So this morning I posted about JD’s incel/stalker tour of the same places Harris/Walz are visiting. I didn’t mean to say he’d literally stalk her, so I guess my understanding of just how creepy and weird this guy is needs to be revised, because he stalked her.
First, JD walked over to Harris’ plane and talked to the press, saying “I just wanted to check out my future plane” and that he “wanted to go over and say hello to the Vice President and ask her why does she refuse to answer questions”. Then he posted this:
OK, bro. And then he said this:
Can you smell the flopsweat mixed with Axe body spray on this fucking gross incel? What a weak attempt to do god knows what with that statement. He sure isn’t acting like a guy whose nomination has one foot in the grave and one foot on a banana peel.
If some guy did this to my daughter, I’d tell her to file a restraining order.
Citizen Alan
Republicans are such trash. I agree with whoever here said it first. There are no Republicans who have any redeeming qualities. But JV Vance is a special kind of awful. I think that’s the real reason Shitgibbon picked him. Shit knows shit.
Leto
I’m honestly surprised that MVP’s secret service detail just let JV Vance waddle up into her space like that. Might need to have a talk with the head of her detail to keep the riff raff off the tarmac, and out of her area.
No, but I do smell the Scotch Guard and fabric cleaner.
catclub
Only one who _might_ make Trump look good by comparison.
hueyplong
Is JV Vance saying HE wants to debate Harris?
If so, why isn’t every paper leading with:
GOP Concedes Trump Incapable of Debating
— Offers VP Instead of Damaged Head of Ticket
Hildebrand
So, is Vance now the Trump stand-in, because Trump is too tired and addled to run a real campaign? Seems that is the only explanation that makes any sense.
CaseyL
Inventing a commitment that doesn’t exist, refusing to recognize that Harris is now the Presidential nominee, refusing to recognize that Walz is the VP nominee… he’s trying a tactic to remake the election into something completely chaotic, where the GOP sets the rules and they change at the GOPs convenience.
It’s to hide the fact that Trump’s brain has turned to jelly and he is no position to run for President.
Blatantly malevolent, blatantly anti-democracy, blatantly anti-US.
It’s also catnip to an MSM itself increasingly divorced from anything resembling good faith reporting.
I hope Harris-Walz have the means and the will to slap it down hard, immediately.
Ksmiami
@Citizen Alan: me. I said it first. I had these reprobates pegged since the 80s. And the party needs to be burnt to the fucking ground, lye thrown over the ashes
bbleh
And meanwhile, where’s the Felon? I mean, AT ALL? He has, what, ONE event this week? Is that all he can manage to get dressed and made up and dosed up for? This isn’t just “low energy — SAD!”; this is absenteeism.
@Leto: when I saw the vid, it looked like the SS were on them long before they even got close, even though they certainly knew who it was.
After the fiasco with the Felon, ima guess they’ll shoot first and ask questions later.
hells littlest angel
Looks more like Reservoir Dogs.
BR
@CaseyL:
I think the Harris campaign is better off ignoring Vance and mocking him as usual. Vance has no juice at all, and what he’s saying isn’t even backed up by Trump who is ranting about other things. The swing state tour and big crowds speak for themselves, no need to give any air to Vance.
Leto
@bbleh: They do come over, but he still waddles his ass in front of her press gaggle. Couchfucker, you need to get your ass back over there. GTFO!
Way OT: The men’s 400M final… oh lord. That was an absolutely incredible race. Do not take your eyes off the screen!
UncleEbeneezer
Wow, nothing says current and cool like…checks notes…an Entourage reference??
$8 blue check mistermix
@BR:
Yep – at most it deserves a one line response coupled with a chuckle and eye roll.
UncleEbeneezer
I don’t know who made it but the image that Simon Rosenberg used on his newsletter showing the Harris vs. Trump campaign schedules is so good! What a contrast!
dmsilev
Via LG&M, Stephen “Mouth of
SauronTrump” Cheung had some deep thoughts about the episode on Twitter. Did I say deep? Sorry, meant derp.I’m not sure whether he’s trying to be racists, sexist, or just omni-assholish, but whichever way, it’s working.
CaseyL
@BR:
No. Ignoring it won’t make it go away. Ignoring it allows the RW Wurlitzer to define things on their own terms. Cf “Swift Boats.”
Harris-Walz need to strike hard, fast, and to the head. Make this about Trump’s condition, make it about the campaign desperate to keep Trump from debating, make it about Vance trying to usurp Trump’s position.
SiubhanDuinne
@Citizen Alan:
@Leto:
O/T question, but I’ve seen it enough from several different commenters the last few days that it doesn’t seem like a mere typo (which is what I assumed for a while): Why “JV Vance” instead of “JD”? The only thing I can think of is that two adjacent Vs are supposed to make the reader think of V V Putin, but that seems like a stretch.
Jackie
@bbleh:
Wasn’t it Nancy Mace – who at the very moment the Russian hostages were being freed – posted a Joe Biden is MIA tweet?
Kamala needs to start a “DonOLD is MIA” campaign. Every Day.
Scout211
You forgot misogynist. Creepy guys say creepy things about how women smell. But they’re creeps.
ETA: Oops, you did say sexist. Same thing. And I do think that’s the insult that was intended.
M31
@SiubhanDuinne: “JV” for Junior Varsity, that is, not ready to play on the top team
and given Coach Walz’s background, a good burn
Baud
@dmsilev:
Projection. It’s what we said to Biden after he took over from Trump.
The difference is, our advice was based on facts.
zhena gogolia
@UncleEbeneezer: That is good.
Jackie
@SiubhanDuinne: JV = Junior Varsity 😁
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@SiubhanDuinne: I don’t know for sure but I saw someone issue a comparison of Vance v. Walz. Vance is Junior Varsity, Walz is the pro leagues.
Barney
@UncleEbeneezer: I never saw Entourage on TV; then I heard Mark Kermode’s epic review of the movie.
Mark Kermode reviews Entourage (youtube.com)
(His review of “Sex and the City 2” is also worth finding). It doesn’t surprise me at all that Vance thinks Entourage is something to be emulated.
Newspaper version: Entourage review – hatefully unfunny | Entourage | The Guardian
hueyplong
@SiubhanDuinne: “JV” is junior varsity, as in not good enough to play for the school’s actual team. Which describes Vance, though it’s a play on Walz’s prior tenure as a high school coach.
zhena gogolia
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: They made that joke during the Philadelphia rally.
Leto
@UncleEbeneezer: the Harris campaign needs to hammer that every single day. “Low energy Dotard doesn’t have the energy to travel. Old man Dotard doesn’t have the stamina to campaign.” Just continue to hammer that he’s an old, old, old man.
Edit: additional flop sweat from Republicans: they’re now claiming that Walz is a “friend of China”. Just throw it all up there. Losers.
matt
So they had their own little brooks brothers riot on the tarmac. hope they enjoyed it, could be the high point of the campaign for them. Where’s the Dotard? Who’s in charge over there?
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@zhena gogolia: Ah, I came in late for that. Pretty much caught the last two minutes of Walz, which was fire.
hueyplong
Might not hurt to refer to Vance as damaged Trump’s attack poodle, or whatever small yapping dog tends to hump a couch.
Baud
I like the video of Vance on the tarmac because it shows the line of official cars in the background for the important people.
delphinium
@Leto: Yeah, next time he comes close there better be a body slam to the concrete by her security team and then a restraining order against him. Vance is one creepy, fk’ed up dude.
TBone
@hells littlest angel: 😆
brendancalling
I’ll go on record here: I want to have a fistfight with JD Vance.
I am a total wussbag, but I’ll bet I could take him.
Frankensteinbeck
This is pathetic, desperate, and – yes – weird. It’s an unbelievably weak sauce dominance play, to treat Harris like she’s not the presidential candidate. It comes off as just sad, with that extra “Me and you is friends, right George?” of trying to validate a Trump brain fart that is getting rightly mocked.
EDIT – And the correct response is definitely “Aw, is Trump scared to debate me himself?”
BR
@hueyplong:
Trump’s attack ferret.
Leto
@SiubhanDuinne: @hueyplong: Like Huey, and others, have said it’s a reference from the Philly rally yesterday. JV is “junior varsity”, and just means you’re not ready for the prime time. It’s another contrast with the Walz the varsity coach. It’s a silly and subtle taunt that I hope is like sand in a wound for both him, personally, and for Trumpov, in his ability to make decisions.
MattF
Both Vance and Trump are trying to get anyone to pay attention to them. And it’s futile, none of it is working. I guess they could retreat and chill out for a while… but there’s this election coming up…
FelonyGovt
This is reminiscent of Trump’s stomping around after Hillary Clinton during their debates. Trying to intimidate the woman candidate. I hope she slaps this kind of behavior down hard.
SiubhanDuinne
@M31:
Ah, thank you. That never occurred to me (IANAFBP). I appreciate the answer.
Quaker in a Basement
“…she probably doesn’t even know she’s going to be the Democratic nominee…”
What is he even trying to say here? (Also, give him two demerits for saying “Democratic.” Every koolaid drinking cultist knows one must always say “the Democrat nominee.”)
Leto
@delphinium: “Sorry sir; we know that you’re not allowed within a thousand feet of velvet plush. You need to back up.”
TBone
@matt: reminds me of Matt Gaetz and his crew charging down the Capitol steps to break in to the SCIF room during J6 depositions to bully the female witness.
Baud
@Quaker in a Basement:
Heh. Good catch. He just lost Texas.
