I may be stupid and have done a lot of stupid shit, but at least I’m not “wear a fake bandage on my ear at the RNC to worship my god king Trump” stupid. Fucking cultists.
And as someone else noted, these are the same idiots who refused to wear masks, calling them face diapers.
I just can’t with these people.
I’ve been really enjoying my time at the gym the last couple of days. I’m not gonna lie, it’s rapidly becoming my favorite part of the day. Takes about 25 mins to get there, and I like to spend at least two hours there, so I’ve been setting aside three hours every day for it.
I like to get there, stretch for a bit, walk around the track a little, then shower and hit the pool. Do a couple laps, stand there and walk around in the water stretching and working the shoulder, do a couple more laps, etc. Can only do the breast stroke because of the limited range of motion in my right shoulder screws up freestyle and backstroke, but I can tell in just a few days my range of motion is getting better and I bet in a month or so I can do freestyle. For obvious reasons (I’m 54 and a fatbody, fer fucks sake) there is no butterfly in my future.
Little better every day is the goal.
The weather was superb today, topping out at around 81, but for most o the day mid to high 70’s with a few clouds and anice breeze. It rained yesterday, so the air had that soft feel that only comes when there is moisture in the air, but it isn’t really humid- the kind where wind the breeze kicks up you for a second notice the chill then quickly adapt to the comforting cool flow of air- kinda like your whole body being hugged by a cloud. You don’t get that in Arizona ever, and you only get it every once in a while here. It’s hard to describe, but if you know, you know.
I’m munching on some red and yellow bell peppers I picked up at the farmer’s market. I like to wash them, refrigerate them, and then cut them into really thick julienne’s, and then sprinkle just a pinch of salt. They are so crisp and juicy and sweet and extremely refreshing. Just so good.
War for Ukraine Day 876: A Brief Thursday Night Update
Matt McIrvin
They were wearing Band-Aids to mock John Kerry’s war wound in 2004.
Betty
Nice to hear you are enjoying these days after all that sweltering heat.
hitchhiker
Recommended therapy: if your local paper arrives with the name of the thug candidate in print, or worse yet an image of that revolting face, get yourself a black marker and make it disappear. Feels extremely childish and good, plus you can have the thing lying around without wanting to set fire to it every time you see it.
guachi
Today’s Tour de France stage was fantastic. The winner gave a great interview.
“I was struggling to finish my training schedules… But I have a bright future now in cycling. I became a father and was, like, blue skies. Only blue skies”
Kids can change your world, can’t they?
https://x.com/BenjiNaesen/status/1813976231878283290?t=xlcOdGoFHS7pisMEq5oVfQ&s=19
SiubhanDuinne
I said this in a comment downstairs, but I’m wondering if TCFFG would consider starting his speech with “Friends, ‘Murcans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”
ETA: I mean, was there ever a more perfect opportunity?
Citizen Alan
I literally don’t consider these creatures to be fully human. I don’t think they have souls.
stinger
You have got to be kidding me. That isn’t photoshopped???
TheOtherHank
Unsolicited swimming advice: As a fellow fucked-up-shoulders guy, I find that when swimming freestyle doing a fingertip drill on every stroke (when you bring your hand forward you drag your fingertips along the surface of the water) prevents me from sticking my arm out in the air and putting strain on my shoulder. And when I’m starting the stroke, being very careful with my catch to avoid torquing my shoulder is super important.
opiejeanne
@stinger: It isn’t. I’m wondering if they’re handing out those bandages at the convention.
guachi
Regardless of whether Biden drops out or not I made my mom watch Kamala’s speech today in Fayetteville, NC. It actually got coverage. Mom had no real opinion on Harris. Didn’t think she should take over if Biden stepped down but two weeks ago reluctantly agreed that nothing else made sense.
Still, she wasn’t excited about Harris. By the end of Kamala’s 15 minute speech, though, she was totally on board with Harris. Kept remarking throughout how good it was and how she couldn’t tell if Harris was speaking on a teleprompter or not. Very impressed. I even got her to jokingly say “I am now and have always been Kamala’s strongest warrior.”
That’s one instant convert.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
The gym is a godsend. I thought I was seeing the beginning of achiness moving into middle age, hit the gym, turned out I just wasn’t moving my body enough.
My friend introduced me to a much wider range of calisthenics, those have been particularly helpful.
