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JD Can't Serve

This is from drag queen Pattiegonia’s Instagram.  And, yes, bottom left, JD Vance in drag at Yale Law.  That’s the same JD who said yesterday that Tim Walz supports kidnapping kids who want to transition if their parents don’t agree.  Here’s the truth on that:

Walz has never signed any legislation, nor expressed support for legislation, that would allow the state to remove children from their parent’s custody if they didn’t consent to gender transition treatment. Walz has come under attack from Republicans for an April 2023 law he signed that protects transgender patients, parents and healthcare providers from out-of-state laws that would punish them for receiving care. Among other provisions, the law gives “temporary emergency jurisdiction” to state courts to arbitrate custody disputes that cross state lines and involve a debate between parents over the care in question. It does not give the state the authority to remove children from their parents’ custody for declining to pursue gender transition care, a Minnesota LGBTQ advocacy organization director told the Washington Post.

So, as Pattie asks, is JD a bitter homophobe because he couldn’t serve?  Your guess is as good as mine, but I’m not ruling it out.

(BTW here’s what serve means in this context.  It’s short for a something that many might find offensive so don’t click this link if you don’t want to be offended.)

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  3. 3.

    cain

    They are going to lean into every lie and every conspiracy theory. It’s only going to further make their base crazy. There won’t be any rational GOP politician in the next few cycles.

    I’m happy about this because these rich donors and billionaires are going to have a hard time of it. They’ll have to go back to the Dem party and find some centrist to spend their money on. But we’re moving left, baby! Go fuck yourself!

  6. 6.

    bjacques

    I learn something new every day here. This really is a full service blog! (See what I did there?)

  7. 7.

    Scout211

    Glenn Close, who played Vance’s Mamaw in the movie, has shaded the GOP VP nominee on her Insta:

    Vanity Fair   On Sunday, Close shared a smiling selfie featuring her cat, Eve, and wrote that the feline “would have left a bleeding mouse head in the bed of anyone who criticized any kind of lady with a CAT!” Her words appear to reference Vance’s recently resurfaced “childless cat ladies” remark, which he used to denigrate people who choose not to procreate.

    Ouch!  That’s gotta hurt, JD.  Poor guy, he can’t win for losing.

  8. 8.

    JaneE

    Where was it that wanted a law that would remove children from the custody of their parents if they tried to get them gender-affirming care?  Not Minnesota.

  10. 10.

    trollhattan

    @Scout211:

    We go from
    Poor guy to guy[?] just like that. Such a shame for “JD” or whatever his name actually is.

    Actually astonished we have not one but two completely fabricated characters on the Republican ticket. At least sad Mike Pence was still Mike Pence.

  12. 12.

    RaflW

    Not a campaign strategist, but I’d probably reply to the attack: J”D Vance is closely allied with the very weird online people who bizarrely fabricated a basement under a pizzeria so that they could make up ugly, stupid lies about Hillary Clinton. Why would any comment about Walz’s public record of supporting families and their private decisions around healthcare seem like a ‘scandal’? He’s proud to stand with the LGBTQ community and the families who love their gay & trans kids.”

  13. 13.

    OId Man Shadow

    Statistically speaking, I remain much more concerned about kids hanging out with priests, pastors, and youth pastors than going to family friendly drag shows.

  29. 29.

    Kay

    JD is a liar. It’s one of the reasons he underperformed in Ohio, Ryan kept catching him in lies. I know Ryan lost but he was actually good at attacking JD and it worked, to an extent.

    He knew he was lying about Walz on the trans kids and he knew he was lying about the National Guard. He’s a liar. Like his role model.

  32. 32.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    Trump is going to melt into a puddle of rage. Wait until the older polls start to drop off in averages. The NYTimes reporters may have to canvass for him.

  34. 34.

    NotMax

    Not to keep harping on it too much, one more time (trying to vary times of day for this).

    Putting out feelers about a NYC meet-up.

    Will be visiting the area 8/22 – 9/8. Past experience is that people prefer the weekends. Looking at the calendar, Labor Day weekend seems a good choice.

