I haven’t seen the movie, but this was fun.
Recap of today’s rule vote pic.twitter.com/0F1tZDfvJ3
— Congressman Jared Moskowitz (@RepMoskowitz) April 19, 2024
Upcoming legislation reported by Jackie in the previous thread:
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the former chair of the January 6 select committee, has filed legislation that would strip Secret Service protection for anyone sentenced to jail for a felony.
The Act may be cited as the ‘‘Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable Former Protectees Act’’ or the ‘‘DISGRACED Former Protectees Act’’.
I like it!
Open thread.
Tony Jay
Yay for Giant Mouse!
oldgold
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/man-apparently-sets-himself-on-fire-outside-courthouse-where-trump-is-on-trial/ar-AA1njU1v
Crazy.
trollhattan
Republicans see opening for prosecuting Obama for felony presidentin’ while Black, and prosecuting the Clenis for obvious reasons. “See how YOU like it” said Rep Somebody(R).
WaterGirl
@oldgold: I’ve got money that says when Trump makes a statement, it will be about how awesome Trump is to have inspired someone like that, and there will be nothing about the awfulness of this person having done that, or the loss of life (or however it turns out for this man, but it can’t be good).
Old School
I hope Nancy Pelosi doesn’t die getting this funding passed.
oldgold
More, from NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/nyregion/man-on-fire-trump.html
TBone
@WaterGirl: he’ll definitely be chuffed about it and declare the man a martyr.
MomSense
I may have found a house. Realtor is on it. It’s a crazy, old house but it’s in beautiful condition except for the kitchen. I’d rather do the kitchen the way I want it so I’m ok with that. Reminds me of the house I grew up in. Big front porch and next to the town library, which is about the only thing in the town.
TBone
@MomSense: congrats and good luck! Woo hoo!
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@MomSense:
Zillow listing? I know, too public to share here but anybody buying an old house is something I love to see.
Poe Larity
Could someone set the courageous walk from the House to Senate this week to the Benny Hill theme?
smith
@TBone: I’ve seen reports that the pamphlets the guy threw around had to do with NYU being run by the mob, or something like that. It may be a seriously unbalanced person just taking advantage of all the media present.
Ken
I like the DISGRACED act, but would prefer that it also required the felon to reimburse the government for all protection costs between the time of the felony and the time of conviction. Claw back some of that money Trump got for booking the Secret Service into his own hotels….
Elizabelle
Tragic. Such unsettled times brings out the crazy. I was hoping it would not be a Gaza protester.
All the Q garbage and conspiracy mongering. Accumulating a body count.
We have had several self immolations in recent years, for varying reasons.
Mike in NC
Holding out hope the guy who set himself on fire was named ‘Eric’.
Elizabelle
@smith: That is what it sounds like.
trollhattan
@MomSense:
Porches are a lost art. Hope things work out and you get it!
WaterGirl
@Old School: I assume that’s a reference to the movie I haven’t seen?
Baud
@MomSense:
👍
smith
@Elizabelle: Here’s more from the Daily Beast. It looks like just a sad case of a deluded individual set on “self-destruct.”
prostratedragon
@MomSense: All you had to say was, “big front porch,” though the adjacent library is another strong plus. Good luck getting it.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: I am so excited for you!
Is there room for a garden?
RaflW
From Jackie in the earlier thread: “per Maggie Haberman, TIFG looks very messy today.”
I assume he’ll fly to Mar-a-Nogo for the weekend, and look a little bit fresher Monday. But if this goes on for 5 more weeks, he’s gonna look like death warmed over by the end.
He’s having to submit to being in one boring place all day, 4 days per week (I think? What’s the Wednesdays thing?). His good-news pablum-printer is forced to sit too far away to pass him notes, I believe. And he just generally is being deprived of his narcissistic oxygen (like being applauded at dinner every night at his FL ‘club’).
Poor dear. …
Suffer.
trollhattan
@Mike in NC:
“Hey dad, you asked for barbecue and I” [fwoooosh!]
Bupalos
Can’t say I care for that kind of legislative stunting and the punishment for any given felony should end at the punishment for the felony, not the “felon” label. Leave that abuse to the wingers.
