed up on the floor of the House waving pool noodles I would marry them and have their babies.
Alison Rose
AOC’s prior tweet was RTing Andrew Yang saying:
His tweet includes a clip of him on CNN claiming there was diversity of thought as to how to proceed in the Democratic caucus but they were told to vote to against McCarthy. What proof of this does he have? None whatsoever.
AOC said:
So I think her next tweet was just continuing this train of thought where Dems were “supposed” to help poor lil Kev keep his job.
mvr
@Major Major Major Major:
Me 34. But it probably depends on where you live and also on what time the low is supposed to happen – can you get up early, check and turn on the sprinkler if it is too low?
Suzanne
I want to note that the student loan repayment system is all messed up right now. I submitted my application about three weeks ago for the new SAVE program (through the U.S. Department of Education), and I went to make my first payment under that plan, and it still isn’t processed with my loan servicer (Nelnet). We’re still waiting on Mr, Suzanne’s application for PSLF. This is gonna be a slog.
Whatever. It’s fine.
Alison Rose
Also Newcastle stomped PSG today so it was a good day up Tyneside and in my little corner of the world.
raven
When the supremes 86d student loan relief I just said fuck it and paid mine off!
Lyrebird
“What kind of people enter government so they can destroy it?” – WG, above
WaterGirl, I share your dismay. I also think you’ve been around the political block… who was it, Grover Norquist with the grisly bathtub image? Don’t all his fans and acolytes fit this bill?
I guess Reagan just tried to destroy select bits of the government, like the ones giving poor people a chance to go up and not down, without trying to completely wreck the whole country. See also DeVos’ appointer, etc.
bk
@Westyny: Please stop with the stupid frist stuff
Mousebumples
I’m watching what might be the last Brewers game of the year, and possibly the last game Craig Counsell manages (he elected to go into this season as a lame duck and will be a managerial free agent).
Putting in my angel match for Virginia shortly, if anyone wants to play Watch The Thermometer…
japa21
@Mousebumples: So am I. Looked so promising, then all went to hell in a handbasket, both last night and tonight. If CC leaves and retires, I can be good with that. If he goes to another team, different story.
Mousebumples
@japa21: I’m hoping owner Mark Attanasio told him to name his price, and he wants to find his market rate. I can’t imagine CC wants to leave his hometown… But he did win World Series rings with AZ and Miami, so he may not be as sentimental as I am.
raven
@bk: It’s hopeless, people think it just so cute and they are not going to stop.
Jay
@bk:
“frist” is an ancient computer/internet tradition dating back to 1943 and the frist ENIAC computer. The thing is, we don’t know who programmed the first Frist on a punch card.
Mousebumples
And I saw a bump in the thermometer! 🤩
Major Major Major Major
@mvr: I’m worried about the plants, not the pipes, thanks for the reminder though
RSA
Some Republicans: How could our political opponents refuse to defend a Republican leader against attacks from other Republicans?
It’s hard to believe anyone is falling for this.
trucmat
So I was talking to my trucker friend today but he was kinda hungover and asked if I could tell him what day it was. I answered “10/4 good buddy”.
Also in humorous news … did you know new speaker Patrick McHenry is a short man? I know … hilarious right!
I always know quickly about new short Republican men on the scene because two guys I read, Josh Marshall and Mark Sumner, will immediately ridicule them for their height. Which is awesome and really makes my day. Thanks guys for keeping me informed!
frosty
@Suzanne: @raven: I’m paying off the kiddos loan for him. His employment qualifies him for PSLF but every time I run the numbers it gets paid off just about at the 10-year mark. So, nice program, but it doesn’t help us. Or looking at it another way, at least the loan wasn’t too high.
raven
@frosty: Yea, I figured there are people who need I more than I do.
Ken
Had to have been Herman Hollerith in the 1890 census.
trollhattan
Yo, it’s Fat Bear Week.
