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Henry is tired after the debate. That’s all I’ve got, back to work!
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suzanne
Elon Musk is fucken gross. I usually wouldn’t encourage violence, but if Travis Kelce turned Elmo into a smear on the pavement, it might be better for us all.
TBone
@suzanne: 🖤
frosty
Weren’t you supposed to be MIA?? Tote that barge, lift that bale!!
sdhays
@suzanne: I just want his “Full Self-Driving” Autopilot to decide going over a cliff is a faster way to get home.
Leto
@suzanne: he needs to get back in his Deplorian and fuck back off to planet Not Here.
mrmoshpotato
Looks like Mr. Moose is exhausted too.
hueyplong
If you’re looking for more objective reactions to last night, Trump’s stock is down about 12% today.
hilts
Dumbass crybaby Megyn Kelly had a fit over David Muir and Linsey Davis correcting some of Trump’s lies.
h/t https://www.mediaite.com/tv/three-against-one-megyn-kelly-unleashes-on-biased-abc-debate-moderators-and-their-full-of-sht-fact-checks
Ken
After due consideration, I’ve decided my favorite reaction to the debate is the one from Erick Erickson screaming at all the other RWNJs for using the “eating your pets” slur so often that it managed to penetrate into Trump’s brain
(Related, though not directly about the debate, Asher Langton notes: “Sadly, there actually is a group of people who brutally murder more than 10,000 pet dogs a year in this country. Their union just endorsed Trump.”)
Anoniminous
Trying to encapsulate last night in a single image.
HumboldtBlue
I still wanna know what the fuck was up with the MAYOR OF MOSCOW’S WIFE!!!!!
Fox is having a tough time today, and you love to see it. Meanwhile, Kamala basks in the afterglow of a much-needed beat down of that fat orange clown.
Even Chris Christie’s ever-odious ass was impressed.
sdhays
I had read that Trump had underbussed JV, but damn!
“I don’t talk to JD.”
I wonder if Tim Walz will bring that up in the debate.
Baud
Wild image. Everyone is there.
dmsilev
Alexandra Petri is, as ever, a treasure: The Trump-Harris debate, summarized
mali muso
Working from home today to stay with the kiddo as the entire area school system is shut down from “an abundance of caution” related to a threat situation. America.
On the positive side, I am enjoying reading/watching the reactions to last night’s debate, as I went to bed early and didn’t watch live. Woke up around midnight, threw some money at the campaign to help run up the score, and didn’t check any headlines until morning. Is it accurate to summarize that the wisdom of our media betters yesterday was that this debate was the MOST important thing and today it’s “debates don’t matter”?
jonas
@hueyplong: It’s been testing a floor of about $15 today. Yikes.
suzanne
@Leto: I saw a Cybertruck on Saturday while I was running. First time I got to see one up really close. It looked like shit. The area around the door handle was super fingerprint-y and oily-looking. Like stainless steel appliances! Which also look bad!
zhena gogolia
Is all that white fluff Henry?
Looks delicious! j/k
hilts
Idiot writer for the Federalist wants ABC prosecuted for illegal contributions to Harris because of the way Muir and Davis moderated the debate.
h/t https://thefederalist.com/2024/09/11/abc-should-be-prosecuted-for-illegal-contributions-to-harris-in-debate
Ken
Congratulations to Christie for noticing that Trump is easily provoked, a fact pointed out by Hillary Clinton in 2016. What will he discover next? That Trump is a convicted felon?
zhena gogolia
@suzanne: What did he do now?
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
You saucy.
zhena gogolia
@Anoniminous: That is great!!!!
zhena gogolia
@HumboldtBlue: Yelena Baturina, wife of the long-dead FORMER major of Moscow, major gangster Yuri Luzhkov, did NOT give any money to Hunter Biden. That’s the story.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: I know WG will forgive me. All I want to do is snuggle Henry and give him scritches.
mrmoshpotato
@dmsilev: Alexandra Petri continues to be a national treasure.
suzanne
@zhena gogolia: After Swift’s endorsement, Elmo xhitted (tweeted?) the following:
:::hurl:::
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1fe2q51/elon_musk_reacts_to_taylor_swifts_recent_statement/
Dangerman
Bullwinkle!!!
TBone
@dmsilev: thank you, was waiting for that one! 💜
rikyrah
@suzanne:
Absolute piece of scum
HumboldtBlue
Stephen Colbert’s monologue was very good.
rikyrah
@hilts:
yeah..heaven forbid, they break in with the truth…
Falling Diphthong
@suzanne: I think that the best response to Elon was someone searching to see if Swift had ever commented on his account, or about him.
No.
HumboldtBlue
Kamala Harris doing what she does best: going after felons.
zhena gogolia
@suzanne: Oh, what a creep. What a creep.
He has strewn abandoned children over the landscape, which makes it even more creepy.
zhena gogolia
@HumboldtBlue: Thanks! I’m getting ready for an intense work trip, and I’m all prepared, and I’m finding myself unable to do anything else today but watch interesting videos.
zhena gogolia
@HumboldtBlue: That is beautifully done. Thanks, LP!
Redshift
@sdhays: The thing is, if you look at the articles about Vance saying Trump would veto an abortion ban, he didn’t even say Trump had told him that. He just said, basically, “his position is that it should be left to the states, so of course that must mean he’d be against a ban.”
