The Biden-Harris campaign is not your father’s Oldsmobile is not like any presidential campaign I’ve ever seen before, and I am totally here for it. Loved the Rogues’ Gallery, and this followed right below it.
Take a minute and listen to these short clips from the Biden-Harris Comms Director. Holy shit, he is good.
Biden-Harris Comms Director Michael Tyler: I’m not sure what scripture Trump is reading, I’ve read Matthew 5, nowhere does it say, blessed are the bullies and the hateful. It said blessed are the poor, meek, and hungry. Those are the values that Joe Biden leads with every single… pic.twitter.com/45DJOACrU7
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 7, 2024
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Biden-Harris Comms Director Michael Tyler: Trump is openly telling you that he’s hostile and doesn’t care about certain communities, certain cities. You’d have a very stark choice with Joe Biden who wakes up every single day thinking about how he’s going to bring people together pic.twitter.com/2ROutKyCI1
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 7, 2024
Open thread!
Baud
Someone hasn’t purchased the Trump Bible.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Some enterprising person should make a short version of Trump’s bible.
Or maybe even Trump’s 10 commandments. That would be short and sweet.
WaterGirl
I absolutely love the in-your-face nature of the Biden campaign this time around. It’s Joe’s last campaign, and he is leaving it all on the field.
trollhattan
@Baud: Hey now, I want every mention to include “easy-reading” when invoking Trump Bible®.
Oddest pitch phrase, ever.
Nukular Biskits
Good late mornin’, y’all!
WaterGirl
@Nukular Biskits: Good morning! Even if it is afternoon. :-)
WaterGirl
What would Trump’s 10 commandments be?
WaterGirl
Uh oh, the NV thermometer reads $6,666 – is that bad?
Mousebumples
A fill in the blanks/mad Libs Bible aka DIY Religious Cult.
Seems like that would be right up Trump’s alley.
Mousebumples
Bad for Trump. 😈
Omnes Omnibus
Rogues’ Gallery, not Rouges’ Gallery. Please.
bbleh
@WaterGirl: and what I find particularly fun about this is, it’s a tried-and-true Trump tactic, eg as he showed and is showing in his two NY trials by going after one judge’s clerk and the other’s daughter. It’s deliberately in-your-face and intended to provoke a response that will blow back on the other guy. And now it’s being used on him, and if there’s anybody who appears vulnerable to it — it’s him!
Press on! No rest for the wicked, say I.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: I knew that didn’t look right, but I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it! thank you.
WaterGirl
@bbleh: Exactly that.
Nukular Biskits
It’d be interesting to see the responses from Republicans when asked if they’d bought a Trump Bible.
Jackie
@WaterGirl:
Are you sure? Joe could take a page from TIFG’s book and proclaim himself President for Life😉
Can’t you just hear the MAGAts howling in fury?
TBone
Good news carry-over from last thread:
BURLINGTON, Vt. –
A man was charged Sunday with setting a fire outside the Vermont office of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, federal prosecutors said.
Shant Soghomonian, 35, who was previously of Northridge, Calif., entered the building on Friday and went to Sanders’ third-floor office where security video showed him spraying a liquid on the door and setting it afire, officials said.
FastEdD
Love the Olds commercial. Drown it in reverb because it’s the 80’s! Of course the 80’s are now a long time ago, and to be fair it is not easy to market a new car whose name starts with “Old.” They did race those things in IMSA and they were pretty good.
I enjoy reading Jalopnik for amusing car news usually done from a not-so-republican point of view. They had one this week that I hated:
https://jalopnik.com/what-s-the-stereotypical-old-person-s-new-car-1851385811
Dripping with ageism and condescension. Somehow I am more sensitive to ageism now I am one. I got socks older than you, you little snot noses.
WaterGirl
@TBone: I hope he spends decades in prison for that.
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: So is that technical correctness or pedantry?
