The pestilent swarm of locusts plaguing Iowa and New Hampshire is migrating to Florida. The GOP’s 2024 presidential candidates and loads of local hangers-on will descend on the Gaylord Palms Resort in Kissimmee tomorrow for the Florida Freedom Summit.
All-access VIP tickets are still available for just $15K a pop! And on Wednesday, the 3rd GOP candidates debate will take place in Miami, with Trump holding a counterprogramming rally in nearby Hialeah.
With any luck, the flailing Ron DeSantis campaign will experience further humiliation right here in his home state. The bully has been knocked on his ass for the entire playground to see, and former toadies are lining up to kick him in the slats.
Remember the Defector investigation of Ron’s “stupid, ugly boots” that I highlighted for y’all a while back? The boots question has subsequently exploded across the media landscape, drawing scrutiny from late night hosts and outlets like Forbes and Politico.
DeSantis was asked about it on a podcast the other day and gave an unconvincing denial. He plumbed new depths of cringe last night during a Newsmax interview when asked about Trump’s online #BOOTGATE taunts: (Daily Beast)
“I know Donald Trump and a lot of his people have been focusing on things like footwear,” DeSantis said. “I’ll tell you this: If Donald Trump can summon the balls to show up to the debate, I’ll wear a boot on my head.”
Insinuating that Trump lacks balls was a promising start for a candidate in a party that spars over dick size in national debates, but “I’ll wear a boot on my head”? Good gourd, how can anyone be so bad at this?
Meanwhile, Trump has more humiliations in store, according to an NBC News article that’s titled “Trump is aiming to take over Ron DeSantis’ base of power in the Florida GOP.”
The Republican Party of Florida that Ron DeSantis built is now turning Donald Trump’s way.
Pardon the interruption, but that framing is all kinds of wrong. It’s true that DeSantis harnessed the GOP supermajority in the statehouse to pass lots of lib-owning legislation that doesn’t withstand court scrutiny. He’s put lots of cronies in place to co-opt state institutions like the departments of health and education, etc. He’s turned the state into an authoritarian banana republic, and that sucks.
But DeSantis didn’t build the state’s Repub Party, which has monopolized power here since the turn of the century. One of the few true claims Donald Trump ever uttered was that he made DeSantis, who was a backbench nobody. And now Trump intends to unmake him:
Trump allies in the state are organizing an effort to flip Republican lawmakers from DeSantis endorsers to Trump. Two sources familiar with the effort said as many as six could come out for Trump as early as next week.
The move is scheduled to coincide with this Saturday’s Florida Freedom Summit, which will feature all of the major Republican presidential candidates and shine a national spotlight on the state.
The sources said that details are still being finalized but that they’re aiming for an announcement about Florida state-level elected Republicans’ moving away from DeSantis for next week. In addition to the summit, the third Republican presidential debate (hosted by NBC News) is being held in Miami next Wednesday.
“It’s coming,” the source familiar with the changes said. “Exact number not yet said, but it will be close to 10.”
Trump is keynoting the Florida Freedom Summit event, whereas DeSantis is relegated to an afternoon speaking slot like a common Doug Burgum. Trump is also throwing a post-debate “Republican leadership” shindig at his South Florida dump, where he will likely crow about how he got Repubs who head up the Green Swamp District book banning consortium, Okeechobee alligator mitigation office and Crabby Key mosquito control to un-endorse DeSantis in favor of Trump.
With any luck, the state-level fallout from the DeSantis implosion will inspire blood feuds and backstabbing for generations of Repubs to come. But honestly, I’m not sure DeSantis won’t simply sink without a ripple.
Open thread.
Mr. Bemused Senior
Alison Rose
Is he going to find a boot wide enough that he can pull the top of it over his head, like a pointy-toed Klan hood? Or is he going to balance the sole of the boot atop his scalp the whole time and give us a “girls in finishing school walking with a stack of books on their head” meme?
Frankensteinbeck
DeSantis hit back! Too little, too late, but it’s still a milestone in his candidacy and ability to emulate humans!
Roberto el oso
@Alison Rose: The white rubber go-go boots might stretch enough to fit over the top of his empty noggin. The real question is: toe facing forward or back?
Josie
If Trump had an ounce of humor in his soul, he would show up just to force this ridiculous man to adorn himself with a boot. Unfortunately for the rest of us, however,……
smith
2023 has not been overly fun, but the ritual humiliation of both Ron DeSantis and Jim Jordan in the same year has at least provided some light relief.
