I’ve noticed one huge disadvantage to avoiding the husk of Twitter, and it’s that sometimes I don’t hear about vile wingnut-on-vile wingnut slap-fights until well after the fact. Such was the case when Christina Pushaw and Laura Loomer virtually snatched each other’s wigs last week at the Florida Freedom Summit.
Pushaw is the horrible woman who used to be Ron DeSantis’s taxpayer-funded press secretary and now ineptly runs his campaign “war room.” Loomer is the repulsive Islamophobic bigot and Trump sycophant who once ineffectually handcuffed herself to one half of a double door at Twitter HQ after being banned (Musk welcomed her back, of course) and now travels around Florida mounting unsuccessful primary challenges against GOP House members.
I didn’t hear about their hilarious dust-up until reading political commentary in the Orlando Sentinel yesterday, when the columnist flagged it as an example of GOP disarray in the state, despite the party’s lock on every statewide office and its statehouse supermajority.
Loomer is a thoroughly loathsome person whose sheer awfulness stands out even among Florida MAGA chuds, but she’s not wrong when she points out that Casey DeSantis’s “Ron babysat my kids when I was sick” story is more than a bit threadbare at this point. I understand why she returns to it constantly — it’s the only evidence anyone has ever uncovered that her husband is a human being.
And to her credit, Casey cut an effective ad leveraging that story during the 2022 reelect cycle. I don’t think it put her repellent husband over the top — FL Repubs’ intense yearning for a right-wing strongman to punish their enemies did that, in combination with the FL Dems’ catastrophic ennui. But it was a notable success that launched the “Ron’s secret weapon” nonsense, which hasn’t aged particularly well.
Anyhoo, you’ll be unsurprised to learn that a retrograde, sore-loser toad like Loomer didn’t call Pushaw out for the gross sexist framing of the critique but rather dumped a similar rancid stew on Pushaw’s head.
I would call these two “Dollar Tree-brand Marjorie Taylor Greenes and Lauren Boeberts,” but poor Dollar Tree never did anything to me, and Greene and Boebert are cheap knock-offs of discount store brands themselves. Merch analogies therefore fail me, and I can only say that the whole bunch aren’t fit to occupy a disreputable flea market’s dumpster.
But I also must confess — even though I realize how poorly it reflects on my character — that I just love this shit! The snippier and tawdrier and stupider and pettier, the better. So mentally, it’s probably good for me that Twitter is going down the toilet in the same way that it redounds to my physical wellbeing when I refrain from eating those nasty and yet somehow delicious little powdered doughnuts from Entenmann’s.
That said, rest assured that when I stumble upon a bag, I will place the junk food on a decorative plate and set it out before you all. Also, to clear up any confusion owing to Loomer’s first tweet, Casey DeSantis goes by her middle name. Her first name is actually Jill, and I guess Loomer thinks calling Ron’s equally horrible other half “Jill” is a sick burn because Bootsy’s missus shares a name with Dr. Jill Biden? As fucking if.
Anyhoo and whatever, open thread!
Michael Bersin
Root for injuries.
PBK
I love both Entenmann’s and this tacky cat fighting. Although that is insulting to the regal feline family.
Let us savor.
MagdaInBlack
Wow. That’s just…..wow. I am in awe. Nice find, Betty 🤗
Eta: I share your love of “this shit.”
dmsilev
I guess they deserve each other.
hueyplong
Pretty sure BC is not merely guessing about the “Jill” thing. It is (or should be) an example of why any poll that compares a real-life, smeared-on-Fox-24/7 Democrat to a “generic Dem” is fraudulent and essentially part of the smearing process.
dmsilev
@Michael Bersin: Or for a well-placed meteor/sinkhole/Godzilla landfall.
Roberto el oso
I could be wrong but isn’t Loomer the woman who was videotaped in a bar during some GOP-adjacent conference coming on to some not terribly interested guy? She goes for the hard sell by telling him she has an “Ashkenazi IQ and really big breasts”.
If that is her then it seems particularly true to form that she’d jump all over Pushaw for her “unseemly” love-life.
Another Scott
I’m an old. My brain keeps substituting Lisa Loopner (8:22) for Laura Loomer.