    Friday (evening) 8/30 or any time Saturday 8/31 or Sunday 9/1 or Monday 9/2. Please do chime in with preferences.

    So far as venue, open to any and all suggestions. Initially thinking of either Pershing Square cafe (steps away from Grand Central Terminal at Park and 42nd) or a more funky spot, Washington Square Diner (easy access by subway, massive menu but no cocktails, beer or wine only).

  37. 37.

    Kay

    @HumboldtBlue:

    I don’t know what to think about “favorablity”. I know pundits love it! :)

    There’s a clip of Harris that I just love. She was asked what her favorite swear word is. Just really a charming little back and forth. She was having a good time with that.

  38. 38.

    BR

    @Kay:

    Almost for sure the NYT has some “emails” type story in the can for after the convention, and I’m sure we’ll hear about how Harris was “scolding” in the debate in a month. But the way they made the entire paper about Biden for a month inoculated our side (to an extent) against their crusades. Let’s see.

  44. 44.

    Baud

    @BR:

    I think the month long fight did help as compared to where we’d be if Biden had just given up after the debate.  Hindsight, of course, and still speculative, but that’s what I think.

  45. 45.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Baud: It’s twofold, really:

    1. If a rightwing parent kidnaps their kid, it gets immediate court attention

    2. If a leftwing parent tries to get their kid healthcare that the other parent agrees with, it gets immediate court attention

    So basically: Courts step in earlier to stop crazy parenting disputes. That’s great! Get it resolved ASAP.

  47. 47.

    Kay

    @BR:

    IMO (and this is controversial!) Democrats don’t respond to fear based appeals as much as Republicans do. Negative partisonship doesn’t work as well on our side. They’re better when they’re happy and they think they’re winning. I wish we could scare them with SCOTUS or Project 25 or whatever but I’ve never seen it work real well. Republicans are miserable and mean whether they’re winning or losing.

  48. 48.

    BR

    @Kay: ​

    I think it’s true about Americans in general. I remember the hilarious phenomenon that pollsters always find — a significantly higher percentage of people say they voted for the winner in a presidential election than actually did. People want to be winning. Especially for an authoritarian movement, they need to feel like they’re winning, because strength begets strength, which I think is part of why Trump (both for his ego and his followers) denies reality.

  50. 50.

    Kay

    @BR:

    Republicans weren’t any happier when Trump was winning though and they were miserable thru his whole term. They never toned it down at all. It was all high fiving and owning the libs – that nasty, fake jubilation thing. Remember “liberal tears”? Thats how they were when he WON.

  51. 51.

    trollhattan

    @NotMax: Sounds fun.

    Kid visiting a friend there ATM, her first time in NYC, and the friend lives in a sweet part of town such that the kid took her 10 mi Sunday training run around Central Park yesterday. Living the life.

  52. 52.

    BR

    @Kay:

    Oh, I agree that they are angry when winning or losing. But “strength” has to always be part of their equation — and I think the internecine fights they’re having now is because his support is a house of cards built on the image of strength.

  53. 53.

    trollhattan

    @Kay: They got their fucking tax bill and their fascist judiciary and yeah, those wasn’t enough but sweet door prizes.

    IIRC the tax bill sunsets in one or two years; one more thing to fight for. Plus, Clarence is looking olllld.

  54. 54.

    Kay

    @HumboldtBlue:

    I love to swear. I’ve gotten so bad since I don’t have kids in the house. I’m a grandma now – I have to be more proper. I will go back to “shoot” and “dang” (dang is so they’ll make fun of me).

  57. 57.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @MisterForkbeard:

    If a rightwing parent kidnaps their kid

    Which happens a lot.  One parent kidnapping the child in a custody dispute is the biggest source of missing children.  The second biggest is runaways from abusive parents who do not want to be found.  Kidnappings by strangers and other actual disappearances is a tiny portion.

  58. 58.

