Another busy day of getting things done, and it was a good day for it. Crisp mid 50’s with lots of sun, and just generally a pleasant day.
I forgot to mention that I got my pneumonia shot yesterday. I had flu and covid a month or so back, so decided to go in and get pneumonia and rsv. Turns out I am not old enough to get the rsv shot, but I got the pneumonia one. We’ve talked about it before, but I am a vaccine lover. I like not being sick, so any vaccine I can get I will have it blasted into me. Jam it in my thigh with a turkey baster, they say. It’s really this simple- people smarter than me developed them, my doctors all think they are a good idea, the army is notorious for protecting its investments and they jammed them into me, and the most important tell is the insurance companies are willing to pay for it. They aren’t willing to pay for shit without an all out fight, but they will gladly pony up for vaccines because it saves them a ton of money down the road. How does it save them money? Because I am healthier and healthy people pay premiums and don’t cost money treating illness. Like I said, it’s an obvious thing.
At any rate, I really hammed it up when I got the shot. I had the sweet old lady nurse call me back, and there was a line of people at the counter, so when she gave me the shot I yelled “Aww you butcher it hurts why is there so much blood” and she turned beet red and all the other staff and customers were giggling, so mission accomplished. It turns out I am paying for it today because my arm hurts like hell. Payback for being a jackass.
Speaking of jackassery, I had to go to the At&T store to return the old phone I dropped in the toilet the other day and replaced, and there was a long line. So, I walked around the store looking at things, when I came across the Samsung ring display. It’s apparently a ring that can track your vitals and sync with your phone. Not something I would ever use, but they had ten of them in a row with different gauges to check your ring size. The display was attached to the desk and each ring had a cable attached to it so you could pull it out and try it on but could not steal it. I tried the first two, and they were way two big, went to the third and it slipped right on, but would not come off.
I stood there silently trying to get it off, and the damned thing kept getting tighter. Plus, I was now tied to the desk because of the anti-theft cable attaching the ring on my finger to the desk, so I couldn’t move around or go find something to help me get the god damned thing off. After a couple minutes, I interrupted the clerks speaking with customers and said “Excuse me, I’m kinda stuck to the display and could use some help.”
I could see in their eyes that this had never happened while they were working, because I could see the gears spinning. I told them maybe some water would work, so he came over and poured his water bottle water on my hand. Nope. Still stuck. By now the entire store has formed a semi-circle around the spectacle, and a mom took over and started tugging on the ring. Eventually, our hero, a teenage instagram girlie volunteered her chap stick. So she slathered that on and after a couple tugs it came right off.
I fucked off into a corner, deciding invisibility would definitely be the best superpower if you could pick one, and waited until I could turn in the toilet phone and leave. Headed to the orchard to pick up a couple pecks for Joelle and some frozen cider that she somehow thinks I am going to keep frozen on a three day drive but whatever I’m not allowed across the threshold without it so we’re just gonna shut up and do as we are told.
So another fun day of sprinkling my special self all over an unsuspecting public. Sprinkle sprinkle.
I can’t remember if it has been discussed here, but this happened:
With polls showing the 2024 presidential election tightening as it entered the final two weeks of campaigning, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are looking for votes everywhere. But as The Daily Show reported in a segment this week, one underserved potential voting block may be spoken for after Insane Clown Posse‘s frontman Violent J seemingly endorsed the VP while being interviewed for a parody segment.
Violent J, whose real name is Joseph Frank Bruce, is perhaps the most influential figure in the community of Juggalos — the loosely associated fans of rap-rock group ICP and the other bands on their record label, Psychopathic Records, and acts in the horrorcore genre. Largely Midwestern and rural, Juggalos have developed their own set of traditions and modes of expression, including face painting, drinking the affordable soft drink Faygo and a tongue-in-cheek obsession with murder.
If you will remember, the Insane Clown Posse also cancelled a bunch of stuff during covid because they didn’t want their fanbase getting sick. I was talking about this on twitter, and joked that I would trust my pets and myself with any random member of the Juggalos over an evangelical or maga moron, and thing of beauty happened:
I’d add in Wu Tang and drag queens, but that should be wall art.
