Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

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

We still have time to mess this up!

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Dead end MAGA boomers crying about Talyor Swift being a Dem is my kind of music. Turn it up.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it’s a trap.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

People are complicated. Love is not.

In after Baud. Damn.

The revolution will be supervised.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

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While Trump and Roberts and Alito were lighting the Reichstag on fire, I spent the day blissfully ignorant riding on the tractor.

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It was perfect weather- blue sky, 75 degrees, no humidity, and a nice breeze. Got two major fields cut. We line them on Wednesday then on Friday will do a 2.5″ cut. Whole lot of work for some kids to kick a ball, but at least they’re not… well, not what? Not like they can do any more fucking damage than the adults are right now.

***

I just love the time on the tractor. No one bothers me, no one fucks with me, I’m not checking and responding to emails, I have no decisions to make, and I feel about as free and unburdened as I can possibly be. Couple jugs of water and the noise cancelling earphones, and it’s 6-7 hours of complete peace. Listened to a bunch of classic rock today. Foreigner, Boston, Styx, that kind of stuff- stuff that was real big in the Ohio Valley in the early 80’s

When I am on the mower, with my headphones on, singing along to Rush or Peter Frampton at ear bleeding volumes, I feel like I am soaring as close as possible to peak whiteness. It takes me back 40 years. Just missing a lukewarm case of Mickey’s big mouths, a pack of camel lights, and a couple of loaded joints that will blow up at some point while you are smoking them because you invariably missed a couple seeds since it’s really hard to roll a joint on an 8-track in the front seat of a Dodge Colt while doing 65 on WV roads marked at 35 mph.

How the fuck are any of us still alive?

***

I’ve already unleashed most of my venom about the scotus decision on twitter. I just don’t have the patience for motherfuckers right now. Shit is all hands on deck. Again, I am a straight white dude in my 50’s who was baptized christian as a childd, and I will be fine in the upcoming Christian caliphate/Fourth Reich/Magadom. And I can not control how other people vote, but if Jewish Americans, Muslim Americans, and the youths want to not support Biden to teach him a lesson, there simply isn’t much I can do. Good luck drinking fracking water, breathing chemicals, and eating poison, and if you are lucky enough to make it, you better have saved some money because they are coming for social security, medicare, and medicaid. They are coming for it all. OSHA is dead, unions are gonna get it next, gay marriage, interracial marriage- it’s all on the fucking table.

I mentioned this on twitter and was immediately accused of “punching down.” Motherfucker, I am not punching anyone. I’m trying to get you to stop punching yourself in the dick and supporting the guy who didn’t fucking use Palestinian as a slur in the debate.

I just can’t with people. Politics is a god damned team sport.

I’m gonna load up a video game and destroy some whit.

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  1. 1.

    Phein64

    Kids these days:  Just try to tell them what it was like in the early ’70’s, when you had to be able to drive with your knee, pass a joint with one hand, and hold a beer in the other, all while trying to tune in some jams on the FM.  My kids never had to do that, and wouldn’t even try.

  4. 4.

    bbleh

    Uh, dude, you run a social media site that is outright seditious.

    You may not be the first they come after — skin color, location, etc. — but when they’re done with the initial TV-centric roundups, they’re gonna turn to the political problems, and you are definitely a Political Problem.

    One assumes you have weapons in the best American tradition of self-defense.  I trust you will go out in a blaze of righteousness.  I’m gonna brush up on my chemistry, specifically that of explosives.

  13. 13.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    I’m a straight, white guy too, so I probably wouldn’t be in any immediate danger.

    However, as scared as I am for myself and my family, I’m more scared for LGBTQ+, women, and POC who would face the full brunt first

  15. 15.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Oh God, Mickey’s wide mouths.  They were our thing in Delaware in the 90’s too.  That and Mad Dog 20/20.  How are we alive, indeed?

  17. 17.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    … since it’s really hard to roll a joint on an 8-track in the front seat of a Dodge Colt while doing 65 on WV roads marked at 35 mph.

    That’s what a Frisbee is for! Can verify that it worked great in the back seat of a ’69 Chevelle at 80 mph on a country road south of Beatrice, Nebraska in the summer of 1980.

