Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

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

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

I was promised a recession.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Democrats have delivered the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and now… the Big Joe Biden Deal.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Come on, man.

If you’re looking for someone who’s young and athletic, go watch a fucking movie.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

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I’m running out the door, but it doesn’t look like anyone has set up for this rally, so here it is.

Seems like a rowdy crowd!  Meanwhile JV Vance had 10s of people at his…(not posting anything related to him, but on twitter and threads search Fours Seasons Landscaping and it will fill you with joy – weirdos).

Otherwise, open thread. Try and play nice. I’m off to (another) birthday lunch – as all birthdays should be at least a week long.

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  3. 3.

    WereBear

    It’s been a loooooong eight years. I think there’s a lot of pent up demand for erasing the Trump stain from our political system.

    Scrub it good. Beat it with rocks. They like 15th century tech.

  4. 4.

    cmorenc

    What a difference 2 1/2 weeks make!  From dark gloom of probable doom to bright sunshine of realistic hope and joy!  Biden deserves huge credit forever in history books as one of the all-time great political ju-jitsu moves that knocked a Trump campaign trotting toward probable victory in November totally off-course and struggling for traction against an unexpected supernova of energizing force in Kamala Harris.

  6. 6.

    BR

    Oh wow, Stat News — a legit medical news outlet — has done an analysis of Trump’s cognitive decline:

    Back in 2017, Trump’s first year in the White House, a STAT analysis showed Trump’s speaking style had deteriorated since the 1980s. Seven years on, now that Trump has the GOP presidential nomination, STAT has repeated the analysis. The experts noted a further reduction in Trump’s linguistic complexity and, while none said they could give a diagnosis without an examination, some said certain shifts in his speaking style are potential indications of cognitive decline.

    https://www.statnews.com/2024/08/07/trump-mental-health-linguistic-analysis-suggests-potential-cognitive-decline-experts-say/

  8. 8.

    M31

    @WereBear: ​
     

    15thC cleaning tech? Let’s go all the way back to Roman-era tech and beat them with a pole in a stone tub full of urine

  11. 11.

    Jeffro

    @BR: about time!

    I really want Dems to pound on this: why isn’t trump out on the campaign trail?

    And bigger picture: why does he keep saying “we have all the votes we need”, etc etc?  We know he and his evil little minions have been ensuring that corrupt election officials are in all the right wrong places in the swing states.

    Start sounding the alarm now, Ds!  Normies are notoriously slow to catch on, and the media’s even worse.

  13. 13.

    zhena gogolia

    @BR: As Levenson said, let’s see if our neuro-board-certified MSM reporters can get on this story.

  14. 14.

    WereBear

    @BR: And this from the link:

    Whereas most presidential candidates are in the 60 to 70 range, Trump’s speeches range from 10 to 24. “I can’t tell you how staggering this is,” said Pennebaker. “He does not think in a complex way at all.”

  17. 17.

    gratuitous

    I understand Shady Vance is holding a competing rally, but it’s been held up because the phone booth he wanted to use is occupied. Any minute now . . .

  25. 25.

    Kent

    @HumboldtBlue: New: Heritage president Kevin Roberts is delaying publication of his book amidst Project 2025 backlash. Unfortunate for him, as media matters already has a galley copy and I’m blogging it as I read through:

    Best of all possible worlds.  We get to keep slagging him for their fascist bullshit but he doesn’t get any book sales out of it.

  27. 27.

    Torrey

    @Ishiyama: ​
      Ouch! I love the song, and I think it’s perfect for the occasion, but I wish the singer had decided to do it justice, or maybe that they had a singer who could do it justice. The decision to suddenly shift to falsetto for several bars was–how shall I put this?–ill-advised.

    Getting a crowd sing going would have worked. It’s simple enough that it would make a good crowd sing.

  31. 31.

    H.E.Wolf

    @WereBear: ​Scrub it good. Beat it with rocks. They like 15th century tech.

     When my brother was serving in the Peace Corps in Central America, he perforce did his laundry in the stream near his cabin. Lots of scrubbing on rocks. His socks wore out fast.

  33. 33.