Villago Delenda Est
I’m with you, Cole. “I just can’t” is perfect for these vile treasonous toads.
patrick II
It’s normal for candidates to move to the center after their nomination. Nobody has had such an opportunity to do as Trump does now. The angry, mean Trump we have been seeing all year has now become the candidate running ” for all Americans” because God miraculously saved his life for that purpose.
I can’t stand it .
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
He would need a sense of humor that wasn’t entirely depraved and cruel and focused on perceived enemies.
Villago Delenda Est
@SiubhanDuinne: “Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?” — Fred Weasley
NotMax
@opiejeanne
Gratis?
Not bloody likely.
Villago Delenda Est
@Matt McIrvin: I remember that, and in support of a fucking deserter, to boot.
eemom
Hi Cole. One reason I’m glad I showed back up this week is you were SOOO fucking adorable in those fascist sunglasses. #melt
SiubhanDuinne
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
I listened to the first few minutes but had to turn off that whiny, self-pitying, sing-song voice mouthing a cliché-ridden bunch of platitudes portraying him as both martyr and valiant warrior.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@SiubhanDuinne: You listened? I suppose I ought to get around to it. I suppose my instinct isn’t perfect and Trump hit that 0.000002% chance he might meet the moment.
Sister Golden Bear
@SiubhanDuinne: The vast majority of the audience wouldn’t get the reference since reading is for libs.
Dangerman
I have no horse in the hunt. I’d vote for a dog turd before I vote for TCFG. I just want our candidate to after the POS, hammer and fucking tongs, for 4 months.
Eolirin
@SiubhanDuinne: You know, I always thought martyrs had to die first to qualify.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Sister Golden Bear: But they know what ears are. They might consider it a pithy Trump original.
Sister Golden Bear
@NotMax: Some vendor is making bank at the convention.
guachi
Holy fucking fuck. Trump’s speech is bizarre.
To quote Tom Nichols: “Oh my God.The creepiness factor just pegged into the red zone”
JoyceH
I stopped going to the Y during the pandemic. Kept paying dues but haven’t been back since until recently. My trip to Biltmore was fun but showed me that my walking ability wasn’t ready for the Italy trip so I’ve been going to the Y to use the treadmill. Might find my way back to the pool one of these days.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
I go to The Home Depot OFA* gym, I’ve lost over 60 pounds in 3 years.
*OFA, Order Fulfillment Associate we’re the guys who pull merchandise for folks orders and get all the shipments ready to go out for delivery.
Jackie
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’ll catch the
highlights/low lights in the morning.NotMax
“A highly respected federal judge in Florida, Aileen Cannon.”
Over to you, Skippy.
rikyrah
Keep with the pool, Cole. It’s your friend 🤗
Water aerobics, walking in the pool with weights, swimming…all your friend🤗
guachi
No matter how weird and cultish you might imagine a Trump speech could be you cannot imagine this speech.
opiejeanne
@NotMax: Hahaha!
piratedan
Turns out that they didn’t even spell the fireman’s name correctly on the jacket.
rikyrah
Symone D. Sanders Townsend (@SymoneDSanders) posted at 4:13 PM on Thu, Jul 18, 2024:
Whew. Some heavy hitting local and national names on this list —> 1,400 Black women sign letter of support for Biden, condemn lack of Democratic unity https://t.co/wl5r83nJCF
(https://x.com/SymoneDSanders/status/1814045953244209155?t=x7tTD2rcN4T1ppDWu6XcqA&s=03)
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
He was in a crowd when the shots were fired and his flock caught the brunt of it and I have not seen him show one whit of concern.
Lyrebird
@guachi: what a sweetheart! glad he got his Tour de France title!
And maybe this is sappy to observe, but your other comment shows how even grown-up kids can bring light and encouragement for their mamas and papas, eh?
I also watched the speech from VP Harris, glad I did.
ETA: I am going to hug my kids extra and be thankful other people are keeping an eye on the RNC convention, I would lose my lunch.
opiejeanne
@SiubhanDuinne: … By God’s grace…
It’s too much.
Some wag posted a remark that God said it was a warning shot.
guachi
Trump’s speech is so weird they brought out a fireman’s jacket they pretended was the dead guy’s from the rally. Trump hugged it. But, get this, they spelled the guy’s name wrong on the jacket.
Sister Golden Bear
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Biden called the firefighter’s widow — even if she refused to talk to him because her husband wouldn’t have wanted her to.
As far as I know, Trump has yet to talk with her.
piratedan
@guachi: didn’t DJT claim the family gave it to him?
mrmoshpotato
@guachi: That’s great (though I don’t think President Biden should drop out).