In all seriousness, there are some violent losers in the juggalo community- much like every community. But for the most part all the juggalos I have none are just the same kids you called weirdos and freaks who were hanging out in the band room or shop class or out back smoking. Might not be for everyone, but mostly alright.
In a somewhat similar line of thought, we have not spent enough time reflecting on the fact that literally no other magazine or newspaper has had the same level and consistency of moral clarity on issues the past few years than the politics section of Teen Vogue.
I’m still pretty much a basket case about this election. I’m being tugged by my brain in so many ways. In my chest I have this fear he is going to win and it feels like it will ripe the heart out of me. But there is a rumbling and warmth in my belly that gives me hope that this may be a landslide election for her. And then my head pulls me back to 2016, and I wonder if maybe I am just deeply entrenched in a bubble. I mean there is massive groupthink here, even, and I have curated my twitter feed and social media to the point that there are very few Republican voices. And I also know how deep Trump support is here, and how the conservative media polluted the minds of so many people. People I have known my whole life- I was at someone I have known my whole life’s business, and on his laptop I saw him logged into a livestream with Jesse Kelly, one of the most disgusting far right podcast/radio hosts out there. I was shocked, though I shouldn’t be, I suppose.
So if that is so prevalent here and in the rural parts of PA and Ohio to the west, maybe it is deeper everywhere. There’s just no way to know and I just want to punch anyone who seems super confident. We have so much to lose. Just on the economy alone a Trump victory would be so catastrophic. If he and Musk weaken the dollar through capitulation and deal making to China and by not raising the debt limit and defaulting, crashing the dollar to the point we are no longer the world reserve currency, my god the devastation. All the intermingling stocks and bonds and tranches of this tied up in this and all your pensions and IRA’s and jesus the bond market. I think I am going to make myself throw up if I keep thinking about it.
I just want him to go away.
Also, FUCK RIGHT THE FUCK OFF NYTIMES:
That made me almost blow a fucking gasket.
I think I am going to go watch something unchallenging on television- probably that show I mentioned last night the Citadel, which is dumb and stupid but has pretty people I like and is flashy and non-threatening. And maybe eat an apple or two.
Are we doing zooms for thanksgiving?
Kent
Rumor has it that Harris will be on SNL tonight.
And polling has her ahead in IOWA. Fucking Iowa.
Who knows what will happen Tuesday. But I like where we are better than where they are.
Steve LaBonne
@Kent: That FTFNYT headline looks especially stupid after the Iowa poll.
KatKapCC
I suppose if the chapstick girl hadn’t been there, someone could’ve run to a cafe and grabbed a pat of butter.
bbleh
Now John, as Seasoned, Informed and Objective Observers of “the national political environment,” The Times (please remember the ‘The’ is capitalized, thank you) are just asking questions.
One certainly hopes they will investigate possible answers, perhaps by interviewing Normal Heartland Americans over breakfast at 10:30 in a midwestern diner. Nothing really opens your eyes like talking with people of the land, the common clay of the new West. But there may not be time to arrange a trip, what with travel and accommodations and whatnot — so much paperwork — and really at this point it’s probably safe to assume they know what they’re
talkingasking about, right?John S.
The FTFNYT can fuck all the way off with that bullshit headline.
Nukular Biskits
You feeling okay, Cole?
I can’t recall the last time I saw a post this long! LOL!
Raoul Paste
The trends are in our favor.
Also, that warmth and rumbling in your belly is what you had for lunch
Ksmiami
Empires, democracies and kingdoms fall. Ah well.
Jess
I just love your stories, Cole. They’re right up there with Sedaris’s. I wish you (or the jackals) would compile them all into a book.
JaySinWA
You FAFO’d your healthcare worker? Instant Karma indeed.
I understand dry ice in a decent cooler can keep things frozen for a few days.
