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Trump just gave a trainwreck of a news conference where he was unhinged, meandering, and he looked like shit.  Key points:

There’s a lot more but I can’t stand looking at him anymore.  The one possible piece of news is that he agreed to the already agreed-upon debate on 9/10 on ABC but who knows if he’ll show for that.

 

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  2. 2.

    H.E.Wolf

    Let’s work as if he’s functional, and give the Democrats a blowout landslide victory, up and down the ballot, in November.

  4. 4.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    …and FTFNYT will now begin it’s 190+ series of reports on the Orange Fart Cloud’s age and obvious mental decline…

    In a sci-fi novel waiting to be written.

  5. 5.

    Chris

    More to the point, it’s the kind of performance that, if the mainstream media wasn’t a bought-and-paid for Republican project, would lead to a month of wall-to-wall front-page-above-the-fold articles screaming hysterically that Trump has to step down, breathlessly repeating every expression of concern from every deputy junior office aide, and making them up if there aren’t enough of them.

    But of course they can’t do that.  That’d be biased.

  10. 10.

    suzanne

    He also apparently thinks that asylum seekers….. are being let out of insane asylums….. and coming across the border.

  12. 12.

    sixthdoctor

    Christ, I just wish he’d go away, but if he’s going to hang around, the least he can do is disintegrate in front of our eyes before getting his ass thrown in jail.

  13. 13.

    NaijaGal

    He can’t handle the reduced attention but doesn’t realize that truly undecided voters are repulsed by whatever that was.

  18. 18.

    BR

    I still think it’s a gift to our side that he did this press conference today. People don’t like him the more they see of him. The press was clearly ready to turn on Harris, and Trump gave them something new to focus on — him — and while the media will dutifully report on his nonsense, the public is tired of Trump’s nonsense so it will just eat up a news cycle that otherwise would have been attacks on Walz.

  19. 19.

    What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @Van Buren: I did see a Chyron on MSNBC that said something to the effect that “Harris accepts UAW endorsement. Trump gives rambling press conference.” So the media is noticing a little.

  20. 20.

    Eduardo

    Because open thread:  Dow Jones down 1.57%  and SP 500 down 1.07% in the last 5 days as a consequence of Kamala’s economic meltdown of 2024.

    Terrible.

  23. 23.

    Leto

    Wonder if our stenographers will ask him where his ear diaper is? Just all healed up now, are we? Ok…

  25. 25.

    Trivia Man

    Serbia is hanging tough, still a few minutes left for a miracle upset in basketball.

  27. 27.

    NaijaGal

    On vacation starting today. Will be hanging out for a few days with friends who are focused on our mutual friend’s birthday shenanigans, not politics, so I’m getting my balloon juice fix now.

  29. 29.

    hrprogressive

    Between the Project 2025 Road to Fascism, and things like ALEC or whatever other bullshit Fascist circlejerks put together for “model legislation”, the reason nobody cares about how demented he sounds is because Trump, the person, is simply a means to an end.

    He’s a figurehead. They could have the robotic body of Spiro Agnew as POTUS and as long as the entity at the White House rubber stamps whatever they put in front of them.

    The corprofascists have bought and sold enough Congresspeople to get what they want too, mostly, so again, for them, whether it’s Trump, the Fauxbilly Fascist, or a dried up pile of leaves, the entity doesn’t matter to them.

    The end goal does.

  32. 32.

    PaulWartenberg

    How many times does it have to get pointed out that the DEMOCRATIC PARTY is the one that’s actually responsible and answering to the voters while the REPUBLICAN PARTY is a chaotic mess that shouldn’t even be taken seriously as a party anymore?

    Just stop fcking voting for Republicans, everybody. They’re broken, corrupt to the core, and eager to destroy everything if it means only they get to rule over the ashes.

  33. 33.

    Another Scott

    I think he, and the rest of the planet, would be happier if he were sent to his own IMAX theatre every day where he could watch AI generated movies of “hundreds of thousands” in his cult singing his praises while he rambles on for a couple of hours on how great he is and how everyone else treats him so unfairly.

    He’s such a baby.

    A dangerous baby, but a baby nonetheless.

    Grr…,
    Scott.

  34. 34.

    Trollhattan

    @NaijaGal:

    Sounds great!

    Exchanging weekend plans with the gal at the allergy clinic today she said, “Saturday is my daughter’s third birthday so I’ll be surrounded by screaming toddlers for a few hours, then drunk adults the rest of the day.”

    Relatable.

  36. 36.

    p.a.

    A functioning press would not just say he is demented, they’d harangue Republicans nation wide to the tune of “what are you going to do about this!?!?”  But (h/t) Sadly, No.

  39. 39.

    NotMax

    @Omnes Omnibus
    From State and Main:

    Doc Wilson: The truth is you never should trust anybody who wears a bow tie. A cravat is supposed to point down, to accentuate the genitals. Why do you want to trust somebody whose tie points out to accentuate his ears?

  43. 43.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @PaulWartenberg:

    Just stop fcking voting for Republicans, everybody. They’re broken, corrupt to the core, and eager to destroy everything if it means only they get to rule over the ashes.

    But they hate the people we (‘we’ meaning the political right, not “we people ostensibly on the left”) hate. Nothing else matters.

  50. 50.

    Sid_Viscous

    This “news conference” wasn’t so much of a train wreck as a ship wreck. Train wrecks happen much more quickly and that’s not what occurs when Grampy speaks.

    I think what we just endured was identical to what people sitting at his table hear when’s bloviating over dinner at Mar-a-Lago.

  57. 57.

    NutmegAgain

    @H.E.Wolf: Agreed. But I think the Dems response to ths kind of garbage flow needs to address the fact that he evidently has mushrooms with his breakfast hamberder. If the press won’t highlight it, we need to.

  59. 59.

    KatKapCC

    @p.a.: You know, Trump himself said that once, and it was the one and only time he ever said anything that was 1) actually a bit humorous, and 2) self-deprecating. It was at least a few years ago, I think, he was doing some rally speech or whatever, and I don’t know how he got onto the topic, but he kind of stopped himself and said something like “Jeez, could you imagine what I’d be like if I drank?” I was amazed that he was actually very slightly poking fun at himself and that it was mildly amusing.