Jay
Con’s out, Dippers in, and we have our first Indigenous Premier, in one of our most racist Provinces.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/2023-election-analysis-kinew-stefanson-1.6986075
And the Fed’s are promising funds for the dump search.
frosty
@Jay: That would have been my dad, who worked on ENIAC* and went by the nym “Fristy**”.
* true
** not true
mrmoshpotato
I would be fine with AOC bonking them on the head with pool noodles.
Jackie
Interesting developments re Battle of the Speakership:
And:
I guess we’re rooting for Tom Emmer? Altho it sounds like he’s a looong shot.
Of course, I’m hoping for the really really long shot that the few moderate repugs left – the ones in Biden territory – secretly meet with Hakeem Jeffries and promise him their votes and undying loyalty if he’ll help save America!
And then I wake up…
Jay
@Jackie:
George Santo’s hasn’t announced yet.
mrmoshpotato
Republicans. 😁
Lyrebird
@Jay: Wow! And Canada as a whole now has a Black rep. as Speaker of the House for the first time, iiuc!
Geminid
@Major Major Major Major: You can provide some protection by putting plasic trash bags over the plants.
Ken
@mrmoshpotato: Did you know that if you wrap a wet pool noodle in plastic and put it in the freezer, after four hours it becomes a lethal weapon? Unfortunately you can’t get rid of it by feeding it to the homicide cops.
mrmoshpotato
@Anoniminous:
LOL!
sdhays
@Jay: George Santos has announced that he is, in fact, Gym Jordan.
Alison Rose
@trucmat: I really hate when people mock men, whoever they are, for their height. Height is one of few things about how you look that you have almost no control over, and the control you can have is superficial and minimal. And the whole point is some bullshit attempt to equate height and manliness, which is fucking dumb. A shitty man will be a shitty man no matter how tall he is, and a good man is a good man no matter how short he is.
Another Scott
@Major Major Major Major: I think the “turn on the sprinkler” thing is to protect the plants from frost. I remember seeing TV reports about orange groves in Florida with giant sprinklers going to try to protect the trees and fruit in a cold-snap.
E.g. MSU.edu:
HTH!
Cheers,
Scott.
steppy
@frosty: Your dad worked on ENIAC? WOW!
Anoniminous
@Jay:
Great news!
RedDirtGirl
@bk: Why?
mrmoshpotato
@Mousebumples:
@japa21: Go D’Backs and go Phillies!
cain
Surprised that was all the demands. Impeach Biden wasn’t in there?
It’s so funny when the media calls the GOP the law and order party. lol.
CarolPW
@trucmat: It’s not that McHenry is short so much as that he is small. It is an unfortunate thing when people conflate the two. I am taller than most women, and the guy I married is shorter than most men (so much shorter than me). But he isn’t and has never been small.
Marshall and Sumner should make it clear which they mean.
Jay
@Alison Rose:
There is a thing called “Small Man Syndrome”. Cultural influences, macho culture and size can often create “Great Assholes”.
eg. McHenry
wjca
I’m waiting for House Republicans to announce that they are implementing ranked choice voting for the next Speaker. Waiting . . . waiting . . . waiting . . .
Yarrow
@Major Major Major Major: I think you’ll be okay at 39. The coldest time is right before dawn so you could get up early and cover them for an hour or so if you’re worried. Or just cover them for a night.
Other factors to consider are any microclimate issues, like are they on the south side of a building so they’re more protected, are they exposed to wind (wind is more cooling), how humid or dry it is, are they under or near a tree or shrub (that’s more protection), etc. All of those kinds of things can change what your particular situation is. Also:
You’re transplanting pepper plants with peppers on them? Good luck.
Suzanne
@frosty: PSLF will be great for Mr. Suzanne. However, he got his application and all of the supporting documentation postmarked on literally the last day. He’d had multiple employers in that ten-year period and he had to get records from them all. Total PITA!
I will note that one ongoing frustration I note in life is that sometimes there are these great benefits and services, and honest people spend a great deal of time and effort jumping through all these hoops…. because we have to make it moderately more difficult for dishonest people to cheat. It sucks. File under Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.