TBone
Tiedrich headine 🏆 and writeup 🤩😆
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/elderly-convict-humiliates-himself
rikyrah
@mali muso:
they had their stories all ready and waiting. All they needed was the Orange Menace to give them any kind of plausible cover for which they could hang their TRUMP WON stories. He gave them NOTHING…
BWA HA HA HA AH HA HA AH HA
suzanne
@rikyrah: These gross and horny men need to fuck off to the moon.
Anyway
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/sarah-mcbride-delaware-primary-win-congress-rcna169758
zhena gogolia
@HumboldtBlue: Didn’t like the swipe at Biden at the beginning, but that line about butter and rosemary is really good!
KatKapCC
@hilts: SNORT.
Redshift
@suzanne: It was unbelievably creepy and gross. Swift was hitting back at Vance’s “childless cat lady” smear, and he thinks it’s funny to say “she’s lamenting that she doesn’t have children, like all females, and is in desperate need of an incel like me to make it happen!”
If only we had an HR department for humanity that could tell him that’s a firing offense!
mali muso
@rikyrah: You love to see it!
zhena gogolia
@Redshift: And I think the implication is that he’s going to protect her cat from the ravenous Haitians.
Trollhattan
@hilts: What happened to “money is speech” and “business shall be unfettered by government interference”?
Trollhattan
@Baud: I understand he has several children to choose from, to gift her with.
mrmoshpotato
@suzanne: Not creepy at all! /S
HumboldtBlue
@zhena gogolia:
This is far more fun than I imagined it was going to be, and it’s all due to the manner in which Kamala publicly spanked that fucking traitor. The righties are beside themselves, they are spitting mad and it’s glorious!
From Crooks and Liars — Kamala Harris Steamrolled Donald Trump
TBone
@Anyway: 💙
Trollhattan
@suzanne: Definitely statementmobiles. Owners can’t imagine the delta between what they believe they’re stating and what they’re effectively stating.
It’s the H2 Hummer for the modern era.
Redshift
@mali muso:
I wouldn’t say so. Top headline on WaPo right now is “Harris dominated Trump in the debate, but tight race is still ahead.” NYT has the boring but not terrible “Harris and Trump Bet on Their Own Sharply Contrasting Views of America,” but are also featuring the fact-check of the immigrant smear and an opinion roundup with “‘Harris Won, and It Wasn’t Close’: 14 Writers Rate the Presidential Debate”. Better than I expected from them.
mrmoshpotato
@suzanne:
The Moon doesn’t deserve that kind of mistreatment!
Redshift
@zhena gogolia: Definitely. One half super-creepy, the other super-racist.
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@Baud: Trump was grinning and thumbs upping during the reading of the names of the 9/11 dead. He make me want to vomit. The asshole refused to attend the memorial in 2021.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/11/2269549/-Trump-had-a-lazy-show-up-at-the-9-11-memorial-service
suzanne
@Redshift: And offering to “give you a baby” is generally interpreted as an “offer” to fuck.
Gross gross gross.
HumboldtBlue
A key point missing in a lot of post debate analysis is that Trump’s claim about immigrants eating pets almost perfectly syncs up to the piano in the Peanuts theme song.
schrodingers_cat
@Trollhattan: I read that as a rape threat.
rikyrah
DFW Sports 4Life (@Kennymack1971) posted at 9:16 AM on Wed, Sep 11, 2024:
He’s not doing a second debate unless he can stack the deck overwhelmingly in his favor. Equal footing she whooped his behind and it wasn’t even a question that she did.
(https://x.com/Kennymack1971/status/1833872359993872408?t=NUN5WAhsWuUrTOshNxDF4g&s=03)
catclub
CNN:
Lip reading says she is saying “I ate your lunch at the debate, old man.”
TBone
@HumboldtBlue: 💙😎
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat: Me too.
HumboldtBlue
Having to attend a service with the person that beat your ass the night before has to be rough.
catclub
@Baud: Comment on that picture about Vance:
Vladimir futon is dressed in the cult uniform.
Everyone? I certainly do not see Giuliani. Isn’t he hiding from being served subpoenas?
Barbara
@schrodingers_cat: I would guess that Swift receives thousands of messages through every kind of media that express similarly crude sentiments. He’s not even being original.
Taylor Swift is also the woman who refused to ignore sexual assault inflicted on her as a teenager by a radio host. I assume she ignores anything that isn’t physically threatening.
Kirk
@schrodingers_cat: as did my spouse and I.
BellyCat
@TBone: Tiedrich is fairly good. Would read him more but his unrelenting commitment to lower-case letters at the beginning of each sentence is not just irritating, it demands too much fucking work of the reader. I mean, if you miss a damn period, you’re trying figure out what looks like a run-on sentence.
TBone
@EmbraceYourInnerCrone: I just found a photo meme of it: President Biden, VP Harris, et al. with eyes closed reverently during Moment of Silence while Dumbvict is looking up wondering how long a minute is! 😆
KatKapCC
@HumboldtBlue: Good Lord, I’m sure the article is great but that site is almost unreadable due to all the ads all over it.
HumboldtBlue
The MSNBC panel following the debate last night. Let’s watch it again for shits and giggles. Well, for the uproarious laughter, not just giggles.