ETA I was sure the ring story would end with the wrapping of string trick. Who knew ChapStick was a winner?
twbrandt
The ring story had me giggling like an idiot.
Nukular Biskits
At the beginning of COVID, when they were doing the drive-thru vaccination events, I got my first shot at the Pascagoula fairgrounds on a very pleasant March (2020?) day.
Drove my F150 to the fairgrounds and, after filling out all the requisite forms, finally saw a cute little nurse who would give me my first COVID vax … and I didn’t even need to leave the driver’s seat.
She told me the standard “there’ll be a little sting” and I responded in an obviously joking manner, “THAT’S A LIE! IT ALWAYS HURTS LIKE HELL!” We both laughed and she administered what was, quite frankly, little more than a pinprick.
Four weeks (?) later, I came back to the same fairgrounds for my 2nd vax. Same song, second verse but this time a male NatGuard medic was administering the vax. I relayed the story, we laughed and he gave me my 2nd dose … which felt like someone hit me with a f’ing sledgehammer.
Wave Function Collapse
No one has ever accused Ann Selzer of being in a bubble, unless Iowa is its own bubble
JaySinWA
@Nukular Biskits: Don’t fuck with people giving you the needle.
Rusty
I’ve donated what modest amounts I could, I made sure my daughters all voted or will vote, and I’ll be up at 5 on Tuesday so I can be at the poll when it opens at 6. All the rest is out of my hands but I certainly don’t feel remotely serene about this. As a country we have the ability to fuck this up and then a lot of people I love will get deeply hurt.
bbleh
@John S.: and not just the headline, but the content of the article. It is replete with, SWIMMING with, heavily loaded and utterly unjustified descriptive phrases, presented as facts in the course of offering what purports to be “analysis.”
“The political environment,” “Democrats expected,” “shattered trust” (especially in “the media,” the background or cause of which goes unmentioned), that governance during the pandemic “became a liability” (through forces or causes unknown but certainly unquestioned) and on and on and on.
This guy is The Times’s “CHIEF political correspondent”?!?
The gob, to quote Charlie Pierce, it is smacked
I am not at all sorry I canceled my subscription many a moon ago, nor that as a consequence I have almost entirely stopped even looking at their front page.
karen marie
Dear John: I want to know if, after getting your finger stuck and released after much hullabaloo, did you tell the person who ultimately waited on you whether you were bringing them a phone that had been dropped in a toilet?
Splitting Image
I believe that there is a rule of thumb about newspaper articles phrased as a question. Namely that the answer is always “no”. They are always trolling.
Betsy
Classic. Classic, Cole. Classic Cole!
Just about as good as that vehicle in the field story. Lost condiment level, even.
Splitting Image
Also, if Selzer says that Harris has a good chance to win Iowa, then she has a good chance of winning Iowa. Selzer doesn’t run a penny-ante New York Times operation. She is a legit polling company.
NotMax
“It all comes back except one spoonful.”
:)
Jackie
The ring story… I’ve missed your misadventures!
Thank goodness no finger was amputated in this misadventure!
Kent
My current theory? This isn’t about Puerto Rico or any recent Trump stupidity.
Iowa is an enormous farm state that completely depends on world trade. A big tariff trade war will absolutely crush the Iowa economy.
These are people who listen to farm commodity price reports on AM radio every day. They have to know that. Trump tariffs will crush corn, soybean, and wheat prices. Absolutely crush them.
Dipshit NYT reporters are too busy hand-wringing about liberal “wokeness” and other vibe stupidity to even ask the right questions.
Ksmiami
@Jess: the art of naked mopping in the rain?
JaySinWA
@karen marie: “The phone is really piss-poor, suddenly very crappy.”
Eunicecycle
I just saw a commercial for Trump in Ohio! They must be worried.
Gvg
Soap is the best ring releaser. I have used it successfully too. Soapy water from the bathroom or just some of the squirt liquid soap.
Fingers get fatter as you age. I can no longer wear my college ring, the only jewelry I had that I liked.
SpaceUnit
The ring story is classic.
