Donald Trump posted an ad echoing the language of Nazi Germany.
He only cares about holding on to power.
I care about you. pic.twitter.com/XSmGKaQhJ1
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 21, 2024
BREAKING: Democrat Fani Willis just WON the Democratic primary for Fulton County DA. She will be able to continue her work holding Donald Trump and his allies accountable, and I can’t wait.
— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) May 21, 2024
Woohoo!!! https://t.co/fK9tpk2qwX
— KAMALA NATION (@KamalaNation) May 22, 2024
BREAKING: VP Harris just stood strongly with union workers at SEIU convention #ThisUnion pic.twitter.com/x5mRi3SP5t
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) May 21, 2024
.@KamalaHarris speaking truth @SEIU! “Let us continue to stand against those who dare attack our freedoms.Let us continue to fight to make real the promise of America, for paid family leave, for affordable childcare, to secure a path to citizenship for Dreamers & their families” pic.twitter.com/WTBC5oU5IF
— Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner (@rowefinkbeiner) May 22, 2024
In 2022, President Biden signed the PACT Act into law – the most significant expansion of benefits and health care for toxic exposed veterans in more than 30 years.
Today, our Administration is proud to announce that one million PACT Act claims have now been approved. pic.twitter.com/H87WyNHNJq
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 21, 2024
.@JoeBiden and Democrats delivered billions in investments — adding millions of job hours for union trades workers who will be able to work where they live and live where they work!
Thank you, @TradesSF! Together, we are laying the foundation for our clean energy future — with… pic.twitter.com/BJNNPTvBXv
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) May 20, 2024
How attendees at NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner feel about Biden's re-election:https://t.co/blFauGok3O pic.twitter.com/hFTRf4WSv4
— Daniel Wessel (@da_wessel) May 20, 2024
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 20, 2024
.@HRC announces $15 million strategic investment to mobilize voters in six key battleground states: Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Nevada. https://t.co/Vk7EjjBHqx pic.twitter.com/sYd2AiX4sG
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) May 20, 2024
Donald Trump wants to raise your taxes. https://t.co/LMz2iv6fKI
— Clean Observer (@Hammbear2024) May 21, 2024
Baud
I always confuse Hillary Clinton and Human Rights Campaign when initials are used.
O. Felix Culpa
@Baud: Hehe. So do I.
On another note, the gofundme for Ms. Cracker is close to breaking the $50K mark. The BJ community is awesome! I love that sweet wedding picture.
Scout211
Loose Cannon will hold a hearing today in the documents case. It will appear as though she is working on the case. But as we all know, appearances
are definitelycan be deceiving.. . .
zhena gogolia
@O. Felix Culpa: I’m about to go there to contribute.
TBone
@Scout211: a glimmer of hope that all is not lost for this particular case. Getting it going before the election might be gone now, but my Spidey senses tell me that the prosecution will not rest while such imperative national security matters are at stake. Our very lives depend upon it.
O. Felix Culpa
@zhena gogolia: Yay you! :-)
TBone
Not a DFHippie – a Democrat FROM HELL
🎶
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NJOxplMeNiI
Soprano2
@zhena gogolia: I need to do that too. I laughed when I saw people thinking it might take a couple of months to raise that much. I figured three days, tops. I’ve seen how this community raises money.
ETA – I’m hopeful my husband will get a monthly benefit due to the PACT act. The man who filled out the forms for me told me that if a vet was in Vietnam between 1965-1972 they pretty much consider he/she was exposed to Agent Orange at some time, and thus probably has a service-connected condition that qualifies them for benefits. I can manage without it, but if he’s due a benefit from them I want him to have it, because he definitely earned it.
zhena gogolia
@O. Felix Culpa: It’s over $50,000 now!
Jeffro
So, when we say that the former arsonist-in chief has no bottom, what we mean is: he’s willing to lie to his cult and tell them that President Biden ordered a ‘hit’ on him.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG HERE, REPUBLICANS?!??
He. will. gladly. burn. this country. to the fucking ground. in order to save his ass.
And it’s not even Memorial Day weekend yet, folks. Where will we be by July 4th? By the end of the summer?
I know it would be unprecedented; I know it would be (bless me) seen as ‘partisan; I know it would get more than a fair amount of pearl-clutching from our snooze media. But at some point, and soon, I feel like President Biden should address the nation in prime-time and remind everyone of just how fully beyond the pale these lies really are.
Tell the country the facts.
Remind Americans why the FBI was there in the first place.
And above all else, remind them that we are all dealing with a desperate, demented, accused criminal.
O. Felix Culpa
@zhena gogolia: Woot! onward to $60K…and beyond
ETA: It does help emotionally to be able to do something, even if it doesn’t guarantee the outcome we all want. But there is always hope.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊 😊 😊
narya
It warms the cockles of my misanthropic antisocial heart that this community has nearly met the fundraising goal for Ms Cracker, in less than a day–here’s hoping that the goal gets bumped up AND met, or that there’s an option for ongoing contributions (Patreon? since she IS a creator!) of some kind.
Manyakitty
@rikyrah: morning 🌅
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Quinerly
This came up in my morning news feed. Apologies if already posted. I am way behind on news. (Houseguests and yard work.) Sounds like Trump’s young, blonde female “Emotional Support Printer” is the root of the “unified Reich” video sharing. Liberty University grad.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-trumps-human-printer-natalie-harp
Baud
@Quinerly:
She will bear many fine warriors for the Fatherland.
TBone
@Soprano2: my VN vet dad died of colon cancer despite decades of healthy eating AND having proactive surgeries to remove sections of colon/tumors. I wish he’d had, at the very least, this recognition…
matt
I’m annoyed that every one of these leftie Democrat blogs I read except this one is in full time Genocide Joe mode. What the fuck, Atrios? What the fuck, LGM?
Baud
@matt:
It’s why I don’t leave the boat.
TBone
@Quinerly: so not shocked. My neighbors’ son is at Liberty and working as a “press secretary” for Rep. Rich McCormick (R,ussia-Georgia) despite being functionally illiterate and unable to use grammar properly. I designated him as Hitler Youth shortly after our first meet cute.
Ball gargling thunder twats ALL.
TBone
@matt: it’s egregious. I ignore the posts and go right for the comments. There’s pushback there, usually.
O. Felix Culpa
@Quinerly:
Ick. I am related by marriage to some very white, very privileged RW conservative “Christians” from California. They’re insufferable. I’m thankful for the fact that the majority of our left coast brethren are Democrats, but they also house a toxic brew of “Christian” nationalists. Not surprising that TFG’s emotional support Aryan comes from that community.
Scout211
I saw that article this morning. She has now taken over some of Trump’s Truth Social posting from Scavino, so she is not just the emotional support printer. And she is not a junior staffer. She is part of the digital communication team and a major staffer.
Soprano2
@matt: I agree that we should do what we can to push back on what Israel is doing in Gaza. I wish we could stop weapons shipments completely, but I’m not sure that’s feasible or legal. I think he could slow things down a lot. I wish there was an acknowledgement that we don’t control what Israel does in Gaza; they’re responsible for what they’re doing. I also wish there was an acknowledgement that Israelis, while they don’t like Bibi, generally support what he’s doing in Gaza. Many of them see most Palestinians as Hamas or potential Hamas. Look at what’s happening in the West Bank; that has nothing to do with Hamas or Gaza, and everything to do with opportunists taking advantage of the situation.
MomSense
@O. Felix Culpa:
Thank you for sharing the link. I’ll go there today and chip in. I think I’m still in shock about the whole thing. Doesn’t seem real and I’m so sad.
TBone
@Jeffro: remember, timing is everything.
Baud
@Scout211:
The key thing is, for Republicans, there’s always a woman to blame.
Ohio Mom
Sigh…I remember when my adopted state was a battleground state.
Our population is getting older, we are not retaining or attracting enough young people and that is making us more right-wing. At the same time, I have a habit of encouraging the typical young people I know to look to other places for their adult lives.
TBone
@Baud: I’m right here! *waves frantically while blowing a big, wet raspberry
matt
@Soprano2: Israel just got hit by their version of 9/11. Biden can’t smack Netanyahu down without The Blob going for another, bigger round of shitting on him that would make the Afghanistan thing look like a kid’s school play.
Baud
@TBone:
All
hailblame TBone!raven
In our incredibly gerrymandered district the council races resoundingly survived the attempt by the wingnuts to use the death of the UGA student to steal the county commission seats. Both progressives retained their seats while a “stealth” republican won a seat in the African American district.