    BR

    @Kay:

    This may be a random question to ask you, but how did you / do you teach kids to swear properly? Trying to navigate this now, because I’d like to rip off that bandaid and let my third grader read books that have such language, but also need to figure out how to not have him get in trouble in school or with the grandparents because he will almost certainly let words fly when he gets angry.

  62. 62.

    Urza

    @Maxim: I’m pretty sure that JD’s billionaire owner picks his minions for their ability to ‘serve’ and their inability to be open about it.

  65. 65.

    Kay

    @BR:

    I didn’t. I told them not to swear. I’m basically conventional, especially as to raising kids. I think they like adults to be adults and they need order and predictability. This is a small town and my oldest son’s bus driver called me once and told me my son was swearing on the bus and I did tell him privately (not in front of the youngers) that he has to be careful, because people get offended. He was probably 12. Other than that accomodation for him (he was really mature) I just banned it. My middle son works in construction and he will still apologize to me if he forgets and swears in front of me.

  70. 70.

    piratedan

    @Spanky: speaking to what I see over at BlueSky, the GOP is under the impression that the stolen-valor claim against Walz was a successful punch landed.  It’s causing a certain element to parse combat zone rules versus on duty norms or some such shit that for some reason outweighs a guy who did 24 years and went up to CMD Sgt is somehow less trustworthy than a guy who did a public affairs hitch and never made it past Cpl.  Has the same vibe as the gun nut arguments that you can’t complain about gun safety because you didn’t parse the jargon appropriately.

    Who’s to say really, my guess would be that it allows certain folks to hedge their bets or entertain doubts that were less than likely Dem votes anyway.

  71. 71.

    Another Scott

    Meanwhile, … (trying pasting into Visual editor…)

    Laffy

    Phang:

    Here’s the scathing 46-page sanctions order against #Trump & Alina Habba issued by federal judge, Donald Middlebrooks, ordering them to pay almost $1 million dollars for the “completely frivolous, both factually and legally” lawsuit “brought in bad faith for an improper purpose.”

    Judge Middlebrooks called Trump a “mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process.”

    storage.courtlistener.com/reca

    Aug 12, 2024, 02:32 PM··Mona for iPhone

    Good, good.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  74. 74.

    Old School

    In his 17-month stint as UF president, Ben Sasse more than tripled his office’s spending, directing millions in university funds into secretive consulting contracts and high-paying positions for his GOP allies.

    Sasse ballooned spending under the president’s office to $17.3 million in his first year in office — up from $5.6 million in former UF President Kent Fuchs’ last year, according to publicly available administrative budget data.

    A majority of the spending surge was driven by lucrative contracts with big-name consulting firms and high-salaried, remote positions for Sasse’s former U.S. Senate staff and Republican officials.

    Sasse’s consulting contracts have been kept largely under wraps, leaving the public in the dark about what the contracted firms did to earn their fees. The university also declined to clarify specific duties carried out by Sasse’s ex-Senate staff, several of whom were salaried as presidential advisers.

    The university said Sasse’s budget expansion went through the “appropriate approval process” but did not answer questions about how Sasse bankrolled his splurges, where the funds originated or who authorized the spending.

  79. 79.

    Kay

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    It is good. It’s fun because now they have to unskew the polls and they’re bad at it. They never really “got” the subgroup thing. They just scream “wrong!” over and over.
    @BullfinchGroup
    @Independent_Cen

    Swing States Poll: WISCONSIN Harris 51% (+9) Trump 42% . MICHIGAN Harris 48% (+5) Trump 43% . PENNSYLVANIA Harris 49% (+4) Trump 45% 1,500 RV, 8/8-11

  80. 80.

    VFX Lurker

    @Old School: 4.4 earthquake near Pasadena.  Hopefully all area jackals are safe.

    I live in Glendale. I went downstairs to make a cup of tea; left my phone in the next room; felt the quake; came back to see the ShakeAlert on my phone.

    My cats were not happy.

  82. 82.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @Kay:

    I will go back to “shoot” and “dang” (dang is so they’ll make fun of me).