Trivia Man
@piratedan: shuffling over slowly to kiss the helmet was ridiculous. And he pronounced the name two different ways – then just used the first name.
Betsy
I know *exactly* the fresh, soft weather you mean.
I never know how to describe it — I screenshotted your description because I know I’ll be trying to remember how you put it.
Trivia Man
Drugs finally hit – he is waking up after 20 minutes of languid, sleepy meandering. Suddenly talking like lightning.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Sister Golden Bear: I just caught from guachi they’re doing prop comedy with counterfeit personal effects. I wonder if the wife took note of the spelling.
NotMax
Very low energy blather.
Highway Rob
@guachi: I’m seeing a photo on Bluesky from a reasonably reliable account (Brendan Nyham) showing that his actual uniform misspelled his name.
tam1MI
I am hoping this will halt the slide into insanity the party seems to be taking, but have a horrible feeling that the Coup D’Etat Caucus is going to keep insisting that 1400 black female elected Democrats don’t matter and 40 white people do.
The only thing that gives me comfort is a friend who told me, “You know what they call local, state, and national figures at nominating convention? Delegates.”
Lily
Long time since I watched TV Repubs experiencing irrational emotions in unison. Tuning in/out/in tonight to face the evil for a few minutes. Every person and sentence is incomprehensibly stupid. The lies are hallucinogenic.
Now TP is so moved describing his serene brush with almightiness that he’s gone down on his knees promising he’ll never hit Melania again, never assault another woman, never steal again. Actually he’s just lying a lot even about things he said 2 days ago.
He just kissed a fireman helmet that’s on stage put on top of an empty fireman coat he claims were sent up from PA.
Melania is entirely keeping her distance. She looks like like she only came tonight to counteract a threat delivered this morning of an unpleasant burial on the golf course.
RaflW
I may be extra stupid for a while. I just watched, I dunno, the first half hour of his ramble.
So. Very. Dull.
He gave them the red meat of immigration, but the floor of the hall had been stunned into catatonia from how slow and flat and numbingly uninteresting his own story of his own getting shot was.
A podiatrists dictating his patient charting would have been more compelling.
guachi
@Highway Rob: I saw that, too, on Twitter! How does that even happen?
JWR
Lol! “I will finish building the wall, most of which has already been built.” And we will stop the millions of “illegal aliens” killing us by the thousands.
As usual, he’s lying his ass off, because that’s just what he does. And the cultists are eating it up. But I can’t take his drugged slowness. I turn it on, and he’s just droning on and on and on and I turn it off again. Screw it, I’ve better things to do.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Highway Rob: I’ll do some corroboration on both claims; but if yours proves true, I retract my previous statement.
There’s our whit, however awkward. All this hugging, is Donald Trump an objectophile? Helps explain how he looks at women.
Highway Rob
@guachi: Casting my memory back 20+ years to working on a sports copy desk for a midsize daily, I recall there being some names that were just too damn wide for the typeface. Setting a box score when Jason Isringhausen pitched was goddamned torture. Maybe that?
VFX Lurker
I wrote ten more Postcards to Voters tonight for Stephanie Vanos’ school board election in Florida. I always feel better when I write postcards.
NotMax
@JWR
Border crossers taking “107 percent of the jobs.”
Highway Rob
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Same report from Joshua Friedman fwiw.
Trivia Man
@Lily: So weird, she didn’t go to her seat until after he left to go backstage.
Princess
I’m reading the strangest comments about Trump’s speech from people who are watching it. Sounds completely bizarre.
NotMax
“Will lower costs” and “100% tariffs.”
Does not compute.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Dump will claim he spelled the name correctly and that the firefighter misspelled his own name
Trivia Man
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Do you remember when he humped a flag on stage? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Reminds me, I hadn’t heard about the two injured in some time.
Looks like they’re improving. I’m legitimately glad for them and hope for a full recovery.
@Trivia Man: Trump’s flag fondle was the first thing I found fitting.
Mr. Onion Belt
It’s just a fever dream. He’s like this Santa Claus figure that dispenses zip-tied bags of bullshit. Then the crowd eats it like cotton candy. Absolutely fucking bizarre.
Villago Delenda Est
@NotMax: Jobs that no white supremacist will touch.
JWR
BTW, Jon Tester seems to have joined the “Joe Must Go” caucus
Now he’s recounting a lovely dinner he had down on “the strip.” So interesting.
NotMax
And now “the China virus.”
Schmuck.
