Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

This really is a full service blog.

People are weird.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Fight them, without becoming them!

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

In after Baud. Damn.

Everybody saw this coming.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

We will not go back.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

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I think the chance that the RNC rather than the DNC is the insane violent convention just went up kind of a lot

— post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) May 30, 2024 at 5:29 PM

A man in Fresno finds an image of Trump in the an oil slick that leaked out of his 1984 Dodge Dart. Jim Bakker visits the oil spill and says it’s been touched by the hand of God. He offers onlookers survival buckets of Mac and cheese at a significant discount.

Visitors leave stones at the oil slick. By 2030 those stones are used to build a small chapel. Don Jr is buried there when he passes from cocaine induced cardiac arrest that same year. Followers, now wearing orange face paint, insist he was secretly vaccinated.

Eric attempts to claim the throne as the true successor to to his father, but followers stone him to death when he accidentally implies black people have souls at an event in Council Bluffs. They parade his corpse through the streets before dumping it in a YMCA pool.

By 2040 referring to him by his full name is seen as a sin. They whisper “the Donald” in hushed, reverent tones. A splinter group believes he must only be referred to as The Once and Future President, Son of Fred, Child of God. The groups routinely battle in Walmart Parking lots.

By 2050 many his followers have walked away from society. On the Day of Shrugging, they all put down tools and remotes and wander into the wilderness. Within 5 days 70% of them have died of exposure or animal attacks.

Those who remained in the cities spend the rest of their days walking the path of reverence, visiting the Trump holy sites: Mar-a-Lago, Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Atlantic City, and for some reason Shoji Tabuchi’s former theater in Branson, Missouri.

By 2100 the countryside is littered with MAGA chapels created to service the pilgrims. Each chapel has a Trump relic and most have repurposed Rockafire Explosion robots that just repeat CROOKED HILLARY over and over until they die.

(*Not really relevant, but I couldn’t resist)

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  2. 2.

    NotMax

    Scene from Miller’s original book which sticks in memory is of monks hunched over tables, going through veritable buckets of blue paint meticulously applied to white paper to create replicas of blueprints from Leibowitz’ time.

  3. 3.

    MagdaInBlack

    Not sure why I’m up, but here I am. I’ve been sitting on the balcony listening to the first robin announce that it is up as well.

    Good Morning !

  4. 4.

    Tony Jay

    I’m sure Janus Micio Connadus daubed equally contemptuous graffitio about the early Jerusalem Church all over the alley walls of 1st century Antioch, and look how that turned out!

    Granted, Smelly Don and Niceguy Jeebus do have certain specific differences in their biographies that may have a bearing on the development of their cults.

  8. 8.

    TBone

    Category: things I wish were imaginary conspiracy theory but, alas, are real.  This reporting was first posted here at BJ by Rikyrah just before the verdict came down and is highlighted in today’s Heather Cox Richardson letter.  It shouldn’t be lost in the shuffle, it’s important to name the names of the actual Nazis. These are real people, not some fairy tale. I’ll probably post it several times today.  Thank you, Rikyrah.

    https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash

  10. 10.

    Splitting Image

    In twenty years the Trump believers will merge with the remains of Elvis Presley’s cult and Trump will become retroactively known as the most popular rock ‘n’ roll singer of the 20th century.

    Elvis impersonation will become popular again, but singers will wear orange makeup, and instead of shaking their hips, they will just sort of shuffle a bit.

    Because of the level of persecution the Trump cultists will suffer from, they will identify each other by wearing toilet paper stuck to their shoes.

  12. 12.

    TBone

    Shower Cap never disappoints 😂 always brings the recap as only he can:

    I’d like to take a moment to complement the electorate on their exemplary information-filtering skills. We’re just overmatched primates, aren’t we? The gods handed us cell phones and the internet, left the room for ten fucking minutes to make a sandwich, and when they got back, millions of us had created this entire shitty religion that’s based on letting this one rapist do whatever he wants until he dies.