    Sounds like you had a chill time in the sun and that’s a very good thing in these times of stress!

    @UncleEbeneezer:

    Boone’s Farm, baby! How about Thunderbird for the real summertime cheap rotgut.

  19. 19.

    dexwood

    Quite possibly your best post. You covered so much with such commonsense and pragmatism. Fuck trump. Fuck the Supreme Court fascist bootlickers. Vote Blue.

  20. 20.

    hrprogressive

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): ​
     

    As another member of the “Straight White Male Brigade”, I wish I shared your confidence.

    Though we may not be POC, LGBTQ, etc., we have committed the sin of Being Non-Conservative, so yeah.

    We may not be as visible as others, but I would put nothing past the Fascist thugs who want to annihilate anyone “Not Like Them”.

    Best to prepare now, while we still can.

  23. 23.

    raven

    I spent six fucking years mowing ball fields and soccer pitches. We had a facility that was 12 miles away and I had to ride a tractor and bush hog on a two lane highway all the way. One day I was driving in and a log truck blew a tire right as it passed me and I thought I was gonna die. The name of the highway is Hog Mountain Road!

  24. 24.

    Josie

    I’m with you, John, on the 80’s music. It’s what I use with my headphones to walk–plus Chuck Berry and the Pointer Sisters. I also sing along when I can be sure no one is around to hear me.

  27. 27.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Again, I am a straight white dude in my 50’s who was baptized christian as a childd, and I will be fine in the upcoming Christian caliphate/Fourth Reich/Magadom.

    Don’t know about you John, but I have never been shy about what I think. As a straight white dude in my mid 60’s who was baptized Catholic as a child, and said “Fuck that shit!” at the age of 14 after having a Nun beat all that BS out of me and never stopped uttering heresy after heresy since then, I am pretty damned sure they can’t wait to burn me at the stake.

    I don’t intend to make it easy for them.

  28. 28.

    CaseyL

    That does sound like a lovely way to spend the day.  Ah, the Noise-Cancelling Headphones of Serenity!

    I have frequently wished I could meditate.  Have never been able to turn off my brain (and I am definitely one of those people with a constant internal monologue…dialogue… group chat). FSM knows what would happen to me in a sensory-deprivation tank.

    Things at work are usually pretty quiet (we’re all on hybrid schedules, so there are rarely more than two people around at any given time).  But today seemed quieter than usual.  I think a lot of people are in shock.  Hopefully, when they come out of it, they’ll be angry.  Determined and angry.

  29. 29.

    eclare

    @NotMax:

    Question:  do I own any of the airspace above my house, like up to a certain altitude?

    I don’t approve of shooting a gun in public, but if I saw that thing hovering above my yard, I’d be pretty freaked out.

  30. 30.

    Quiltingfool

    @eclare: Try Hawaiian Punch and grain.  Ye gods, that was a ferocious hangover.  Made for an interesting time at a concert, though.  Was at a Breakfast in America Supertramp concert and when a gorilla and a banana walked across the stage, I kind of freaked out a little bit (and questioned my choice of adult beverage).

    Ah, youth.  I, like John, wonder how in the hell I’m still alive!

  31. 31.

    Scout211

    John, your weather sounds perfect.  We have some awful weather coming.  According to the Weather Channel, our highs will be over 100 for the next 14 days and will range from 103 to 112.

    Here’s a national report from NBC.

    Much of California faces a one-two weather punch this week as a dangerous heat wave and high fire risk loom at a time when millions will be outside celebrating Independence Day.

    Temperatures in the Sacramento Valley could reach 115 degrees, according to Kate Forrest, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in California’s capital city. A heat warning in the area will begin Tuesday and is expected to last until at least Saturday.

    “We are expecting elevated heat and extreme heat risk throughout most of interior California,” Forrest said. “This heat is going to be a prolonged event.”

    Forecasters expect the heat wave to start Tuesday in inland California and then broaden into the Pacific Northwest and deeper into Southern California later in the week. Excessive heat watches, warnings and advisories will blanket the West on Tuesday from southern Oregon to the low desert in southeast California, according to the National Weather Service.
    . . .
    Some forecast models suggest the Medford region could set a record for the number of consecutive 100-degree days, Schaaf said. The region endured 10 such days in a row in 1967.