  65. 65.

    catclub

    I would say he did it in response to that HarrisHQ post of 6 or 7 Harris events in swing states this week and his one event in Montana. Is DonOLD too tired?

  68. 68.

    Wave Function Collapse

    So should we call his demonstration of astonishing rhetorical skills a “detour de force?”

  69. 69.

    Jackie

    Anybody have any insight of how Faux and Newsmax are spinning the shitshow called a press conference?

  71. 71.

    brendancalling

    I hope he does a press grievance conference everyday! Maybe even few twice a day!

    Because that was nucking futs!

  73. 73.

    Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg

    “Ahh, but the rallies! That’s – that’s where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with – geometric logic – that my rallies had more people! And I’d have PRODUCED those numbers if the terrible reporters didn’t lie! I, I, I know now they were only trying to keep me from winning -…”

  74. 74.

    Citizen Alan

    @NotMax: Matt Smith’s Doctor rescued the bow tie for me. Before him, I thought anyone who wore a bow tie was presumptively evil.

  75. 75.

    HumboldtBlue

    Exclusive | Videos Show Police at Trump Rally Airing Frustration With Secret Service

    Police officers near the site of the Trump rally in Butler, Pa., in July. Photo: Sue Ogrocki/Associated Press

    Local Pennsylvania police complained in the moments after last month’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump that they warned the U.S. Secret Service days in advance that the warehouse where the shooter was positioned needed protection, according to new videos obtained by The Wall Street Journal.

    “I f—ing told them that they needed to post guys f—ing over here…I told them that f—ing Tuesday,” said a Butler Township officer in audio captured on his body-worn camera. “I talked to the Secret Service guys. They’re like, ‘Yeah, no problem. We’re going to post guys over here.’”

    So it really was staged, wasn’t it?

  76. 76.

    KatKapCC

    @NaijaGal: I don’t even remember when or where it was, so no idea how to find a link. All I can tell you is I remember him saying it. I’m not gonna sit here making things up to make him look better, LOL.

  79. 79.

    Splitting Image

    @Citizen Alan:

    Matt Smith’s Doctor rescued the bow tie for me. Before him, I thought anyone who wore a bow tie was presumptively evil.

    Surely not Opus!

  80. 80.

    rikyrah

    @hrprogressive:

    Between the Project 2025 Road to Fascism, and things like ALEC or whatever other bullshit Fascist circlejerks put together for “model legislation”, the reason nobody cares about how demented he sounds is because Trump, the person, is simply a means to an end.

     

    Keep telling that truth

  81. 81.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @KatKapCC: This is the one thing we can all, truly agree on.  And this is why it needs to be front and center in Dem campaigns.

  86. 86.

    Citizen Alan

    @Splitting Image: Opus came long before Tucker Carlson (and before I became aware of George Will). Though I might have had grudging respect for a conservative who, like Opus, wore a bow tie and nothing else.

  88. 88.

    Steve LaBonne

    @BR: Josh Marshall suggested on Xitter that the Harris campaign should pay him to do one of these things every day.

  89. 89.

    Captain C

    @cain: As I said in a previous thread, the FTFNYT has become the Angel Hernandez of the journalism industry.

  90. 90.

    Citizen Alan

    @NotMax:  Perhaps that’s the distinction I was looking for!

    Bowties on scientists, Time Lords, and penguins = Good!

    Bowties on fascist swine = Bad!

    EDITED TO ADD: Many years ago, after I graduated law school, I came back to judge an appellate advocacy competition at Ole Miss, and I sort of ripped apart a poor 2L who had the bad luck to be forced to argue the horrible amoral side of a fictitious appeal. I apologized to him afterwards and said I was probably triggered by his bow tie because he reminded me of Tucker Carlson. He said “yeah, that’s fair.”

  91. 91.

    Trivia Man

    @rikyrah: ALEC was incredibly successful and is to blame for nearly al of the state level fuckery of the last 25 years. Can’t recall which states but in more than one the legislature introduced bills with the ALEC LOGO STILL ATTACHED. “Yeah, I wrote this bill”

  93. 93.

    Matt McIrvin

    If we could rely on an insane meltdown to sink Trump he never would have won in 2016, so obviously the effect of this depends on how it’s used and reported. Hit hard.

  95. 95.

    bbleh

    @H.E.Wolf: yes yes yes this!  NO complacency!  They’re busily sabotaging the electoral system as we sit.  We need to SWAMP them.

  96. 96.

    Citizen Alan

    @NotMax: My current employer wears a bow tie but only when he’s on the bench. Otherwise, he doesn’t wear a tie at all when he’s in the office. No idea what he wears when he’s teleworking–currently, I am dressed like Baud in my apartment office resolutely not working on the tedious matter that’s set for next Wednesday.

  97. 97.

    Baud

    A reporter noted that there are ways the federal government could restrict abortion besides a national ban and asked if Trump would direct his Food and Drug Administration to “revoke access” to mifepristone. Trump did not reject the idea.

     

    “Sure, you could, you could do things that will be, would, would supplement,” the GOP presidential nominee said. “Absolutely. … But you have to be able to have a vote, and all I want to do is give everybody a vote.” (

  99. 99.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @Captain C:

    As I said in a previous thread, the FTFNYT has become the Angel Hernandez of the journalism industry.

    A literal ‘inside baseball’ reference!

    And so true.

  102. 102.

    H.E.Wolf

    @Omnes Omnibus: This!

    @bbleh: yes yes yes this! NO complacency! They’re busily sabotaging the electoral system as we sit. We need to SWAMP them.

     Yes, let’s swamp them – it’ll feel great.

    It’s going to come down to turnout, as always. And we have lots of partners in GOTV! NC Black Alliance (thermometer in sidebar) is doing phenomenal outreach to students. Imagine if we help North Carolina to go blue….

  103. 103.

    KatKapCC

    The Harris/Walz campaign should do an ad that’s just a series of clips from that presser interspersed with the two of them sitting at a table, staring into the camera, and then at the end, they both just sigh and say “Visit kamalaharris.com to sign up and ensure we never have to listen to anything like this again”.