WaterGirl
@RaflW: Justice Merchan has a standing court thing on Wednesdays, which sounds a bit like a diversion program for folks with psychological issues.
Fair Economist
Source
Jackie
@TBone: Hmmm… TIFG wants to be a MAGA martyr 🤔
WaterGirl
Does anyone have a good, short summary of the rule shenanigans yesterday?
MomSense
@WaterGirl:
There is a back yard behind the barn with raised beds and some fruit trees. The front and side yards are small and I’ll probably make them gardens and get rid of the lawn but I’ll take my time.
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
Yes, the house is in Maine’s dairy capital and home of fedco seeds and trees. Yellow and green house with a front porch next to the library.
ETA the library is on the historic register. It was designed by John Calvin Stevens.
TBone
@smith: he’s a Florida man. I dunno, but it seems like the location for his act is a statement. As well as the timing.
Also this from Daily Beast posted above
Old School
@WaterGirl:
Yes, that’s a movie spoiler.
Ken
Sounds like the premise for a TV series, possibly with supernatural themes. Small rural town sixty miles from nowhere with nothing but a few houses, a gas station, and a huge library. I can already picture the three-story Queen Anne facade…
MomSense
@Ken:
Much less ornate!! Yeah there’s nothing but an old railroad, a library, lots of big dairy farms, and a seed company.
Ken
@Fair Economist: From some of the reports I’ve seen, it doesn’t always result in a stuck accelerator. Sometimes the piece slips to the side and wedges under the brake pedal, preventing its use.
smith
@TBone: True, and I won’t be surprised if it turns out that he’s MAGA in addition to all his other conspiratorial delusions, but only as part of a complex of disturbed thought. An awful lot of extreme lone wolf actors seem to fit that profile.
TBone
@RaflW: ❤️
Suzanne
@MomSense: Crazy old houses are so great.
Timill
@MomSense:
Like they say: Location, Location, Location.
MomSense
@RaflW:
Did I read that he crapped his pants in court yesterday?
Jay C
@TBone:
Yeah: this via NYT:
WaterGirl
@MomSense: It sounds lovely!
How many people in the town?
They say you do more work the year you move into the house than you do in the 7 years the follow. Definitely true for me, but then I was closer to 25 then, and it’s surely different when you’re not still a young pup.
MomSense
@Suzanne:
The mill work is amazing. Oak pocket doors with original hardware.
TBone
@Fair Economist: 😆
WaterGirl
@Jay C: It’s horrifying that a high-ranking, or even low ranging, police department official would relieve a name before officially identified.
Is someone going to learn this about their brother when they turn on the radio in the car?
Someone like that should not be a high-ranking anything.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Hey, fellow library neighbor! My town’s library is next door to this building.
MomSense
@Timill:
That’s a big deal for me. My mom can sit on the porch this summer and walk next door to the library to read the paper. The elementary school is .1 mile away and hopefully she can see the walkers and the buses go by.
MomSense
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Love it!
Spanky
@MomSense: So are you bidding for it? You say the “realtor is on it”, but that’s kinda indefinite.
We’re in an 1810/1850s/1970s hybrid down here, and are definitely rooting for you!
TBone
@Jackie: I hope fat ass farts so loudly that it has to be recorded by the Court Reporter. I wonder what the shorthand key for that looks like 😆 and for anyone that has cult membership as part of their very identity, I can’t work up much sympathy. It’s willful, petulant, ignorant selfishness. Like Ginni Thomas.
Jay C
@WaterGirl:
Agree in principle: although it sounds like ol’ Max was definitely looking for the publicity for his “manifesto” (it’s already been linked online); and would probably applaud the coverage….
MomSense
@WaterGirl:
Just shy of 3,500. My Aunt is going to visit in the fall and I’m going to ask for her help planning the garden. She designed major gardens including some at Huntington Gardens. I don’t want to have to mow.
Geminid
@WaterGirl: The Rules Committee met for several hours yesterday afternoon and evening and proceeded to prescribe precise procedures.* They also considered which amendments to allow to be debated and voted upon tomorrow.
