The washed-up 71-year-old former WWE performer who calls himself “Hulk Hogan” got drunk and made a fool of himself Monday (PennLive):
In a video obtained by TMZ, the retired wrestler at one point asked a cheering crowd, “Do you want me to body slam Kamala Harris?”
“Want me to drop the leg on Kamala?” he added, referring to one of his iconic wrestling moves.
The dramatically mustachioed quarter-wit also made dumb and offensive comments about Harris’s heritage, invoking ignorant stereotypes about Native Americans because he’s more clueless than Columbus. Later, he blamed beer:
Hogan later walked back his comments and suggested that the remarks he made was not a true representation of himself. He also blamed the comments on the alcoholic drinks he drank at the bar.
“I am going to get heat for that one, brother. That was not me. That was the beers talking,” he added before the video stopped.
No, Bollea — that was your racist, misogynist, drunk ass talking. We see you.
Bollea and his idiot, criminal kids and related hangers-on live in my media market. They all go by Hogan for some reason and are frequently covered by the local news when they maim people in car crashes, etc. Just garbage people who should fuck off into the sun.
Open thread.
TBone
He got news coverage during our convention. I don’t think it was his beer muscles. Fuck that guy, again, with someone’s rusty farm implement. What a dick.
TBone
Tiedrich is a solace
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/dnc-day-two-donald-trump-has-a-sad
clay
Lest anyone think this was a one-off:
You know how Republicans think that you can’t be racist unless you use the “n-word”? Well,
HoganBollea has used the “n-word”. Repeatedly. On tape.So yeah, even by the very lax Republican definition, this bozo is a racist. And of course he spoke at Trump’s convention!
cain
Hulk Hogan has always been a dick. I think that’s also true for “The Rock”. What is with all these damn wrestlers?
TBone
@cain: penis envy
dmsilev
In vino veritas.
The booze doesn’t make you someone else, it removes the filters that you have that keep your true (ugly) self under wraps.
SFBayAreaGal
@dmsilev: This is true
Scout211
@TBone: That was a fun read. Thanks.
Mike E
anabolic steroidstoxic masculinityfragile male ego?Trollhattan
John Cena wannabe says what?
Learning Trump has declared war on Google and lemme opine this is the payoff to Vance’s money dudes, who are all het on breaking up Google and whatever they’re calling Facebook now, Meta? Thiel et al are specifically looking to access the WH via Vance to advance their businesses and mow down their larger, more influential competition. And now, Trump is asking if what Google is doing in their election coverage and Trump coverage, “legal?”
He’s not scratching an itch, he’s cashing techbro checks and doesn’t give a fvck about how the googles work. That’s Barron’s jerb IIRC.
TBone
Here is more solace: Shawn Fain, sexiest man alive!
https://www.wonkette.com/p/the-time-wonkette-met-wonkettes-sexiest
TBone
@Scout211: yours in service,
TBone
🥰
BR
That’s a mistake for MAGA. You’re never supposed to apologize or back down. I bet they excommunicate him.
matt
sewing up the crucial domestic abuser vote.
TBone
@matt: 😆
Scout211
It wasn’t an apology. It was moving the blame to the wicked alcohol.
I guess it was backing down but was it sincere? I think not. He is a has-been celebrity who still needs fans, so I see it more as a PR attempt. But YMMV.
CaseyL
@Trollhattan: Breaking up Google wouldn’t be a bad idea: it was recently found guilty of monopolistic behavior, and it’s searches are now garbage (between the ads and the AI “assist”).
I realize Trump/Thiel/et al want to break it up to enhance their own business, but the truth is Google hasn’t been the “good guy” for a while now.
hrprogressive
Not many men have completely shit on, buried, dug up, shit on again, lit on fire, and re-buried their legacy like Hulk Hogan.
Much prefer today’s modern wrasslers who aren’t racist Fascist raging bigots.
Jackie
@dmsilev:
100% THIS!
matt
Just watched a part of Barack Obama’s speech and… he makes a hand gesture when he talks about Trump’s weird obsession with crowd sizes that.. uh.. well, just check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ispJxWQ0iKc
CaseyL
Great news: Stephanie Vanos has won her School Board election in Orange County, FL, beating out a M4L-adjacent wingnut. She walloped her opponent.
I did postcards for Vanos and feel just incredibly joyous right now.
jonas
Is there anyone in Trumpworld who *can’t* be described with the words “a washed-up….” ?
Baud
@CaseyL:
👍
cain
Hey Betty, congrats to Florida for beating back pudding boot’s proxies in the school wars! Watching that asshole lose even more makes me happy.
HumboldtBlue
I drink beer pretty regularly and yet, I never seem to use racist and sexist terms at the drop of a hat.
Also, James Taylor is PISSED at the DNC for dropping him from last night’s program, so he wrote a song about. He is PISSED OFF!!!!!
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@matt: Check out the screen shot at the link posted by TBone at #2.
I watched it live, and he also glanced down at his hands after making the gesture and pretended to be surprised at what his hands appeared to be doing “unintentionally”. The gesture plus the look are just perfection.
Baud
@HumboldtBlue:
Hahaha.
Anonymous At Work
@dmsilev: MAGAts would get mad that you were talking Mexican at them, I bet.
And you beat me to it.
Hungry Joe
POSTCARD UPDATE
Still waiting for my next batch of 200 from Postcards to Swing States. Meantime I’m helping out Ms. Joe with her Postcards for Sherrod Brown.
Yesterday — 4
Running total — I dunno. Not keeping track. I mean, it’s HER batch, right?
Anoniminous
@jonas:
Some say they are “washed-up.” Others say they are “has beens.”
Opinions vary. I
opiejeanne
@cain: Oh no, not The Rock!
Trollhattan
@CaseyL: Oh yeah, the “Don’t be evil” dudes have gone well past that prosaic goal and at least the EU seems properly focused on reeling them in.
Nevertheless, fuck Peter Thiel and his tech bros.
TBone
Dropkick Murphy FTW! 💙
That’s how you continue to do pandemic relief! 😍
https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/08/20/federal-funds-to-clear-100-million-in-medical-debt-owed-by-new-jerseyans/
chris green
@Jackie: “You know the bottle ain’t to blame and I ain’t trying to / It don’t make you do a thing it just lets you”.
TBone
@HumboldtBlue: 😆😍
HumboldtBlue
Melania Trump Crashes The DNC
Trollhattan
Ye gods Boeing.
TBF connecting engines to the plane doesn’t really affect legroom, so YOLO.
Trollhattan
@HumboldtBlue: Love her SO much, glad to see her back.
Hungry Joe
@Trollhattan: The chance that one of those engines will fall off inflight is probably still pretty low — and if it does, well, why do you think they have TWO engines? Fail-safe!
Hoppie
@CaseyL: There’s a Google-web-only search option that avoids most of the annoyances. I’m hardly tech-savvy these days, but I expect you could Google it.
CaseyL
@Trollhattan:
Boeing’s descent since they broke the company and moved the corporate offices to Chicago has been just flabbergasting. They’re not even a faint shadow of what they used to be. More like its complete antithesis.
Wapiti
Maybe the New York Time or WaPo can fact check whether the beer, actually, was talking.