Lyrebird
@trucmat: @Alison Rose: Agreed that the height insults are pathetic, especially coming from front pagers/etc.
Nancy Pelosi is teeny tiny, and I believe that MVP is not so much taller. And they kick a__ and take names in the best way. The current Speaker Pro Tem is a bigot and a liar, why take away from that with crap about his height? Who gives a rat’s a__?
Mousebumples
🥺
I mean, if recent history holds, should the Dbacks beat the Brewers, they’re going to the World Series…
cain
@steppy: I was thinking ‘wow’ too – celebrity!
mrmoshpotato
@Ken: I said nothing about frozen pool noodles.
Thanks for referencing my favorite Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode.
wjca
@Mousebumples: Rumors here are that Kotsay might leave the A’s to coach the Giants.
Certainly he’s been impressive, showing that a AAA team (which is what they are) can beat major league teams a third of the time. And keeping his players giving their best, and learning as they went along, thru a horrible season. He could do great things with an owner who actually knows and cares about baseball.
Jay
@Lyrebird:
because he did a press conference today, standing on a box to appear taller.
Same reason we diss TIFG for lifts in his shoes.
Trucmat
@Jay:
Yes and it’s not small men who like to talk about Napolean or small man syndrome. Almost always it’s a bully who wants to put other men in their place. Bet you’ve seen that happen up close.
japa21
@Mousebumples: It was Arizona the Brewers beat, thanks to Ryan Braun. Of course, that is also when his UA came back showing he used n on-allowed substances. I think the D’Backs remember.
BruceFromOhio
@Alison Rose: When the fascists flail in the deep water, throw anvils. Not pool noodles. Anvils. Lots of them. A N V I L S.
Geminid
@Jackie: I don’t think any Republicans will defect unless and until their caucus is deadlocked for a week or more. Then, it’s possible some might agree to vote for Jeffries.
Another scenario was floated by Don Bacon (NE) back in January: Republican defectors get Jeffries to agree to throw his caucus behind a retired Republican like Tom Reed. He would be a “caretaker” Speaker who enabled vital legislation to get a floor vote.
The pool of potential defectors includes members from Biden districts as you suggest, and also members planning to retire. I’d toss in Newhouse (WA) too. He already survived voting to impeach Trump. Valadeo (CA) did also, but he’s already in the Biden-district basket.
Jackie
@Alison Rose: Patrick McHenry is a shitty man no matter how tall he is. It’s like his shittiness is condensed.
espierce
@Jay:
If you look up “Small Man Syndrome”, there’s a photo of Ron DeSantis.
mrmoshpotato
@Mousebumples: In any event, the Astros should be stripped of their 2017 title.
Alison Rose
@Major Major Major Major: LOL it was 92 here today. This is “fall” in the Bay Area. Thanks, I hate it.
BruceFromOhio
@Jay: Some rube commenter from Fire Dog Lake, I think.
Shalimar
@Jay: George Santos has already been Speaker twice. He should let someone else take a turn.
Alison Rose
@Lyrebird: Well, the shortness thing isn’t usually used as an insult against women, and I say that as a 5’0″ adult woman. People might make lighthearted jokes or they might infantilize you, but they don’t act like you’re less of a woman because you’re short. But a lot of people do think it makes a man not a “real man” if he’s below a certain height.
Jackie
@Geminid: Newhouse is my 🤮 congressman and our county is deep red MAGA country. He will never vote for Jeffries – that would guarantee being primaried.
frosty
@Alison Rose: Thank you.
eversor
AOC must lurk here as I used pool noodles earlier!
Chetan Murthy
@Alison Rose:
As a short guy, I can confirm. Life is easier for tall men, and no amount of bitching will change that fact.
frosty
@steppy: Yes, Dad was getting a MS at Penn’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering in the late 40s, when ENIAC was there. He was a user, not a programmer. Although there wasn’t a lot of difference then.
mvr
@Major Major Major Major: The sprinklers keep the plants from freezing.
frosty
@mrmoshpotato: What, no love for the Orioles?