Alison Rose
@Roberto el oso: Facing back would be more aerodynamic.
SoupCatcher
Hm, let’s see if we can fix this with a rewrite…
“I’ll tell you this: If Donald Trump can summon the balls to show up to the debate,
I’ll wear a boot on my headthey’ll meet my boots. What’s he going to do? Waddle out of the way? Pull down his combover and hide behind it? Block me with his tiny hands?”Eh, probably need to workshop this some more.
cckids
It seems almost poetically fitting that the acronym for this blessed event is FFS.
snoey
Vermin Supreme already wears the head boot. DeSantis needs to find his own schtck.
Mr. Bemused Senior
If Trump had any class he’d show up carrying a boot.
Chief Oshkosh
With only a lone, white plastic boot popping up to disturb the now-tranquil waters.
kindness
How will Republicans handle a felony convicted Trump come election day next year? No, Trump won’t be in prison (sadly). He’ll appeal everything all the way up to the Supreme Court. But without a doubt he will stand as a convicted felon from at least one of the venues on election day. Fox & Trump will say it’s all a political witchhunt, but will that fly with Ma & Pa average American?
Scout211
Latest news from Eastman’s disbarment hearing. Yes, it still is going on. From Kyle Cheney at Politico.
It’s actually a good roundup of the disbarment hearing proceedings.
Bold added.
Alison Rose
@Mr. Bemused Senior: With this song playing as he walked in.
Baud
DeSantis is a
buttheadboothead.Scott
I want to see this from Nikki Haley: The only one on this stage that has balls is me!
Villago Delenda Est
The demise of Ron DeathSentence has resulted in my primary Schadenfreude meter being taken off line for emergency maintenance and the backup being tested, hard, by pegging.
Ejoiner
Been lightly following the Trump Org case ( or penalty hearing, I guess) and it’s gotten totally bonkers with Trump’s lawyers attacking the judge and, yes, going after the court clerk AGAIN!
You can follow it live on Dailykos, but…it’s turning into a complete meltdown for the Trump family. It’ll make a very compelling Netflix/Apple/Max series one day!
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Alison Rose: :-)
wjca
I expect he can find some old crotch-high boots from half a century ago that would be big enough without stretching. Although they might droop over to one side.
West of the Rockies
It is sooo delightful watching the failure and humiliation DeSantis so richly deserves lapping over him (like gelatinous diarrhea overwhelming a sewer rat).
He is such a chest-puffed, two-bit bully, and his dreary wife is probably shrieking that, “It’s so unfair! Why is this happening to us? Don’t they know who we are?”
Shana
Isn’t tRump also rumored to wear lifts? Perhaps they could both get measured in their stocking feet. I know but a girl can dream
smith
@Scout211: Meidas Touch just reported that the judge in his disbarment case has found Eastman culpable, so I guess the hearing now goes to a penalty phase. It won’t make much difference if (when) he loses his law license because he’ll be in prison, but at least it should dent his big ol’ self-regard as a “constitutional scholar.”
cmorenc
IMO the DeSantis plan B for continuing his 2024 campaign in the face of Trump’s seemingly impregnable lead is to position himself as the potential front-runner in 2028, when the winner of a 2024 Biden v Trump rematch would be termed out from running in 2028, and the loser of the rematch will likely be poorly positioned from another run. Polling of the 2024 GOP electorate does not indicate DeSantis is losing by a wide margin to Trump because of dislike of DeSantis so much as they like Trump way more as their potential nominee this time around.
Chris Johnson
@Villago Delenda Est: So was Ron!
Betty Cracker
@cmorenc: It’s possible that the longer DeSantis stays in the race and takes incoming brickbats from Trump and his toadies, the less likely DeSantis is to win a future nomination. In a party that prizes dominance, he’s getting thoroughly dominated in an ugly, embarrassing way. Donors see it too.
Brachiator
@Frankensteinbeck:
It’s not hitting back. It’s more a weak, pathetic flail. But keep in mind that Chris Christie’s much sharper jabs have been equally ineffective.
DeSantis simply wasn’t ready for the big leagues. He was also misled by the early puffery he got from the fawning political media.
Raoul Paste
@Baud: i’ve just been released from the hospital, recovering at home. There’s nothing like the reliable low rent humour from Baud to bring a smile to your face.
JaySinWA
Phrasing or TMI?