(All apologies to Gilda. RIP.)
Cheers,
Scott.
Hoosierspud
@hueyplong: I agree, typical Republican tactic. RWNJ Phill Klein was running for some office in Kansas and featured his daughter, Hillary. He said that he wanted to take back the name, Hillary, and restore it to greatness or some such b.s.
hells littlest angel
I lolled.
Harrison Wesley
Ms. Cracker, a question since you’re both a native Floridian and political voyeur: is there any chance that the FL Republican Party’s apparent zest for anal seppuku could lead to FL Democratic gains? I’ve lived here since late 2016 (yes, sigh, another Yankee interloper), but haven’t seen much life in the Democratic Party. I do get the impression it’s trying to turn things around; perhaps I’m more impressed with Nikki Fried than I should be.
SiubhanDuinne
Pushaw vs. Loomer? Wow, such a tough choice. Whom to root for? WHOM. TO. ROOT. FOR???
I’ll go with Michael Bersin @ 1.
Jager
Betty, since I’m a left-coast, avocado toast-eating elitist, I don’t always follow up on republican slut stories, however, Pushaw’s “rug burned knees” story did catch my eye a while back.
Nomokesh
Flea-market Greene and Boebert?
Car-trunk-swap-meet Greene and Boebert?
A-little-too-large-for-the-storm-drain Greene and Boebert?
Alison Rose
They seem nice.
Thank you for the Jill explanation because I was confused. Like…did Ronnie get divorced and remarried last week and no one knew? Is he a bigamist and decided to come out of the closet? Did Casey change her name because someone pointed out to her that Casey is usually a boy name and crossing the gender streams is the scariest thing in the world to her?
Juju
To me, it seems, that this Laura Loomer person needs to get a dictionary and look up the meaning of some of those words she used to describe herself. From what I know of her, there is no connection to those words and the reality of her existence.
Old Man Shadow
Such is the way of Mordor.
Make no mistake, if given the chance, those two would cease their quarrel until we were dead and then resume hating one another.
smith
In the ongoing puzzlement of normal people trying to understand the fundamental pathology of the GQP and the Goobers who love it, there is this striking contradiction: For a party that is determined to force all women into the mold of the demure, submissive, and chaste little wifey, why are so many of their prominent spokeswomen such low-rent exhibitionists?
Tony G
“Christina Pushaw” and “Laura Loomer”. I can’t prove it, but I remain convinced that Thomas Pynchon invented these names for characters in the sequel to “Gravity’s Rainbow” that he’s been working on for the past half-century.
waspuppet
I’m guessing at least part of the Jill thing is because Republicans put a lot of stock in the notion that THEY will decide what YOUR name is.
Yes, just like slaveowners.
laura
Thought of this recent epic cat fight- it’s the video equivalent of loony and pushy: https://x.com/barstoolsports/status/1697335103528050802?s=20
Harrison Wesley
@Tony G: I was thinking DC Comics, but Pynchon works better.
Alison Rose
@smith: A lot of the men in that world probably wouldn’t admit it, but they find it hot when women act like this. Just so long as they shut their little yaps at home, that is. And a lot of the women are stuck in permanent high school Cool Girl™ Syndrome where being pleasing to boys matters to them more than almost anything else.
smith
@Alison Rose: Sounds right. It also occurred to me that among the traditional ideas about gender that they won’t give up, there’s the old Madonna-Whore dichotomy. They want to fuck the Whore but marry the Madonna. Still, it’s strange that so many GQP-allied women volunteer to act out the Whore role, as, in their world, it is also (nominally) universally reviled (the prompting of male hormones notwithstanding).
Frankensteinbeck
@smith:
Because misogynists like sluts*, they just don’t respect them. Conservatives like watching such women repeat whatever men told them to say.
*I hate this word, but it’s how they think of it.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
OT: Don’t know if this has been discussed already, but can this really succeed?
The Hill: Ohio GOP lawmakers call to block courts from implementing new abortion amendment
From what I can tell from the article, it appears it’s only 4 of them that’s willing to put their names to this. It doesn’t surprise me that people like Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman want to repeatedly place initiatives on the ballot to repeal Issue 1, but to completely disregard the state constitution on an issue with such overwhelming support is something completely else. My gut feeling, for what it’s worth, is that the Ohio GOP knows that at the very least statewide offices would once again be put in play again if they attempt this (maybe they even are already). I can see a ballot initiative for an actual independent redistricting commission being passed as well.