Jay
@Trucmat:
I am not tall, I am average. Over the years, I have met far more small men using what power they have to be assholes, than giants, in every place I have worked.
But it’s only applied after the fact that they have proved they are assholes.
So, basically, you are agreeing with McHenry’s kicking Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi out of her office today and changing the locks, with no notice, when she is away and cannot respond?
mvr
@Another Scott: Yes, that was the idea. Thanks for explaining how it works.
Geminid
@Jackie: If you live in his district then you must know that Newhouse has already been primaried from the right, last year because he voted to impeach Trump. Newhouse won, and it wasn’t especially close. How would this be any different?
But I did not say that Newhouse would vote for Jeffries. He might vote for Tom Reed though. This is why I raise the scenario that Don Bacon floated earlier this year.
Yarrow
Mullin is Markwayne Mullin (R-OK). They are tearing each other apart. Popcorn!
NotMax
@Ken
Who knows? Drenched in enough butter and garlic, perhaps you can.
;)
Trucmat
@Lyrebird:
I should say that I respect both Sumner and Marshall. I’m sure they are decent people but are being assholes regarding male height.
I emailed Marshall a ways back when he kept referring to DeSantis as “Lil Ron” among other height jabs. He responded by asking if I was serious … well yeah I am serious. I didn’t get a response to my reply to him but I see he lately has been using “Meatball Ron”. I am actually not sure what that one’s about but am glad he moved on.
Sumner’s diary today spawned a response diary that made the rec list asking to please stop using height as an insult. Both the original and the response diary spawned shit shows in the comments with insults flying.
To put this in perspective, I know as an aging short white man I do not have it as bad as others who can’t hide their genes. Still, I see it as bigotry that has actual negative consequences and feel I need to call it out.
… Thanks for the supportive comments btw. Appreciated.
Cameron
@Yarrow: Markwayne? Is that supposed to be the educated version of Jimbob or Cletuslee?
Trucmat
@Jay:
I can’t imagine what Patrick McHenry’s actions have to do with whether making fun of his height is appropriate political commentary or whether it is bigotry.
Regarding your experience with short men I guess that explains your attitude about whether it is ok to use height as humor and for insults. Short men have been mean to you and you want payback.
Geminid
@Jay: How does differing with you on this question constitute an endorsement of McHenry’s actions towards Nancy Pelosi?
NotMax
@Jay
From People Will Talk, “You’re a little man“
phdesmond
@frosty:
a bit of history!
Alison Rose
@Jay: Wait, why do you think the other commenter is agreeing with McHenry’s actions or politics because they said we shouldn’t mock short men for being short?
Brachiator
Libertarians, laissez faire economics conservatives and Republican hard liners. Their ideology leads them to believe in a minimal federal government even if it leads to pain and suffering for citizens. Conversely, these people also believe in an intrusive maximal state government, especially governments which oppress women.
Jay
@Trucmat:
Nice try.
When someone proves that they are an absolute asshole, everything is fair game.
Do you wear lifts like TIFG or DeathSantis?
The Thin Black Duke
Some slurs are hard to let go.
Geminid
@Jay: I think you should stop digging.
mvr
@Geminid:
Wisdom this.
Cameron
Hey, some people get twisty about religion, some people get twisty about height…who among us doesn’t have a treasured unreasonable prejudice?
Lyrebird
Ah, thanks for the context.
I’m still not a big fan, fwiw, and other than using the color orange in “Orange Menace” I try to avoid commenting on the well known defendant’s appearance.
One of my parents campaigned for Barney Frank when he was going from the state house to Congress, way back when I was small, so we might have biases there. (He’s not particularly short or tall, but overweight with ill-fitting suits, yes.) One of the smartest, most effective Representatives ever, I think.
Jay
@Alison Rose:
McHenry is being mocked for being an asshole and standing on a box at a press conference/photo op to try to make himself appear taller.
