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.
— 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
Baud
And Biden has a day job!
WaterGirl
@Baud: How much “Executive Time” does Biden get?
P.S. Donnie does not look well~
zhena gogolia
Trump looks awful. Why are there any people who plan to vote for him? Why?
WaterGirl
@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?
WereBear
I love me some Dark Brandon. I donated and also got the mug!
rikyrah
@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.
SFAW
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.
SiubhanDuinne
25 years for SBF!!
Tom Levenson
@SiubhanDuinne: He got off easy.
I seriously expected four decades.
Are there good behavior modifications available to him, I wonder.
SiubhanDuinne
@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.
Scout211
👍
Baud
@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.)
SiubhanDuinne
@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.
Mike in NC
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…
karen marie
@SiubhanDuinne: Not nearly enough. He’ll be out in 12.
SFAW
@SiubhanDuinne:
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.
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: Thank you, I hadn’t seen that!
Jackie
@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!
B1naryS3rf
@zhena gogolia:
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.
WaterGirl
@SFAW: That ad is for norms, not us.
Frankensteinbeck
@Mike in NC:
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?
SFAW
@Baud:
I hope that you’re just reminding the jackals, not that this is an epiphany for you.
WaterGirl
@Tom Levenson: If it’s federal, I don’t think they do that.
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.
WaterGirl
@karen marie: I thought it was only state prosecutions that did that.
WaterGirl
@MattF: Pretty sure he is enthused about the idea of pardoning himself, which shouldn’t even be a thing.
MattF
@WaterGirl: Yeah, and that can’t be delegated.
Frankensteinbeck
@MattF:
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.
Gin & Tonic
@Tom Levenson: Indeed he did get off easy. Madoff got 150 years, IIRC.
SFAW
@Frankensteinbeck:
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?
The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion
@MattF:
por qué no los dos
Scout211
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.
RevRick
@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.
Freemark
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.
Eunicecycle
@Scout211: other defendents have tried this and it did not fly. But more delay!
NotMax
Yeah, have had nights like that too.
;)
TBone
inimitable eloquence on bible thumping
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/what-kind-of-dipshit-buys-a-bible
terraformer
@SiubhanDuinne: Good! Now maybe I won’t have to see his smirking mug on every news site
sdhays
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?
sdhays
@SFAW: I think the target is the political media with the intention of changing the narrative about who’s “vigorous”.
TBone
@sdhays: a super secret method of evading public scrutiny. Maxwell Smart style.
Baud
@sdhays:
Either the filings are sealed, or some judges like to keep filings off the docket until all briefing is completed.
RevRick
@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.
Baud
@sdhays:
That makes sense. The media wasted so much time debating Biden’s fitness when they knew first hand that he was perfectly fine.
Baud
@RevRick:
Especially pop up ads.
smith
He’s already demonstrated that you can be “president” and still spend most of your time playing golf.
A Man for All Seasonings (formerly Geeno)
@WereBear: Do they have one where the eyes glow when the cup is warm?
sdhays
@Baud: So all it means is that stuff is happening that we don’t know anything about?
TeezySkeezy
@Tom Levenson: If he serves the entirety of 25 years, it’s not “easy.” He’s lost his best years.
Baud
@sdhays:
Possibly. I haven’t looked into it.
Chief Oshkosh
@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.
Melancholy Jaques
@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.
Ken
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.)
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”.
rikyrah
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)
rikyrah
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)
rikyrah
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)
sdhays
@Baud: Ok. Thanks for helping me decode that tweet.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@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.
BlueGuitarist
@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/
John S.
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.
CaseyL
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.
rikyrah
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)
Sure Lurkalot
@TBone:
From the link:
BJ’s own Mrmoshpotato may need to up their game (no offense intended)…
rikyrah
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)
rikyrah
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.
rikyrah
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)
p.a.
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!
rikyrah
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)
Shana
@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.
louc
With these guys, it’s always projection: GOP official who claimed 2020 election was stolen voted illegally 9 times.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: No walk of shame today!