    I’ve found that the kids make even more fun of me if I say “Rats!” Somehow it’s additionally cathartic.

  85. 85.

    dmsilev

    @Old School: It was pretty jarring. Walls shook briefly, but very very noticeably. Everyone poured out of their labs into the corridor to look at each other “was that an earthquake?”. No damage that I’m aware of.

  86. 86.

    Kay

    @Chief Oshkosh:

    I like “rats”. It makes me think of Peanuts. They don’t know what Peanuts is though.

    I told my four year old grandaughter about “copycat” and she took it RIGHT to preschool. Good girl. Keep that alive.

  89. 89.

    HumboldtBlue

    This subject has been talked about here before, and I am of a mind that the 100-day campaign, whether by design or by necessity, was a brilliant stroke for several reasons, including the fact the media and the GOP did not have years and years to build a smear campaign against Harris, and then she chose the nation’s favorite teacher and coach and BAM! Winning.

    Kamala Harris’ ambush of a presidential campaign has raised a question that American political types have long brushed off in conversations with puzzled foreigners:
    What if our campaigns were much, much shorter?

  90. 90.

    Bill Arnold

    @piratedan:

    somehow less trustworthy than a guy who did a public affairs hitch and never made it past Cpl.

    People should also not forget the Vietnam-era draft-avoiding by the elderly felonious narcissist at the top of the GOP ticket.
    Details: Donald Trump’s Draft Deferments – An overview of Donald Trump’s Selective Service records from 1964 through 1972, when he was classified 4-F (not qualified for military service). (Snopes, David Emery, Aug. 2, 2016)

  93. 93.

    Kay

    Harris 47% (+3) Trump 44% Kennedy 4% Oliver 1% Stein 0%

    Jill Stein is doing well. Running for President is her only job. One would think she could get 1%

  97. 97.

    divF

    @BR: Dad was someone who, in his work environment, swore like a muleskinner. He learned very quickly to strictly suppress it at home, when his 18-month-old son (me) started cheerfully repeating what he hear from Dad. I don’t remember growing hearing anything stronger from him that an occasional “damn” or “hell”.

    However, I later found out that he was capable of it. When he was a Battalion First Sergeant in Korea in 1971, he was once asked by his commanding officer, “Top, do you think you could tone down the language a little?” His answer was, “Sir, these are 18- and 19- year-old draftees. This is the only way I can get their attention.”

  98. 98.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    Yes. There’s a lot where Harris is up now. Most. I know they can only show Trump positive news so they must be relying solely on Rasmussen.

  101. 101.

    KatKapCC

    @HumboldtBlue: I can understand campaign season needing to be longer here because the country is so big. But I think a year, max. Never going to happen, though. Just like with the EC, for some reason this country loves clamping on to things that are demonstrably ill-advised, like barnacles on the Titanic.

  104. 104.

    Mousebumples

    @rikyrah: I saw a tweet/skeet/toot something the other day.

    When you hear from Jill Stein, it’s like Groundhog Day. Time for another 8 weeks of gifting.

  105. 105.

    hueyplong

    @rikyrah: Actually, grifting is her only job, and you could argue she does it well if she doesn’t even need 1% to keep it going.

  107. 107.

    rikyrah

    @HumboldtBlue:

    KJP: The President does want more border patrol agents. You know who is getting in the way? Republicans in Congress. You know who else is getting in the way? Trump.

    He walked into that one.

    They will never be able to walk away from the FACT that they let the Orange Menace talk them not into passing that border bill.

    It was the most right-wing thing they would ever get from a Democratic Administration, and they tanked it for him.

  111. 111.

    lowtechcyclist

    @rikyrah:

    Just read this past weekend that you he served in the military under his second name. Not, JD Vance.

    You may remember him as Audrey Farber.

  114. 114.

    HumboldtBlue

    Brian Beutler:

    But to me the most interesting thing isn’t her surge in head-to-head surveys, or even the dramatic spike in her approval polling. It’s that her candidacy, all on its own, has driven a large correction in economic sentiment.