    Dangerous fire conditions will accompany the sharp rise in temperatures Tuesday in both states.

    Pacific Gas & Electric said Monday that power shut-offs are likely in 10 California counties Tuesday, given the high winds and dry conditions expected throughout central California. Shut-offs are designed to proactively reduce the risk of wildfires in areas where winds could topple power lines or cause trees to fall on them. Some shut-offs are expected Wednesday, too.

    🥵

  33. 33.

    TeezySkeezy

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):  Eventually they start randomly framing up and disappearing people across all the demos, so while the groups you mention need the first line of defense, eventually the fascists decide their defenders in the general population need the fear instilled.

  35. 35.

    eclare

    @Scout211:

    Ugh.  Take care, and if you can, put water out for birds.

    And I hope none of your neighbors are stupid enough to set off fireworks.

  37. 37.

    Quiltingfool

    @OzarkHillbilly: Hmm.  I have a friend who went to parochial school in the St. Louis area (I’m sure there were lots of those back in the day).  She is very anti Catholic, due to an overzealous nun smacking her and cutting her hair.  For no reason.  Don’t think her parents did anything about it.

    Another friend was in parochial school in Cape G.  He said his mom embarrassed him when she told a nun that she (the nun) needed to get laid.  He did say his mom was a bit drunk at the time, lol!

  40. 40.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @NotMax:

    Pinkie in the air stuff. ;)

    How about cheap beers like Old English 800, Olympia, Hamms and the like. The jingle for Oly was “It’s the waterrrrrr, and a lot more”, which we revised to “It’s the waterrrr, and not much more”.

    It was truly sex in a canoe beer.

  42. 42.

    Doc Sardonic

    Woohooo, Trash Can Punch…..That’s the ticket. Now I have to do math and scale down a 30 gallon recipe to a gallon or so.

  44. 44.

    MagdaInBlack

    @Doc Sardonic: You had a recipe? We just had a general idea and tossed in juice, grain and sliced fruit til it tasted right. Lots of testing required.

  45. 45.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @2liberal:

    I’ve found short breaks can help, but of course when you check back in then you get to read about everything you missed when you were away, which can sometimes be a gut punch

  50. 50.

    frosty

    Omg, BFA, Mad Dog, and Tbird. All part of my Last Day Of Classes Fifth Of Cheap Wine Drunk at the end of one year or another.

  52. 52.

    Jackie

    @Scout211: We’re expecting much the same in southeastern WA with temps from the “low” 100s to 107 degrees starting the 4th through at least the following seven days. 🥵

  55. 55.

    TeezySkeezy

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Once upon a time there wasn’t one gut punch after another.

    Sigh, gonna get called names for this too, but I really think our system has collapsed, one way or another whatever comes next is now irrevocably going to be fundamentally different. Just remains to be seen how good or bad it will be.

  59. 59.

    different-church-lady

    2016: “DON’T YOU TRY TO BLACKMAIL ME WITH THE SUPREME COURT, I’LL VOTE FOR WHOEVER I WANT!”

    2024: “THIS IS ALL JOE BIDEN’S FAULT!”

  60. 60.

    Leto

    Sitting on the mower, zoning out, and just… being. Yup.

    The US v Uruguay game is on atm. The camera angle they’re using looks like it’s from the fucking Goodyear Blimp. Can we please stop using this angle? It’s disorienting as it looks like you’re staring straight down on the field. I know it’s the NFL football position, but just… no.

  61. 61.

    Doc Sardonic

    @MagdaInBlack: Yes, developed over many high school and college parties. Basic quantities, then you tweaked it to conditions such a fresh fruit quality and availability, relative humidity, heat index etc. Refined to a point where the presence of alcohol was negligible. Recommendation when consuming is a) be careful, b) whatever you are doing when you start drinking it, continue that activity, c)under no circumstances, ever, no matter how good that fruit looks, eat the fruit.

  62. 62.