Notably, my two Republican state reps, state rep and state senator, have either been evasive with how they stand on abortion, or have admitted that voters have spoken, but say there “needs to be a compromise on the number of weeks and parental consent”. Neither have said the legislature needs to nullify Issue 1 after Tuesday’s results. My county is purple trending red where Issue 1 won close to the statewide vote percentage, so that might have something to do with it
oldgold
NotMax
“Florida man” is not a gender specific term.
//
Tony Jay
Lovely stuff. A proper 2.45 a.m. on the top deck of the night bus screaming match between two pissed-up teenaged skanks in four inch boob tubes and skirts you could wrap a stack of notes in, with the hunk of manliness they’re arguing over slumped cross-eyed across the back seat with vomit dripping down the front of his zipped up Berghaus and black track suit bottoms.
Quality people. Absolutely perfectly suited to their place and profession.
Frankensteinbeck
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Yes, it has. The Ohio constitution is clear that the Ohio Supreme Court has authority and that the legislature cannot block that authority. As a commenter noted, even an arch-conservative Supreme Court is not likely to reduce their own power.
frosty
@laura: Wow!!!
Michael Bersin
@dmsilev:
Any one of those will work, too.
Anoniminous
Reads post ….
Reads comments …..
Learned a long time ago when the discussion moves anywhere near the topic of Women’s Sexuality the best tactic for the ovarianly challenged is to smile politely …. and then head for the hills.
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
No.
SATSQ.
Michael Bersin
@SiubhanDuinne:
It would restore balance to the universe and, if converted to energy, be enough power to drive a mini-bike around the inside of a [insert brand name of oat-based cereal here]. Once. Maybe
Edit: Applies to all right wingnuts. Mileage may vary. Slightly.
lowtechcyclist
Can’t imagine why Julie Brown’s “Girl Fight Tonight” is going through my head right now.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Frankensteinbeck:
@NotMax:
Thanks! It would be nice if news articles would include that important bit of context
laura
Queen of the high school girl’s bathroom is something worth fighting over when you’re a catty skank and raw power is your coin of the realm and you are 15 or 16. It’s a whole nother thing when you’re allegedly a grown ass woman, and it’s public and gross and you’ve remained a catty skank and making a spectacle of yourself is your go to move. All I can say is pass the popcorn.
trollhattan
God, some days three time zones is not enough distance from Florida and its neighbors.
Now then, LA Times ran an article about “Droves of Californians” flocking to Texas and you can just feel the economic anxiety.
So much to unpack but I’ll settle on poor Mr. Bailey, who couldn’t “talk politics” at his UCLA Med Center jerb. First of all, shut the fuck up dude, you don’t talk politics at the office any more than you grab the receptionist’s butt first thing in the morning. Second, “lose your jerb”? Exactly how does that work–what does your magic decoder ring say that you cannot dare say. National Socialism at least had tenets? Lester Maddox had some good ideas? What would the union say about your “being fired?”
Now that you are safe in Texas, how about declaring Nancy Pelosi to be the most important woman in American political history, to test the waters in your new safe jerb?
Good riddance to the lot of ya. Hope you know Austin shattered their record of over 100-degree days this year. Also, too, it ain’t “a dry heat” either.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
The quote from GoT “any man who has to go around telling everyone he is the king, isn’t the king.”
StringOnAStick
So, I did the big “argue with a D who refuses to vote for corporatist Biden” song and dance last night. I want to thank everyone here for the posts, information and memes that helped me get her to say several times “you’ve given me a lot to think about” and looking like she might just clue in to the stakes here and vote. She asked for some information ( more on that in a moment) so I will put that together along with the excellent “here’s the stakes” editorial in the last post, and get it to her via the mutual friend. Seriously, don’t tell me climate change is your biggest issue then tell me you refuse to vote for Biden or anyone else.