Kay
MI rally looks huge.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jackie:
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
@hueyplong:
@Leto:
My thanks to all of you! I would have sworn that I heard every minute of the Philly rally, but somehow I missed that entirely.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
This is really bizarre. He knows how the nomination process works. He knows how far it has elapsed. He went through a largely similar process himself.
I mean…he does know, doesn’t he?
hueyplong
@TBone: Actually, a second look at the photo kind of makes them look like fools posing as tough guys in a way that might have been cool in the Nineties, but kind of not really anymore.
Reservoir Dogs was released 32 years ago, and poses like that have made their way into comedies in the intervening decades. You almost want to ask if Vance is wearing Members Only clothing.
BR
@Kay:
They’re already in MI? I thought WI was just wrapping up. I don’t know if I can handle this whole vibe of a campaign and candidates who are actually putting in the work.
Baud
The closest Vance will ever get to Harris is on the Senate floor.
And even that’s unlikely since her tie breaker isn’t needed unless a Dem defects on a party line vote.
Matt McIrvin
So… their strategy at this point is pure wishcasting about some imaginary chaos inside the Harris campaign that is going to push her out, or Walz out? This is just creepy and desperate.
Frankensteinbeck
@Quaker in a Basement:
Trump farted out a Truth Social post speculating Biden would try to take back his nomination at the convention. He has been justly mocked for being a dumbass. Vance is stroking the boss’s ego by pretending it’s a respectable narrative.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Baud: Since Vance appears to have no understanding of the election process, perhaps some enterprising person can convince him he already gave up his Senate seat by accepting the VP nod.
Baud
Kayla Rudbek
@SiubhanDuinne: junior varsity Vance, he’s not ready for the big leagues
UncleEbeneezer
@Barney: My housemates (kind of bro dudes) were big into Entourage when it came out and I tried watching a few minutes and was immediately turned off by it. If I had seen it when I was in my 20’s I probably would’ve loved it, but by the time it was on, in my 30’s, even I was kind of repelled by it.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
A lot of it is throwing out “talking points” in the hopes that their friends in right wing or mainstream media will find them interesting to spread. Anything to distract Kam from talking about what she wants to talk about.
Kay
@BR:
It’s an hour and half before they get there. There are other speakers. It’s in an airplane hangar and it looks full. Obama did two a days in August of 2012 – I think it’s a normal schedule. Trump’s schedule is abnormally light. He has his underling follow Harris around so he can golf.
M31
lol and some right wing losers are trying to invent the equivalent of the couchfucker joke by saying stuff like “hurr durr did you hear about Walz and the horse?”
*crickets*
lol buncha weirdos
Kay
The stalking is very alpha male (gross) Right wing. They’re all such horrible men they make men look bad.
bbleh
@dmsilev: this … what?!? This doesn’t even qualify as weird. This is “NO STINKY GIRLS ALOUD IN TREEHOUSE” stuff.
I mean, okay, a defining characteristic of MAGAts is emotional underdevelopment, but … ?!??!
Leto
@Kay: Trumpov and JV can barely fill a VFW hall, while MVP and Walz are basically selling out NFL stadiums. Taylor Swift levels of attendance.
NotMax
@Baud
Giving the vote to convicted felons?
Never! I stand firmly against–
(aide whispers in ear)
Never mind.
-Emily Magatella
//
Kay
@Leto:
I love how Trump stopped working completely when he got the intern.
Cheryl from Maryland
@hells littlest angel: Then I look forward to the ending.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Wait. When did Trump start working?
Kay
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
He did those boring rallies. For years now. It’s kind of a job. But even that is now too taxing.
Kirk
So I was wondering (looking at that guy’s declining behavior), what do you suppose will be the trigger, if any, that makes the GOP have to pull an Eagleton maneuver, and how the heck will they manage to do it?
Leto
(WaPo) Trump took a private flight with Project 2025 leader in 2022
I don’t know the stenographers haven’t adopted the “if he moves his lips he’s lying” but the rest of know that rule.
If anyone wants full articles from WaPo posted, I’ll copy/paste them. I have a free subscription because I’m a vet, and I don’t give a shit about denying Jeff more money/clicks.
JoyceH
Swift Boats The Sequel – Vance has picked up the “stolen valor” fringy claim about Walz because Walz retired before his unit deployed to Iraq. (They got their orders after he retired.) Vance left the Marines as a corporal. I had to look up a rank chart because I’m retired Navy, but turns out Vance was the same rank as a petty officer third class. In the Navy there used to be a colloquial term for the PO3 who trashes the Command Master Chief. We called that guy “Joe Shit The Ragman”. But let’s just call Vance The Little Corporal…
Baud
@Kirk:
There’s nothing they can do. As with Biden, only Trump can make the call.
Unlike with Biden, Trump would have to make the call as the official nominee.
Kay
Kamala HQ
@KamalaHQ
1h
Unearthed audio: Trump tells Tim Walz in 2020 he is “very happy” with his handling of George Floyd protests: “I fully agree with the way he handled it… [Tim Walz is an] excellent guy” (Trump is now trying to criticize Walz over the same issue)
HumboldtBlue
This clown has all the charm of foot fungus.
Baud
@Leto:
It’s only bad if you exchange pleasantries on a tramac.
MattF
@Kirk: The catch is that the person being underbussed has to agree to go. I don’t see either Vance or TFG agreeing.
Baud
@HumboldtBlue:
He’ll get along great with Kavanaugh.
Ohio Mom
They already have the misogynist vote sewn up, lucky for us they don’t seem to be chasing any other group.
Baud
@Kay:
Shit. That means Walz handled the protest poorly.
Kamala should have picked Shapiro.
Leto
@Kay: He’s the Michael Scott of politics. And even that is too generous.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Kay: I thought he did that to feel an artificial sense of accomplishment. Sort of like why I like games.
He doesn’t prepare. He doesn’t say anything meaningful. He’s just having fun up there. No reason to call it work.
Kay
@HumboldtBlue:
These are the tough, probing questions he’s getting from his embedded reporters.
It’s all like this. “How nice are you, sir?”
KrackenJack
@JoyceH: I’m glad to see veteran’s groups pushing back on this immediately. The days of Kerry ignoring it and thinking the media will correct the record is long behind us.
Leto
@Baud: It’s an older meme sir, but it checks out.
Kay
@Baud:
Trump put him on a governor’s committee too! He likes him as much as everyone else does.
Baud
@Leto:
I like memes more than I care to admit.
Quinerly
I am just learning the Harris/Walz camouflage hats are selling out on line.
https://www.rollingstone.com/product-recommendations/lifestyle/kamala-harris-tim-walz-camo-hat-where-to-buy-online-in-stock-1235075962
Oops. Edited to add….Sold out in 30 mins
Leto
@HumboldtBlue: JV, we all know Boof, Sqee, DJ, and Kavanaugh have the corner on the beer market. Gotta do better than that, weirdo.
SiubhanDuinne
@HumboldtBlue:
“Senator Vance, may I present Justice Kavanaugh? You two guys have a lot in common.”
ETA: DAMMIT, BAUD!
Ishiyama
Da Plane is on the tarmac and taxiing now in Detroit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5VOHvij43k
EarthWindFire
@Baud: My first thought was Kamala made Kavanaugh cry, JV. Great minds.
Quinerly
Stephen Miller on Ari Melber’s show right now (MSNBC)
Miller saying Project 2025 has nothing to do with Trump.
Hoodie
The Trump campaign strategy doesn’t make much sense to me but, then again, I don’ t speak MAGA. It strikes me that Trump has turned steadily weirder and maybe the campaign is having more and more difficulty compensating for it. The Vance pick was not what the professional campaign staff recommended; it was totally driven by Trump’s ego. He shitcans the “softer, more reflective” Trump 15 minutes into his RNC speech, thus fucking up their plans and blowing whatever momentum he might have gained from the assassination attempt. He goes to Georgia and pisses all over a popular GOP governor. He chickens out on the previously scheduled debates and his lameass Fox debate ploy falls flat. He agrees to one event in fucking Montana, a state he will already win and where the GOP candidate doesn’t need (or probably want) his help, while Harris and Walz go barnstorming across multiple swing states. They send out Vance to follow them and he continues to trip on his own dick and turns the whole thing into a frat road trip that draws crowds that could fit into a Holiday Inn meeting room. Meanwhile, Trump is holed up tweeting out weird fantasies about Joe Biden, who will go the DNC and get a hero’s welcome. None of it makes any sense.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Kay:
It’s hilarious. To mix my sport metaphors, they’re giving him these softballs and he can’t even make the lay-up because he’s that charmless
NotMax
@Baud
Jeebus on zwieback. Let’s not go there.
Baud
@Quinerly:
Glad to hear we listen to all sides, no matter how extreme.
Baud
@NotMax:
Too soon?
Captain C
@SiubhanDuinne: JV = junior varsity. Ie. Couchman isn’t ready for the big time.
MattF
@Hoodie: “New Frontiers in Psychopathology”. We’re learning so much these days about aberrant behavior.
Chris Johnson
Just be sure to check Vance’s entourage for Russian snipers.
His buffonery is funny until it opens up an opportunity for random chaos and horror, and then it’s not funny anymore. And nothing they could do could really save them at this point, nothing they could do would stop a raging backlash that would destroy them, but we’re not about random chaos and horror.
No sense of humor around desperate freaks, working with Russians, who have staged weird theatrics with a real-world innocent person death toll. No quarter given. They don’t get to fuck around like bad youtuber reality show people. Don’t normalize ‘lol, JD Vance suddenly jumps out at Harris and goes boo’.