    Kent

    @H.E.Wolf:When my brother was serving in the Peace Corps in Central America, he perforce did his laundry in the stream near his cabin. Lots of scrubbing on rocks. His socks wore out fast.

    When I was in the Peace Corps in Central America I hired a neighbor lady to wash my clothes by hand for a couple bucks per week.  They came back starched, folded, perfectly white, and even my jeans were pressed.

  34. 34.

    Ishiyama

    @Torrey: ​
    The decision to suddenly shift to falsetto for several bars was–how shall I put this?–ill-advised.

     

    I liked the falsetto; it fits with the ghostly image of the forgotten heroes of the Civil War.

  35. 35.

    Central Planning

    Since this is an open thread… does anyone remember the link to (I think an x post) that was instructions on how to make the MAGA weirdos feel bad by comparing them to Trump with phrases like “It’s great you see your values in a presidential candidate”?

    I can’t seem to find it. Can someone point me to it?

    Thanks!

  36. 36.

    Scout211

    @Mr. Bemused Senior: WaPo doesn’t let non-subscribers read gift articles anymore with out giving them our email.  It would be nice if we could read an excerpt when jackals post gift links because WaPo stopped letting us read for free.

     

    This is what we get when we click on a “gift” link:

    Create an account to redeem your FREE article
    Enter email address _____________________

  39. 39.

    HumboldtBlue

    In the past hour, MSNBC has had a segment with Chuck Fucking Todd, and now Peter the fuckwit Baker is on the screen.

  43. 43.

    Steve in the ATL

    On a related note, to each his/her/their own, but I find “acrobatic swimming” to be really strange.

    On the other hand, watching the pole vaulting reminds of playing the decathlon game on an Apple ][ some 45 years ago….

  44. 44.

    ...now I try to be amused

    @cmorenc:

    Biden deserves huge credit forever in history books as one of the all-time great political ju-jitsu moves

    Biden giving up another shot at the presidency for the greater good is up there with Washington’s retirement IMO.

  45. 45.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @gratuitous: Haha. It’s too bad phone booths are gone from the landscape, because that paints such a great image. Vance standing outside the sliding door looking anxious while the person inside chats away. “Can you hurry it up? I have a rally here in 5 minutes!”

    (And the person does the classic thing every person hogging a phone booth ever did… turn their back and keep talking)

  46. 46.

    p.a.

    Cognitive decline.  Hasn’t the (actual) author of The Art of the Steal Deal (1987) said tRump has a functional vocabulary of 500 words?  Or maybe he was talking of a more recent time period?

  48. 48.

    BR

    They say never read the comments, but I did read the comments on a Daily Show Tim Walz video, and it was gold:

    Tim Walz is a whole care bear while Vance is a whole angry looking Chucky Doll with bad eyeliner

    lol, angry looking Chucky Doll with bad eyeliner

  51. 51.

    marklar

    Before we all conclude that the simplicity of Trump’s speeches are indicative of his cognitive decline, we need to also entertain the possibility that he’s intentionally chosen to tailor them to the cognitive level of his audience.  Of course, these two options aren’t mutually exclusive.

  52. 52.

    MomSense

    @Steve in the ATL:

    I had an unrequited love affair with a pole vaulter in college.  Every time I see pole vaulting I think damn that was really stupid.  I should have jumped him.

  55. 55.

    Jay C

    @MazeDancer:

    And speaking of the Stalker Tour: I read somewhere that the Trump-Vance campaign team (if there even IS such a thing) is already cranking out excuses for JD’s pathetic turnouts, on the (dubious) premise that these events are “by invitation”, and that they weren’t planning on, or wanting, huge crowds.

    sure, guys; whatever you say…

    🥱

  56. 56.

    bbleh

    @WereBear: I have a theory that dovetails with an earlier one, to wit that one reason the Republicans have been so flat-footed — for two and a half weeks now!! — is that THEY don’t understand how much their ideas (such as they are) and their attitudes and their candidates are DESPISED by people, and by HOW MANY people.  It seems like they had convinced themselves not only that they were cruising to victory but that they were doing so because they were more popular, that they were in the right place for the time.  They didn’t understand how much their lead — slim as it always was — was due to the media tearing down the Dems for them (Biden Old, inflation!) and not to anything they were or said.  And so all they’ve got is Greatest Hits of Eight Years Ago, and the Felon mostly sits at home surrounded by grifting ass-kissers and posting rambling half-crazed tweets that only his cult (and fewer and fewer of them) pay any attention to.