Quinerly
@TBone: know Liberty University well. I am from NC originally. Interned in DC in 1982 with a bunch of Liberty University grads. I guess Liberty had just been around 10 years but was gaining traction during the Reagan years. The Liberty (and Bob Jones) grads were insane even back then.
I lasted 3 days with a Liberty grad roommate I had been paired up with under the intern program. Thankfully found a roommate from Texarkana (back when parts of Texas was sane) who taught me how to drink “Upside-down Margaritas” at Georgetown’s Garrett’s Railway Bar. It was a great summer for a 21 yo.
raven
@Soprano2: Every fucking dime.
Baud
@raven:
Sounds positive. How did the AA district end up voting for a stealth Republican? Did the person run as a D?
TBone
In case anyone missed it, during his arraignment, Rudy forgot to mute his mic while taking the piss 😆
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rudy-giuliani-forgets-to-mute-his-microphone-while-going-to-the-bathroom/ar-BB1mNWV9
🎶
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r-NCupxMQTQ
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Ohio Mom: When I moved to Iowa, it was a swing state.
raven
@Soprano2: I was in Korea before I went to Vietnam and they have now admitted they sprayed it there as well so I should have a double whammy but no one can diagnose my problem.
TBone
@Baud: 🤣💋🤡
Soprano2
@matt: Yep. I don’t know how aware the protesters are of how Israelis see this whole situation. I remember what the attitude was like here after 9-11. There would have been support to go in and flatten the whole country of Afghanistan; many people saw all of them as al-Qaeda or al-Qaeda adjacent, as guilty as the members of that group were of attacking us. I can’t imagine what would have happened if the attack had come from Mexico right next to us.
Soprano2
@raven: You should apply anyway, there are a lot of conditions that would be considered service connected. If you have high blood pressure, he said that’s almost certain to be considered service connected.
zhena gogolia
@MomSense: You can also get there by the link in the upper right corner of the blog.
raven
@Soprano2: Yea, I’ve been in the registry for quite a but I need to get off my ass!
clay
@TBone: Rudy is now literally Leslie Neilson in The Naked Gun.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pdE83FX-Mto
BlueGuitarist
@Baud:
Some people claim that there’s a woman to blameAnd we know, it’s their own damn fault
~Margaritaville
Ken
@TBone: Between that and the Borat sex scene, you’d think Rudy was auditioning for the Frank Dreben role in a Police Squad revival.
EDIT: Clay got there first…
O. Felix Culpa
@BlueGuitarist:
Yes, also known as Alito’s Wife Syndrome.
Baud
@BlueGuitarist:
MAGAritaville.
TBone
@Scout211: it’s a big plus for her that she resembles his daughter 🤮
clay
@Jeffro:
According to Trump’s own Supreme Court arguments, Biden would be well in his rights to do so.
TBone
@clay:
@Ken:
🤣😆🤣😆🤣
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2AG0xyxlNXo
Betty
@Soprano2: Not to mention that it was Saudis who carried it out, not the people of Afghanistan.
O. Felix Culpa
@Betty: Why let a little geography get in the way of a good bombing?
//
geg6
@matt:
The left will as much or more to try to undermine Biden than they will any GOPers. They hate him and wish for him to lose much more than they disdain Cheetolini. I don’t understand what they don’t understand but they aren’t my or Joe’s allies. Or even the allies of Palestinian civilians. They are allies only to their own egos.
TBone
This version is HOT 🔥 yeah, baby! 😆🎶
https://www.instagram.com/isaachayes3/reel/C7MoK2hgzxL/
wjca
It’s telling in so many ways that the “super-patriots” still insist that Saudi Arabia is a wonderful ally. Personally, I’d prefer to ditch the Saudis and make overtures to Iran. I hate theocracy (which, be it noted, Saudia Arabia is too), but if we have to ally with one, better to pick one where they’ve at least been civilized for millennia. Not to mention that theocracy there is a) recent, and b) unpopular. I’d guess its days are numbered — as in a few years, not decades. The only way Saudi Arabia changes is if the oil money, for bribes of the populace, runs out.
TBone
@geg6: can confirm. The tankies are frothing at their mouths – yesterday I got bored and started reading comments over there again. I am banhammered so could not point out their many, many errors of fact, miscalculations, conspiracy theory-level accusations, and outright repeating of Russian propaganda and disinfo and misinformation. Hit dogs holler!!!
Quinerly
@BlueGuitarist: it happens.
Quinerly
@clay: you win the thread.
Baud
@wjca:
Obama tried that, at least the Iran part. Didn’t get enough support.
TBone
If presidents are immune, what are they impeaching President Biden (or Merrick Garland, his “lackey”) for?
Manyakitty
@Ohio Mom: nobody with any sense wants to move here right now. I mean, even Alabama managed to get President Biden on the ballots. We make it into the news for forcing children to deliver babies from rapes. Our public schools are being dismantled from the governor’s office, down.
I love this state, but I wouldn’t encourage anyone to join us in the current situation.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Soprano2:
@matt:
Biden didn’t have to condemn the ICC for wanting to pursue charges against Netanyahu for war crimes
Another Scott
Fritschner’s reporting on Twitter that the RNC is on lockdown because someone sent them vials of blood. (He says similar things with suspicious substances happen around the Capitol a few times a month.). Sounds like the investigation is winding down.
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): OTOH, I think (as I said in Adam’s thread this AM) that the case can be made that the ICC is not the place for this. Israel has a functioning court system and the ICC is designed for places and conflicts that don’t.
We’ll see what happens.
Cheers,
Scott.
geg6
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
I’m not thrilled with what he said about it. But I’m also pretty sure he knows that the ICC doesn’t give a shit what he thinks since the U.S. is not a member.
cain
We should do a post on the various local elections that we had.
Almost Retired
@Quinerly: Was your internship through the Washington Center?
Eyeroller
@geg6: It’s not a good look for domestic politics, though. I will get into trouble for saying this, but I don’t think the protests have made any difference. What has probably made a difference, as it did with the Vietnam War, is night after night of carnage and destruction on the normies’ teevee machines. It’s very upsetting. I am also just offended at the constant refrain that “Israel has been so careful to minimize civilian casualities” when we have some pretty substantial evidence of the opposite.
schrodingers_cat
The election is not going as well for the BJP as they had hoped. The megalomaniac has given 43 (highly scripted) interviews in the last 15 days. His chamchas (flunkies, literal meaning spoon) in the media ask him questions like why do you never get tired? His answer, because I am divine (I am paraphrasing).
Another brilliant ad by the Congress. Its subtle, it works on many levels.
For example the newspaper is Amdani Times, a portamanteau of Ambani and Adani, Modi’s favorite oligarchs. Amdani also means wages in Hindi
It works well as a visual too, even if you don’t understand Hindi. Ds can make a similar ad about the Orange One.
Quinerly
“People should stop mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene’s looks. Her looks are actually the best thing about her.” Andy Borowitz
Belafon
@schrodingers_cat: But was he brought down from a mountain by a stork?
Nelle
@Soprano2: My husband just went through the PACT screening. He’s healthy now, but he was on river patrol on the Mekong, all the way up to Cambodia. Lots of Agent Orange.
schrodingers_cat
@Belafon: He tamed a crocodile as a child, states a comic version of his childhood. I am not kidding.
TBone
A good run down of the new items regarding the
espionage fulfillment centerdocuments case.https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/politics/mar-a-lago-documents-walt-nauta-donald-trump/index.html
Kyle Cheney xit
O. Felix Culpa
@schrodingers_cat: That’s encouraging news. Thanks for sharing it.
mali muso
@schrodingers_cat: Thought of you and your commentary here that has kept us up to date on the situation in India as I read this article today. Curious as to your take.
SFAW
@clay:
What part of “assassinating political rivals is allowed for Repub presidents ONLY!” do you not understand? Because that’s what the Sinister Six would be OK with.
You kids — with your quaint ideas of “logic” and “reason” and “equal treatment” — are so cute.
PatrickG
@schrodingers_cat: loved that ad! Emperors New Clothes – told with balloons. I think. Going by visuals only. :)
RaflW
The Colorado GOP is really off the deep end.
CO GOP are in the worst spot politically in almost 80 years, and the way they’re non-coping with that is not to figure out what normal voters want.