  104. 104.

    sdhays

    So, Kamala Harris forced Trump to come crawling back to the agreed upon debate on ABC? How’s that for a dominance move?

  105. 105.

    Trivia Man

    Saw a fantastic quote from the presser today:

    Q: How are you going to vote on the Florida abortion referendum?

    A: “I’m going to announce that. I’m actually going to have a press conference on that at some point in the near future so I don’t want to tell you now.”

     

    There are a ton of great snips in the Whitepeopletwitter subreddit. I don’t do twit these days so i get it places like that.

  107. 107.

    sdhays

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Even now, he doesn’t know what “asylum” is. I think he must have stopped actually absorbing facts maybe 40 years ago and has just been bullshitting for the rest of his life.

  108. 108.

    Trivia Man

    @AM in NC: The commenter responded to me with a two (foreign) word answer. I had to look it up and learned it is slang US soldiers used in the Vietnam War. It means “tough shit” when used by vets of that era. No content, no congratulations to a worthy opponent, no praise of specific great pays (Both Sides!) just a Boomer equivalent of today’s “Cry More” taunt.

  112. 112.

    New Deal democrat

    Don’t know if anyone above has mentioned it already, but Trump’s offer, given his history, is clearly a bait and switch:

    ”The GOP presidential nominee said during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago that he’s agreed to a Sept. 4 debate on Fox News, a Sept. 10 one on NBC and a Sept. 25 debate on ABC.”

    Notice that the *first* debate would be on Fox News, his preferred outlet. Once that is done, he will likely renege on doing the other two. Once he gets what he wants, he *always* stiffs the counterparty.

  116. 116.

    Lily

    The beginning of his talk (most dangerous time ever, street violence, gangs, world war coming) isn’t only  ‘vote for me to fix it.’  It’s the fake reasoning underlying what he said he wanted to do last time. Use military against citizens, outlaw protests, press freedom, rights of accused and normal elections.  Deport or jail freely.  Any meaning of ‘martial law’ and ‘wartime’ that furthers him and Project 2025.

  117. 117.

    Baud

    A consultant told Florida A&M University’s trustees as they began their search for a new president that successful university leaders take a business-executive mindset to the job while, in her experience, candidates are less often emerging from within academia

    Paging BC

  120. 120.

    gene108

    @hrprogressive:

    Between the Project 2025 Road to Fascism, and things like ALEC or whatever other bullshit Fascist circlejerks put together for “model legislation”, the reason nobody cares about how demented he sounds is because Trump, the person, is simply a means to an end.

    He’s a figurehead. They could have the robotic body of Spiro Agnew as POTUS and as long as the entity at the White House rubber stamps whatever they put in front of them.

    Trump’s driving the car. He’s not a figurehead.

    The family separation catastrophe, and the “Muslim ban” are purely Trump.

    The willingness to work with Russia to win an election is purely Trump. Turning the Republican party into pro-Russia hacks is from Trump’s embrace of Putin.

    Holding diplomatic relations with North Korea for photo-ops, while asking nothing in return for this gift to Kim Jung-Un, is purely Trump.

    Getting Republicans to support tariffs and trade wars is Trump.

    Trump controls the Republican party, and their corporate backers know this. Project 2025 was created by people Trump hired into his administration. It’s an extension of Trump’s vision for America.

  124. 124.

    Baud

    Just a reminder, Trump isn’t the only monster out there.

    Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of 15 states in an attempt to stop President Joe Biden from expanding health care access to DACA recipients by making them eligible for participation in the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplace.

     

    Kobach, a Republican who built a political career concentrated on legal issues tied to undocumented migrants, was joined in the federal lawsuit by attorneys general in Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Virginia.

  130. 130.

    Capri

    The clip that I hope will go viral, but doesn’t seem to have any traction, is when Laura Ingraham asked what his pronouns were. He answered that he didn’t have any.

  131. 131.

    eclare

    @NotMax:

    He once said he wore a bow tie because a regular tie might dip into a beaker or the flame of a bunsen burner.

    Makes sense.  Decades ago a coworker slammed his tie shut in a file cabinet drawer.

  132. 132.

    catclub

    So imagine Harris saying: “So, If  you asked me about the peaceful transition of power, and I started telling you I had the greatest crowds ever, and nobody has recognized that, how crazy would you think I am?”

  134. 134.

    raven

    Talk about bad sportsmanship!!

     

    “The facts were hard to track and harder to find in Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago meltdown this afternoon. He lied. He attacked the media. He made excuses for why he’s off the campaign trail,” a statement from the Harris campaign read.

  137. 137.

    Geminid

    Trump takes his act on the road tomorrow. He’ll appear with Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy at the Bozeman, Montana Whine Festival.

  138. 138.

    catclub

    @brendancalling: “We congratulate Trump for resisting the urge to mention Hannibal Lector or sharks in his recent press conference. It was still incoherent, but better than usual.”

  140. 140.

    catclub

    Another one: If Harris said “When you ask about gun control and I tell you about a nation that has reduced crime by 29% after improving gun control, would you ask me what nation it was?”

  141. 141.

    strange visitor (from another planet)

    @Citizen Alan:  came to say the exact same thing. the eleventh was cool. bowties are cool. fezzes, i dunno

    @NotMax: heh. “carrion bag”. funny.  if you wanna expand the range of the nyc meetup, i know a bunch of nice places in brooklyn.

  145. 145.

    Subsole

    @Leto:

    Yeah. You’d think the tech publications and medical journals would be more interested in all that cartilage spontaneously regenerating.

  147. 147.

    Geminid

    @Baud: The Sheehy campaign might be picking up the tab for this one. Sheehy likely has more money to spend than Trump has at this point.

    I’ve been seeing Sheehy ads showing a smiling Tim Sheehy standing next to a smiling Tulsi Gabbard. Weird.

  149. 149.

    White & Gold Purgatorian

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:  Well, no one else would get a pass for ignorance. Even if he doesn’t know what mifepristone is, someone seeking that job darned well ought to know. He bungled the answer, just about any way it could be read, and he needs to own that. The media won’t make that happen, but social media has to try.