Leto
@Quinerly: literally no reason to have Pee Wee German on. I get that you want to show how extreme these fuck stick are, to not let people forget, but I don’t need to see/hear that shit. Damn definition of a war crime there.
Trollhattan
Tired: being thrown off of a social media platform is a vaaahlashun of mah Furst Amdments rahts.
Wired: advertisers shunning your Nazi lovin’, Russia humpin’ social media platform is a vaaahlashun of yur Furst Amdments rahts.
Read this, read this again, and still can’t quite believe what I’m seeing.
Sister Golden Bear
The Junior Varsity burn is exactly the sort of thing we can hit Vance with instead cracks about his eyeliners (ones not tied to his hypocrisy about wearing it while demonizing trans/queer people’s gender nonconformity).
Hoodie
@HumboldtBlue: “Yes, I love this beer substance of which you speak!” Christ, I’d rather have a beer with Boof. Vance is like a bad AI that depicts people with twelve fingers and a tail. Maybe he’s actually one of the Lizard People.
Trollhattan
@Quinerly: Mmm-hmm, Himmler Junior says what?
Sally
I have only just listened to and watched the Philly rally.
Wow.
And what a great second banana Gov Walz plays. Trey is correct, we could not have manufactured, after years of design and fabrication, a more perfect VP candidate. The way Walz stands just behind, working the entire crowd (many people on stage don’t turn around to work the people behind, or only briefly at best, but he really engages everyone 360), smiling, clapping, a very expressive face. Admiring, supportive, without a hint of sycophancy. He is saying with his presence, “hey, isn’t she great?”.
Wow.
HumboldtBlue
@Captain C:
Now that you mention it, Vance is a perfect Flashman!
Trivia Man
Has anyone asked about his tax returns?
Quinerly
@Leto: I walked in, turned on my TV. Was kinda shocked and a bit frightened to see Stephen Miller in my bedroom. He has charts and is talking about “cresting.”
HumboldtBlue
@Leto:
I agree, I saw that fucking SS camp guard and went straight back to the Olympics.
Trollhattan
@EarthWindFire: Allowing myself momentarily to ponder a four-year stint, perhaps eight of President Harris I gaze at the actuarial tables and foresee a very different SCOTUS, provided we get ourselves 51 senate seats (buh-bye, Manchin and Sinema).
And then I think about Trump’s sunsetting tax bill and get all giddy.
And then I remember it’s just fucking August.
Quinerly
Can’t speak to anything about the publication. But I do love this quote.
Rick Wilson, founder of the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump political organization, tried to explain the Trump post: “I promise you, Trump is watching this rally and throwing sh*t against the wall, absolutely losing his [bleeping] mind,” Wilson tweeted. “He hates how good she’s getting. He hates that the audience that looks like America instead of a convention of inbred catalytic-converter thieves.”
https://www.nj.com/news/2024/08/trumps-craziest-post-ever-sounds-alarm-will-his-family-get-him-help-or-just-cash-his-checks.html
eclare
@zhena gogolia:
I hope you see this, Harris gave a shout out to Biden at today’s rally in WI, thanking him for his service (she said it better). The crowd started chanting, “thank you Joe!”
BR
The crowd in Philly was almost too excited that they weren’t letting Harris get her speech out. Like every half sentence they were roaring. Not a bad problem, but still, doesn’t play as well for those of us watching at home. I guess it’ll get smoother as the crowd learns where to cheer.
SFBayAreaGal
@Leto: That race was remarkable. Did you see the 1500. Also amazing
hueyplong
@Trollhattan: This case will get dismissed.
In a just world Musk and his attys would be sanctioned for bringing the suit.
Hoodie
@Quinerly: Wilson’s a long-time sleazy asshole but he does have a way with words.
realbtl
The Rs belong in DF Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.
zhena gogolia
@Hoodie: It doesn’t make any sense that this man was POTUS for four years either.
hueyplong
@Hoodie: Every time I see his name I think of Max Cleland.
KenK
@SiubhanDuinne: probably late to the party, but I’m guessing ‘JV’ is for ‘junior varsity’.
KatKapCC
Jumping down to the bottom to ask what in the chicken-fried fuck is Vance talking abou
Why on Earth would Harris debate HIM? Does he…does he think he’s at the the top of the ticket??
Quinerly
@Hoodie: very familiar with his past work. I can’t help but like him at this particular point in time.
I am sure when the MAGA fever breaks in a few years and Wilson goes back to being a Republican, I will go back to disliking him.
zhena gogolia
@eclare: Yes, thank you — I saw someone else mention that (or maybe it was you)! Nice.
Hoodie
@hueyplong: He’s always been a mercenary, so never trust him.
Leto
@SFBayAreaGal: I did! Like, that, then men’s steeplechase, the 100, 400, all the women’s races… just absolute excellence! We’ll talk about these races for years to come!
MagdaInBlack
I’m thinking about the amount of oblivious white male privilege being shown by JV and his crew just rollin’ on over to the female VP’s entourage like that.
( I really like the JV thing)
Cheryl from Maryland
Vanity Fair is on the case re: Trump’s lack of action and befuddlement.
I love the title of the article which pairs Trump with a nervous breakdown.
QUOTE: All of this is leaving Republicans hoping that the ex-president will realize the error of his ways and get his shit together. And considering that would effectively require him to receive a personality transplant overnight, not everyone is convinced it’s possible.
Cheryl from Maryland
Sorry, double post.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@Hoodie: inbred catalytic converter thieves is pretty great
Quinerly
@hueyplong:
At this point in time, I go with the enemy of my enemy is sorta my friend. As mentioned, he has a way with words to cut to the heart of the matter. I enjoyed my chuckle.
KatKapCC
@brendancalling: Ooh could we get Rand Paul’s neighbor to move next door to Vance?
Hoodie
@zhena gogolia: Maybe he has some sort of natural moron whisperer talent, but this seems qualitatively different. He seems to be trying a lot of same techniques that always used, e.g., the doubling down, the offensive trolling, etc., but the execution seems off.
Kay
OMG, the VP plane is beside the hangar, a backdrop for the crowd. Trump is going to go insane.
Almost Retired
@Quinerly: Wow, Stephen Miller is shouty and deranged. He is not a good surrogate for the Trump campaign. Understatement. Even the Volkische Beobachter would say “tone it down.” He would have been rejected as a Bond villain character by the screenwriting staff as too cartoonish.
Baud
Holy crap. You weren’t kidding about the 400m mens race.
Ebony
The guy is married!! Married people are not automatically good people like people here like to believe.
I don’t want to make an assumption. What makes an incel? I’m a woman who has never been in a relationship, does that automatically make me an incel? I don’t think I deserve to be in a relationship. I don’t personally care if I am never going to be in a relationship, but what I do care about is that people judge my lack of relationships well I am simply living my life. I don’t put my nose in other people’s business, but people sure put their nose in mind due to my lack of relationships.
KatKapCC
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: They’re all in on the claim that Harris is addled and stupid and an airhead who barely knows how to operate a zipper. Because as with Obama, they cannot accept the notion that a Black person could be smart, and especially not smarter than them, and extra especially not a Black woman.
zhena gogolia
@Hoodie: HE’S VERY OLD
zhena gogolia
@KatKapCC: Her speechgiving technique has become perfection.
NotMax
FYI.
Geminid
@Cheryl from Maryland: I think the best Repuplicans hope for is that Trump doesn’t get worse. Last Saturday’s Atlanta rally with Trump and Vance seemed like an attempt at a campaign reset, but Trump came out snarling and picked a fight with the state’s popular Republican governor. Now it looks like Trump is being kept on the shelf again, with few rallies scheduled as of now.
Dorothy A. Winsor
OK, I know I’m not supposed to shut myself into a bubble but I had to turn Ari Melber off. He has Stephen Miller on
ETA: I don’t have enough years left to spend any time with that rabid squirrel.
Quinerly
@Hoodie:
Politics is a bloodsport. I basically trust very few. Everybody is a mercenary for enough $$$.
I don’t even trust Jennifer Rubin re her conversion (like many do here)….all it will take is a Romney heir to run in 2028 and we will see her true colors.
The visual of inbred catalytic-converter thieves works for me, though. I’m watching Stephen Miller lose it. He looks like a Nazi inbred catalytic-converter thief. These people are weird.😉
KatKapCC
@Quinerly: Why does Melber think there is any value whatsoever to giving these ghouls more airtime?
Quinerly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I made it through it. Need to shower.
These people are weird.
Kay
Ha! They pulled up to the hangar. This is how you make an entrance.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Quinerly: Why are you hurting yourself?????
Ebony
@Sister Golden Bear: You don’t want to demonize transgender people, but making fun of kids who play on JV teams is fine with you?
BR
I don’t know if you all are seeing this in your social media bubbles, but the angry horseshoe lefty types that are trying to stir stuff up against Harris or Walz for being not lefty enough aren’t getting any traction. The vibes are too powerful that folks who normally would have amplified them are ignoring them or telling them to sit down for the next 3 months. It’s really heartening.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Bubbles are great. I’m a star in mine.
Steve in the ATL
@Dorothy A. Winsor: self loathing. It’s an occupational hazard for lawyers.
KatKapCC
@zhena gogolia: Yep. They’ve had to resort to obviously manipulated videos to make her sound bad. And they seem to think no one will notice.
m.j.
Did Trump tell Vance to do this?
Hey, do you remember when Pence (Va-nce) went to that football game and left when the cameras were looking at him?
Baud
@Steve in the ATL:
In my day, we loathed our clients.
suzanne
@Leto:
Agree. It also has the virtue of being true.
“Old man Dotard is grumpy and his joints sound bad.”