She wanted me to name the people who are working on climate change in the Biden administration and what their background is, like i, a common retiree, would have that into on the tip of my goddamn tongue! She’s an MD, a saint of VT fan and a reader of The Intercept. Now it makes sense, doesn’t it? For certain values of sense…
zhena gogolia
Haven’t read the thread, but WTF is that picture?
wjca
Easiest question ever. Root for a double kill.
RaflW
Tossing that “whore/dating around” really sums up the no-sex-is-ever-to-be-enjoyed ethos & slut shaming core of the GOP.
mrmoshpotato
Let them fight.
Baud
@trollhattan:
With all the deadbeats leaving, California keeps getting better all the time.
Joe Falco
They’re of the Salvage Store quality, passed its shelf-life and not fit to be sold in any general retail store.
zhena gogolia
@waspuppet: Yeah, it is really weird.
Baud
@StringOnAStick:
You’re doing the Lord’s work. Good job.
Betty Cracker
@Harrison Wesley: I wish I knew. We won’t lack for wingnut overreach to test the boundaries, what with the 6-week abortion ban likely to go into effect soon, insurance costs and rent continuing to spiral out of control and Matt Gaetz’s upcoming gubernatorial run.
I know lots of folks who are skeptical about Fried, and I get it; there are red flags. That said, when I heard her slogan was “try something new,” she earned my primary vote because good gourd, three decades of trying the same shit has been disastrous, as was doubling down on Crist.
So far, Fried is showing up on important issues, like the impending abortion ban. She’s telling it like it is in plain language. She seems to understand that there’s this whole other state north of Broward County.
But nationally, donors and party orgs have soured on the state, and you can’t really blame them. So FL Dems have very little funding, which will make implementing new approaches difficult until we can demonstrate progress. It will be a slog, but I’m not giving up!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@trollhattan: with these dorks in mind, my sister works remotely for a company in Texas and one of the workers on her team is in trouble with HR because he can’t shut up about his right wing politics.
wjca
Besides, California is overpopulated. Fewer people is a plus regardless.
marklar
@lowtechcyclist: Between that song, “The Homecoming Queen’s got a gun”, and “I like them big and stupid”, Julie sure was prescient about the future of the Republican Party!
Alison Rose
@Baud:
#RejectedNewsomCampaignSlogans
Betty Cracker
@trollhattan: Our snowbird neighbors from upstate NY sold their swamp spread to a snowbird couple from WA, and the husband in that couple told my husband that he moved to FL specifically because he loves Trump and DeSantis. I haven’t met him yet (luckily our homes are separated by dense vegetation and a gator-infested slough). But my husband says he’s a nice, friendly guy but aggressively crazy — a spouter of loony conspiracy theories, etc. I’m trying to figure out how I can use that gullibility to my advantage. Open to any ideas!
Villago Delenda Est
All three of these women are loathsome, and a VDE dictatorship would see them driven back under the rocks from which they oozed. Along with DeathSentence, of course.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Betty Cracker:
Put a flyer in his mailbox telling him to donate to Trump’s legal defense fund so he can own the libs! $1,000 minimum, payable in Target gift cards!
Miss Bianca
@marklar:
IKR?
Alison Rose
@NotMax: Your linkies appear not to be linkied.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Get him hooked on RFK, Jr.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Betty Cracker: Your advantage in doing what?
Maybe think of him as an ethnographic research subject. Everything he says is data. Say “tell me more.” As him how some loony claim would work. I’ve read that sometimes that even helps the loony speaker to realize the unlikely nature of what they’re saying. But at least it will help you maintain your sanity because you’re stepping back from really engaging.
ETA: Goku and Baud have good idea.
John S.
@Betty Cracker:
I think that guy must live down the road from me. He’s the only person in WA that I have seen flying the Trump flag around here, and currently it is upside down because Trump is in “distress”.
ETA: Which is a far cry from the horror I experienced while in Daytona Beach back in December of ‘21. I had never seen so many people letting their freak flag fly.
trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
It’s all Republicans in my experience who suffer from Politics Tourette’s: in the middle of any conceivable setting or situation they’ll suddenly start bitching about how badly the Democrat Party is treating them or their oppression du jour. Example: former neighbor now suffering in the Tahoe Basin (“I didn’t leave Sacramento, Sacramento left me”) managed to work “the woke NBA” into a watch party for the playoffs last spring.