The key votes were carried 8 to 3, with Republicans Roy, Norman and some other knuckledragger voting no and 4 other Republicans and the 4 Democrats voting yes. The Rule they passed sets the terms of tomorrow’s debate and votes.
John Bresnahan and Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News tweeted as the meeting went along.
* My knowledge of House rules is somewhat general.
MomSense
@Spanky:
She is.
TBone
@smith: ugh it’s gonna be a long slog. The only way to is through. The next, smarter guy to hold sway is the one I worry about the most.
me
@Jay C: https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside appears to be the thing in question. Seems incoherent except the part about Peter Thiel begin a piece of shit and cryptocurrency is a ponzi scheme.
CaseyL
@MomSense:
I *love* crazy old houses. Rooms that open up off one another, strange alcoves and niches, built-in cabinets, wood-framed hallways… I love them so much, and wish you all the luck in landing this one.
Kristine
@MomSense: Good luck!!
Melancholy Jaques
@RaflW:
It is a little surprising that a person with access to the best makeup and tailoring people in America looks like a failing used car salesman.
TBone
@Jay C: he could’ve used a gal like Trump’s emotional support printer assistant. The stories might’ve been more uplifting.
raven
Strap it on for a fun read.
Read Max Azzarello Manifesto About Lighting Himself on Fire at Trump Trial
https://www.newsweek.com/read-max-azzarello-manifesto-about-lighting-himself-fire-trump-trial-1892368
MomSense
@Kristine:
I had walked through a few too many Modulars with plastic flooring. Solid is good.
smith
No kidding: Trump warns ‘Obama, Bush and Biden in big trouble’ if his legal troubles don’t vanish
He’ll go after Carter, too, if he’s still with us.
Suzanne
@MomSense: OHHHHHHH fantastic. When we opened the walls up, we were hoping that our pocket doors were still there, but alas. Just the tracks.
Pocket doors >>>>>> barn doors. By a lot.
TBone
@WaterGirl: the official press conference said they’d already spoken to his family, who had no idea he was in NYC.
NotMax
@MomSense
“Balzac!”
//
Nelle
Holy Sheeeiitt! I usually don’t answer unknown numbers but I picked up on this one because it was a 202 area code. It was my Republican Congressman. In person. I’ve said here that I’ve been calling every week to fund Ukraine. He said he just wanted to talk to me about his ideas, my ideas, and the vote coming up tomorrow. He will be supporting Ukraine. We chatted for 13 minutes. He talked about his trip to Ukraine (one of the few Republicans to do that this past year). Also about clawing back at least the interest on frozen Russian money to give to Ukraine for weapons and for infrastructure.
I did not expect that.
Baud
@Nelle:
Whoa. Almost makes you want to believe they’re redeemable.
TBone
@raven: he’s MAGA and Qanon, no doubt about it for me.
raven
trollhattan
@Jay C: Didn’t even have the decency to wait for a comet.
ETA BBC: The man’s motive is unknown, and he is in a critical condition in hospital, the NYPD has said.
TBone
@smith: I bet that helped push today’s Florida man going over the cliff.
TBone
@NotMax: 😆😆😆
Sure Lurkalot
@MomSense: Good luck, hope it’s home sweet home for you soon!
Baud
@raven:
D’Oh.
TBone
@Baud: yeah, nah
Nelle
@Baud: I don’t think totally redeemable, but I believe in working the margins for a little of what I want. Plant the seeds, start the ripples….
Baud
@Nelle:
You did good. Kudos.
Bill Arnold
@TBone:
Apparently Trump can’t stop farting during trial (Henry Giardina, April 19, 2024)
(Twitter, video at link)
This is how it’s done. :-)
Old School
@raven:
Make Fat Tony the main character?
Baud
@Bill Arnold:
The Giuliani defense!
TBone
@raven: perfect description of some Florida folk
lowtechcyclist
@Spanky:
OK, now I want to see your house!
Miss Bianca
@MomSense: ooh, that sounds lovely! (Feeling a little wistful about old Maine houses right now, for some reason.)