    At this point, I think our greater worries are (1) our own turnout and (2) them ratfking the election.

  58. 58.

    Torrey

    @Ishiyama: ​
      Ah, well there it is. I have been reading about the Civil War recently, so I imagine it sung at the time by the men themselves. Possibly by the men of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

  60. 60.

    p.a.

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: The original Swift Boat ad had a bunch of people saying “I served with John Kerry” who had never met Kerry. I wonder if he’ll try that one again.

     

     

    tRumpturds’ solidarity ear-gauze was preceded by conservaturds’ mocking Kerry with their purple bandaids.

  63. 63.

    JoyceH

    Just FYI – lately, like just in the last week, I’ve been seeing the term “rizz “ as something a person has – he’s got rizz. Just learned that’s kid-speak for charisma.

  64. 64.

    cain

    @Scout211:

    Let’s just not have WaPo links. Fuck em. I mean honestly, these media outlets are useless.

    A twitter feed of Tom Nichols is more useful than these chuckleheads and I don’t remotely agree with that guy at times.

  66. 66.

    narya

    So today I finished the last episode this season of Maddow’s “Ultra” podcast; thus, TIL that the “fake elector” scheme was ALSO contemplated in 1956 by Joe McCarthy’s supporters, and the “stolen election/wait until January” scheme was part of Nixon’s shtick in 1960. Obviously didn’t work/didn’t have enough normie-Republican support either of those times, but damn; history may not repeat itself, but it sure AF rhymes.

  70. 70.

    Sure Lurkalot

    Many reasons why Trump is not actively campaigning:

    • lazy
    • golfing
    • can’t afford to pay venue costs
    • venue providers don’t trust him to pay
    • campaign spending time and money on setting up fake electors, bribing officials to not certify and other tactics, to be endorsed by “his judges” on the USSC
    • all of the above
  72. 72.

    Ishiyama

    Watching the event. Someone fainted during Walz’s speech, so he paused until they were revived. He cut out the jokes from his speech, showing a more serious demeanor.

  74. 74.

    Marleedog

    @Kathleen:

    @scout211:

    This is what we get when we click on a “gift” link:

    Create an account to redeem your FREE article
    Enter email address _____________________

    I keep a burner email account for this type of thing, or as KatKapDC has mentioned,  you can just enter any old fake email at gmail and it will let you read. I tried this for the Petri article and it worked.

  75. 75.

    Ishiyama

    @Torrey: Wisconsin’s contribution was the Iron Brigade. I learned that song from someone who learned it from veterans of that war.

  77. 77.

    Jess

    @BR: I rarely watch clips of him (trying to avoid nausea), but the few I’ve seen recently were rather shocking. The way he was rambling, repeating the same words over and over, and avoiding anything specific–he really did seem lost. It was bad enough that I actually felt a twinge of pity for him. It’s like Reagan all over again. People like Vance are going to exploit the hell out of him if they can.

  78. 78.

    Scout211

    @cain: I really love reading Alexandra Petri’s columns so I clicked over to do so. There are a few good news articles on WaPo and Alexandra Petri.

    I would really love it if WaPo links or any other articles jackals link here included an excerpt of a paragraph or two of the article instead of just posting the links in the comments.  But that’s easy for me to do because I’m usually on an iPad. The majority of the commentariat reads balloon-juice on their phones and I do understand that copying and pasting excerpts from articles while on a phone is a big pain.

    I also would like a pony to improve my balloon-juice experience.  😉

  79. 79.

    rikyrah

     

    Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) posted at 11:59 AM on Wed, Aug 07, 2024:

     

     

    here is what i find absolutely incredible and so representative of the best of America: two people were born just months apart in 1964: one a black asian girl in Oakland, CA; the other a rural white guy in small town Nebraska. each grew up miles away from each other but with struggles and each took different paths: one became a successful lawyer/prosecutor, the other a public school teacher and football coach. they each grew up loving America and also knowing we can do better. they each have a zest for life, a joy of living, and are incredibly welcoming. now they are on the ticket together running for the most powerful offices in the world. a true picture of America in the 21st century.