John, I think we may be related. My family is Scottish, our roots are in West Virginia, and we long ago adopted the phrase It’s Always Something as our family motto. We even created a created a shield with the clan tartan and the words emblazoned on it.
Betsy
@John S.: and the answer, of course, is ”largely because of f*****ts like ourselves”
frosty
@Nukular Biskits: I got my first vax in March 2021, on a Road Trip, in Hattiesburg, MS. I’d made the appointment and they accepted it so we showed up. The Pharmacy Tech asked for my ID and I pulled my PA Drivers License and said “We’re from out of state, will that be OK?” These being the times when states were hoarding it for their citizens.
She said “We’re a little bit lax here in Mississippi.” I got the shot and almost cried with relief.
ETA I looked up the date on my card: 3/11/21, so I’m sure yours was the same year.
Gin & Tonic
@JaySinWA:
I wear exactly one piece of jewelry: my wedding ring. I never take it off. Like, ever. So back when I had my arm operation, and pre-op instructions said “no jewelry,” I, being smart, figured “they’re doing my right arm, and the ring is on my left, so I’m OK.” Turns out they really meant NO jewelry, and they know more about surgery than I do. Boy, that part of pre-op was fun.
I don’t remember much else.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
“Why is Harris having such a hard time beating Trump” NYT
Oh, perhaps it’s because shallow jackasses like you think the presses job is just judging the politicians lies like it’s some kind of Olympic short?
Thor Heyerdahl
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”
― Jack Layton
frosty
@karen marie: Excellent question! Important context to the story.
Betsy
@Kent: thank you for that. You provided both a very plausible explanation and a deeply satisfying characterization (ridicule) of media malfeasance.
Scout211
Voter fraud in Redding California being investigated.
. . .
LOL. These MAGAs are not very smart, are they? He bragged to Reddit and thought he would be anonymous. And by marking all those extra ballots, he was attempting to protect his job by voting 6 times against the rent control proposition. But now he’s facing criminal charges because no one is completely anonymous on the internet and his alleged crime has ended his career as a property manager.
Added: FAFO in Redding California.
Chet Murthy
A few weeks ago, I was in a shop (with my P100 respirator on of course) and the clerk asked me if I worked for Bane. I was conversant enough with Teh Youngz [sic] and their popular culture to recognize the reference, so I chuckled. And then replied “no, I simply haven’t had a cold or flu since the beginning of 2020, and I plan to keep it that way.”
Betsy
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: I was so mad last week when NPR‘s morning news show purported to be covering the candidates and of course within half a sentence they went straight to the horse race.
Like there’s nothing hanging in the balance except, oh, the future of Western democracy not to mention the future of a steamed and roasted planet —
— but sure, we’re gonna use this valuable air time to talk about the effect of each campaign’s messaging on the other campaign’s messaging, and how voters are likely to perceive the messaging of the messaging!
Sister Golden Bear
John, I think I’ve identified your problem. Your life is a fairy tale — but the author is German.
Eunicecycle
@Eunicecycle: aaannndd a commercial for Harris! I had not seen any for the Presidential race so far this year.
Jackie
Just saw on MSNBC, that TCFG and Vance are trying to tie Harris to Biden’s “Garbage” comment.
They’re desperate. They’re losing and they know it.
Glyph2112
Today right by my house i saw a turning point event set up. I saw about 10 people, but seemed like a real dud. This is in gilbert az. I have to pass the area to get to the store and it was empty an hour later.
I think a lot of us have PTSD from 2016. But now everyone knows what Trump is and I don’t think the “it doesn’t really make a difference” crowd is non existent
p.a.
FTFNYT: How Is Harris Ahead When We Do All We Can To Protect Our Click-Lord, DJT?
RaflW
@Steve LaBonne: “Why has our non-stop crapping on Democrats worked as well as it has?” the New York Times dares to ask.
I am really, really hoping for a surprise wave election. Just to be able to write in frequent letters to the Times saying ‘You got all of this wrong, why should we trust you on X, Y or Z?’
NotMax
@Sister Golden Bear
Hans Christian Nietzsche.