Steve LaBonne
I don’t have a comment. I have concepts of a comment.
JaySinWA
@catclub:
Size (of the tie) matters. It looks like Vance hasn’t quite got the length down. Perhaps he doesn’t want to outshine the boss.
TBone
@BellyCat: I was a proofreader in law offices for years and he’s worth it enough for me to ignore that. Believe me, I notice!
HumboldtBlue
@KatKapCC:
UBlock origin is your friend.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@schrodingers_cat: Sounded to me more like Elmo thinks he ought to be utterly irresistible to women, what with his reputation and his fortune and all. Or he’s joking in that punching-down sense.
Too bad for him Taylor Swift has her own reputation and fortune and much better taste in companions.
And I wouldn’t like to be in Elmo’s shoes when the Swifties decide what to do about him. (Caveat: all I know about the Swifties is what they did to Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem over a syntax-mangled compliment that got autocorrected into an insult.)
HumboldtBlue
Elon Musk Proves He’s a Total Creep With Taylor Swift Threat. Taylor Swift announced she’s voting for Kamala Harris—and Elon decided to be the disgusting scumbag he is.
BellyCat
@TBone: you’re probably better at spotting periods, too. i find it a little exhausting.
twbrandt
@hilts:
I’d like to ask Megyn, if Trump is so weak he can be bamboozled by a couple of journalists, how is he going to deal with people like Putin or Xi?
TBone
@BellyCat: I hear you! We’re all of us who stayed up last night exhausted today. That, too, was worth it!
TBone
@HumboldtBlue: 💙🇺🇲
Thank you, I was bleary for that last night
sdhays
@HumboldtBlue: Why is JV there?
Redshift
@rikyrah: Nice of him to say out loud what has been true for decades — they’ll scream “biased” at anything that isn’t biased in their favor.
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@TBone: exactly! He can not stand any event that does not center him (Trump)
prostratedragon
@Anoniminous: ¡¡😅!!
SW
@suzanne: No shit. I saw one yesterday and it is butt ugly. It looks like someone knocked it together in their garage with flat panels of stainless steal and a welder. Can’t believe a real human was paid to design it.
KatKapCC
@twbrandt: Good question!
Baud
@TBone:
This one?
EarthWindFire
@rikyrah: Wasn’t even equal footing. He won a coin toss that gave him the last word on every question. Even with that boost, he couldn’t pull it off.
Imagine the whoop-ass if Harris got the last word. I don’t think Trump will risk it but with his vengeance issues, who knows?
KatKapCC
@Baud: He looks like he’s wondering what he’ll have for lunch.
HumboldtBlue
The Kamala highlights from the debate.
Leto
@suzanne: Avalune said she spotted one this past weekend in our neighborhood. There’s only one house that turd could belong to, but we know it’s not theirs so back into the wild it returned…
SatanicPanic
@Trollhattan: there’s a new Al electric Hummer. Which is weird because anyone who would want one probably already has a Cybertruck
Jinchi
Well CNN currently has an Analysis column titled :
“Harris won the debate, but could still easily lose the election”
because there is no such thing as ‘Good News’ for Democrats.
lowtechcyclist
@Ken:
If I were still on Xitter, I’d tell him, “Dude, that’s who y’all ARE these days. If you’ve got a problem with this, then you’ve got a problem with being a Republican in 2024.”
mrmoshpotato
@catclub:
Oh? Not “Surprised you showed up, you traitorous trash.”?
KatKapCC
@Jinchi: I love how the media and pundits think saying “someone could lose the election” is some kind of trenchant analysis. Like, yeah, dumbass. Someone always loses every election. That’s how they work.
Ned F.
So, is anyone calling for donald to drop out of the race? He screwed the debate…
No wait, don’t drop out!! everything’s fine, just keep up the good work, you got it, man.
Trollhattan
@SatanicPanic: Yup, it exists. I’ve seen one, and luckily just the one. They really fill up a parking space.
I try not to ponder being hit by one.
10,000 pounds going 0-60 in 3.3 sec?
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: Is that Michael Bloomberg standing between President Biden and the orange, loser shitstain?
Dangerman
After Arlington, how big of an asshole do you have to be grinning at a 9/11 service?
I guess he’s not winning New York.
ETA: Although I’ll give him a pass if that was his “just made poopy in public” look
HumboldtBlue
lowtechcyclist
@Anoniminous:
I keep thinking of Billie Jean King’s demolishing Bobby Riggs. That moment when she slammed the ball into an open court – I can still see that in my mind’s eye after 51 years. (Riggs had had to run off the court to return her previous shot.)
Kent
A few months ago there was some made-up lie passed around by James Comer’s investigation of Hunter Biden in which they claimed that $3.5 million were funneled to Joe Biden via the wife of the Moscow mayor, using Hunter Biden as a cutout.
Apparently the deeply feverish right wing media ran with it for a bit and like the immigrants eating dogs thing, Trump just absorbed the nonsense and repeated it in the debate.
So he didn’t actually make it up. He is just repeating Republican fever swamp dipshittery and lies.
UncleEbeneezer
@Barbara: Not to mention, Swift has a boyfriend who is rich, good-looking, famous and an elite athlete.
No, Elon, like most women, she doesn’t want to fuck you. And never will. All the $ in the world won’t ever make the cool girls want to fuck Nazis like you!
