I was out of signal for a couple of days, so I missed all the different ways that some Republicans and Republican-enablers acted out sexually. Let’s see if I’ve caught up:
- Mark Robinson, candidate for Governor in NC, admitted to jerking it to trans porn, being a “black Nazi”, but even though Republicans really, really want him to quit, he’s going to keep jerking it on the ballot until the election.
- Olivia Nuzzi, “journalist” sexted RFK Jr. during/after the time she was writing stories about him and also stupidly tweeting about the election. She was engaged to Ryan Lizza, who was fired from the New Yorker for an inappropriate sexual relationship. She’ll be on Fox News or writing for the NY Post in a few days, I’m sure.
- A court filing in one of Matt Gaetz’ legal entanglements says that he attended a sex party with a 17 year-old high school junior. This happened in 2017, so Matt was but a wee lad of 35 at the time.
That was yesterday, right?
While I’m on the subject of partners, imaginary or real, in-person or virtual, does it strike anyone funny that the spouse of one of the members of the Republican ticket is nowhere to be seen, and that the other member of the ticket doesn’t seem able to mount an honest defense of her against racial slurs from his running mate?
Edited to add: Chris Rufo! Forgot he was on Ashley Madison (allegedly). Thanks to fancycwabs in the comments, who also helpfully pointed out TN Congressman Mark Green’s alleged affair (came out a few days ago) and Laura Loomer (also a few days ago) and possibly some Trump/Diddy entanglement.
Operation Blue Arizona, Day 5 (with 45 days left)
H.E.Wolf
Vile people. Let them stew, as my dad would have said, in their own juice.
H.E.Wolf
@H.E.Wolf:
(Dad meant it metaphorically.)
HumboldtBlue
Suzanne
Man, the RFK/Olivia Nuzzi shit is just hilarious.
Imagine being attracted to that old weirdo. No kink-shaming, but….. LMAO.
Was it the roadkill bear story? Or the whale decapitation story?
trollhattan
Dude trying his hardest to make Trump the second-worst person in American politics. Maybe that’s why he was picked?
Shut the fuck up you cosplay hillbilly.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
It’s already been amply illustrated by now, but boy is J.D. Vance bad at this! It’s kind of stunning, especially with Waltz as an example of how it is properly done. Similar to Kamala and DonOld, of course.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Suzanne: It really is stunning. I guess I won’t be seeing her on MSNBC any more, which is fine. She always gave me a Laura Ingraham affect (long blonde hair, long face I guess). Buh bye Olivia. And ick!
BR
Harris was really good in her Georgia event today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LlObcivyZY
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Vance is in over his head not unlike Caribou Barbie was. These aren’t brilliant people by any stretch. They’re not even decent politicians.
Scout211
Yes, hilarious with a touch of karma.
It’s interesting how it went from Oliver Darcy breaking the story yesterday, timidly calling it a “romantic relationship” to today when many outlets are calling it “sexting.”
Suzanne
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan): These people are all just so fucken weird.
fancycwabs
You missed:
geg6
@Suzanne:
I think it was the filthy, smelly van ride:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/robert-f-kennedy-jr-2024-presidential-campaign-politics.html
Suzanne
@Scout211: So she was engaged to Ryan Lizza and this apparently broke them up. I wonder what’s going on with Cheryl Hines right now.
ETA: And Lizza is apparently no longer allowed to cover RFK. BWAAAAAHAHAHA.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: as Rikyrah would say “no lie told”
rikyrah
uh huh
uh huh
Noam Scheiber (@noamscheiber) posted at 10:35 AM on Fri, Sep 20, 2024:
A twist in the Teamsters story: Teamsters leadership has cited the Biden administration’s role in preventing rail workers from striking in 2022 as a reason for their non-endorsement of Harris.
The Teamsters affiliates that represent rail workers have just endorsed Harris.
https://t.co/y26DZbthS7
(https://x.com/noamscheiber/status/1837153605293339135?t=RivydXn4acLWDzWLC9NtMg&s=03)
Rusty
JD’s spouse Usha Vance is a piece of work. Yale Law school, introduced to JD (what name was he using then?) by Amy Chua, the tiger mom and groomer for Kavanaugh professor. Usha and Vance started discussion group, ” the social decline of white America”. Yikes. She went on to clerk for Kavanaugh and Robert’s before landing at a Big Law firm. I wouldn’t think her worth defending, but JD, with all his toxic masculinity BS won’t do it either. They deserve each other.