    Umbrellas.  Foiled by umbrellas! 😆

    https://showercapblog.com/more-felonies-than-baskin-robbins-has-flavors/

  14. 14.

    Betty Cracker

    Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama’s mom, has died at age 86. The family published a sweet statement about her life and what she meant to them on Barack Obama’s Medium page here.

  15. 15.

    TBone

    @Rob: We can’t defeat them if they remain nameless. I’m glad it’s getting attention, thanks to you and again to Rikyrah!

  16. 16.

    Baud

    @Betty Cracker:

    Are Medium and Substack essentially competitors? Is there any difference between them? I tend to associate substack with right wingers.

  17. 17.

    TBone

    @Baud: Wonkette, definitely not right wing, is on Substack and so are Tiedrich and Heather Cox Richardson.  I have no idea if they’re in a minority there though.

  18. 18.

    raven

    @NotMax:

    Eat, drink and see Mary

     

    From October 13, 1990, through October 13, 1998, Conyers housewife Nancy Fowler claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared to her and relayed messages to all citizens of the United States. The messages ranged from admonitions to prayers to warnings of war. The Virgin’s supposed visits to Conyers, a suburban community about thirty miles east of Atlanta, make Conyers one of the longest-lived Marian apparition sites in the nation.

  19. 19.

    Betty Cracker

    @Baud: I think they are competitors, but there are lots of libs on Substack, including Jed Legum (Popular Info) and Wonkette, as noted previously. My impression is pols tend to favor Medium. Liz Warren posts long form content there.

  22. 22.

    TBone

    When I first saw The Man Show, I was instantly repulsed. And I like men!  Most of the time, anyhow 😆

    I never would have guessed that Kimmel would be the evolutionary inspiration that he’s become.  Like crawling out of a cave and walking upright inspiring.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7sfRPosZ8CU

  23. 23.

    Betty Cracker

    Bloody hell, FYWP won’t allow me to insert photos in a comment edit! So, second attempt — swamp sunrise thru a dirty screen:

    Late Night Open Thread: A Canticle for Lies-the-Bitch*

  26. 26.

    mrmoshpotato

    I think the chance that the RNC rather than the DNC is the insane violent convention just went up kind of a lot

    Oh Milwaukee…

    Enjoy the bitchass, fascist shitshow that will try to molest (oh Matt WILL be there!) all of your city because, well,  Republican shitstains.

  27. 27.

    TBone

    A few years back, I bought a nightshirt covered with tiny 🍄 all over.  I thought it was a little weird at the time but glad I bought it anyway.   I wasn’t aware of Stormy back then because I’m an early bird and sleep through the late night comedians.  Yes I am wearing it. Hubby is giggling.

  29. 29.

    WereBear

    @TBone: I once had to rehome a pair of funny frog pajamas, because partner claimed it interfered with the proper mood. Even if the mood wasn’t what we were planning.

    He claimed it left an afterimage, or something :)

  30. 30.

    Biff Baxter

    “If you build it, he will come”

    ”Ease his pain”

    Some future Iowa farmer is going to plow under his cornfield to build a casino.

  31. 31.

    WereBear

    I think for the first time Democrats have gotten back a position of social domination, which is so incredibly stubborn, because look at what we’re dealing with.

    But the fact that our side can now summon so much shaming pressure, back on the traditional shamers, has accumulated so much weight that the arc of the universe is bending.

    We’re not sure what direction it’s bending in because this is 2024. There are so many gravitational forces involved.

  35. 35.

    Princess

    I read that Trump has not one but two rival teams of people helping him plan his transition — proposing different skates of people for positions. Trump loves this stuff but it feels like a recipe for fighting and leaks.

  37. 37.

    eversor

    One of the things I can’t get over with Trump is that he’s ugly.

    As a rather good looking guy, who had to grow into being good looking (I was a gangly scrawny goofy fuck as a teen and riddled with acne) a suit exists to make you look good.  The entire point of a suit, or even a sport jacket, is male peacocking.  It exists only to make you look better than you’d normally look.

