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Thursday Still Morning Open Thread

by WaterGirl|  March 28, 202411:36 am| 135 Comments

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Just got home, I’ve got nothin’ but this awesome Biden ad and an open thread.

Boom. Dark Brandon rises again by releasing a new ad that drags Donald Trump for playing golf & driving golf carts while he has visited 8 swing states in only 18 days. THIS is how it’s done. So brutal. So freaking good. Watch & share this.

pic.twitter.com/pkKLsUW9SM

— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) March 28, 2024

Well, okay, and a little mocker of Judge (Loose) Cannon:

Undocketed filings in US v Trump (M-a-L) are stacking up. Yesterday the govt sought permission to file a surreply relating to a reply that isn't docketed yet, which related to a response that isn't docketed yet, which related to a motion that isn't docketed yet. pic.twitter.com/wYfVQ25M9j

— Roger Parloff (@rparloff) March 28, 2024

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    1. 1.

      Baud

      March 28, 2024 at 11:38 am

      And Biden has a day job!

      Reply
    2. 2.

      WaterGirl

      March 28, 2024 at 11:41 am

      @Baud: How much “Executive Time” does Biden get?

      P.S.  Donnie does not look well~

      Reply
    3. 3.

      zhena gogolia

      March 28, 2024 at 11:41 am

      Trump looks awful. Why are there any people who plan to vote for him? Why?

      Reply
    4. 4.

      WaterGirl

      March 28, 2024 at 11:43 am

      @zhena gogolia: Ha!  I edited my comment and #2 and when it published, there was your comment.  I agree!  (obviously)

      edit: I think when they look at him, they must not really be seeing HIM.  Just seeing some image they still have in their head?

      Reply
    5. 5.

      WereBear

      March 28, 2024 at 11:45 am

      I love me some Dark Brandon. I donated and also got the mug!

      Reply
    6. 6.

      rikyrah

      March 28, 2024 at 11:50 am

      @WaterGirl:

       

      I replied late last night about what I meant about the Biden books:

       

       

      It was Kay who pointed it out first..

      The tendency of these reporters to actually keep pertinent information that should have been revealed in real time…so that they could use it for their books. Information that we, the public, should have been notified of, as it happened – they refused to tell us – because they wanted it FOR THEIR BOOKS.

       

      They LIKED being stenographers for the Orange Menace. It was an easy job.

       

       

      In order to report about Biden and his Administration, you actually have to report on POLICY. They can’t hold shyt back for books. It’s part of the reason why they despise Joe Biden – he makes them work and doesn’t let them grift off of him.

      Reply
    7. 7.

      SFAW

      March 28, 2024 at 11:50 am

      I guess I’m reverting to my asshole nature, because I was underwhelmed by that ad. So was the point that TFG was playing golf while Sleepy Joe Brandon was being “vigorous” (because he’s criss-crossing the USA)? OK, and … ?

      Sorry, I guess I expected a little more than clowny/bouncy music.

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      SiubhanDuinne

      March 28, 2024 at 11:50 am

      25 years for SBF!!

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    9. 9.

      Tom Levenson

      March 28, 2024 at 11:52 am

      @SiubhanDuinne: He got off easy.

      I seriously expected four decades.

      Are there good behavior modifications available to him, I wonder.

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    10. 10.

      SiubhanDuinne

      March 28, 2024 at 11:54 am

      @SFAW:

      Yeah, I have to agree, not their best effort. But for the most part the Biden-Harris ads have been excellent — and in any case, you and I are not the target audience.

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      Scout211

      March 28, 2024 at 11:55 am

      @SiubhanDuinne: 25 years for SBF!!

      👍

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    12. 12.

      Baud

      March 28, 2024 at 11:56 am

      @SFAW:

      Curmudgeon.

      (Political ads don’t do much for me since I’m so in the tank and I have no way to guage their impact on others.)

      Reply
    13. 13.

      SiubhanDuinne

      March 28, 2024 at 11:56 am

      @Tom Levenson:

      His defence team asked for 6.5 years, I think I heard. But a quarter of a century (less whatever reduction for good behaviour) is still a hefty chunk of time behind bars.

      Reply
    14. 14.

      Mike in NC

      March 28, 2024 at 11:57 am

      Fat Bastard looks like shit. Stopped coloring his “hair”. Not wearing his girdle. No coat of orange spray paint on his bloated ugly face. Yet millions of assholes will crawl over broken glass to vote for his racist ass…

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      karen marie

      March 28, 2024 at 11:58 am

      @SiubhanDuinne: Not nearly enough. He’ll be out in 12.

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      SFAW

      March 28, 2024 at 11:59 am

      @SiubhanDuinne:

      and in any case, you and I are not the target audience.

      Understood. But it’s not clear what the target audience is. People who think Biden is OLD-OLD-OLD, but TFG is not? People who think TFG is running the country (or should be)?

      I guess maybe I’m not enough of a normie to appreciate what the intended message is.

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    17. 17.

      WaterGirl

      March 28, 2024 at 11:59 am

      @rikyrah: Thank you, I hadn’t seen that!

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    18. 18.

      Jackie

      March 28, 2024 at 12:00 pm

      @WaterGirl: I wonder if these ads are shown on FAUX, Newsmax or OAN? TIFG’s MAGA cult may not get the opportunity to see him sans makeup and girdle. Which is too bad; he looks scary as hell Al natural. Biden looks younger AND HEALTHIER in contrast!

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    19. 19.

      B1naryS3rf

      March 28, 2024 at 12:00 pm

      @zhena gogolia:

      Trump looks awful. Why are there any people who plan to vote for him? Why?