In stead, they’re suggesting that perhaps 360,000* students in public schools all get yanked out and, what, exactly? Home schooled? ‘Cause there sure aren’t enough private and parochial schools to handle that. If the CO GOP is lucky, 36,000 of those kids have parents who can afford private tuition. How many of the putative 360,000 are latch-key kids already, and the notion of home schooling means a massive cut in family income?
Of course they’re not serious. But any attempt to even pretend to implement it shows how off the charts nuts — and totally out of touch with actual R voter’s lives — this and many other state parties are. I’m dumbfounded that they aren’t in even worse electoral position. (Yeah, I know. Abortion. Taxes. The ‘wrong’ people getting benefits.)
*About 880,000 K-12 enrollment in CO. Trump got about 41% of the vote in 2020.
schrodingers_cat
@PatrickG: The message was you can burst the giant inflated balloon (Modi’s ego) with your finger (your vote). The index finger is inked in India after you vote with an indelible ink.
Saffron is the Hindu/Sikh color for asceticism which the BJP has appropriated.
Quinerly
@Almost Retired:
It was just part of the Senate Internship Program. 1982. NC had a one term Republican Senator who had been one of my Political Science professors in undergrad. He was elected in 1980. I grew up with very hard core Dem parents. But things were so different back then. Not the polarization. Senator East personally requested that I come and intern for him since I had been a student of his. (I had been one of the few who actually would argue with him in class. He actually was good natured and a nice guy, unlike Jesse Helms). I disliked his politics but it was an honor to be asked. Plus, it was a good experience since I was starting lawschool in the Fall. (Looked good on resume, plus experience of living in a city. I had grown up in a town with one stop light). It was a wonderful experience. Honestly, it was a lot of organized, personal tours around DC for interns. Working in the mail room and hanging out in the Senate with other interns.
Senator East had had polio as a young man. He was in a wheelchair. He ended up committing suicide in 1986. Closed the garage door, started his engine and tipped his wheelchair. I don’t have time to get too deep in all of this. Check out his Wiki page (John P. East). He blamed his doctor in a suicide note for failing to diagnose his thyroid issues. A very sad ending for someone who really should have remained a college professor.
TBone
https://showercapblog.com/they-say-every-death-cult-winds-up-with-the-uniform-it-deserves/
He only posts on weekends and I can’t wait to see this week’s Chronicle.
geg6
@Eyeroller:
I don’t disagree with your take. I hate what is happening. However, I absolutely think that there are many who are looking for any excuse to drag on Biden and are finding this situation a good hook. He’s not helping with his rhetoric yesterday, but I have never voted for a single candidate in almost 50 years with whom I agreed on every topic. These people need to consider that and consider the alternative.
PatrickG
@schrodingers_cat: thanks for the clarification around the meaning of the finger. A day in which you learn something etc
Anyway
Totally agree. Saudi billionaires spend millions in US domestic politics – always against causes favored by libs/progresssives/Democrats. They fund many many groups, think-tanks, organizations that fight climate change, fossil fuel alternatives, womens and (all) human rights, transparency, accountability…
They stand against small-d democracy in all its forms. The US establishment in its China panic is turning a blind eye to Saudi autocracy and is being swayed by petro-dollars. Saudis also fund a lot of “disruptive” Silicon Valley techbro activities that are pretty reactionary.
TBone
@Quinerly: you are wise and worldly and a credit to us all 💙
p.a.
Tom “Friedman Unit” in FTFNYT
rikyrah
@Soprano2:
I hope that he receives those benefits
Miss Bianca
@RaflW:
Waiting to see how this plays out in my county. Redneck Jesus wept…
Almost Retired
@Quinerly: Wow, great story. I’ll look him up. I was interning that Summer also. One Summer in the Washington humidity sent me scurrying back to California.
matt
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Yes there are hundreds of little things he could be doing differently. The fact is the ICC doesn’t matter.
catclub
Liberty U. ….
I am kind of impressed that they figured out there are enough people who want to stay uneducated, but also want a ‘college’ degree. I can understand wanting to go to college to only drink and party. But to NOT want to?
rikyrah
@Quinerly:
But, of course……
raven
@Baud: Yes and she’s AA and got fired by the city/county.
schrodingers_cat
@mali muso: I just glanced through it. Its nothing new. This has been going on at least since 2019 if not before. I am Biden Democrat but I did not agree with his decision of giving Modi a state dinner. It sent the wrong message. YMMV.
O. Felix Culpa
Popping in again to note that the gofundme for Ms. Cracker is less than $5K from goal. Way to go, jackals!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/betty-cracker-could-use-our-support
catclub
@Anyway: It is interesting to list all of our least helpful allies. Many are members of NATO and we have a Treaty arrangement to defend them. I am thinking at the moment, Turkey and Hungary.
Israel and Saudi Arabia are the other unhelpful ‘allies’.
Miss Bianca
@TBone: This guy is hilarious, thanks for sharing the links!
TBone
@catclub: the Liberty U student I know is why I threatened to cut his balls off and shove them down his throat so he’d be gargling them. He’d come over regularly, uninvited, and outstay his welcome every time. “I don’t believe in government. That’s why I’m going to be a politician.”
Once, I was napping on my comfy sofa and awoke to find him standing over me. I had to explain that the heavy, ceramic tray on my coffee table could’ve taken his head off and he was lucky to be left standing.
I didn’t harm him physically but I know I gave him some scars on his psyche. He’s afraid of me and after J6 scurries to hide.
Quinerly
@O. Felix Culpa: I threw in $200. Plan on doing more next month. I was so thrill to see it had $40,000 plus when I got to the thread last night.
rikyrah
@schrodingers_cat:
Hope that you get more positive news on the elections.
Anyway
@Baud:
Obama tried the babiest of baby steps and the Blob had a hissy. Same characters that did not acknowledge what Biden did in pulling out troops from Afghanistan. The blob/MIC has had decades of Saudi largesse, lavish trips, cushy sinecures on retirement — the best PR money can buy. It’s not going to change overnight.
jonas
The sad part is, for a lot of people, that’s the definition of “bold leadership.”
rikyrah
@raven:
So, an instance of all skinfolk ain’t kinfolk
rikyrah
@Jeffro:
yep
O. Felix Culpa
@Quinerly: It is heartening to see how many people have responded. This is a generous community, and Betty is a treasure. I just wish our country used its vast resources to, you know, provide full healthcare for all.
TBone
“Son, you have NO IDEA what you’re dealing with.”
🎶
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6oqJ0JpMj6I
catclub
@TBone: I like the link to ‘Older stuff you already forgot about.’
Quinerly
@Almost Retired: great coincidence. Who did you intern for? After I fled the Liberty University crowd that I had been matched up with, I landed in a great dorm on George Washington University campus. It was perfect for me. Some interns but mostly graduate and foreign exchange students. Again, a wonderful experience for an only child, country girl who hadn’t lived in a city, taken public transportation, or been exposed to people from all over. I fell into a good group of people, plus my redheaded, 6ft Texas roommate (she looked and talked like she stepped off the set of “Dallas” shoulder pads and all.) I certainly made the most of THAT summer.
O. Felix Culpa
@Quinerly: Seriously, I can’t imagine you with the Liberty University crowd. A match made in heck. :-)
TBone
@catclub: me too!! His Chronicles are 🔥😍 and never fail to make me spit my coffee uproariously!
TBone
@O. Felix Culpa: 😆
Kelly
Oregon Primary votes were counted last night. Mainstream Democrats won all statewide and federal ballot slots. We’re in good shape for the general election. Most significant to me is Janelle Bynum won the nomination in Oregon’s 5th CD. I think she has very good odds of taking the district back from Lori Chavez-Deremer. She’s defeated Chavez-Deremer twice for a legislative seat and been a solid legislator. Also of interest is Dr Maxine Dexter, a Kaiser MD, has won the race to replace retiring Earl Blumenauer. The 3rd is a deep blue district.
Scout211
I hope the goal is just a suggestion.
hueyplong
@TBone: “… I threatened to cut his balls off and shove them down his throat so he’d be gargling them.”
I suppose it would be the height of impropriety to inquire as to whether the Liberty U attendee responded favorably to the threat, in light of the site’s No Kink Shaming rule.
Manyakitty
@schrodingers_cat: do you think there’s a chance Modi might lose?