Jackie
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: That wasn’t my quote. I responding to SiubhanDuinne.
Trivia Man
Rumor is Milwaukee isn’t classy enough for him so he is staying in his plane every night.
guachi
@Princess: These three tweets from David Frum are apt:
This is like an evening at the Friars’ Club in 1966 after the third drink too many.
Just passed the 11 pm ET mark and still no message
This is going to 2 am isn’t it
tam1MI
@JWR: I think he made that announcement earlier in the day before letter from the 1400 black female elected officials came out. I’m waiting until tomorrow to see if any of the Coup D’Etat Caucus learn how to count.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Jackie: Fair. I just saw it there and thought I had an insight and might not be at my fullest attention right now.
And sorry, Mz Subaru.
Jackie
@JWR: Sadly, it appears Tester is just one of the avalanche. My heart is so sad about Democrats piling on.
Chet Murthy
@TheOtherHank: Another fucked-up shoulder guy here: both shoulders eventually had to get AC (acromio-clavicular — that’s the end of the clavicle where it meets the tippy-top of the shoulder blade) “decompression” (they go in and shave off a bit of the end of the clavicle, the underside of the top of the shoulder blade, b/c they rub together and get inflamed.
I heartily second that “practice the fingertip drill”. Also, if you can find someone to watch you every now and then, ask them to check whether you’re flinging our arms out wide, and purposely practice keeping your palms close to your torso for the “return” (when you bring your arm back up from your hip for the next stroke). So important for not over-stressing the shoulder.
And being good at that makes you take up less room in the lane. I’m proud that twice I’ve been called a “good neighbor” b/c I’m pretty good about not letting my arms fly about. There’s a woman who’s visually impaired, and she’s always happy for me to share the lane with her, b/c it means nobody with those flinging arms will be able to join her.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Jackie: Tragic. Montana is a tougher row to hoe than California. Still, I wonder if he would have pulled that trigger without priors.
My heart, as it has long been, is with the squad. And many of them have been the most outspoken pro-Biden and other young, aspirational leaders.
Every incentive is for us to fill seats with Democrats from top to bottom and most of us know that for sure. We got this.
No drama, with or without Obama.
Timurid
Jesus. He’s completely wasted.
And this won’t move the needle a hundredth of an inch…
mrmoshpotato
@Trivia Man: I don’t know if this is a joke.
Harrison Wesley
Damn. I only tried watching this because I promised LOML that I would. Fortunately, we both were so grossed out by the whole thing that we both checked out about 15 minutes into his routine. This clown couldn’t run a lemonade stand.
Trivia Man
Finally drops in Hannibal Lecter
JWR
And “the great Hannibal Lecter” makes it’s first appearance! You can tell he wrote this speech all by his little self.
Trivia Man
@mrmoshpotato: He originally planned to stay at Trump Tower in Chicago, Wisconsin is easily offended if it is implied they aren’t as nice as Chicago. So he promised to stay in Milwaukee. But I have read that none of the hotels are elegant enough for him so he sleeps at the airport. Not sure if it’s true, but it sounds like him.
guachi
@Jackie: If it helps at all I think Trump’s awful, rambling, boring speech and (imo) Harris’s really impressive speech in NC today means that if Biden goes and Harris takes over that Harris will destroy Trump.
Harris is 60 but looks and acts 50. She has the energy and drive and, most importantly, no actual job. She can campaign as her full-time job. I was thinking Harris was the only choice after Biden solely for logistical reasons. I am totally on board now. Give me the coconut pill. I’m ready. I think a lot of other people who haven’t really given Harris a look will feel the same way.
BigJimSlade
Ah 54… my wife used to be 54… as recently as Monday, in fact! I’ve left it in the dust by 2.5 years.
The butterfly. You can be in shape and still not manage it. I swim 80 laps (70 plus 10 yards is a mile) a couple times a week and 50 another, but I can’t do the butterfly. My lower back is working for the clampdown on that shit.
KatKapCC
Never seen people simp this hard for someone, and I’m deep in the fanfic world. My FIL is a lifelong Republican (and Never Trumper) who laughed his butt off when he saw those people and said “imagine caring that much about someone who doesn’t give a damn about you”. Seriously!!
Trivia Man
@JWR: “I talked to a smart waitress who explained tips to me. Who needs a million dollar education?”
Harrison Wesley
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: You think those victims will ever see a dime of the money that’s allegedly being collected for them?