HumboldtBlue
@Kent:
Yeah, Zhena schooled me, I just think it’s hilarious.
Almost as funny as watching Trump try to do the handshake pull thing he does to people, and Kamala was having none of it.
HumboldtBlue
@mrmoshpotato:
Yes.
Old School
@Ned F.:
dr. luba
@Trollhattan: Saw a tweet warning Swift “Don’t fall for it! Elon is an immigrant and he just wants to get in there to eat your cat!”
OId Man Shadow
@schrodingers_cat: Yeah. Same.
hueyplong
@UncleEbeneezer: Let’s not unnecessarily limit it to “cool” girls.
OId Man Shadow
@UncleEbeneezer: I don’t think he particularly cares about consent.
Leto
@suzanne: sorry, still too close. Minimum distance = heart of the sum, preferred distance would be following Voyager 1 or 2.
Old School
Chris
@Dangerman:
Might even help him with his base.
Remember, the immediate reaction from the GOP’s two biggest cult leaders at the time was to go on national TV and giggle about how 9/11 was God’s vengeance on New York for having so many gays and feminists.
I suspect there were quite a few nineties neo-Nazi militia types who saw the towers go down and thought “damn it, that was going to be our next big project!”
Trollhattan
@dr. luba:
Heh. Any chance of deporting him with all that other furriner rabble?
Like his new buddy Trump, Elmo imagines himself as being suave and funny. Absurd on its face it’s ultimately a product of surrounding yourself with toadies. “Good one, sir. You really got her with that.”
SatanicPanic
@Trollhattan: that’s really irresponsible JFC. If I had to point to any problem with EVs it’s that they’re too fast for most dipshit drivers
Leto
@HumboldtBlue: “B*tch, I will break that hand off and beak you with it like you owe me lunch money…” – excerpt from MVP’s upcoming book, “Concepts of a Beat Down”
Trollhattan
@Old School: Heh, all 1:40:39 of it.
Her team, they’re good at this.
Soprano2
I didn’t want to harsh everyone’s buzz in the morning thread, so I’m going to post this here. My husband had his visit with the hematologist on Monday; the doctor is almost sure that he has multiple myeloma. *sigh* He’s waiting for a few more tests to know for sure, but all signs point to it. He says after he gets these other tests he’ll know more about what treatment to do, if any. He’s fully aware of my husband’s other health problems; we know that something like a bone marrow transplant is not in the cards for him, it would probably kill him to even try it. Just something else to manage and go to the doctor for…..
SatanicPanic
@Soprano2: oh no that’s hard news. I’m so sorry.
3Sice
Stephen Miller flipped out in the spin room post debate.
Soprano2
@HumboldtBlue: It doesn’t matter who did debate prep for TCFG, because he can’t resist doing exactly what he did last night no matter what they tell him he should do.
Old School
@Soprano2: My sympathies. I’m hoping for the best.
Trollhattan
@SatanicPanic: Agreed. It’s mental and the rest of us shouldn’t be responsible for keeping out of its way.
Reminded of my first encounter with the civilian H1, which is WAY larger than the H2 Hummer. Was driving CA 160, a 2-lane highway in the Delta. This thing was coming at me taking its entire lane and part of mine, forcing me to drive partly on the shoulder with the Sacramento River levee edge another foot or two to my right. Frickin’ harrowing.
OId Man Shadow
ABC News committed several wanton acts of journalism last night and I’m sure a senior editor is trying to find out how that happened.
Barbara
@Soprano2: I am sorry to hear this. My sister in law has had multiple myeloma for years. I think it is highly variable, but she doesn’t share too much about the kind of treatments she has received. I think bone marrow transplant is a last resort. Wishing you the best.
Trollhattan
@3Sice: He’ll still have his good looks.
scribbler
@Soprano2: That’s really terrible news. You and your husband don’t need anything more to deal with! Sending you hugs, if that’s okay.
Anonymous At Work
Question: After assembling all those panels of “undecided voters” for different papers, polls, and networks, have all of them successfully managed to get home safely? I imagine that a lot of them cannot operate motor vehicles, non-rotary telephones, or metal silverware without assistance.
mrmoshpotato
@Steve LaBonne: Nicely done.
EarthWindFire
@Soprano2: Oh, no, I’m so sorry to hear this. Sending you both light.
HumboldtBlue
@Soprano2:
Have some love from the Lost Coast, and here’s to a quick recovery.
prostratedragon
@Soprano2: Sorry to hear this. Perhaps it will turn out to be something more easily manageable.
Baud
@Soprano2:
I’m sorry to hear that.
Sure Lurkalot
@Jinchi:
Worse than that, CNN thinks it’s perfectly fine if that easily manipulated, lying bag of grievance becomes president again and they will false equivalence his glaring unfitness and abject cruelty to make it possible.
Leto
@Trollhattan: it’s mental, but we don’t put limiters on any other vehicles. Here’s how most people react/end up just trying to utilize 1/10th of the capability.* Idk freedom to chose and shit, right? At least it’s one more step on the EV path.
*The Viper is known, even among professional drivers, as a car that is always trying to kill you. Which is why putting it in the hands of normies is just silly. But we still do it.
suzanne
@Soprano2: Hugs to you and your husband, friend.
lowtechcyclist
@twbrandt:
By doing whatever they want him to. Duh!