TBone
@Bill Arnold: thank you! I couldn’t help posting the xitter link earlier, now no click necessary unless you want to see the video. Fuck fElon
Spanky
@MomSense: Wow! Looks pretty good from the street, but make sure your inspector takes a good look at the foundation of the back addition.
TBone
@Baud: LOL LOL LOL
danielx
@MomSense:
I’d never leave the neighborhood.
Old School
@Nelle:
Wow! Mrs. School talked to a local school board candidate for a half hour or so last month. I think you win.
Bill Arnold
@TBone:
The search keywords were something that a time traveler from 4 years ago would be befuddled by:
Trump fart sleep trial
TBone
@Bill Arnold: 😆😎💜
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@MomSense:
Found it! There’s some nice stuff in there.
Our fireplace/mantel setup is similar:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/63463131@N00/shares/v412065gE6
The pocket doors and the fact they work is also fantastic. Our very modest 1905 city cottage had some “luxury” appointments when the original owners had it built and that included pocket doors. Amazingly, none of our woodwork had been painted but the hardware didn’t work. Shortly after we purchased, I took apart the door hardware and found each side stuffed with decades of crap:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/63463131@N00/shares/wNA6m4o633
I cleaned up out. Had to purchase an old key on ebay and grind it slightly in order to be able to lock the doors, not that I needed to but I’m a purist that way.
And we live on our front porch…in season:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/63463131@N00/shares/n6SZd62v8Z
And yeah, we gutted the kitchen.
Here’s hoping you get it!
RandomMonster
If it’s true that it’s more offensive than what comes out of his face sphincter, that’s quite an accomplishment.
Expect a posting from his stubby fingers in the wee hours of the morning: “HE WHO SMELT IT DEALT IT.”
KrackenJack
@Ken:
And it must much larger inside than the outside would allow…
Miss Bianca
@Nelle: Wow! Who is your Congressperson?
Spanky
@lowtechcyclist: Chances are you already have. They’re not terribly rare here in the Tidewater.
Quadrillipede
@raven: Wow. That is some premium-quality schizophrenia conspiracy. It’s no Time Cube, but it’s not far off…
Spanky
While farts are fairly provable, I think we’re going to need to hear from some, um, inside sources and find out they were really sharts.
Baud
@Spanky:
Maggie Haberman has prepared her whole life for this moment.
Jackie
@Bill Arnold:
Here after known as “ripping a MAGA!”
Redshift
@Melancholy Jaques:
A friend of mine works at NBC, and they day they’ve heard from the makeup people that he looks like that because he’s always sure he knows better, so he gives orders to the professionals.
Professional makeup artists. For TV, where it takes even more specialized knowledge to make people look good.
Baud
@Jackie:
As opposed to the Trump campaign, which is knows as ripping off a MAGA.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: 3,500 is a nice size.
Huntington Gardens, oh wow!
You might also get some ideas from Dan B who designed some amazing spaces.
WaterGirl
@Geminid: Thanks for that information!
Lyrebird
@Nelle: YAY FOR NELLE!!! HOPE THROUGH HARD WORK FOR UKRAINE!!!
I called my Rep today on that topic, too, fwiw. He’s already on board at least!
WaterGirl
@Nelle: Nelle, you are an inspriration!
UncleEbeneezer
Quadrillipede
TIL pocket doors are a specific subcategory of sliding doors where the door is situated parallel inline with, rather than parallel adjacent to the wall. 👍
Princess
@Bill Arnold: Hmm. My bet is those are more than just farts.
MomSense
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
The mantle is really similar. My dad has one in his house too but it is painted white.
UncleEbeneezer
@MomSense: Which gardens did she design at Huntington? We go there about once a month.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: hahaha
Nelle
@Miss Bianca: Zach Nunn, Iowa. Sorry for the delay in answering. Today is one of the days we have 21 month old grandson. He wanted to mock wrestle. So much energy.
Redshift
@Nelle: Wow! Good work, and good to hear.
Barbara
@Bill Arnold: Yet another reason not to commit crimes after the age of 70.
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: @Geminid:
In addition to what Geminid said, the most important things I saw were (via Fritschner):
I think that’s it, but there could be more. Fritschner has more on his Nitter timeline.