HumboldtBlue
New Lincoln Project ad.
Once, every village had an idiot. It took MAGA to make one a leader.
And another from the LP.
sdhays
Mrs. Vance is busy taking care of HER children.
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Honestly, I feel like that’s unfair to Caribou Barbie. She at least won her own damn election for Alaska governor. JD can’t even say that. His only contribution to his Senate election was debasing himself enough to get Trump’s endorsement and having the good fortune to be running in a red state against a Democrat who clearly wasn’t as aggressive as he could have been.
geg6
@fancycwabs:
Plus, apparently Beavis (DJT, Jr.) is cheating on his fiancee, Kimberly Guilfoyle, with some high society Palm Beach heiress. And, it is said there are pictures.
eclare
@fancycwabs:
About the last one, it would be irresponsible not to speculate.
different-church-lady
Because it’s well-known that the Vice-President is in charge of economic policy.
Earl
Mark also wrote detailed descriptions of fucking his sister-in-law (just like jesus would do) on the amateur porn site he loved. You can easily find links; hopefully it’s needless to say, but it’s very nsfw.
ps — never forget Kimberly Guilfoyle was married to Gavin Newsom. Gavin is only a democrat because he wants to live in California and he wants power here; the man doesn’t have a single principle in his body and if he lived elsewhere would be a maga.
scav
Is there something weird going on with DonNotAsOld (Jr) and Kimberly Guilfoyle / Bettina Anderson? It flew by as a related story on something I read late last night, but why not throw it in the pot as probably the most vanilla of situations.
West of the Rockies
46 days until election with early voting starting shortly…and all of this is how Republicans are presenting themselves.
Please proceed, imbeciles.
Old School
@fancycwabs:
I see he denies it, so who knows?
rikyrah
I admit to being intrigued by the story of the Sheriff killing the judge in Kentucky.
Read a story this afternoon that the Sheriff was under investigation for not investing the possible sexual assaults of a deputy that took place in the judge’s chambers.
I read the story twice, and it still makes no sense to me. There’s a lot more they’re not saying.
CBS News (@CBSNews) posted at 0:00 PM on Fri, Sep 20, 2024:
The sheriff who allegedly shot and killed a rural Kentucky judge in his courthouse chambers was accused in a federal lawsuit of failing to investigate allegations that one of his deputies repeatedly sexually abused a woman in the same judge’s chambers. https://t.co/T50QsyEDOC
(https://x.com/CBSNews/status/1837174887288390077?s=03)
WaterGirl
@Earl: I laughed. I’m sorry, it’s just so absurd. (Besides being horrifying.)
Anoniminous
JD Vance is bad at politics because he went from a zero to Senator in one jump. He won the nomination in a very crowed field with 32% of the vote, meaning 68% of the primary voters rejected him. Since the Republican nomination was, for all intents and purposes, the Senatorial election he went on to win 53% to 47%. He’s yet another incompetent Republican, so deep in a hole he can’t see sunshine.
geg6
@Earl:
I know that and I have also seen interviews with them back in those days. She actually was pretty beautiful then and she was not the person we see today. And I don’t agree with you about Newsom. You can feel however you want about him and I get that he strikes a lot of people as too slick, but he’s never given me MAGA vibes in any way, shape or form. He’s not a new entity to me. I’ve followed his career for many years and just don’t see that.
scav
@rikyrah: FSM thank you for the gift that rather than having a single day of a Teamsters endorsement we now are blessed with a multitude of them.
rikyrah
Michael McDonald
@ElectProject
Tomorrow is 45 days before the Nov. 5 election. 45 days is an important milestone since military and overseas civilian absentee ballots must be sent no later than that day, per federal law. Election offices that won’t be open tomorrow will be sending ballots to these voters today
8:56 AM · Sep 20, 2024
https://x.com/ElectProject/status/1837128766952460376
rikyrah
@Anoniminous:
And, he’s a power hungry sociopath.
Lyrebird
Thanks for catching me up MisterMix!
Note: I haven’t seen EITHER maga ticket spouse out stumping, while Dougie and Gwen have been firing Dem voters up far and wide.
FWIW that Lt Gov from NC? if he weren’t a downright fascist and misogynist out to make his own constituents suffer, I might even applaud him for creative writing.