O. Felix Culpa
@Kelly: Good news! In NM, our primary is on June 4th, although early and absentee voting have already begun. No major primary challenges on the federal level. The big lift will be getting Gabe Vasquez (D) reelected in the general in CD-2, which is a purplish-red district. The seat has bounced back and forth between Ds and Rs since Xochitl Torres Small won in 2018. Yvette Herrell is running yet again on the MAGA side.
TBone
@hueyplong: he thought I was kidding. Either that, or was frozen like a deer in headlights. It took my “fling the window wide like Scrooge on Christmas morning” J6 mockery while he was cowering in fear in his garage on J7 where I could see him, and rubbing his nose in that shit repeatedly before he decided to completely avoid all contact. He’ll never know how close he came to being decapitated in my living room.
Quinerly
@O. Felix Culpa:
It was pretty bad. My dad had taken me to DC to move me in for the summer. He took one look at my roommate and decided to not drive back to NC immediately….he decided to hang out in DC for a few days. I think the roommate and I were actually roommates one night. It was a little efficiency apt set up in Alexandria. My father and I hated the location. He wanted me near restaurants and nightlife (because he knew his daughter). The morning after the first night, I swear she prayed over her Cornflakes for 10 mins. I was meeting my dad at some point that day. Told him about the praying. He wanted none of that. He kicked into action. I can’t remember how it all went down but he somehow met Karen’s father. Karen was the Texan. She had been matched up with a Liberty University roommate too. The rest is history.
Baud
@Anyway:
Then it’s probably not going to change. This country has lost the ability to do anything long term, at least on the liberal side.
Steve in the ATL
@Manyakitty: I gave up on Ohio when the Greenhouse Tavern in Cleveland closed. Why even bother now?
stinger
@O. Felix Culpa: Your comment reminds me that this is what taxes are. Everybody chips in a little, proportionate to their ability, and together we can do big, necessary, positive things. That’s all taxes are, not some evil plot by the libs.
O. Felix Culpa
@Scout211: I’m just a cheerleader for this fundraiser (waving virtual B-Crack pompoms), but I believe that gofundme requires you to set an initial goal, and then provides the opportunity to raise it as you go along. There are many jackals who would like the opportunity to continue providing financial support.
TBone
@Quinerly: Oh I love hearing your stories very much! I miss my dad, he was like that too … When he wasn’t mad at me for being a rebellious teenager.
ETA that teenager still lives. My inner child is a drunken w***e!
O. Felix Culpa
@Quinerly: What a great dad! He definitely knew his daughter. Can’t imagine praying ten minutes over cornflakes–they would be turned to mush. Ugh.
Kay
@Eyeroller:
The protests aren’t just for the US. They have an international audience. Irish people on social media were sharing photos of a Chicago pro Palestinian event where there were many Irish flags among the Palestinian flags when they were celebrating Ireland’s recognition of Palestine yesterday. Palestinians in Gaza watch the protests in the US.
US protestors think France will be the next country to recognize Palestine. They’re super excited about it.
Manyakitty
@Steve in the ATL: awww, there’s other good food. I’d be glad to gather a list if you’re interested. 🙂
TBone
@Baud: nevertheless, we persisted.
trnc
It might be a little tricky to do, considering the direct association that shouldn’t exist between the prez and DOJ, but I think Biden could address it with mockery through campaign speeches and ads. “Somehow, the former president doesn’t understand federal law enforcement deadly force policy. Somehow, he thinks we would have been able to execute him at his home even when he was hundreds of miles away,” etc, etc.
I might also allow for “If I wanted Donald Trump dead, he’d be dead” when the question comes up.
Remind Americans why the FBI was there in the first place.
Steve in the ATL
@Another Scott:
If it’s Matt Gaetz’s blood, then they need a full lockdown and a hazmat team!
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@matt:
Had to stop reading them for that and they push a ton of neoliberal economic bullshit.
TBone
@stinger: fucking socialism! 😍😆
Steeplejack
@p.a.:
Tom Friedman once again reveals his own hackitude. Let’s spike the widespread notion that Elise Stefanik was given “the extraordinary honor of giving an address Sunday in the Knesset.”
Per the Times of Israel, Stefanik “[addressed] lawmakers in Jerusalem during a session of the Knesset Caucus for Jewish and Pro-Israel Students on Campuses Around the World.”
So not an “address in the Knesset,” like a speech before Congress—more like remarks in a subcommittee hearing. The article at the link has videos showing the small size of the room and the audience.
Stefanik is a hack too, but most of the articles reporting on this have given her undue prominence with the “address in the Knesset” (mis)characterization.
Mr. Bemused Senior
That was my first thought. Probably not a winning campaign slogan, alas.
Melancholy Jaques
@Steve in the ATL: ‘
The first sign of doom was when the Agora moved.
StringOnAStick
@Kelly: I have a link to how to sign up for Janelle ‘s campaign and once May is over, I have time to help. We have to take this seat back.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@O. Felix Culpa:
BCrack number now just over $57K. That’s so heartwarming.
Miss Bianca
@Mr. Bemused Senior: ‘Twould be a great Dark Brandon meme, however. Maybe with that graphic of him all bearded up and smoking that stogie like a boss… :)
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Kelly: I’m very excited about Janelle Bynum too! Let’s send her to DC!
Steeplejack
@O. Felix Culpa:
Prayer, then milk.
TBone
https://digbysblog.net/2024/05/22/but-does-it-have-electyrolytes/
Almost Retired
@Quinerly: I interned for a now long-gone think tank on the hill – Spring Semester 1982 and the Summer. Plus made extra bucks working as a bar back at Clyde’s in Georgetown. I was 20, so the drinking age must not have been 21 back then (or maybe it was and no one cared).
TBone
@Steeplejack: not sure they can plan that far ahead 😆
Baud
@TBone:
How about globes? Can we throw globes at them next?
Kay
@Eyeroller:
It’s funny because it wasn’t “the protests” that got the attention of (more) people in other countries – it was the crackdowns on the protests. Which just shows you that people who wanted to shut this down and silence the protestors could not have made a dumber move than sending in massive waves of police:
TBone
@Almost Retired: formal drinking age was not a concern for Delconians. If any dangers presented, I was hustled into the kitchen to drink and snort lines in private.
Steve in the ATL
@Almost Retired: it was 18! Which was awesome!
Barbara
@matt: Atrios has been all but unreadable for more than a decade. It was always a bit of a vanity project for the blogmaster, and for a while the comments were fun but they devolved a long time ago as he became, in my view, increasingly nihilistic, or maybe he just stopped trying to put a lot of thought into his posts, which became, shorter and more cryptic. I never warmed to LGM. Don’t know why.
I still peak in from time to time at DKos, Digby and TPM.
What bothers me the most about seizing on the single issue of Gaza, in addition to it being substantially beyond our control, is the willingness to abandon women, who are being harassed and persecuted in the here and now in many states. Women are invisible to a certain strata of leftist men. It will always rankle to be considered so unimportant.
Bostondreams
Really good ESPN piece looking at the impact of MAGA and the culture war on high school baseball in a Florida district.
TBone
@Barbara: let’s don’t allow ourselves to be considered thusly. Let’s kick it up a notch, and another, and another. I’m confident that we shall be heard at the ballot box especially.
rikyrah
Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) posted at 11:30 PM on Tue, May 21, 2024:
Late night scoop from @TChingarande.
About 40 Arab American leaders met with Trump’s “shadow secretary of state” Tuesday night at a chain Italian restaurant in Troy, Michigan.
It didn’t go well.
https://t.co/mJLm9TnnYy
(https://x.com/MEPFuller/status/1793137437553905914?t=-dcQw7fIRPaEue6A-AOj7w&s=03)
#JoeMama🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🌻 (@Mama4Obama1) posted at 4:50 AM on Wed, May 22, 2024:
It went exactly as it was supposed to. Those are people that voted for Trump in16 and 20 and will again. Muslim ban is the least of their concerns. They willing to take the word on known liars like Trump and Grenell, they are bad off. “Unified Reich” coming for those folks
Merely Mollie 💙🐶🐱🎨🇺🇸🇰🇷🇺🇦🌊🌊🌊 (@Molliemole28) posted at 5:08 AM on Wed, May 22, 2024:
There’s a reason trump’s team keeps talking about “beachfront property” in Gaza. This is his *only* interest in the region, not the plight of the Gazans. He couldn’t care less about them.
Geminid
@catclub: I would not equate Turkiye and Hungary in this context. For one thing, Hungary is a negligible asset for Nato both materially and geopgraphically. Turkiye, on the other hand, fields Nato’s 2nd largest army and 3rd largest air force, with a substantial navy trained and equipped to Nato standards.