As we know from the couch….. sometimes this shit hits different.
Quinerly
@KatKapCC:
Miller did himself no favors.
Melber had a pretty famous interview of Peter Navarro a few years back. I find these interviews interesting and valuable. I think it is good to know the shit they are peddling.
Obviously, YMMV.
Seanly
Trump made comments about Biden coming back as the nominee and now Vance is acting like no one knows who the D nominee with be. Is this just a huge amount of wishful thinking on their part?
Kay
the crowd is singing along to Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance with Somebody – the DJ lowers the vocal and you can hear the crowd on the chorus. They’re good!
Quinerly
@Steve in the ATL: glad I retired before my 59th birthday.😎
BR
@suzanne:
HarrisHQ posted the schedules to Truth Social today saying “Low energy” to Trump.
Steve in the ATL
@Baud: there’s plenty of room in our shriveled, blackened hearts to loathe everyone!
suzanne
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I once described Stephen Miller as “a rodent of unusual size” to a relative, and she snickered and we have referred to him as such ever since.
suzanne
@BR: Maybe if he wasn’t so soft and slothful and out of shape, he’d have the energy to leave the house more.
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@hells littlest angel: Given the degree of loyalty & comradeship they feel for each other, that’s an excellent comparison.
Steve in the ATL
@Quinerly: smart move. I have daughters so I’ll probably never be able to retire!
2liberal
ankle biter
Enhanced Voting Techniques
JD Vance think he is Harris’ ex or something?
I am getting some serious simp vibe off that dude. No wonder everyone thinks he fucked a couch.
Betty
@Leto: The often inexcusable Ari Melber just had the always execrable liar, Stephen Miller, on his show denying Trump and his team have had anything to do with Project 2025. I didn’t stick around for the “debate”.
Quinerly
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I practiced law for a lot of years. Tough skin. Never had the luxury of wrapping myself in bubblewrap.
“I ain’t scared of Sebastian Gorka (or Stephen Miller).”
Miller came off just as I thought he would. He helped no one but Harris/Walz.
He’s super weird.
Leto
@suzanne: haha
Geminid
@NotMax: Turkish security analyst Levent Kemal typically posts sober reporting on armed conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, but he could not resist retweeting this from “Aelfred the Great”:
Enhanced Voting Techniques
ROFL he may be a Republican, but one has to like the cut of his gibberish.
KatKapCC
@Quinerly: The thing about Melber that frustrates me is that he CAN do a hard-hitting interview. I recall he did well with Navarro. I can remember him almost yelling at him “DO YOU REALIZE YOU ARE DESCRIBING A COUP????” But other times, he just lets them say whatever and barely pushes back. He had Matt Gaetz on sometime earlier this year or late last year, and he didn’t challenge any of the lies and BS Gaetz was spewing. People on Twitter were like “What the hell are you doing, Ari?”
Quinerly
@Steve in the ATL:
I’m a childless dog woman who left two men at the altar.😎
Quinerly
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Me too.
Leto
@Betty: I turned it over with about 4 mins left on his program, and he had Jason Johnson going through point by point of all the lies he told. And it’s like… you don’t need to have him on to fact check him. Maddow had Kelly Ann Conway on exactly once. She filled the airwaves with lies the entire time. The next night, Rachel apologized to her viewers for that. Promised never to have someone on her show like that. And she’s kept her promise. Absolutely no need to give pint size gestapo any air time.
DesertFriar
J.D says “I’m all game”?
Cool, because Walz is an avid hunter.
Jay
@SiubhanDuinne:
JV= Junior Varsity. Another Walz-ism.
Leto
@Quinerly: you’re one Hallmark movie cliche away from true love :p
scav
What could be made of this pattern of JV being a lost little sheep, following the one visible politician he regularly sees about, rather like a duckling impressed on whatever it first sees? Seems like this pattern of abject following would spill over into his repeating whatever policies they have, especially as no helpful directions are apparently being provided by his team leaders. He’s already been spotted headlining Kamala on his posters . . . I’m not feeling clever enough to work this up properly. (plus, duckling are so damn cute. Maybe an autopilot Tesla with a broken GPS, driving aimlessly about, awaiting an opportunity to self-ignite?)
Dorothy A. Winsor
Truth.
Mousebumples
Geminid
@Seanly: I think this fanciful speculation is evidence the Republicans are at a loss for good lines of attack on Harris. Last week, Republican officeholders and hangers-on were advocating an issue-based campaign, but they really don’t have any good issues and can only sling bullshit.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Geminid:
Are authorities suspecting it’s ISIS? Or is it right-wingers?
lamh47
Y’all…this Detroit rally is CRAZY!!!
Leto
VeniceRilley, your topic of missing your dad/family was just brought up on Joy Reid. Such a resonating message
Mousebumples
Quinerly
@Leto: well, my new yard guy is 22 years younger than I am. Looks like Pacino in Serpico. Hmmmm……
Redshift
@Quinerly:
Uh huh. So will Trump commit to his administration not enacting any of the proposals in Project 2025? Opposing any of them that require congressional action?
The question isn’t whether it’s “his.” We know he hasn’t read the thing, since he’s lazy AF. The only meaningful question is whether it will happen if he’s elected. Any answer other than an absolute “no” is a yes. (And an absolute “no” is probably a lie, but that’s a separate question.)
KatKapCC
@DesertFriar: Oooh you gave me an idea. Instead of Vance and Walz debating, they should have a paintball contest. Or laser tag! Is laser tag still a thing?
Mousebumples
@Leto: wow, a Juicer made the big time! Nice work!
eclare
@Kay:
I just turned the TV on. Great shot. Lock down the ketchup at Mar-a-Lardo!
Baud
@Leto:
Wow.
Steve in the ATL
@lamh47: meanwhile, the other campaign gets a “Spinal Tap” welcome
Kirk
@lamh47: So wait. They’re going to be on time? And they’ve been keeping the speeches short?
Somebody’s learned.
XeckyGilchrist
Armpits, ketchup, makeup and a butt / flopsweat mixed with Axe body spray ’24!
eclare
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I did too. No Nazis allowed in my bubble.
Quinerly
@lamh47:
I love her outfit today. So fresh and crisp. The blazer has a wonderful cut.
And I adore how much fun Walz truly is having.
KatKapCC
@lamh47: Dang, that’s a welcome worthy of Queen Bey herself.
Leto
@lamh47: I want to see JV try to waddle his way in there. Again, we’re filling stadiums and they can barely fill a living room.
Geminid
Levent Kemal posted the “Aelfred the Great” comment above a report that said:
Reply to Goku (American Baka) at comment #183.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sister Golden Bear:
Pink Tie, in the Eyeliner thread, did note that it probably would be fine if drag queens criticized his technique. Context being important.
KatKapCC
@Quinerly: She looks gorgeous in that bright white. Honestly, she looks great in every color.
Jay
@Hoodie:
JV Vance’s Michigan Rally could have just been a group email instead.
Omnes Omnibus
@Almost Retired: Miller is a natural henchman.
suzanne
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: “They look like they cook with Sudafed.”
NotMax
WTF is wrong with these people’s brains?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Leto:
I remember VeniceRilley mentioned earlier today her original comment went viral on Xitter and was showcased on Morning Joe. Good to see it’s getting more exposure/airtime. It’s a message that clearly resonates with many
lamh47
@Quinerly:
Yes. It was def very chic. I was saying I know the standard uniform for female pols is the pantsuit, but I’m thinking just by virtue of Kamala coming up through Cali politics…style is def something reflected in that.
Also white and khaki…cool
Leto
@Mousebumples: @Baud: Joy and the other panelist spoke about how it was powerful message, and one of the panelist spoke about how she had lost family members in that. As we spoke about it when they first wrote it, this resonates. Normal people understand this. It’s happened in their lives.
Betty Cracker
Vance has a vibe that makes women instinctively cover their cocktails with their hands, even if he’s just on TV. The type of weirdo who thinks a face-full of pepper spray means “call me.” He cannot be VP of the USA.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Geminid:
Glad to see they were stopped
Starfish
@Betty Cracker: Meanwhile, Tim Walz is out here stopping his speech to help someone who got overheated in his audience.
Sister Golden Bear
@XeckyGilchrist: Don’t forget Febreeze and fabric stain remover.
Nelle
@Redshift: Even a “No” is a lie.
Misterpuff
@CaseyL:
Felonball.
eclare
@Mousebumples:
Wow. What a remarkable family.
BR
A Tim Walz dad energy meme generator:
https://tim-walz-fixed-your-bicycle.glitch.me/
Redshift
@Geminid:
One thing that has always bugged me during this campaign is how well bullshit works. I didn’t like old line Republicans, but at least they had policy ideas and real records. These clowns have nothing, ALL of their claims and arguments are blatant BS – the Trump economy being somehow better, the immigration fairy tale, lies about crime rates, on and on.
Leto
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I saw that! Them discussing it, not the Morning Blow segment. I’m it’s gaining a greater audience because it’s true.
Quinerly
@KatKapCC:
She wears clothes really well. She has a style…like Michelle Obama had her own style. I will sound like a traitor to my sex…HRC’s clothes and their fit always gave me pause. This goes back to 1992, not just later years.
And, yes, we probably shouldn’t be commenting on female candidates’ clothes. But, I can be a bit of a clothes horse myself. I like looking at men and women dressed well. So I will continue to notice and have an opinion.
And, don’t get me started on crappy footwear, especially with men. I pretty much judge all men by their shoes.