That Nuzzi character, well I am glad Anne Laurie has had HER number for this whole time, but boy howdy it has taken quite a bit for any of her (ON’s) bad behavior to catch up to her.
Yeccccccchhhhhhh to all of them!
Salty Sam
The fact that a chainsaw was used for the decapitation is what makes it ART!
Chris
Many years ago, a Democratic friend of mine argued that while both parties have sex scandals, liberal sex scandals tend to be boringly ordinary whitebread stuff (“Bill Clinton cheated on his wife with another woman”), while conservative sex scandals tended to be the weirdest shit, if not outright illegal.
(At the time, the sex scandal in the news was “a Republican politician wanted gay sex, so he did what any normal person would do if they wanted gay sex: went to an airport men’s room and engaged in some sort of foot-tapping courtship ritual with the guy in the next stall who turned out to be a cop.”)
To put it mildly, not much has happened since then to invalidate his thesis.
Not to shame anyone for their kinks, but… oh, who am I kidding. The entire GOP exists to shame (and prosecute, and jail, and execute) people for the wrong kinds of sex. I don’t give a shit if it’s dished back out to them.
Baud
@rikyrah: I read on reddit that they are related by marriage.
p.a.
So many conservatives have been on Ashley Madison she must be a Putin agent. 🤔😉
Anoniminous
@rikyrah:
As V.D. “Not a Couch Fucker, really-real” Vance said, “these shootings are a fact of life.”
ETA: I’m trying to summon up some sympathy.
“trying” being the operative word
sdhays
@rikyrah: That’s quite a development in that story…
BR
Also, speaking of the Klan — as I posted in a previous thread, Mark Robinson talking about how he’d like to join the Klan if they allowed Black folks to join is I think way more important than talking about the “Black nazi” stuff.
In NC the Klan is way more real than “nazi” which is an overused word and a bit abstract for folks. People should be calling out Robinson and Trump as wanting to bring back / be part of the Klan. Robinson said it, and Trump endorsed him. In Springfield the Klan is out in full force putting out their message. This is way more powerful messaging for “we’re not going back”.
HumboldtBlue
You look like you need a smile, the way this dog needed the chicken noodle soup.
jackmac
Nothing new on Laura Loomer and TFG today?
Seedy Statistician
There’s a Conservative Christian GOP representative of Tennessee who is divorcing his wife of 35 years for a woman who is 32 years old. I know it’s relatively tame to be leaving your wife for a woman the age of your children, at least compared to these others, so I’m not surprised you missed it!
https://nashvillebanner.com/2024/09/13/mark-green-divorce-affair/
hueyplong
@BR: If you’re right (and I’m not saying you’re not), it’s kind of sad that we have to consider some word other than Nazi because Nazi isn’t considered the most negative term.
Anoniminous
@rikyrah:
yup indee-dee.
And a racist, also. Too
rikyrah
@Rusty:
Thank you. She’s no victim. She’s chasing that White Adjacency as hard as Nikki Haley.
Phuck her and her sociopath of a husband.
Jay C
BTW, it seems like neither Republican candidate has their spouse with them on the campaign trail: Usha Vance seems to have fled right after the RNC (knew she was smart), while our Former First Lady has being going on her “book tour” – wonderful level of involvement there (again, no surprise)…
rikyrah
@sdhays:
I’m sensing a possible Netflix limited series, if it goes as crazy as it just sounds on the surface….
BR
@hueyplong:
I agree, but also I’m thinking from the perspective of generational history and how language is used. You hear people say that person is a ” nazi” — like “soup nazi” or “parking nazi” or whatever ordinary thing. The word has meaning in context but not quite the same as the Klan.
In Europe, the Nazis completely upended the whole continent. There’s a deep history in the literal soil. The same is true with the Klan in the US. That generational visceral reaction to the Klan is something that hasn’t gone away — I bet most moderate Republicans have a very negative view of the Klan.
oldgold
I wonder how Mark Robinson’s spouse is getting along with her sister today?
Searcher
@Seedy Statistician: Yeah, there’s a hard line on creepiness when your paramour is the same age as (or younger than!) your children.
A sixty-year-old dating a thirty-year-old is always going to be a little ick, no matter the parameters, but there’s a big difference if the sixty-year-old’s eldest child is 15 or 35.
rikyrah
@BR:
Someone needs to put an ad out saying..
