Finally crawling out from under all of my work deadlines!
Subaru Diane send these great pics. Love love love the top one.
I would definitely watch that buddy movie!
Not sure what I think of this one. I mean, it’s terribly funny, but I worry that perhaps it will be taken out of context.
Do we think Kamala will have to give up her beloved cooking when we get her into the White House?
If Cole steps on this one, I’ll just move it to later.
Open thread.
WaterGirl
I am so behind on the news. What’s this one about?
Steve LaBonne
I’ve been wondering myself about cooking in the White House. I am no great cook or anything, but I would hate to never be able to cook. When it’s really your hobby it would be even harder. Maybe she’ll teach the chef how to make dosai.
AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team
Glad you got some headway on work deadlines WG!
Ty for all the awesome fundraising lately, it’s the best to know the donations are matched and multiplied 🙏🏻
Baud
How would one take that out of context?
Matt McIrvin
@WaterGirl: could be about how Laura Loomer has started going off in her massively racist way on Indian-Americans, and Vance seems to be OK with it?
Baud
LOL. “If.”
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Good call.
BC in Illinois
@WaterGirl:
I think it’s referring to Laura Loomer saying that Kamala Harris will make the White House smell like curry, etc. Anti-India stereotypes.
And JVance doesn’t have the decency to stand up for his own wife’s sake.
ETA: Or what Matt McIrvin said.
Steve LaBonne
@BC in Illinois: Couchfucker and decency are parallel lines that will never meet.
Chet Murthy
@WaterGirl: J Divans is throwing immigrants — brown immigrants — under the bus. The idea that somehow his Base has the discernment, the …. taste to tell apart a brown Indian immigrant from a brown Haitian immigrant …. well, it beggars belief. He just doesn’t care, doesn’t think about at all, the impact on people like his wife, his wife’s family, people like his wife.
Doc Sardonic
Fixed that for you
eclare
@Chet Murthy:
JV Vance told one of his kids to shut the hell up when he was on the phone with TCFG.
WaterGirl
@Baud: They could accuse her of literally roasting what’s in the pan!
schrodingers_cat
Curry powder is a British invention. Also what Indians call curry and the Brits and Americans call curry are two different things.
Chet Murthy
@eclare: I remember that. I’d claim he’s just a bad parent there. [1] This is …. very different.
[1] and I say this as the child of a male progenitor whose final resting place I have no knowledge of. B/c if I did I’d probably have visited to piss all over it. Even still, there’s a difference between beating your kids/wife, and throwing them to the dogs of racist and fascist factions.
Kirk
Ike cooked meals in his private kitchen. I figure there’ll be no problem if she wants to do the same.
Lyrebird
I’m on team “no, let’s not give that more circulation” on the second photo, fwiw.
WaterGirl
@Matt McIrvin: @Baud: @BC in Illinois:
I have kind of missed the Loomer thing. She’s having an affair with Trump? Shudder. I would sooner have sex with Jabba the
Hut(sp?) Hutt. Which, for the record, I would not do, either.What is wrong with these men who won’t stand up for their families???? Your wife is ugly. Your Dad murdered (if can’t recall who).
You get an insult, and you get an insult, and you get an insult!
zhena gogolia
@Lyrebird: Me too.
raven
I’m sure you had no idea that my Dawgs are playing the Cats in Lexington.
Mr. Bemused Senior
Two Ts [Hutt]
WaterGirl
@Lyrebird: I just moved it below the fold.
WaterGirl
@raven: LOL.
It’s a conspiracy!
schrodingers_cat
I am not finding these eating cats and dogs memes funny.
Scout211
I like this new poll from Yahoo News/ YouGov.
Added:
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@schrodingers_cat: Agreed
WaterGirl
@Mr. Bemused Senior: Thank you.
eclare
@raven:
I know that! But I’m watching my team.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@WaterGirl: I live to serve 🙂
The Audacity of Krope
@Scout211: Never tell me the odds.