  153. 153.

    SatanicPanic

    Whenever Trump says something like “they’re coming from countries no one ever heard of” I really want to ask -where? What countries? Can you name a few?

  156. 156.

    different-church-lady

    This is the kind of performance from Trump that, if the Republican party press was still a functioning institution, would have a lot of people panicked…

  157. 157.

    Kelly

    @eclare: I have a cousin that’s a retired police detective. Always wore clip on neckties. Didn’t want to have a handle around his neck if things got sporty.

  158. 158.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @SatanicPanic: Whenever Trump says something like “they’re coming from countries no one ever heard of”

    Countries YOU never heard of, Mr. Trump. Your ignorance is exceptional.

  164. 164.

    LesGS

    @eclare: My dad was an FSO, and as a junior officer in Adana, Türkiye, one of his tasks at the end of the day was destroying sensitive, but unnecessary documents by feeding into a shredder which fed into a furnace. One evening, his tie got into shredder. He managed to stop the machine before he got hurt, and he pulled the tie, now severely mangled, out of the shredder. His secretary, seeing the results, said, “Just be happy your fly wasn’t open.”

  165. 165.

    Raven

    @Trivia Man: So, you hate it but you were watching it?? Classic. Aren’t you the one bitching about Steph stealing the ball and shooting at the buzzer because, it too, was bad sportsmanship?

  166. 166.

    BR

    I love that “we’re not going back” has caught on so well. At the UAW event it started spontaneously.

  168. 168.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @SatanicPanic: Countries no one ever heard of like ::checks sloppily scribbled notes:: Boliv-ee-a, Equator, Hawn-dur-ass, and Ni…the liberal media will attack me for saying this last country but I’m saying it anyway…NI(clang).

  170. 170.

    Comrade Bukharin

    @Geminid: I believe Sheehy is from Minnesota and was a Navy Seal. Expect them to take the swiftboating of Walz to the next level.

  173. 173.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @H.E.Wolf: I’ve been talking about trying for a landslide in earlier threads.  Confidence is contagious.  So is joy.  Let’s use it.*

    *This apparently makes me an unusual Democrat.  But winning is fun.  Let’s try to enjoy the ride.

  174. 174.

    cmorenc

    @Matt McIrvin: …and should you happen to stop off 1-70 through Kansas at the town of Russell eg for the mcdonald’s or gas station off the exit, it is impossible to get out of there without being reminded Bigly that Russell is Bob Dole’s hometown, just as Bob Dole would tell you if Bob Dole was still alive to tell you.

  177. 177.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Citizen Alan: Literally the most obvious cultural touch point to understand Trump and the courtier press. No one said you have to imagine in any particular detail.

  180. 180.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’ve been predicting a landslide all year through all the ups and downs. This feels like the year we can make some real progress.

  181. 181.

    strange visitor (from another planet)

    @NotMax: i mean, i was thinking about places off of the (extraordinarily accessible and usually reliable) Q line, either in my neighborhood or 7th ave in the slope, near the park. there are a ton of very interesting places there, and it’s not too far off the beaten path.

    BUT i can understand wanting to do midtown, so i’m flexible in that regard.

    the only thing i would insist on is that we don’t do it on a sunday. sunday, the MTA is the ABSOLUTE worst.

  182. 182.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @NotMax: Not to be confused with Jay Salvador who gets me the mushrooms they don’t sell at the market.

  183. 183.

    Steve LaBonne

    @LesGS: I was the safety officer for years in the crime lab I worked in. Nobody should be wearing a tie in any laboratory environment or near any machinery in which it could possibly get caught. The whole idea gives me the heebie jeebies.

  184. 184.

    realbtl

    I’m wondering why Bozeman one of the 2 major college towns in the state. Billings would seem a better match but I guess Bozeman is closer to Sheehy’s ranch.

  186. 186.

    Hungry Joe

    One demographic we shouldn’t waste time going after is the Horseshoe Left. My H.L. in-laws announced yesterday that they would never vote for Harris because “The Biden-Harris administration has been colluding with Nazis to start WWIII.” Furthermore, Biden has been “hands-down worse than Trump” when it come to the environment and austerity. So they’re ridin’ all the way with Jill Stein, a la Major Kong in “Dr. Strangelove.”

    In short: hopeless.

  187. 187.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @cmorenc:

    I seem to have spent much of the last 50 years driving by, thru and staying overnight in Russell KS.

    In more recent times, they’ve put up signs that state it’s both BobDole and Arlen Specter’s home town.

    https://www.csmonitor.com/1995/0516/16101.html

    I didn’t realize that another scumbag billionaire, Phillip Anschutz (who’s big here because of the monies he’s dumped into CU’s medical campus among other things), is from Russell.

    There is absolutely no reason to go out of one’s way to go there or stay there.  OTOH, Wilson Lake State Park isn’t too far away and it’s nice.

  188. 188.

    Quinerly

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I’m with you.

    I actually think we have a shot at a landslide. This short campaign period will work to Harris/Walz advantage. I was saying that when I reached the conclusion 10 days after the debate that Biden had to step aside for Harris to step in.

  189. 189.

    cmorenc

    @TBone: Among the shameful decisions Bush Jr inflicted upon the country is that Alito and Luttig were the two finalists he was considering for replacing retiring justice Sandra O’Connor, and he chose Alito.  Luttig would of course been far more conservative than we would have liked, but he has honest integrity, unlike the arrogant hard-core partisan shitweasel Alito.

  191. 191.

    Baud

    @Hungry Joe:

    Biden has been “hands-down worse than Trump” when it come to the environment and austerity

     

    I don’t get why they have to make stuff up like MAGA. There’s plenty of real reasons you can cite to justify throwing the country under the bus.

  194. 194.

    strange visitor (from another planet)

    @Hungry Joe: i mean, WWIII started quite some time ago and there were a fuckton of hot wars (including ukraine) under fibberache’s reign…

    but austerity? WTF are they even TALKING about?!?

  195. 195.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @Hungry Joe:

    One demographic we shouldn’t waste time going after is the Horseshoe Left.

