Trump supporters get their wish, Pence is suspended. https://t.co/X63gJPKbJi
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 28, 2023
C.R.E.A.M…
Pence might not have qualified for the next GOP debate. https://t.co/jOkgwoNvtU
— David Karol (@DKarol) October 28, 2023
Trigger warning: Snark to keep from sobbing:
BREAKING: Maine shooting suspect Robert Card has been found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, multiple law enforcement sources tell ABC News.
Read more: https://t.co/TiNASO34BR pic.twitter.com/kunog6uK7E
— ABC News (@ABC) October 28, 2023
The most basic and popular gun control laws would have prevented this guy from taking down the shooter – really makes you think
— yenwoda (@yenwoda) October 28, 2023
WhatsMyNym
I had completely forget that Pence was running for president.
Odie Hugh Manatee
I thought Gawd told Mikey to run? So was Gawd just yanking Mikey’s chain for shits & giggles? Mikey is probably happy about this because he’s tired of dragging Mother all over the place to keep women safe from him.
Or is it the other way around? So many questions and really, who wants the answers? Not me.
eclare
Not too soon….happens way too often.
HumboldtBlue
There are celebrations in South Africa after the Boks won the Rugby World Cup.
eclare
@HumboldtBlue:
Wow that’s loud. Are those vuvuzelas?
HumboldtBlue
@eclare:
Car horns and vuvuzelas.
West of the Rockies
@WhatsMyNym:
As did most of America.
satby
@eclare: Frustrated death by cop had to DIY instead.
eclare
@satby:
It does seem like that was his intent. Just pissed he had to fuck up a few dozen families on his way out.
sab
@HumboldtBlue: My local state university is dismal in all sports except for track and soccer. They excel at both, soccer mostly because we welcome immigrants. A lot of our immigrants are Africans. So we (including me) believe that vuvuzelas are an important part of soccer fandom.
sab
@Odie Hugh Manatee: My husband keeps reminding me that in 2016 God supposedly told twelve of the thirteen Republican candidates to run. And the thirteenth guy won.
Geminid
@WhatsMyNym: Pence’s announcement reminds me of when Bill DeBlasio dropped out of the congressional primary that Dan Goldman won last year. People barely noticed when the former Mayor quit
A CBS radio report last night said Pence had run out of money. I guess it was his campaign treasurer, not God, who told him it was time to quit.
NobodySpecial
So do we describe it as his campaign being suspended?
Or is he just hanging around hoping for another VP slot? Seems a bit of a stretch. Oh well, slow noose day, I guess.
(Sorry, my dark humor got really well developed under Trump.)
p.a.
Given the complete, absolute evidence from every day of his adult life that Pence is a piece of shit, his action on 1/6/21 may actually be evidence of a higher force. Of course, where was this force on 11/21/2016?
Tony Jay
Chandler Bing drowns in a hot tub. A hockey player gets killed by having his throat cut open on the ice. Tyson Fury handed very dodgy win after being decked by first time boxer. And now Mike Pence is denied the chance to renew America’s relationship with Unwoke White Jeebus.
On balance, I think I’ll just stay in bed until the football.
mrmoshpotato
@sab:
Weren’t there 17 piles that ran in the 2016 GOP shitshow in a clown car?
lowtechcyclist
11/21/2016? Two weeks after the 2016 election?
mrmoshpotato
@Tony Jay:
Go Bears! :)
p.a.
@lowtechcyclist: sorry, couldn’t remember exact date, too lazy Sunday morning to check.
Is it 1st or 2nd Tues in Nov?
mrmoshpotato
@p.a.: First Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
11/8 in 2016.
lowtechcyclist
@p.a.:
Ah, you mean Election Day itself.
It’s the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. So between 11/2 and 11/8, inclusive. (It was 11/8 in 2016.)
ETA: Beaten to it by mrmoshpotato.
Geminid
It’s a big day in Turkiye, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic. It looks like they had a nice sunny day for it. Ragip Soylu (@ragipsoylu) posted video of the ceremony in Ankara. A couple of soldiers on shiny helmets laid a wreath on the steps of Kemal Ataturk’s Mausoleum, and President Erdogan leaned over and straightened out the ribbon.
Then he made a brief address inside the building. Turkish is not an Indo-European language, and it sounds as strange as it reads.
hueyplong
Not “too soon” because if you wait a “decent” period of time one or two other shootings will have taken place and the shooting in question will be “old” news.
As with gay rights, 2A idiocy will only be overcome when most Americans know someone/have someone in the family who has been shot.
Joey Maloney
For legal reasons – if the campaign is “suspended” he can still fundraise in order to pay off debts the campaign has incurred.
Geminid
@Geminid: The Turkish Republic was founded a year after Ireland won its Independence. Irish diplomat L.H. Kenney wrote a congratulatory letter to the new Republic that began with a poke at a common enemy:
Mr. Kenney went on to commend the Turkish Republic for having defeated British attempts to dismantle what is now Turkiye, after the Ottoman Empire was defeated in WWI.
edgefigaro
@mrmoshpotato:
Join the Bagency! Bear down!
mrmoshpotato
@Joey Maloney: Grift grift grift your boat down the money stream.