//
KatKapCC
@Scout211: Redding isn’t one of the most illustrious parts of our state, so I suppose he’s just keeping up shitty appearances.
dmsilev
@Jackie: Still? I thought that was last weeks made-up fake scandal.
Kent
Also it occurs to me that Elon Musk tweeting this week about how we need to face economic hardship and see markets crash (while he gets tax cuts) to come out better on the other side probably doesn’t sound so great if you are a struggling farmer trying to make your mortgage and loan payments.
Super tone deaf. Just like the DNC rhetoric about globalization back in the 1990s.
I have a bunch of Republican farmers in my extended family. They aren’t stupid when it comes to voting in their own self interest. Usually it is more about environmental deregulation, wetlands deregulation, and fuel prices. But you don’t fuck around with their commodity prices by starting a trade war. That is scary shit if you have big farm loans and low margins.
counterfactual
Fortune magazine is desperately backpedaling to prepare its readers for Trumps loss. In their narrative, Trump had a comfortable lead until the Madison Square Gardens affair. They claim they’re basing this on the work of Thomas Miller from Northwestern University. From what run across my feds, Miller has been calling for a Harris landslide since mid-September.
https://fortune.com/2024/11/02/election-odds-donald-trump-lead-kamala-harris-madison-square-garden-rally-electoral-votes/
hueyplong
NYT progression:
Biden is old.
Biden is losing.
Biden must go.
Dems must have an open, contested convention.
Harris is losing.
Harris should be up by more.
Harris has no mandate.
Or, I guess we could call it FTFNYT’s 8 stages of grief.
Kent
He has never gotten over the fact that he is running against Harris and not Biden. He was all cued to scream about Hunter Biden and the “Biden Crime Family” for the duration of the campaign. In fact, his pick of JD Vance was basically his doubling down on MAGA for a victory lap.
He desperately desperately wants to be running against Biden again.
lowtechcyclist
@Nukular Biskits:
At the beginning of COVID, when they were doing the drive-thru vaccination events, I got my first shot at the Pascagoula fairgrounds on a very pleasant March (2020?) day.
2021. The vaccine didn’t become available even in small quantities until the very end of 2020. I got my first shot on Sunday, February 28, 2021, and my second one four weeks later, on March 28. I cried with relief then, and again weeks later when my wife and son got theirs.
VFX Lurker
Hang in there, John.
I’m cautiously optimistic. This past month, I’ve seen Michiganders and Ohioans on my Facebook feed post their early voting experiences. A high school acquaintance and her daughter both voted today in Michigan. Both of them are first-time voters. Another high school friend plans to vote with her daughter next Tuesday in Michigan.
My parents, brother and sister-in-law all early/absentee voted in Michigan for Harris-Walz. This week, my dad received no less than three handwritten postcards encouraging him to vote, with one of them also asking him to vote for Harris-Walz.
Pizza to the Polls sent pizzas to hour-long voting lines today in IL, AK, NC, IN, NJ, NE, NY, VA, and MO. I donated more money to Pizza to the Polls to keep those slices coming.
Again, hang in there, John.
Chet Murthy
I remember the day my mom got her shot. I remember telling her afterwards: “you’re going to live mom, we’re all going to live.” It was like some enormous weight had lifted off me. I’ll never forget the fear, and when that fear finally lifted.
NotMax
@VFX Lurker
No pineapple, please.
;)
Captain C
@Steve LaBonne: In the event that the Iowa poll is accurate and also translates everywhere else, I look forward to a slew of FTFNYT think pieces on how it’s somebody else’s fault they got everything wrong (and more than a few which claim they actually got it right, here’s why…_.
Marmot
@VFX Lurker:
At a kickass neighborhood get-together this evening, a guy told me he was “nauseously optimistic.”
lamh47
Good afternoon from Maui!!
I’m cautiously optimistic but my optimistic pessimist side is taking over soon, especially on Tues when I will hopefully be able to miss all the news and polls closing. My hope is to be well in my hotel bed by the time every poll is closed and returns come in 😳
anyway, how about some pics from Maui!