Jacel
Glad to see wrestler (and former Minnesota Governor) Jesse Ventura has backed Harris and Walz after having earlier in the year expressed support for RFKJr. Ventura has long supported Walz in Minnesota.
KatKapCC
Ah yes, right wing masculinity: Let’s beat up women for fun, har har har!!!
Baud
@Wapiti:
Haha.
JoyceH
@opiejeanne: I hope not – he comes across as a nice guy. Love him in the Jumanji reboots. Of course, Bill Cosby taught me that coming across as a nice guy is no guarantee…
JML
I loved Hulk Hogan as a pro wrestler. Great ring presence, so fun to watch, and his ridiculous over-caffeinated spots were awesome to young me. Sucks that he’s such a terrible, terrible person. he should have stuck with being the Hulkster all the time instead of letting his MAGA-fied racist sexist asshole true self out to play.
Yo, jackass: beer doesn’t turn you into a racist. It’s never turned anyone into a racist. It just lowered your inhibitions enough for you to let your inner racist fly. Congrats on revealing yourself. Half-assed non-apology apology NOT accepted.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Violence against a smaller person not prone to violence always has been and always will be funny. Just like an Andrew Dice Clay joke.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@TBone:
“Nosferatu McGoebbels” as a label for Stephen Miller is priceless.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
I mean I don’t know, but I suspect…that wasn’t caffeine.
Kay
The saddest thing is that rural young white men have modeled themselves on the worst Right wing men.
It’s tragic. There are a lot of good men, but boy does the Right promote and reward the worst of the worst.
He’s a sloppy, insulting drunk. Another pillar of Right wing manhood.
danielx
@TBone:
I know it was mentioned in at least one previous thread but I gotta admit, I’m still overwhelmed by this display of logic cited in Tiedrich’s article:
Well, okay then. Glad Ms. Gardner was able to clear that up for us.
She’s being paid six figures a year for this shit? Sign me up for that job.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Trump didn’t say 4, he said 2 then told us all to add 2 more. Clearly no connection to 4.
Chris Johnson
@cain: Well, that one got some bad press from the Gawker turned off by Peter Thiel, so he’s an owned man… they’re just actors slash stuntmen after all. You can’t expect too much.
TBone
@Trollhattan: holy shit! It’s like their Jimmy Stewarts from this movie all went on a permanent, unpaid vacation or something.
The O.G.:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Highway_in_the_Sky
TBone
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: ❤️ he never disappoints!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@danielx:
She literally takes everything he says at face value. She’s not stupid and knows what she’s doing
TBone
@Wapiti: 😆
UncleEbeneezer
@hrprogressive: The Iron Sheik is a good follow on social media, btw. Liberal dude who sometimes makes fun of Hogan/Bollea.
WaterGirl
@Trollhattan: Getting all fancy with a new capital T, are we? :-)
Or maybe you’re on a new device?
SatanicPanic
@JoyceH: I haven’t heard anything about him being that bad, but he’s got a reputation as being a self centered jerk in private.
His return to WWE was pretty rough-he showed up and immediately tried to move Cody Rhodes out of the way, after WWE had spent like two years building up a match between him and Roman Reigns. Rock wanted to fight Roman for the title and he almost jawboned WWE into giving it to him.
Or that’s what WWE wanted us all to think and it was a work from the beginning, who knows
SatanicPanic
@UncleEbeneezer: sadly Iron Sheik is no longer with us
Czar Chasm
I cannot begin to count the number of wrestling fans that were low-key crushed when Roman Reigns lost the title at Wrestlemania; not because they didn’t like Cody Rhodes (who solved racism, dontcha know), but because if Roman had retained there, he would have been almost guaranteed to beat The Yellow Racist’s title reign length. *sigh
Warren Senders
@CaseyL: Oh, that’s great! I also did cards for her and was wondering somewhere in the back of my brain how that election went. Always nice to hear some book-burner got walloped!
UncleEbeneezer
@SatanicPanic: Oh shit, I must’ve seen an old tweet :(
Czar Chasm
@SatanicPanic: There would have been a broken leg in The Yellow Racist’s future, I feel, had he live a TEEEENY bit longer.
Baud
RIP Rep Bill Pascrell Jr. (D)
NickM
“The washed-up 71-year-old former WWE performer who calls himself “Hulk Hogan” got drunk and made a fool of himself Monday.”
In other breaking news, water still wet…
eclare
@Trollhattan:
Holy shit! Now engines are falling off?
Hoosierspud
Somehow, I don’t think that the Secret Service will be interviewing the beer.
jonas
@CaseyL: I think they moved HQ a while ago to outside DC — you know where they could lobby and gladhand politicians more effectively to score contracts and overlook their shitty safety record.
All this goes back to the Jack Welch-mentored management team that started taking over Boeing in the late 90s and prioritizing “shareholder value” (and their own bonuses) over making good airplanes.
TBone
@Baud: 😞
SiubhanDuinne
@HumboldtBlue:
LOL, that’s wonderful!! HAHAHA etc.
jonas
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Glenn Kessler is such a fucking tool. Maybe the past couple of days recovering in the burn ward has given him time to reflect on said toolness, but I sort of doubt it. These people are like the MAGAts they claim to cover — incapable of shame or introspection.
SatanicPanic
@Czar Chasm: oh shit I didn’t know Roman was so close to that.
Burnspbesq
Oh, boy, this is exciting: my new car has been loaded on a ship and is currently transiting the English Channel en route to Baltimore. The estimated delivery date of 9/20 is starting to get real.
Burnspbesq
Where is the Iron Sheikh when we need him?
Kay
So Trump sounds really weird – sedated.
I wonder what’s going on? Could this be his lame attempt to seem more normal?
If so expect the NYTimes to run 11 Trump Reconsidered stories by Friday.
lowtechcyclist
@HumboldtBlue:
What a whiner! Maybe he’d be more at home over in the WATB Party, aka the GOP.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Burnspbesq: What kind of car is it?
SiubhanDuinne
@Trollhattan:
Jesus reading an annual report word for word on Power Point Christ, but I loathe this kind of corporate-speak crap.
BR
I’m finding myself most moved by Doug Emhoff’s speech after watching again. The Obamas were good but I’ve watched probably thousands of hours of them over the years. Doug saying “I trusted Kamala with my family’s future and it was the best decision I ever made” is meaningful.
lowtechcyclist
@jonas:
Well, JV Dance isn’t ‘washed up’ yet, but he’ll join that club on the morning of November 6.
jonas
I think it was Mark Cuban in an interview a few weeks ago who pointed out something the MSM has really missed (from what I can tell) wrt these tech billionaires all coming around to Trump: it’s not tech culture or Silicon Valley as such that they’re representing, it’s crypto. “This is a big crypto play,” as he put it. They basically want Trump to scotch any regulation or oversight of crypto so they can cash in on speculation and other related grifts over the next four years.
Renie
@HumboldtBlue: It may have just been my video but it didn’t look like the words aligned with his lips. Was that just a joke?