@schrodingers_cat: Just consider it as laughing at Republicans instead of immigrants. Might help.
sdhays
@WaterGirl: The way he has talked about his wife’s family hasn’t led me to suppose he holds Indian Americans, including those he’s related to, in any higher regard than Loomer.
Harrison Wesley
Free associating after too many Voodoo Rangers, but the inability to distinguish between chicken and cat immediately sent me to the opening lines of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO5NJpeLg7s
schrodingers_cat
In Indian cuisine, any dish with a sauce is called curry. While when Brits and Americans refer to curry (Madras curry powder) they mean a specific blend of spices, which is a milder variety of sambar masala (spice mix)
ETA: Sambar is a vegetable and lentil stew made in south India.
eclare
@schrodingers_cat:
Agreed.
MagdaInBlack
@schrodingers_cat: I was amused at first, but its turned ugly and I am getting a wee bit worried about where its going
Eta: My sympathies to you and your family. Please have a safe and healing trip when you go.
Baud
@Scout211:
For the record, Obama beat McCain by 7½. That’s the high water mark.
Harrison Wesley
@WaterGirl: Wasn’t Ted Cruz’ father the Zodiac Killer?
Baud
@MagdaInBlack:
We need to evolve with the circumstances, but if we stop mocking them completely when they turn ugly, we just encourage them to use ugliness to shut us up.
WaterGirl
@Scout211: That’s promising!
I wish they would tell us when they change stuff up in their polls, though. I barely trust pollsters at all at this point.
The Audacity of Krope
@MagdaInBlack: I will say, this is the one of the first things that broke through to my Haitian Trump-supporting friend that Trump might be a little off.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
WaterGirl
@Harrison Wesley: Oh, yes, that was it. I was think he accused one of his relatives of assassinating a president. Hard to keep all the nonsense straight.
@Baud: So I wasn’t crazy!
Baud
@The Audacity of Krope:
👍
sdhays
@schrodingers_cat: Yeah, MVP laughing at Dump was effective because the context is, “This guy is nutballs!” But it’s not “funny”. It’s trying to incite a pogrom.
I just saw your news in the other thread – I’m so sorry about your mom.
MagdaInBlack
@Baud: Agreed. It is a ridiculous and mock-able thing for them to believe. And I continue to ridicule. But i still remain concerned where this may be headed.
Fair enough ? 😊
Ken
@Scout211: Ah, but all that polling was before the Republicans decided to double-down on their message of hatred, racism, and misogyny.
sab
@Lyrebird: My cats can open cupboards and also wander across kitchen counters all the time. No dog is up there.
I don’t know the context, but I would not be surprised to find a cat asleep on the counter in my kitchen, and asleep in an empty platter if I was stupid enough to leave it there.
WaterGirl
@MagdaInBlack: I suspect we’re all in agreement where that is concerned.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: We should mock them. But these memes don’t do that. They are ambiguous. RWNJs are already making memes saying save your kittens from Kamala.
Baud
@MagdaInBlack:
No, you should be perturbed, not concerned.
It’s like you want us to lose.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
All memes depend on context. And the right will always respond.
Elizabelle
What wine goes with cat?
Let me know if Kamala or Tim ever specifically address the Springfield Haitians slur.
rk
Can someone explain to me why do people think that Trump was completely thrown off when Kamla Harris shook his hand? Why is it even considered a dominant move? Why would he (or anyone) be intimidated by this? I’ve heard and read people say this, but it’s a complete mystery to me.
Highway Rob
Inspired by the pic 1, I’ll share – we are in the market for a rescue pooch. We’re looking through Austin Pets Alive and some other local rescues, but our last doggo lived 14 years so we’re out of practice. Any advice as we work our way through all the candidate cuties out there?
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: The meme with KH could have been made by a MAGA too. Its not clear that is laughing at the RWNjs or agreeing with them.
Elizabelle
@schrodingers_cat: I know. That’s why Childless Cat Lady (hint: Eras tour) endorsed Harris Walz.