      The sunk cost fallacy. Also, Biden and his party are Satan incarnate. Also too, Biden is secretly controlled by Kamala “Ho” Harris, Hussein Obama and so on at any rate.

      Those alone will get you to almost 45% of the electorate.

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    20. 20.

      WaterGirl

      March 28, 2024 at 12:00 pm

      @SFAW: That ad is for norms, not us.

      Reply
    21. 21.

      Frankensteinbeck

      March 28, 2024 at 12:00 pm

      @Mike in NC:

      Fat Bastard looks like shit.

      As I’ve said before, Joe Biden looks like you hope you will at that age.  Trump looks like you’re scared you will at that age.

      How many of his followers look at him and physically see themselves?

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    22. 22.

      SFAW

      March 28, 2024 at 12:01 pm

      @Baud:

      Curmudgeon.

      I hope that you’re just reminding the jackals, not that this is an epiphany for you.

      Reply
    23. 23.

      WaterGirl

      March 28, 2024 at 12:01 pm

      @Tom Levenson: If it’s federal, I don’t think they do that.

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    24. 24.

      MattF

      March 28, 2024 at 12:01 pm

      Sometimes… I get the feeling that TFG isn’t all that enthused about a prospect of winning in November. Yeah, he has lots of fans who really really really wanna line up libtards and shoot them, but he’s getting on in years and loves to play golf.

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    25. 25.

      WaterGirl

      March 28, 2024 at 12:02 pm

      @karen marie: I thought it was only state prosecutions that did that.

      Reply
    26. 26.

      WaterGirl

      March 28, 2024 at 12:03 pm

      @MattF: Pretty sure he is enthused about the idea of pardoning himself, which shouldn’t even be a thing.

      Reply
    27. 27.

      MattF

      March 28, 2024 at 12:05 pm

      @WaterGirl: Yeah, and that can’t be delegated.

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    28. 28.

      Frankensteinbeck

      March 28, 2024 at 12:05 pm

      @MattF:

      Yeah, he has lots of fans who really really really wanna line up libtards and shoot them

      Not half as much as Trump wants to line up everyone who ever crossed him and shoot them.

      EDIT – Oh, and everyone brown.  I still say after he dies we’ll find out he’s an actual ‘Heil Hitler’ Nazi.

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    29. 29.

      Gin & Tonic

      March 28, 2024 at 12:05 pm

      @Tom Levenson: Indeed he did get off easy. Madoff got 150 years, IIRC.

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    30. 30.

      SFAW

      March 28, 2024 at 12:06 pm

      @Frankensteinbeck:

      As I’ve said before, Joe Biden looks like you hope you will at that age.

      Absolutely.

      I encounter residents of assisted-living facilities pretty much every day, as part of my job. There are a few — as old or older than the President — who are still sharp and vital. But there are far more who can only dream of having Joe’s vigor and sharpness. And frankly, I’m not convinced that I’ll still* be sharp/vigorous when I’m 80.

      * Yeah, fine, so maybe that ship has already sailed. Just work with me on this one, OK?

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    31. 31.

      The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion

      March 28, 2024 at 12:07 pm

      @MattF:
      por qué no los dos

      Reply
    32. 32.

      Scout211

      March 28, 2024 at 12:07 pm

      Trump’s Georgia election subversion case faces key hearing

      So this happened today.  Trump is arguing his First Amendment rights to say anything with zero accountability.  Yawn.  What else is new.

      • Trump tries to dismiss charges: A judge heard arguments today on whether the Georgia election subversion case against Donald Trump can be dismissed on First Amendment grounds. Trump’s attorney argued that the case should be thrown out because his political speech is protected — and that he can’t be punished for false statements. Prosecutors said all the communication from Trump related to the charges are a matter for a jury and are not shielded. The judge did not issue a ruling.

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    33. 33.

      RevRick

      March 28, 2024 at 12:08 pm

      @zhena gogolia: @Mike in NC: The answer to the mystery of why people vote for him is contained in the last two words of Mike’s post. When his voters say he’s honest, what they mean is he freely says all sorts of ugly things, thus validating their prejudices. They are people who are absolutely terrified that the social order which privileged them is being disrupted and challenged. And they can’t stand it. Their votes are primal screams.

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    34. 34.

      Freemark

      March 28, 2024 at 12:11 pm

      I think the ad is great. It isn’t substantive, which a lot of people here probably prefer, but it hits Trump where it hurts him the most; his image. Trump and MAGAts don’t give a shit about policy but they care a lot about image. It also hits those ‘independents/moderates’ who don’t pay attention and have just heard the ‘Biden is old’ stuff. The comparison is NOT good for Trump.

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    35. 35.

      Eunicecycle

      March 28, 2024 at 12:11 pm

      @Scout211: other defendents have tried this and it did not fly. But more delay!

      Reply
    36. 36.

      NotMax

      March 28, 2024 at 12:12 pm

      Just got home

      Yeah, have had nights like that too.
      ;)

      Reply
    37. 37.

      TBone

      March 28, 2024 at 12:15 pm

      inimitable eloquence on bible thumping

      https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/what-kind-of-dipshit-buys-a-bible

      Reply
    38. 38.

      terraformer

      March 28, 2024 at 12:17 pm

      @SiubhanDuinne: Good! Now maybe I won’t have to see his smirking mug on every news site

      Reply
    39. 39.

      sdhays

      March 28, 2024 at 12:17 pm

      So, for the non-lawyers among us, what are the implications of “undocketed filings piling up”? Evidence of basic judicial incompetence, I expect, but what exactly is going on here?