Turkiye controls the strategic Turkish Straits that were the cornerstone of the Ottoman empire after 1456, and of the Eastern Roman empire for a millenium before that. Both Russia and Great Britain made control of the Straits a major strategic goal, but Turkiye put an end to British pretensions in its 1923 War of Independence, and countered the Russian-dominated Soviet Union by joining Nato in 1952.
Right now, Turkiye is sweeping mines in the Black Sea along with Romania and Bulgaria. It’s not a Nato project, but it enables exports by Ukraine which are a Nato goal.
The combat air patrol above these coastal waters is a joint Nato effort, and Turkiye contributes both fighter planes and aerial refueling tankers to that project.
Last year, when Serbian violence ratcheted up in North Kosovo and Nato asked for reinforcements for its prace keeping force there, Turkiye supplied 500 commandos who were there in 36 hours. It would take most Nato countries 36 days to contribute 50 soldiers.
All of the newly minted Ukraine hawks like to slag on Turkiye because it has kept relations up with Russia as well as Ukraine, but I rarely see Ukrainian officials do that because they know the totality of Turkiye’s contributions to its defense. They started in 2014 and are substantial, just not publicized like the US’s are..
Turkiye pursues its own foreign policy objectives, and Europeans protested when it intervened in the Libyan civil war, on the side of the UN-recognized Tripoli government. They should have commended the Turks, because they prevented the Wagner Group from capturing a major oil producer while the Europeans sat on their hands.
Turkiye has its own grievances. George W. Bush plunged their region into instability that is still present even if we think the Iraq war is ten years in the last. Turks also blame the US for the military coups that marred their nation’s politics from 1960 to 1997, and they may be right on that score.
In any event, Turkiye has the right to its own foreign policy goals, and in the long run, I think they are a better ally for this.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Olive Garden?
Kelly
@StringOnAStick: Go get’em. My elderly Mom is declining and will likely to take up all my energy. She fell at home and broke her arm in February. We moved her to an assisted living facility in March. She broke her hip a couple weeks ago. The surgery to repair her hip went well at first but she got C Diff. A 12 day hospital stay. Moved her to the memory care wing Friday. She’s very weak and confused. We have her on hospice care.
Belafon
@Steeplejack: I read that as Tom being sarcastic since the previous sentence indicated that Netanyahu had told Biden no, and Tom knows having any Republican address anything would be rubbing it in Biden’s face.
rikyrah
MSNBC (@MSNBC) posted at 7:56 AM on Wed, May 22, 2024:
JUST IN: New images of Walt Nauta, Trump’s valet and co-defendant in the classified documents case, moving boxes.
The photos were included in newly unsealed court records.
Prosecutors allege it shows he was part of a conspiracy to conceal classified material from the feds. https://t.co/Sar0F4TU9b
(https://x.com/MSNBC/status/1793264655420338430?s=03)
rikyrah
UH HUH
UH HUH
The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) posted at 8:46 PM on Tue, May 21, 2024:
Lawyers for voting technology firm Smartmatic are alleging that Newsmax has destroyed texts and emails showing that its executives knew they were peddling false claims related to the last presidential election.
https://t.co/D1g8KJPOTZ
(https://x.com/thedailybeast/status/1793096011960762755?s=03)
trollhattan
@Steve in the ATL:
They could call Peter Thiel to come in and, uh, clean up.
rikyrah
Hope (@HopeisaBison) posted at 5:59 AM on Wed, May 22, 2024:
This administration didn’t just give up when SCOTUS struck down their forgiveness plan or stand by waiting for congress to pass a bill. They’ve used every angle and lever from PSLF fixes to IDR plans to keep chipping away at this.
#BidenHarris2024
(https://x.com/HopeisaBison/status/1793235346911596864?t=yQ7a5Ih9ErHEOWKt8cR4vQ&s=03)
TBone
@Kelly: hugs and gentle kisses on your cheek
rikyrah
Florida Data Geek (@MappingFL) posted at 3:31 PM on Mon, May 20, 2024:
I’m on a call right now about “Project 2025.”
I’ve said this 50 times, if you are a progressive who doesn’t plan for Biden, you are endorsing that plan
There is literally NOTHING you could tell me as an acceptable excuse to not vote for Biden. But by all means, try me
(https://x.com/MappingFL/status/1792654444443648223?t=rz1m7JEy8r7jmA-2H35npg&s=03)
rikyrah
@rikyrah:
FROM THE MEETING WITH THE ARAB LEADERS:
TBone
@rikyrah: Rump’s PAC fucking scanned classified documents and kept them on a PAC laptop!!!!
Quinerly
@O. Felix Culpa: that’s exactly what my mom said. I had very unusual parents for their time period and location. My father pursued my mother for 12 years. She looked a lot like Ava Gardener (Ava had made an impression on my father in college. She and he were at the same small town NC college before she left after a year for Hollywood. Ava had dated one of his fraternity brothers). Anyway, my parents finally married in 1959, in their late 30’s. They were right at 40 when I was born in 61. My father used to joke that he and my mom were the only 2 people in the entire state of NC who voted for McGovern in 72. My mom died in 10/2015. She was terrified that Trump was going to be elected. The 3 of us talked politics over the dinner table when I was tiny …actually my entire life…even when I was back home for visits.
Melancholy Jaques
@Barbara:
Atrios has moved from Elon Musk to Joe Biden. It’s like he can’t find anything else to talk about.
TBone
@rikyrah: I would never EVER try you! But I love that phrase. Fucking TRY ME.
rikyrah
Hey Jo (@joe_jo4) posted at 1:24 AM on Wed, May 22, 2024:
This has been buried because Greg Abbott passed a law where chemical companies do not have to disclose to the residents in nearby communities the type of chemicals they’re creating or disposing of. Texas is a toxic wasteland. Synagro https://t.co/cdkQGPKrYW
(https://x.com/joe_jo4/status/1793165996108529722?t=5bTVFIyNnteA8wf0M_9v5w&s=03)
rikyrah
Will Stancil (@whstancil) posted at 7:27 AM on Wed, May 22, 2024:
I am once again begging people to realize that the thing that is fundamentally broken in our country is our political press. It cannot cover Trump without breaking its own self-imposed requirement of always seeming neutral, so it has effectively given up on covering Trump.
Will Stancil (@whstancil) posted at 7:29 AM on Wed, May 22, 2024:
The only way the press can adhere to its usual coverage norms is to hold both parties to wildly different standards. The GOP’s parade of astonishing extremism and corruption barely merits mention, while any hint of radicalism or wrongdoing from Dems attracts media outrage.
(https://x.com/whstancil/status/1793257957838164424?t=gtdExmXO43DfeptdqYZ93A&s=03)
Kay
@Barbara:
I thought the talk about Comstock was hyperbole – which I’m fine with as advocacy – but now I think it will genuinely happen. I think laws like this one in Lousiana are setting the table for it.
They’re really going to set rabid red state prosecutors after women even in blue states.
TBone
@Quinerly: ❤️ we have that talking politics at all ages thing in common. Parents took me literally everywhere, oh how lucky we were! I met Jackie O at the Picasso Exhibit at the Met while standing in line!
rikyrah
more and more obvious
Mark Elliott (@markmobility) posted at 5:06 AM on Wed, May 22, 2024:
While the New York Times chose to highlight Hillary’s emails on the front page in 2016, there’s not a mention that Trump’s PAC copied classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago onto an unsecure laptop. These are the editorial decisions that matter. https://t.co/B8rTi7kI9a
(https://x.com/markmobility/status/1793221877227196758?t=bOmkeKOrUeH4dyD_-2VMTg&s=03)
rikyrah
President Biden (@POTUS) posted at 9:10 AM on Wed, May 22, 2024:
160,000 borrowers will soon learn that their student debt has been approved for cancellation through my Administration’s actions.
Education should never be a barrier to opportunity.
And I will never stop working to cancel debt, despite Republican officials’ attempts to stop us. https://t.co/byxVnMiJ2P
(https://x.com/POTUS/status/1793283177869455498?t=2Yk9QcnHbXnFQQkA_eS9ng&s=03)
rikyrah
Axios (@axios) posted at 5:28 AM on Wed, May 22, 2024:
SCOOP: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is planning to zero in on reproductive rights next month — potentially forcing Republicans to take tough votes on issues such as contraception and in vitro fertilization. https://t.co/bAKBPC6mao
(https://x.com/axios/status/1793227418959802470?t=WJfT5piGsRmKJ1LZ-HG3_g&s=03)
TBone
@Baud: we can throw GREAT BALLS OF 🔥 every day and twice on Sundays!