Leto
@Soprano2: oh man, I’m sorry.
twbrandt
@Soprano2: so sorry to hear that. That’s so hard.
mrmoshpotato
@Old School: LOL! MVP’s ad team has a great sense of humor.
Kathleen
@Soprano2: Sending you love and prayers.
BR
The Haitian-Korean dance debate response:
https://www.tiktok.com/@drinktastelli/video/7413360945411427626
narya
@Soprano2: Oh, I’m so sorry; that is suckage on top of suckage.
Kent
As usual, the Harris campaign staff are 100% on top of things.
Within minutes of Taylor Swift’s beautifully written and timed endorsement:
They leave nothing to chance. It is the best run campaign I have seen since Obama08 and given that they have had only a tiny fraction of the time to get things in gear compared to Obama’s campaign, are doing an even more impressive job. The Obama campaigns early months were pretty rough actually. They didn’t really hit their stride until nearly a year in.
narya
Charlie Pierce did a zoom for subscribers–while I listened, I did another 10 postcards for Vargas in NE.
The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion
@Soprano2: I’m so sorry. I’ll be rooting for both of you with all my heart.
Trollhattan
@Soprano2: Fingers and toes crossed for you both.
p.a.
@Soprano2: Sending all the +++ thoughts I can.
Tim C.
@SatanicPanic: EV Driver here. YES. With the Single exception of the Leaf, pretty much all EVs are much more powerful than most people think. Simple Transmissions, Instant Torqe and the fact it’s just a lot simpler to put more Kw Output in an electric motor than HP in an Internal combustion engine.
Sure Lurkalot
@Soprano2: I’m so sorry to hear this, your dear spouse has had more than his share of medical issues.
Kent
@Tim C.: Even the Leaf is more powerful than you think. The current model can do 0-60 in 6.7 seconds which beats pretty much any equivalent gas powered econobox like a Honda Fit or Toyota Corolla.
lowtechcyclist
@Soprano2:
I am so sorry to hear this, and after everything you were already dealing with. Good luck.
Mousebumples
@Soprano2: ugh, I’m sorry to hear that. Good luck.
If you ever want to pick my brain on pharmacology stuff (*I’m a pharmacist for my day job), feel free to DM me on bsky, if you’re there, or I’m sure WaterGirl could connect us too.
Mousebumples
@narya: thanks for postcarding! 🤩
Another Scott
Meanwhile, …
[ womp, womp ]
Unless things have changed, this is the Continuing Resolution with the poison pill “must show proof of citizenship to vote” rider. Everyone quasi-expected the GQP House to pass this and for it to die in the Senate (as Schumer won’t take it up). (Then they would vote for the real CR in a few weeks.)
As usual, their “majority” can’t do the simplest things like vote to keep the lights on without Democrats’ help.
We have to vote the monsters out. Forward!!
Cheers,
Scott.
Urza
Elmo’s baby mamma’s should each be demanding a billion a year in child support, per kid.
Quinerly
I am late to all threads. Kitchen cabinet update project keeps me off the internet. Just got in a dust up on FB with a Trumper who is friends with a musician friend of mine. My musician friend is all in re Harris. He doesn’t cull his friends like I do.
Anyway, the Trumper is doing her own research. Someone connected to ABC introduced Harris to Emhoff way back. This proves the debate was rigged. (Harris got all questions ahead of time). And if that wasn’t enough, this Trumper has done a Google search and found KH’s earrings on line. They were equipped with microphones.
Tim C.
@Kent: Okay, I stand corrected. When I test drove them… a while ago, I thought they were fine, but didn’t have the obvious “Zoom” of other models.
Baud
@Quinerly:
How do microphone earrings help Kamala? Was her audio better than Trump’s?
Tim C.
@Quinerly: Yup, Saw this on my Uber Trumper Aunt’s facebook.
It makes no sense, I mean, he won the debate, didn’t you hear him say that?
cmorenc
@SW: Someone drove up in a cybertruck to my neighborhood grocery store and parked in the lot. It looks like a retro-future relic from a 1960s era Twilight Zone episode or maybe the batmobile if there had been a Batman TV series back in the era of black and white TV. Actually, kind of handsome as a piece of metal sculpture, but ugly as something actually intended as any sort of practical working vehicle.
Anonymous At Work
@Another Scott: That was Round 1 and Mikey has 9 more toes to lose after he accidentally shot one off. Given that half of the caucus was pissed over the CR itself and the other half hated the poison pill stunt giving the MAGAts more power, he’s not going to find a path without Democrats but can’t admit that he can’t find a path without Democrats.
A few stories about how elections would work under government shutdown conditions should be in the works.
hueyplong
I’m so old I remember the days when doing your own research was a post-vaccine way for people to die of COVID.
jonas
@EmbraceYourInnerCrone: OMG, I haven’t read any of the stories about the ceremony this morning, but the first thing I thought when I saw some headline about Trump being there was “I bet that sack of shit posed for a bunch of pictures at Ground Zero grinning and giving a thumbs-up.”
And of course he did.
JML
@Quinerly: impressive levels of cult-like behavior here. I mean, that’s basically what the GOP is now: a cult.
Old School
@Baud:
They are trying to say Kamala Harris was being fed lines during the debate.