We mocked Bobert for her recent “enhancements”, Gym Jordan well, for everything, TIFG for the orange, lifts, suits, combover, tie, speech patterns, and more, Matt Gaetz for having a Thunderbirds Are A Go head,
So when an asshole shows that they are an asshole, why shouldn’t we mock their bow tie?
So, where is the line?
SFAW
@frosty:
Little-known factoid: ENIAC’s original full (i.e., unabbreviated) name was Electronic Algorithmic Integrator And Computer. Not sure why it was changed from “Algorithmic” to “Numerical”; maybe they were anticipating the anti-Muslim hysteria of the 2000s?
Alison Rose
@Jay: Everything is fair game?
Really? Everything?
So what if instead of being short, McHenry, or any other GOPer, had a physical disability? What if he had dwarfism? What if he’d had a limb amputated? Is it okay to mock Greg Abbott for using a wheelchair?
And you said everything, so…if some liberals started using the N word against Tim Scott, that would be okay? If they said Nikki Haley should be sexually assaulted, that would be okay? I’m just trying to determine if you really mean “everything” and if you do, then holy damn, you need to do some fucking work on yourself.
CCL
@Major Major Major Major:
If I think there’s a chance of light frost or a dip in temperature that is not conducive to healthy plants, I just take some empty pots ( big enough not to crush the plants) and put them over the individual plants. If the plants are too big or you don’t have empty pots, you could just use plastic garbage bags.
Shalimar
@Jay: The line is where you mock all people who are short, which they can do nothing about. Standing on a box could be about vanity and trying to appear taller,but it could also be about needing the box to reach the microphone, which isn’t one of his many horrible faults. McHenry is a terrible person. You can find dozens of other ways to demonstrate it.
Old Dan and Little Ann
As Garfield once said, “I am not short. I am under tall.”
NotMax
@SFAW
Because EAIAC is more like the cry one utters upon painfully stubbing a big toe?
;)
Ken
@NotMax: I thought it was the name of Old MacDonald’s cow?
SFAW
@NotMax:
No.
Suzanne
@Yarrow: EWWWWWWW, that’s fuckin’ NASTY.
Bill
@Suzanne: mine were forgiven recently under pslf. Took a long time and lots of paperwork but recommend Mohela for servicer they were fine to work with and better then the previous
NotMax
Ken
Now, now. Frau MacDonald may not have been a looker….
//
Cameron
@Suzanne: But it does sound in character very much, doesn’t it?
Alison Rose
@Jay: Boebert had sacks of jelly shoved into her tits. That is different than just being short. TIFG has an extremely weird obsession with his own looks and obviously cares deeply about pretending he is conventionally handsome, so the jokes about his bronzer and weird hair are not so much about “he is less of a man because he has weird hair” but more “this ignoramus thinks this looks good and it really doesn’t”. With both of them, these things are choices they made and things they did to themselves.
We did talk about how Matt Gaetz has an odd face, but in a “that’s an odd face” way, not saying “the reason you are bad is because you have an odd face”. There is no deeply ingrained history of claiming a man is less of a man because he has an oddly shaped face. Gaetz could be the hottest bitch to ever walk the Earth, and he would still suck. If all the posts on this blog about him were not about his politics and actions and trafficking teen girls but instead were just like “LOL his face”, I would be annoyed by that.
A LOT OF men get a lot of shit over being short. Yes, some of them compensate for that by being assholes, but I can guarantee that most of those ones would be assholes anyway. One or two offhand comments like “maybe he should borrow Ron’s boots” might be one thing. But as the original commenter notes, every time some people talk about him, they make fun of his height. Which is not only dumb, it’s fucking boring. We get it. He’s short. He has always been and will always be.
When TIFG claimed his weight was 215, I rolled my eyes because it’s obviously not. But I’ve never loved how much some people love to focus on his size, because when you mock a shitty person for being fat, any good person you know who is fat hears you, and you can’t say “Oh it’s okay, I don’t think you’re bad for being fat, only these people over here”. If you think being fat is something worthy of insulting, that means all fat people. If you think being short is something worthy of insulting, that means all short people. There are so many other things to slam them with that are worthy of derision. It’s not like we’re so low on legit attack avenues that we have to go bottom of the barrel here.