    American confidence in the economy, which dipped after Biden’s fatally damaging debate performance, shot up at a record-breaking pace over the past two weeks. According to Financial Times survey data, switching Biden out for Harris was all it took to persuade voters that Democrats will be better stewards of the economy than Republicans. And she has room to grow: The entire effect was driven by so-called “double-haters”—voters who disliked both Trump and Biden—coming off the “neither” sidelines to say they trust Harris more than Trump. Trump’s flat numbers suggest basically nobody has given him a second look since Harris took over for Biden—she isn’t scaring anyone away, she’s drawing everyone in her direction.

  115. 115.

    Mousebumples

    @Chris: lol, same.

    With 2 littles, I’ve found if I use Good Place substitutes, it helps.

    Fork, shirt, bench, etc.

  116. 116.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Chris:

    I once tried to do forty days without swearing for Lent. Hardest Lent ever.

    Every year I think, “what can I give up this year?” And every year, I give up Lent.

    It’s a difficult sacrifice, I admit, but I endure.

  122. 122.

    Kay

    @Chris:

    That would be hard. I could do speaking but commenting and texting would be difficult. I only text people I know well though.

  126. 126.

    Dadadadadadada

    @BR: My parents never ever ever swore. The only swearing-related instruction they ever gave me was “Never.”

    My peers taught me all the necessary vocabulary and usage, as they always do. The kids will figure it out no matter what you teach them or don’t teach them.

  128. 128.

    BR

    @Dadadadadadada: ​

    There’s a reason I want to teach it rather than peers being the source — because half the kids out there learn from their parents that swearing is for punching down, and I don’t want that to be the lesson.

  129. 129.

    Shalimar

    @HumboldtBlue: It’s funny to me that the media’s smear campaign against VP Harris for years now has been “Biden doesn’t give her anything to do.”  It was never true, but it looks really stupid and ineffective now that she is on the daily campaign trail.

  131. 131.

    Geminid

    Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal, a couple days after the Republican convention:

       Mr. Vance is 39 years and about to ignite imaginations. Everything feels open.

    Weird.

  132. 132.

    Kelly

    OT: Oregon passed the record for annual wildfire acreage.  Now at 1.49 million acres. Previous record was 1.2 million acres in 2012. The 2020 fires we fled from totaled 1.1 million acres. This year and 2012 burned mostly in lightly populated eastern Oregon sagebrush and pine woodlands. The smoke has mostly stayed out of the Willamette Valley.

  133. 133.

    Kay

    @Fake Irishman:

    Maybe but I think some of the momentum on Dobbs is we did so well on referendums. They know they’re a majority. They’re winning on it. Roe is more popular than even I thought it was. Betty C said they’re above 60% polling on the FL referendum. That’s just extraordinary.

  134. 134.

    KatKapCC

    @Geminid: I mean, sure, if by “ignite imaginations” she means “make people try to imagine what the eff Trump was thinking when he picked Vance”, then yeah, spot on.

  135. 135.

    Baud

    @HumboldtBlue:

    The “bad economy” propaganda was always bullshit but apparently it was bullshit successfully tied to Biden in voters’ minds. Kamala will face her own bullshit propaganda, so hopefully we do a better job pushing back next time.

  149. 149.

    NutmegAgain

    @Dadadadadadada: My dad’s vocab included “gee whiskers!” and “gee willikers!” if something was really extra. On the other hand, near the end of his career somebody gave him a stamp that said, “Bullshit”, and he thought it was the funniest thing. He’d been in the army during WWII, so I’m sure he heard everything under the sun.

  150. 150.

    trollhattan

    @Kelly: That’s fucked up seven ways to Sunday. Sorry, I love the Cascades et al so very much.

    California has “only” 820k acres burned in ’24, 430k of which is the arson-triggered Park Fire. Lassen NP is closed, Lake Almanor evacuated and this one threatens to take out a lot of its remaining forest not already burned over the last half dozen years.  They cannot catch even a part of a break.