Geminid
It’s another unseasonably warm day in Central Virginia. Tomorrow will be also, with a projected high of 81°. Tuesday’s high will be 55°.
zhena gogolia
@p.a.: The higher force is Dan Quayle?
Tony G
@Odie Hugh Manatee: “Mother”, of course, was the name of the computer in “Alien”. There are no coincidences, man!
Ken
@zhena gogolia: Ah yes, the days when we thought the Republicans had found in Quayle the dumbest Indiana man who would ever serve as VP.
satby
@hueyplong: Most Americans do know somebody who has died from gun violence, but as they’re suicides or domestic murder-suicides, the danger to others from the free availability of guns doesn’t register.
SFAW
@sab:
Well, naturally — the fans need something to help them stay awake during a game.
Tony G
@hueyplong: I’m not sure that that would even make a difference with these people. I personally know a young gun-fetishist. I suspect that, if his sister or girlfriend were to be tragically shot and killed, it would inspire him to buy more buns and ammunition.
SFAW
@Geminid:
Quit whining. The semi-extended forecast here (central MA) is predicting snow showers this Wednesday.
ETA: Of course, this comes from WeatherUnderground, so the likelihood of it being correct is, shall we say, questionable.
Tony G
@Geminid: Actually, for these theocrats, wealthy donors are their true Gods. If donors forsake them, that causes a real crisis of faith.
Tony G
@Tony G: guns and ammunition, not buns. (Freudian slip?)
Eunicecycle
@Tony G: I had an Econ professor that used to say “buns and gutters” instead of guns and butter.
mrmoshpotato
@SFAW:
Hater.
SFAW
@Eunicecycle:
Sounds like the professor was spoon-feeding the class?
Tony Jay
@mrmoshpotato:
What happens between a man and his furry friends is a magical secret that is best kept that way.
Apparently Liverpool striker Luis Diaz might not be playing today because his father has been kidnapped back in Colombia. 😳 Liam Neeson has been unavailable for comment, but apparently the matter is well in hand.
SFAW
@mrmoshpotato:
Hater? Because I question the site’s accuracy? Having lived through a number of their ex post facto “amendments” to their predictions, probably not.
Although it says something about me that I keep checking the site.
Geminid
@Tony G: That’s an interesting way if looking at it: Prosperity Gospel meets Karl Rove.
I haven’t heard much out of Rove lately. Maybe he’s writing a book about how to rebuild the Republican Party, for publication in 2025. He could be writing a parallel book titled,”I knew We Could Do It!” in case Trump wins next year.
Ken
@Geminid: I doubt he’s bothering with the parallel book; he’ll just use whichever title is appropriate. It’s not like anyone is ever going to read the thing — it will be bought in bulk by some conservative PAC, stuffed into the giveaway bags at a conference, and dumped in the donation bins of a bunch of innocent local libraries when the attendees get home.
Geminid
@Ken: Rove is a frustrated political architect. Twenty years ago, he thought that he and his party had designed a potentially permanent majority. Then his boss blew it all with his calamitous invasion of Iraq.
sdhays
My favorite reaction to Mike Dense announcing that he was aborting his campaign were the calls to force him to carry it to term.
sdhays
Unfortunately, even that may not be enough. Steve “David Duke without the ‘baggage’” Scalise was himself shot and it didn’t change his political position at all.
RevRick
@Ken: The fact that Quayle and Pence were VPs, Sarah Palin was a nominee, and W andTrump were actually Presidents casts a harsh light on all the whispering campaigns questioning VP Harris’ abilities.
I would feel far safer and more confident with Kamala’s hands holding the Presidency than any of the yahoos the GOP spat on us who were actual or potential Presidents. The glaring rank incompetence (and in Trump’s case, the fascist viciousness) of them all!
Meanwhile, you can be damn sure that President Biden is preparing Kamala in every possible way.
There’s both an ideological and competence gap between the two parties.
Frank Wilhoit
@mrmoshpotato:
There was a young man of St. Giles
Who suffered acutely from piles.
They compelled him to flit,
For it pained him to sit;
So his age was computed in miles.
RAM
The classic “good guy with a gun” takes down the “bad guy with a gun,” I guess. Too bad about what happened in the middle, but thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers.
Glidwrith
@RAM: You realize it’s the same person?
Uncle Cosmo
To those accustomed to Indo-European languages. I putzed around a bit with Turkish after spending 17 days there in 1996, and its internal logic is interesting – fairly complex concepts can often be express by a single very long word. And it’s not nearly as tough as it looks – like Hungarian, it’s full of postpositions (rather than prepositions) and while there are usually two or four forms of each postposition, they are all simply variations of the vowels to agree with those in the root (open or closed, front or back).
One attractive feature is that there is one, count ’em, one irregular noun in the entire language – su, the word for water.
I wish I had time to putz around further, it might be fun.
mrmoshpotato
@SFAW: I’m joking. Lighten up, Francis.
wjca
They used to be pretty good. Then IBM bought them. Just sayin’
unctuous
Dayum. That’s a lot of hemorrhoids.
Hemorrhoids on the ass of the body politic.