SiubhanDuinne
@Hoppie:
ISWYDT 😁
rikyrah
Tim![]()
(@trouble_man90) posted at 4:20 PM on Tue, Aug 20, 2024:
“Don’t call them weird”
“Stop with the couch jokes”
“Don’t say ‘we’re not going back’
“Don’t call him a convicted felon”
The media is trying to protect trump. This is also a tell that the attacks are working. We should double down https://t.co/ejeW7DD7aJ
(https://x.com/trouble_man90/status/1826006319616373163?s=02)
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@jonas: Nothing to be ashamed of. Splitting hairs and putting lipstick on pigs are challenging and highly specialized skills that he brings to his job every day.
BR
@lowtechcyclist:
Why was a 78 year old musician invited to an event about not going back?
Leto
@eclare: wait till you find out about the assembly process!
jonas
@SiubhanDuinne: “The engine experienced an unscheduled discontinuation of attachment to the plane body, resulting in a de-elevation of aircraft performance and imperitavizing a review of future engine-wing adherance issues”
lowtechcyclist
@Trollhattan:
I’m sure the bean-counters will find a way to fix this problem. ;-)
Leto
@BR: If she doesn’t play that voice mail message he left on Thursday, there’s gonna be a riot!!!
Burnspbesq
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Porsche Macan 4. Electric!
Old School
@lowtechcyclist: @Renie:
The James Taylor song was a joke. It was fake bit from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Yeah, mostly it’s there to obscure the truth with jargon. Sometimes they come up with real gems, though.
Like I love “synergy.” Very useful in discussing game strategies.
Geminid
@Baud: Rep. Pascrell was Chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee; a powerful post. He likely played an important role in drafting the IRA.
TBone
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/ukraine/2024/08/21/ukraine-moscow-drone-attack-updates/74886216007/
Leto
@BR: @lowtechcyclist: this was The Late Show doing a joke. It was really funny, and JT never would’ve said that. It’s part of why the joke was so funny.
scav
@SiubhanDuinne: Well, perhaps cracked rocker switch caps are still theoretically capable of learning, while all the cracked components of the broken Boeing corporate infrastructure are demonstrably not. Something like that?
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Geminid: Why did it take me so long to move past Irish Republican Army when reading that?
Burnspbesq
Turns out that Angela Alsobrooks, the Dem candidate for Senate in Maryland, is a Duke alum.
Wonder if there will be rioting on Route 1 if she wins.
TBone
@BR: I loved his couch reference from Brooklyn childhood grandma’s home.
Geminid
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: The most successful game strategies involve a plethora of synergies.
Soprano2
@Kay: This is true, no matter how many times he shows them who he is the press still holds out hope that one day he’ll turn more normal, so they can quit having to sift through the crap that spews from his mouth to find a few nuggets they can try to represent as typical of him so they can pretend he’s normal.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
I’m sorry to hear this. I don’t know much about Pascrell, but I’ve known his name and been aware of him for what seems like decades. Condolences to his family, friends, and constituents. May he RIP.
Scout211
I am eagerly awaiting Beyoncé’s response to Steven Cheung “brazenly stealing” her song Freedom that she so generously gave the Harris campaign to use. Was he taunting the Harris campaign or Beyoncé?
Steven Cheung’s Twitter.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Geminid: Often. Sometimes crude, simple, and blunt works too.
Jackie
@Renie: It WAS a joke; MJ played it this morning and poor Mika fell for it with dismay, and the gang had to reassure her. It was funny to watch.😁
KatKapCC
@BR: It’s always so nice to hear a man talk in such glowing terms about the woman he loves. Not just about her beauty or whatever, but her as a person — her accomplishments and her strengths and her intellect and such. So many men seem to get into the “ball and chain” mindset the moment they get married. Nice to see some guys are not shy about telling the world how amazing their wives are.
BR
The most wrong person in the world made a good point — Bill Kristol said what makes the Democratic party healthy is that it has a “past, present, and future” and many different aligned but not identical versions of each of those.
And that is striking and made me think — Trump like 1984 has erased all of that — “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
Kay
@Soprano2:
Somethings up though. He’s doing this weird, smarmy impression of a normal person.
Trollhattan
@WaterGirl:
Not new, but different. I contain multitudes.
Baud
@jonas:
opiejeanne
@TBone: I immediately said, “The Reindeer” when I saw that post.
Manyakitty
@Baud: that’s a shame. I what the process is in NJ to fill the seat.
BR
@Kay:
I’m not sure which event you’re referring to, but I watched part of Trump’s Michigan event and he didn’t seem normal, just very tired and old.
Manyakitty
@Burnspbesq: what did you order?
Baud
@Manyakitty:
Probably in the general election at this point.
Leto
@BR: Now testify!
Burnspbesq
Andrew Prokop can f right off with this nonsense.
https://www.vox.com/politics/367868/kamala-harris-interviews-press-conferences-criticism
Leto
@Manyakitty: someone linked a picture to it earlier, but here you go.
Baud
@BR:
Tired and old is normal, dammit.
Burnspbesq
@Manyakitty:
My third EV, a Porsche Macan 4.
@Manyakitty:
prostratedragon
@HumboldtBlue: Funny!
Jackie
@KatKapCC: I especially loved his emphasizing how much he loves Kamala’s laugh! And warned about “getting the look” from her… the camera panned their children showing them nodding in knowing agreement lol! Nobody wants to be on the receiving end of “the look!”
Omnes Omnibus
@Scout211: Trump’s people also stole a song featuring Kendrick Lamar.
HumboldtBlue
A contrast in conventions. RNC v DNC
SFBayAreaGal
@SiubhanDuinne: 🤣 I saw that too.
BlueGuitarist
@CaseyL:
yay you!
postcards for the win!
(lots of others way to do good)
Leto
@Omnes Omnibus: I know most artists agents/lawyers will just send a cease and desist, but I really would like them to take him to court and secure more victories. Even if it’s just a $1 pay out. Simply to continue to hammer home that he’s a loser, and that Republicans need to stop trying to get on the happy train. You have Lee Greenwood and Turd Nugget. That’s all you get, live with it!
BlueGuitarist
@Warren Senders:
yay you!
Baud
@HumboldtBlue:
Heh.
Manyakitty
@Baud: makes sense.
eclare
@SiubhanDuinne:
It’s the use of gerunds that bugs the shit out of me.
Manyakitty
@Leto: well that’s adorable!
hrprogressive
@UncleEbeneezer:
He definitely was, but I believe he passed away a year or two ago 😔
Manyakitty
@Burnspbesq: fantastic! Enjoy your new baby!
Leto
@HumboldtBlue: Stop… just stop already!
Nah, don’t stop. Big Jeb energy there.
KatKapCC
@HumboldtBlue: We are absolutely and always much more fun than they are.
Ella in New Mexico
A wife beating drunker ex-fake wrestler is a racist jackass to boot?
No, say it ain’t so!
eclare
@BR:
I would not have enjoyed James Taylor. Lil Jon hit the spot perfectly.
Different moods, different nights, I know, but I’m glad he was bumped.
NorthLeft
Betty, how do I upvote your post?
eclare
@jonas:
You have a future writing corporate press releases!
JML
@KatKapCC: Doug quite obviously adores Kamala. He was a pretty serious lawyer in LA too, so it’s a big thing that he gave up his practice to teach at Georgetown in order to ensure that he didn’t create a conflict of interest for her. I think it’s great how he’s supportive of her not because he has to but because he wants to. He truly seems to admire her success, without envy.
seems like a pretty great role model.
