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If you missed the Family Stories thread from Saturday, you’ll want to read it.  The stories in the comments are a real treat; so many of them were laugh out loud funny.  This morning as I was washing my plate after breakfast, one of the quotes popped into my head and I couldn’t stop laughing. “Sons of bitches, wait for baby!” – uttered by a 3-year old!

dnfree

Way late, but this reminds me of a time we were driving slowly around some neighborhood looking for a friend’s house when a group of maybe 5- and 6-year-olds ran down the street at full speed. Hot on their heels was a smaller boy, maybe 3, running as fast as he could and yelling “Sons of bitches, wait for baby!”

Moving on…

Harris’s Call Her Daddy Podcast Interview

Doug Emhoff’s Interview with Jennifer Hudson

Open thread!

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  2. 2.

    dmsilev

    Some amusing news; seems that Musk turning Twitter into a right-wing Xhole has, shockingly enough, resulted in said Xhole missing out on lots of political ad dollars.

    Democrats dominate spending on political ads – except on Elon Musk’s X

    Across the digital universe, from cable TV to Facebook, Democrats are outspending Republicans on election ads. Elon Musk’s X is a rare exception.

    Democrats are massively outspending Republicans on internet campaign ads but one social network is a notable exception: X, owned by Elon Musk, who has increasingly used the platform to elevate his chosen candidate, former president Donald Trump.

    Accounts backing Republican candidates spent three times as much on political ads on X than those backing Democrats from March 6 to Oct. 1 — $3 million to $1 million — according to an analysis of company data by AdImpact and The Washington Post.

    The other part which is hilarious is that the overall amounts are so small. There are hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on online advertising, and Musk has so completely torched the readership of his plaything that even his ideological allies are only sending him crumbs.

  3. 3.

    Bupalos

    MVP is so comfortable and smooth there. That’s just killer campaign work.

    I saw the tic-toc lady there talking about inviting Trump on, and I just literally cannot imagine what that would even look like.

  4. 4.

    Steve LaBonne

    So now that Harris is doing interviews all over the place, the FTFNYT headline is “Harris Will Appear in a Whirlwind of Interviews, Most of Them Friendly”. These fuckers no longer even bother to try to hide the game they’re playing. No, shitheads, she’s not going to come and kiss your owner / publisher’s, er, ring.

  5. 5.

    Old School

    @Bupalos:

    I just literally cannot imagine what that would even look like.

    I picture Trump calling her a nasty woman asking mean nasty questions.  So disrespectful.

    And tariffs will solve everything.

  6. 6.

    p.a.

    @dmsilev:

    It’s obvious that anyone watching Elmo, donnie, and the billionaire owners of American sportsball teams (can’t speak to outside US sport owners) who talk against inheritance/estate taxes are not arguing in good faith.

  7. 7.

    Steve LaBonne

    @Bupalos: Especially given the tight time frame, I can’t imagine how the campaign could have been much better. Which of course speaks very well for her ability to run an organization.

  8. 8.

    Jackie

    Repeated from below:

    The SC is back… 😡😢😡

    “The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans,” the AP reports.

    Please let this decision bite Cruz’s re-election chances in his ass – HARD!!!

  9. 9.

    Belafon

    @Jackie: The Harris and Allred campaigns have been running ads already about abortion. Hopefully we’ll see an update for this in the next couple of days.

  11. 11.

    Captain C

    @Steve LaBonne: “Why Kamala Harris should sit for a hostile interview from us, which we will distort in the worst possible way” — FTFNYT op-ed by Pinch the Lesser

  12. 12.

    NotMax

    Wish I had something – anything – subversively humorous, insightful or cogent to inject at the moment. But no dice.

    /boring old fart

    Meantime, in case you weren’t aware.

  13. 13.

    The Audacity of Krope

    @Captain C: I’m so proud of any Dems who are spurning the FTFNYT. Not so much because of the paper’s hostility to them as politicians; they’re adults they can handle it; but because of the paper’s hostility to its readership.