Surprised the veins didn’t literally burst from my forehead.
Baud
Via reddit
trollhattan
@John S.: God, here’s hoping he sets it on fire the day Trump heads into prison. You want distress, here’s distress.
Brachiator
I don’t know much about Christina Pushaw. In some photos she looks like she has dipped too deep into the Botox machine.
Brachiator
@Baud:
I’m so old I can remember when Ms was controversial.
MisterForkbeard
@Betty Cracker: Just put some Trump stickers on things and sell him a bunch of stuff in your garage. “Do you have any Trump trash cans? Only $3000, and the value on this is only going up. I’m told this stain here is from when he personally threw a ketchup bottle at it.”
kalakal
@SiubhanDuinne:
MAD, you know it makes sense
smith
@Betty Cracker: I know it’s rich of me, coming from my comfortable perch in a solid blue city, but I’m getting weary of hearing about “nice, friendly guys” who are nevertheless bubbling over with hate and barely suppressed violence. These are often the “nice, friendly” neighbors who shoot the black kid who accidentally rings their doorbell.
Not wanting to go off on you, Betty — I now you have to live in close proximity to them and try to keep the peace, but it seems this kind of characterization is used a lot by people who are not so hemmed in who are reluctant to acknowledge the threat that their MAGA neighbors and relatives actually pose to non-white, non-middle class, non-hetero, non-cis people. It’s a similar mindset to that of FTFNYT reporters providing anodyne accounts of the genial old retirees in the Ohio diner.
MisterForkbeard
@Brachiator: There’s a teacher at my kids (spanish immersion) school that goes by “Maestre”, which is gender neutral. And that’s a much bigger deal in spanish, apparently.
And you know what? No one cared. The kids didn’t care. The parents didn’t care. And the teacher was fantastic.
Citizen Alan
@trollhattan: I made the completely innocuous comment to my boss’s secretary that I was going to hold off on buying a house until interest rates came down. And out of nowhere, this sweet little old lady who keeps the office stocked with candy (which this diabetic does not need) suddenly snarls “Well, they’ll never go down under THIS President!!!”
StringOnAStick
@Baud: i will fight for every vote. We are in one of the districts that went R last House election and is targeted to get back into the D column, so we need her vote. Kelly and I are in the same district and he’s an OR native so he knows the state better than a recent transplant like me.
brendancalling
I refuse to believe Christina Pushaw is an Earthling. She is clearly wearing human suit stretched over a Grey alien’s body. Blonde Momo. Simply horrifying.
Alison Rose
@Baud: Republicans are such wimpy little babies. OH NOES A WORD I DON’T UNDERSTAND GO AWAY GO AWAY!!!
Wombat Probability Cloud
Delectable. Thanks so much for putting this on the plate for us.
Baud
@Citizen Alan:
“Not with that attitude.”
Harrison Wesley
@Baud: Just another instance of the totally awesome Florida education system. Rarely is the question asked, “Is our children honorificalizering yet?”
MisterForkbeard
@Citizen Alan: I’m a bearded white dude (though with long hair) and I get a lot of this from people even in CA who assume I’m okay with Trump, racism, and casual idiocy.
Ran into someone last week who (apropos of nothing) started in on how corrupt Biden was, and how he couldn’t wait for Trump to get back in and restore honesty.
I’m conflict averse, so I only politely told him that Biden doesn’t appear to have actually done anything after I read the Republican’s reports, while Trump had committed several chargeable offenses. I work with this person, so they were just nonplussed and I think they’ve decided to ‘work on me’ now, given they’ve invited me to work lunch a couple times since.
catclub
Close! ‘Under Powell as fed chair” was what she meant. I am sure.
brendancalling
@RaflW: people like Loomer and Pushaw are so weird and repressed, I have to imagine their kinks involve flaying people alive and vampirism.
the right is so. fucking. weird.
Harrison Wesley
I’m sure that there are plenty of MAGAns where I live (suburban Bradenton, lots of us Olds, multi-racial), but I don’t see the Trump love around here that I do when I’m downtown. So far, just one Trump bumper sticker on a car in the non-Old development next to mine. I rarely talk to anybody who I don’t already know, and I rarely talk politics even with the people I do know.