HumboldtBlue
Obama’s best lines from last night.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@NorthLeft: I’ve started a Patreon on
myher behalf, so you can send any gratuities my way.BlueGuitarist
@Hungry Joe:
yay you!
Omnes Omnibus
@Leto: I am thinking Kendrick Lamar might go for direct action and treat Trump like Drake.
Scout211
Preliminary viewer numbers are in:
eclare
@Burnspbesq:
Wow! Congratulations!
Kay
I found out today pediatricians have an actual “catch up schedule” for the kids of anti vaxxers who leave the anti vaxx cult and bring their kids in for shots. It’s different for different ages. There are a lot of these people, apparently .
eclare
@Scout211:
Me too! She must have a legal team to rival Disney’s.
Omnes Omnibus
@JML: Like Travis Kielce, he is successful in his own sphere and is not at all threatened by a partner who is “at least” as successful.
Soprano2
@Kay: Drugs, maybe.
Kay
@BR:
That’s what I mean. The sing songey “reasonable” voice. New.
It’s almost comically fake. His cult members must notice it though.
KatKapCC
@JML: Ah, but see, I’ve been informed by many people that because Doug had one instance of infidelity in his first marriage, it means he is the worst possible husband anyone could have, and thus Kamala should not be president because mumblemumblereasonsmumble.
Scout211
The DNC released the official 2024 roll call playlist in case you didn’t see this last night.
Kay
@Soprano2:
I wondered if it were him insulting Medal of Honor recipients I know he doubled down on it but even some Trumpsters here thought that went too far.
But he could be taking different drugs, I guess. I always believed he takes some kind of stimulant.
eclare
@HumboldtBlue:
That’s the second RNC vs DNC video I’ve seen. Gotta give props to GA, they won that roll call!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Man, it’s almost like you can’t look up to wife beating drunken ex-fake wrestlers anymore without finding out there’s something wrong with them.
I blame cancel culture.
SiubhanDuinne
@eclare:
Gerunds are my favorite thing to hate in CNN reporting style (which has migrated to other news platforms, I think).
eclare
@Leto:
Taylor sued a DJ for $1 and won, to prove a point. He said he was fired because she said he groped her. He claimed that was a lie. The jury agreed with Taylor.
3Sice
Slurry brain and couchy-coo are at some third tier air historics museum. The P-51s behind the stage are mockups. Burnishing foreign policy credentials? He already has four years of failure on the books.. it’s kind of his thing.
Ken
Based on past behavior, they’ll fire the people who reported the problem, order the rest to never report it again, then tell the FAA they’ve had no more reports of problems.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Burnspbesq:
I have a lot of friends still back there who are MD grads. Extremely liberal.
But they’ll hold their nose and vote for her all the while muttering “fucking doook grad.”
eclare
@SiubhanDuinne:
Come sit by me.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Ken: Sounds efficient. Make it so.
Trollhattan
@Kay: After California banned the religious exemption for vaccinating schoolkids (shoutout to my former state senator Dr. Richard Pan–hero) we had boatloads, or vanloads, or thousands upon thousands of kids who needed to do just that.
There are still weasel parents and doctors who will sign off blanket exemptions “because reasons” but the sheer numbers of unvaccinated kids has dropped.
Leto
@Scout211: I understand why WV played what they did, but it was so out-of-sync with the overall theme of the playlist… but WV seems to be out-of-sync with everything so it kinda tracks.
Lol JV Couch is trying to peddle a “Trumpov is hope” line on the campaign trail. Floundering and gaslighting.
SiubhanDuinne
@HumboldtBlue:
I love that compare-and-contrast! They’re not only evil fascists, they’re also tedious as all fuck. And what we used to call “up tight” back in the ‘60s.
Omnes Omnibus
Trump has also taken a shot at AKA.
mrmoshpotato
@TBone: Jeff does some damn good writing.
Leto
@eclare: Sounds like Taylor has a solid case against the adjudicated rapist. And I do remember that case where Taylor sued the DJ.
Belafon
@TBone: Part of me feels like we’re going to find out there was no Ukrainian attack there.
Scout211
@Omnes Omnibus: Sign in required to view.
Burnspbesq
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
Terps have Swalwell, and he’s the biggest badass since Juan Dixon.
Leto
@Omnes Omnibus: can you do a copy/paste of the post?
Lily
Threatening the VP — I don’t think there’s a drunk exception. Now that he’s said, as himself, that it was his drunk real self who said that, he can’t even try to pretend there’s a show biz exception.
Paul in KY
@hrprogressive: He couldn’t hold Bo Bo Brazil’s jock strap.
Burnspbesq
@Leto:
WV does not lack for choices. They could have played Brad Paisley or Kathy Mattea.
Belafon
@BR: Kristol’s proof of what happens when you step outside and disengage from the Republican propaganda feed.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@JML: This is part of a general undertext of the Harris / Walz team, that they’re showing us positive masculinity, how you can be supportive of and be second banana to a strong woman without diminishing your own masculinity. Indeed, it makes you stronger as a man, demonstrates your confidence in your masculinity.
I know that’s probably not news to most of the readers of this blog, but it will be to the males on the other side of the aisle and probably to a lot of teenage males trying to figure out who they want to be. It’s going to have a positive effect on our culture that will be hard to measure.
Belafon
@Manyakitty: According to an article I read, since it happened before the deadline to file, the Democratic party in the state can pick a new person to run in his place.
Jackie
@Omnes Omnibus: Bluesky sign in required
artem1s
@jonas:
no coincidence I’m sure that right before the JOEMUSTGO screams heard round the world started Biden had announced plans to implement taxes on server farms’ energy usage.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Omnes Omnibus: Like AKA will care. They ‘ll laugh at his dig. They’re outside his zone of influence.
Of course, others will care. He constantly reveals himself.
eclare
@Leto:
Assuming the roll call songs become a yearly thing, and how could they not, I hope Memphis has some influence next year, and TN picks something by Al Green.
Please, no Elvis, although I’m sure it’s inevitable.
KatKapCC
@Scout211:
@Leto: He called a sorority event “a very unimportant one”.
zhena gogolia
@HumboldtBlue: Hahahaha
Scout211
@KatKapCC: TY
Manyakitty
@Omnes Omnibus: seems like a galaxy brain move.
Ken
@Scout211: Someone should do a wellness check on Trump.
Someone else, I mean. Obviously.
Eric S.
@cain: FWIW, a friend of mine worked in the movie industry and worked on one of Johnson’s (The Rock) movies. He said Johnson is considered a pro-crew actor. He does the extra things to make their lives better on set.
Manyakitty
@Belafon: oh wow, he was running again?
Omnes Omnibus
@Scout211:
Then there is screen shot that I can’t cut and paste. I summarized the damned post. I can just go back to not linking to anything if it’s such a bother.
Leto
@JML: @Ceci n est pas mon nym:
I’m glad we have these positive examples! (Volume icon top right)
JoyceH
@eclare: this roll call was fun! I watched the whole thing, which I hadn’t expected to do. And it’s hokey, but I love that the Wisconsin delegates wear those goofy cheese hats.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Leto: Literally LOL. People around me are looking at me funny. More than usual I mean.