Starfish
@BR: That’s awesome. Did you see the Harris album generator one?
https://kamala-holding-vinyls.glitch.me/
Jay
@NotMax:
In Taylor Swifts Warsaw shows, in her Instagram photo’s she left an Easter Egg,
BR
Ouch, this is the best caption of the Vance “entourage” photo:
https://bsky.app/profile/benschwartz.bsky.social/post/3kz62ge5mx22g
BR
@Starfish:
Yeah, I remember that one had crashed at first because it was so popular.
CHETAN R MURTHY
@dmsilev: only one ticket needs to cart along adult diapers and it ain’t Harris walz.
Steve in the ATL
@BR: incredible!
MagdaInBlack
@BR: Oh wow. Ouch is right.
Leto
@BR: Joy’s intro segment for Walz was a Twitter clip of him 1) shaming Ford for crappy QC and 2) how to fix it by spending $5 at Pep Boys to replace the connector. This was 2018. The sitting governor doing this. Ha!
Redshift
@Nelle: Yeah, but no one like Miller is going to say it anyway, because he doesn’t want it to be true, he just wants people to accept the ‘nothing to see here” denials and stop using it to beat up Republicans.
Quinerly
@Betty Cracker:
Definitely that creepy guy at the bar that appears from nowhere and worms his way in next to the woman who is alone. He’s got a vibe and probably more skeletons in his closet where women are concerned than Kavanaugh. Something dark there. Very dark.
NotMax
@Leto
Manny, Moe and Jack approved.
:)
KatKapCC
@Quinerly: I think for Hillary, maybe she was at the age of “I care more about comfort because eff it”. I always thought she looked nice, though. She also looks good in any color, and not a lot of white ladies can say that. If I put on yellow, I look ghastly :P
Quinerly
@lamh47: 💙
HumboldtBlue
JD Vance, Menstrual Sheriff
eclare
@Quinerly:
Agree, that blazer brings the look together without screaming “suit.” And Tim looks good in the “no necktie with crisp shirt and blazer” look.
JaySinWA
May sure to post your cougar warning signs.
KatKapCC
@BR: Youch.
Ruckus
@Hildebrand:
Vance isn’t addled?
I’m shocked, amazed, and the word unbelievable comes to mind.
persistentillusion
@hueyplong: I had a friend who was an aide to Max. It destroyed a very good man and more than capable legislatore. Ef Rick Wilson.
Quinerly
@JaySinWA:
Inside joke. My friends laugh when I say that I’m not a cougar. I’m an ocelot. True Story.
Kent
These people are such freaks.
And not just Trump and Vance. I was listening to the new Lovett or Leave it yesterday while out biking and they were doing a complete analysis of RFK Jr’s dead bear episode. Conclusion. RFK Jr. is lying through his teeth.
But what they didn’t do is the math on his age. I had to stop and look it up. He is 70. Which means he would have been 60 (and a newlywed) when he and his bros went on their falconing adventure which involved dragging a dead bear cub in a car all of NYC and ending with a midnight stashing of the bear in Central Park after a drunken night at a steakhouse. He did all that when he was newly married (3rd marriage) and 60 years old, not when he was a 20 year old frat boy.
What is wrong with these people?
Omnes Omnibus
@Leto: Wasn’t that a part of an election day video?
HumboldtBlue
@Betty Cracker:
As he has been told to him before when he asks a democrat to define what a woman is, and they answer “the person who covers her drink when you walk into the bar.”
eclare
@Quinerly:
Yeah, some of HRC’s fashion choices are questionable. But as a shorter person, her options are more limited than Harris or Michelle. Unfortunately I know this all too well.
eclare
@BR:
Burn! But true.
Quinerly
@eclare:
Oh…you have hit a weakness of mine. Gray headed men in crisp, pressed, starched white shirts. (For me blazer off, sleeves rolled two rolls). I need to check out Tim’s footwear.😎
Omnes Omnibus
@eclare: Harris is not a tall woman (IIRC 5’2″). She just has presence.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Hoodie:We are watching a meltdown in real time.
Omnes Omnibus
A young woman explaining to her day why she is glad that Walz was picked.
Geminid
@Quinerly: Like the guy who told Magdi Jacobs in a bar, “I won’t bite you” and then tried to stare her down.
Jacobs wrote out a projected response:
Chief Oshkosh
@CaseyL:Agree completely
Leto
Lol, Walz bringing together Vikings and Lions fans!
Quinerly
@eclare:
Wow…I just Googled Kamala’s height. The internets tell me she’s 5’4″
Of course, that’s without her heels. I sure thought she was taller than I am. I’m 5’5″
Michelle is 5’11”
piratedan
@HumboldtBlue: he’s not a perfect Flashman, he is a perfect toady tho.
noted difference Flashman actually slept with females, vance apparently prefers divans
Ruckus
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
It’s very difficult to tell what he KNOWS and what he thinks he knows.
And that leaves understands out of the concept entirely…..
eclare
@Omnes Omnibus:
https://www.distractify.com/p/how-tall-is-kamala-harris
5′ 7″ in heels, which she says she always wears. But yeah, I would have guessed that tall wo heels.
BR
The headline about the Project 2025 book is just too good:
https://www.rawstory.com/project-2025-architect-rails-against-birth-control-and-dog-parks-in-now-delayed-book/
3Sice
Omnes Omnibus
@Leto: Did he just say shit about the Packers or make fun of the Bears?
Another Scott
@delphinium: I ass-u-me that JV is following Kamala around because TCFFG told him that his stalking of HRC during that 2016 debate was a stable genius move that helped him win the election, so he should do it too.
The clowns don’t have an original thought.
Harris and Walz, of course, do.
And it looks to me that TCFFG and JV are wandering around drunk in a dark, wet warehouse filled with batteries, sharks, and scattered rakes.
Forward!!
Cheers,
Scott.
tam1MI
A friend sent me this about the Wisconsin rally:
https://imgur.com/a/Gcnc7PI
Quinerly
@Kent:
I saw my first Kennedy 2024 bumper sticker in town (Santa Fe) today. Shiny, brand new. Second line on the sticker was something about “Independence.”
It was on a Honda. New Mexico plates. 70 plus year old guy driving. Not a happy looking guy.
Ruckus
@Matt McIrvin:
This is just creepy and desperate.
And they have absolutely nothing that isn’t.
Isn’t creepy and desperate the name of their entire platform?
Leto
@Omnes Omnibus: maybe, honestly don’t know. I think it’s just one of those down-to-Earth moments that makes him very relatable. That whole “Big Dad Energy”. The lost generation of men to Faux News, that so many of remember.
Oh, remember how we were talking about privates/airmen repurposing equipment? May I present the prime example.
Scout211
@Omnes Omnibus: Oh geez, who started peeling onions around here? 🥲
That was so sweet.
ETA: okay, when young people start talking about Walz that way, I guess might be warming up to the phrase Big Dad Energy.
eclare
@Omnes Omnibus:
Getting dusty in here…
Omnes Omnibus
@Leto: That is so wrong.
KatKapCC
@eclare: As far as I’ve read, Harris and Clinton are roughly the same height. Clinton might appear shorter next to Harris because Harris often wears high heels.
Ruckus
@Kayla Rudbek:
He’s not ready for kiddie ball.
Let alone the major leagues.
trnc
@Jackie: Since “JV” appears to be getting some play:
Money, please.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
That’s sweet, but does everyone film themselves having personal conversation nowadays?
Quinerly
@eclare:
Now I am Googling Tim Walz’s height. Seems John Harwood has asked the same probing question on Twitter.
Starfish
@trnc: I am sure the Soros bucks are in the mail.
Omnes Omnibus
Tim Walz’s shoe collection.
Leto
@Omnes Omnibus: the who and who? :p Nah, no mention. Just playing to the local crowd. When they’re in Wisconsin I’m sure he’ll drop a curd reference.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Perhaps?
eclare
@Quinerly:
Hahaha…
Well now we know Harris is 5′ 7″ so when they are next to each other we can get a sense
Just saw them on tv. My guess is 5′ 11″.
Leto
@Omnes Omnibus: the major… luuuul
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Baud: just ask my grandson. He will inform you that you’re such a Boomer (for asking).
Omnes Omnibus
If true, this election will be a blowout.
Atomic Dog
Quinerly
@Omnes Omnibus:
Oh, my.
Captain C
@Hoodie:
Maybe Elon slipped some ketamine into TCFG’s Adderall? Makes as much sense as anything.
West of the Rockies
@Hoodie:
Vance: “Hello, fellow kids!”
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Omnes Omnibus: He’s no Immelda.
Omnes Omnibus
@Quinerly: I thought you would appreciate that.
Quinerly
@eclare:
All well and good.
Now how I can I unsee Tim’s shoe collection? Just when I thought I could come back and actually read the BJ comments…..This is extremely disturbing.
Captain C
@HumboldtBlue: That totally works. Also, I’d never heard of Flashman before.
Cheryl from Maryland
@HumboldtBlue: Without the self-awareness. Harry knows what he is doing (he just can’t help himself) and confesses it in his papers. I’m not certain JV Vance knows he’s a liar, a bully, a coward, etc., etc.
Scout211
mistermix, Joan Walsh agrees with you.
JD Vance Is on a Stalker Tour of Swing States
Quinerly
@Omnes Omnibus:
My eyes, my eyes, my eyes.
Maybe I should have researched Shapiro’s footwear before going head over heels over Tim 2 weeks back.
Ruckus
@Leto:
What’s this about a free subscription for vets?
I’m a vet as well and wouldn’t mind access to the web site, but I sure wouldn’t want to waste any paper whatsoever.