    But that comes with the entire “you have to know how to wear it”.  Which is how to hold yourself in a suit.  You don’t slouch, you don’t move your head down.  When I look at all the pictures I’ve had corporate, military, or social and I’m with “my boys” we are all perked up, strutting, smiling, and it looks good.  There’s an obvious confidence and sense of fun it, because we are having fun.  It’s a social event and we and the other sex are all having a bit of fun dressing and strutting with it.  If you got it, flaunt it.

    Trump just looks like a frumpy mess.

    Outside of the insane spray tan and hair he just doesn’t even know how to pose.  It’s trivial I get it but for all of us who did a military stint the concept of posture, how to hold yourself, is drilled into your skull.  And women fucking love it.  You know, have some fucking swagger.

    Trumps got enough money he can get his shit tailored.  Shit your average person can get that done at Macy’s.  But no amount of tailoring will cover up a lack of proper posture.  And since we can clothes shame women lets do it to men.  That suit don’t fit.  And it’s like 20-200 bucks to get it fitted to ya and you like great.  Even if you are fat.

    He looks like my (dead as of less than a week ago, still coping with it) dad trying to fit into a suit.  Where you’re just swimming in it and it doesn’t fit.  My dad was 95 though and had cancer so nobody gave two shits.  But Trumps suits don’t fit.  He looks odd.  Not even Uncle Fester odd where it’s a fun odd.  He doesn’t look human.

    This is my toxic masculinity.

  38. 38.

    mrmoshpotato

    @eversor:

    One of the things I can’t get over with Trump is that he’s ugly. 

    You expected something different from a fat, orange, fascistic, fake billionaire, Soviet shitpile, mobster, conmanbaby who has sucked Kremlin ass hole since at least 1987?

  41. 41.

    lowtechcyclist

    @eversor: ​
    The other thing is the too-long ties. It’s not that hard to get ties off the rack that are more or less the right length for you, and if that fails, you’d think he could pay a seamstress a few bucks to shorten his ties by taking a few inches out of the part that goes around the neck. But instead he has them dangling towards his crotch. Very weird.​

    ETA: Condolences on the loss of your father, and glad you had him with you as long as you did.

  42. 42.

    WereBear

    @mrmoshpotato: I was similarly repulsed by Nixon, in sixth grade.

    We had a mock election for all the sixth grades, feminist me and the only Jewish person, a boy I didn’t know. I hope he’s still Democrat, but we were also the best academically :)

    Same though though: “How can anyone trust this obvious clown?”

  45. 45.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Robert De Niro denied leadership award after speaking out against Trump

    Film actor Robert De Niro was scheduled to accept a leadership award from the National Association of Broadcasters, but the group has rescinded the award after the celebrity spoke out against Donald Trump outside his criminal trial in New York this week, the Hill and the Huffington Post report. The National Association of Broadcasters did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    A spokesperson for the group told The Hill on Thursday that their event was “proudly bipartisan” and said: “While we strongly support the right of every American to exercise free speech and participate in civic engagement, it is clear that Mr. De Niro’s recent high-profile activities will create a distraction from the philanthropic work that we were hoping to recognize. To maintain the focus on service of the award winners, Mr. De Niro will no longer be attending the event.”

    Yeah, they’ve got their heads up their asses..

  46. 46.

    eversor

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    He lived till 95.  Survived two Nazi death camps, did a stint in the OSS, did a stint in Korea, and was an all in all meance to everyone and everything.  He did it his way.  Also I played chess with Ed Teller as a kid so dad was up to some things he never fessed up to and I’ll hear about it later.  He was cold and cruel to us, but it makes more sense now that I’m older.  I mostly worry about mom as after 50 fucking years she’s alone and scared.

  48. 48.

    eversor

    @lowtechcyclist:

    That’s another thing.  You’ve got all this money and you can’t afford a tailor?  I don’t get bespoke crap that’s way above my paygrade.  I buy off the rack and they fucking tailor it for me.  It’s FREE at any place worth buying at.