Ken
If I understand correctly, this week’s appearances are all in towns with great historical significance to the Klan. So you have to kind of expect they’ll fall short on other amenities.
jonas
@Baud: Thanks for the link. Interesting to see how this is playing out in the Montana race in particular — Tester’s apparently on their shit list for calling crypto a “scam”. I hope this gets more coverage as election day approaches. People saw what went down with SBF and his crypto scamming. Plus, the idea of crypto-mining farms springing up everywhere driving up energy costs and contributing to climate change is not going to be too popular, either. That’s what Thiel and these guys are pushing for.
Jay C
@Belafon:
Was Pascrell’s passing sudden/unexpected? I read that he had been sick for a while: presumably his running again (if he was) was an instance of optimism?
Leto
@Omnes Omnibus: remember how we had the discussion a couple of days ago about not everyone being able to view shit that people post due to not having accounts with various sites? If you want to stomp your feet, and talk about taking your ball and going home, you’re more than welcome to do that. Or you can not be an asshole when someone asks you wtf did you post. Entirely your call.
@eclare: If they do keep this up, each state has a pretty good catalogue of artists to choose from. SC needs to do some Hootie though :)
Elvis has some good stuff, and I can totally see Nevada going that route.
Scout211
CNN posted some Trump quotes from his interview with Hugh Hewitt.
Democrats are just so mean to him and they started it! Waaaaah!
Leto
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Avalune knows I’d be on that vacuum cleaner if it was available.
Eric S.
@Jackie: in college we used the phrase, “a drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.”
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Can’t see it without a Bsky account.
Scout211
@Omnes Omnibus: TY
Leto
@Scout211: the man has rice pudding for brains. It’s an 8 y/o’s argument, but not even that good.
Belafon
@Jay C:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/bill-pascrell-democrat-new-jersey-congressman-dead-rcna166227
Belafon
@Scout211: Yeah, I’m sure she’s never dealt with someone who has tried the “Why are the police attacking me?” angle.
Paul in KY
@Omnes Omnibus: Boy, I hope he does!! TFG is just punking him right now. Hope his buddies tell him that.
Ken
@Scout211: It will be interesting to see how this “here’s what I’m going to say at the debate” strategy works out for Trump. Probably about as well as Sam Bankman-Fried’s “go on social media before the trial” strategy did for him.
Omnes Omnibus
@Leto: I summarized the thing in my first post. You can see that what was able to copy and paste wasn’t any more informative than my summary.
eclare
@Leto:
And they could dress up like Vegas Elvis! Delegations should have as much fun with this as possible.
catclub
@eclare:
 
umm. no. This is why flight testing is done.
Ken
@SiubhanDuinne: I’ve been debating getting an account, since it seems many posters are restricting views.
Here’s one that I can view: Today’s Atlantic crossword. Accident, or malice?
eclare
@Eric S.:
That’s a good quote.
TBone
@opiejeanne: good eye! It’s like Boeing honchos never paid attention to what history and science have to teach us.
Bill Arnold
@SiubhanDuinne:
“learnings” could be an import from Indian English.
(Similar: “the needful” and “informations”.)
Can any Indian-English speakers confirm?
KatKapCC
@Omnes Omnibus: I think what people are saying is that “Trump took a shot at AKA” is kind of vague. That could mean a million things. Certainly you didn’t have to retype the whole screenshot, but it would have been enough to say he called an AKA event “very unimportant”.
Leto
@eclare: Not gonna lie, this would be amazing to see. There’s so many cool themes they could do with this :)
Scout211
Whoa! P!nk!! I’m thrilled! I love P!nk!
John Legend tonight.
eclare
@Leto:
Absolutely!
eclare
@Scout211:
Cool! Love her too.
For some reason, not a John Legend fan.
Leto
@catclub: no, this is why NDI is done for some of those components. Otherwise you get what happened to the F-15 fleet back in 2007.
For those that don’t want to click the link: The nose section of an F-15 fell off in mid flight. Pilot ejected safely. The after accident investigation determined that the two main support braces that connected the nose to the main body had hair line cracks in them due to 1) exceeding the flight hours on the frame and 2) there was no inspection performed on those parts. The AF subsequently grounded the entire F-15 fleet, performed Non-Destructive Inspections (NDI) on the entire fleets connectors, and found that almost 50% of them had hairline cracks. It was cost prohibitive to replace them, so instead they retired 50% of the fleet because we were supposed to have an equal number of F-22s coming to us. And ofc that didn’t happen. Whomp whomp.
Leto
@eclare: I know people have their favorite phase of Elvis, but I am partial to casino Elvis. The outfits, performances, and so many good renditions of songs were done during that time.
SatanicPanic
@Scout211: a subtle admission that the Demonrats are pinkos-
MAGAs
piratedan
@Leto: per the powers that be, these were all artists that had to issue cease and desist to GOP candidates using their music without authorization.
So they’ve stolen from everyone, John Denver to Lynard Skynard to Beyonce… it’s kind of breathtaking to understand that they’ll steal from anyone.
wenchacha
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: I am that way about UAW Pres. Shawn Fain.
His name is so similar to Sinn Fein that it always catches me.
Geminid
@Leto: I read about an Israeli F-15 pilot who lost a whole wing and still landed safely.
West of the Rockies
@eclare:
JT can he kinda sleepy.
karen marie
Bollea can get stuffed.
This morning I watched the first two hours of last night’s DNC convention because I love the roll call!
I’m always surprised that there are a number of “present” votes. Hearing them made me curious whether there were any such votes at the GOP convention. I found an AP article (I believe) that indicated some number of “will vote according to convention rules” or some such. Anyone know what that means?
Ken
@piratedan: Remarkable. Also makes it plausible that the DNC got the rights to use those 62 songs last night for, oh, $62 or thereabouts.
dmsilev
In utterly unsurprising news, RFK Jr. is planning on dropping out of the race and “thinking about” endorsing Trump:
Geoduck
[[Already covered, never mind]]
karen marie
@KatKapCC: When I was looking for info on the GOP roll call to see if there were any “present” votes (couldn’t find anything – all the results were for the DNC – pffft), I saw a WSJ article (didn’t click and read – no subscription but also fuck them) that had a headline to the effect of “DNC roll call, style over substance.” I was like what the fuck did they watch?
Kristine
@TBone: Those two clips of the Obamas are gold.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Would be the perfect capstone for his legacy of environmental activism. No one will promote a healthy environment and population the way Trump will…
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
The numbers for the vote totals were provided alongside a speech about the priorities of each delegation. What more substance could there even be?
Leto
@Geminid: yeah, I remember that. Slight difference in this instance though. If you look at an F-15, from just behind the glass to the tip of the nose cone, that’s the forward fuselage. That’s the part that fell off.
There’s also the case of the F-15 that had the controls connected backwards, and the pilot died right at take off.
Edit: there’s also A-10s that were absolutely shot beyond hell in Iraq that landed safely.
dmsilev
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: The Post had this hilarious bit:
Shorter Harris campaign: “Fuck off, asshole”.
dmsilev
@karen marie: What sort of “substance” should we be expecting in a roll call? States, number of votes, that’s about it. We got that. And we got style.