TBone
@WaterGirl: me too, he is a dangerous moron. And stupid is hard to correct.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: @Omnes Omnibus:
Totally depends on whether you are on the giving end, or the receiving end! :-)
I was so focused on getting the apostrophe correct – I suck at that with plurals – that I couldn’t figure out why it still looked wrong.
edit: just like “minor” surgery depends on whether it’s you or someone else.
trollhattan
@FastEdD:
My first “my car” was a well-aged ’69 Cutlass coupe. Very similar to this one.
Era of speed far exceeding brakes and handling, although I did work on taming that second part during the time I had it. Those drum brakes though….
Admit I make fun of every Avalon driver, Japanese for “Buick.” And every time I see a 20-something driving a Buick or Town Car I know a nana has died.
Josie
@WaterGirl: “Roges’ Gallery” up top. Shouldn’t that be “Rogues’ Gallery?”
ETA: It still doesn’t look right, but I did google it.
Memory Pallas
@WaterGirl: In the original, your commandment #1 is stretched over two separate entries, so you could easily pad that one out. I would also submit “honor thy father (mother NA) by making yourself sexually available to them – but only if they think you are hot.”
WaterGirl
@Josie: I fucked it up a new way as I was fixing it. I thought I had a U in both places, so I took the wrong one out, so I thought.
I just cleaned my glasses now, which should help. :-)
Josie
@WaterGirl:
Lol. My sons tease me because I am not a good speller. Google is now my friend.
Brachiator
@Omnes Omnibus:
Rouges’ Gallery is where Trump buys his orange makeup.
FastEdD
@trollhattan: Good looking car! I gotta admit I used to own a 71 Vega and an 84 Chevette. School buses would pass me going uphill and the kids would point at me and laugh. Not any more!
trollhattan
@Brachiator:
Rogue Gallery.
RaflW
This made it to CNN & Bloomberg, but seems like it got very little broader play. Which of course is one of the reasons Bannon’s flood the zone with shit strategy is used so heavily. We just can’t process the avalanche of criminality and corruption.
Two investors in Trump Media insider trading case plead guilty
CNN Business – Matt Egan – April 3, 2024
Florida venture capitalist Michael Shvartsman and his brother Gerald Shvartsman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to participating in an insider trading scheme linked to the blockbuster deal that brought former President Donald Trump’s social media business public.
Each of the brothers pleaded guilty in New York to one count of securities fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, according to federal prosecutors.
The two brothers were arrested in June and charged with illegally trading on nonpublic knowledge of a shell company’s secret plan to buy Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of struggling social network Truth Social.
“Michael and Gerald Shvartsman admitted in court that they received confidential, inside information about an upcoming merger between DWAC and Trump Media and used that information to make profitable, but illegal, open-market trades,” Damian Williams, the US Attorney, SDNY, said in a statement.
WaterGirl
@Brachiator: Uh, yeah, that’s what I meant! :-)
trollhattan
@FastEdD:
Oof, a Vega AND a Chevette.
Judges would also accept Pinto and Maverick. :-)
Friends’ Vegas had this tendency to continually shed parts, perhaps in a struggle to find a better power-to-weight ratio.
trollhattan
Writers getting lazy again.
Nukular Biskits
Since we’re talking about first vehicles, lessee, all within the span of 5 years:
1960 Mercury Comet
1965 Ford F100
1971 Plymouth Fury
1972 Ford LTD
1975 Pontiac Lemans
1977 Buick Skylark
Kelly
@WaterGirl: I’ve made this spelling mistake emailing about Oregon’s Rogue river many times
hueyplong
@Gin & Tonic: In the internet world, it’s technical correctness if I do it, and pedantry if you do it.
ETA, seeing that WaterGirl got there first, it was technical correctness when I did it, but shameful pedantry when she did it.