JaySinWA
I’m sure it will be facing [far] right.
zhena gogolia
@Raoul Paste: I hope your recovery goes well! Baud seems to be away and just visiting us in swift lightning strikes now and then.
smith
While we’re on the subject of DeSantis’ political malpractice, he just endorsed Tuberville’s “screw the military” nonsense, just as the Rs in the Senate are turning against it and as the conflict in the Middle East is top news. Way to read the room, there, Ron.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@Brachiator:
Yes, but Christie is a bitter, disgraced, former toadie. Whatever dominant asshole cred he built up before Trump got torn down in service to Trump. The more subtle jabs Haley has been landing have been more effective. However, we all know she’d be lucky to be VP material in the GOP.
PaulWartenberg
If you don’t want to attend the GOP HellFest this Saturday, there’s a perfectly good NaNoWriMo Write-In gathering at the Jackson Branch library in Lakeland FL just off of I-4. Exit 32, getting onto US-98, and then about a mile south on the right-hand side past the Home Depot/McDs. It’s open from 10A-4P.
Frankensteinbeck
@Brachiator:
Chris Christie is a nobody to the Republican primary voting base. He’s been out of the news too long and what hard white supremacy chops does he have? If he ever had any, nobody remembers them. Everyone but DeSantis and Nikki Haley are nobodies. DeSantis now has irrevocable loser stink and Nikki Haley exists solely so that a few Republicans can say “See? We’re not bigots! We totally would vote for a brown woman!” until there’s even the slightest possibility she wins the nom and nobody will vote for her anymore.
Villago Delenda Est
@smith: So in addition to being a fascist twit, he’s a buddy fucker. Gosh, I am so surprised.
smith
@Villago Delenda Est: Of course, we’ve recently learned that Alabama Senator Tuberville actually lives in Florida, so maybe Ron’s just supporting a constituent.
Trivia Man
@JaySinWA: No kink shaming from me
;)
Jackie
This looks like the perfect thread to post about the perils of being a MAGA “Lady”!
This entire article is almost, but not quite BettyCracker worthy😁
There’s too many links highlighted to post the “extra good” parts, but def worth reading the entire article. The author, Amanda Marcotte of Salon, let loose the snark!
Tony Jay
Oh, come on. That’s not real.
Show some restraint, Florida!
@Josie:
If he wants to really twist the knife he should send over one of the idiot sons to deliver a white ballet shoe or something equally belittling.
“My father’s too busy winning the Republican nomination by 50 points to waste time on Ron Desanctimonious, but since I was in the neighbourhood I said I’d drop off a little something for Ron to slip his tiny little foot into. That’s what you get with the Trumps. We deliver.”
cmorenc
@Betty Cracker: Agree – I didn’t say that DeSantis is being smart about whether continuing to stay in the 2024 race despite Trump’s continuing dominance actually helps him toward 2028 (for the reason you state – Trump is “dominating” him the chest-thumping apes dominance contest for the 2024 race). Ditto regarding DeSantis’s ability to read and react other aspects of the political landscape in ways helpful to his ambitions. Nevertheless, DeSantis looking toward 2028 could well be his plan B for staying in.
Agree that for the good of the country, it would be better if he shits the bed so bad in 2024 that he trashes his 2028 prospects as well. However, even if DeSantis flames out so badly in 2024 that he has no viable 2028 prospects, there’s likely another equally or even more awful GOP howler monkey monster who will step forward in 2028 who will cause enough of the GOP electorate to swoon to be a serious prospect as a potential nominee.
Geminid
@cmorenc: I think DeSantis has alresdy marginilized himself for 2028. His last two years governing Florida will not be a success story. And a lot of big donors sank a lot of money into him this cycle only to see him piss it sway. They’ll be looking for a Youngkin or a Kemp to back next time.
Villago Delenda Est
@Geminid: Youngkin passes the Scalise test. All the same policy positions as the PAB without the baggage.
Frankensteinbeck
@Geminid:
Plus, he’ll be two years out of the news. Americans have short memories and his only strength was news coverage for his hideous bigoted acts as governor. He’ll be “DeSantis who?” by 2028 to the primary voters, same as the rest.
Villago Delenda Est
@Tony Jay: “A Trump always pays his debts. In his own imagination.”
Scout211
The obnoxious and arrogant privilege of these Trump and Trump-adjacent people in their various court proceedings . . . I just can’t even.