  52. 52.

    WereBear

    @eversor: I also understand better now. Though I was mostly successful at not repeating my own mother’s mistakes, which she was dead set upon and soothes me now she’s gone.

    I’m glad you are there for your mom.

  56. 56.

    Matt McIrvin

    @WereBear:

    But the fact that our side can now summon so much shaming pressure, back on the traditional shamers, has accumulated so much weight that the arc of the universe is bending.

    We’re not sure what direction it’s bending in because this is 2024. There are so many gravitational forces involved.

    And we’re spending at least half our energy shaming ourselves.

  57. 57.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Baud: They’re both long-form blogging platforms. Substack blogs seem more likely to be paywalled.

  59. 59.

    WereBear

    @Matt McIrvin: And we’re spending at least half our energy shaming ourselves.

    I hope we are moving out of the “let them beat us up to show we are the better person” phase.

    They have made a mockery of Nixon’s Orwellian program of Law n Order.

    Good. We have it back, and not in an ironic way. Sadly, irony isn’t dead, but it is living in parent’s basement at this point.

  60. 60.

    WereBear

    LOVE the title.

    Turns out I spent my impressionable youth in the Cold War for naught, because no one figured it was our own, untreated, mentally citizens who would try to end the world.

    Toxic mythology can be the deadliest epidemic of them all. Vaccinate!

  61. 61.

    eversor

    @WereBear:

    You know I haven’t talked too much about what I did or what I actually do but… I think I can let this slip.

    Dad got a Harvard MBA after working for a certain aircraft company.  Both mom and dad had way too many graduate degrees to count.  I grew up batshit rich and protected.  Outside of the priests and I’m not going to launch back into that again as every always defends Christianity.

    I cannot say what he actually did post military or what I actually do but it’s so insane it’s on a level that I still can’t grock.  He pretty much rebuilt Japan.  He was not the sort of short term MBA we see now he started off as an engineer and was an MBA advocate for heavy rail and hard industry.  You can see his impact to this day in Japan.  I don’t want to dox myself but if someone wants a look at some of his articles and speechs in Japan I’m willing to go there provided we can do this all properly.  There’s a lot to be learned from him.

    That said.  He was always cold, brutal, and hostile to us.  While still being rather loving and the most amazing at times.  After my stint in the Navy I get it better.  I’m not sure I ever will.  But what he did was earth shattering to the point thermonuclear weapons were a joke at our kitchen table.  And that compares nothing to his lengthy rebuilding of Japan.  If you know what the COSMOS club is in Dupont DC you have a rough idea of who my family is.  It still freaks me out.

  62. 62.

    What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @TBone: I only vaguely recall The Man Show but what I do recall is that Kimmel was the only funny guy on it and that was because he was lampooning toxic masculine stereotypes. He got that that’s where the humor lay. His co-host never figured that out and then when Kimmel left and Joe Rogan took over as co-host it was toxic masculinity all the way down, none of the “jokes” landed because of that, and the show was cancelled shortly after. That’s what I recall anyway… memories are faulty. Whatever the case he does seem like a good guy now

  64. 64.

    karen gail

    @eversor: I have tailored at men’s shops and many suits come with basic tailoring as part of price, any place that sells unhemmed suits has someone who can do basics.
    What gets me is that his suits are the wrong size; which tells me that he is picking out suits for the size he thinks he is rather than having sales person measure him and get the right size. Even “cheap” suit stores teach sales people how to use a tape measure.  As for his ties; I think he buys they by how tall he claims to be rather than how tall he actually is. I also noticed when the back of tie shows that he isn’t tying so that ends match up; a tie clip wouldn’t catch the back section.

  66. 66.

    bbleh

    @eversor: Sorry to hear about your dad, but sounds like he had a very rich life.  My mom was ok for about 5 years after he died, but she had her sister (at first) and other family (eg my sister) nearby who visited regularly.  But being alone took a toll, both emotionally and on doing day-to-day stuff.  I suggest you look into her getting some help sooner rather than later, both to assist her and to give you some “eyes on.”  (I eventually had to move in and take care of her for about 3 years, but YMMV.)