      Reply
    40. 40.

      sdhays

      March 28, 2024 at 12:19 pm

      @SFAW: I think the target is the political media with the intention of changing the narrative about who’s “vigorous”.

      Reply
    41. 41.

      TBone

      March 28, 2024 at 12:19 pm

      @sdhays: a super secret method of evading public scrutiny.  Maxwell Smart style.

      Reply
    42. 42.

      Baud

      March 28, 2024 at 12:19 pm

      @sdhays:

      Either the filings are sealed, or some judges like to keep filings off the docket until all briefing is completed.

      Reply
    43. 43.

      RevRick

      March 28, 2024 at 12:20 pm

      @SFAW: @WaterGirl: Every ad has a text and a subtext. The subtext of this ad is playfulness. It contrasts with Trump’s grim aggrievement. It’s telling the world that while President Biden is out doing the work, he does so with a lightheartedness and a gentle touch.
      There’s a great book by James B. Twitchell, Lead Us Into Temptation, which delves into the psychology and shibboleths of the advertising business. Twitchell argues that consumers are not the victims of advertising, but instead eagerly lap up what it’s peddling. Advertising offers us the secular equivalent of salvation.

      Reply
    44. 44.

      Baud

      March 28, 2024 at 12:21 pm

      @sdhays:

      That makes sense.  The media wasted so much time debating Biden’s fitness when they knew first hand that he was perfectly fine.

      Reply
    45. 45.

      Baud

      March 28, 2024 at 12:22 pm

      @RevRick:

      Advertising offers us the secular equivalent of salvation

       

      Especially pop up ads.

      Reply
    46. 46.

      smith

      March 28, 2024 at 12:22 pm

      @MattF:  I get the feeling that TFG isn’t all that enthused about a prospect of winning in November. Yeah, he has lots of fans who really really really wanna line up libtards and shoot them, but he’s getting on in years and loves to play golf.

      He’s already demonstrated that you can be “president” and still spend most of your time playing golf.

      Reply
    47. 47.

      A Man for All Seasonings (formerly Geeno)

      March 28, 2024 at 12:23 pm

      @WereBear: Do they have one where the eyes glow when the cup is warm?

      Reply
    48. 48.

      sdhays

      March 28, 2024 at 12:23 pm

      @Baud: So all it means is that stuff is happening that we don’t know anything about?

      Reply
    49. 49.

      TeezySkeezy

      March 28, 2024 at 12:23 pm

      @Tom Levenson: If he serves the entirety of 25 years, it’s not “easy.” He’s lost his best years.

      Reply
    50. 50.

      Baud

      March 28, 2024 at 12:26 pm

      @sdhays:

      Possibly. I haven’t looked into it.

      Reply
    51. 51.

      Chief Oshkosh

      March 28, 2024 at 12:26 pm

      @SFAW: It’s effective on the level of showing Biden as presidential and Trump as a flabby lout who put-putzes around (pun intended).

      They did miss a trick, though, in not showing the horrendous slice at the end of that first clip. For anyone who has ever golfed, that’s as good as a pratfall or walking onto AF1 with toilet paper stuck to your shoe.

      Reply
    52. 52.

      Melancholy Jaques

      March 28, 2024 at 12:27 pm

      @SFAW:

      I thought it was just okay. I would have preferred an ad that just had the “Biden is doing . . . has done . . . ”

      There should be a series of ads with newsreel that follow the framework: 1) Problem Biden inherited or that arose, 2) action Biden took, 3) solution. A president who works for the people or some such thing.

      I’d let a PAC do the Trump bashing.

      Reply
    53. 53.

      Ken

      March 28, 2024 at 12:28 pm

      @Tom Levenson: I seriously expected four decades.

      Prosecutors asked for 50 years, defense proposed 5 years.

      On the other hand, prosecutors proposed $11 billion in restitution, defense proposed zero, and the judge went with the $11 billion. (Source: Molly White on bluesky.)

      Are there good behavior modifications available to him, I wonder.

      Federal sentencing rules are that a prisoner must serve at least 85% of their sentence. (Actually, the law is that they can earn up to 54 days off for each year served, which works out to that percentage.)

      Of course that would assume SBF is capable of good behavior. People who watched his behavior and testimony at trial are split, with most saying “no” but a sizable fraction saying “hell no”.

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    54. 54.

      rikyrah

      March 28, 2024 at 12:32 pm

      Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) posted at 9:42 PM on Wed, Mar 27, 2024:
      DEI was never about accepting unqualified Black & brown people. It was always about ensuring qualified Black & brown people *also* had a fair shot at acceptance despite systemic racism

      The “Didn’t Earn It” you’re thinking of are legacy acceptance—like how Kavanaugh got into Yale
      (https://x.com/QasimRashid/status/1773178930029084957?t=Eii_mnk0LitcH7l4jvG0aw&s=03)

      Reply
    55. 55.

      rikyrah

      March 28, 2024 at 12:33 pm

      Kenny Akers (@KeneAkers) posted at 9:55 PM on Wed, Mar 27, 2024:
      Mayor Brandon Scott with a strong clap back…… Bravo sir’  https://t.co/5mIFGGafyS
      (https://x.com/KeneAkers/status/1773182192157446550?t=8OOBW91pleH-ColEJ3rMtg&s=03)

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    56. 56.

      rikyrah

      March 28, 2024 at 12:33 pm

      That Well-Adjusted Biden Guy (@What46HasDone) posted at 6:08 AM on Thu, Mar 28, 2024:
      The Biden-Obama-Clinton fundraiser is raising more in one night than Trump raised in all of February. https://t.co/LrdqWIUCKU
      (https://x.com/What46HasDone/status/1773306076844159451?t=xKirpjVNBgufbIv7izgmtA&s=03)

      Reply
    57. 57.

      sdhays

      March 28, 2024 at 12:34 pm

      @Baud: Ok. Thanks for helping me decode that tweet.