  15. 15.

    TBone

    @Baud: I also like the kid who was told not to touch anything on the Christmas table.

    “Son of a bitch! I am going to touch it anyway!”

    😆

  17. 17.

    TBone

    When asked what you did with your weekend, simply squint, and say

    “Why, what have you heard?”

  20. 20.

    TS

    @Belafon:

     Hopefully we’ll see an update for this in the next couple of days.

    This campaign will probably have them up in  a couple of hours

  23. 23.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @dmsilev:

    Musk has so completely torched the readership of his plaything that even his ideological allies are only sending him crumbs.

    This points to why engaging on Twitter now seems fruitless. Musk has winnowed out so many of the reasonable voices that it’s not worth spending advertising money to reach the too few. The site exists to promote mis- and disinformation and many of the “tools” have been redesigned to quell any fact checking or dissent. Not to mention the bot problem.

    Yes, it’s too bad there’s not one alternative but too many, still doesn’t mean even millions of people can do much about Twitter’s devolution into an echo chamber of lies and propaganda.

  26. 26.

    The Audacity of Krope

    @rikyrah: Rep. Nancy Mace introduces bill to terminate FEMA’s Shelter and Services Program…

    …continues to blame Democrats for lack of FEMA assistance.

    One assumes.

  27. 27.

    Almost Retired

    Woo Hoo!  My ballot came today!  I get to vote for MVP, Ted Lieu and Adam Schiff (as well as a bunch of “why-do-I-have-to-vote-for-this” ballot propositions).

    For any LA County jackals, I’m attaching a link to the LA County Bar’s Judicial Elections Evaluation Committee for recommendations on the Judges.  I used to serve on this committee back in the days when I gave a shit.  So I know they are thorough and well-balanced.   lacba.org/?pg=judicial-elections-evaluation

    And, as always, I will be voting in the most Balloon Juice way possible:  Dropping off my ballot in a collection box at the Dog Park.

    ETA:  So don’t send me any postcards.  I’ve voted.

  28. 28.

    frosty

    @TBone: I am so stealing this! It’s better than my go-to post-retirement response: “What’s a weekend?”

    @dmsilev: Also worth stealing! I’ll have to put them on rotation.

  29. 29.

    Jacel

    @Baud: I’m so glad (or at least the pre-verbal me inside me) that you think SHUMDO! is an appropriate celebratory reaction.

  30. 30.

    mrmoshpotato

    Neither of those YouTube links is an interview with the fucking New York Times.

    Sons of bitches!

    Oh wait, fuck the fucking New York Times.

  31. 31.

    TBone

    Another really good read put up today by Tom Sullivan, part of which includes:

    The money quote went something like this: “He was lying to me. I knew he was lying to me. He knew I knew he was lying to me. But he lied anyway, not because he had anything to gain from the lies, but because it was company policy.”

    …

    “Republican commentators and officials with a stake in the recovery effort have decided to play both sides against the middle: calling out lies to facilitate the recovery, but suggesting all parties are to blame,” Brian Beutler writes. This lie-fest over Hurricane Helene response is a dry run for Insurrection 2.0:

    Now imagine it’s Election Day. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are posting and reposting lies and rumors about election workers destroying ballots or stuffing ballot boxes, illegal immigrants voting by the hundreds, while turning away red-hatted Republicans.
    By then it will be too late for mainstream media to make any particular pattern of behavior a major issue for undecided voters. Republican state officials will continue to have it both ways, condemning lies in an intentionally ineffective way. The die will be cast. And then, if Trump slips behind in the vote count, the stage will be set for insurrection 2.0.

    Trump’s allies, corporate ones among them, know they are spreading lies, and do so dutifully.

    digbysblog.net/2024/10/07/lying-is-company-policy-2/

    Tom’s writing about much more than what I highlighted.

  34. 34.

    Suzanne

    Let’s ask Sarah Huckabee Sanders about what keeps her former boss humble.

    Of course, we only ask women to be humble.