HumboldtBlue
@Mousebumples:
@japa21:
Youse can join Betty on the “teams that just got knocked out of the Wild Card round.”
Go Phightin’s!
mrmoshpotato
@frosty:
It would be great to see the O’s win it all. I was just focusing on tonight’s games.
Jay
@Alison Rose:
Gotcha, Now I Understand The Ass Hole Rules,
no comments on sex or sexuality,
no comments on height, weight, hair, physical shape, age, (except for Binden, because he’s oooooold)
no comments on criminality until convicted,
no comments on cognitive tests, heels, wardrobe,
no comments about hanging out with Nazi’s,
no comments on grifting until convicted,
no comments on their comments,
no comments on not holding Town Halls, (they might have agoraphobia)
policy, constituent services and votes only.
Trucmat
@Jay:
No I don’t wear lifts. I used to wear hiking boots occasionally to get an extra inch over my sneakers though. Helped when standing next to guys in cowboy boots with their height-enhancing heels. Actually pretty comfortable with my own body but just sick and tired and .. sick and tired and … sick and fucking tired of it. I have a grandson who deals with this shit and I’m sick of it for his sake too.
Jay
@Shalimar:
It’s an adjustable mike, (that lowers to 24 inches) and there were soundmen there with boom mikes,
so yeah, no.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: No amount of garlic butter will change the foamy texture of a pool noodle.
Jay
@Alison Rose:
as many people have pointed out over the years, McHenry is a mean, vengeful bastard* and mostly useless in the House.
*that part hasn’t been proven.
HumboldtBlue
And I’ll mock that angry little Keebler elf all fucking day for being a short, whiny, little punk-ass bitch of a man. Fuck him, fuck his height, fuck his little Keebler elf shoes and his little fucking bow tie. He’s a shit human being, and I’m not gonna spare a fucking decent thought for him, the short, tiny, little fucking traitor.
West of the Rockies
@Cameron:
Do not get me started on Romulans…
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
“It’s a treasured family recipe we serve every St. Swithin’s Day. Ready for seconds?”
//
Alison Rose
@Jay: Oh for the love of God. Are you drunk?
Fine, let’s go point by point.
“no comments on sex or sexuality” UM YES CORRECT. We should not be attacking anyone for their gender or sexual orientation. What the fuck?
“no comments on height, weight, hair, physical shape, age” In general, I do wish we could avoid this kind of thing, but there is a difference, as I said above, in laughing at TIFG’s weird hair versus, for example, mocking a woman who shaved her head because she had alopecia or something.
“no comments on criminality until convicted” Where the hell is this coming from? No one here has said anything like that.
“no comments on cognitive tests, heels, wardrobe” Um, one of these things is not like the others. TIFG’s stupid test, sure, because it was obviously made up. Ron’s boots, sure, because they looked silly. Wardrobe in general, fine, make jokes about someone’s ugly tie, that’s hardly a cruel attack
“no comments about hanging out with Nazis” again where in the fuck are you pulling this out of? How are you equating us saying “don’t attack people for being short” with imagining that this means we can’t call out Nazis?
“no comments on grifting until convicted” again no one has said anything like this and no one here would
“no comments on their comments” I ask again, what the fuck?
“no comments on not holding Town Halls, they might have agoraphobia” I will be kind and assume you either didn’t read my GFM post here or forgot, but I have agoraphobia and it is fucking crippling and my life absolutely sucks because of it, so fuck off with using that example mockingly. If a person couldn’t hold Town Halls due to illness, then yeah, don’t fucking make fun of that
“policy, constituent services, and votes only” You have come up with all of this out of thin air because we said, hey maybe don’t make so many short jokes.
Step the hell away from the keyboard, touch some grass, and try to think about why you are needing to be this exaggerated and this ridiculous in defending your stance.