” He’s a real life Clayton Bigsby.”
IYKYK
Scout211
@rikyrah: From the CBS News story.
Small towns. Lots of drama, lots of connections.
rikyrah
@Jay C:
They are hiding her away. It’s not like her brown skin would play well with the MAGA crowd…
BR
@rikyrah:
The sad thing is Chappelle himself seems to have gone off the “I’m being cancelled” deep end…
rikyrah
@Scout211:
if it was two…
it was 20 women….
trollhattan
@Rusty: Her family background upper-caste? Could explain a lot.
piratedan
@rikyrah: whilst on the AzureOverhead I saw two “weird” theories floated, neither substantiated, so pure fanfic speculation until actual confirmation of motives and actions are revealed.
one – said judge filmed said assault in their chambers or watched as a non-participating member
two – said judge was using “some leverage” against the Sheriff in order to coerce his daughter into sex.
I assume Occam’s Razor is a lot less complicated, but hell in these days who really knows.
Mousebumples
My ballot arrived today. Along with a WisDems mailer to return our ballots TODAY.
Likely next week, and probably will drop them off at the Clerk’s office. But, yes, it’s on my to do list. 😊
Anoniminous
@Scout211:
Lots of Family Trees consisting of straight lines.
Tehanu
What strikes me about Vance saying this is that he thinks he’s going to be in charge if the Rethugs win the election… because it’s obvious that Dump has already slid way down the dementia slope. And it gives me the horrors. Both of them are squealing masses of insecurity and rage, but Vance isn’t as stupid and ignorant as Dump is, and he’s a lot younger.
Suzanne
@Chris:
There’s a reason “two wetsuits and a dildo” is in the BJ Lexicon.
TWO WETSUITS WTFFFFFFF.
@mistermix.bsky.social
@rikyrah: Usha went to a football game with JD this weekend. She’s certainly not out there like Gwen Walz or Doug Emhoff, that’s for sure.
@geg6: I think Newsom is topped out – I can’t see him as a viable Prez candidate, too slick, and probably some skeletons in the closet…
TBone
I’ma take Tim Walz’s advice in this area as much as possible:
Mind ya business! 😆
The RWNJosphere will be blasting retaliatory whoppers any minute now…
BR
@@mistermix.bsky.social:
As a CA voter, I support Newsom in-state because I have to, not because I want to. I wouldn’t support him nationally unless there were no better options. But nationally Dems have such a deep bench that we don’t need Newsom to move up to anything.
BR
Here’s the full length (still short) Tim Walz car repair / campaign video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N-B0_OKkeg
TBone
@Suzanne: whut!? is in our lexicon? Do I need to be updated because I am unawares?
TBone
@rikyrah: I looked that up this morning as well, and came away with more questions than answers also.
TBone
@HumboldtBlue: thank you for that wholesome interlude 😂
Suzanne
@TBone: From our Lexicon (link at the top of this page):
hueyplong
@Suzanne: It’s a commentary on the times that the most remarkable thing in that paragraph is that it’s illegal to buy a dildo in Alabama.
sdhays
@rikyrah: And since it was happening in the judge’s chambers, he knew and was probably personally involved, and since the murderer was the previous bailiff, it was probably his own practice when he was there.
How many others were directly involved – not as victims?
TBone
@Suzanne: guess I better bone up on that lexicon! Holy cow 😆👀
Jackie
@jackmac:
She mysteriously disappeared after TCFG had to publicly say she wasn’t part of his campaign.
Or maybe Melania…?
Loony Loomer has a podcast, I’ve heard. Is she still broadcasting?
TBone
@hueyplong: 😆
Mr. Bemused Senior
Still? 😁
Dangerman
Good grief.
Political Dudes, keep it in your pants.
If sexting, still WEAR pants.
Thus ends the pubic service announcement.
Matt McIrvin
What’s driving me out of my mind is all the “Weird Trick exploiting an obscure loophole that will fuck with the election” stories, though I’m gradually realizing that some of them have an admixture of bullshit and are possibly being pushed to suppress the Democratic vote, encourage future Republican insurrectionists who will believe they are magic ways to win, or magick legitimacy into being through media persuasion in advance of the inevitable court cases.
rikyrah
@Tehanu:
But, it’s true. The Orange Menace doesn’t give a shyt about anything but the DOJ. Vance WOULD be running everything else.