I just clicked on the website and for some reason it didn’t demand money to see more than the website title, which is what I’ve gotten for months now. Maybe it’s the time of day in NYC, after 8pm.
TBone
@hueyplong: I was referring to the video (instead of that really dumb photo, what a bunch of posers) and his entourage following him across the tarmac like a pack of school bullies.
Leto
@Omnes Omnibus: Snoop Dog remixed that for “Who am I (What’s My Name?)” both are bangers.
I was thinking about this, but she straddles a unique generational divide in terms of music. She knows a ton of music from our generation, but is also fluent in current music as well. You see her singing a wide range of songs, from Atomic Dog to Beyoncé classics. That’s pretty damn awesome.
eclare
@Omnes Omnibus:
Awwww….she wants the funk, gotta have that funk.
I know, not the right song, but “Atomic Dog” is not my favorite.
Ishiyama
@West of the Rockies: Didn’t you hear what Principal Poop put down at the pep rally?
trnc
@Starfish:
Yessssssss!
Bupalos
Both tweets or truths or whatever are are from Vance? It doesn’t make sense. Is this dude drunk or what? I can’t even follow whether he’s inappropriately challenging MVP to debate on the JV circuit, or appropriately challenging Walz and getting his gender wrong, or appropriately challenging Walz and then forgetting who he should trash talk… WTF is this?
eclare
@Quinerly:
It looks like today he has on white “slipsneakers,” or whatever they are called.
Leto
@Ruckus: you had to have a current .mil email address, or show some other type of proof? I used my current, at the time, .mil email address and have simply kept it. See what their subscription section says atm.
Geoduck
Open thread, so.. here in WA state we had our primary on Tuesday. We have an open primary so everyone competes in an open scrum and the top two advance. Everything looks hopeful for the Dems with the state offices except Commissioner of Public Lands, which right now has two GOPers leading the totals; too many Dems ran and split the totals. There’s still hope, as the votes get counted the top Dem guy is inching closer to overtaking the second GOPite. About twenty people ran for Governor with Jay Inslee stepping down, but the official Dem and GOP candidates are unsurprisingly going to advance.
Federal level, Maria Cantwell will probably cruise to another win. She’s got her problems, but she’s better than any GOPer.
eclare
@Quinerly:
I’m sure those are his yard shoes, in varying degrees of dirt depending upon the chore.
Leto
@eclare: Sketchers? Thats the brand. Idk, but if New Balance came out with a full sponsorship for him, I’d totally believe it.
Kirk
@Quinerly: I do think there are more. After all, there are pictures of him wearing his Grateful Dead Sanucks Stealies, and his resoled Red Wing Heritage Chukkas; neither are pictured here.
MagdaInBlack
@TBone: I saw that video and all i could think was “what a bunch of ignorant fucks.”
Omnes Omnibus
@eclare: The single most insane concert I ever went to. Cops weren’t busting people for week they were just asking people to have enough respect for them not to blow the smoke in their faces. The guy I saw who had done just that apologized, palmed his joint, and offered his other hand to the cop. They shook.
Leto
@eclare: “These are my yard New Balance; these are my workout New Balance, and these are my going out New Balance.” – every dad
Omnes Omnibus
@eclare:
Tear the roof off that mother…
MagdaInBlack
@Bupalos: Kinda reads like trump “composed” them, I thought.
Lily
Of course he’s only pretending, he’s not even an honest bully. She’d shred him in a debate.
Quinerly
@Kirk:
This is better. Thank you for restoring my faith in Tim.
Old School
Bex
@KatKapCC: He gets them on record with their lies. Miller lied 99,99% of the time in that interview.
eclare
@Leto:
I read somewhere that Too Short was her fave rapper growing up. Makes sense, West Coast.
hueyplong
@persistentillusion: I got to meet Max the same night I met John Lewis. I’m not on board with NeverTrumpGuy.
Quinerly
@eclare:
TY. I am feeling better. And, he lives in MN. I am sure he has some killer boots somewhere. I love boots. I REALLY love boots. Yes, I am really feeling better as I think this through.
MagdaInBlack
@Old School: Changed its name and moved to a new state, even.
Citizen Alan
@Leto: Michael scott was endearing because Steve carell has to actively work at not being charismatic and likable. JV Vance is an American David Brett, who was never for 1 second anything other than cringe inducing, and who was played by an actor who has become even more cringe inducing.
Quinerly
@eclare:
Hmmm….I don’t like the sound of that.
TBone
@2liberal: heh
KatKapCC
@Bex: But if you don’t call out the lies and tell the viewers that they’re lies, then what’s the point?
BR
Harris is really fired up in the Detroit rally.
Omnes Omnibus
@Old School: Both Minnesota and Wisconsin are insulted.
eclare
@Omnes Omnibus:
I saw him once, not the most insane show I ever saw, but then I saw Biggie when he was with Junior M.A.F.I.A.
trnc
@JoyceH:
IIUC, he had not retired before they got the orders, but he had already filled out his retirement paperwork several months before the orders.
It’s just so stupid, anyway. I’m having trouble imagining most veterans sneering at 24 years of service. Only 8% of active duty members are over 40. Dude put in his time.
Leto
@Omnes Omnibus: we found some video from that concert.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Old School:
@Omnes Omnibus:
Laura is what we’d call “confidently incorrect”
zhena gogolia
@Old School: hahahahaha
Bupalos
@Geminid: Yeah folks didn’t grok that the problem with Biden wasn’t especially the bad tape he’d already put out there, but the fear the campaign was exhibiting with the schedule (going back a full year) indicating they were holding their breath against putting worse things on tape.
Now we’re seeing it on the other foot. They’re afraid for DonOld to campaign, so afraid they’re sending out JV Couchfucker to embarrass himself over and over. That they’ve seen this guy’s performance and are still like “no, that’s ok, you go ahead, Donold needs to uh er “fundraise” today…you take this at-bat…” that says a lot.
eclare
@Old School:
Hahaha…
Omnes Omnibus
@eclare: I am the dingy basement club with suspect at best restroom facilities to see bands have a couple of microphones that that they stole from a slightly better known unknown band and beat-up instruments sort of concert goer.
eclare
@Quinerly:
I am sure he has boots, safely packed away until whenever it gets cold and snowy.
Leto
@trnc: 1% of the AD force makes it to 20 years. Most do 4-6, then separate and go back to civilian life. The next break point is 10, and it’s a consequential decision. Even then, not everyone stays. But those that do typically make it to 20. Things can still happen on the way, but the number of us who make it to 20 are actually quite small. And you know what I say to all of them? The 4 year and 30 year vets? Thank you for your service, and I’ll see you at the food court.
eclare
@Quinerly:
He’s on his feet a lot today. Plus prob a better grip exiting AF2.
TBone
@MagdaInBlack: the only time they get a good piece of ass is when their fingers punch through the toilet paper.
eclare
@Leto:
Hilarious.
Omnes Omnibus
@eclare: Those are boots. Boots aren’t shoes. He was in the army as well. There are specialized sorts of boots. You need to have all of them. In case you need them. And a second pair of each so that the first pair can air out and dry after a day of wear. You can’t take too much good care of your feet. Do you want blisters? Do you?
eclare
@Omnes Omnibus:
Gotcha. Yeah, Biggie was at the Hawks arena, I lived in ATL at the time.
trnc
@Leto:
Thanks!
eclare
@Omnes Omnibus:
My dad was in the Army, trust me I know.
Leto
@Omnes Omnibus: I need your speech on socks.
SFBayAreaGal
@Leto: Good thing I wasn’t drinking anything.
I can see some of my ex Army buddies doing this.
Jackie
@Quinerly: I agree. If we don’t listen to what the enemy is spouting, we can’t rebut with the truth.
Ari Melber often brings RWNJs on his show – and more often than not – makes them look as ignorant and idiotic as they are. They aren’t used to the push back on their ridiculousness when they leave their RW networks.
Quinerly
Great thread for the end of long morning earlier.
Pack rats are a huge problem for us in Eldorado. I have spent part of the summer destroying tunnels and underground nests on my land. Moving to New Mexico did not come with a how to manuel.
At least one pack rat got in the engine of my Ford Escape and ate the wiring for the sensors for my brake light, a wire for one of my fog lights, and a sensor for the horn. Found a friend of a friend with a home based garage (he’s on disability) who does the repair work at a good price compared to the horror stories re charges of the dealerships. We had worked on the horn and fog light a few months back. I say we since I did kinda help him as I wanted to learn the process. So we both were crawling around under my car. We didn’t finish so I went back today for the alternator light and brake light. It’s all sensor wiring. Nothing mechanical re the brakes and alternator. Hot morning. And still didn’t finish. Next up hopefully Advance Auto Parts for an aftermarket alternator harness. I need to be more aggressive with spraying my engine with peppermint oil.
I did not have wild rats trying to eat my car’s engine on my bingo card.
Leto
Also, I wanna see JV’s DD214. Want to talk about “stolen valor”? Put up or shut up time, couchfucker.
haroldo
@Omnes Omnibus:
They’re headed for Chocolate City. Can you dig it?
Leto
@SFBayAreaGal: I was an airmen, and I had airmen. Just gonna leave it at that :)
Quinerly
@Jackie: truth
eclare
@Leto:
I was never in the Army, but I used to hike a lot. Wool socks with a sock liner! The best you can afford.
sab
I cannot begin to express how embarrassed I am here in Ohio to have Vance as my Senator when a reasonable person ran against him. But in that campaign he just kept his head down and his mouth shut and waited for that (R) after his name to work its magic in a red state.
jonas
@Bupalos: I was just asking myself the same thing. He realizes he’s going to be debating Walz, not Harris, right? Or is he trying to pretend he’s the top of the ticket now that Trump’s apparently decided to spend the campaign in “executive time” down at Mar-a-Lardo?
eclare
@Quinerly:
Oh no! Confession: outside of people hoarding, I did not realize pack rats were an actual thing. But I guess that’s where they get the nickname.