  67. 67.

    Another Scott

    @eversor: “Clothes make the man” – some old guy.

    Yeah, clothes matter, but the man matters much, much more.

    For example, ICYMI…

    ManyRoads ☕ 🇺🇦
    @[email protected]

    “An Army major is celebrating one year of having earned approval to wear his hair and tribe-specific regalia items in a way that honors his Native American heritage during appropriate service ceremonies.”

    #NativeAmerican #FirstNation #USA #USArmy #Heritage #Pride #History #News

    ArmyTimes.com

    [ image ]

    May 31, 2024, 06:24 PM

    Now that’s a portrait. And that’s how one carries oneself for a portrait.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  68. 68.

    Another Scott

    @eversor: Condolences to you on the loss of your father.  It’s hard.

    Remember the good times.

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  69. 69.

    Hoodie

    @karen gail: he’s trying to cover up his fatness by wearing tent like suits. A lot of overweight people do that. Same with the overly long ties, trying to distract from his fairly sizable gut. I think someone may have told him this would help, or he just convinced himself that it works. His hair and makeup are similar. The funny thing is that he can afford professionals to do those things for him, but his vanity probably keeps him from doing so, I.e., hiring a professional would be an acknowledgment of his real physical makeup. He ends up with a DIY mess.

  72. 72.

    opiejeanne

    Juror #2 didn’t have Truth Social as their only news source. Down at the bottom of the chart is an X, for Twitter. That was their other source of news. A lot of people have missed that, and I did at first.

  78. 78.

    WereBear

    @eversor: I would imagine so. But essentially you had me at “survived the Holocaust” which really hammers the steel thin.

    Especially when one considers how smart and driven he also was. That’s your legacy.

    That’s something with many different sides. The more we know, the better we understand.

    We’ve got dimensions, now.

  79. 79.

    gene108

    @eversor:

    He looks like my (dead as of less than a week ago, still coping with it)

    Condolences

    Trump just looks like a frumpy mess.

    What drove this home to me is when the Obamas greeted the Trumps for Donald’s inauguration. Holy sweet Jesus looking at the ill tailored suit of Trump’s to Barack’s properly fitted suit drives home how tasteless Trump.

    Suits are the last item of clothing men need that has to be properly tailored to look decent. Everything else we buy is off the rack, but even an off the rack suit needs some tailoring to fit properly.

    I think Trump’s too cheap to get his suits fitted. I’d wager a guess he buys them off the rack and just wears them as is. It’s the most charitable explanation I have to his poor taste in clothes.

  80. 80.

    brendancalling

    For whatever reason, there are a LOT of pies in my comments today and I don’t recall adding some of these folks to my pie filter.

    34 is my new favorite number.

  84. 84.

    gene108

    @WereBear:

    I was similarly repulsed by Nixon, in sixth grade.

    We had a mock election for all the sixth grades, feminist me and the only Jewish person, a boy I didn’t know. I hope he’s still Democrat, but we were also the best academically :)

    When I was in first grade, in 1980, my teacher asked the class who we would vote for to be President.

    She wrote the names of the three candidates on the chalk board, Carter, Reagan and Anderson.

    One kid voted for Anderson. Everyone else voted for Carter. No one voted for Reagan. I’d never heard of Reagan before this vote, but I thought his name sounded strange and I really liked Carter.

    He seemed nice. That’s the entirety of my preschool to first grade reasoning on why I liked Carter. I wasn’t wrong.

  85. 85.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    @brendancalling: Well, the pie filter also hits responses to someone you have on your pie filter. So you could conceivably have one person in your list but a dozen getting hit by the filter if there’s a conversation in progress with the one person you’ve deliberately pied.

  87. 87.

    WereBear

    @gene108: The explanation I remember being given is that he won’t stand still long enough to be fitted.