Yarrow
@Cameron: Markwayne is his name. I can’t really fault people for having a name their parents gave them. I don’t get it but it seems to be his name.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Yarrow: So Gaetz is getting Cawthorne’d
mrmoshpotato
@Jay: Dude, take back Shithead Ted. Seriously. You fucking deserve that smarmy asshole.
Yarrow
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Looks like.
HumboldtBlue
Wow, someone on CNN is making sense.
“Perhaps the issue isn’t actually Democrats.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Yarrow: I wonder if some unofficial reports from the ethics investigation/s will leak some time in the next week
Jay
@mrmoshpotato:
Not gonna do it. We have our first African Canadian Speaker, and our first Indigenous Premier, in the Province that was Metis and Indigenous majority into the 1940’s.
Ted’s yours.
Cancun might offer you a deal.
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: Bravo! Who is that speaking truth to assholes? (I don’t follow CNN.)
Lyrebird
@Trucmat:
I should hang up my hat for tonight, pardon weak wording:
Thanks for posting. This stuff will be an issue for one of my kiddos, so I have all the more reason to root for your grandson.
Jackie
Alexandria Petri has a great article up!
Jay
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366553435/Top-science-journal-faced-secret-attacks-from-Covid-conspiracy-theory-group
Jackie
@Old Dan and Little Ann: I always say “I’m not short; I’m perfectly petite.”
Suzanne
@Cameron: Oh, it is absolutely believable.
mrmoshpotato
@Jay: Ok then. Then just stop being an asshole.
wombat probability cloud
@Major Major Major Major: An old towel or light blanket works well to provide insulation. The soil retains warmth around the nestled plants. We do this with basil and peppers when it gets below 40F because they are more sensitive than most of what we grow.
wjca
But at least it’s supposed to be 25 – 30 degrees cooler next week. I’m more than ready.
NotMax
@Old Dan and Little Ann
“That’s why Sony products are better.”
:)
Jackie
@HumboldtBlue:
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Viva BrisVegas
@trucmat: Whoever came up with the abomination that is MM/DD should be burned at the stake. Slowly.
Jay
@mrmoshpotato:
forgot the rules, no mention of Cruz/Cancun as it’s not constituent services, policies or votes.
Manyakitty
@Major Major Major Major: happy birthday Momo 😻
For your peppers, if you think it might warm up again, you can cover them overnight.
cain
Right wing outlets are having some kind of manic attack about DHS Secretary saying something something about a need to build a border wall.
I’m pretty sure no sane person would ever want to build some kind of border wall. So, I’m sure it’s been taken out of context and just being blasted all over the place. I haven’t seen anything anywhere else except Washington Times. Even Fox News hasn’t said anything- just Ted Cruz .. well being Ted Cruz.
The Thin Black Duke
Let it go, folks. It’s just a waste of oxygen now.
wjca
Not to make light of your experience. But if you have ever observed a tall person doing contortions trying to get into a “standard” size car, you may get a glimmer of why some of us say “The world is designed for short people.”
NotMax
@Viva BrisVegas
“Remember, remember, November fifth” has zero panache.
:)
wjca
Things like height (or race or gender) aren’t really within the control of the individual. But orange is a choice. Nothing wrong with being caustic about someone’s (bad) choices.
Cameron
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1473909789461636/permalink/2290048231181117/
MisterForkbeard
@cain: I did see a Twitter link to a fox article. Didn’t follow it because I assumed it was out of context BS.
Cameron
@NotMax: Have you ever even tried to drink a fifth of November?
NotMax
@Cameron
I don’t remember.
::rimshot::
Cameron
@NotMax: !
frosty
@SFAW: Probably because EAIAC wasn’t as easy to say as ENIAC.
frosty
Dead thread but … from my perspective he ain’t short. At my last college reunion I listened to a friend wail that because of aging he’s not 6’2″ any more, he’s only 6’0″. My response? “Fuck you, you had it to lose.!”
AlaskaReader
@Major Major Major Major: Row covers can both give one peace of mind and save crops if a surprise freeze occurs.