Dave
Betty I can appreciate when terrible people make each other miserable instead of everyone else for a change. It doesn’t really impact the larger picture and the amount of energy we put into is probably an artifact of when we lived in small bands so that a rhetorical slap fight between awful people might actually benefit the band but I can still appreciate the vibe.
trollhattan
@Citizen Alan: Heh. I never think of the right response until much later, but I’d have loved to reply, “Yes, President Powell sure loves to raise those rates, doesn’t he?”
Uncle Cosmo
Keep in mind that bigamist is Italian for “thick fog.” Don’t see Rospa** deSaster emerging from that anytime soon…
** And rospa is siciliano for “toad,” which is what I think of when I see that miserable excuse for a face. I keep expecting him to go ribbitribbitribbit and lash out with his tongue to snag a fly.
Scout211
SNL’s cold open last night wasn’t very good but it was notable in that itmade fun of the worst moments from the latest GOP presidential debate. The Ron DeSantis character just stood there and made that sickly “smile” that was DeSantis’s crowning moment in the debate.
Alison Rose
@Scout211: I watched a clip of that smile and I felt like the people in The Ring.
Another Scott
@Citizen Alan: Heh.
10 year Treasuries are down about 0.5% points from the peak, and heading down.
Press coverage always lags.
Cheers,
Scott.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Citizen Alan: You should have asked her what the interest rate was. I’ll bet she doesn’t know.
Ruckus
@smith:
Asked and answered in your comment.
They are pissed that they really don’t get to make any decisions in the rethuglican party. They are just the slap fight that brings the 8 yr old angst to the forefront.
Jeffro
Delighting in these two fighting? That’s a sign of good character, Ms. Cracker.
RSA
@Nomokesh: “No Dumping Here” treasure Greene and Boeber.
Harrison Wesley
We’ve got a couple more years of the Sheriff of Puddinghand down here; I just hope they don’t coincide with another Trump White House tour. Have been unsuccessful in persuading LOML to split for the Old Country with me in case of Trumpery Triumphant, and would not consider leaving without her. Well, the two of us are in the middle of the last act, so I guess making it here until the curtain comes down would be doable.
Brachiator
@MisterForkbeard:
“Maestre” works better in Spanish than stuff like “Latinx,” which is often ignored by many Hispanic people. No one is going to call their abuela, “abuelx.”
Hungry Joe
Every time I read a Betty Cracker post — or even one of her comments — I get annoyed that she’s not working on a book. I mean, we’re (generally) good folks, right? Don’t we deserve a Betty Cracker book?
Anotherlurker
@PBK: I have been stuffing Entemeann’s baked goods down my pie hole for a long long time. When I discovered them, I was a wee lad on Long Island and they were a regional bakery. My Mom would purchase their heavenly products as a high value treat for we 3 lads + my Dad.
After they were purchased by some mega conglomerate, surprisingly, IMHO, the quality of their sugary baked delights remained very high. I have even forgiven them for discontinuing my favorite indulgence , dark chocolate cake with marshmallow icing. Yum! to its memory.
Bronx trivia: There was a gentleman, Bill Stimers who, for at least 30 years, was a fixture in the Yankees’ press box. Everyone knew him as Bill the Baker. He lived in Brentwood, L.I. and worked at Entenman’s. He was a baseball savant and could answer any question about the game in a very detailed manner. For some strange reason, George Steinbrenner took a liking to him and gifted him with unlimited press box access for 30+ years. Maybe George thought Bill was a cheap substitute for a research department. He was also a frequent caller to WFAN radio where he was known as Bill From Brentwood. Tragically, he passed away in 2014, at the young age of 67. He was an unforgettable character.
Sorry for the off topic tangent.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/yankee-stadium-fixture-bill-the-baker-stimers-dies-at-67/
Chat Noir
@Michael Bersin:
Always with this bunch!
Citizen Alan
@Harrison Wesley: I believe I mentioned seeing a burly goatee’d fellow across the room at the Fresno DXL big-and-tall store wearing a “Let’s Go Brandon” T-shirt. I just sighed and shook my head and the absolute childishness of it and then went back to shopping.