    I imagine he just roams available areas stalking women, like we saw during that one debate with Hillary Clinton.

    Mentally, I always add “, like a toddler.” to all my Trump musings. Have not been wrong yet.

  90. 90.

    AM in NC

    @TBone:  I agree. This cabal is real, powerful, and insane. And it is amazing it’s not getting more press since the chat leaked.  Thanks for keeping it front of mind.

  92. 92.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @TBone: He gracefully accepted their change of heart, saying he still supported their mission.

    Myself, I am not so forgiving. If they think trump is just politics as usual, they are the “good Germans”.

  93. 93.

    AM in NC

    @TBone:  Yep.  He and Adam Carolla went in opposite directions, didn’t they?  Good on Kimmel for learning and growing.

  95. 95.

    TBone

    @AM in NC: 👍 thanks for taking a few moments to read it!  The more people who know the names, the higher the chance that they’re not gonna succeed. Dastardly doesn’t even begin to describe them.  NUKE FROM ORBIT.

  96. 96.

    What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @opiejeanne: If I’m guilty, yes. Given that nobody can unanimously agree on anything around here, it’s a recipe for a hung jury at every trial.

  97. 97.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Good news:

    Doctors are hailing “off the chart” trial results that show a new drug stopped lung cancer advancing for longer than any other treatment in medical history.

    Lung cancer is the world’s leading cause of cancer death, accounting for about 1.8m deaths every year. Survival rates in those with advanced forms of the disease, where tumours have spread, are particularly poor.

    More than half of patients (60%) diagnosed with advanced forms of lung cancer who took lorlatinib were still alive five years later with no progression in their disease, data presented at the world’s largest cancer conference showed. The rate was 8% in patients treated with a standard drug, the trial found.

    The results are the longest progression-free survival (PFS) outcomes ever recorded in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, the world’s most common form of the disease. They were presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (Asco) in Chicago on Friday.

    “To our knowledge these results are unprecedented,” said the study’s lead author, Dr Benjamin Solomon, a medical oncologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

  99. 99.

    TBone

    @OzarkHillbilly: I agree.  DeNero doesn’t need to be anything but gracious about it though, the snub speaks for the corporate paymasters loud and clear. Fuck those guys.

  101. 101.

    TBone

    Almost forgot to say that Mike Lee needs to get fucked in ass with the red hot Dildo of Consequences.  I’ve had that motherfucker on my radar since December of 2020 and I’m still waiting…

  103. 103.

    Mousebumples

    @OzarkHillbilly: wow, that is great news. I’m curious to see the severity of baseline disease – metastatic disease generally has shorter PFS periods with each therapy. I’m also wondering what sort of mutations, if any, were present.

    Apologies for going all pharma nerd, but I expect I’ll be reviewing this study more for work, especially presuming that an FDA indication expansion is probably coming. (name brand is Lorbrena in the US, if anyone is wondering)

  107. 107.

    lowtechcyclist

    @OzarkHillbilly: ​

    A spokesperson for the group told The Hill on Thursday that their event was “proudly bipartisan” and said: “While we strongly support the right of every American to exercise free speech and participate in civic engagement, it is clear that Mr. De Niro’s recent high-profile activities will create a distraction from the philanthropic work that we were hoping to recognize. To maintain the focus on service of the award winners, Mr. De Niro will no longer be attending the event.”

    That makes no sense even on its own terms. They support free speech, just not partisan free speech? Or if you engage in partisan speech, that negates the philanthropic work that they’re supposedly honoring?

    Just plain stupid.

    Also, any outfit that’s “proudly bipartisan” when one of those two parties is trying to set up a fascist theocracy, well, fuck ’em.​

  108. 108.

    TBone

    @rikyrah: thanks for posting the Off Leash article I’m howling about today.  Heather Cox Richardson pointed it out again this morning, so it might get some traction!  Good morning 🌞

  109. 109.

    smith

    @opiejeanne:

    Ben Kochman@benkochman
    Apr 20

    …. Here is EXACTLY what juror No. 2 said.