     

    (https://x.com/matthewjdowd/status/1821229758991970427?t=I-qllRrr_i3tGEI2_-JpMg&s=03)

  80. 80.

    Scout211

    @Marleedog: you can just enter any old fake email at gmail and it will let you read

    Oh my, that sounds positively criminal.  I’ll do it!!

    Thanks.

  81. 81.

    Misterpuff

    @different-church-lady:

    “He does not think in a complex way at all.”

    Well christ, that’s a revelation!

    What I loved about that perspective on Trump is that when the WH staff got him to understand a problem that was complex, he always would go out in a speec h or a press conference, and say “You probably don’t know this” or give a grade school explanation of the complexity and act like he was the smartest in the room even though anybody with any analytical skills had already grokked that it was complex and/or his explanation would miss the point.

    Such is the life of a career dumbass and why we can not go back.

  82. 82.

    japa21

    @cmorenc:

     

    knocked a Trump campaign trotting toward probable possible victory in November

    Minor, no make that a major correction.

  84. 84.

    BR

    @rikyrah:

    Yeah, that and the “only in America” that Harris said really got to me.

    There’s someone on Mastodon who I like to read who is originally from Singapore and lived all over the world and now lives in California, which is the first place she was able to marry her wife and live a normal life. She reminds people on the left who are down on the US that there is really no better, more diverse, more accepting society anywhere in the world, and she has lived in all the places people talk about:

    https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte

  86. 86.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Scout211:
     

    I also would like a pony to improve my balloon-juice experience. 😉

    I’m holding out for avatars and threaded comments!

  88. 88.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @cain: I support not posting direct “gift” links to FTFNYT and WaPo content but how is posting feeds from Musk’s garbage propaganda engine ok?

  92. 92.

    JML

    @prostratedragon: Eau Claire has a university and that part of western WI has sent Dems to congress quite a bit.

    It’s also in the TC media market, so a campaign hitter there gets you MN coverage for free (and will get you market time in La Crosse a least, and likely get picked up by most stations in WI as a highlight).

    It’s a great campaign stop in WI.

  93. 93.

    Steve LaBonne

    You can also read WaPo and FTFNYT stories for free by pasting the URL into archive.ph.

  97. 97.

    Almost Retired

    I’m stuck in traffic so I listened to Fox so you don’t have to.  They’re pounding the San Francisco liberal tolerant-of-street-pooping angle, and now they’re pushing the “Minneapolis is a comparable hell scape” angle.

    Also, evidently Walz was an assistant coach and not head coach (gasp!!  Give me a moment to find my smelling salts).

    And Shapiro was included in the final three because he is Jewish and wasn’t picked because he was Jewish.

    Clearly they are still trying to settle on a strategy.

  100. 100.

    TBone

    I haz a sad for the first time about not being on any social media. I am a Philly gurl so I had to look at Raw Story for my Four Seasons Total Landscaping fix.  I fear I am missing out on better humor.  A few xits were in the article I found, but I know my Philly peeps can do better!  Has anyone found anything more on that to share?

  101. 101.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @HumboldtBlue: During my brief time at LGM I found down votes to be a great pressure valve to stop me flying off the handle about whatever.

    Up votes are addictive. That’s bad.

    So I’m conflicted.

  104. 104.

    prostratedragon

    @JML:  But August? That’s a great turnout for early August.

    (I noticed MINNESOTA signs, and realized they’re not far away, as the car drives.)

  107. 107.

    TBone

    @cain: I posted the (gift link) Petri article in an earlier thread – using Duck Duck Go, I had easy access, no strings attached whatsoever.

    But it’s Wapoo, so I only clicked once.

  109. 109.

    Jess

    @bbleh: Yeah, it’s so easy to believe your own bullshit. Happens on the left as well, but religious fundamentalism supercharges it.

  112. 112.

    TBone

    @H.E.Wolf: at the Colonial Plantation, we did our laundry in a huge cauldron over a large open fire, stirring with a big paddle-shaped stick.  Like proper witches.