Rightwing stupidity. It’s desperate, isn’t it?
sdhays
@Baud: True. Getting outraged about it is kind of what they want. It’s a tough needle to thread. You want to pop the air from the bubble without trivializing it. And when schools are being dismissed due to bomb threats, it’s hard to find the humor.
Citizen Scientist
@schrodingers_cat:
Ah, thank you for the clarification. My condolences to you and your family regarding your mother.
Baud
@rk:
I don’t know, but Trump has a history of trying to use “firm handshakes” to express his “dominance” but he didn’t do that here for whatever reason.
MagdaInBlack
@Baud: I’m concerned that people are going to get hurt because of this. Bomb threats yesterday
I’m not even going to address the “want us to lose” leap. ffs.
Suzanne
@BC in Illinois:
They keep threatening us with a good time. Remember the taco trucks on every corner?! Holy shit, yes please. Good Mexican food is easily the thing I miss most about Phoenix.
Curry is fucken great.
Chet Murthy
@Elizabelle: Without going back to look, I’m quite sure VP Harris did address that blood libel during the debate.
Baud
@MagdaInBlack:
I was joking.
Citizen Scientist
@schrodingers_cat:
Ah, thank you for the clarification. My condolences to you and your family on your mother’s passing. Safe travels.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
Well, perhaps, but it makes no sense as a right wing meme unless you know the context of what Trump said.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: “gogol” just watched a 10-minute video of Tim Walz in a cake shop in Wausau owned by Ukrainian immigrants, even though the sound was virtually inaudible. So we’re on the same page around here.
NotMax
Ike was no stranger to cooking.
Another Scott
@Harrison Wesley: No, no.
Ted Cruz was the Zodiac Killer.
Ted Cruz’s father was in on the conspiracy with John Dillinger to kill JFK in Dallas.
[/Illuminati]
HTH!!
Cheers,
Scott.
eclare
@Highway Rob:
Tell the shelter about your lifestyle! I originally was interested in a certain dog, but when the shelter asked about my lifestyle, they suggested that I adopt a “house hippo” instead. So that’s what I did, and my hippo is snuggled next to me on the couch.
zhena gogolia
@Chet Murthy: She addressed it by laughing spiritedly.
MagdaInBlack
@Baud: I’ll just be quiet now 😉🌻
Jackie
@schrodingers_cat:
Neither do I. Today is day three of bomb threats in Springfield.
Today TCDG and Vance are tripling down with their accusations aimed at Haiti immigrants. The woman who started the false rumor has confessed it was false, but TCFG and Vance “don’t believe her.”
The woman has confessed she’s concerned about her children’s safety; I doubt democrats are going to threaten her family like Haitian immigrants are being threatened.
eclare
@Baud:
Whose hand would he not let go of? Was it Macron?
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
It’s good for a couple to have things in common.
KatKapCC
@rk: He was pretty clearly planning to not shake her hand, but she walked over and essentially forced him to do so by putting her own hand out. She didn’t let him drive from the first moment.
wmd
Looks like no big footing by anyone.
eclare
@NotMax:
Thanks! I can see Harris doing that, I imagine her only limitation would be time.
Baud
@eclare: I think he does it a lot. IIRC, Macron was expecting it and gave it back to him.
I’ve had dudes try that with me. I don’t get it. A firm handshake means nothing to me.
Baud
@wmd:
We shamed him.
WaterGirl
@eclare: That’s excellent advice!
Suzanne
@Another Scott:
But Dillinger died in 1934? Famously captured at the Hotel Congress in Tucson, which is worth a visit, if you’ve never been there.
rk
@Baud:
I’ve seen him shake hands with a few world leaders. He grabs the hand and pulls. I’ve always thought that the moron doesn’t even know how to shake hands. It never seemed a dominant move to me. But maybe in his own mind he’s doing something clever.
Baud
For the record, people shouldn’t be creating new memes making fun of Trump, as if it were the day after the debate.
WaterGirl
@MagdaInBlack: Don’t do that!
sab
@schrodingers_cat: I agree. I ranted a few threads back. Our local Bhutanese Nepalis are nervous.