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@zhena gogolia:
Cleek’s Law…on steroids. Okay, in this case on hamberders.
topclimber
@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.
Gin & Tonic
@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.
Mousebumples
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!
SuzieC
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: They floated that proposal to former Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
JPL
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.
WaterGirl
@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.
teezyskeezy
@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.
WaterGirl
@BlueGuitarist: Biden chose his VP in the fine tradition of the Obama Biden relationship.
UncleEbeneezer
@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.
trollhattan
@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.
Omnes Omnibus
@karen marie: Why do you say that? The federal system doesn’t have parole.
trollhattan
@JPL: That sounds like spam masquerading as actual communication.
Betty
@SFAW: I think it’s part of their wider effort to mock and needle Trump. They have other ads that promote his accomplishments.
Melancholy Jaques
@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.
WaterGirl
@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.
JPL
@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.
WaterGirl
@JPL: Huh. That seems odd. Can you contact the place you purchased it and ask for details? And re-order?
edit: Macy’s? Weird.
JPL
@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.
AndyG
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
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl:
Well, when you’re a disgusting orange fascist sack of shit convicted rapist, I imagine it’s difficult to look well.
JPL
@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.
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne:
That’s it?!
mrmoshpotato
@Mike in NC:
Fixed.
mrmoshpotato
@Frankensteinbeck:
All of them, Katie!
Betty
@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
Jackie
RFK Jr’s VP candidate is as nutso, if not more so than he is!
I’m pretty sure this stance is going to take a vast amount of voters away from Biden! //
Jeffro
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 pulledthe 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.
rikyrah
@Mousebumples:
Not just him..but, his entire team. Remind her of the team
Frankensteinbeck
@Jackie:
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.
mrmoshpotato
@Sure Lurkalot: Wow. You’re right. I. Am. In. Awe!
What a laundry list of Fuck-This-Bastard!
Jeffro
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.
Mousebumples
@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.
rikyrah
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)
Mousebumples
@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.
mrmoshpotato
@Mousebumples: Yes, yes.
rikyrah
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.
Mousebumples
@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!
Barbara
Trump looks like my Uncle Jake in the year before he died. He really looks bad.
Old School
@Sure Lurkalot:
Probably the most amazing thing about that list is how incomplete it is.
Trump is so exhausting.
JPL
@rikyrah: That’s such a sweet story. A local restaurant is offering $3.00 hot dogs and $3.00 pints.
JPL
@Barbara: We seldom see trump without his makeup, so it’s difficult to judge changes.
fingers crossed though
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah:
Who? 😁
Going to ball games with parents is always great, especially when we’re kids.
West of the Rockies
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.
TBone
@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.
Attempted Chemistry
@West of the Rockies: Well, I got a shiver down my spine, anyway.
TBone
@West of the Rockies: I think her objective is very clear.
Leto
@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.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: Oh my god, please don’t tell me you live on the Dark Side, supporting the Cubs?
frosty
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.
Lapassionara
@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.
Mousebumples
@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.
Looks like this one, thanks for the suggestion!
moops
I’m hoping the Lincoln Project undertakes the truly horrible ads featuring the worst of Trump.
WaterGirl
@moops: I do like Biden’s recent in-your-face ads, taking it to Donnie.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@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.
WaterGirl
@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.
Ironcity
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: Does TIFG need an advertisement to get him to do that?
WaterGirl
@Ironcity: Point taken, but if Trump saw that ad, I imagine he totally lost it, and it will eat away at him.
sab
@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.
WaterGirl
@sab: Yes, as Omnes said up thread:
But if I had never read that previously on BJ, I wouldn’t’ have known that about parole in the federal system.
Paul in KY
@rikyrah: Read the article. What a strong woman. Great voice too! I hope she does now get the recognition she deserved back then.
Paul in KY
@topclimber: I wouldn’t even believe it was the actual bible. He lies like he breathes.
Paul in KY
@Mousebumples: Voting for him ensures TFG doesn’t “run the country”. That’s all that matters.
Sister Golden Bear
Bahahaha!
Broke AZ GOP sells its brand new headquarters that it bought just nine months ago.