    I’m still amazed at the Horseshoe Left circles I know on twitter actually have people who are claiming that they’ll vote for Harris.  That being said, most are reacting as you’ve described.

    Just today, one indicated that Stein should have not run for the Green Party nomination, instead letting West have it.  They’re all koookoooforcocoapuffs.

    Any vote we get from that quarter is nice but yeah, shouldn’t be courted.  As we were taught at the USMC Command & Staff College “Never Reinforce Failure”.

  196. 196.

    Yutsano

    @sdhays: “You don’t know anybody as stupid as Donald Trump*. You just don’t.”

    *I now need to take a shower after typing that name.

  197. 197.

    MomSense

    @Quinerly:

    I do have to say that I find it delicious to think about all the time, mone, favors,  and blackmail (1st impeachment) that trump and his henchmen invested in smearing Biden and his family only to have it worth nothing for the election.  No wonder he is fantasizing about Biden reclaiming the nomination at the convention.

  199. 199.

    Ishiyama

    @Kelly: @eclare: I have a cousin that’s a retired police detective. Always wore clip on neckties. Didn’t want to have a handle around his neck if things got sporty.

    Episode 1 of Noir: Yumira Kirika breaks a goon’s neck after grabbing his necktie (Mireille’s comment: what an ungraceful way to kill).

  200. 200.

    HeleninEire

    @KatKapCC: This. I (remarkably) got through 20 minutes.

    Also…I was watching the PBS live blog and we could not hear the questions.  So it was difficult to determine if he was actually answering the questions or just riffing.

    Dumb question…of course he was just riffing.

  201. 201.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Hungry Joe: We had a baby Chomsky to give us a talk at our DTC. And he was practically salivating at the thought of Trump second term. Even quoted from that awful American Carnage speech the Orange One gave at his first swearing in, approvingly.

  202. 202.

    strange visitor (from another planet)

    @MomSense:  “holy captain ahab, batman! they chased the wrong whale!”

    comer (r-ky) and empty gee (r-oids) must be soooo pissed.

    though i imagine marge kept some of her favorite hunter images as a consolation prize.

  204. 204.

    KatKapCC

    @SiubhanDuinne: Yes! That was it. See? Like…if you didn’t hate him, it’s almost funny, because it’s so accurate. And he never ever makes self-deprecating comments.

  213. 213.

    Citizen Alan

    @SatanicPanic: Of course, he can’t! He just said no one’s ever heard of them! Probably third world shitholes like Latveria, Freedonia, and the Land of Honalee.

  214. 214.

    Bill Arnold

    @Capri:

    Laura Ingraham asked what his pronouns were. He answered that he didn’t have any

    Well, that’s interesting. (video, tiktok, 0:22) In the context of that video the elderly Trump Thing’s neutral pronouns would be Ze/hir/hirs , or similar.

  215. 215.

    MomSense

    @strange visitor (from another planet):

    Laughing about Marge and her careful study of the dick pics.  It reminded me of one time when my youngest was about six.  He came home from school so excited to tell me that his friend Isak got in trouble for saying shit.  Mom, Isak said shit at school and got in trouble.  I didn’t want to say shit but Isak said shit.  I can’t believe Isak said shit.  I would never say shit at school and so on.  He probably said it a dozen times telling me the story. It was so funny.
    I do hope that Hunter gets a pardon out of this.  The way the GOP treated him is terrible.

  217. 217.

    MisterForkbeard

    Apparently Kamala took some press questions today (FOR THE FIRST TIME, the chyron says). Did anyone get a chance to watch it?

    All I saw was a clip where she says “I’m glad Donald Trump finally agreed to debate. I’m looking forward to it. I hope he shows up.” Which – yeah, good on her. That was excellent.

  218. 218.

    Captain C

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation:

    Not to be confused with Jay Salvador who gets me the mushrooms they don’t sell at the market.

    @Hungry Joe:

    My H.L. in-laws announced yesterday that they would never vote for Harris because “The Biden-Harris administration has been colluding with Nazis to start WWIII.” Furthermore, Biden has been “hands-down worse than Trump” when it come to the environment and austerity. So they’re ridin’ all the way with Jill Stein, a la Major Kong in “Dr. Strangelove.”

    HungryJoe, it sounds like your HL relatives have been hitting up Kropenhagen’s friend Jay Salvador way too much.

  220. 220.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    Has anyone else experienced where when one backspaces into another line the cursor loses its position?

  221. 221.

    MisterForkbeard

    Whoah. As per Kyle Griffin:

    Marquette U. Law School national poll:
    TWO-WAY
    Kamala Harris 53%
    Donald Trump 47%

    MOE = 4.7, which is pretty damn high. But hot damn, a 6 point spread.

  224. 224.

    Trollhattan

    @Hungry Joe: Some parallel universe in which they find themselves dwelling.

    Evidently it’s International Cat Day and today’s Letters of Note is a trove of cat content. I share just one.

    The cats keep coming into the yard, six of them every day, and Quiz drives them out. If I should send Quiz to you to drive the cows away from your rhubarb he would not be here to drive the cats out of the yard. If six cats should keeping coming into the yard every day and not go out, in a week there would be 42 of them and in a month 180 and before you came back next November 1260. Then if there should be 1260 cats in the yard before next November half of them at least would have kittens and if half of them should have 6 kittens apiece, there would be more than 5000 cats and kittens in the yard. There would not be any place for Rosanna to spread the clothes unless she drove them all off the grass plot, and if she did they would have to crowd at the end of the yard nearest the house, and if they did that they would make a great pile as high as the top of my windows. A pile of 5000 cats and kittens, some of them black ones, in front of my window would make my office so dark I should not be able to write in it. Besides that those underneath, particularly the kittens, would be hurt by those standing on top of them and I expect they would make such a great squalling all the time that I should not be able to sleep, and if I was not able to sleep, I should not be able to work, and if I did not work I should not have any money, and if I had not any money, I could not send any to Plymouth to pay your fare back on the Fall River boat, and I could not pay my fare to go to Plymouth and so you and I would not ever see each other any more.