    Because he’s an investment banker, “I read basically everything,”

    he said. “I am on Twitter. I follow TruthSocial posts from Trump on Twitter. I do follow Michael Cohen, Mueller She Wrote, and some more.”

    That’s not a MAGA reading list, even though the Goobers and FTFNYT wish it were.

  111. 111.

    karen gail

    @Hoodie: I got that he was trying to hide but he just makes it look worse. One of the places I worked had a salesman who was skilled at pointing overweight men to suits that made them look good.

    For me the worst part is the way that the shoulders hang, so he looks like a boy wearing his father’s suit; but then the guy seems to look in mirror and see a body built like Superman rather than Spongebob Squarepants.

  112. 112.

    Kay

    @lowtechcyclist:

    They got it wrong anyway. “Proudly bipartisan” would allow partisans, so DeNiro and a Republican. The word they want is nonpartisan. Their spokesperson needs a dictionary.

  114. 114.

    eversor

    @karen gail:

    That’s what I mean he looks “frumpy” like my suits are like 1k to 5k per suit.  I have more on the cheap end and at each point the tailoring was included in the damn price.  I think that’s about average?   Like MOFO, tailor your shit, it’s built into the price, ya look like a hot mess!

  116. 116.

    PAM Dirac

    @OzarkHillbilly: That is really good news, but it is somewhat tempered by the fact that the drug only works for ALK positive non small cell lung cancer, which is only about 5% of all non small cell lung cancers. Goes to show that cancer, even for a specific organ, is really many, many different diseases, each of which will probably require a different treatment.

  120. 120.

    Ken

    @Another Scott: The thread’s Ok.  Well worth de-pieing.

    Hum, so I see.  Eversor, my sincere sympathies. My parents died within days of each other a few years ago, and the grief does get better, or at least more bearable.

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    RevRick

    You know, fan fiction is supposed to have some sort of appeal, but these weird cult scenarios are just kind of sad.

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    eversor

    @gene108:

    Yeah it’s nuts.  As a dude you have two things.  Suit, watch.  If you want to go beyond that same leathers on belt and feet.  Do not fuck this up.  It’s simple.

    So if you look like a frumpy fuck.  It’s 99% that you are lazy.  I am not a “billionare” yet my suits fit.  Obama, he could rock a suit.  Shit so can Biden.  It’s not hard.  They are cut to make you look good.  So if you look like a hot mess in a suit, you are a fucking mess.

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    Ken

    @smith: I’ve seen speculation that Trump may have seen “Truth Social” was checked, and told his lawyers he wanted that juror — not realizing he was reading TS largely as screencaps in a bunch of mocking liberal Twitter threads.  Probably not true, but nice to think so.

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    opiejeanne

    @smith: Thanks. I only knew about the chart that had X down at the bottom, and almost missed it before I remembered that X is Twitter.

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    eversor

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Dad was a Hungarian Jew.  Mom is a Netherlands refugee.  I am first generation American.  I do not have much family on my dad’s side and minimal on my mothers.  They were all killed in cold blood.  In death camps.  Hence my hostility and ability to go straight to violence because it happened to us.  It happened to us so massively that the Holocaust Museum won’t even show my fathers photos of what he went through because they are that bad.  So what happened to us, is already hidden.  Because we aren’t willing to talk about that.  Yet.  Maybe never.

    Now it’s my curse.  I don’t want it.  But it’s mine.

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    smith

    @Ken: The juror highlighted Mueller She Wrote as one of his Xitter sites, so I think your guess is a good one.

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    Ken

    Here’s a fun one from bluesky: For a couple of hours on Thursday, more Americans were searching for “Trump” than “porn”. But it’s gone back to normal now.

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    Old School

    Balloon-Juice will be a holy site.  After all, the Book of Trump first appeared here.