Ebony
@Kent: Why do you got to point out his marriage status? He was still married to his high school sweetheart and he did the same thing would it make it better somehow? He is a terrible person regardless of how many marriages he had.
I never been married, in fact I never been in a relationship. Does that make me better or worse than a person who has been married three times?
Omnes Omnibus
@Leto: Change them. When is the last time you changed them. Change them now. Do you have any idea what trench foot looks like? It’s uglier than [insert random member of unit – use senior NCO if you dare]’s ass.
eclare
@sab:
I still can’t believe Ryan’s team did not find the childless cat lady quote.
Leto
@eclare: there are some lessons that are eternal.
cain
Great thread on foreign interference by Russia:
https://x.com/magi_jay/status/1821317188185420053
Leto
@Omnes Omnibus: /salute
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@sab:
Me too. Though he did underperform compared to other statewide Republicans that election
eclare
@Leto:
Hahaha…
topclimber
@Leto: Thanks to the Secret Service accompanying him on the tarmac, JV got one of his biggest crowds of late.
Lily
@Quinerly: Those are prob just the ones for wrestling with the dog and throwing the ball in mud season. Or walking to the edges of marshes to see what birds are there. : ) jk
Quinerly
@eclare:
In total agreement. I have 3 pairs of hiking boots, depending on where I am going. Wool socks, liners.
Then they are my 2 pairs of Tony Lamas with 16inch shafts, my Corrals with cockroach killer toes, a couple pairs of Ariats, my hippie fringed lace up Minnetonka suedes. I’m sure I am leaving someone out.
Cue Nancy Sinatra.
Quinerly
@eclare: it seems like Ryan’s team didn’t find a lot of stuff and didn’t look too hard. Kinda disgraceful when you think about it.
4D*hiker
Watching this embarrassing spectacle of Vance stalking around and yapping on tarmacs and Trump howling impotently on Truth Social puts me in mind of an old Arabic (or Turkish) proverb:
“The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.”
The Harris/Walz caravan (and really the rest of the country) is moving on. Let the dogs bark…
Quinerly
@eclare: they are real. They exist. Because of them, I have learned to love my free ranging Bull Snakes and Hognose Snakes (non venomous).
I saw “Willard.” Made an impression back in the day.
eclare
@Quinerly:
That’s quite a collection!
MagdaInBlack
@TBone: Oh my! 🤗
Bupalos
@Quinerly: Ryan’s motto was “but wait, Trump might like me too…”
Horrible, shortsighted, lazy, underperforming campaign that most people here praised as the best possible approach.
HumboldtBlue
Taylor Swift just canceled three concerts in Austria due to threats from ISIS.
eclare
@Quinerly:
I have seen a clip from that movie. That was enough.
Death Panel Truck
@hueyplong: So do I. For impugning the patriotism of a soldier who left three limbs on the battlefield, Rick Wilson can go straight to hell.
columbusqueen
@HumboldtBlue: But Flashman had charm; Vance doesn’t.
Steve in the ATL
@Quinerly:
I’d suggest a couple of crystals and some white sage as well. Santa Fe!
TBone
@MagdaInBlack: 😂
karen marie
So someone granted my wish and made a “Tim Walz Fixed Your Bicycle” site.
I’m enjoying it very much!
eclare
@HumboldtBlue:
Saw that. Someone, I think Geminid, commented that ISIS is about to out what a deranged angry group of fanatics looks like.
Ohio Mom
@Mousebumples: I knew Walz had a daughter from a pair of adorable videos but I didn’t know about Gus, the son, until your comment and link.
Gus is described as having non-verbal learning disorder, ADHD and an anxiety disorder — that all adds up to being as being pretty near to autistic without being autistic.
I will be thrilled to have an ally in the executive branch. Woot! Woot!
karen marie
Also too, just FYI. Kevin Roberts – the Project 2025 guy – is 50 years old, unmarried, and spends a lot of time with Opus Dei priests.
Nothing sus about that at all.
TBone
@karen marie: thanks for sharing!
Measures twice, cuts once!
sab
@eclare: He was so busy chasing the undecided voters that he didn’t even look. Actually, that isn’t fair. He is a decent guy and he ran a decent (morally decent, not competently decent) clean campaign, going to the middle for bipartisanship. But that made him Republican lite. Nobody who likes Republicans votes for republican lite when a real Republican is on the ballot.
You are right. Ryan should have looked. JD Vance wasn’t the non-entity we all assumed he was. Who he is now is who he was then and there were comments out in the blogosphere then showing how nutz he is.
cain
@Quinerly:
Not to worry, the media will do all the oppo research for them.
Quinerly
@Bupalos: I am pretty sure I didn’t weigh in here on Ryan and his campaign. I did think he did a piss poor job. I weighed in on my FB page and ticked off an Ohio friend who loved him. He ran a terrible campaign, imo.
Scout211
Steve Martin turned down Lorne Michaels when he asked him to play Tim Walz this fall on SNL. Darn.
But Maya Rudolph will be playing Kamala Harris again. Sweet!
Quinerly
@karen marie:
That’s weird.
Geminid
@sab: I thought afterwards that if Ryan had run as Fighting Tim instead of Triangulating Tim he still might not have won, but he would have helped party morale and that counts for something.
matt
@Quinerly: I’ve seen a couple here in Portland. I guess they’re keeping Portland weird.
Leto
Very good article from 2018 that everyone should read: ‘Citizen soldier’ Walz honed leadership in uniform
Quinerly
@Steve in the ATL:
Some say Irish Spring soap works. The rats here ate it.
Supposedly, the wiring in most cars now is soy based. I keep asking around and that seems to be the story everyone uses as a reason. Apparently the pack rats didn’t start eating wiring until recently. I am just trying not to argue. No good answers. I am protecting my van in the garage. Pleased to have found this guy to help with the Ford.
The Pragmatician
Testing trying to join the chats my husband has been raving about this site for years
Lyrebird
Wow, that’s very different than what I remember – maybe they did on a different blog? either way, on we go!
sab
@Geminid: I agree very much. Kay thought he was on the right track but a long shot.
Sherrod Brown has a forty year history stayewide. Tim Ryan had a twenty year history in one congressional district. The rest of rhe state had never heard of him.
HumboldtBlue
@columbusqueen:
True.
Ebony
@karen marie: What is up with the people on this blog and making judgements about marriage status. He is not a bad person because he is not married he is bad because of Project 2025. People who are loving married relationships still can be terrible people in other areas. What happened to “mind your own damn business”? People should be judged for they policies not their marriage status.
I don’t support Project 2025, but I am a 40 year old woman who has never been married. In fact I have never been in a relationship. Does that also make me suspect?
BR
Even without Shapiro on the ticket, the anti-Gaza war protestors apparently interrupted Harris’s speech in MI, and that led to her reaction to them, and the usual suspects are braying “Harris doesn’t want to hear you” “it was fun while it lasted”. I am going to have to shut out that noise for the rest of the campaign because I don’t have the energy for it.
Quinerly
@eclare: and I learned the other day there was a remake recently. The original was in 1971 with Sondra Locke, Ernest Borgnine, and Bruce Davison. There was a sequel (Ben). Scared the crap out of me. Lifelong fear of rats and even mice from that movie. Working on conquering my fear.
japa21
@Lyrebird: Bupalos frequently misreads this blog.
Quinerly
@eclare:
It all started when my mother dressed me in white go go boots and fringe at age 4. My boot addiction started early.
eclare
@Quinerly:
Understandable.
eclare
@Quinerly:
Awwww! How cute!
Ebony
@Quinerly: I knew the weird thing went beyond Vance and Trump. So being an older unmarried person is weird? The project 2025 thing and the Opus Dei things are weird, but being an older unmarried person is not weird. I’m an unmarried 40 year old woman, I guess that makes me weird in your eyes. If so, I suggest you follow Tim Waltz’s sage advice and mind your business.
BellyCat
@Quinerly: Are you looking to vote for Walz, or recruit him for landscaping? ;-P
MagdaInBlack
@Leto: I see he already has an answer to the cheap shot from JV.
From the article:
“There’s a code of honor among those who’ve served, and normally this type of partisan political attack only comes from one who’s never worn a uniform,” Walz wrote in the same newspaper, The Winona Daily News, just days before being elected.”
Ebony
@Baud: Yeah filming personal conversations is kind of weird.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@BR: Was that when she said, “If you want Trump to win, just say so. Otherwise, I’m talking.” And then the crowd cheered and started chanting “we won’t go back.”
I saw that clip but didn’t know who had drawn Harris’s ire.
Frankensteinbeck
@Bupalos: and @jonas:
The meaning is clear if you speak negging incel*. The primary message is that he is insulting Harris and implying she does not deserve to debate a presidential candidate.
The second message is that he is sucking up to Trump by both pretending Trump’s bizarre ‘Biden wants the job back’ fantasy is a legitimate narrative, and trying to make it one by repetition. It is very, very pathetic.
*Apparently I speak negging incel and I’m not thrilled about it.
Geminid
@sab: Yes, and you never know: an aggressive Tim Ryan might have punctured JD Vance’s pretensions and knocked him out. Vance was a weak candidate who needed Trump’s endorsement to win his primary with only 32%.