      Reply
    58. 58.

      Bruce K in ATH-GR

      March 28, 2024 at 12:38 pm

      @smith: That was always the way he intended to do things, I think: delegate the hard work, take the credit for himself. Didn’t he propose to one of his potential Veep picks that: “you handle the domestic and international stuff, and I’ll concentrate on Making America Great Again”? He doesn’t want the job, he wants the perqs that go with it, chief of which at the moment is that “Get Out Of Jail Free” card.

      Reply
    59. 59.

      BlueGuitarist

      March 28, 2024 at 12:39 pm

      @WaterGirl:

      president pardoning himself definitely shouldn’t be a thing.
      Also, since the Constitution authorizes presidential pardons “except in cases of impeachment,” he shouldn’t be able to pardon Jan6ers, since their actions are part of his impeachment. But as we keep finding out, Constitutional limits are not self-enforcing, so he’d get away with it.

      Thought you’d like the photograph here:
      https://digbysblog.net/2024/03/27/biden-harris-in-n-c/

      Reply
    60. 60.

      John S.

      March 28, 2024 at 12:40 pm

      Political ads are (unfortunately) at their best when they make people feel a certain way rather than think a certain way.

      Yet another reason for publicly financed elections and turning off the spigot of campaign cash that runs freely.

      Reply
    61. 61.

      CaseyL

      March 28, 2024 at 12:40 pm

      25 years and $11 billion-with-a-b in restitution.

      Shorter sentence than I would have liked, but it’s a federal sentence which means he’ll serve 85% of it, which is 21 years.

      The 11 billion is going to be interesting, since unless Bankman-Fried really did have great googobs of money stashed away somewhere, it’s hard to see where he comes up with that much.

      Reply
    62. 62.

      rikyrah

      March 28, 2024 at 12:41 pm

      Kenny is back.

       

      2RawTooReal (@2RawTooReal) posted at 6:46 AM on Thu, Mar 28, 2024:
      @ninaturner How exactly is the Democratic Party emasculating black men? Nina turner’s entire talking point is divisive & rooted in misogyny. Not to mention she just emasculated & erased all the black men leading the Democratic Party. https://t.co/OlJBKIds2I
      (https://x.com/2RawTooReal/status/1773315728550019165?t=FxMZJh5MOQGjcJLutdMG_g&s=03)

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    63. 63.

      Sure Lurkalot

      March 28, 2024 at 12:42 pm

      @TBone:

      From the link:

      so it’s only natural that the quadrice-indicted twice-impeached popular-vote-losing adderall-huffing insurrection-leading testimony-ducking judge-threatening lawyer-ignoring witness-tampering day-one-dictatoring disabled-veteran-dishonoring inheritance-squandering rube-fleecing clown-makeup-smearing language-mangling serial-sexual-predating draft-dodging casino-bankrupting butler-bullying daughter-perving hush-money-paying real-estate-scamming bone-spur-faking ketchup-hurling justice-obstructing classified-war-plan-thieving golf-cheating weather-map-defacing horse-paste-promoting paper-towel-flinging race-baiting tax-evading evidence-destroying charity-defrauding money-laundering diaper-filling 88-count fluorescent tangerine felony factory is hawking Bibles now.

      BJ’s own Mrmoshpotato may need to up their game (no offense intended)…

      Reply
    64. 64.

      rikyrah

      March 28, 2024 at 12:42 pm

      Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) posted at 9:30 AM on Thu, Mar 28, 2024:
      A complete travesty: “Saudi Arabia has been chosen as the chair of the UN commission that is supposed to promote gender equality and empower women around the world, after an unopposed bid for leadership” despite its “abysmal” record on women’s rights. https://t.co/NltoHavn1I
      (https://x.com/KenRoth/status/1773357033422516659?t=jWu2EhCwQx4bsRq_oMYNzA&s=03)

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    65. 65.

      rikyrah

      March 28, 2024 at 12:42 pm

      lips so pursed.

       

      Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 8:06 AM on Thu, Mar 28, 2024:
      GOP Rep. Dan Meuser says “it’s outrageous” for Biden to propose using federal funds to pay for the replacement of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore https://t.co/VLyFNksPAc
      (https://x.com/atrupar/status/1773335792221405561?t=8H1aEJ19SMHWZH4p_fv6sw&s=03)

       

       

      Caleb Dume (@ThaCalebDume) posted at 8:28 AM on Thu, Mar 28, 2024:
      That is the literal purpose of the Federal Government. Just say you don’t want to fund the bridge because you think it’ll stick it to the Blacks.

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    66. 66.

      rikyrah

      March 28, 2024 at 12:44 pm

      Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) posted at 6:45 AM on Thu, Mar 28, 2024:
      Linda Martell, Country’s Lost Pioneer

      She was the first Black female solo artist to play the Grand Ole Opry, but her promising country career was plagued by racism and ended almost as quickly as it began.

      Rolling Stone’s 2020 profile: https://t.co/RNUJJVSGiK https://t.co/r7E4V2fQYo
      (https://x.com/RollingStone/status/1773315348617703861?t=wPDQ-5uAYwDniFFE2-e_zA&s=03)

      Reply
    67. 67.

      p.a.

      March 28, 2024 at 12:46 pm

      Just off the top of my head: Tacoma Narrows bridge, 11/07/1940, from DEI?  Think not.  Andrea Doria/Stockholm 07/25/1956, DEI? 🤪, Hindenburg, 05/06/1937. DEI? 😂,  Titanic, 04/15/1912, DEI?  NO! Billy Zane’s fault!