MagdaInBlack
@WaterGirl: Probably if we insert “get caught” after the “Shall not” in all but 2 of them, we’ve nailed it
(eta: and of you do get caught, deny, deny, deny)
FastEdD
@trollhattan: I still have the Vega. Three little rust flakes in an envelope.
FastEdD
@Nukular Biskits: All of them are good Urban Assault vehicles.
WaterGirl
@MagdaInBlack: Yeah, but then there’s not room for the extras.
What would Trump’s 10 commandments for himself be?
Brachiator
Short clips are good, especially for YouTube and TikTok, etc. Analytics show that there is an audience that definitely prefers and responds to short clips. Also, many younger people do not care about and will not read long Twitter threads.
I think that Biden-Harris is doing well at getting their message out. They may need to do more to bypass the lazy political press.
WaterGirl
@Brachiator: Is Biden doing interviews with local media? I love when they do that, and the fact that the big guys squeal makes it all the better.
FastEdD
@WaterGirl: Reminds me of the British mariner’s toast.
To lying, stealing and cheating! (clink)
If you lie, may it only be to protect the feelings of someone you love. If you steal, may it only be to steal someone’s heart. If you cheat, may it only be to cheat death.
The exact opposite of TFG.
Death Panel Truck
@trollhattan: In the ‘80s I had a 1962 Buick Electra 225 I bought for $335 and a $15 college algebra book from a guy who inherited it from his grandmother. All it needed was new tires and a radiator repair. It was one of the best damned cars I ever owned, and this at-the-time twenty-something DGAF who pointed and laughed. It was reliable transportation, and I had a girlfriend who loved it.
wjca
Except that, if it’s an obvious typo or “#@%&!! autocorrect” thing, it is by definition a technical correction.
WaterGirl
@FastEdD:
I like that!
Nukular Biskits
@Death Panel Truck:
The hood on that thing was measured in acres.
JWR
@trollhattan: Don’t forget the Chevy “Luv” small pickup truck. A friend of mine actually had one.
VFX Lurker
“I am the Trump, the Greatest That Ever Lived. Thou shalt have no other celebrities before me.”
Tony Jay
@Jackie:
I guaran-frikking-tee that during one of his badly attended Grievance Monologue events, Stench will cap an incoherent screed about how Democrats are in favour of compulsory abortion for all white male babies by telling his wrinkled fan(very)base that he promises to be their President… For Life, then he’ll turn to the nearest camera and smirk.
If he gets a dopamine-high from the response, he’ll keep on doing it, and when Democrats slam him for it the Village will cover for him by tut-tutting over “what some say” is their anti-Life rhetoric.
Death Panel Truck
@Nukular Biskits: Yes, it was. And the back seat wasn’t exactly small, either. Just ask my girlfriend, who is now my wife of 33 years. 😎
Nukular Biskits
@Death Panel Truck:
Well … I started to mention those backseats but I figured I’d let that pass. LOL.
I’ll plead the 5th on that myself.
JaySinWA
@WaterGirl:
The cheating-liar’s digest condensed version would probably less than 10
Sister Golden Bear
If Trump wants to spend the next 27 years imprisoned on Robbin Island, his offer is acceptable.
Sister Golden Bear
@WaterGirl:
The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition except that even the Ferengi would refuse to do business with him, since they know they’d get stiffed.
PST
trollhattan
@JWR:
Ooh, Chevy Luv, wasn’t it a rebadged Isuzu?
Until they closed a “loophole” with a pickup-specific import tariff, Japanese trucks like the Toyota and Datsun were the cheapest thing you could buy. A LOT of folks I knew had them and it was also a time when it was still legal to ride in the bed, which 20-somethings were more than happy to do.
Let us now ponder the Subaru Brat, with its two plastic jump seats in the bed.
Sister Golden Bear
@PST: I want a girl with a short skirt and a long, jacket
Gin & Tonic
@Death Panel Truck: Speaking of back seats, I tell people my Miata is the most fun you can have in a car without a back seat.