    Jackie

    @eclare:

    And I hope none of your neighbors are stupid enough to set off fireworks.

    What exactly are we celebrating this 4th of July that requires fireworks? The birthday of a nation free of being ruled by a king or queen? Today’s SC decision kind of blew that celebration to smithereens.😢

    Aside from that, there’ll be plenty of MAGAts in my neck of the red woods celebrating with bombs bursting midair. Fire warnings be damned.

  64. 64.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @UncleEbeneezer:

    Oh God, Mickey’s wide mouths.

    We played The Bob Game back in the early 80s with Mickey’s wide mouths.

    Did no permanent damage…I think.

  65. 65.

    CaseyL

    We had the three I, Love, and You wines when I was in high school. Also Annie Green Springs, Ripple, and that dry, acid-y wine that came in a jug. Lance-something? Lancers! I think it was Lancers.

    Then I went to college, University of Florida, when the drinking age was 18 and we had a Rathskeller right there on campus. Oh my GOD the alcoholic things I poured down my throat. (And the weed, and the acid, and the ‘ludes.) Yes, it’s amazing I came out of that with an unimpaired brain. It’s probably also a good thing I moved to Seattle after my sophomore year, because the campus culture at UF was fricking awful. Sex, drugs, rock’n’roll were the good parts; it’s the absolute incurious dullness that would have done me in.

    (My dorm roomie, seeing me unpack enough books to overfill my allotted bookshelf, could not believe I read “for fun”: She had never read anything that wasn’t assigned.)

  68. 68.

    Spanky

    Glad to see WaPo is playing to their strength:

    Bathroom problems? Try these cures for constipation.

    You don’t want a link, believe me.

  69. 69.

    Michael Bersin

    @Jackie:

    “…What exactly are we celebrating this 4th of July that requires fireworks? The birthday of a nation free of being ruled by a king or queen? Today’s SC decision kind of blew that celebration to smithereens…”

    You have a point there.

  72. 72.

    eclare

    @CaseyL:

    When I was in college Gainesville Green was a primo strain of weed.  Sounds like they had a lot of developmental experience!

  73. 73.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Jackie:

    What exactly are we celebrating this 4th of July that requires fireworks? The birthday of a nation free of being ruled by a king or queen? Today’s SC decision kind of blew that celebration to smithereens.😢

    It ruins the National Anthem too

  75. 75.

    Ohio Mom

    I came as an antidote to listening to Ohio Dad going on about how all is lost. Same points as Cole’s rant but more panicked and sorry to say, a little whiney.

    Though the nostgalia about our consciousness-altered youths is amusing and leaves me grateful all of us survived, in the interests of remaining only a little depressed, I think I’ll go look at some decorating sites, see you all later.

  76. 76.

    Jackie

    @TeezySkeezy: We ARE in a desert! The same desert runs essentially from eastern CA all the way up into southeastern WA. Sagebrush and tumbleweeds and sandy soil.

  78. 78.

    Tony G

    Empirically, people have not gotten any smarter since Ralph Nader (that goddamn narcissist) allowed George W. Bush to be elected (with a minority of the popular vote).  That was almost a quarter century ago.

  79. 79.

    mvr

    I’m not a Christian, but I’m pretty fucking white and male. Not sure I’m going to be fine if the Supremes and the Rs and the Orange fans win. Not sure I want to be.

    My parents lived through WWII in occupied Europe, each with their own coping strategies as fit their different backgrounds (Mom poorish; Dad son of a doctor who ran a hospital and likely could protect him some early in the war.) They raised me to worry about this.

    So it seem like I owe it to them to take some risks to speak out, to protest and perhaps to get in trouble in a time when the court seems to say there are few limits to what the orange asshole can do if he is elected again.

    I’m old. I will be dead before climate change takes the majority of the world it the Republicans get what they want.  The regulatory decisions of the court, today and last week are in some ways even scarier than whether this particular asshole fails to get his legal comeuppance. I won’t be there for it, but maybe I’m actually more worried about that.  It will take time to come back from whatever brink we are on and climate isn’t going to wait.