      Reply
    68. 68.

      rikyrah

      March 28, 2024 at 12:47 pm

      Go Mr. Mayor!
      Make them mad! LOL

      Veronica McDonald🗣 (@Purify_toast17) posted at 10:41 AM on Thu, Mar 28, 2024:
      He has on a Baltimore jersey over his white button down. Give em some more to be mad about! 😂😂😂💪🏾
      (https://x.com/Purify_toast17/status/1773374760610566604?t=zTwQbVtQwD9OciEm0HQnOw&s=03)

      Reply
    69. 69.

      Shana

      March 28, 2024 at 12:49 pm

      @sdhays: Hubby, a retired lawyer, says it means she has no clerks who are docketing things. She did just have 2 clerks resign so sounds reasonable to me but IANAL.

      Reply
    70. 70.

      louc

      March 28, 2024 at 12:51 pm

      With these guys, it’s always projection: GOP official who claimed 2020 election was stolen voted illegally 9 times.

      Reply
    71. 71.

      WaterGirl

      March 28, 2024 at 12:51 pm

      @NotMax: No walk of shame today!

      Reply
    72. 72.

      comrade scotts agenda of rage

      March 28, 2024 at 12:51 pm

      @zhena gogolia:

      Cleek’s Law…on steroids.  Okay, in this case on hamberders.

      Reply
    73. 73.

      topclimber

      March 28, 2024 at 12:52 pm

      @Sure Lurkalot: Has he put the Bible he held at the Church near Lafayette Park up for sale, too? Some Christo Fascist would pay big bucks for that. Yes, the Don is slipping when he misses such grift chances.

      Reply
    74. 74.

      Gin & Tonic

      March 28, 2024 at 12:53 pm

      @rikyrah: When the I-35 bridge collapsed in Minnesota, the House of Representatives approved $250 million to rebuild it two days later, by a vote of 421-0. It passed the Senate by unanimous consent and was signed by W three days after that.

      Reply
    75. 75.

      Mousebumples

      March 28, 2024 at 12:53 pm

      Question for the jackal-tariat –

      My mom expressed concern over Biden’s age, asking who’s running the country. I pointed out that Biden seems very active and healthy for her age, but she’s probably thinking of my grandparents that recently passed away in their 80s.

      Talk up his good hires? How he leads on policy that the cabinet and staff implement? Other ideas?

      Thanks!

      Reply
    76. 76.

      SuzieC

      March 28, 2024 at 12:53 pm

      @Bruce K in ATH-GR: They floated that proposal to former Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

      Reply
    77. 77.

      JPL

      March 28, 2024 at 12:54 pm

      I ordered a puzzle for the grand imps, and it was supposed to arrive tomorrow.   Unfortunately, it has this message
      Your package is pending release from a Government Agency. Once they release it, your package will be on its way.

      Whoops!   The puzzle is not coming from overseas so it’s not held by custom.

      Reply
    78. 78.

      WaterGirl

      March 28, 2024 at 12:54 pm

      @sdhays: Not an attorney.  But I am guessing it could be incompetence, or it could be one more way to slow things down.

      If she never dockets anything, she doesn’t have to rule on anything.  And if she doesn’t have to rule, then there’s nothing for Jack Smith to take to the 11th circuit.

      I’m sure the lawyers will know, but in the meantime, those are my thoughts.

      Reply
    79. 79.

      teezyskeezy

      March 28, 2024 at 12:58 pm

      @louc: I mean if a guy votes illegally 9 times, you can see why he must think everyone is doing it and getting away with it. Of course, he didn’t get away with it, but he didn’t know that until after the 9th time.

      Reply
    80. 80.

      WaterGirl

      March 28, 2024 at 1:02 pm

      @BlueGuitarist: Biden chose his VP in the fine tradition of the Obama Biden relationship.

      Reply
    81. 81.

      UncleEbeneezer

      March 28, 2024 at 1:02 pm

      @Mousebumples: Have her watch the recent State of the Union address.  Then say: “he seems pretty competent and sharp to me.”  My wife lost her Mom and Dad last year, both in their 80’s.  Neither was even in the same galaxy as Joe Biden, when it comes to mental acuity.  Biden right now is sharper than almost anyone his age, and even a lot of people who are much younger.  He’s also the smartest and most competent of anyone running for President.  Trump has completely lost whatever marbles he ever had and RFK is a complete and utter dolt.  Biden’s administration is filled with extremely competent people, including VP Harris who has always seemed off-the-charts intelligent, like Obama.  So what exactly is mom worried about?  By any measure, re-electing Biden is the best (and only) choice for keeping our govt in sane, competent hands/minds.

      Reply
    82. 82.

      trollhattan

      March 28, 2024 at 1:03 pm

      @rikyrah:

      Let’s review: the bridge in question comprises, okay, comprised a portion of “Interstate 695.” Let’s ponder who created and paid for the Interstate Highway System. Thinking is hurrrrrd.

      Reply
    83. 83.

      Omnes Omnibus

      March 28, 2024 at 1:04 pm

      @karen marie: Why do you say that?  The federal system doesn’t have parole.

      Reply
    84. 84.

      trollhattan

      March 28, 2024 at 1:04 pm

      @JPL: That sounds like spam masquerading as actual communication.

      Reply
    85. 85.

      Betty

      March 28, 2024 at 1:05 pm

      @SFAW: I think it’s part of their wider effort to mock and needle Trump. They have other ads that promote his accomplishments.

      Reply
    86. 86.