NotMax
@schrodingers_cat
And then there’s Japanese curry, a whole different experience.
Also too many Germans have a hankering for a currywurst with their suds.
Chet Murthy
@zhena gogolia: Now that I go to search, I find that
I wonder if this is purposeful. Just as we saw Harris didn’t talk about her being the child of two immigrants, as an argument for immigration, she didn’t explicitly defend immigration here either. One might make the argument that the defense of Haitian-Americans and of immigration in general has to be left to surrogates, b/c the ticket has to avoid discussion of immigration — b/c it is a lightning rod with can only drive away voters. I don’t know, but this is just a guess.
As an immigrant, I don’t feel good about this, but if this is what it takes to win, I guess …. it is what it is.
But yeah, now that I look, I am unable to find a forceful denunciation of this blood libel, from either member of the ticket. Sigh.
dexwood
@Lyrebird: With you on that picture.
eclare
@WaterGirl:
Shelter people know what they are doing and want the owner and pet to be happy!
WaterGirl
@Baud: Not possible! :-)
mrmoshpotato
Same.
The Audacity of Krope
@Baud: Obligatory.
Chet Murthy
@eclare: We’ve seen him try to forceful “jerk handshake” on both Macron and Trudeau. And others too, but I think for sure Trudeau got the best of him on it, and I have a vague memory that Macro did too, though that’s just vague.
MagdaInBlack
@WaterGirl: Don’t worry, I’m incapable of shutting up for very long 😊
Eta: also too: if you have not already, is there a way to try to get in touch with Ozark Hillbilly. Its been since 8/28 ( i think) since we’ve seen him.
Geminid
@WaterGirl: Check out The Daily Mail if you want to catch up on the Loomer story. As of noon today they had put up 7 Loomer articles in the previous 36 hours.
Chet Murthy
@Suzanne: Oh, you and your “linear nature of time” [h/t John Chait]! Get with the new wave!
Jackie
@Scout211: That’s great news for the Popular Vote; but the PV doesn’t win the election.
Which I know you know! I’m following the state polls, but I truly don’t trust their accuracy, either.
Part of me wishes I could sleep until I receive my ballot early Oct. vote, then go back to sleep until Nov 5.
Suzanne
So a friend of mine who lives in Lorain, OH, had a hilarious incident today. A young queer black man came to her house doing political canvassing for Bernie Moreno. She told him that she was exclusively voting for Democrats. He then asked if she had any porch cameras, which she does not, proceeded to tell her, “You seem cool, you’re not gonna tell my boss”…… turns out he was a paid canvasser who hates Moreno. LMAO.
sab
@Chet Murthy: Thank you. We need to call it out as a blood libel because that is what it is.
Baud
@Suzanne:
Man’s gotta eat.
Suzanne
@Chet Murthy: Time is a flat circle, or something, which still does not result in tacos in my mouf whenever I want them!
WaterGirl
@dexwood: @Lyrebird: I think tone deaf was the phrase I was looking for. I won’t use it again.
Harrison Wesley
@Suzanne: What did the WH smell like when the Diaper Don was there?
eclare
@Jackie:
You are definitely not alone in wishing for that.
Suzanne
@Harrison Wesley: Probably like when they clean the grease trap behind the McDonald’s.
Baud
@sab:
Or maybe we need to not interrupt our enemy when they’re making a mistake.
sab
@Baud: That was exactly what I thought.
Highway Rob
@eclare: I’m dying to know, what breed/mix translates as House Hippo?
(The rescues are all asking those questions generally but it’s a good point, we should be clear about that at meet-&-greets.)
eclare
@Harrison Wesley:
Let’s not discuss that.
KatKapCC
@Jackie: Make it November 8 or so. IIRC it took until Saturday in 2020 before we finally knew the result.
mrmoshpotato
@Suzanne: Hahaha! Hope he’s getting paid decently.
piratedan
once upon a time, the FBI and DOJ used to up front and personal with hate crimes and violations of civil rights….
wonder what they’re doing these days.