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    eversor

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Magda was the best.  I barely knew her before she took her own life but she slaughtered people for free.  I think I know nothing about who she was or what she did but she was a very important person as a kid and mom and dad really loved her.  With dad gone I’m curious as to who that person was and why she was a thing in my life.  Very friendly.  I have “troll doll” that’s made of badger hair and buttons from suits.  Looks like a horror story stunt prop but I always kept it.  I think there is a meaning there that I can’t grasp, yet.  Though I’m sure “voodoo troll doll gonna eat you” is not the point of this thing.

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    Tenar Arha

    @eversor: sorry to hear about your father. Even when you know & are prepared for a parent dying, it’s very hard. May his memory be a blessing.

    ——-
    100% right about DJT’s suits and lack of proper tailoring, but it’s clear his style was frozen in the 1980’s with the big shoulders long jacket look. And he won’t tailor even that right because he doesn’t want to admit he’s not in his 30’s anymore.

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    Cheryl from Maryland

    @eversor: Many men don’t get it.  A male colleague asked me was if there was an equivalent to Playboy.  I said the Esquire suit issue.

  139. 139.

    Old School

    @Another Scott: I wanted to link, but I’m on my phone this morning and didn’t have time to go through the cumbersome process.

    Besides, I figured you would link.  Thanks!

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    frosty

    @Betty Cracker: ​
     I don’t particularly like being awake at sunrise, but that’s a beautiful picture. Almost worth setting an alarm. Or a reward for staying up all night.

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    Uncle Cosmo

    @brendancalling: For whatever reason, there are a LOT of pies in my comments today and I don’t recall adding some of these folks to my pie filter.

    You probably didn’t. Every response to a post by someone you’ve pied will also be hidden. I suspect you pied eversor when he was postera non grata during the Christianity brouhaha, and today many are responding to his father’s passing. Try toggling a few of the hidden posts & see; if so you might want to eip him in order to navigate the thread (you can always toss him back into the pastry if need be).

  145. 145.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Gin & Tonic: ​I bet Teller was pretty fucking good at chess.

    Could be, might not be. Contrary to popular opinion, chessplaying seems to be less a question of logic and deduction than of pattern recognition. Maybe Teller was too wrapped up in theoretical physics to devote time and effort to learning enough of the patterns well enough to play at a high level.

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    eversor

    @Cheryl from Maryland:

    Yep.  Like it’s not that hard as a guy to put yourself together.  But way to many of us do not make the effort.  I can rock jeans, boots, and a black polo and get googly eyes thrown at me from women half my age.  I just make an effort at it.

    Bitches can smell a slob or a snob a mile away.  When I look at the “incel issue” my knee jerk reaction is “you all look like stupid fuckwads”.  It’s not that hard.  Like take a look in the mirror and say “do I like me” and if not, don’t angle the camera odds are you are just wearing the wrong crap.

    Half my suits are from Macy’s.  I’m cheap and frugal.  In each fucking case they tailored it for me.  It’s not hard.  But most guys can’t be assed do that.   Which says a lot about men and it’s not good.  Fucking get it tailored.  It’s free in most cases.

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    Anotherlurker

    @eversor: Sorry for your loss.  My go to quote for the survivors is from Dr. Seuss:  “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” .

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    karen gail

    @eversor: It’s the little things that make a big difference in how people view you and like it or not humans are visual creatures. We can’t always tell someone what looks wrong just we know something is off. People have seen so many pictures of what a “well-dressed man in suit” looks like that when they look at Trump they can’t always tell you what is wrong just that it is “feels” wrong.

  149. 149.

    jimmiraybob

    @TBone:

    Do you think that there could possibly be a connection between Trumps “unified Reich” and Prince’s group chat buds?

    “’The West is at best a beautiful cemetery,’ lamented Sven von Storch, whose aristocratic German family fled the country after World War II to Chile, where their son was raised before returning to the land of his ancestors, where he married the granddaughter of the Third Reich’s last de facto head of state, who was convicted at Nuremberg.”

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    2liberal

    @brendancalling:  For whatever reason, there are a LOT of pies in my comments today

     

    i have the same thing.  lots of people feeding the troll by responding to eversor.

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