      Melancholy Jaques

      March 28, 2024 at 1:05 pm

      @rikyrah:

      Imagine how much Biden would have raised if he wasn’t, like, the most unpopular president ever. Imagine how much Biden might have raised if the entire country plus Ireland didn’t think he was too old. Imagine how much he might have raised if only the Democrats hadn’t lost touch with real Americans. Imagine . . . I will stop now.

      Reply
    87. 87.

      WaterGirl

      March 28, 2024 at 1:06 pm

      @Mousebumples: Tell her that Biden is running the country and that he’s doing a damn good job of it.

      It seems like your suggestions concede her point that Joe Biden can’t possibly be running the country.

      Reply
    88. 88.

      JPL

      March 28, 2024 at 1:06 pm

      @trollhattan: nope   It was an order from Macy’s and it was from their tracking page.   It’s a Melissa and Doug puzzle that I added on in order to receive free shipping.   The other item is arriving tomorrow

      I’ll probably never know what flagged the item, but I do feel uncomfortable giving the item to the imps.

      I told my son that if men in suits knock on the door, I’m not answering.

      Reply
    89. 89.

      WaterGirl

      March 28, 2024 at 1:08 pm

      @JPL: Huh.  That seems odd. Can you contact the place you purchased it and ask for details?  And re-order?

      edit: Macy’s?  Weird.

      Reply
    90. 90.

      JPL

      March 28, 2024 at 1:10 pm

      @WaterGirl:  I assume they will open it and send it along.   I was going to give them it Easter, but I did send Peter the Rabbit books earlier, so I’m covered.

      Reply
    91. 91.

      AndyG

      March 28, 2024 at 1:10 pm

      Not sure if this has been discussed here,but all is not well in Judge Cannon’s chambers… https://davidlat.substack.com/p/judge-aileen-cannon-law-clerks-quit-on-her

      https://davidlat.substack.com/p/clerking-for-judge-aileen-cannon-why-clerks-quit

      Reply
    92. 92.

      mrmoshpotato

      March 28, 2024 at 1:12 pm

      @WaterGirl:

      P.S. Donnie does not look well~ 

      Well, when you’re a disgusting orange fascist sack of shit convicted rapist, I imagine it’s difficult to look well.

      Reply
    93. 93.

      JPL

      March 28, 2024 at 1:13 pm

      @AndyG: Saw that.   Fani is going to start this summer, I hope, and even if trump is able to delay, someone on trial will implicate him.

      Reply
    94. 94.

      mrmoshpotato

      March 28, 2024 at 1:15 pm

      @SiubhanDuinne:

      25 years for SBF!! 

      That’s it?!

      Reply
    95. 95.

      mrmoshpotato

      March 28, 2024 at 1:17 pm

      @Mike in NC:

      Fat Bastard looks like is shit. 

      Fixed.

      Reply
    96. 96.

      mrmoshpotato

      March 28, 2024 at 1:20 pm

      @Frankensteinbeck:

      As I’ve said before, Joe Biden looks like you hope you will at that age. Trump looks like you’re scared you will at that age.

      How many of his followers look at him and physically see themselves?

      All of them, Katie!

      Reply
    97. 97.

      Betty

      March 28, 2024 at 1:25 pm

      @trollhattan: The guy is a Republican businessman who represents rural PA.  He apparently missed the fairly recent story about federal assistance to repair the I-95 bridge outside Philly. Then again, maybe he doesn’t care about Philly either

      Reply
    98. 98.

      Jackie

      March 28, 2024 at 1:26 pm

      RFK Jr’s VP candidate is as nutso, if not more so than he is!

      “Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate has been a harsh critic of in-vitro fertilization, while funding alternative research on extending women’s reproductive years,” Politico reports.

      Nicole Shanahan has denounced IVF — calling it “one of the biggest lies that’s being told about women’s health today.”

      At the same time, she has also been a vocal proponent of and financial backer for unconventional research into the possibility of helping women having children into their 50s and exploring no-cost interventions to help women conceive, such as exposure to sunlight.

      “I’m not sure that there has been a really thorough mitochondrial respiration study on the effects of two hours of morning sunlight on reproductive health. I would love to fund something like that,” Shanahan said to a 2023 panel with the National Academy of Medicine, a group to which she had previously donated $100 million.

      The statement was met with chuckles, “Yeah, let’s do it,” she added. “I just have an intuition that could be interesting and maybe work.”

      I’m pretty sure this stance is going to take a vast amount of voters away from Biden! //

      Reply
    99. 99.

      Jeffro

      March 28, 2024 at 1:26 pm

      @MattF:Sometimes… I get the feeling that TFG isn’t all that enthused about a prospect of winning in November. Yeah, he has lots of fans who really really really wanna line up libtards and shoot them, but he’s getting on in years and loves to play golf.

      True but a) he has to win if he wants to stay out of prison and b) he lives for revenge after getting booted out of the sweetest grift he’s ever pulled the White House..

      For b), I was genuinely surprised that none of his GOP primary opponents (except maybe Christie?) wanted to take it right to him as a “one-term loser”.  I would have.

      Reply
    100. 100.

      rikyrah

      March 28, 2024 at 1:27 pm

      @Mousebumples:

      Not just him..but, his entire team. Remind her of the team

      Reply
    101. 101.

      Frankensteinbeck

      March 28, 2024 at 1:31 pm

      @Jackie:

      “I’m not sure that there has been a really thorough mitochondrial respiration study on the effects of two hours of morning sunlight on reproductive health

      I mean, that’s probably true.  There haven’t been a lot of studies on the amount of sodium in cola and how it affects driving, either.  Or how much listening to this woman blither affects the ability of astronauts to dance.