  156. 156.

    Mousebumples

    @KatKapCC: yes, I’m watching now. It does!

    I’m hoping labor can help swing this race into a Reagan/Mondale level blowout to break down what’s left of Reaganomics.

  157. 157.

    lowtechcyclist

    @HumboldtBlue: ​
     

    What if our campaigns were much, much shorter?

    The problem is, there’s no way to make that happen.

    The longest stretch of each Presidential campaign, lasting more than a year, is between when candidates for the nomination start campaigning, and the first primary.

    For example, the first primaries in the 2028 cycle will be in February 2028. Based on recent years, candidates will likely be campaigning starting in January 2027. Hell, they may start declaring in November 2026, right after the midterms are over. If there’s any real limiting factor on how early the Presidential campaigns can start, the midterms would be it.

  158. 158.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Mention the anti-Black undercurrents of the Free Palestine movement one time and the anti-Black supporters of the Free Palestine movement magically appear in the replies. Amazing. Even Beetlejuice has better discipline.

    Y’all will also never hustle the muscle memory or power of discernment out of Black people who were on the frontlines of social media identifying and neutralizing the foreign & domestic alt-left cyberattacks in 2016 and 2020. We haven’t forgiven or forgotten.

    If any of this looks familiar, it’s b/c we’ve already seen this movie & been to this rodeo before. Anti-democratic forces here and abroad are intentionally targeting Black voters (the most reliable Democratic voters) w/alt-left, anti-Democratic propaganda aimed at helping Trump.

    It may very well work on a certain segment of left-leaning voters (mostly White) who see the propaganda as affirmation that Black voters are “low info” & not fighting the “right” causes in the “right” order of priority but by large it doesn’t pass our smell test in the slightest.

    They do this shit every election now (even tho it’s a snowball’s chance in hell) b/c they know they’ve maxed out the GOP base/bigotry vote & are still alienating White swing voters, so they have to find a way to suppress/demobilize Democratic turnout, esp from young/Black voters.

    Ultimately what happens is the propaganda paradoxically ends up being *most effective* on White lefties with unexamined privilege who think they’re being righteous while shitting on Democrats and sitting out elections or voting 3rd party. Hence RFKJr/Jill’s continued charade.

  159. 159.

    KrackenJack

    @Kay: ​
      It was not uncommon for Japanese women who reached a certain age to take up drinking and smoking. I’m guessing unlady-like language entered into it as well.

  163. 163.

    tam1MI

    @Kay: Harris 47% (+3) Trump 44% Kennedy 4% Oliver 1% Stein 0%

    This is great but I won’t relax until she is over 50%.

  164. 164.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @raven:

    Pfftttt, profanity enriches language.

    Fucking profanity enriches the shit out of language…when done well.  We’re watching ‘Bodkin’ at the moment and there’s just something about the Irish lilt when using “fuck” that makes it sound just sooooo perfect.

    It’s a wonder they don’t use “fuck” like a comma there, no matter the place or situation.

  165. 165.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @Mousebumples:

    I’m hoping labor can help swing this race into a Reagan/Mondale level blowout to break down what’s left of Reaganomics.

    Same here but a big problem is how so much of neoliberal economics has become mainstreamed and adopted in certain policy areas by Dems.

  167. 167.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @TBone:

    Let’s check the Weird Meter!  Yep, it’s pegged and about to blow!

    We need to build a new one that goes to 11, we’ll make a fortune.

  170. 170.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Baud: ​

    [Swearing] should be taught in grade school.

    @zhena gogolia: ​

    Along with cursive.

    That in itself would be a twofer: if there’s anything learning cursive was good for, it was learning to curse fluently.

  173. 173.

    Kay

    @KrackenJack:

    Ha! That’s nice. The only thing I’ve done so far is swear and ride a bike again. My one grandaughter’s other grandparents are lovely people, but proper Methodists. I’m her trashier grandma :)

    She’s really strong willed, which is great, but she also has to mind me when I have her so we butt heads sometimes. They test you.