Ivanka claiming that she just cannot testify in New York because it’s in the middle of her children’s school week. Oh, that poor, low-income single mother who . . . Oh wait.
Eastman, that beleaguered constitutional scholar who claims that he is innocent of ethics violations because he added caveats to all of his unethical statements and actions. And he just didn’t even consider whether his legal opinion to a crowd of angry MAGAts on January 6th would have an effect on them. Ipso facto: innocent! Oh wait.
And Eric, yesterday and today (likely), I don’t recall saying those things that make me look guilty (that you now show me are written by me in an email). But I don’t recall, so I am totally innocent! Oh wait.
Of course these are just three of the latest examples. There are two many minions in the Trump camp to count who all seem to believe that their privilege makes them above the law.
Oh, and Loose Cannon has done what we all expected her to do. She just can’t see how the documents trial can possibly be tried next year. She is just a overworked, harried public servant who has no allegiance to anything other than the law. Oh wait.
Betty Cracker
@cmorenc: Good point about other monsters. I’ve watched DeSantis destroy so much in my state these past five years that it’s hard for me to imagine there are worse individuals for the job, but of course, Republicans can ALWAYS get worse.
smith
@Scout211: As soon as “Judge” Cannon pulls the trigger on moving her trial until after the election, Fani Willis will slide right in there with a May trial date in GA. That one is really dangerous — it will be televised and it will have a parade of self-admitted guilty co-conspirators testifying. If it even starts before the election it will be a nightmare for TFG.
Cannon may be trying to do a Hamlet on the trial date — to delay or not delay? — as long as she can, but either way she goes, the result is not good for the guy she’s trying to save.
lowtechcyclist
@Betty Cracker:
So true. Like peak wingnut never coming to pass, these guys will never hit bottom. They’ll dig right through the center of the earth, come out the other side, and with any luck propel themselves into outer space.
Our best hope is that they do enough damage to their brand that, between that and Fox News watchers/evangelical types aging into nursing homes and dirt naps, they finally become a more or less permanent minority party.
Ken
That has more than a whiff of Streisand Effect potential. I’d say there’s a good chance that we’ll find the chauffeur picks up the kids from their private school every day at 3, and delivers them back to the house where the live-in nanny takes over until bedtime.
cmorenc
@Scout211:
Because up until *very* recently, Trump and his minions have been able to successfully bulldoze or stonewall or leverage the legal system and anyone trying to challenge them or seek redress from harm they’ve inflicted on others.
Tony Jay
@Villago Delenda Est:
“A Trump always finds a mark to pay the interest on his debts”
brendancalling
@snoey: Maybe he can forcefeed a boot down a hunger-striker’s throat. He’s good at that!
But really he should just stay home and have Casey peg him, as usual.
Adding: Casey looks like Ron in drag. Same shaped eyes, head, and tiny jaw. No wonder these two narcissists are married!
JoyceH
@lowtechcyclist:
I wish there was more mainstream discussion about how low they already are. How is it that Trump can continue to post those deranged rants on his Dollar Store Twitter without someone with an audience pointing out that ‘this is not normal’? Forget normal behavior for a president or a candidate, this is not normal for a functional human being.
Scout211
Oopsie! TOO many minions.
Geoduck
@cmorenc: But DeSantis is term-limited in Florida, and he has to find some way to keep himself in the public eye for another four years. And yes, getting the Florida constitution changed so he can run again is presumably an option.
Soprano2
Since it’s an open thread and I haven’t seen it posted elsewhere on the blog, I wanted to highlight this awfulness from Idaho.
They didn’t use the trafficking law, but they used the exact language from it to charge these people. The absentee parents are alleging rape on the part of the 18-year-old who the 15-year-old was living with. It’s a messy situation, but no way should these two be charged with kidnapping.
Queen of Lurkers
@Betty Cracker: Perhaps TFG will run for Governor of Florida after 2024 while all his convictions in federal cases are being appealed.
Ruckus
Good gourd, how can anyone be so bad at this?
He got elected in your state, is it all the old farts (yes I’m old-deal) who don’t give one crap about anyone but themselves? Because I see this from a few of the other olds that live in the old fart complex that I live in. Many of these folks are looking at the end and that’s all they see. Their world was always small but it has gotten a lot smaller as they got older. Until it’s just the size that they can see with one eye closed and their forgotten glasses are still sitting where they left them when they went to bed and can’t remember where they left them. They never learned to share, to be a part of something when they were actual children – or they have forgotten all but the highlights, or more likely, the lowlights of the last 50-70 yrs.