Twitter has found her actually earrings online. They are from Tiffany and not equipped with a transmitter.
Kent
@Tim C.: The first gen ones were slower. But the current model (which is obsolete in other ways) is actually not really a slouch. Electric motors have so much more low-end torque than gas engines that it is trivially easy to build them that will accelerate fast
That is the same reason why all locomotives are electric. Even the diesel ones are simply a diesel generator feeding electricity to electric motors driving the wheels.
Old School
@Quinerly:
I’m not finding a connection to ABC. Not that that would convince your friend’s friend.
Doug was a lawyer for Reginald Hudlin who was President of Entertainment for BET from 2005 to 2008. Reginald’s wife Chrisette, who works in public relations, set up Emhoff and Harris in 2013.
SFBayAreaGal
@Steve LaBonne: ISWYDT
Geoduck
@Sure Lurkalot: CNN, the NYT and the Post all went with “Harris won the debate but it’s still a horse-race!” headlines.
TBone
@Baud: exactly! 😆
Anonymous At Work
Something I just realized about Harris’s comment on TFG’s rallies. Was it just me or was she daring CNN and other networks to show his next rally in its entirety, rather than play 20 seconds worth of clips?
Ken
@Old School: Well of course the ones you get from Tiffany aren’t equipped with receivers. The CIA added those to Harris’s pair.
We know the CIA is all in for Harris because they tried to assassinate Trump — and we know that was the CIA because he’s still alive. (Rimshot, it’s an old joke, I think originally about Castro.)
HumboldtBlue
Matt McIrvin
@Old School: Maybe they were confusing CBS (Paramount/Viacom) with ABC (the Mouse)? BET seems to be part of the former.
tam1MI
@Soprano2: Sending all the good vibes I have your way.
Trollhattan
@Ken:
Fun fact: CIA’s spy jewelry tech is named Tiffany. Think of her as our Q.
SatanicPanic
@Old School: why would having the questions in advance matter anyway? No one ever directly answers debate questions
geg6
@Soprano2:
I’m so sorry to hear this. You’ve been through so much lately and I feel for you. It’s truly a bitch having a partner who is failing and fading. And now for him to have to go through treatment hell! If there is anything at all I can do, I’m here.
SFBayAreaGal
@Baud: Look at his sons. They are watching him.
Another Scott
@Baud:
The snark is strong with that one.
Cheers,
Scott.
Old School
@SatanicPanic:
True. And it’s not like any of the questions were completely out of the blue. They were all ones that could have been reasonably expected.
hilts
Mark Levin and Megyn Kelly have completely lost their minds over Taylor Swift’s endorsement:
Levin’s reaction
https://www.mediaite.com/news/mark-levin-reaches-out-to-swifties-by-denouncing-superstar-as-an-imbecile-after-harris-endorsement/
Kelly’s reaction
https://www.mediaite.com/news/this-is-disgusting-f-you-megyn-kelly-loses-it-over-taylor-swifts-endorsement-of-kamala-harris/
TBone
@Quinerly: hubby saw that earring microphone thing all over his Fascistbook (I do not participate in any social media). So weak, so, so weak.
SFAW
@rikyrah:
Now sync it up with Dark Side of the Moon
TBone
@hilts: 😆😆😆
Trollhattan
@hilts:
They seem nice.
You do know one of the best ways to cloak your anti-Semitism is to marry a Jew. Nobody will suspect a thing.
Until it’s too late.
Old School
@Matt McIrvin:
I found it! Here’s the ABC connection (although Doug isn’t really needed):
Baud
@hilts:
Baud! 20XX!
Lyrebird
@suzanne: WHOA.
Creeptastic.
Jay
@Soprano2:
I am sorry to hear that, best wishes to you and your husband. That is another burden on top of everything else.
And fuck Cancer.
BellyCat
@Soprano2: Damn! Sending you strength.
KrackenJack
@Soprano2:
So, so sorry to hear that. I have three relatives who were diagnosed with MM. Wishing the very best for you and husband.
raven
raven
@Soprano2: I’m so sorry. AO probably but it doesn’t matter at this point.
Miki
@Soprano2: Oh no …. Sending a boatload of warm, caring thoughts your way.
Jeffro
@Anyway: that, and there was an upset in the gubernatorial primary, too. Dem voters didn’t go for the Lt Gov (the ‘next in line’ candidate) as her husband had mishandled campaign funds over the years.
Another sign of a healthy party! “DEMS: we actually have standards/police ourselves”
Dave
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: Never grant them the joking because it’s their reliable fall back and with Elmo and his fellow travelers there is no space between the joke and the belief itself.
TBone
Comment found elsewhere 😆
zhena gogolia
@HumboldtBlue: OMG, sobbing now.
WaterGirl
@Lyrebird:
Not an offer, no consent involved. not “happy to”, not “could”. I WILL give you a child.
So fucking creepy. And threatening.
Soprano2
@Mousebumples: Thanks, I might do that.
zhena gogolia
@Old School: Brilliant!
Jeffro
@Soprano2: I’m so sorry. We will keep you both in our thoughts!
zhena gogolia
@Soprano2: I’m so sorry.
Dave
@hilts: So very normal then as one does.
TBone
@WaterGirl: hard agree.
A dominance ploy (that always backfires on fElon through ferocious pushback, resulting in his rapid unplanned disassembly in public).