    Frederick Law Olmsted
    Letter to this son
    13th May 1875

  226. 226.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Hungry Joe: I have a working theory where some people hear “horseshoe left” adjacent commentary and feel compelled to assert they prefer the Republican, regardless of still fully intending to support.Democrats.

    I don’t suppose you’ll need to ask how I first conceived this theory?

  228. 228.

    trnc

    @Baud: ​
     

    Kobach, a Republican who built a political career concentrated on legal issues tied to undocumented migrants, was joined in the federal lawsuit by attorneys general in Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Virginia.

    Regardless of how much your politics align, I don’t think I’d be driving over a legal cliff with this guy in the lead.

  230. 230.

    HeleninEire

    Has anyone posted the Harris rapid response? She wrote about how Donald finally “put on his pants” cuz he had to go before the press.

    My first thought…wait is she speaking about Baud?

    It’s a great response. Sorry,  I’m in the subway with not great internet connection so I can’t find it.

  232. 232.

    Captain C

    @Another Scott:

    “Independent Journalism, with Judgment!!”

    In the case of the FTFNYT it’s really, really poor judgment, and it goes back a long time (like at least a century), and getting worse on an unbroken line pretty much since, oh, the early ’90s.

    Kind of like the “I’m better because I stick by my principles!” argument when those principles suck ass.

  234. 234.

    MomSense

    Since all threads are open, I ordered and assembled some rocking chairs for the front porch.  Tonight I’m sitting out here watching the world go by.
    Happy to report that kids ride bikes in this town.  A bunch of kids just rode past with fishing rods over their shoulders.  Probably coming back from the river.
    In more happy news, I missed Tickles the Clown’s appearance at the library today. My mom said it was well attended.
    The librarians provide free breakfast and lunch to children and teens Mon- Sat and open reading Mon- Fri 8-5.  I see their cars parked at the library at 6 every morning.  Librarians are the best of us.

    Next Wednesday night the Elvis Impersonator will be the musical act at the river park.  That I have to see.

    Also, too people wave when they drive by.

  243. 243.

    Jeffro

    @MisterForkbeard:

    Whoah. As per Kyle Griffin:

    Marquette U. Law School national poll:
    TWO-WAY
    Kamala Harris 53%
    Donald Trump 47%

    MOE = 4.7, which is pretty damn high. But hot damn, a 6 point spread.

    amazing, right??!?

    And it’s becoming clearer and clearer that even in a 3-candidate race, RFK Jr is hurting DJT

    TOO BAD, SO SAD!

    Today, Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t just risen in the polls; she has shifted that third-party dynamic. She now does better when you include other candidates.

    And there’s increasing evidence that independent candidate Kennedy, in particular — a candidate once elevated by Donald Trump’s allies when he was challenging President Biden in the Democratic primaries — is pulling significantly more votes from Trump than Harris.

    Since the Democratic ticket turned over from Biden to Harris last month, a half-dozen quality polls have tested both a Trump-Harris matchup and a crowded race that included independent and third-party candidates. In all of them, Harris performed better in the crowded race.

  244. 244.

    JoyceH

    Have I mentioned lately how much I love Coach Walz? At the UAW event: “I know I’m preaching to the choir, but the choir’s gotta sing!” He gave the example that of course the UAW knows that the unions built the middle class, but they need to make sure the rest of the country knows it.

  245. 245.

    The Golux

    @Citizen Alan:

    Matt Smith’s Doctor rescued the bow tie for me. Before him, I thought anyone who wore a bow tie was presumptively evil.

    My father wore bow ties, and when I had an office job in the early ’80s (shortly after he died), I screwed up my courage and started wearing them.  I discovered that I liked them, and found pleasure in tying them.  Now, on the (extremely) rare occasion that a tie is called for, I always wear a bow tie.  Plus, David Ortiz really rocks a bow tie, though I doubt he ever ties one.

  246. 246.

    Trivia Man

    @SatanicPanic: translation: anytime he says “no one ever…” it means he personally just learned about it.

    I still chuckle to remember the time he told a 2016 rally crowd, in Nevada, how to pronounce Nevada. He pronounced it wrong. “Not many people know the correct way to pronounce it”

  249. 249.

    BR

    @JoyceH: ​

    Some actual coach skills coming through — giving the team a pep talk to keep their energy up for the rest of the game, leave it all on the field.

  250. 250.

    Trivia Man

    @Raven: yes, that was me. You also had an unhelpful one word response to my comment then. I watched  hoping to see them lose. I was disappointed today but there is always the next game. Im an eternal optimist in some things.

  252. 252.

    Central Planning

    From The Tick vs Chairface Chippendale:

    (A giant alligator lunges up at Arthur. It bites his tie off)
    Arthur: Didn’t expect a clip-on did ya?

    If you haven’t seen the animated Tick series, you’re missing out.

  254. 254.

    Quinerly

    @Jeffro:

    I am predicting we take NC (my home state! Go Pirates! East Carolina University, class of 1982!!) I may have spent 40 years in St. Louis. And, I may now live in New Mexico, but I was “born and breaded” in Pitt County, NC deep in tobacco, hog, and sweet potato country. My roots.)

    Obama carried NC in 2008. We can do it again with Harris.

    Let’s be happy and optimistic.

  255. 255.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @RandomMonster:

    Christ, and there’s anybody who’s surprised that a worm invaded his brain? Guessing he’s a total ambulatory meat sack of parasites. Ugh ugh ugh.

  256. 256.

    NutmegAgain

    @Hungry Joe: I used to live right near Jill Stein. A few neighborhood observations:

    She had an intact (not neutered) big dog–a Dane maybe (sorry to TaMara). It was aggressive, and got into tangles with other dogs being walked in the public land. It was always the other people’s (dog’s) fault.

    She first ran for Governor of MA, with zero prior governance or electoral experience. Zero. After she lost that bid, she managed to get herself elected as one of 9 Selectpersons from that precinct.

    And, the very worst in my eyes: she really hassled the adolescent daughter of a friend. Nasty.Kid had a small local business of dog walking. Stein was an unmitigated bitch to her. (see first item.) My friend got in touch with Stein, and you can probably predict the usefulness of that. “That didn’t happen. And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. And if it was, that’s not a big deal. And if it is, that’s not my fault.”