Power hungry sociopath.
Either the 25th Amendment….or a ‘ window’ before June 2025 for the Orange Menace if they get in.
Suzanne
Another Pubic Service Announcement:
Don’t go to a MRI with a butt plug in your ass. Just don’t.
gene108
@rikyrah:
Credit to Team Biden, they avoided a major shutdown in getting goods delivered to stores and manufacturers who were still dealing with COVID supply chain problems and the rail workers got a deal they are happy with, from what I understand.
kindness
@Earl: Duuude!!!! Californian here! Gavin Newsom is a great governor. I don’t know why you (and certain principles over at LG&M) seem to think Gavin sucks so bad. He’s popular here. He does the right things. I don’t get the inside party torpedoing.
Baud
@Suzanne:
I missed that Republican sex scandal.
Suzanne
@TBone: I am such a nuts-and-bolts person that the part of that story that just blows me away is that he managed to get two wetsuits on! How did he do that?! Like, doesn’t the second one stick to the first one?
I can barely get pantyhose on without wiggling around like a psycho.
Kathleen
@trollhattan: He thinks he “on message” with his apropos of nothing non sequiturs which he considers “cutting edge humor”.
The only possible positive is that by the time he and Trump are defeated people in Ohio will be motivated to remove him from the Senate in the next election. Lord knows Tim Ryan was too worried about hurting Republicans’ feelings to expose Vance and his draconian policies.
SiubhanDuinne
@Chris:
Credit where credit is due: Larry Craig did give us “wide stance,” a fine descriptive enhancement to the English language.
Kathleen
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Or decent people.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Suzanne: some people are naturals, others have to practice.
hueyplong
@Suzanne: We’re clearly in TMI territory here, but just how much to you want that plug in place that you’ll do rubber underwear plus two wetsuits? Isn’t that just shy of stapling it in place?
I mean, of course dude died.
TBone
FYI Rachel Maddow special ‘From Russia with Lev‘ is airing at 9pm.
Kathleen
@Rusty: I wonder where she’s been? I haven’t seen her in clips.
Falling Diphthong
@Matt McIrvin: I’m getting a strong sense of the usual suspects on “Welp it’s all doomed might as well give up nothing can change no hope don’t even bother.”
What I really like about BJ is that if anyone tries that in the comments they get firmly shoved into the donating and volunteering contacts.
Earl
@@mistermix.bsky.social:
We just all passing over Newsome fucking his employee / friend’s wife?
And mr I’m Too Important For The Lockdown’s dinner?
piratedan
@Suzanne: I believe that this was the first unconfirmed “Dildo of Consequences” that was referred to in the Legends of Mustard.
Salty Sam
Your words paint a picture…
TBone
@Suzanne: I thank the gawds with special genuflections each and every morning that I no longer have to struggle into pantyhose every morning while trying not to tear them to shreds and then having to drive like a maniac to have time to stop off for a new pair before 9am arrival at the office. Every day!
Two wetsuits is unimaginable, I mean, really?!?
TBone
@kindness: I don’t like that about us either (Shapiro).
Kathleen
@rikyrah: I see Dateline!
lowtechcyclist
@BR:
Assuming we win in November, Kamala will be running for re-election in 2028, and 2032 is a long freakin’ way off; it’s really quite a stretch to even think about who might be the strong candidates then. Who had Obama on their radar in September 2000? In the fall of 2016, who could have foreseen this year’s matchup?
TBone
@piratedan: 😆
Dorothy A. Winsor
What’s wrong with these people? And why are they in politics? How can they think public life is a good place for them?
HumboldtBlue
@Earl:
That may the single stupidest comment ever made on this website. And that’s saying something because I comment here nearly every damn day.
If you’re gonna fucking troll, you need to bring a far stronger game than that weak-ass shit.
Mai Naem mobile
@rikyrah: thats a crazy ass story. The Sheriff was apparently a.party in a lawsuit because it was found that he didn’t supervise and train a deputy sheriff who raped/recieved sexual favors from two convicted women in the judge’s chambers. The deputy sheriff only received a short sentence but the case was handled by another judge. There’s just so many wtf wtf wtfs in this story. And it didn’t even lead the news yesterday or today because of the crazy ewww NC story.