      Reply
    102. 102.

      mrmoshpotato

      March 28, 2024 at 1:34 pm

      @Sure Lurkalot: Wow.  You’re right.  I. Am. In. Awe!

      What a laundry list of Fuck-This-Bastard!

      Reply
    103. 103.

      Jeffro

      March 28, 2024 at 1:34 pm

      Interesting tactic by trumpov: “RFK Jr is a 1) lefty 2) spoiler candidate and 3) I love him!”

      1.Maybe make him appealing to ‘horseshoe’ Dems?
      2.Signal to the MAGA base that RFK Jr’s not an option if you really want trumpov to win?
      3.Try to keep RFK focused on attacking Biden?

      Or, more likely, 4. “I’m nuts and I just say whatever comes to mind no matter how incoherent”?

      Yeah, it’s trumpov, it’s 4.

      Former President Donald J. Trump attacked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate, on Wednesday morning, casting Mr. Kennedy as a liberal Democrat in disguise while also seeming to back him as a spoiler for President Biden’s campaign.

      Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, pointed in particular to Mr. Kennedy’s views on climate change and the environment, writing on his social media site that Mr. Kennedy was more “radical Left” than Mr. Biden.

      Yet he also professed support for Mr. Kennedy’s campaign, claiming that Mr. Kennedy would be likely to siphon votes from Mr. Biden. “I love that he is running!” Mr. Trump concluded.

      Reply
    104. 104.

      Mousebumples

      March 28, 2024 at 1:34 pm

      @UncleEbeneezer: yeah, I agree. And I don’t think she’ll vote for Trump, but I think she’s persuadable (and she lives in Wisconsin), so I’ll work on it. Thanks for he suggestion of the State of the Union. Not sure if we’ll have time to watch together, but I’ll suggest that.

      Reply
    105. 105.

      rikyrah

      March 28, 2024 at 1:37 pm

      Hannah Drake (@HannahDrake628) posted at 10:00 PM on Wed, Mar 27, 2024:
      Honey the way my soul shouted to hear this young Black man aka Mayor Brandon Scott speak with such conviction! “They should be afraid because that’s my purpose in life.”  https://t.co/tIVSwgf6Uz
      (https://x.com/HannahDrake628/status/1773183290129711549?t=mJE3UigAeHvCHwwF6jzSSQ&s=03)

      Reply
    106. 106.

      Mousebumples

      March 28, 2024 at 1:39 pm

      @WaterGirl: I’m also not sure what she thinks is/is not running the country. No president is awake 24/7, and things are delegated. I think it’s reasonable to concede that an 80+ year old (even Biden) may not be as involved in the minutae as a 40 year old. (and I think conceding that she has a reasonable question/concern may help with persuasion vs taking the you’re so totally wrong and here’s why approach – but that may be just knowing my mom, with different approaches going better for others)

      But he and his administration are doing a great job. And she even said herself the other day that Ronnie wasn’t running the country in his second term.

      Reply
    107. 107.

      mrmoshpotato

      March 28, 2024 at 1:40 pm

      @Mousebumples: Yes, yes.

      Reply
    108. 108.

      rikyrah

      March 28, 2024 at 1:40 pm

      Opening day for the White Sox.

      Both my parents were baseball fanatics, who loved to go to the games.

      Just thinking of them both , remembering the games that they would take me to. How I’d get my own program, and learn how to do scoring. We brought a ‘ transistor radio’, with an earpiece, so that we could follow along with the announcer….when I was growing up, that was Jack Brickhouse and Harry Caray.

      Just remembering them today.

      Reply
    109. 109.

      Mousebumples

      March 28, 2024 at 1:40 pm

      @rikyrah: yup, good points. I love Biden’s Cabinet selections, on the whole. Great expertise – and lots of women and persons of color and from the LGBTQ+ community. Thanks!

      Reply
    110. 110.

      Barbara

      March 28, 2024 at 1:42 pm

      Trump looks like my Uncle Jake in the year before he died.  He really looks bad.

      Reply
    111. 111.

      Old School

      March 28, 2024 at 1:43 pm

      @Sure Lurkalot:

      so it’s only natural that the quadrice-indicted twice-impeached popular-vote-losing adderall-huffing insurrection-leading testimony-ducking judge-threatening lawyer-ignoring witness-tampering day-one-dictatoring disabled-veteran-dishonoring inheritance-squandering rube-fleecing clown-makeup-smearing language-mangling serial-sexual-predating draft-dodging casino-bankrupting butler-bullying daughter-perving hush-money-paying real-estate-scamming bone-spur-faking ketchup-hurling justice-obstructing classified-war-plan-thieving golf-cheating weather-map-defacing horse-paste-promoting paper-towel-flinging race-baiting tax-evading evidence-destroying charity-defrauding money-laundering diaper-filling 88-count fluorescent tangerine felony factory is hawking Bibles now.

      Probably the most amazing thing about that list is how incomplete it is.

      Trump is so exhausting.

      Reply
    112. 112.

      JPL

      March 28, 2024 at 1:45 pm

      @rikyrah:  That’s such a sweet story.    A local restaurant is offering $3.00 hot dogs and $3.00 pints.

      Reply
    113. 113.

      JPL

      March 28, 2024 at 1:47 pm

      @Barbara: We seldom see trump without his makeup, so it’s difficult to judge changes.

      fingers crossed though

      Reply
    114. 114.

      mrmoshpotato

      March 28, 2024 at 1:47 pm

      @rikyrah:

      Opening day for the White Sox.

      Who? 😁

       

      Going to ball games with parents is always great, especially when we’re kids.

      Reply
    115. 115.