Brachiator
@MisterForkbeard:
I guess I can understand how someone who is steeped deep into Fox News believes that Biden is corrupt, but I don’t understand how his supporters can really believe that Trump is honest.
I’ve also heard his supporters declare that Trump did more for the economy than any president ever.
smintheus
Your reminder that Christina Pushaw is an unindicted crook and a threat to national security. She was an unregistered foreign agent for several years lobbying for a very sketchy and crooked former president of Georgia, before DOJ started asking questions and she hurriedly filed ex post facto paperwork…while already in FL working for Ron DeSantis.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/08/christina-pushaw-desantis-foreign-agent-saakashvili/
Harrison Wesley
@Brachiator: I don’t know if he did more for the economy; he might have done more to the economy.
Kay
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
I think the analysis that says they “can’t” block is too broad.
They will contest. We’ll have a test here shortly because the OH SC has the 6 week ban right now – you’ll just have to get comfortable with uncertainty.
The backers of the amendment knew the fight would continue past the vote.
Scout211
Its a crazy rope-a-dope. Biden and the deep state are out to get Trump in many ways: illegally, fraudulently, etc., etc., in order to make Trump look dishonest.
Biden is dishonestly and corruptly making Trump look dishonest and corrupt. Ipso facto, Trump is honest and not corrupt!
JDM
Dollar Tree? nothing so fancy. Dollar General at best.
PBK
@Anotherlurker: Didn’t know about Mr. Stimer; thanks for that!
I was also surprised that Entenmann’s quality remained so high after their sale to Bimbo Bakeries (cue inner adolescent snickering). But they discontinued my favorite product as well-the holiday cupcakes! That marshmallow cake was damn fine too.
Citizen Alan
@trollhattan: She would not have known who Jerome Powell is. I barely do, TBH. Chairman of the FED which sets interest rates and is keeping them high right now because, in the FED’s view, the unemployment rate is too low, and that’s why I can’t afford a house right now. But that is the entirety of my knowledge about the whole process.
frosty
That’s about when I discovered them, too, when we visited my Grandpa and some of my cousins in Bellerose and Massapequa. The crumb cake was our favorite; we always took some home.
Marmot
@trollhattan: Don’t wish those fools on Austin! They’re in DFW, butt of Austinite jokes since forever—and trending blue or already blue.
mrmoshpotato
@laura: Wow! The woman with her hands up just trying to exit a porta potty, LOL!
Anotherlurker
@PBK: I tried and tried to replicate the fudge cake by baking one and purchasing a jar of Marshmallow Fluff, but the results were short of the real thing. Wonderful in its own right! It was a munchie favorite but not the same as the OG.
Shalimar
@Betty Cracker: Have you told him that people who catch alligators in Florida get an extra vote in the next election and this could be his way of putting Trump over the top?
Michael Bersin
@smith:
Three years ago, addressed to a “neighborly” gesture:
“…I don’t pray. “Neighbors first?” How about humanity first. Or compassion first? Or charity first? Your obvious political choice is autocratic grifter first. Own it.
If you’re voting for a Fascist, racist, misogynist for President guess what that makes you?
If you ever wondered what you would have done if you were in Germany in the 1930s, you’re doing it now.
The problem for me is you’re the type of good German who might be pleasant to my face, even present me with a gift card for coffee, and then you’d stand around with your hands in your pockets when the Gestapo showed up to take me away….”
I’m not ready to make nice
Shalimar
@Citizen Alan: My mom used to do that with Trump and changes at the local Air Force base pharmacy. I agree he’s evil, mom, but I don’t think he had anything to do with them shortening their hours on Fridays.
Kathleen
@Alison Rose: Yup, “Tough” women like Sara Palin et al give Rethuglican men tingly legs and Rethuglican women (voters) like them too.
emjayay
@Brachiator: Probably more like fillers and/or implants. And Laura definitely got into her mother’s makeup drawer.
Ruckus
@trollhattan:
Just got back from the store so just seeing this awesome rant. It sounds like you are glad they are gone. OK, so that’s at least 2 of us..