Old School
@dmsilev:
Maybe RFK Jr. wants to be single again.
TBone
@Kristine: they’ll be in all the best history compilations, studied for years to come as the gems that they are.
Phylllis
What planet does this guy live on?
raven
@Leto: I knew a warthog pilot who was on the “Highway of Death” and said “we got tired of killing people”.
Geminid
@Leto: The aircraft site that reported the F-15 story said the plane’s fuselage provided some lift. That must have been some tense flying for the pilot.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Also, the Ds cleverly matched the party-atmosphere of the roll call with the policy speeches Harris and Walz were giving in Milwaukee. Granted, the party got more air time
Scout211
More lies and fantasies from the Trump rally today: NBC
and
Ha ha ha. Trump is mad that his campaign team is trying to control him. LOL
What an idiot.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@dmsilev: Wonderful. We’re telling fools the truth these days. Love to see it.
Scout211
Hard to know. The judge ruled that his home address was fraudulent. Could be anywhere, any planet, but one with worms of course.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
If a tree falls in the forest and the vaunted MSM doesn’t cover it, did Kamala talk about policy?
This one, regrettably.
SatanicPanic
@Scout211: seems like he’s admitting to
meddling in ME diplomacy
OGLiberal
Fuck that balding douchebag. (Full disclosure – I am bald and have been sine laye 20s). I just re-watched M. Obama’s speech. Wow. One of the best political speeches I’ve seen in my lifetime. Her only competitiors are her husband…and I think she wins. Nobody cares but homers’ opinions but, wow.
rikyrah
David Roberts
@drvolts
“If you say you’re a campaign of joy, you can’t criticize Donald Trump” is a new standard that the media has just invented for Dems. That’s their job: to make up new things that Dems are supposed to be doing, or aren’t doing, and scold them. It’s work, I guess.
12:21 PM · Aug 21, 2024
https://x.com/drvolts/status/1826308724052680948
Lily
@Phylllis: The planet that’s happy to give a hot shot to an attention addict in a panic bc he’s close to running out
Leto
@raven: I believe it. I knew plenty of F-16 pilots, some F-15 pilots, but surprisingly no A-10 pilots. Mainly due to station assignments.
@Geminid: yeah the F-15 is a better glider, with 1 wing, than the F-16 is with no engine. One of the other nicknames for the F-16 is Lawn Dart. And ofc the F-4 proved that if you strapped a large enough engine to it, anything could fly!
JCJ
@Leto: Whaddaya mean that is all they have? They have Kid Rock! They had the singer from Smash Mouth until his liver checked out
rikyrah
It’s a beautiful clip
AusPolMate – Time for a break
@AusPolMate
OMG: Jonathan Capehart (WaPo &
@CapehartJ
) nails it & can’t hold back his relief & joy as he tries in vain to not shed a tear.
Jonathan was last in the review of the speeches, his comment on Michelle Obama’s speech was “I feel like I have been seen”. This is so perfect!
https://x.com/AusPolMate/status/1826110846193606749
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Clearly the media doesn’t know how it feels to really criticize Trump. They should try it some time.
Leto
@rikyrah: idk what the GenZ translation of, “Bitch, please” is but I can’t wait to see it.
Leto
@rikyrah: ❤️❤️❤️
cain
@Eric S.: See, I heard that he was a very pro people person. Which is why I was surprised that he has some MAGA or anti-Democrat leanings.
Raven
@Leto: Dumb question, are A-10’s AF and Army or just AF?
eta never mind , I got it.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Scout211: And the Dems know it. This is part of the campaign strategy. Hillary warned us years ago that he’s way too easy to manipulate, making him vulnerable to our enemies. Nice that it makes him vulnerable to Dems as well.
It’s an added bonus that it’s also funny.
karen marie
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Yeah, I thought it was a bizarre statement. I didn’t watch the GOP convention at all, so I don’t know what the delegations said at their roll call but I can imagine.
Leto
@raven: idk if you’d be interested in this, but thought I’d pass it along. From Air University: A-10s over Kosovo
Edit: saw your question about A-10s, and the response.
Raven
@Leto: Thanks!!
Ken
Something along the lines of “The great state of ___ casts all its votes for Trump. Hail Trump, our eternal leader!”
Baud
@Scout211:
Nice!
skerry
@Omnes Omnibus: Thanks for the post
karen marie
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: So the press complaints that they didn’t get enough space at the DNC …
According to a news article I read (maybe AP?) the GOP used the press to make it look like they had a full house by giving journalists a huge amount of floor space and then additional space up in the bleachers.
Meanwhile, Dems filled TWO ARENAS ON ONE NIGHT and didn’t have to pad it out with media.
So sad!
Baud
@jonas:
KatKapCC
@karen marie: NO FUN ALLOWED, NO FUN AT ALL, FUN IS BAD.
Or something.
The media is tiresome.
Mr. Bemused Senior
Maybe he will call spirits from the vasty deep. 😁
M31
@dmsilev:
that’s some real Four Seasons Total Landscaping energy right there
Cheryl from Maryland
@Mr. Bemused Senior: I’m betting they do not come when he calls them.
Jackie
Excellent!
Baud
@Jackie:
👍
BR
@Jackie:
Whoa — that’s a bigger lead than I thought she has in some “solid” blue states. Edit: I thought this was New Hampshire, not Maine as a whole.
Baud
@dmsilev:
Does the nation have time to take out a restraining order?
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@karen marie: The RNC made them VIPs out of necessity. Given their inability to match facts with context to determine reason, it doesn’t surprise me that this led them to focus more on their inferior personal experience at the DNC.
No one cares you were made to wait in line twice, Dana Bash.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
If the whole thing were policy-driven and deathly serious, we’d be hearing complaints today about how the Democrats can’t loosen up.
AWOL
@Phylllis: One that’s been fellating this family for almost nine decades. I’m glad he broke the spell. They’re mostly horrid humans. As for Hines, I have no idea what her sanity level is, but I’ve lost any respect I had for her as a human.
KatKapCC
@Baud: It’s cute how important he thinks he is.
KatKapCC
@AWOL: Considering basically every other living Kennedy has been fully and loudly supporting Biden/Harris and have all but told RFKJr to go eff himself, I don’t know why you’re lumping them all in with him.
noncarborundum
@Bill Arnold: I thought “learnings” was from Borat, but what do I know?
Ken
Maybe it will give the pundits a little empathy when voters have to wait in line for six hours? Eh, probably not.
scav
@Baud: Maybe we’ll get really lucky and he’ll forget to affix the stamp to whatever the hell it is he’s scribbling the address on? Or, could the USPS just discreetly lose it?
noncarborundum
@matt: Clearly Trump has nothing to worry about in the crowd size department.
OGLiberal
@rikyrah: I love Capehart. Was born and grew up near my hometown in NJ – few years older than me. Went to a mostly minority prep school in Newark. He’s working class background, black and gay. I get his emotions.
Dan B
@HumboldtBlue: I want to remind all delegates to check, and firmly fasten, the stick up their butts.
DNC Party, jump about, fist bump, go over the top everybody!!
Geminid
@Leto: The Turkish Air Force still flies a few dozen F-4s.