    Stein is truly a narcissistic monster, and an asshole to boot.

  259. 259.

    Trivia Man

    @MomSense: somebody should leak teasers, public or simply private assurances to the campaign, that joe is totally considering it but just needs encouragement

  262. 262.

    Doc Sardonic

    @Citizen Alan: The Land of Honalee was nice, until Puff the Magic Dragon got old and failed to take in to consideration the fine print in the agreement with little Jackie Paper. That allowed Jack Paper the adult to ruin the place with tacky condominiums, low overhead outlet malls a couple crappy casinos with Jack in garish gold letters on the facade

  263. 263.

    Lyrebird

    @H.E.Wolf: Let’s work as if he’s functional, and give the Democrats a blowout landslide victory, up and down the ballot, in November.

    YES YES YES!  Ever since I heard* @Omnes Omnibus: say “let’s run up the score” iirc, I have had that pop into my mind now and again.  If you have  heard the cadence for a marching band supporting a home b-ball team, (“warm up the bus!”) you know what my positive ear worm sounds like.  Run up the score!  Run up the score!

    *”heard” = read really, ok, whatever

    The message is a good one!  And I got caught up enough on another writing project (for having a jerb) so I can request more postcard addressess tomorrow.

  264. 264.

    NutmegAgain

    (comment #259 !!)

    The Independent news outlet (in the UK) has a piece about the Dumpapalooza, the headline reads:  “Trump holds seemingly pointless press conference filled with false claims.”

    Would love to see US press do similar.

  265. 265.

    Kay

    I’m listening to Pelosi interviewed in The New Yorker and it’s marvelous.

    ”You make a DECISION to win an election”

    lol. She’s terrific

  267. 267.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Baud: We had a meeting over a dinner to discuss the fallout.

    The chair conceded that speaker was the wrong choice for our DTC. And there were other members who agreed with me

    FWIW I was not even the biggest critic. Another member, called him a pompous ass.

  271. 271.

    Citizen Alan

    @The Golux: My problem with the bow tie is that I just can’t tie them. I’m pretty sure it requires 11 fingers and I only have 10.

  273. 273.

    Harrison Wesley

    @TBone: I apologize – I watched too many British comedies while I was under the influence. Somehow got shades of Mrs Slocombe in my head.

  278. 278.

    Lyrebird

    @rikyrah: As I’ve said, the double standard the press has been using even between the two older white men is at a level you could see from space.  ETA: even the Chris Hayes bit seems so carefullllly measured, it galls me that he even suggested this is similar to the choices around Biden’s candidacy – not same ballpark.

    My head is breaking trying to think of the scale that would be big enough to show the difference between the treatment of Mr. Convicted of 34 Felonies that Harmed Others and any candidate of color.  Maybe one of our resident physicists has a handy notion.

    Here’s hoping the media keep clowning themselves into more of a landslide of REASONABLE ADULTS voting for other reasonable adults great gad a mighty.

  280. 280.

    Kay

    @MomSense:

    She said “I’m a San Francisco liberal so I’m allowed to criticize the family” (meaning Democrats)

    David Remnick is such a good interviewer.

  281. 281.

    MisterForkbeard

    Ha, Rasmussen in with a poll that says Trump is actually 5 points ahead, so there!

  283. 283.

    FelonyGovt

    @Jackie: Don’t know, but I saw a WSJ (of course) write up that made it sound completely normal. He called for 3 debates, wants more influence over the Fed, complained that Harris “hasn’t done an interview”, and although he may not be doing as well with Black women voters, he IS doing well with Black men, Hispanics and Jews…

  284. 284.

    Ishiyama

    @Omnes Omnibus: ​  Sorry. Bad manners. I will watch it.​
     
    But Noir is underappreciated for sheer elegance of plot and characterization. In 26 epic episodes.

  287. 287.

    BretH

    FTFNBC Nightly News tonight – pulled only the coherent parts of the press conference. No viewer would ever get the idea it was anything but normal.

  288. 288.

    MisterForkbeard

    @FelonyGovt: The media in general is doing a LOT of interpretation and selective editing to try and make him sound sane.

    Some other outlets (Rolling Stone) are calling a spade a spade and noting that it was batshit crazy, full of lies, and that he didn’t really answer any questions.

  290. 290.

    MomSense

    Secretary Pete was in Maine today to tour construction of two new bridges.  He received a warm welcome.  Lots of great photos of his visit.

  292. 292.

    japa21

    @Omnes Omnibus: Which is why I am expecting a gain of 2-3 Senate seats, up to 30 seat gain in the House, several Republican super-majority states to still maybe have a GOP majority but not as large, and maybe a couple will actually switch.

    And a reminder that confidence does not equal complacency.

  297. 297.

    KatKapCC

    @Baud:

    Our best states would be Florida and Texas.

    A sentence that has never been uttered before in liberal circles.

  298. 298.

    MomSense

    In fiber/campaign news.  A knitter frogged a Bills and a Chiefs hat to make a Kamala beanie which she presented to Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff.  He posted the video and it has caused a lot of excitement.  If there is one group you need to keep on your team, it’s the knitters.  I saw the video on Instagram.  Not sure if it is posted anywhere else.

  299. 299.

    BR

    I requested 1000 postcards to send to Arizona today. I think if me and my wife do a dozen a day, we should be set.

  301. 301.

    Jeffro

    @Omnes Omnibus:I want down ticket wins as well.

    and you’ll we’ll get ’em!

    YOU get a down-ticket win!

    and YOU over there get a down-ticket win!!

    EVERYBODY (blue) gets a down. ticket. WINNNNNNN!!!

  303. 303.

    NotMax

    Charter member of Hatred R Us.

    A Nevada man awaiting trial on charges that he stormed the U.S. Capitol has been jailed after he allegedly made threats directed at Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and other public officials.