I’d say, poor Texas but then I’ve been there for work a number of times and am not feeling it.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Wait, I thought Florida law required this as children aren’t to get any instruction on gender.
Ruckus
@Betty Cracker:
Tell him how much fun it is to pet a gator on the nose…..
Ruckus
@MisterForkbeard:
I’m a bearded white dude in CA and I’ve never had anyone give me any rethuglican crap. Maybe they understand that I would gladly slide back into USN enlisted language usage where every other word is a disparaging swear word aimed at them. Between the USN and working in machine shops most of my life, I’ve picked up more than a few choice ones and my middle fingers still can both stand up very straight.
MisterForkbeard
@Ruckus: I think maybe you just hang out with better people than I do. :)
More likely, my job means I come into contact with a fair amount of tech bros. And I’m in tech – I look like them, to a decent degree and I occupy the same spaces. Though I’m also generally more out of shape.
Funnily enough, most of the people that work for me are women and minorities, many of them immigrants and I’ve got no patience at all for Republican talkingpoints or bigotry when it comes to my people.
Juju
@Anotherlurker: I never forgave whoever took over Entenman’s for putting coconut in the raspberry coffee cake. Why would anyone do that? Coconut ruins everything it touches. The Publix has a raspberry coffee cake that’s very close to what the Entenman’s used to be, and also an almond coffee cake that is excellent. A crumb cake is an easy thing to make, so I don’t buy those.
Ruckus
@Brachiator:
HE DID do more for the economy. Unfortunately none of it was positive.
Marmot
@Ruckus: It’s cool when Texans pitch in to beat Repubs all over the country, then you piss on us.
Ruckus
@MisterForkbeard:
I see the difference. I am retired. I don’t see anyone at work, because I don’t go, but when I did there wasn’t anyone to flip off, other than in jest. I’m likely a tad older than you and totally, completely out of fucks to give. I will raise my middle finger when necessary, which seems less often these days, mainly because I don’t get out as much.
Ruckus
@Marmot:
I didn’t say you weren’t improving!
Just that there are still too many that are still repubs. Sort of like when I lived in OH. In Columbus it was somewhat a blue city. Outside the city limits…. not so much.
scav
@trollhattan: What’s also fascinating is the sheer number of decades this same story has been peddled. Sometimes under the scare headline of “the Californication! of {insert state here}” but as best I can tell, there is an infinite and eternal supply of out-migrating Californians.
Betty Cracker
@smith: The fact is humans are complex. I don’t excuse their horrifying views for a minute — I consider my Trumpy relatives and acquaintances to carry a moral stain that is roughly equivalent to an armed robbery conviction. That said, not all of these folks are violent, racist goons. Not all are stupid, evil and useless — some are doctors and nurses and mechanics and tavern owners. Some will stop and help you change your tire or tow you home if your outboard quits. Some are good cooks and fond pet owners. People are complicated. It’s not an excuse, but it’s true.
Tehanu
@trollhattan: Oh yeah, I read that article too and my reaction was the same as yours: Good riddance. Wait till they find out that the school district has no support for their kid on the autism spectrum and their employer doesn’t have to provide meal or rest breaks. Lovely place.
Freemark
@scav:
I always remind people Texas is like a Yugo. It’s not about being better but about being cheaper.
Central Planning
@brendancalling:
“Skinny Edgar”
wjca
Probably way too late to this thread, but….
How about creating a bunch of NFTs, maybe themed to his favorite conspiracies? Buy low (’cause they cost next to nothing to make) and sell high. Extra high for a Numbered First Edition!
The Lodger
@PBK: If you’re looking for additional relevance, Entenmann’s is actually a trademark of Bimbo Bakeries.
karen marie
@brendancalling: We could only wish they were “repressed.” To me, the problem is they’re not at all repressed. Instead, they act out every uncontrolled impulse that floats through their trashy little minds.
Sheila in nc
@StringOnAStick: dead thread but they created a new office in HHS on Climate Change and Health Equity. And NIH has a major agency-wide initiative on health effects of climate change. Biden signed two climate related executive orders almost as soon as he was inaugurated.
Paul in KY
@MisterForkbeard: That’s a great idea! Only problem is you have to interact with him.