  36. 36.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @Nukular Biskits: I was never on Twitter and it always had its edgelord problems but it just seems like a downward spiral to a black hole. I do understand that many good groups use the space to communicate, connect, congregate and organize and it’s difficult to move those mountains.

  37. 37.

    catclub

    @Kosh III: The headline should be ‘Trump refused to send disaster relief to fellow Americans until he learned most  were Republicans.’

  41. 41.

    Kelly

    @Nukular Biskits: Well I’ve just discovered we’re steering the hurricane by heating the water with nuclear submarines. I imagine this is because the space lasers have trouble dealing with the cloud cover.

  43. 43.

    Jackie

    @Nukular Biskits:

    I’m hoping for a decrease in strength before it hits but I’m not sure how much difference that would make.

    Storm surge strength would be the main difference. ATM, TWC projections have Milton dropping to a Cat 3 as it reaches land.🤞🏻

  44. 44.

    Sure Lurkalot

    I want to add to the voices and hope all here in the path of Milton can get to safer places. I can’t imagine what it’s like boarding up your home and running for the hills (so to speak). My heart goes out to you all in the to be affected areas.

  46. 46.

    Geminid

    @Nukular Biskits: Twitter is still the best way by far to get news about the conflicts in the Middle East, including from the many Middle East-based reporters who utilize the platform.

  47. 47.

    Quaker in a Basement

    “Wait for baby!” is life imitating art, or vice versa. That’s right out of “Still Life with Woodpecker” by Tom Robbins.

  48. 48.

    Geminid

    @Kelly: The process is similar to curling, except you use subs instead of brooms and the “stone” is a 300 mile wide storm.

  49. 49.

    NotMax

    @Sure Lurkalot

    According to MTG it’s a nefarious plot by – well, see for yourself.

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is back to doing what she’s best known for: spreading conspiracy theories.

    The Georgia Republican, who infamously boosted a conspiracy theory about Jewish space lasers in 2021, seemingly tried to imply that Hurricane Helene was the product of someone — an ominous but otherwise unidentified “they” — who can control the weather. Source

  54. 54.

    Anoniminous

    @Kelly:

    Wow.  I posted about 2 hours ago we couldn’t rule out Milton going Cat 5.

    NOW the question:  are we looking at the first US Cat 6 landfall with wind speeds greater than 200 mph (320 km/h)?  With the potential energy available it is a distinct possibility.

  58. 58.

    The Audacity of Krope

    @Betty: I’m just a little conflicted by the notion of a politician associating himself with an entity he is meanwhile calling out as a bad actor.

    I can see why someone might do it, might still reach a larger audience, but it sits funny with me.

  62. 62.

    WaterGirl

    @The Audacity of Krope: If they’re getting bad info on twitter, then  putting the good info on twitter seems to make the most sense to me.

    Who do I believe?  some schmuck on twitter or the fucking governor on twitter?  I’m going with the gov.

  63. 63.

    Ruckus

    @NotMax:

    Sun comes up, sun goes down.

    For me it’s been doing this for over 27,400 days. Now early on I didn’t know what was going on, but I’m pretty used to it by now… It’s boring and it isn’t. It’s good and not so good. It’s fun and sometimes not so much. It’s what there is. I’ve had a tornado go by me about 100 yards away driving down the freeway once. I’ve crossed the Atlantic by ship 6 times, and done it in 50+ foot waves one of those times. I’ve crossed the Pacific and Atlantic by plane. I’ve crossed the equator by ship and plane – a number of times. I’ve met idiots and geniuses – more of the first than the second unfortunately, and a hell of a lot of normal humans – of every size, color and nationality. There have been some not so good moments and some absolutely amazing ones. I’ve been to a communist country. I carried a loaded weapon on duty in the military with orders to shoot to kill. I never had to take the weapon out of the holster, other than to unload it to hand over to the next guy. Today I couldn’t say just guy. Today woman serve on ships and in I believe, every aspect of military life. Equal means equal.

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