      West of the Rockies

      March 28, 2024 at 1:50 pm

      Here’s an analogy that may not resonate with everyone, but Cannon seems like a professor who isn’t grading papers or responding to emails but keeps assigning projects with minimal explanation or clear objectives.

      Reply
    116. 116.

      TBone

      March 28, 2024 at 1:52 pm

      @Betty: the rural folk sometimes hate the city dwelling folk (because blah and intellectual), mostly because they fear them.  This is doubly so for MAGA politicians here in PA.

      Reply
    117. 117.

      Attempted Chemistry

      March 28, 2024 at 1:53 pm

      @West of the Rockies: Well, I got a shiver down my spine, anyway.

      Reply
    118. 118.

      TBone

      March 28, 2024 at 1:56 pm

      @West of the Rockies: I think her objective is very clear.

      Reply
    119. 119.

      Leto

      March 28, 2024 at 2:00 pm

      @SiubhanDuinne: as others have said, simply not enough time. How many billions? Unrepentant to the fucking end. And his parents… two tiers doesn’t even begin to cover it.

      Reply
    120. 120.

      WaterGirl

      March 28, 2024 at 2:01 pm

      @mrmoshpotato: Oh my god, please don’t tell me you live on the Dark Side, supporting the Cubs?

      Reply
    121. 121.

      frosty

      March 28, 2024 at 2:06 pm

      Since it’s an Open Thread, one more Key Bridge comment. One of the commenters said this: “If they can fix it so there’s no way the ship would reach the support (would run aground), that would help a lot.”

      I read an interview with the Port of Savannah where they told the reporter it couldn’t happen because the bridge supports were on islands and a ship would run aground. Which made me think. The Port dredges the main shipping channel regularly and are using the dredge spoil to reconstruct Poplar and Hart-Miller Islands in the Bay. Set up a dike around the new bridge piers and fill it with dredge spoil to create the islands for safety. No worries about whether the dolphins or fenders would be strong enough.

      Reply
    122. 122.

      Lapassionara

      March 28, 2024 at 2:08 pm

      @Mousebumples: where does your mom get her news? If Fox, then she has been watching anti-Biden propaganda. Even my supposedly even handed local newspaper has run op-Ed’s questioning Biden’s stamina. So there is a lot of “Biden’s so old” floating out there.

      Not too long ago, the AARP magazine had an article on “superagers,” people in their 90’s who were still working. Maybe you can get a copy of that article to her. Not to mention the fact that Trump is showing signs of dementia.

      Reply
    123. 123.

      Mousebumples

      March 28, 2024 at 2:17 pm

      @Lapassionara: No cable, so largely newspapers. Though she lives in a red leaning area, so I don’t doubt that she talks to Trumpers on the regular.

      Not too long ago, the AARP magazine had an article on “superagers,” people in their 90’s who were still working.

      Looks like this one, thanks for the suggestion!

      Reply
    124. 124.

      moops

      March 28, 2024 at 2:23 pm

      I’m hoping the Lincoln  Project undertakes the truly horrible ads featuring the worst of Trump.

      Reply
    125. 125.

      WaterGirl

      March 28, 2024 at 2:33 pm

      @moops: I do like Biden’s recent in-your-face ads, taking it to Donnie.

      Reply
    126. 126.

      Bruce K in ATH-GR

      March 28, 2024 at 3:05 pm

      @WaterGirl: You know, I bet that’s the actual target of that ad up top: TFG. It’s like it was designed specifically to get under his skin and aggravate him into doing impulsive, stupid, self-destructive things.

      Reply
    127. 127.

      WaterGirl

      March 28, 2024 at 3:28 pm

      @Bruce K in ATH-GR: I hadn’t thought of it exactly like that, but I think you are right.  That was designed to humiliate Trump.  To show Donnie as the *loser he is.

      *When I hear loser I always think of the Spin City episode where Paul thinks the people making an L on their foreheads is a sign of respect – thinking the L is for his last name, Lassiter.

      Trump is more of a fool than Paul ever was.

      Reply
    128. 128.

      Ironcity

      March 28, 2024 at 3:50 pm

      @Bruce K in ATH-GR: Does TIFG need an advertisement to get him to do that?

      Reply
    129. 129.

      WaterGirl

      March 28, 2024 at 4:33 pm

      @Ironcity: Point taken, but if Trump saw that ad, I imagine he totally lost it, and it will eat away at him.

      Reply
    130. 130.

      sab

      March 28, 2024 at 6:45 pm

      @karen marie: I thought our legal jackals have been telling us that in Fed crimes you don’t get much off from your sentenced term.

      Reply
    131. 131.

      WaterGirl

      March 28, 2024 at 7:09 pm

      @sab: Yes, as Omnes said up thread:

       The federal system doesn’t have parole.

      But if I had never read that previously on BJ, I wouldn’t’ have known that about parole in the federal system.

      Reply
    132. 132.

      Paul in KY

      March 29, 2024 at 12:49 pm

      @rikyrah: Read the article. What a strong woman. Great voice too! I hope she does now get the recognition she deserved back then.

      Reply
    133. 133.

      Paul in KY

      March 29, 2024 at 12:50 pm

      @topclimber: I wouldn’t even believe it was the actual bible.  He lies like he breathes.

      Reply
    134. 134.

      Paul in KY

      March 29, 2024 at 12:51 pm

      @Mousebumples: Voting for him ensures TFG doesn’t “run the country”. That’s all that matters.

      Reply
    135. 135.

      Sister Golden Bear

      March 29, 2024 at 3:04 pm

      Bahahaha!

      Broke AZ GOP sells its brand new headquarters that it bought just nine months ago. 

      Reply

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