Old School
Stevie Wonder is also performing tonight.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Ken: Media’s privileged access to political figures is far more important to protect than silly little things like the smallfolk voting.
Baud
@Old School:
I hope they dedicate Little Red Corvette to Biden.
TBone
@Old School: Stevie Wonder was warming up while Deadline Whitehouse was on.
I am so excited for tonight! 😍
🎶 💗
https://youtu.be/mW1dbiD_zDk
raven
@Leto: There is a guy at the dog park who was an F4 mechanic at Osan and now he’s a prof at the medical college!
danielx
@Leto:
Tell me if I’m wrong, but I seem to remember some guy dead stick landing an F-16 somewhere in the Chicago area some years back. It was supposedly impossible in a fly-by-wire airframe but the pilot managed it anyway.
Leto
@Geminid: South Korea retired their last ones this past June. We also still use a few as ariel targeting drones out of Florida and New Mexico.
dnfree
@rikyrah: We watch PBS Newshour every night. When Jonathan Capehart is on with David Brooks, I love to watch Capehart’s face while Brooks is talking. He’s trying not to react too obviously while he’s figuring out what to say.
raven
@Leto: Here I am with a group of university presidents and the commander of the 116th Fighter Wing, (or the base commander) we were able to sit with some fighter pilots and they talked about how they’d hide radar units in mall parking lots and the pilots would have to find them!
KatKapCC
@Old School:
Can I pick the setlist?
EarthWindFire
He never was the sharpest tool in the shed.
K-Mo
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: This. Add to his long list of talents: physical comedy.
Leto
@danielx: Not sure about Chicago, but here’s one from Elizabeth City, NC. I don’t know the electricals on the F-16, but this video shows they can do something!
@raven: have you heard of Jonny Kim?
I watched a video on YouTube where he talks about his upbringing, and what led him to the SEALS, as well and continuing on… good lord, this guy. I think about the meme’s with Asian moms comparing children, and I think this guy basically set the bar so far beyond reach that that meme should be permanently retired.
jonas
“Why should you go to jail for a crime someone else noticed?”
Abnormal Hiker
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Isn’t schadenfreude a type of joy?
Leto
@raven: Awesome! I’ve very familiar with that mission as that is the primary mission of the Shaw AFB (20th Fighter Wing) pilots. SEAD – Suppression of Enemy Air Defense, aka Wild Weasels. Crazy dudes.
SatanicPanic
@KatKapCC: how about Jack U Off ? That’s a classic
eclare
@Old School:
Sheila E.!!!!
eclare
@Baud:
Perfect!
KatKapCC
@SatanicPanic: That’ll be for the encore!
eclare
@KatKapCC:
Sexy Motherfucker. That one had the crowd at The Fox in ATL dancing in the aisles. Great show.
karen marie
@KatKapCC: Yeah, I don’t click through on “gift links” to Wapo or FYTFNYT at this point. I’m just one person but I’m one person who isn’t going to effectively endorse their bad behavior by going to their fucking websites.
Belafon
Billobard has the songs from the Roll Call: https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/every-song-played-2024-dnc-roll-call-hot-100-peaks-beyonce-taylor-swift-chappell-sabrina-1235757392/
Betty
@Geminid: Wasn’t I just following him on Twitter? This is shocking
Betty Cracker
Re: the roll call, I was pleased that Florida went with our scruffy and beloved Tom Petty.
eclare
@Old School:
I have doubts John can pull it off. Lil Nas X would have been perfect.
Wyatt Salamanca
@dmsilev:
This guy is such a fucking disgrace to the Kennedy family.
Hopefully, Harris wins in November and we’ll never hear another word from this narcissistic asshole.
KatKapCC
@Betty Cracker: It threw me for a sec because he’d lived in California for so long, I kinda forgot he was originally from Florida, ROFL.
Trollhattan
@Wyatt Salamanca: He’ll go back to his first love: vaccine-bothering.
I’m on Team Brain Worm. Goooooo, WORMS!
TBone
@Abnormal Hiker: absofuckinlutely
raven
@Leto: Incredible
I wonder how many astronauts are Seals??
TBone
Comment 🏆of the Day:
“NYT:
The Democrats Use the Convention to Try to Define Trump as a Self-Interested Fraud
That’s odd. I remember that a civil trial in NY did that earlier this year, with a $450 million penalty. Must be my imagination.”
raven
@Leto: Indeed!
Scout211
Update to the CNN story announcing P!nk for Thursday night I posted up thread.
Sweet!
BR
@TBone:
In NYT language, Dems at best can only “try” to do things. Trump does things. If it were flipped it’d be “Trump defines Harris as XYZ.”
Trollhattan
@BR: Right? Yoda suddenly appeared in my head saying “There is no ‘try’.”
Trump does what Trump does. And he’s been doing it fifty years down the fucking street from you, NYT. Sack the fuck up and do your jobs.
Trollhattan
@raven: Seals definitely outnumber the walruses.
Scout211
Update to the viewer numbers from last night.
Tony G
Well, he’s the perfect poster-boy for the contemporary Republican Party. An asshole who pretends to be a tough guy in a fake sport.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Has anyone seen the detailed schedule for tonight? I haven’t been able to find it in the same places they posted the schedules of nights 1 and 2. No detailed schedule for tomorrow either. Just “5:30-10:00 Main Programming” for both nights.
TBone
@Betty Cracker: 💜
Trollhattan
@Scout211: But…the utter drama of the RNC’s outcome must have had everybody on the edges of their seats!
“Oh, him? Again?”
…doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.
Baud
@BR:
100%. I’m pleased that trick is becoming more well known.
Princess
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: You’re looking in the right place. They post it late. They’re probably still fine tuning it.
TBone
My hubby so badly wants to see Liz Cheney give a speech at the convention. He mentioned it three times today. Heads would explode, methinks.
It would be badass.
https://youtu.be/SZUNsQdYSuQ
HumboldtBlue
@TBone:
It would be an insult and a slap in the face to the party. Cheney did ONE right thing, and that was stand up to Trump. She is fully on board with every vicious, odious and nasty platform plank the GOP has, from forced birth to violence against immigrants… all of it.
She’s no different from her GOP colleagues, she’s a hateful, nasty asshole and the idea she is or is willing to be a decent human being is fantasy at this point.
MisterForkbeard
@dmsilev: what was nuts about Shanahan’s interview is that she was talking about Harris as this huge threat to the nation, but thought that Trump was great. Even more weirdly, she was saying Trump could help them do some really great things like protect the environment and help with people’s health. Just completely upside-down viewpoint.
Ken
I assume similar to last night — two of the front-pagers will post convention threads shortly after it starts, one will then post a second thread which Cole will bigfoot, and then one more late in the evening.
Baud
@Scout211:
And looks like YouTube was excluded. (I assume that’s consistent with how the Republican numbers were calculated )
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@HumboldtBlue: Has Cheney endorsed anyone for the election?
Scout211
TBone
@HumboldtBlue: Hubby said a speech, not a cabinet position. Stephanie Grisham went first, I think that’s where he got the idea.
Baud
@HumboldtBlue:
If she spoke, it would be about that one right thing.
Ruckus
@dmsilev:
Can you imagine the Kennedy clan seeing this?