Jackie
@WaterGirl: You probably didn’t see this either! Apparently anyone TCFG doesn’t like/is jealous of…
Harrison Wesley
@Another Scott: Damn. And I try so hard to keep up.
Baud
@piratedan:
None of which have occurred yet. The only thing that needs to be investigated is the bomb threats.
West of the Rockies
@WaterGirl:
If Jabba is your groove, we won’t kink-shame.
eclare
@Highway Rob:
I adopted an American Staffordshire terrier, about 50 pounds. I am partial to terriers, and all of mine have been pretty chill, except for one that had separation anxiety when I went to work, which half a tab of Trazadone fixed. Warning: all of mine have chewed everything. Mine gets a rawhide chew every day to scratch that itch.
pat
Is that actually Kamala with the cat in the frying pan?
I really had to LOL….
Timill
@sab: Hope, for one, thinks the 8″ frying pan is just right for a snooze. But she’s a tortie, so what can you expect…?
Baud
@Another Scott:
Allred’s family history is clean. Just sayin’.
KatKapCC
@Jackie: That feels like Mad Libs.
So many fun possibilities!
Another Scott
@Suzanne: It was a look-alike that died in Chicago.
You see.
Fnord. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
lowtechcyclist
@Suzanne:
It’s a reference to the Illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea.
ETA: It’s been a couple decades since I re-read Illuminatus! so I can’t remember whether someone else gets shot in Dillinger’s stead, or what.
piratedan
@Baud: only the Bomb Threats…
understand, I get that they should step in when the law has been broken, just hoping for a cold water statement from someone in authority, alas probably a forlorn hope.
Frankensteinbeck
Unfortunately, Loomer did not stop with just “The White House will smell like curry.” She went on to say that The Great Replacement is real and Harris is part of a conspiracy importing vast numbers of immigrants from ‘third world countries’ to replace American voters. I don’t remember the exact ways she included India in this obscene racist tirade, but that India was another of those sources of brown invaders was strongly implied.
zhena gogolia
@Chet Murthy: I don’t know why I thought Tim Walz addressed it today, but I could be misremembering.
KatKapCC
@Another Scott: Ah, but never forget the short-lived existence of Tay, Microsoft’s Twitter bot who got yanked within a few days of release, for saying things like “Ted Cruz would never have been satisfied with destroying only five lives”.
Jackie
@Elizabelle:
Biden ripped into TCFG and Vance today about this either yesterday or today. Does that count?
It goes without saying that Harris and Walz condemn TCFG and Vance’s actions and words…. Don’t we?
WaterGirl
@MagdaInBlack: I have written to Ozark twice in the past week or so. No response I believe I have a sister-in-law’s email from the go fund me we did but I’m trying to figure out if that would be a violation of privacy for me to contact her about him.
K-Mo
The pet-eating thing is an election winner, full stop. The guy was exposed as a gullible idiot who believes the weirdest shit and talks about it in high profile situations as if no one could possibly doubt his word. Completely deluded.
https://x.com/TheKiffness/status/1834585071875158502
MagdaInBlack
@lowtechcyclist: Lol @ Illuminatus! trilogy. Boy, that read is a trip, isn’t it?
Chet Murthy
@zhena gogolia: I don’t know that Walz -didn’t- address it: I simply couldn’t find it by Googling. As I said, I personally hope they address it, b/c …. ugh, blood libel. My mom lives in Fort Worth and I’m pretty goddamn worried.
MagdaInBlack
@WaterGirl: Thank you
eclare
@WaterGirl:
I don’t think it would be.
cain
@schrodingers_cat: preach.
The only people who use curry powder are the Brits and I think the Japanese has a dish that uses it.
Otherwise not even Americans use curry powder.
hells littlest angel
@schrodingers_cat: I thought when Brits refer to curry they mean just any Indian food at all.
sab
@Baud: Are they making a mistake? Ohioans are going nuts against immigration. I don’t know why but here we are. Immigrants across the state are saving neighborhoods and whole towns, yet the racist whining persists, and the whiners also vote.
cain
@WaterGirl:
I prefer Jabba Da Fuq?