    I’m going to stay away from most media for a bit. Calm down. Try to stay sane and then work on it one way or another this Summer and Fall.

  80. 80.

    Leto

    US team playing strong, and with confidence, in the opening 15 v Uruguay. Keep it up!

  81. 81.

    Scout211

    Speaking of misspent youth, why don’t kids get to drive all over town in their dad’s ancient pickup truck* with friends on the bench seat and a whole party’s worth of friends in the truck bed?  Why can’t kids today have fun like that?  🤔

    *International Harvester.  The best truck for fun!

  84. 84.

    artem1s

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): ​ 
    You and other straight white guys may want to rethink how safe you really are. You won’t be the first to go to prison or have your property stripped away. But you’ll be the first who have to make Sophie’s choice.
    Who do you give up in order to keep your property or job or freedom? Which of your friends or family members that confided in you about their decision to seek an abortion do you rat on first? Which of your LGBTQ friends businesses do you abandon because you can’t afford to be seen eating in their restaurants or shopping at their stores? Which of your white co-workers do you out because you know their spouse is a quarter black or their g-g-grandmother was Jewish? How many promotions do you think you’ll get once your MAGAt boss finds out who you voted for?
    Might be time to remind some of your fence sitting relatives that their secret lives won’t be secret anymore.
    Watch the Wannsee Conference sometime if you want to get a glimpse of how the SS scared “Good Germans” into ratting out their families, neighbors and friends

  87. 87.

    Leto

    @eclare: I see the ref’ing is just as bad as it has been this whole tournament. But I’m glad they’re coming out fast and aggressive.

  88. 88.

    Barbara

    @Ohio Mom: There is something so self-indulgent about this.  In 2004 I pretty well knew that Bush was going to win, and he was certainly going to win in the state where I lived.  So I traveled to where my mother lived and spent a lot of time canvassing neighborhoods. Kerry won that state (Pennsylvania) and even though I was bummed at the national result I was happy that I had helped make a positive difference.

    In 2006, I was pretty sure George Allen was going to win but I still made phone calls and canvassed for James Webb, and by God, he ended up winning by the slimmest of margins.

    My dad’s gestalt was, basically, that his life was the embodiment of an Escher drawing and there was no way out.  I had to manually teach myself optimism not because I thought that everything would turn out okay, but because it is a necessary predicate for doing anything.

    My brother was like my father and I couldn’t stand being in the same room with him at times.

  93. 93.

    smike

    The first thing King Branden should do is dissolve the supreme court, effective immediately. Who’s gonna tell him he can’t do that? Also declare that TFG is disqualified from holding public office, and that any votes for him will not be counted. Again, who’s going to stop him.

  95. 95.

    geg6

    I recommend the 3-part PBS doc about disco for a good distraction.  I came of age in that era (Class of ‘77, woot!) and I learned a lot.  Plus, I appreciate the music more now.  I was a punk snob with some regular rock chick mixed in.  My boyfriend was in a band that played the tri-state area of PA, OH and WV.  We were too cool for disco.  But even then, it was great dance music even if we didn’t want to admit it.  I’m finding it highly entertaining.

  96. 96.

    CaseyL

    @Doc Sardonic: ​

    It was a sad day when Johnson Hall burned and took out The Rat

    ??!!!

    I either don’t remember that, or had left before it happened (summer of 1976).

    @eclare: ​

    I don’t remember any particular named strain, other than Thai Stick, which we very carefully broke off a few bits of to mix in with the “regular” weed.​

  97. 97.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Barbara:

    That’s a positive attitude to have. I’ve always taken issue with the “Hope is not a strategy” thing. I’m always like, “…who said it was?” You got to put in the work and having a hopeful attitude helps with that

  99. 99.

    ArchTeryx

    @raven: He wasn’t a Republican. That was good enough for the time. He was a scumbag, but he wasn’t George “Macaca” Allen. Sometimes you dance with the one that brung you.

  100. 100.

    Leto

    Ok, the ref in this game is just insane. Half hour in and he’s basically lost it. Still 57 to go

    Edit: there’s too many “inexperienced refs” involved in these big games. They can get the experienced needed in friendlies, not in tournament play.