HTH!
Cheers,
Scott.
MomSense
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
I love your porch. I don’t think I would have chosen yellow and green for the paint colors but it’s ok for now. The floors are all in really nice condition and that’s a big deal. I had toured so many houses with those hideous gray plastic floors meant to look like weathered wood.
Baud
@Another Scott:
Wow. I didn’t know about the no filibuster rule. Neato.
Another Scott
@Nelle: Ya done good, Nelle. Very, very good.
Thanks!!
Cheers,
Scott.
Martin
Oh, that is a terrible idea. We want Trump to have protection because he’s still got a lot of classified shit in his head.
Here’s my counterproposal:
A federal facility where anyone with secret service protection can be incarcerated long-term. I’d previously proposed a 6×8 cell in the corner of Camp David. I’d be fine with Gitmo as well. ADX Florence (we keep spies with similar information their head there for the same reason). Spare the state of New York the expense of housing him.
Additionally, the feds confiscate Clarance Thomases bribery RV, strip it back of its amenities, make it bulletproof, and turn it into a traveling jail cell for Trump for his contempt charges. Plum Island is too far for a daily trial to park it on, so I suggest parking in on Hart’s Island. Should be trivial for the Secret Service to secure. It’s NYCs potters cemetery and where many of the city’s covid deaths were buried. Seems fitting. There are some abandoned buildings on the island which I believe were either TB sanatoriums or psychiatric asylums. If there’s a haunted place in the US, that’s probably it. It’s a quick helicopter ride to the courthouse. If they want to be nice, park it on Governors Island. Should also be easy to secure.
BigJimSlade
@Nelle: 👍👍!
Redshift
@Another Scott:
Oh, great! I know Adam was worried this might be a ploy by Johnson to have it fail in the Senate through filibusters by Putin fans like Rand Paul, and make it not his fault.
Villago Delenda Est
@Melancholy Jaques: The problem is he doesn’t pay for services rendered. Which is why no tailor in the Tri-State area will touch him.
Bupalos
@Nelle: That is incredibly heartening. Thank you for banging away on that guy, I think it matters that they know that people will still try to get around partisanship. I tried a couple calls to my (R) rep David Joyce, even dropping that I’m in a Polish-Ukrainian dance group and would be happy to see if I can have him address one of our events. I don’t doubt that he could gain advantage from that, but if he’ll stand for Ukraine, he deserves what he can make from that.
Nothing so far.
Jay C
@Another Scott:
Sounds like it is about as “clean” a bill as we are/have been likely to get out of this House: I had read a lot of online speculation about the KooKoo Kaucus loading it up with “poison pills” (I’m guessing MTG’s amendment demanding Biden withdraw the US from NATO didn’t make the cut) in order to give Moses Mike the cover to see the whole thing killed – and be able to (somehow) blame the Democrats. Pleasantly surprised.
MomSense
@UncleEbeneezer:
I know they sent her to Japan and China for her work on those gardens. She also did a lot of work on the camellias. She spent so much time in China sourcing that she was able to study brush painting. I think she was curator of the Japanese Garden and camellia gardens
Gvg
@MomSense: a lot of kinds of mulch become slip and fall hazards to those with balance issues. I did not know that until lately with my mothers decline. She has not liked a bunch of my suggestions and even packed pea gravel paths she thinks are bad. She has loved gardening so much the last few decades and now can’t do much. I see myself and have been trying to get my yard designed and completed while I still can physically do it. Her experience is upending some of my assumptions. I have a sloping lot, just a bit. I need to make sure my paths are all done very carefully.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: Thank you! That’s all really interesting.
smith
I’m pretty sure the ploy was to make a deal with the Dems — if Ukraine aid passes, he gets to keep his job.
TBone
@Jackie: “Floor Active Response Team”
I mean, I’m floored 😆 thinking about his team’s response
Redshift
@Martin: I’ve heard a military base mentioned as a likely possibility if he gets more than home confinement. But the question of what to do for a state conviction in interesting, since it seems like it would take some creative maneuvering to arrange military confinement for that.