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@Alison Rose: Oh hai! ::waves from North Tyneside::
AlaskaReader
@Major Major Major Major: To expand on the choice to employ row covers as opposed to covering plants overnight with impermeable bags or pots, row covers can remain on the plants day and night, where the bags and pots must be twice a day taken off and put back on or they will damage the plants if not removed.
Jay
@Alison Rose:
BTW, Darrel is my climbing partner. 5′ 2″.
We have been climbing together for 30 years now. He’s the guy on the other end of the rope that saves me from dying.
I tease him about his MMA career, (still do), not because of his size, weight or reach, but because he thought spending 6 months studying various martial arts, one month at a time, would work. It didn’t. My first year of Aikido taught me how to fall, and step.
When I lead climb, I take into account that he doesn’t have the reach, so I mark spots, but then, he has youth, (15 years) so yeah, we tease each other about that as well.
Nicest guy I know.
Michael, who I worked with for a decade, 5’4″ Asshole. Couldn’t keep the lights on in his assembly line, too busy blaming others and working on his MBA on Company Time. Learned recently that for the past 12 years, he is responsible for planning for housing for the unhoused in this Province. Which is and has been a shit show. Michael’s okay though. The house he bought at Deer Lake, (wife’s money) has gone from $1.2 million at the time, to $25.8 million. Asshole.
LiminalOwl
@Alison Rose: Thank you. And also, even more, for the follow-up at 106.
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose:
Wow, that was even better than the one I put up. Wish I had seen this one!
WaterGirl
@Scout211: Sadly, no. I tried everything on the list, no go.
At the moment, I have to use Chrome – which I hate – to view twitter. sniff sniff
So I am subjected to all sorts of obnoxious ads, because I keep Chrome without ad blockers only so I can go to it for things that block me because of the ad blockers.
WaterGirl
@Lyrebird: I agree, they have been around forever. I just don’t understand people who want to run for office, not to serve, but to destroy.
WaterGirl
@raven: It ebbed for a long time when you were on your mission to end it, but it has bubbled up again. I cringe, some people think it’s fun.
It’s gonna be what it’s gonna be.
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: It’s going to be 39 here this weekend, so I am harvesting all my remaining peppers tomorrow. But we are going to continue to have cold nights and highs of 60 degrees.
So there was no point in leaving them in place, they aren’t going to be doing any growing or ripening. If it’s a big dip and then back to much warmer, you are fine.
JAFD
I try hard not to insult people for things they have no control over – height, skin color, ethnicity (though if you tell me ‘dumb Polack’ jokes I’ll feel free to tell jokes obeut your background.) – or minimal choice – ’twas ‘libertarian Xwitter mockery in recent days “you support public schools but you went to privat school har har” – reply was made “should a choice made by, or for, a person at age 14 govern his opinions for the rest of his life ?”
WaterGirl
@Old Dan and Little Ann: I always liked the cartoon Kathy for her:
“My weight is perfect for my height, which varies.”
JAFD
@Yarrow: A few decades ago, I was good friends with a young lady who concluded, at age 23 (?), that her True Name was not Ellen (given to her at Very Young Age) but Elizabeth. Went thru the whole legal name-change process…
Was guest at big gathering of her family, in middle of this, with her being addressed by two different names. Is not easy process, even with maximum good will.
Paul in KY
@Alison Rose: Congrats on that!
Realworldrj
Lol
from the New York Times profile of Patrick McHenry two days back: “But over the last 18 years, Mr. McHenry has taken on a more low-profile role in the House, working behind the scenes and earning a reputation among other lawmakers for brainy wonkishness.
‘What changed for me was once I slowed down enough to respect the process and to respect the people that I served with in the institution,’ Mr. McHenry told the News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C., in 2017”
lollll
Paul in KY
@Ken: Good to know…
Paul in KY
@Alison Rose: Hear hear! (said by a 5’7″ dude)
Paul in KY
@Trucmat: Napoleon was 5’9″, which for his time period was at least average. The small stuff was created by British propaganda & newspapers to get under his skin.
Paul in KY
@Jay: Jeezus, give it a rest…