TBone
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
i have a little list 🎶
gene108
@trollhattan:
Why? What would it explain?
As an upper caste Hindu, who came to the USA at 3, and has been raised and residing in the USA for the past 47 year, I’d really like to know why you think it matters.
My best guess is JD wasn’t always this level of weird, when they met in law school and decided to get married.
Seonachan
@Chris: I’m sure I remember Al Franken quoting someone from the Clinton impeachment days – maybe Bill Kristol or David Brooks – who made the opposite claim: that Republicans have “conventional affairs” with women roughly their age or something, unlike that freak Clinton. It was a defense of Gingrich and Livingston iirc, saying that Democrats bringing up their affairs would only highlight Clinton’s debauchery. What a long way we’ve come.
TBone
@HumboldtBlue: 🎶
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw7gNf_9njs
Mai Naem mobile
@Jackie: poor Melania’s nekkid pictures couldn’t compete with Mr. Robinson. Apparently Jeebus loves Mr Robinson more than Melania.
Earl
@HumboldtBlue: piss off wanker and wave high to Mr Kimberly Guilfoyle
Kathleen
@piratedan: I definitely get a vibe that a whole bunch of nasty s**t has been going on and this is the tip of the ice burg.
Darkrose
Bullshit. I have mixed feelings about Newsom, mostly because he seems to want to try to tack center more than I’d like, but he is in no way, shape, or form a MAGA. He didn’t have to marry queer folks in SF when he did. He didn’t have to wholeheartedly support abortion rights in this state, or make CA a sanctuary state for trans folks seeking medical care and dignity. And not for nothing, but while some other CA Dems had the knives out for Biden, Newsom absolutely didn’t, and he immediately backed Harris once Biden dropped out.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@rikyrah:
Hah! I like that term. We usually use “Culturally Caucasian” in parallel circumstances.
Kathleen
@Dorothy A. Winsor: They believe it’s their Divine Right.
gene108
@Tehanu:
@rikyrah:
To me the clearest sign Republicans expected to win and never lose again is publishing Project 2025. You just don’t lay it all out like that and expect to lose ever again. Those plans don’t amount to much, if a Democrat wins in 2028 and undoes them. Their plans were meant to reshape government for many elections to come. Guaranteed.
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: you may be have even left off another zero.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@@mistermix.bsky.social:
One can only hope. Best thing is that when Harris is elected, he’s at least 8 years removed from having a shot at it. His only redeeming feature is that he stuck by Biden after the debate. As somebody put it back then, he’d murder his own grandmother to become president.
@BR:
That would be me if I lived there. It’s not unlike how a lot of Dems here in CO look at our term-limited, glibertarian techbro governor: vote for him here because we have to, hope he never “goes national”.
TBone
Oh, Earl. Don’t mess with Noodles’ dad. Just don’t. You don’t measure up.
piratedan
@Kathleen: same… maybe I’m just harder to shock these days, but at this point it all kind of feels like an old Ron Shock bit…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omhnw2f_pjs
TBone
https://x.com/JoshEakle/status/1836498836115640421
Video at link.
rikyrah
@lowtechcyclist:
I didn’t realize how deep a bench we have until this year.
Citizen Alan
@rikyrah: It’s so very telling about the state of the GOP that I had to click back to read the prior comment to know which power-hungry sociopath you were talking about.
rikyrah
@WaterGirl:
uh huh
uh huh
A Federal investigation needs to be had….of all women-related cases.
piratedan
@rikyrah: political competency porn :-)
Gin & Tonic
@Suzanne:
I live in New England and sometimes kayak in the cold months, for which I wear a wetsuit. Getting one on is a chore. I’d need a few of Diddy’s bottles of baby oil to get another one on – not that I’ve ever tried.
E.
@geg6: That Covid era birthday party at the Michelin star restaurant that millions in Covid relief took a large bite out of my respect for Newsom.
Sister Golden Bear
In today’s “every accusation a confession” news, Vance: Dems May Attempt Military Coup If Trump Wins
Mai Naem mobile
@Matt McIrvin: i follow Matthew Dowd(the ex Dubbya pollster/advisor guy) on twitter and while he doesn’t guarantee that Harris will win he’s pretty bullish on her and I figure he’s been around RWingers and their rat fucking ways enough that he’s got more insight than the average pollster/reporter. To me.it just seems like TFG+JD are alienating so many different groups who are going to be motivated to vote against them. How much magical voter suppression can you do to succeed?