Steeplejack
@Raoul Paste:
I hope your healing is quick and pain-free!
cmorenc
@smith:
My take is that Cannon’s wanting to move the trial date post-2024 election is (at this point) more about trying to hedge her bets – if Trump wins, she figures he will make the Mar-a-Lago case go away via self-pardon. If he loses, she will handle the case from there more or less straight-up toward repairing her judicial reputation, which she realizes was damaged by her initial moves trying to hamstring the government’s case.
Scout211
@Ken: HuffPost has a nice roundup of XTweets ridiculing Ivanka on that. And the judge was not moved
Mr. Bemused Senior
Good luck to her with that. Has anyone in Trump’s orbit had their reputational damage restored? It’s like circling a black hole, there is only one outcome possible.
Scott
@Ken: Is Jared not available?
HumboldtBlue
When wearing your cosplay cowboy boots makes it appear like the hooves of a donkey that haven’t been trimmed in years, losing to Trump is a forgone conclusion. Trump would whoop DeSantis from behind bars, and heel lift Ron has yet to realize even that possibility.
Odious man, gets treated like odious man by the most odious people on earth. They deserve each other.
Alison Rose
@Scott: Not in any human sense of the word, no.
Anoniminous
@Scout211:
Eastman is wrong. The Veep doesn’t have that power. As the FTNYT knows that power resides, according to the Constitution, to the people who have early morning coffee at Billy-Dilly Bobbies’ Diner in Blue Creek, Ohio.
topclimber
The boot DeSantis will be wearing will not be located on his head but where Trump has lodged one about three feet south, its tip somewhere in the neighborhood of the duodenum.
Anoniminous
@Brachiator:
What I would like to use to replace that would almost certainly get me put in a Time Out.
Barry
@Mr. Bemused Senior: it’s MAGA reputation. Can she get a appeals court nomination?
Raoul Paste
@zhena gogolia: Thanks.
Baud’s absence may be a blessing in disguise for me. I don’t want to bust my abdominal stitches.
Alison Rose
@Anoniminous: Oh, come on. Now you HAVE to tell us. All of our minds are half in the gutter at all times, anyway.
Jesse
I saw an interesting take by Martin Longman to the effect that we shouldn’t discount DeSantis just yet — despite all the issues — because if even a small segment of Trumpers realize he’s unelectable, DeSantis is the next logical choice.
Soprano2
I have people on FB who haven’t seemed like morons in the past telling me that it’s absolutely true that there are kids in public schools who identify as cats, that they have teacher friends who have told them this is true and that they have to send them to the nurse’s office to use the litterbox to go to the bathroom! I told them that either they’re having their leg pulled or that’s a child who has mental illness that needs to be addressed, but either way it’s not the public school that’s causing the problem. I have several friends who are teachers, and not one has ever mentioned anything about it. I told them it was a right-wing talking point that happened because of kitty litter in closets for kids to use in case of lockdowns.
Anoniminous
@Alison Rose:
If I give my ‘take’ it will stifle the reader’s creativity.
HumboldtBlue
@Jesse:
DeSantis will never come close to rallying the hateful, the ungrateful, the spiteful and the general all around asshole like Trump can. No one in the GOP can.
Trump is unique in that he has plenty of camera time experience, and he has a nasty charm about him that he has honed his entire life. No one else can be as authentically fucked up as Trump is and the GOP base know this, they sense it in every thought that oozes from his beleaguered brain and then from his asshole of a mouth and from every shuffle as he stumbles his fat ass across a stage.
Chris Christie can bust balls with the best of them, and he can’t lay a finger on Trump, none of these jamokes can and he and his base know it.
Youngkin is the snake to keep an eye on, he has far more polish than Rubber Boots Ron and is even more vile in thought and deed.
HumboldtBlue
Also, Pete Buttigieg is still the best communicator the Dems have.
Betty Cracker
@Jesse: That possibility will haunt me until Trump collects the nomination and the voting starts, but it seems less likely every day. Also, I hate living in a time where Donald Fucking Trump seems like the less-bad option as GOP nominee, and by that, I mean Trump seems more likely to lose to Biden than DeSantis. I admit I could be 100% wrong about that! It’s just horrifying that either one of them could receive votes from tens of millions of Americans, but here we are.