Jackie
@rk: When TCFG took the stage he immediately pivoted to behind his podium with no intention of greeting Harris. She in turn, pivoted course and strode up to him at his podium, holding out her hand for a handshake while introducing herself.
She intimidated the hell out of him from the getgo.
hells littlest angel
@cain: You can find curry powder in any American supermarket, including a store brand. Surely someone is buying it.
Baud
@sab:
I don’t know, from what little I’ve seen, a lot of decent people are getting pissed off at Trump for all this. But maybe it’ll work for him in the end.
eclare
@Chet Murthy:
Yeah, an Indian American friend of mine lives in Plano where a few years ago people threatened some Indian American women who were standing around and chatting in a mall parking lot.
mrmoshpotato
@Jackie:
Yup. Dump had no intention of shaking her hand.
lowtechcyclist
@Suzanne:
Nah, that’s Discworld.
Time is a distance that you can’t retract by miles, or so said Voice of the Beehive.
sab
@cain: My midwestern mom used curry powder to produce the most bland flavorless lamb stew I have ever eaten.
Her midwestern cooking was excellent, but whenever she tried to branch out into international…the results were very bland.
eclare
@cain:
I do. And garam masala.
Timill
@hells littlest angel: Must be us ex-pat Brits…
Highway Rob
@eclare: Interesting. Our last pup was >50% AST and I would so not describe her as a house hippo. She did consider herself entitled to any couch space she could find, tho.
The Audacity of Krope
@hells littlest angel: There is curry powder in both my parents’ and my spice racks.
Timill
@hells littlest angel: “Go for a curry” would be generic for Indian food. But if you find “chicken curry” on the menu, there’s a good chance you’re in a Chinese…
eclare
@Highway Rob:
Talk to the people at the shelter, they’ll know their dogs. Good luck!
sab
@Baud: Sherrod Brown isn’t speaking out, and he is usually fearless and I know he is appalled. My husband is mad at him about this too, but I just quietly think “Just win.”
Ken
She may be (sensibly) afraid that, having contradicted Dear Leader, she will be targeted by his followers.
lowtechcyclist
@MagdaInBlack:
It sure is! Maybe it’s time I pulled it off the shelf and re-read it.
sab
@Highway Rob: We have an AST and when house hippo was mentionned I thought “that describes my AST Ponyo.”
schrodingers_cat
@eclare: I find both those spice mixes a tad too harsh and rarely use them.
K-Mo
@The Audacity of Krope: Me too. There are countless recipes that call for it. I make a pretty good butternut squash soup that has a fair bit. But go on and trash it, folks. I’m cool.
Just know that if you come for Old Bay I will cry havoc.
cain
@hells littlest angel: I have no idea who that would be. You search for any Indian food recipe that you would get at a restaurant and you won’t be seeing curry powder in the list of ingredients.
Suzanne
@lowtechcyclist: I can’t keep up with all the crazy. It moves too fast.
Redshift
@Jackie: He tried the dominance handshake yank on her at the 9/11 memorial the day after the debate (because he has no respect for anything.) She was ready for it and it didn’t work.
Jay
@Chet Murthy:
https://www.isidewith.com/discuss/5262192512
Wapiti
@lowtechcyclist: John Dillinger was one of the first set of quintuplets born in the US, and it was one of his brothers who got shot, iirc. /Illuminatus! conspiracy nut
Jackie
@KatKapCC: I NEED to know the moment! We knew Biden won prior to the 8th – but had to wait for the judges to shut down TCFG’s last challenge. Living in PT zone helps!
K-Mo
@cain: You realize it’s just a mix of the other spices in your side rack, right?
Jackie
@WaterGirl: Contact her and let her decide! I’m stress-worrying about Ozark, too😢
Chet Murthy
@Jay: This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlaKYlyN2z0&t=3s
I searched the transcript and found nothing about Haiti there. Could have been badly transcribed. The text there isn’t clear as to whether that last sentence is “isidewith.com” speaking, or Walz speaking.