He’s always been at least a little weird but a Kennedy voting for shitforbrains? Has the world crashed into Mars and we just don’t know it yet?
Betty Cracker
@KatKapCC: Tom never forgot, dog bless him! At UF home football games, the whole stadium sings Won’t Back Down between the 3rd and 4th quarters. It’s really something.
TBone
@Scout211: 💜
TBone
@Baud: 👍
KatKapCC
@Princess: It seems quite late for it to still not be up on the DNC site. The main program begins in about half an hour.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
I wondered about this earlier in the week.
Nope, she’s been mum. Last burst of press on this was in March and then she wouldn’t endorse either candidate.
KatKapCC
@Betty Cracker: Man, would have loved to hear Tom’s thoughts on Governor DeSantis. I’m guessing he would not have felt very fondly toward the man…
Leto
@raven: the answer, before him, was zero. Then him, so 1. He was slated to be part of the 2024 Moon landing team, but… dude also holds the extremely rare rating of Flight Surgeon and Naval Aviator.
Seriously, dude just absolutely broke the mold. Glad we have people like that.
Baud
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
Very strange, given that she seemed driven to defeat Trump.
Anyway, we’ll do it without her.
karen marie
@Scout211: In case people are wondering, the first night of the GOP convention, they had two million fewer viewers than the Dems on their first night.
Fuck you, Donald Trump and the cultists you rode in on.
Ruckus
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
Truth seems to have eluded the WSJ.
Their goal has always been monetary so anything that they think might get the very wealthy not to be quite so wealthy will be negative for them. (I used to have a subscription because I was a business owner and did work for mostly nation/world wide businesses. Having a concept of what the monied might be thinking was important.
Baud
@KatKapCC:
We like to change things around at the last minute.
Leto
@Ken: this is the way.
Scout211
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: @Baud:
she’s busy right now.
Trollhattan
Waiting for a new thread but here goes: we may have had a Moti hit squad in our metroplex.
Quinerly
@KatKapCC:
Back in 2009, Tipper played drums with The Dead on a reunion tour.
https://jambands.com/news/2009/04/15/tipper-gore-joins-the-dead-onstage/
She’s played with Willie, Thelonius Monk, Herbie Hancock, and Tom Petty.
Yes, I remember her wanting records labeled. So stupid. Since then she has done a lot of work with the LGBT community and the unhoused population. She’s a fabulous photographer, too.
gwangung
@Leto:
Uh…you don’t know Asian moms…
EVERY Asian kid knows about this guy…
Trollhattan
@Ruckus: The WSJ OpEd page was always trash but they committed news coverage very well and often deeply.
Then the Murdoch sale and so….
Baud
Unfortunately, it looks like the NYT broke this story.
Leto
@gwangung: You let me know the other Seal Team member, doctor, pilot, and astronaut that is out there, or what’s the equivalent of that. Oh, you play an instrument? That’s cute. Johnny is prep’ing to go to the moon. Oh, you got into this college? That’s cute. Johnny is a doctor AND a pilot.
I think the next step above that is President. Person who does that has the next set of bragging rights.
Edit: per your edit: WELL THEN YOU ALL KNOW THE BAR! :P
cain
@gwangung:
Boy do I know – my mom didn’t do it so much, but my grandmother was always comparing me to someone she knows.
Manyakitty
@raven: what a fantastic picture!
cain
@Trollhattan:
Modi needs to stop doing this – it just gets that movement riled up and you’re just giving it more attention. Isn’t there something more positive they can do?
Hell, you could even give Punjab some perks. Maybe listen to their concerns?
cain
@Baud:
The GOP is going to collapse. She’s biding her time. She’s going to take over the party from the MAGA ashes and probably doesn’t want to be seen recommending a Dem president.
cain
@TBone:
No thanks. She has a completely different idea of what the nation needs than we do.
Misterpuff
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: It’s a “Campaign of Joy” because the Dems are fighting.
The scales have fallen from our eyes, we have identified the enemy and we can see The Promised Land just beyond.
Its time to take out the Big Boss and Level UP!
Geminid
@Baud: The Northern Virginia news site FauquierToday broke the story on the Simes search. Nothing much happens in Rappahannock County so it was big news.
The Ritter raid got a lot of publicity at the time; I think the NYT is basically putting 2 and 2 together.
Also, there is reporting that former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is now subject to Homeland Security’s “Safe Skies” program. Gabbard can still fly, but she’s subject to extra monitoring.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@KatKapCC:
Problem solved. It’s starting and there’s still nothing posted, but we decided to just turn it on and keep it on, gavel to gavel.
Pappenheimer
@Eric S.: in winos there is veritas
frosty
@Burnspbesq: College Park is in PG County where they elected her County Exec so they’re probably resigned to it.
They sure as hell aren’t going to vote for someone from (shudder) Baltimore!! Hogan was BaCo Exec before Governor.
Quinerly
@TBone:
Ugh. No, just no. We don’t need a fucking Cheney on our stage.
jonas
@Baud: Lemme guess: one of them was Tucker Carlson?
frosty
@Leto: I love the A-10. Redundant engines, tailplane, wing (half), bathtub armor for the pilot. Wonder how it would hold up in Ukraine against drones and MANPADs.
Geminid
@Quinerly: I don’t think Cheney could say anything Kinzinger won’t say tomorrow night.
But Cheney is better off laying low. There is a lot of talk about death threats to Republican apostates. I tend to discount this factor; after all, Reps. Dan Newhouse and David Valadeo voted to impeach Trump and they still walk the halls of Congress. But Cheney has a higher profile plus she’s a woman, so I expect she draws extra attention from vindictive nuts
Ed. I think Liz Cheney’s career in elective office is over and she knows it. Someone will pick up the pieces if Trump wipes out, but it won’t be Cheney.
David 🐝KHive🐝 Koch
Damn. You can never find The A-Team when you need them.
frosty
@Betty Cracker: Won’t Back Down too, right? What a perfect choice.
Gin & Tonic
@Baud:
Paywalled.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
I just heard on MSNBC that Stevie Wonder is going to perform (unless, y’know, they James Taylor him). That’s pretty exciting.
Looking forward to hearing what Secretary Pete has to say. Bill Clinton, in what feels like the flash of an eye, has transformed from gifted young politician-horndog into an éminence grise, and he’s usually pretty entertaining. I think we’re also getting Nancy and Hakeem tonight. But of course Tim Walz is tonight’s main draw, and from what I’ve seen of him in the last three weeks he will light that place up!
Got back from grocery shopping a little while ago and was wearing one of my new Harris-Walz t-shirts. One guy, a 60-ish white guy, tracked me all over the Publix parking lot before pulling up to tell me “I love your shirt!” I did my standard response (“Are you registered to vote?”) Then he told me that he and his wife met at Howard University, where they were both students; he and Kamala were on campus at the same time, although different years and different academic/social circles, so he didn’t know her. But he’s enormously proud of the Howard connection, and it’s a pleasure for me to know that there are 60-ish white guys in Atlanta’s northern suburbs who are happy warrior Democrats.
eclare
@SiubhanDuinne:
I am of the right age, the big thing tonight, besides Walz, is the tribute to Prince!
TBone
@Scout211: nice
SiubhanDuinne
@eclare:
The entire evening is going to be great!