Redshift
@smith: That’s what I think, but Adam was more pessimistic.
TBone
@Barbara: 😆
Another Scott
@MomSense: I love puzzles when I’m trying to work!!
;-)
A very charming house that looks very well cared for.
The furnace and oil tanks looks scary, so take that (and the seemingly 16 year old water heater) into account. Given the Inflation Reduction Act savings, you might not be hurt too badly if you need to replace them soon.
Best of luck!!
Cheers,
Scott.
Bupalos
@Redshift: It should be pretty easily outside the margin where a filibuster would matter anyway. Honestly I think there are somewhere between one and two dozen R Senators that actually don’t want Ukraine funding. The shock of this whole delay is that Ukraine aid is broadly supported in principle in both parties. We’ve just got Trump playing his authoritarian games here. It’s going to be a major win for Ukraine and American democracy when this goes through. This is daylight between factions in the R party and maybe some more complicated and hopeful politics, that contains a dash less Trump and a pinch less nihilism.
eclare
@MomSense:
Perfect! Good luck!
gwangung
Kudos to all the jackals who’ve worked on their Republican congress critters. It may not have made a difference, but then again, who knows?
MomSense
@Gvg:
I’m not good with paths. I also get scared of mulch unless I know the seller is reputable. The last thing I want is to introduce some horrible diseases into my garden. I didn’t realize it was slippery and that would not work at all.
Sister Golden Bear
@Redshift: He never applies foundation to his eyelids* which makes me think wonder if he’s trying to recreate looks of ‘70s tanning bed. (Where one wore those little google thingies while using it.) All the cool kids at Studio 54 were doing it
*As well as his ears, which I don’t have any explanation for. And occasionally the foundation fails to blend into his hairline. <shruga shoulders>
eclare
@Melancholy Jaques:
The tailoring is what kills me. That tux he wore to the State Dinner at Buckingham Palace was abhorrent.
eclare
@Nelle:
Awesome! 👊
UncleEbeneezer
@MomSense: Wow. Two of our favorites!! Have you seen the Japanese House that is now open? It’s really cool.
TBone
@UncleEbeneezer: this. These memories burned into my brain are why I must laugh. I can’t take anything too seriously because it’s all just too surreal. I just have to, MUST, laugh for good medicine, a balm for my soul. I don’t know if the trauma of these years will ever heal, but it’s taught me to find humor somewhere, every day. I can’t believe we’re having another election like this, politics become like a circus with scary clowns and fireaters and bearded ladies and we are forced to attend.
Spanky
@Another Scott: Agreed. And THREE oil tanks in the basement? The winter pics with snow on the ground and a clear roof indicate that some fairly cheap insulation work might be a big help there. Having said that, check with the state and your local utility about rebates and tax credits for things like high efficiency HVAC as well as insulation.
Betty Cracker
@Nelle: Wow! Gotta respect that he actually engaged a constituent. Also good that he supports helping Ukraine.
TBone
@eclare: 😆 Charles flipped him off via stealth middle finger scratching of nose too. And the look on the Queen’s face. OMG
Sister Golden Bear
@Redshift: Perhaps an arrangement via the state National Guard to use part of a military base?
Miss Bianca
@Nelle: very cool on all fronts. :)
JaySinWA
@Jackie: Making America Gassy again
eclare
@Quadrillipede:
That’s what I wondered, the onset of schizophrenia. A coworker’s son started committing violent acts and getting arrested in his early 20’s. He was formally diagnosed and is now on disability. To get his allowance from mom and dad, he has to call dad every night to confirm that he has taken his meds.
He is around six foot five and could cause a lot of damage unmedicated.
Sister Golden Bear
@eclare: IIRC, Derek the Twitter Suit Guy, has used Trump’s tux as a classic example of someone insisting that they’re a size (or two or three) smaller than they actually are
UncleEbeneezer
@TBone: Totally. Aside from reading about politics here, most of the stuff I watch or listen to about politics is with comedians (usually very liberal and usually Black) making me laugh about it all, while never trivializing it. Being able to laugh about some of this shit has been absolutely crucial to my spirits and mental health.