  115. 115.

    Lapassionara

    @rikyrah: I actually saw a cybertruck in the wild this morning. It had its lights on (rain) and the lights go in a band all across the top of what I guess is supposed to be the grille.

    How embarrassing for the poor driver!

  116. 116.

    Scout211

    Thanks, all!

    Alexandra Petri, the excerpt:

     

    He’ll unleash HELL ON EARTH” — campaign email from Donald Trump, Aug. 6, 2024, in reference to Tim Walz.

    It was hell. It was a nightmare. And it was all Tim Walz’s doing. A vast landscape, vaguely evocative of Minnesota, with circles within circles of unthinkable torments almost too terrible to set down in words.

    . . .

    To reach the final circle, you had to walk past a sad cluster of male state legislators who sat, as usual, utterly bewildered by the medical science of pregnancy but trying to pass laws about it. And no one was letting them. It was an awful sight. Also, the temperature was very, very cold; not even the hot dish brought by neighbors from the butter circle was enough to warm Trump and Vance.

    The ninth circle was the most frightening of all. There sat a whole coven of women getting to decide, with their doctors’ input, whether to continue or end their pregnancies. Vance shuddered at the sight of all those vessels mistakenly thinking they were people. They were even voting! There were a number cats in that circle, just as the chanting children had warned. A panicked Donald Trump and JD Vance clambered to the litter box in the center of the circle and descended the staircase hidden behind it, down, down, down until they burst out of the nightmare hellscape.

    When they were free, they looked around and beheld once more their policies: forced births, child labor, the Ten Commandments in every classroom. A great sea of red hats. All was as it ought to be.

    Tim Walz’s hell was not upon them yet.

  124. 124.

    Jess

    @Misterpuff: I hate idiots who think they’re smart. It’s worse when they mean well and I have to force myself to be nice. (The asshats are fun to jerk around.)

  125. 125.

    twbrandt

    @Scout211: it’s a PITA, but burner emails were created for just such occasions. Apple has a service where they generate a random email address you can give out instead of your real one. I’ve used it on more than one occasion.

  126. 126.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @BR: I’m not someone who owns an American flag or really does any outward displays of patriotism, myself, personally.  But I also don’t get mad when people (especially people like Obama, Hillary, Biden, Harris, Walz etc.) speak about America being the greatest for this or that or “only in America” because:

    1.) it’s campaign speech and many Americans react positively to it,

    2.) it counters the myth that Dems “hate America” that Republicans and the MSM have perpetuated forever

    3.) I know damn well that none of them are blind to all of America’s many faults and

    4.) there are many aspects where America really is somewhat unique and/or has led the way, in ways that we should be proud of.

    So I love seeing Dems reclaiming Patriotism in public.  I may roll my eyes at times, but I generally think it’s a good thing.

  127. 127.

    Kathleen

    @Scout211: I left a gift link to her funniest column ever (IMHO) a couple of days ago but I’m sure it got buried. Did you read the latest from RFK Jr’s brain worm? I laughed so hard. I think it was in WaPoo on Monday.

  128. 128.

    Jess

    @BR: Yes, that’s what I love about America as well. All this outpouring of support for Kamala is restoring my faith that our multicultural society CAN survive and thrive.

  129. 129.

    cmorenc

    @Misterpuff: Trump is that loudmouth know-it-all (in a completely opposite sense than eg “young sheldon”) whom you hopefully spot before you inadvertently take the open seat next to him at the bar and realize you need to invent an excuse to move elsewhere.  Like, now!

  134. 134.

    Steve LaBonne

    @UncleEbeneezer: I can be as scathing as the next left-wing person about the reality of America and its history, but I also fly a US flag at one end of my porch (and a Progress Pride flag at the other) because I want to rub the assholes’ noses in the fact that they don’t own our flag. In fact they’re the ones busy desecrating it (black and white, blue line) or flying it upside down.

  135. 135.

    WaterGirl

    @Steve in the ATL: I read that as aviators and was going to ask for your mailing address.

    As for avatars, the Sunday that John Cole rolled out avatars (they were gone by the end of the day) is a day that shall never be forgotten.