Jeffro
She (and her campaign) ABSOLUTELY want the snooze media to cover his rallies more closely. Very smart, strategically, to bring it up.
and trumpov is so stupid, he’ll be like, “Yeah, cover me and my rallies a lot more closely! Do that, media!!” =P
TBone
@Soprano2: gentle hugs and hope for strength for you both.
HumboldtBlue
Live reaction to Kamala roasting Trump at a bar watch party.
zhena gogolia
@HumboldtBlue: Wow, it’s so much funnier in that setting.
HumboldtBlue
@Trollhattan:
I’ve read that line 20 times and laughed very time.
artem1s
@HumboldtBlue:
The candidate should get fired. That’s the difference between a party that expects their candidates to be qualified and one that only wants a puppet that his “donors”, staff and the press leads around by the nose.
TBone
@HumboldtBlue: that was almost “this fucking guy!” She had to stop herself!
😆😆😆
Princess
@Soprano2: I’m so sorry. I hope for the easiest possible path forward for both of you.
artem1s
@Baud:
check out Vance. He’s gone full metal mini-me
Princess
@Quinerly: Looks like the Trumpers are at the bargaining and denial stage
Matt McIrvin
@Trollhattan: I will say, some of the worst racists out there do seem to be married to members of groups they have contempt for. But most often it’s racist white guy + POC wife.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Matt McIrvin: JD Vance, for instance.
sdhays
@artem1s: Yeah, how does anyone think Debate Prep Gandalf would “prepare” Bullshit McAngryPants for a debate? He’s never “prepared” for anything in his life. He has one debate setting: blather and bullshit. Loudly. He can’t do anything else.
prostratedragon
@Leto: Wow. Whispertouch.
Jay
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/debate-harris-trump-2024-analysis-1.7319309
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
I hadn’t seen that portion of the debate, only read about it. It’s funny. Everyone is in on it.
Princess
@hilts: You know everything is projection with the Republicans so between Kelly and the chopping off body parts and Trump and Vance with the eating cats and dogs thing, not to mention RFKjr with the whale and the bear and lord knows what else, I’m sure never going to go to a BBQ at their house ever ever ever.
Bunch of weirdos. They can’t even hear how weird they sound.
Baud
@Princess:
Nominated!
Matt McIrvin
@Dorothy A. Winsor: John Derbyshire was the most appalling example I thought of.
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@Soprano2: I’m so sorry.
SiubhanDuinne
@Soprano2:
Oh, I am really sorry. Tough news for both of you. If you feel so inclined, please keep us posted. You and your husband are in my thoughts.
Jeffro
@Jay: Jared Moskowitz interview afterwards:
pretty much!
Chet Murthy
@sdhays: His prep could have focused on teaching him to not take the bait and go down rabbit holes on things like crowd size, or people eating cats. I mean, for sure he’s not going to bone up on policy: and he doesn’t need to: he can just spout lies and get away with it (most of the time). But he has to actually stay on-topic and know which topics to hammer, right? And which to stay away from. So debate prep could have taught him discipline.
Of course, that would have meant forcing him into uncomfortable situations over-and-over-again, which he wouldn’t like. But that might have worked. Oh, also, it could have worked on attacks that he could use against Harris (like the “I’m talking now” thing).
But it all went out the window when he went racing after the Squrrel!
Trollhattan
A 5-minute rundown of Lyin’ Donny’s lies.
https://x.com/NewsCentralCNN/status/1833830965690396985
Whew, I need a walk.
HumboldtBlue
The Harris campaign just posted the entire debate under the headline: Our newest ad just dropped.
TBone
Rev. Al Sharpton called VP Harris “Hillary Clinton and Obama rolled up into one last night” a little bit ago on Deadline Whitehouse (with a twinkle in his eye).
lowtechcyclist
@Princess:
Plenty of anger, too.
Come to think of it, though, they always have plenty of anger, so it’s hard to connect that to where they are in the five stages.
The one thing we know for sure is that they’ll never reach acceptance.
Old School
mrmoshpotato
@Old School: Or be OOOOOLLLLLLDDDDDDDD!!!!!!
Oh wait, DonOLD is old, and a fascist, and a POS, and a traitor, and…
Sister Golden Bear
@suzanne: I hope Taylor doesn’t fall for his offer—Elon is just an immigrant who wants to worm his way into her life so that he can eat her cat.
TBone
If you have your ad blocker working, all the best xitter responses rounded up in one place:
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/09/debate-2024-twitter-responses-flooding
mrmoshpotato
@Sister Golden Bear: LOL!
Doc Sardonic
@Chet Murthy: You ain’t teachin’ that asshole discipline even with a ball gag, gimp suit and a cat o’ nine tails.
Chief Oshkosh
@hilts: I think Levin and Kelly need to be superglued together and tossed in the river. There’s just nothing good left in either of them.
Starfish
@Soprano2: That’s terrible news. I am sorry to hear that.
West of the Rockies
@cmorenc:
The Cybertruck is a poorly-envisioned idea of “futuristic”… if the year was 1982.
Sister Golden Bear
@HumboldtBlue: Rich, powerful men usually pay lots of money to be dominated the way Trump was last night.