    Bradley Scott Nelson’s “escalating rhetoric” is grounds for keeping him detained until a hearing next week, a federal magistrate judge in Maryland ruled Tuesday.
    [snip]
    Magistrate Judge Charles Austin’s order outlines the threats that Nelson is accused of making this year, in social media posts and other statements.
    [snip]
    An attorney who represents Nelson in his Capitol riot case declined to comment. Source

  304. 304.

    japa21

    @Baud: Just hunch.  Yes the map is against us, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there are a couple special treats out there.  Missouri is not outside the realm of possibility.  At present, probably a 40-45% chance.

  306. 306.

    Jeffro

    @Quinerly: if we flip Florida…hoo boy…the RWNJs will absolutely lose their shit.

    Would be a true “scales falling from their eyes” moment for millions of them

  310. 310.

    BR

    @Jeffro:

    Florida is expensive to run ads in, but I bet the campaign could get a lot of mileage from free media using Walz in the panhandle talking cannabis and abortion and other surrogates elsewhere. Add in that Trump has been praising Venezuelan dictators in the Orlando events, and Harris’s recent polling numbers in Miami-Dade, and there’s a chance.

  315. 315.

    Soprano2

    @Baud: How did I know our worthless AG Bailey was involved in this? I’m sure he’ll run on it, hating on immigrants if an issue they think is a winner for them.

  325. 325.

    Kay

    Nancy Pelosi would tell young women going into politics “you need to take a punch and throw a punch, for the children”

  326. 326.

    japa21

    @Baud: There have so many absolutely amazing events this year.  Hell, I expect the marathon to be decided by .1 second.

    Mrs Japa and I were talking about the 21 games in Tokyo and how the absence of a crowd not only hurt the athletes but also watching it from afar.

  327. 327.

    japa21

    @Baud: Definitely.  But lots of advantages, special amendments, not only abortion rights, are up for voting, and they are almost all things that would drive up liberal voting.

  328. 328.

    BR

    @Kay:

    Awesome. And John Oliver’s piece on RFK Jr will probably keep some young voters from throwing a protest vote in his direction, especially since Oliver covered RFK Jr’s stance on Gaza (which is as bad as Trump).

  331. 331.

    BR

    @japa21:

    With Plouffe on the campaign now, I have confidence that if the numbers in Florida show that they have a chance, he will have a game plan for exactly where they’d need to campaign to maximize the chances there.

    Like I’ve said elsewhere, after the DNC, the campaign really has to use Walz to campaign to young men about cannabis — he’s the most credible messenger, and it’s a big winner of an issue.

  333. 333.

    Kay

    @BR:

    He’s so gross. All I heard when I listened to his recitation of his (lying) bear cub story is “spoiled, coddled rich boy”.

    He was 60 years old when he hit the bear. These people just never grow up.

  335. 335.

    MomSense

    @Baud:

    Oh god I tried to watch Rogan’s stand up special on Netflix out of curiousity.  WTAF  He isn’t funny because he isn’t smart.  Good comics are intelligent and keen observers.  He is just below average in every way.

  336. 336.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Steve LaBonne: Nobody should be wearing a tie in any laboratory environment or near any machinery in which it could possibly get caught. The whole idea gives me the heebie jeebies.

    Just FTR, during the year I spent as a grad student in astrophysics, there was a research associate in the department who was known regularly to use a metal lathe in the machine shop wearing a shirt and a tie that dangled unrestrained. He stood about 6’6″ and as he carved the metal blank would bend over the spinning lathe – without ever suffering so much as a hangnail.

  337. 337.

    Johnnybuck

    @Baud: We had 6 toss ups in ’22 and won 5. The math seems the same again. Obviously, Montana and Ohio seem more challenging, but I feel good about NV, AZ, MD, and MI and PA. WV is gone forever.

  338. 338.

    The Lodger

    @RandomMonster: Makes me wonder if Trump’s frequent Hannibal Lecter references aren’t an attempt to normalize cannibalism? Somehow it’s less -unthinkable – than it used to be.

  340. 340.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @MisterForkbeard: ​Ha, Rasmussen in with a poll that says Trump is actually 5 points ahead, so there!

    Classic Rasmussen – definitely unethical, borderline criminal. Fucks around with sample selection, question phrasing and order, turnout model and anything else he can diddle to get a result his customers want. His results get closer to realism the closer the election gets, only because he needs to look like he knows what he’s doing to ensure those same customers will hire him in off years for market research.

  343. 343.

    jonas

    @Kay: We need the kind of leadership that places dead bear cubs in public parks. And has brain worms.

    Unfortunately, this is not a Futurama episode.

  347. 347.

    CaseyL

    I don’t trust any individual poll, and national polls are useless. Worse than useless, since we don’t elect Presidents by popular vote and running up the score in, say, California, doesn’t count for anything elsewhere.

    An Ipsos poll has gotten some attention, showing Harris taking more of a lead over Trump – again, though, just nationally.

    I did find an article on the Ipsos poll on the Ipsos site, which goes into detail as to methodology. It’s a useful article to read, and you can find it here.

    Their samples are all registered voters, no breakdown by likely voters. Also, Ipsos says that when uncommitteds are pressed to chose, the race ties up again – meaning, more people who are uncommitted go with Trump.

    None of this makes me less nervous. In fact, it makes me more nervous. What we see is not what most Americans see, and we need to remember that.

  349. 349.

    wjca

    @Baud: Kobach, a Republican who built a political career concentrated on legal issues tied to undocumented migrants, was joined in the federal lawsuit by attorneys general in Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Virginia.

    Well, Alabama, do you think you can still boast “At least we’re not Mississippi “?  Because Mississippi at least had the wit (so far) not to embrace this piece of stupidity.

  350. 350.

    Dan B

    @Steve LaBonne: A young guy got his unbuttoned sleeve caught in a Banbury Mill in my father’s lab.  Anything loose in a lab is extremely risky.  My father was completely shaken.

     

    A Banbury Mill is two steam heated rollers you feed heavy rubber slabs into.

  351. 351.

    Ken

    @Mr. Bemused Senior: I just re-read the novel recently, and thought it didn’t hold up well. Too much plot-convenient “a new witch power perfect for this situation”, coupled with “and then the semi-omnipotent supernatural creature decides to rearrange everything”.

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