  101. 101.

    Doc Sardonic

    @CaseyL: Was after I left as well, happened in ‘87. The sad part was that it was the oldest building left on campus I think. UF had not to long before the fire put in for it to be on the National register of historic places.

  102. 102.

    ArchTeryx

    @E.: The unhoused are the easiest targets, but the first ones nearly every fascist regime in the 20th Century went after was the disabled, especially the mentally disabled. They don’t have a whole lot of advocates or money, either, and they’d already been effectively disappeared. That’s what makes me so nervous. Everyone in this house but the owner is disabled. We’d be first on the list, and we live right next to rural NY (read: Gun Nut Central) in Albany.

    And Trump and his pet Congress already made one attempt on my life, and came within one vote of succeeding. The events of the last week or so are just flat out terrifying to me

    ETA: I’m not calling for civil war or collecting an armory, just expressing honest feelings.

  103. 103.

    NotMax

    @Tony G

    Being elected president with a minority of the popular vote is not the norm but not all that rare either.

    Polk
    Taylor
    Buchanan
    Lincoln (once)
    Garfield
    Cleveland (twice)
    B. Harrison
    Wilson (twice)
    Truman
    Kennedy
    Nixon (once)
    Clinton (twice)
    G. W Bush (once)
    Trump

  105. 105.

    BenInNM

    @raven: I think this comment completely misses the point. I’m not very familiar with east coast politics but I do remember that race and to have Webb (nominally a democrat) beat that smarmy George Allen in Virginia was a huge step forward.

  106. 106.

    TeezySkeezy

    @Jackie: Stand corrected. Yes but it is still awful, granted.

    I mean I am in Phoenix and it is *normal* but that does not make it any better!

  109. 109.

    Marc

    @eclare:  I grew up in the back of a Travelall!  Just rolling around, playing with cousins, etc. While dad drove 80 mph.

    Not quite a Travelall, but my dad used to drive 80 mph on twisty New England roads in his ’60 Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider.  Top down, mom in the passenger seat (with a scarf over her hair, of course), kid sister sitting in her lap, and I’d sit on the transmission tunnel behind the stick shift.  Then one night us kids went on an errand with dad, I was in the passenger seat (which had a seat belt at mom’s insistence) and sister was in my position. Sudden stop, dad’s arm went out, but not quite quick enough to keep sister from whacking her head on the dashboard.  A few stitches and she was fine (you can still see the scar 64 years later).  Dad, however, was not fine when he got home, the Alfa Romeo disappeared a week later and was replaced by a crappy new Chevy Nova with four seats, all equipped with the optional seat belts.

  110. 110.

    Leto

    It’s the ref’s first COPA America match, and his 7th senior men’s match. Just… you have to be frigging kidding me.

  111. 111.

    Steve in the ATL

    unions are gonna get it next

    So much for my career!

    @NotMax:

    Florida man admits to shooting at Walmart delivery drone, damaging payload.

    So confused about whom to root for in this situation!

    @Quiltingfool: California Coolers became popular when I was in high school.  I would have to get them for my girlfriend, but they were too sickeningly sweet for me to ingest so I cut them half and half with vodka. Now THAT was a hangover!

  113. 113.

    Bobby Thomson

    “Punching down” – an accusation made by wealthy white Long Island trustafarians.  I cannot emphasize strongly enough just how hard they can go fuck themselves.  It’s the same goddamn thing every presidential election from people who make more money whining than winning.

    Biden/Harris 2024 – get behind it or GTF out of the way.  Better yet, GFY.

  116. 116.

    Marc

    @Jackie:  Ahhhh…! Your dad really loved you kids.

    It was more like dad loved mom, and mom made it clear what would happen if that car didn’t get replaced immediately.

  117. 117.

    ArchTeryx

    @Steve in the ATL: I’m a union guy too, PEF Local 205 (NYS government professional union). The SC(R)OTUS already tried to destroy us with Janus. PEF simply responded that while you can free ride, you don’t get any of the discounts, insurance, or goodies PEF provides if you do. They lost about 2% of their fees, and since the state’s been on a hiring binge, they’ve more than gained that back.