Chet Murthy
@Doc Sardonic: haha, per at least one of the tweets in that C&L post that @TBone: linked-to, yeah, they tried and failed at that. *grin
Anonymous At Work
@Jeffro: She can’t just ask. That becomes the story. She has to dare them to do it and then make them think it was their idea all along. It’s incredibly childish but that’s the media these days.
Trollhattan
@West of the Rockies:
1980s and a guy in the Outback converted a Delorean into a ute, so he could always bring along a sheep or two.
Jackie
I’m waaay behind on the posts… Has this been mentioned?
Old School
mrmoshpotato
@West of the Rockies:
What if that 1982 is in a Mad Max movie?
Jackie
@Soprano2: I’m so sorry ☹️ Hopefully further testing will disprove that diagnosis. Sending you positive energy to help give you strength!
sdhays
@Chet Murthy: Sure, some human being not Donald Trump could have been prepared, but my point is that Donny doesn’t take to training or teaching. He already knows everything he will ever know because the door to his puddle of a brain is shut tight.
His campaign could have hired “the very best debate preppers” and stolen all of the questions ABC was going to ask and in what order and literally told him everything he needed to say or do or strategies to get through the hurtful truths MVP said to him without being triggered, and he would be physically incapable of learning ANY of it.
The only thing he could possible “learn” would be new “awesome” personal insults. But MVP shut that shit down, so….
Trollhattan
Turdblossom, everybody.
Bill Arnold
@jonas:
The price to sales ratio is .. reentering from orbit:
Trump Media & Technology Group PS Ratio: 573.29 for Sept. 11, 2024
( via )
sdhays
@Old School: The bipartisan unity after the 9/11 attacks was gross and a disaster for our country and the world. And it only goes one way – if Gore had been President, we would not have had “bipartisan unity”.
Geminid
@Chet Murthy: Trump was too lazy to adequately prepare for this debate. And whatever debate prep he absorbed may have been undone by looney Laura Loomer, who should never been allowed on the airplane that flew Trump to Philadelphia. She’s even nuttier than him.
Trollhattan
She should definitely prep him for the next debate, should he be so-inclined. [Wait, that would be stupid. Which is why there will probably be one.]
mrmoshpotato
@sdhays:
Stupid dogs can’t learn new tricks.
Wonder how long ago he learned that he was the Kremlin’s bitch.
Doc Sardonic
Loony Loomer was with him on the plane! Hoo Boy, 10 cubic yards of squirrel poop ain’t as nutty as she is.
Ramona
@Doc Sardonic: maybe a remote controlled shock collar in his diaper?
mrmoshpotato
@Geminid: Also (too), too stupid, and too narcissistic.
Geminid
@sdhays: I don’t think the 9/11 attack would have come off if Gore had been President. Bill Clinton’s national security team took bin Laden more seriously than Bush’s team did, and Gore would not have been as complacent as Bush was when he got the warnings. That attack was preventable, and its perpetrators were hiding in plain sight.
Ruckus
@HumboldtBlue:
Whoever did debate prep for Donald Trump should be fired.
Do you really think there was any debate prep whatsofuckingever?
Even if his boys tried they wouldn’t get through that fat skull, because his brain is not only far from reality, it is far from rational functionality as well.
sdhays
@Geminid: I don’t think the 9/11 attacks would have happened either. But if they had, the Republicans would not have backed President Gore to the hilt the way Democrats backed W.
Jackie
@Geminid: Per DonOLD, he has been preparing for this debate his entire life!
Ruckus
@mrmoshpotato:
Wonder how long ago he learned that he was the Kremlin’s bitch.
Him, learn anything? Are you serious?
All the old stuff is falling/being shoved out of that mush pot. Soon it will be a completely empty lump on the shoulders of a useless pile of worse than useless hot air.
Ken
If by “debate prep” you mean “potent cocktail of thorazine and valium”….
Geminid
@sdhays: I think you are right here. Republicans exploited the Pearl Harbor attack, the Chinese intervention in Korea, and the Vietnam quagmire where they could have given Johnson political cover for de-escalation when they knew the war was unwinnable. Republicans would have treated Gore the same way they treated Roosevelt, Truman and Johnson.
Sister Golden Bear
@Soprano2: So sorry to hear this.
Bill Arnold
@Quinerly:
No, Kamala Harris wasn’t wearing these audio earrings / Right-wing conspiracy theorists claim Harris was wearing the Nova H1 Audio Earrings, but that’s not true. (The Verge, Emma Roth, Sep 11, 2024)
In 2021, Kamala Harris was mocked for worrying about bluetooth (“azure dentition”) security.
Kamala Harris is Bluetooth-phobic (Politico, ALEX THOMPSON, RUBY CRAMER and TINA SFONDELES, 12/06/2021)
ETA: The most recent big vuln was this, an old flaw just recently identified and publicized. Could have been exploited for many years, undetected.: New Bluetooth Flaw Let Hackers Take Over Android, Linux, macOS, and iOS Devices (Dec 07, 202, The Hacker News)
Bill Arnold
@Ken:
Verified with the transcript. Trump actually said during the debate that he “probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me.”
He is alleging that an ear wound is a head wound. Which brings the Revelation 13 wounded-head-of-the-Beast-miraculously-healed interpretation back to life, at least in Trump’s mind, such as it is.
Kayla Rudbek
@Soprano2: I’m sorry to hear that and I hope that the doctors can help