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@guachi: I agree that we should center Harris in a big way…as the Vice President. There is a succession. Biden has been presiding well and I want him to continue as long as he can.
They got this.
Ksmiami
@Jackie: he gets no more money from me.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Harrison Wesley: God, I only hope so. “Some things are just too evil,” I said hopefully.
Glyph2112
I just don’t get these Joe must go people. Like do they really think its just as easy as swapping out Joe for their favorite choice? Is there some 11th dimension chess they are playing that I totally don’t get? Do they really think that the argument that Joe is old is going to entice people to vote for the convicted felon? And most importantly, I wish the first question they asked these Joe must go elites is, “if Joe stays, who you going to vote for?”
This isn’t 2016 where they thought Trumps shtick was an act and he would “pivot”. We know what he did and who he is. This should be the easiest choice ever made for an election.
Old School
@Trivia Man:
Trump has stayed at the Pfister on previous trips, but since he switched rather late, I wondered he was going to find an unbooked room.
MinuteMan
@tam1MI:
I thought Biden said he’ll release his delegates to vote as they see fit. Will the Democratic “leaders” agree to accept the outcome of that election or are they going full GQP on us?
On the “bright” side, if the soft coup plotters succeed and end up costing us the election we’ll probably be able to watch their well-deserved federal show trials and subsequent executions on GQP pay per view. Interesting times, indeed.
SFAW
@RaflW:
But, as NotMax would probably note, at least the podiatrist can kick it up a notch.
Trivia Man
Now the Hungary love. Gotta let the boss know he got the message from the messenger boy. Putin>>Orbin>>Trump>> and now all of us!
Odie Hugh Manatee
@guachi:
If Biden goes then it’s game over and I’ll put money on it. Keep polishing that turd though. It’s weirdly cute seeing you being so earnest and dutiful to your cause.
Kind of like puppy who is proud of the spot on the carpet they’ve peed on.
Sister Golden Bear
Speaking of LGBTQ+ people facing existential threats being another day ending “y,” a U.S. Appeals Court just upheld Tennessee’s drag ban. The law was a blatant attempt to ban prevent celebrations by declaring them “adult entertainment” that would prosecute any drag performers appearing anywhere they might be seen by children.
Also, a reminder laws about wearing the “wrong” gender’s clothing has a long, sordid history of being used to harass both LBG, and especially T, people. When the law passed, there were clear indications TN officials planned to use it to arrest trans people who dared leave their house and exist in public spaces.
cain
@guachi:
Yet all focus on everything else
guachi
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
Watch this and tell me you don’t think it’s far better than anything Biden or Trump can muster. Harris starts speaking at 41:00. My mom didn’t really care for Harris and was converted before the speech was even done.
https://www.youtube.com/live/QxjdUcx3DiY?feature=shared&t=2458
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@guachi: You won’t find many doubters of Kamala Harris’s rhetorical prowess here. This is why we have full confidence in her and her decision to pursue the Vice Presidency.
Jay
Our Extinct Guaicuruan troll thinks that being Vice President of the United States isn’t a job at all.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Glyph2112: This is simply about winning the argument at this point. Nothing else matters.
Sister Golden Bear
@Trivia Man: I think Trump’s aversion to staying at non-Trump hotels isn’t just he can’t get a percentage, it’s clearly a pattern where he never leaves his safe spaces if can help it.
IIRC, at least some of the Trump properties have rooms for Trump that are essentially identical, which were intentionally build to be that way. Which is both weird, and very telling, about his personality.
Chet Murthy
@Sister Golden Bear: You’ve hit it on the head. I’ve read that -everywhere- he travels, he stays at his own properties; and failing that, on his plane.
JaySinWA
@Sister Golden Bear: I’m guessing they raided all the first aid kits first.
Trivia Man
Huh, he designs battleships also. What a genius.
guachi
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: I’ve been told repeatedly that Biden has given good speeches since the debate. He has not. A comparison between Biden and Harris makes this obvious. If Biden withdraws then Harris will be able to steamroll the dumpster fire that is the Trump at this convention. The differences would be so stark they’d be impossible to ignore.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Trivia Man: How very Kaiser William the III of him.
Splitting Image
@Glyph2112:
The media crusade I understand.
Since they started the Joe Must Go narrative, they’ve managed to cover up Trump’s own debate performance, two toxic Supreme Court decisions, the release of the Project 2025 manifesto, Trump being shot by a Republican, and now the four-day long Republican Convention, including the J.D. Vance pick for VP and Trump falling asleep during other people’s speeches.