Betty
@Baud: He tried it at the 9/11 ceremony, but she was ready, and it didn’t work.
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@raven: I hope no one starts shooting up I-75 this time.
Chet Murthy
@Betty: Oh, do you have a clip of that? I wondered how a light woman would be able to deal with his grab-and-jerk. I remember at least one of Trudeau/Macron did it by putting their other hand on his upper arm and locking that arm.
Jay
@Chet Murthy:
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/12/tim-walz-blasts-trump-in-michigan-he-has-no-plan-for-you/75189560007/
Starfish
@sab: Do you think the multiple bomb threats and the Proud Boys showing up will snap people out of it? It sounds like that type of white supremacy is disruptive to daily life.
Jackie
@Redshift: I didn’t see that! Good on her! Being state AG meant she didn’t intimidate easily.
TCFG absolutely knows she’s WAY above his league and that scares the shit out of him!😁
Chet Murthy
@Jay: OK, I searched again and found the bits about cats. But it still wasn’t like what Biden did, which is what I would want to see. Then again, what I want isn’t the same as what is effective for winning in November, and that’s what matters, so I’m good with it.
Betty
@Chet Murthy: Sorry, I don’t remember if it was on Threads or X. He may not have tried as hard to yank on her arm as there were a number of people close by. You could see that she did resist his pull.
mrmoshpotato
@Jackie: Dump also knows he’s a massive loser after this week’s debate.
Dan B
@Ken: The woman who shared the friend’s Haitian neighbor stole and ate her cat is LGBTQ+ and multi racial. Her daughter is half black. She’s pulled her daughter from school. She doesn’t seem to have much self awareness.
Chet Murthy
@Dan B: She says she is these things. Given that she’s spread this vicious blood libel, I’m disinclined to give her the benefit of the doubt. Unless there is independent reporting that confirms her details, I’m going with “she’s shitty white trailer trash.”
Dan B
@Chet Murthy: I grew up in a town in Ohio that was so conservative it had two GOP groups that hated each other. The POC there adopted a lot of the attitude of the white people. It reminded me of this LGBTQ multi- racial woman in a city like Springfield 75% for Trump. She’s likely breathing in the air the right wing is.
Starfish
@Chet Murthy: Mayor Bloomberg is in the way, but you can see her pulling her hand back.
Chet Murthy
@Starfish: thank you, yes, and I can see him trying his jerk move.
Jackie
@Dan B: MAGA, TCFG and Vance will use that against her – IF they acknowledge her apologies at all. She won’t be credible since she’s not a proud and loud MAGA.
Steve LaBonne
@sab: Our whole state is dying because of this dumbshit wypipo shit. I wish I had stayed in New York, where I grew up. (Except then I wouldn’t have met my wife.)
KRK
@schrodingers_cat:
Agreed.
Kayla Rudbek
@Steve LaBonne: if she’s elected she can probably have her yarn delivered to the White House ( although half the fun of yarn shopping is being able to see and touch it in person, and wool and silk have their own distinctive smell as well)
Kayla Rudbek
@NotMax: spicy food and beer go together well, the spice makes you drink more beer
patrick II
@Chet Murthy:
Don’t slide your hand all of the way in, just until your index finger is around his knuckles. If you have trouble squeeze his fingers . It can be painful and not easily seen by watchers.
Ramona
@Betty: I saw that handshake and he did yank her hand towards him but she let her hand extend forward and then let go of his hand and he reached forward with his left hand and placed it on her left cuff and she nodded a dismissal and turned away.
brantl
@Steve LaBonne:
@BC in Illinois: Couchfucker and decency are skew lines that will never meet. FTFY.
Sandia Blanca
@Highway Rob: Are you part of the Blue Action Texas group, by any chance? Using the REACH app? Someone named Andrew Richard has posted a photo of a sweet rescue puppy there.