HumboldtBlue
This country is fucking doomed. It’s over, the meteor needs to come quickly because we are fucking doomed by the stupidest people in all of human history. There are no words.
Scout211
@HumboldtBlue: Okay, that’s funny. I clicked through to the article. Link
It’s not as crazy as it sounds but it is a bit more ominous and very Republican. Shorter Governor Sanders: “Let’s rob the funds for emergencies so we can eat, drink and enjoy the eclipse! Partay, Akansas!!”
Also, too: “Can the supply chains function in the dark for a few minutes? I don’t think so. Let’s rob the emergency fund!”
MagdaInBlack
@Scout211: Thank you. I was sitting here wondering ” do they not have night in Arkansas?”
Matt McIrvin
@Scout211: Yeah, I’m not sure this is actually a bad idea at all. A lot of local governments in and near the totality path are freaking out about a flood of tourists acting and driving like dumbasses in areas that were not built to support large numbers of visitors. It’s something like a hurricane evacuation.
trollhattan
@WaterGirl:
1. “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
2. “Remember my fucking birthday and don’t get me anything cheap, or regifted.”
trollhattan
@Scout211: Shorter Possum Queen: “We’re going to be infested with out-of-towners and many of them will be godless Gaia-worshipers.”
I can’t envision another reason to visit Arkansas (not the Ozarks?!?) but for some reason, NCAA “West Region” track and field champs will be held there this year.
Tony Jay
@WaterGirl:
1) Trump!
2) Mine!
3) Gimme!
4) Trump!
5) Obey!
6) Grovel!
7) Trump!
8) Pay me!
9) More!
10) Ivanka!
Jackie
This is an interesting thought: “All in the Family” explains Biden’s strength with boomers:
This “new generation of seniors” is right where a lot of us jackals fit in!
WaterGirl
@trollhattan: Ha!
WaterGirl
@Tony Jay: Do we have a winner?
SteverinoCT
@trollhattan: A friend’s Chevette ran out of gas a block shy of the station, so I volunteered to push it. She forgot to put it in neutral, which I discovered when I gave a mighty shove and the engine turned over.
Another friend needed an a/c compressor for his Corvette; he found one at a junkyard off a Chevette. Imagine the device the brackets both engines, and what happened in the Chevette when it kicked in.
Chris T.
@FastEdD:
I … “inherited” a Chevette (don’t remember what year it was, probably late 1970s to early 1980s though). I called it a “Chevy Shove-It”, as in, you needed to get out and push to get it moving at any sort of speed.
I understand they made an even-more-underpowered diesel version at some point. Hard to believe.
(I bought a VW Golf GT “hot hatch” to replace it when it was starting to really fall apart. What a difference: lighter weight body, much better suspension, and 102 horsepower.)
Uncle Cosmo
@Nukular Biskits: Tom Lehrer, as always, has had that covered for decades (if not centuries):
(Bright College Days)
Uncle Cosmo
Second car I bought new (after the disaster of a 1974 Chevy Nova)* was a 1978 Olds Cutlass Salon halfastback sedan. Looked like a Chevy Citation on automotive growth hormone. But it was a great car – comfy, roomy, ran well, near-zero maintenance, and a trunk that looked minuscule from the outside but was quite capacious (ran for an extra two feet under the rear window shelf).
Not a big seller, and soon redesigned, but if GM had been smarter they could’ve sold bazillions of them in the ‘burbs: A minor redesign to attach the rear window to the trunk lid & hinge the whole assembly at the top, a locking mechanism to permit it to lock open in a horizontal position; fold-down rear seat; plastic accordion side & rear attachments to fold up from the trunk floor & attach to the locked-open trunk lid – & shazaam, the cargo capacity of a station wagon d’urgence emerges butterfly-like from the cocoon of a sedan. (Coulda done the same thing on a smaller scale with the Citation as well. Whadda buncha bozos!)
* Don’t get me started on that…