TBone
@TBone: a hot mic moment. Motherfucker is still fixated on his dicktater boyfriend in North Korea. Obsessed. Thirsty. Asking to be punched in the head.
H-Bob
Did Mark Robinson watch Long Dong Silver movies with Clarence Thomas?
zhena gogolia
@TBone: Is that current? I thought I saw that years ago.
lollipopguild
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Lots of people want to be a celebrity or hang with celebrities and politics is the fastest way for a lot of people to do this. Trump brought a lot of the crazies with him over the last 9 years. Right wingers know crazy when they see/smell it.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@zhena gogolia: yes I recall that. Still noteworthy.
zhena gogolia
@Mr. Bemused Senior: You can tell how Trump has declined, though.
eclare
@Kathleen:
I hope Dateline gives it to the best, Keith.
Mr. Bemused Senior
Truth. That’s what Vance thinks too I’m sure.
Bill Arnold
@TBone:
The goal was (one presumes) sub-lethal auto erotic asphyxiation, including rubber fetish, with a miss on the sub-lethal part. One wonders whether he had done this previously.
Charles Stross, science fiction writer, wrote a near-future police procedural after that incident (“Rule 34”), where police use “two wetsuit job”, referring to this incident, to describe messy investigations in this general category.
West of the Rockies
@Earl:
Fuck off, pinhead. HB is legend here.
artem1s
@rikyrah:
Too bad TCF was able to get the MSM to memory hole his shenanigans at Arlington by ranting and raving about dog eating immigrants.
Annie
@geg6:
Kimberly Guilfoyle, in the early 2000s, was a normal deputy DA in San Francisco. It was only after she moved to New York to work for Fox News, then divorced Newsom, that she went off the rails.
Mousebumples
Dooming isn’t productive. Dooming won’t help Harris, et al., win.
Do the work. Much better use of my anxious energy. 😅
The Audacity of Krope
@Earl: I’m no sort of Newsome fan, but suggesting he is a closet MAGA isn’t even fair.if intended as an exaggeration.
artem1s
@Kathleen:
there is no viable recall mechanism in Ohio. we’re stuck with him until the 2028 election cycle or unless Putin decides to defenestration him for failing to push the Orange one over the finish line.
prostratedragon
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan):
Enhance != amplify
Geminid
@rikyrah: The Democratic bench will be even deeper by 2032. I’m thinking of three fairly young Representatives who will be Senators by then; one of them after serving as a Governor first, I think. There will be others.
I won’t name names. For one thing there will be plenty of time to talk about them after Kamala Harris wins reelection in 2028. For another, only one of many good prospects will be the One, and I want to value strong Democratic politicians for the good work they do in other important jobs.
But you are right; we have a strong bench.
Sister Golden Bear
Now we know why Mark Robinson cancelled his campaign events, he needed time to delete all his posts on the porn site.
BTW, Joe.My.God’s coverage includes a screenshot of one of Robinson’s posts—definitely not TV friendly.
TBone
@zhena gogolia: now that I watched it again, I believe you may be correct. But I don’t know for sure…
Montanareddog
@Bill Arnold: your description of “Rule 34” intrigued me, and it was for sale as a very cheap ebook. I have just read the first 8 pages and could not stop laughing out loud. I had never heard of Charles Stross before but I may have found a new author to binge. Thanks!
TBone
@Bill Arnold: I’m aware of those types of activities, but the IRL additional wetsuit was a surprise!
I was familiar with Rule 34 from NCIS reruns but will now check out the book!
Jackie
@Sister Golden Bear: I think TCFG actually recognizes Robinson would be a very vindictive enemy and is actually terrified of him.
BellyCat
@Suzanne: Admirable public service work tonight. LOL
Liminal Owl
@Montanareddog: I recommend Stross’s “Merchant Princes” series. The Thin Black Duke loved the “Laundry Files” series; I haven’t read those yet.
Montanareddog
@Liminal Owl: I’ll keep that in mind after “Rule 34” which, according to Wikipedia, is the second of a 2 book series. The series you mention are more hard sci fi is my impression (which i am fine with)
like a metaphor
@Jay C: Melanka has been out there defending (and selling) her nudie pics, lately. But there is some historical interest- those pics are the first time the public has seen her crack a smile
cain
@p.a.:
I prefer Dolly Madison !