Martin
@Redshift: I mean, you can just have the state pay the feds to house him. It’s not like we don’t already routinely pay private prisons to take our state convicts. A lot of CAs convicts are housed in Texas. This is routine stuff
I’d argue the feds should just _offer_ to house him because it’s better for the secret service.
TBone
@Martin: we have the perfect location nearby. It’s been abandoned for years and recently put up for sale.
https://architecturalafterlife.com/2020/01/laurelton-state-village/
Formerly an institution for “feeble minded women.” The new owners planned a resort that never planned out.
Another Scott
@Baud: @Redshift:
To be clear, I’m no expert on this stuff. I’m going by what Fritschner said here. It’s possible I misinterpreted what he’s saying:
(Fritschner works in the office of my MoC and has to understand all this stuff for his job.)
HTH!
Cheers,
Scott.
SiubhanDuinne
@Poe Larity:
It was already set to Fučik’s “Entry of the Gladiators” aka the “Bozo the Clown” theme music. I think someone posted it here. If I can find it easily, I’ll share.
Bupalos
@Spanky: Absolutely. Get ready to take advantage of the climate provisions of the IRA, which 2 years later may now finally be more or less just around the next bend…
MomSense
@Another Scott:
Yup. Apparently people put multiple oil tanks in their basements (my dad only has 2) and buy oil when it’s cheap. There is also a wood boiler in the basement but I haven’t hauled wood in a while. UGH. I love the house even though I know it’s not easy.
eclare
@Sister Golden Bear:
It was awful, especially with him standing there by the royals for comparison. The royals have their faults, but dressing poorly is not one of them.
BeautifulPlumage
Ripping a MAGA = Making Assholes Gassy Again
wjca
Assumes facts not in evidence.
He had classified documents. But whether much in the way of classified information ever penitrated his head is questionable. By now, whatever there was is sufficiently diluted with fantasy to qualify as disinformation.
JeffH
@SiubhanDuinne: The Lincoln Project did that and it’s on their YouTube site.
Martin
@TBone: Oh, you should see some of the stuff around NYC. That location is no closer than Plum Island which is federally owned and closed to civilians by DHS because it houses the Plum Island Animal Disease Center. It’s colloquially known as Anthrax Island.
This is what Hart Island looks like. It’s in NYC proper. Roosevelt Island looked pretty similar until its recent redevelopment (lot of abandoned psychiatric asylums there too). Governors island is still a little jank from what I can tell but it’s also getting sorted out.
Martin
@wjca: We know he shared information with the Australian billionaire to impress him. Willing to bet the spicy stuff is the only thing he internalized because it makes him feel special and important – which is why he took the documents.
zeecube
@Bill Arnold: add one more word and you get the results of latest Trump intelligence test.
Sister Golden Bear
@Martin: The Execution Rocks Lighthouse has a keeper’s house that’s not in use. Just sayin’
Jackie
@Martin: There are guards guarding the prison already.
Why subject SS agents to prison? Unless his SS detail WANT to be in prison with TIFG.
TBone
@UncleEbeneezer: thanks for your contributions to the cause 💙
TBone
@Martin: looks very similar to the property I mentioned. Perfect place to build Rump’s dungeon! I’m very familiar with Plum Island because Lyme Disease and from birth to 3 y.o. I lived in Oceanside, Long Island (very close to Plum Island). Coincidentally (or not) I was born with a birth defect where my hip socket was too large and my leg kept falling out of it. I had to be in a brace from chest to knees that kept me in a sitting position for months. When they finally took it off, one day mom put me outside in our fenced backyard, unsupervised. She said I was barefoot and clad only in a diaper but I scaled that chain link fence and they found me 2 blocks away knocking on a neighbor’s door.
stinger
@MomSense:
Heaven on earth.
Uncle Cosmo
What you want is a smallish library with a prim two-story facade – which, once the hidden switch inside is tripped when the constellations are properly aligned, tesseracts out to a multidimensional edifice that dwarfs the British Museum, in which the characters are continually getting lost. Think “–And He Built A Crooked House” with lots & lots of books on lots & lots of groaning shelves…