Alison Rose
@HumboldtBlue: Love it. And yeah, trying to portray that man as something scary and dangerous when he’s just this little cinnamon roll and so is his husband…so silly.
HumboldtBlue
@Alison Rose:
50-60 years of hate and vitriol directed at the gay community got us here. Hateful bigots know gay people, like and even love gay people, but the christo-fascists have made gay and of course now, trans, a boogeyman for an entire cohort of people ready and willing to hate… just because.
But the millions of normal everyday folks who happen to be gay or trans or non-binary, or whatever, is becoming more and more common and accepted and as we have seen from history, when the right wing chrsito-fascists begin to lose they get nastier and more vile.
That’s why men and women like Pete — smart, confident, agreeable — but who also happen to be gay, are so important. Mike Jonson disappears when Pete speaks because one man has integrity, values, a wont to be decent and the other is a little fucking bigot who relies on hate and malevolence.
Plus, I think that mewling little Johnson is a closeted gay man.
Geoduck
@Jesse: Yeah, if the Shaitgibbon keels over dead (certainly a possibility), then DeSantis is right back in it.
Matt McIrvin
@Soprano2: Like all urban legends, the chain of supposed “friend of a friend who heard it on TV” steps gets collapsed in the telling.
Ruckus
@smith:
Ron can READ?
I find that difficult to believe. He sure can’t read the room or the stadium or the country, why would he be able to read the state he hides in or See Spot or really anything?
Ruckus
@cmorenc:
Hey, you have to squash the howler assholes you have, not the ones that haven’t risen out of the primordial ooze yet.
Gravenstone
I crossed my fingers behind my back, so I could totally lie and not mean it!!
Gretchen
@HumboldtBlue: Right? Nobody would be that obsessed with the sexual desires of other people if his own weren’t hinky. There was a rumor of a male prostitute out of New Orleans but nothing further came of it.
Ruckus
@JoyceH:
His dollar store twitshit is only read by his dollar store twit readers. And with their 2nd grade educations from HateFest elementary they fit right in.
Gretchen
@Alison Rose: I love the idea of their family being like cinnamon rolls. So sweet and wholesome.
Heidi Mom
@HumboldtBlue: This, a thousand times this. And his husband also does really well at it.
Ruckus
@HumboldtBlue:
I don’t get why people hate gay people. Is a gay person hitting on them? With fists or a weapon? I had a gay sister with and I was friends with some of her gay friends after she passed away. They are still human beings, they just like different things than others. Does anyone here have foods they hate or food phobias? I do, I imagine that everyone likely does. Does that mean I have to leave the city, county, country if a gay person lives there? And if so, where would one go? My experience, from having a gay sibling and from that a lot of gay friends, is that you never know unless one asks you to partake – hits on you, and no has always been in my experience, an accepted answer.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Gravenstone: this is not far from Sidney Powell’s defense: “No reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact… ”
How dare you accuse me? I am prefaced by caveats!
Soprano2
@Matt McIrvin: They claim to directly know people who say this is true.
Miss Bianca
@Soprano2: Ah, the infamous FOAF, as it’s called in folklore circles – the Friend of a Friend!
sab
@Scout211: Oh my. I think I might embroider that on a throw pillow, for futute inspiration.
sab
@HumboldtBlue: I have been an admirer of Buttigieg since I first heard him interviewed on the Cleveland Ohio NPR morning show early in his presidential run. I have a Buttigieg Explorers Club t-shirt I bought as bling from that campaign.
My husband has laughed at me for years for my enthusiasm. He likes and admires the guy but not to excess.
Then this morning he saw that interview. At the end when Buttigieg described coming home every night with the twins back from daycare, my husband slapped his knee and shrieked “Holy shit! This guy is amazing! That is parenthood!”
Brachiator
@Soprano2:
This is often true of lives, fables and old wives tales. A false attempt to affirm truthfulness.
A current variant which will become part of American folklore is the Trump “Sir” story, which is always a lie.
ETA. Are we still allowed to shame old wives?
WaterGirl
@Raoul Paste: Free at last, free at last. I imagine you are very glad to be home.
WaterGirl
@Jackie:
We all know who that is.
unctuous
@West of the Rockies:
Oh dear. That’s gonna leave an image seared in my brain. And the way my brain works I hear icky sound effects too.
Although it does kinda please me it’s Desantis making glugging and schlurging noises as he goes under the rich slurry of warm human excrement. His aspiration is my aspiration, as it were.