    I feel for you.

  118. 118.

    Scout211

    @Marc: Sudden stop, dad’s arm went out

    Awww! A familiar move all parents instinctively knew how to do back in the day.  And all of us knew that move meant that we wouldn’t die our parent truly loved us.

    All parents have today are in-auto wi-fi, dvds and unlimited streaming music.  Where’s the love in that? 😉

  119. 119.

    Avalune

    @Mike E: True true that dude was Opera of cards…you get a card, you get a card but at least he didn’t whip out a card while simultaneously being like yeah keep playing also! That’s not how that works…

  121. 121.

    E.

    @artem1s: I’m kind of already confronting this in a very minor way. I have a BLM flag on my lawn. I’m in TN. Am I just making myself a target pointlessly? It’s still up but every time a cop drives by I wonder.

  122. 122.

    Leto

    @Mike E: True, but he’s up to the challenge

    Edit: also Avalune says she tired, so ignore the “Opera” of cards :P

  123. 123.

    Scout211

    @NotMax:DVD players are obsolete tech in the automotive world

    Good point. My kids had portable DVD players for their kids but now they probably have video streaming with a drop down screen for every seat since they just bought a new big ass SUV.

    I stand corrected.

  129. 129.

    Jackie

    @Scout211: I throw my arm across the passenger seat to protect anyone sitting there to this day – seatbelts can’t replace that arm! LOL

    My adult children do it, too.

    Today, rarely do I have a front seat passenger, but I’ve saved many a bag of fast food from flipping and dumping fries and burgers to the floor! Flinging right arm at “breaking the  sound barrier” fast is a valuable asset!😁

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    wjca

    Again, I am a straight white dude in my 50’s who was baptized christian as a childd, and I will be fine in the upcoming Christian caliphate/Fourth Reich/Magadom.

    Much the same, except for being a couple decades older.  So initially I’d likely to be fine, too, except for the detail that Mrs wjca’s ancestors weren’t European.  (Her mother did high school at Manzanar.  Makes the threats of sticking various groups in camps all too close to home.)

    @artem1s: has it right.  They will start with the most helpless marginalized groups.  But work their way “up”; eventually, because there’s nobody else left, they will be rounding up and/or killing each other for not being fanatic enough or about the right obscure ideological details. Be too late for the rest of us, however.

    Half a century ago, as an Air Force officer, I was required to qualify annually with my sidearm.  I did.  And haven’t fired a gun since.  Nor ever felt the urge to own one.  Still, I know which end the bullet comes out of.  And I’m guessing it’s like riding a bicycle — it comes back to you pretty quick.  Because, reluctantly, I’ve had to start considering the need for self defense.  (Just not against the same Those People.)

  137. 137.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @MagdaInBlack:

    We called this a spodie. Usually done in a bucket but we did once do one in a large (new) garbage can. It takes a lot of cheap booze and fruit & juices to fill one of those things up! Let it soak for a day and it’s time to party with a LOT of people!

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    Sister Golden Bear

    @geg6: FWIW, Deborah Harry and one of the other members of Blondie loved disco. “Heart of Glass” was their disco tribute and they deliberately had it in their set list because they knew it would piss off the “too cool for disco” folks in the audience.

  144. 144.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Tony G:

    Did you see today that Ralphie is blaming Hillary for the Imperial Court’s decision today? That’s right, her.

    Fucking croak already, Ralphie.

  147. 147.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @wjca: There’s definitely groups — like the disabled — who will be targeted first, but the war on trans people shows how the “working their way up” works. We got copies of internal discussions where the haters explicitly talked about targeting us trans people because we have the least political power, and then once they’d turned the public against us, they go back on the offensive against queer people.

  151. 151.

    wjca

    @Sister Golden Bear: The main thing holding them off from trans people is simply that you are so thin on the ground.  Finding you, and rounding you up, will take work — and sloth is more their vibe.  Easier to go after the homeless — visible, and tend to be found in groups (especially at night).

    Not that it will slow them down long.  But figure you get targeted third or fourth, rather than first.  Praying it doesn’t come to that.

    EDT And Happy Birthday!

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