Quinerly
@Almost Retired: I remember Clyde’s! We also hung at a place called “The Library.” It was the summer of that song by Human League. “Don’t You Want Me.” Lot of dancing at The Library.
Drinking age was 18. At least for beer and wine.
I am now leaving this thread to dance around to the aforementioned song. Earworm anybody????
Quinerly
@TBone: 💙💙💙
rikyrah
Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) posted at 5:19 PM on Tue, May 21, 2024:
Donald Trump’s largest donor, who has given him over $36.5 million, also gave RFK Jr. $25 million.
The maximum contribution an individual can legally give to a candidate is $3300 — but, Super PACs let billionaires legally buy elections.
End dark money in politics. https://t.co/nKAs6U8FnI
(https://x.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/1793043981086896388?t=TipSq4g794n6TT5Zy9BBJg&s=03)
rikyrah
Absolutely ridiculous
Brian Slodysko (@BrianSlodysko) posted at 6:43 AM on Wed, May 22, 2024:
Mark Robinson calls the safety net a “plantation of welfare and victimhood”
His political rise wouldn’t have happened without it
Wife’s nonprofit:
-$7M in taxpayer $$$
-Paid $800k+ to family
-Allowed Robinson to quit job for politics
-ongoing state probe https://t.co/4zfztZ6SCb
(https://x.com/BrianSlodysko/status/1793246244703207917?t=-oc_P2fK1wxxxrjqLgAO1Q&s=03)
Steve in the ATL
@Quinerly: “(Keep Feeling) Fascination” was a lesser hit but a better song!
rikyrah
Steve Benen (@stevebenen) posted at 7:46 AM on Wed, May 22, 2024:
House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik has now filed a formal ethics complaint against Judge Juan Merchan.
And special counsel Jack Smith.
And Judge Arthur Engoron.
And New York AG Tish James.
No one should want to be VP this badly. https://t.co/9uVgTkWliE
(https://x.com/stevebenen/status/1793262037998395826?t=xWx-0_Uerfukjc6fbVZMaQ&s=03)
Kay
@rikyrah:
On Gaza, I just say to them “I respect your position but I hope you consider whether things would get worse for Palestinians under Biden”. I don’t know if it works but it does take most of the anger out of their responses. I also think there should be a recognition, re the students, anyway, that whatever upset us in the 2016 race did not involve these people, because they were 12 years old. They literally do not know what we’re talking about when we speak to them as if this is one betrayal in a long line – we can’t spew our 2016 anxiety/baggage over people who had absolutely nothing to do with it.
schrodingers_cat
@Manyakitty: Its a parliamentary election so Modi will definitely win in his constituency. The mystique is wearing off, so it is possible for the BJP to lose its majority. We will see.
TBone
@rikyrah: one of the nicest guys I met in Texas (nicknamed Rooster because ginger Cogburn) had to have all of his glands surgically removed. He gave me a tour of the refinery where he worked in Texas City across the Galveston Bay from where we both lived at the time. I can’t believe they let me in that facility after I was physically removed from my flight to Texas (no fly list). I often wonder what I’d be had I not rebuffed his romantic overtures so many times…
Jeffro
Good point!
I can’t believe I didn’t think of that. Off to go annoy the RWNJs in my life…
TBone
@rikyrah: filed in my circular file with a flourish. Fuck that useless stunt bint.
Kay
@rikyrah:
I did get my youngest to commit to voting for Biden. He was a “no”. He texted me “so what’s the plan for Biden? Do we need Taylor Swift?” – joking, pretending I’m in charge- but it was to let me know he would vote for him.
Baud
@Kay:
👍
rikyrah
The New Republic (@newrepublic) posted at 9:33 PM on Tue, May 21, 2024:
This is not calling balls and strikes, people. This is monomaniacal, steroidal judicial activism. Alito and his cohort are not on the court to interpret law. They are on the court to change society.
https://t.co/ISepf20xRX
(https://x.com/newrepublic/status/1793107776555610270?t=xSiD5pxg4GXETBPJdqhRJg&s=03)
rikyrah
@Kay:
Yeah
hueyplong
@Quinerly: I’m on board with your father’s views. Ava Gardner in The Killers (1946) is the standard against which any claims of onscreen hotness are measured.
rikyrah
@Kelly:
So sorry to read this about your mother. Declining health of a parent is rough.
Scout211
Manyakitty
@schrodingers_cat: fingers crossed!
Geminid
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: One cool thing sbout sending Janelle Bynum to DC is she started out there in 1975, as a baby named Janelle Sojourner Irick. She earned an electrical engineering degree at Florida A&M and earned an MBA from the U. of Michigan while she worked for GM.
At the time of the 9/11 attacks, Bynum was working for GM in Japan. She was married by then, and not long after she moved to Oregon to help out with her mother-in-law’s McDonalds franchise. I think Bynum and her husband own six McDonald’s franchises now.
rikyrah
@Kay:
We have gone back and forth about the protests.
For me, it became a double track of protests.
There were the original pro-Palestine protests.
Then, there were the fumbles by the College Administrations, which brought out the larger protests – protesting for the rights of the original protesters to be recognized. They weren’t there for Palestine. They were there for the freedom of speech of their fellow students.
Jeffro
Someday (unfortunately) we’re going to find out just what flipped her to the darkest part of the dark side.
Ambition alone just doesn’t cut it. There is something seriously wrong with her.
rikyrah
@Geminid:
I admit that I was stunned, looking at the picture of a Black woman as a winning candidate- IN OREGON.
rikyrah
@TBone:
I will continue to believe that part of the underlying anger of the left is that they are jealous of the seemingly bottomless pit of the right-wing grifting machine. They want the equivalent on the left, and THEY want to be hooked up to it.
Jeffro
completely OT but: it dawned on me earlier today that it has beens months since we were graced with the homespun wisdom and earthy good charm of one Gary Abernathy in the WaPo’s op-ed pages.
I Googled “Gary Abernathy obituary” and didn’t see anything that fit, so he’s still out there somewhere and I might have jinxed it. But perhaps the Post finally realized he adds less than nothing to our national discourse.
Baud
Scout211
Betty Cracker has a personal note of thanks for all of us on the GoFundMe page. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
smith
@rikyrah: The story about the aide copying classified documents actually came out more than a year ago. Mostly crickets since then. Example ~50,000 of what should have been a major scandal getting half a shrug from corporate media when it implicates the Defendant
.
Ken
@rikyrah: Wasn’t it Trump’s lawyers who were demanding the evidence be unsealed, claiming it would exonerate him? And now we get both boxes being moved by Trump’s valet, and reports that one of his PACs was scanning the documents.
Melancholy Jaques
@Jeffro:
Are you sure ambition isn’t enough? It’s a helluva drug.
And there is no path to leadership in the Republican party other than slavish fealty to Trump. Anything else lands them in Cheney-Ville.
Quinerly
@hueyplong: highly recommend the biography by Lee Server. I struggled with her autobiography. If ever near Smithfield, NC the Ava Gardner Museum is a must. I have my father’s yearbook from Atlantic Christian College (Disciples of Christ college in Wilson, NC now Barton College) that she signed, “To Joe.”
My mom and her could have been sisters, lookswise.
TBone
@hueyplong: I even dig her more in Night of the Iguana. If I could resemble any movie star, I’d choose Ava.
I was told I look like Marissa Tomei when I was younger.
TBone
@Scout211: 👍❤️
Quinerly
@Steve in the ATL: 😁
Ken
@Baud: Next, an investigation into whether water is wet.
catclub
Fugitive fetus laws. And naturally demand the federal government enforce them.
catclub
Why is that not leading to more charges? Is someone at the PAC cooperating?
hueyplong
@TBone: Her character in Iguana is fantastic and a one few ever got to play. But for looks it’s The Killers. She spent the 18 years between those two movies trying really hard to age prematurely.
Baud
@Ken:
Republicans complain about Dem witch hunt against Big Dihydrogen Monoxide.
rikyrah
@Kay:
I never thought it was hyperbole. When they mention laws like this…they are telling you what they intend to do.
Period.
RaflW
@Kay: Yup. Back in my anti-apartheid days, my college made the tactical error of having campus cops tear down a shanty built on the lawn of the graduate theological school.