Pretty good return on their investment there. Why Democratic politicians are going along with it, I don’t know.
Trivia Man
Still no abortion talk. Hmmm, maybe he forgot? Thinks it is an insignificant issue?
guachi
It’s officially tomorrow on the East coast and Trump is still speaking.
JWR
All these Dems jumping ship make me sick. Maybe they have a really good reason to do it, maybe they’ve fallen for the R propaganda that they’re 100% certain they’re gonna win, so why bother, or maybe it’s simply an influence op run out of Russia, but something just doesn’t feel right about this.
Odie Hugh Manatee
Our local Sinclair radio dedicated their one minute an hour for news to the Republican convention and Hair Furor. Vigorous tongue-bathing and lavish words of praise for their Savior. It must be nice to be able to buy freedom and use it to strip freedom from others.
Nice if you are a sociopath.
Trivia Man
@guachi: It took about 30 minutes in before he woke up, trying to drag it out to give the illusion of substance. “He spoke for over an hour, he MUST have said something important!”
“93 minutes, longest convention speech ever given!”
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Splitting Image: Going by the description of The God King’s Speech tonight, maybe they’ve decided even a half eaten racoon with a D after it’s name can beat Trump and want a do over on the primary.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@guachi:
I’m Harris supporter so you are wasting your time on me. I’m talking about electoral reality and the rarefied fumes of shit you are sniffing. She can not win, they’ll just hang Joe around her neck though election day.
Keep huffing that stuff…
Trivia Man
I’m impressed – he landed the Third Lady for a guest appearance on stage. But no Barron?
Kelly
Besides swimming when I’m in the water I like to do sorta jumping jacks floating on my back. I also do deep knee bends in water about halfway between my knees and hips.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@guachi: Speeches aren’t the President’s principle job. He has conveyed knowledgeability in his interviews. That is what I’m looking for.
ETA: And you must hate Harris if you want to force her to run suddenly in the fallout of a last-minute Biden drop-out.
Archon
@guachi: If only speeches actually mattered.
Lily
@TheOtherHank: Thanks
Quinerly
@guachi: 💙
sab
@SiubhanDuinne: Thank you. Now I can giggle when I see those nut jobs in their bandages.
NotoriousJRT
@Matt McIrvin: My reaction exactly. These people are SO despicable.
Noskilz
Glad to hear the gym thing is working out.
Chris Johnson
@tam1MI: The thing that’s sticking with me today apart from the Trump speech debacle (on a scale impossible to ignore: yay!) is this: I think a hell of a lot of the disunity is just made up.
Think about it. Every time I went and actually looked at one of the reports about Super Important Dems Guys, it was ‘allegedly’ and ‘reportedly’ or all of the above. There was an article trying to leverage Obama’s name recognition for this garbage, and in that they didn’t even dare to try ‘allegedly’, in that one it was literally ‘allegedly multiple unnamed people familiar with his thinking’. I am not making that up.
So the idea is to get people to hate on the Dems, and claim they are full of disunity, according to anonymous unattributed people not saying Obama told them this, but anonymous unattributed people GUESSING that Obama probably thinks this.
It’s fascinating to me how everything is being kept clear of libel, slander or legal action by the wildest phrasings. I mean what the actual hell.
Apparently ‘multiple anonymous people say that they HEARD Obama say X’ is still too dangerous, and so it’s gotta be ‘multiple anonymous people think Obama is probably thinking X even if he doesn’t say so’? Say so, to literally unnamed people who could be claimed to say anything, and STILL it isn’t safe to make up that narrative?
Chris Johnson
With the wrong name on it, and he pronounced it two different ways and gave up, and he still hasn’t spoken to the widow…
VOR
One thing I noticed: he talked about the shooting, but said it was so painful that he would never talk about it again. The media is just now figuring out they never got a medical report on his injuries. And Trump just closed the door to any questions on it. Hmmm.
am
“I’m munching on some red and yellow bell peppers I picked up at the farmer’s market. I like to wash them, refrigerate them, and then cut them into really thick julienne’s, and then sprinkle just a pinch of salt. They are so crisp and juicy and sweet and extremely refreshing”
Shit, now I need peppers. Thanks.
Chris T.
@Matt McIrvin:
It would be funny to observe to them (with pretend outrage) “I see how you’re mocking Trump’s “war wound” with that band-aid”, and then when they object that, no, they’re honoring Trump, you just sort of nod dubiously and go OK yeah sure and just sort of wander off.