  174. 174.

    rikyrah

    @UncleEbeneezer:

    Mention the anti-Black undercurrents of the Free Palestine movement one time and the anti-Black supporters of the Free Palestine movement magically appear in the replies. Amazing. Even Beetlejuice has better discipline.

    Y’all will also never hustle the muscle memory or power of discernment out of Black people who were on the frontlines of social media identifying and neutralizing the foreign & domestic alt-left cyberattacks in 2016 and 2020. We haven’t forgiven or forgotten.

    If any of this looks familiar, it’s b/c we’ve already seen this movie & been to this rodeo before. Anti-democratic forces here and abroad are intentionally targeting Black voters (the most reliable Democratic voters) w/alt-left, anti-Democratic propaganda aimed at helping Trump.

     

    I have been so pleased at the numerous Black Tik Tok creators calling out the Anti-Black bullshyt,and the nerve and audacity to suggest that Black people shouldn’t exercise their right to vote because of Palestine.

    FOH

  176. 176.

    lowtechcyclist

    @TBone: ​

    it will need to go to Weird Infinity before this is all said and done!

    To Weird Infinity…and beyond!!

  177. 177.

    HumboldtBlue

    @zhena gogolia: ​ 

    I take pride in my handwriting, always have. As someone who took handwritten notes for 27 years or so, you need to be quick and legible. What I found, however, was that I started writing very quickly for everything and that degrades neatness. I have to remind myself to slow down when writing, say, a letter.

  182. 182.

    bjacques

    @TBone: Elon Musk is that horrible noise, ruining your orgasm, on the Playboy Channel…

    (Negativland, hailing from Oakland like Harris, deserve more play IMHO)

  186. 186.

    Lyrebird

    @rikyrah: THanks for shining even more light.

    If any of this looks familiar, it’s b/c we’ve already seen this movie & been to this rodeo before.

    It’s not my story it’s not my place to say ^^^this, but [I feel like] it should be like a pop-up window on so many discussions.  I can authentically say that I do NOT expect politically active Black voters to forget whose voices were raised dismissing MVP, I still want to slap (but won’t) the fool who dismissed SC Dems as “low info” four years ago, and no matter how many Arne Duncans Pres. Harris appoints, if I engage in criticism, I will try to do so in a non-dismissive-jerk way.

     

    ETA:

    BREAKING: Banks, credit card companies, and more will be required to let customers talk to a human by pressing a single button under a new Biden administration proposed rule.

    Glory to the Spaghetti Monster and praise to the POTUS!

  187. 187.

    Captain C

    @Kay:

    The NYTimes reporters may have to canvass for him.

    That would be counterproductive:

    “Hi!  We’re from the FTFNYT and—”

    *SLAM!!!

  188. 188.

    KatKapCC

    @rikyrah: Man, I’d say make him Prez 4 Life if that happens. The number of times I’ve yelled AGENT into the phone only to get a tinny “I’m sorry, I didn’t get that. Let me repeat your options:…” in response.

  190. 190.

    topclimber

    @Baud: Cursive/cursing combo struck me as playful. Like maybe she was in a much more relaxed state than a coupla weeks ago (like who isn’t around here?).

  191. 191.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @HumboldtBlue: ​Oh, I know what her fave cuss word is, it’s mine too, in fact it may be my fave word in the English language.

    You mean the bricklayer’s assistant? The mortar-forker?? :D

  192. 192.

    sdhays

    @rikyrah: The worst experience I had with this recently was the IRS. Virtually impossible to figure out how to get a real person.

  193. 193.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Captain C: Not well played IMHO.

    The trick is to open the door just enough to let the clown get part of one arm inside, and then slam the door on his hand or wrist hard enough to break it while screaming Get the f**k off my porch, you fascist bastard!! ​

  194. 194.

    catclub

    @sdhays: Back when I was doing this, my trick with the IRS was to try to schedule an in person appointment.  They put on a real person to convince you you don’t need one.  But you got to talk with a real person.

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