Ken
What talents do they have for any other career? OnlyFans excepted.
lowtechcyclist
@Earl:
I think you’re an excellent example of why we have a pie filter.
See ya ’round, chump.
lowtechcyclist
@Ken:
I dunno, maybe they’ve confused ‘public’ with ‘pubic’?
Kathleen
@artem1s: Right. That’s what I meant to say more clearly!
Kayla Rudbek
@Montanareddog: I love his Laundry Files series, which is more along the lines of horror (started out as what if James Bond was in the same universe as Cthulhu)
Kathleen
@eclare: My heart belongs to Josh LOL! He tweeted that he was standing in line at the airport talking to a woman whose husband was on the phone. He heard the husband say, “I can’t believe we’re talking to that guy from Dateline”. Pause. “No. The other one.”
AnotherKevin
@Earl: I am not a Newsom fan, but I believe this is unfair to him. He really has seemed to be a Democrat – certainly more so than what the NY Democrats regularly spew out (statewide and in NYC). Plus he was on the vanguard for gay marriage.
AnotherKevin
@HumboldtBlue: That look, with the licking lips and the noodle hanging out (I assume that’s what it was) !- awesome
wjca
Well, I guess now we know what “tough on crime” means in that part of Kentucky.
wjca
But they didn’t get to strike! That matters to some people. Matters more than the actual deal.
wjca
The arrival of pants suits (for those burdened with dress requirements at work) has been a blessing. And not just for easy of getting dressed. Even a guy can understand that.
wjca
News flash: there are a lot of us here in California who share a low opinion of our governor. I’ve referred to him, more than once, as “an empty suit.” Earl merely expanded on that.
Granted, he has fans here as well. But it’s a long way from a universal view.
like a metaphor
Kathleen
@piratedan: OMG he’s hilarious! Thanks for sharing.
AnotherKevin
@wjca: I am not a fan, but calling him a closet MAGA is NOT in my view within the bounds of the fair criticisms of him.
mvr
@hueyplong: Second wetsuit is also an odd detail, actually.
frosty
@Montanareddog: Dead thread, but read Stross’s Laundry Files series. A combination of British SOE and Lovecraft, in which the protagonist’s job title is Computational Demonologist.
Jay
@mvr:
asphyxiophilia, the second wet suit compress’s the chest making breathing difficult, low O2 intensifies the orgasm.
The Reverend was not alone, but his “male partner” did not unzip the wetsuits, un-hang him or provide CPR. Just “booked it”.
BDSM is not for beginners.
LarryB
@kindness: hear, hear! Newsom is getting better as he gets older, too. He’s finding a harder edge.
Chris T.
@Tehanu:
Vance is probably also not as fundamentally lazy as Trump. I feel Trump would torture his enemies and enjoy it, but ordering said torture to happen is too much effort…
Chris T.
@Suzanne:
Um… because one wetsuit would be weird?
Chris T.
@Suzanne:
I have actually gone scuba diving in a wetsuit, so I can answer that, sort of (I never tried to put on a second wetsuit atop the first). Wetsuits can be rather sticky, yes, to both skin and the Speedo one wears underneath.
In general the answer is “cornstarch and zippers”. You sprinkle this on the inside of the part of the wetsuit you have to slide over something (e.g., the foot section). You unzip as much as you can elsewhere. Then you kind of layer it on and zip.
There are still a lot of issues here, especially for those whose bodies do not come in a standard S/M/L/XL. This is much worse for women, whose bodies tend to have much more variation than men’s, but there are men for whom “off-the-rack” simply doesn’t fit. In all such cases, one may order a custom wetsuit. These are not cheap. If you can get away with a single custom part (upper or lower only), that helps.
Whether the guy in question ordered a custom wetsuit (or two!) I have no idea.
Chris T.
@Gin & Tonic: Don’t use oil (even mineral oil) with a wet suit, it’s bad for the neoprene.
Aside from the recommended corn starch method (I never tried it myself), people also use talc, or (apparently) even Pam cooking spray. I’d feel a bit nervous about the last if there were any sharks about, they might think I’m offering myself up for their frying pans. 😅
Roberto el oso
@Sister Golden Bear: Vance’s accusation of potential treason by the US military is a surefire way to bolster support among its members for his side. What an utter buffoon.