But there is a silver lining in the 2022 cloud. JD Vance survived, with his reputation more or less intact, to become Trump’s VP candidate. What a clunker!.
Ed. I suspect that even if Tim Ryan had run a more partisan and aggressive campaign, Vance would have pulled out the win if only because of negative partisanship. So the way I see it, Ryan’s “Centrist” campaign strategy was how he lost, and not why he lost.
Chief Oshkosh
@Quinerly: Rats have always eaten car wiring. It’s never not been a thing.
RaflW
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: The boy went to Yale. He knows it’s decided. Playing dumb just makes him look stupid.
MagdaInBlack
@Frankensteinbeck: It’s important to recognize the tactic, so that it doesn’t work on you. Does that help? 😉
Steve in the ATL
@Ebony: you might want to read Quinerly’s other posts in this thread if you think she doesn’t care for older, unmarried women.
BR
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Yeah, I think so.
gwangung
@DesertFriar:
JV game.
Doc Sardonic
@Quinerly: You need some Honda Rodent tape…..they developed it after Acura went to soy based insulation and got sued when they wouldn’t warranty it, if I remember correctly….let me look through my online orders and I will post a link. I had to use it a couple years ago after the fucking squirrels did about 8K worth of damage to my. Wrangler and the wife’s Grand Cherokee. https://www.collegehillshonda.com/product/4019-2317.html
eclare
@Ebony:
How did you get that from what she wrote? Of course being older and unmarried isn’t weird, I’m 55 and unmarried, but if you add in P2025 and Opus Dei (which you admitted were weird) it becomes weird.
?
Quinerly
@Doc Sardonic: wow. Thanks. I’m really lucky so far. This guy is charging me $40 an hr for his work. Really nice garage. High end equipment. We found the damage to the alternator harness with a camera. Took a pic so I would have a pic of the part. It’s all been kinda interesting. I have heard horror stories of thousands of dollars. I am at under $300 so far.
Quinerly
@Doc Sardonic:
This is cool. Now seeing your link. I can’t believe no one is talking about this. So it really works?
Quinerly
@BellyCat:
Good one.
Sister Golden Bear
@jonas:
Or he’s got a nice refreshing polonium Diet Coke ready for his next meet up with Trump. Is it irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to….
WaterGirl
@The Pragmatician: Your first comment has to be manually approved, which I have just done.
Now your comments will show up right away for everyone.
Welcome!
Quinerly
@Ebony:
You really don’t know me.
WaterGirl
@Ebony:
Your first comment has to be manually approved, which I have just done. And I approved the other comments that were in moderation before I had approved the first one.
Now your comments will show up right away for everyone.
Welcome!
Doc Sardonic
@Quinerly: So far so good, but I may eventually need to refresh the tape. Also, you could add some high powered 🌶️ sauce to your peppermint oil engine spray. Tabasco Scorpion is one I have used. Only potential problem is you might have people chasing you thinking your the new food truck 🤪
Princess
@The Pragmatician: Come on in; the water’s fine!
Quinerly
@eclare:
Yep. That was a bit confusing since I am 63, never married, no children. And, an admitted ocelot.😎
Now if I was hanging out with Opus Dei ….that would be weird.
BellyCat
Weird factoid. Chipmunks and squirrels and who knows what else, love to chew the propane lines on RVs and grills. Cheap fix, which I suspect might work on wiring harnesses for vehicles (if patient enough) is to wrap in aluminum foil. (Use the heavy duty stuff!)
ETA: Tim Walz tip from a couple decades ago. /s
Quinerly
@BellyCat:
Thanks!
(Are we now T Bogging with rodent stories????)
BellyCat
@Quinerly: Define “ocelot” for those in the cheap seats!
eclare
@Quinerly:
You would definitely not be commenting here!
BellyCat
@Quinerly: Only if we pivot to the socio-cultural implications of Tom and Jerry throughout the last few decades?
Quinerly
@BellyCat:
Let’s go for it!
Quinerly
@BellyCat: it’s my answer when someone calls me a cougar. “I’m not a cougar. I’m an ocelot.”
Compare and contrast.
artem1s
@Trollhattan: Mr Musk tweeted: “We tried being nice for 2 years and got nothing but empty words. Now, it is war.”
NICE?!!! what…the fuck? obviously not the definition of nice that the rest of the world is familiar.
BellyCat
@Quinerly: LOL… I never got to respond to your mention of the Overland gathering before The Troubles. Did that back in 2017 in AZ and MIND BLOW! (This was during a five month romp, mountain biking and boondocking in my 1957 Airstream). Always enjoy your tales of nomadism.
(Two weeks in the Sedona wilds were…. epic. Even had a Native American, drunk on his ass, outside the camper. Turns out he wanted to give me baby eagle feathers. Fear suddenly transformed into grace!)
BellyCat
@Quinerly: Smaller but more dangerous? LOL
ETA: possibly substitute “devious” for “dangerous”!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Sister Golden Bear: One way to read the rants from Trump the last two days is some Republicans asked him to step down.
Quinerly
@BellyCat: sleek and more exotic. And, even more interesting….each ocelot has a unique coat. No two are exactly alike.
Cougars are very boring.
Quinerly
@BellyCat:
I have been working on planning my 5 plus week drive about in AZ in Dec/Jan. Found a cool place for a week in Cottonwood near Sedona for after Christmas. Finally, pulling together Tucson and Phoenix plans (this will be my third try on these two places. Actually have never been to either except thru Phoenix airport in the 1990’s). Doing a week in Hereford, AZ, not far from Bisbee and Sierra Vista. Was in that area last February and had a blast.
It’s been a summer of yard, plantings, landscaping. I’m restless. Utah in Oct. Still shooting for Death Valley in February.
BellyCat
@Quinerly: Intriguing.
Can ocelots be litter box trained? Are fleas a concern? Do they randomly shred furniture and walk across your keyboard?
So many questions!
Jackie
@The Pragmatician: Welcome! Hopefully in due time you’ll out your hubby – or he’ll ‘fess up on his own😊
BellyCat
@Quinerly: Nice!… Although, Utah in Oct could be dicey unless you stay down low?
If you ever wander up to PA to escape summer heat, mos def hit me up through WG. Got a shack near Raystown Lake (33 meandering miles long with no houses. An Army Corp of Engineers project).
Quinerly
@BellyCat:
Trainable?
No way.
Quinerly
@BellyCat:
Torrey, Bicknell, Boulder, Utah areas. Kinda retracing part of a March, 2017 trip. I’m a bit of a foodie and have been trying to get to Hell’s Backbone Farm and Kitchen in Boulder, Utah. Plus, I love Capital Reef NP and that area.
BellyCat
@Quinerly: Thank FSM!
BellyCat
@Quinerly: Totally down with the foodie travel-log even if sometimes at odds with remote boondocking (if not donning a chef’s cap, oneself). Never been to Capital Reef NP. Thanks for future tip!
Quinerly
@BellyCat:
My NE traveling days are pretty much over but thanks for the kind offer. At some point, I will make it back to the coast of NC where I am originally from. I travel off season. Have thought about renting a place in the winter near some of my old haunts. That would be it for heading anywhere east of New Mexico. So many places on my bucket list right now, including Montana and visiting a friend in Washington state. And I want to drive 89 from Mexico to Canada.
Quinerly
@BellyCat:
Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP (Co) and Capital Reef NP (Utah) are probably my favorite NPs.
BellyCat
Now THAT sounds epic. (Ciao for niao. Racking out)
Quiltingfool
@Quinerly: You might not like this fix for your rodent problem, but it worked for me – put mothballs in a mesh bag (I used the leg from a pair of pantyhose, but not sure anyone wears hose anymore!) and hang the bag in your engine compartment. Mice did a number on my truck wires, but once they got a whiff of mothballs, they stayed away.
Downside is you may be smelling the mothballs in your car while driving. But, you can take them out when you drive, just use when the car is parked.
Quinerly
@Quiltingfool:
Excellent idea! Thanks.
Quinerly
@BellyCat:
Night night!
phdesmond
@Omnes Omnibus:
the lyrics for Atomic Dog.
Kent
He is clearly one of the “suckers” that Trump was talking about when he denigrated military service.
wjca
I realize this is a dead thread. But still, this comment is utter bull.
I refer you to the Republican mayor of Mesa, AZ. Who just endorsed Kamala Harris. And got several other Republican officials in Arizona to do the same. This, be it noted, in a state we very much want to win — preferably not as narrowly as last time.
Kay
@BR:
It’s fine. Twitter is not real life. First, the clip is incomplete. She only shut them down after asking them to stop twice. Second, she spoke to the “Uncommitted” leaders (the real organizers, not the hecklers) prior to the rally and they were pleased with her response. Third, a Wayne County Arab American leader endorsed her on his Facebook page – the same leader who thought Biden insulted them back in March.
Social media distorts everything for clicks. She’s going to do okay in MI with actual Arab Americans. I’m more hopeful there than I have been in six months.
Sally
@The Pragmatician: Welcome.
Uncle Cosmo
Stephen “The Schmuck With The Brass Balls” Miller is Reinhard Heydrich’s Mini-Me. Try to keep up.
Uncle Cosmo
Of course you’re late to the party! One of the more disgusting side effects of The Blogfather’s irrational allergy to threaded comments is readers having to fumble their way through ‘leventy-seven same-answers-to-same-question splattered through a thread already waaaaaay too long…
SWMBO
@Quinerly:
Late to the party but I have a suggestion. Put a fake snake under the hood or on the tires. Pull it off when you drive and put it back when you park at home.