It had barely gotten any attention — the student body was like half Alex P Keatons, god help me, and so self absorbed that they 1.) barely knew TCU had a theological school, and 2.) rarely saw past their mugs of beer and sorority-girl pestering to be aware that social justice was a thing.
But someone smart tipped a Ft Worth camera crew who filmed the teardown. The police action pissed off enough people that the admin ended up officially permitting our subsequent rally on the student center steps, providing a p.a. system and traffic control.
(Still took like three years, and denominational intervention to get the board of trustees to take action.)
TBone
@hueyplong: she had a good run in Spain! (and I do believe I gave her a run for the money in that department, without the ‘aging gracefully’ in the looks category that she managed for a long time. Covid aged me 10 years in just 3).
smith
While we’re looking with astonishment at the decline of the Republican party — another fistfight broke out at one of their meetings, this time in Maricopa County.
Miss Bianca
@Scout211:
Oh, Betty. :)
And bonus Badger! We love you!
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: You are correct.
Soprano2
@Kay: The idea that they don’t want a nationwide abortion ban is a lie, and Democrats should say that every chance they get. They were talking about one almost before the ink dried on the Dobbs decision! I heard a story on All Things Considered yesterday talking about the divide between the activists and the abolitionists. It’s too late for them to “soften their stance”, we already know what they want to do because they’ve told us!
Republicans try to soften stance on abortion as ‘abolitionists’ go farther
Geminid
@rikyrah: I think Barack Obama got this trend going, and it started to really manifest in 2018. Up until then, almost all the Black Democrats in Congress represented majority Black Districts. In 2018, Democrats in eastern Connecticut nominated a Black teacher for Congress and she won the majority-white district.
That same year, Colin Allred flipped a majority white district in the Dallas suburbs, and Lauren Underwood flipped anotger one in the Chicago suburbs. Also, Lucy McBath flipped a plurality-white district Atlanta’s suburbs..
Quinerly
@TBone: my parents “meet cute” went like this. They grew up 7 miles from each other but didn’t know each other. My mother graduated from college and went off to teach 1st grade about an hr away. My dad graduated from college at 19 and enlisted for WW2. My dad came back from the war and became a building contractor developing subdivisions in the post war boom. My mom’s dad died and she came home to live with her mother supposedly for about a year. My mom was engaged to a guy in the town that she left. She got a job teaching about 15 miles from her mom and had to drive thru the small town where my dad was from and had come back to. My mom had a red convertible. She would stop sometimes in my dad’s town for gas. My dad saw her but was too shy to approach her (because she looked like Ava). He started asking around and found out that she was teaching with one of his friend’s wives. He pursued and pursued. Finally got the friend to fix him up on a blind double date. My mom dumped her fiance shortly after that blind double date.
Steeplejack
@Jeffro:
Now (un)do Marc Thiessen.
Baud
@Geminid:
Breaking the glass ceiling matters.
Soprano2
@rikyrah: The aide from the agency I hired is black, and she’s from Oregon. Her family moved to Arkansas a few years ago, and that’s how she ended up in Springfield – her church had a college fair where Evangel University had a table, so that’s where she ended up. She’s going to go to nursing school and lives literally about 2 minutes from our house. She’s a really nice gal, friendly and cheerful. I think she has the personality for this job. I know I certainly don’t!
rikyrah
uh huh
uh huh
Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) posted at 10:44 AM on Wed, May 22, 2024:
OH Sect of St just sent a letter to the Chair of the OH Dem Party that he will exclude Biden from the OH ballot since the DNC convention is after their arbitrary deadline. OH extended the deadline for Repubs in 2012 & 2020, but refuses to do it now. Story. https://t.co/dW9NoSNFj9
(https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1793306942393249819?t=IdVC9107bYnBc7ouBCh1aQ&s=03)
RaflW
@Steve in the ATL: @Omnes Omnibus:
DARE was an incredibly strong album. Don’t you want me is, IMO, like the 4th or 5th best song on the album. Love action (I believe in love) will still get me up and bouncing around the house on chore days
eta: “I believe in truth though I lie a lot” (from Love action) is all too relevant 43 years later…
Melancholy Jaques
@Soprano2:
It’s part of the political media’s “If we can’t find a moderate Republican, we will invent one” policy. It allows Republicans to say whatever, while their policy on abortion rights has been moving in one direction for decades.
rikyrah
Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) posted at 9:42 AM on Wed, May 22, 2024:
The IRS is poised to collect over half a trillion dollars from rich tax cheats thanks to a law passed by Democrats. Every single republican in Congress voted against stopping millionaire tax crooks and republicans want to help them keep stealing from you. https://t.co/V1OJjpgXkx
(https://x.com/BillPascrell/status/1793291402475962807?t=HPO-djNIWYkJlUObiLS19Q&s=03)
Quinerly
@RaflW: looks like I started something. Love that entire album. Still have my vinyl.
TBone
@Quinerly: 😍 awwww
rikyrah
THIS IS REAL. THIS IS LASTING.
Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) posted at 11:55 AM on Wed, May 22, 2024:
An incredible new milestone:
Senate Democrats have confirmed 200 of President Biden’s diverse and well-qualified judicial nominees to lifetime positions on the federal bench.
You’re going to want to watch this: https://t.co/ifLM7YuN1v
(https://x.com/SenSchumer/status/1793324780378046638?s=03)
TBone
@rikyrah: excellent let’s go
rikyrah
Now remember, Republicans voted down Senator Duckworth’s actual pro-IVF bill…twice.
The GOP’s IVF Lie
Republicans’ new bill is all smoke and mirrors
JESSICA VALENTI
MAY 22
It looks like Sen. Katie Britt is doing damage control. Just a few weeks after introducing legislation that would establish a government-run website that would collect data on pregnant women, Britt is pushing new legislation she claims will “protect” IVF. Co-sponsored with Sen. Ted Cruz, Britt says the IVF Protection Act “affirms both life and liberty.”
“As a mom, I know firsthand that there is no greater blessing than our children, and IVF helps families across our nation experience the joyous miracle of life, grow, and thrive,” Britt said in a statement.
We all know what this is about. Ever since the massive national backlash to Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are “extrauterine children,” Republicans have been desperate to convince voters that they’re not interested in targeting IVF.
But here’s the thing: the “IVF Protection Act” doesn’t actually protect IVF. In fact, it allows states to restrict the practice!
Let’s take a closer look at the language of the legislation. The bill defines IVF as “the practice whereby eggs are collected from ovaries and manually fertilized by sperm, for later placement inside of a uterus.” This limited definition is deliberate: No one is objecting to the process of retrieving eggs and fertilizing them, the issue is what happens to frozen embryos.
Those undergoing IVF often create multiple embryos to give them the greatest chance at conceiving. Many of those embryos will later be discarded, either because they’re unusable or because a patient had a successful implantation with another embryo.
Discarding embryos is a normal part of the fertility treatment process—but the anti-abortion movement opposes it. That’s why the bill doesn’t mention it. What the legislation does include, however, is language that protects states’ ability to restrict what happens to frozen embryos:
What does “health and safety standards” mean? Onerous restrictions on the IVF process that make it difficult, if not impossible, for fertility doctors to operate. (Similar to anti-abortion TRAP laws, Republicans will say these regulations are in women’s best interest.)
Anti-abortion lobbyists want states to impose limits on how many embryos can be created, for example, and dictate how those embryos can be used. And just a few months ago, the anti-choice Charlotte Lozier Institute submitted a public comment to the CDC advising them to report and regulate the embryos used in fertility treatments:
twbrandt
The fundraiser has cracked $60K!!
West of the Rockies
@Melancholy Jaques:
I do not get that mindless devotion to Trump.
A lot of these Republican sycophants are not uneducated. It seems like it would be akin to being in junior high or high school, and you are required (for self-preservation) to worship an ugly, idiotic, stinky (literally) bully boy.
Obviously some have said fuck it and retired. But the majority are firmly in “Thank you, sir, may I have another” territory.
RaflW
A week old, but I’ve been busy: Rotting toadstool Mitt Romney saying he would have pardoned Trump really shows how completely decayed the Republican party has become. Most days I can hardly give a rip about his shriveled little shadow, but I’m still occasionally flabbergasted by how empty he ultimately has always been.
Whatever he did in MA as governor was, in hind sight, just performed because he thought it’d better his chances at re-elex there. It was never conviction. Just a classic empty suit driven by aimless ambition.