  139. 139.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @WaterGirl: I missed that but I look at the no-login web form that we use to comment and my imagination runs wild with possibilities.

  140. 140.

    Steve LaBonne

    @BR: I don’t believe these things, which have been going on for a LONG time, are just sloppiness. Because all the “errors” are in the bank’s, that is the Republican Party’s, favor. So, FTFNYT.

  141. 141.

    KatKapCC

    I see the WaPo question has come up again and been answered. Yes, it’s true that you can enter any old fake email you want and it will work. You don’t even have to “set up an account” — you enter a fake email, it says “Thanks now you can start reading, check your email for a link to set up a password” and that’s it. I used something like “fakeemailhahaha@gmail” last time.

    However, I assume at some point, someone at WaPo will realize how lame this paywall is, that it’s akin to drawing a door on butcher paper and taping it up in an empty doorway. If they ever make it so you have to use a real email, you can always use archive.ph. Just paste in a link and it will show you the page. You won’t be able to watch videos and cannot always access comments, but you can read the article.

  143. 143.

    BR

    @Steve LaBonne: ​

    Completely agreed. DougJ has had the NYT’s number for forever. It’s not incompetence or randomness, or else it would happen as often in favor of Dems. But it doesn’t.

  146. 146.

    NotMax

    @KatKapCC

    Turning off javascript enables one to read as much as one cares to at WaPo anytime. Without the interruption of having to enter any information.

  148. 148.

    twbrandt

    The rally in Detroit had to be moved to a hangar at the Detroit airport because over 50,000 people RSVP’d! If you live in the Detroit area (as I do), ya might want to avoid I-94. The rally is scheduled for 7pm.

  149. 149.

    KatKapCC

    I just found an earring that had been missing for a month from one of my favorite pairs. I choose to credit Harris/Walz for this miracle.

  150. 150.

    Jackie

    Did anyone see Fetterman on MSNBC earlier? He was asked about Shapiro and he blew a gasket. Said Shapiro’s old news and why are you trying to discuss him while Walz is on the stage right now?! The interviewer tried again, and Fetterman cut her off and said we should be discussing Walz. ‘Twas a thing of beauty 😁

  156. 156.

    NotMax

    @Jackie

    It’s so weird. The MSM collectively decided, absent the slightest evidence, Shapiro had the inside track.

  157. 157.

    eclare

    @Jackie:

    I can understand.  Morning Joe, especially Joe, is still trying to figure out why Harris did not pick Shapiro.  It’s as if the entire pundit class decided that she should pick Shapiro and is now offended that she didn’t.  It’s becoming offensive.

    I only saw some clips, read about his biography, and thought he sounded pretty good.  Judging by the response of the Democratic voters so far, sounds like we all agree.

  163. 163.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @eclare: Analysis of a decision that didn’t happen, free from new information.

    That’s what I call News!

    ETA: Seriously it’s like they think the power to decide the nominees is theirs by right.

  164. 164.

    Anyway

    I was in the car and heard some of the Eau Clare rally where the crowd burst into chants of “Thank you Joe” after KH brought up Pres Biden and how much he had done. The DNC is going to  be a love-fest for Biden.

    *This belongs here not in the “Absurdity” post

  165. 165.

    H.E.Wolf

    @Kent: When I was in the Peace Corps in Central America I hired a neighbor lady to wash my clothes by hand for a couple bucks per week. They came back starched, folded, perfectly white, and even my jeans were pressed.​

    @TBone: at the Colonial Plantation, we did our laundry in a huge cauldron over a large open fire, stirring with a big paddle-shaped stick. Like proper witches.​
     
    Kent – good workaround!
    TBone – I have fond memories of the Whale Of A Wash laundromat, in the years just after I finished college. Throw all the clothes in 1 load to save money, who cares if the white socks turn grey from being washed with the jeans?

  169. 169.

    Ruckus

    @marklar:

    Most humans have some level of cognitive decline as they get older. But when cognition is low to began with the decline takes less total time and often declines faster.

    The above is from a former mental health counselor. Me. Plus I’m now the oldest – and only one left in my family. So I’ve learned from both schooling and watching. And what I’ve heard in SFB over not all that much time – he is. Declining and at a not insignificant rate.

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