And to @West of the Rockies‘s point, the Romney moral failures are all the worse because he’s retiring. Saying he’d let Trump be a raging, unchecked criminal IS his dgaf position! What a pathetic lump of a man.
Quinerly
4th Beneficial Bully (Bull Snake) of the morning. It’s still mating season. My houseguests are not amused.
Boy, when my life changed, it really changed.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: did you see the song I posted for you last night?
Captain C
@Jeffro: Perhaps she fell afoul of Popehat’s Law of Goats, and there are photos or video in the hands of TIFG’s people.
Steve in the ATL
@RaflW:
good analysis. Now post it at LGM and see what happens!
CaseyL
@Jeffro: I just saw a thread on BlueSky that WaPo’s subscriptions and profits have plummeted over the past year. Their response is to lay off/fire more reporters, and go all in on AI.
I’ve kept my WaPo sub (while canceling NYT) because I wanted to support decent journalism. Looks like it’s time to cancel. That will leave me with two newspapers (my hometown Seattle Times, and LA Times due to its very good reputation).
I may use the money to add to my rather long list of subs to independent journalists.
Geminid
@Melancholy Jaques: Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has managed to stay aloof from Trump. Kemp just doesn’t try to make a big deal of it. The 2020 election was a good example; when Trump pressured him to subvert the election, Kemp didn’t hold a press conference about it. He just quietly shivved Trump and went about the business of announcing new EV and battery plants. A shrewd strategy that right now has put Kemp on the inside track for the 2028 nomination, I think.
Omnes Omnibus
@West of the Rockies: Some very cultured and educated Germans supported Hitler.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus:
as well as some very cultured and educated Brits….
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: Storms in Madison knocked out my power. When left for the office this morning, it was still out.
frosty
Was the person who told you that “Dead on balls accurate?”*
* It’s an industry term.
John S.
@West of the Rockies:
I still can’t wrap my brain around the fact that many Orthodox Jews are willing to support a Nazi sympathizer (at best) just because they think he will be good for Israel.
With all the evidence that Trump coddles and actively courts white supremacists, it’s mind boggling that any Jew (or POC for that matter) would cast a vote for him and their own demise.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus:
should be inspiring for you
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Quinerly: My parents met at a USO dance during the war. He always claimed that she was so eager to see him again that she tore a piece of wallpaper off the wall to writer her number on.
She said there was a stack of cut up old wallpaper to use as scrap, but that’s much less fun.
rikyrah
In moderation, please help.
Post about IVF and the fake GOP response in the Senate.
Melancholy Jaques
@West of the Rockies:
They are educated and they are shrewd and they are focused on the two iron rules of politics: 1) Get elected and 2) Get re-elected.
They know what moves their base voters and they know what gains them favorable coverage in the parts of the media and social media that their base voters follow. They also know what happened to solid Republicans like Cheney and Kinzinger.
trollhattan
@hueyplong:
Hard to see what all the fuss is abou… Oh.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cb/bd/93/cbbd938baf5da1e5c798fa54e279cbdc.jpg
I’ll come in again.
Quinerly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: great story!
Ruckus
@John S.:
just because they think he will be good for Israel.
Especially when he’s not good for anyone, including himself. I do not call him ShitForBrains for nothing, to me that is about as good as it is possible to get with that huge pile of _______.
Geminid
@John S.: I think the notion that Trump would be “good for Israel” does not hold water. He’s a chaos agent, and that region badly needs calming. And Trump is only out for himself and would trade Israel’s interests for his own with no compunction.
smith
Now he tells us. Asshole.
Melancholy Jaques
@Geminid:
He stands out as an exception to the slavish fealty, but he did say he would support Trump and no doubt he will do whatever he can for him in Georgia.
As for 2028, having the inside track four years out hasn’t worked very well for Republican wannabes the last few cycles. I’m thinking of Walker, DeSantis. Romney is the only counter-example I can think of.
Quinerly
I’ll leave this here. Didn’t read it all the way through.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/22/ivanka-trump-looks-like-the-comeback-kid-we-should-all-be-afraid
Miss Bianca
@Geminid: yes, Kemp is the one I would be worried about for 2028, for sure.
CaseyL
@West of the Rockies:
My firm belief is that what drives them is also what’s driving the oligarchy which funds them: a desire to grab as many resources of all kinds as they can, to shelter themselves from the climate catastrophe.
All that “no such thing as climate change!” is for the rubes who keep them in office. They’re absolutely not stupid: they know what’s coming, and they want to survive it in the lifestyle to which they believe is their God-Given Right.
And the rest of us – including their own voters – can drown or fry.
rikyrah
@CaseyL:
We can see it, but, the rubes, clinging to their Whiteness, don’t want to see it.
CaseyL
@rikyrah:
Fuck ’em. If it weren’t for the endless suffering coming for every other species on the planet, I’d be happy to watch MAGAts die off in mass quantities.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
BCrack fundraising update:
At $61K in less than 24 hours! Mission accomplished!
rikyrah
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
CLAP CLAP CLAP
Steve in the ATL
@Melancholy Jaques:
I don’t think so. Kemp and Brad Raffensberger, who is an abominable excuse for a human being, refused to commit the various election stealing crimes that trump told them to. They did get a bunch of voter suppression laws passed, but those are for themselves and their fellow travelers, not for trump.
Kemp is waiting for trump to exit the scene, whether in prison or naturally expired, before he makes his national move. He’s savvier than desantis. Once he does, then all his far right activity will come to light.
TBone
@frosty: I think that’s why they made the comparison 🤣
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: Awesome.
TBone
@rikyrah: they’re definitely huffing sumthin’!
Elizabelle
@rikyrah: saw that we were getting close. Wonderful news. For jackals everywhere, anonymous or not.
Now make it recurring.
O. Felix Culpa
@rikyrah: Woot!
tam1MI
Great news! 😃😃😃
Steve in the ATL
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
I forget–what percentage of this goes to pay trump’s legal bills?
Geminid
@Melancholy Jaques: Sure, Kemp will endorse Trump. I’m not sure he will do everything he can for Trump in Georgia, though. In 2022, Trump used former Senator David Perdue to try to knock Kemp out in the Republican Governor’s primary. Kemp crushed Perdue, but I bet he hasn’t forgotten Trump’s role.
And when it comes to handicapping the 2028 race, I regard past candidacies by politicians like Scott Walker and Ron DeSantis as media artifacts with no general predictive value. I’m looking more at individual political skills and political strength. Kemp will be well-placed to run in 2028, coming off an 8 year run as succesful governor of a prospering state. If Kemp does run, he’ll pull in plenty more money than DeSantis did and make far better use of it too.
matt
@RaflW: Romney – he’s the Gerald Ford of our time.
catclub
@smith: fucking slow learner.
catclub
@matt: I feel that the people slagging Romney never read the second sentence of the article. “because it would make me look big and him look small.”
I would do it if Trump admitted guilt and the necessity of a pardon before getting the pardon.
Jeffro
@Melancholy Jaques:
both points well-taken
I feel like GA Gov Kemp is managing to finesse things well enough without bending the knee to trump, but that’s only because trump – at Susie Wiles’ request, no doubt – is holding his fire b/c he needs Georgia to win. If trump had his way and/or the minute the election’s over, Kemp would be a big time target
ETA: or what Geminid said better, as usual, at #245
brantl
@Another Scott: It’s an international crime, it belongs with the ICC.
brantl
@geg6: We left during the Douche administration.
Jeffro
right??
from your lips to the FSM’s ears
Jeffro
@Miss Bianca: JD Vance worries me going forward, too.
He is far too savvy about how the current GOP and its mouth-breathing base and billionaire funders operate. And he won’t make any of the dumb mistakes that trump (or for that matter, DeSantis) have made.
Scout211
Me too, especially if he gets the VP nod. He can talk like a MAGA but act like a smart politician and can move in and out between either persona.
TerryC
@Baud: “I always confuse Hillary Clinton and Human Rights Campaign when initials are used.”
Heh. I have a 7 month old granddaughter who was named Hazel Rae Cxxxxxx (HRC). Her parents hate HRC with a passion and haven’t noticed the initials yet. I am awaiting the right opportunity.
Manyakitty
@Scout211: and Vance is utterly soulless. I really thought he was just another greedy empty suit, but he’s actually a force of evil.
StringOnAStick
@Kelly: I’ve been following your travails with your mom; hang in there.