I posted pics from yesterday (arrival) on Twitter:
https://x.com/psddluva4evah/status/1852890859467051055?s=46
hueyplong
@Captain C: We might need to do a wellness check on dougJ.
Captain C
@Kent: “You would think that a farm state like Iowa would worry about the results of these tariffs, but the crypto bros and MAGA-hatted working class franchise owners in this Des Moines-area* diner are confident they will prosper in a TCFG economy…”
*Some still-red exurb of Des Moines, perhaps an Iowan can suggest one.
sab
Delete duplicate, and it’s nowhere near 2 a.m.
eclare
@lamh47:
Gorgeous photos! I went to Maui years ago, enjoy!
sab
@JaySinWA: Who has ChapStick on them in early November. Cole was lucky there.
eclare
@sab:
I do. Winter dries everything out.
Mousebumples
@Captain C: I’m not local anymore, so idk which suburbs are which colors, but maybe Ankeny, West Des Moines, Marshalltown…?
kindness
We’ll all be happy when it’s over. Sad thing is that won’t be till January 21st.
RaflW
Haven’t even finished reading this yet, but this paragraph just leaps out at me.
That last sentence is the NYT Politics desk to an absolute fucking ‘T’.
Villago Delenda Est
So, Vichy Times political desk gets caught contemplating their collective navels.
H.E.Wolf
Maybe he reads Electoral-Vote.com – that was in the first sentence of their blog post this morning. :)
It’s a very precise description, regardless.
NotMax
@lamh47
Hot enough for you?
;)
(I realize you’re with friends and have much to do so won’t inquire about a meet-up. Happy birthday in advance, BTW.)
Scout211
I just turned all the clocks back an hour. I just have to remember to watch the SNL cold open at 7:00 instead of 8:00.
Subtle reminder: turn your clocks back a hour tonight everyone!
RaflW
BF read the Des Moines Register poll details to me in the car on the way from visiting his parents this evening. I’m not gonna use my one free read of the DMR for this month to look it up, but the poll is saying that older Iowans, especially women, are fed the absolute hell up with Trumpy Republicanism. Like 65-35 or close to it!
As has been noted, Iowa voted for Obama twice. That wasn’t that long ago. Maybe Ned Resnikoff is right “While one political order is dead, I don’t think we’ve arrived at the next one yet. We’re still in an interregnum. My hunch is that the results of the 2024 election will tell us a lot about what America’s post-neoliberal order will look like for the next generation or two.” And tonight, at least, I like our chances that the new order isn’t corrupt, vindictive cronyism.
SiubhanDuinne
@H.E.Wolf:
I first saw (and began using) “nauseously optimistic” two or three weeks ago, but it was only in the last couple of days when I said it out loud that I realised it was a kind of rhyming wordplay on the old reliable “cautiously optimistic.”
Another Scott
@hueyplong: Bobblespeak notes some nimrod out there is complaining that Harris hasn’t committed to debates in 2028 therefore…
🤡
Forward!! Run up the score!!
Cheers,
Scott.
RaflW
@VFX Lurker: A family friend is a poll worker in a red suburb of Milwaukee. She said they registered 100 new voters in the past couple days. Many of them were younger folks who had moved into new apartment buildings near a newish Costco and ‘lifestyle center.’
Of course she as an election worker can’t know how they’ll vote, she was optimistic that there’s energy to go get signed up among that demographic. We’re getting there. Slowly, but it’s almost done. Phew.
Mousebumples
@RaflW: per the Register, the Iowa Poll is open access.
Mousebumples
@SiubhanDuinne: I saw it a Dan Shafer article earlier today (as said by, I think, one of the Green Bay Assembly candidates we had in the Wisconsin downballot thermometer), and I like it. It fits my 2016 PTSD and optimism.
Jackie
The world has turned upside down!
My Bold
Mousebumples
@RaflW: sounds like Menomonee Falls area to me. Milwaukee county, I think?
That’s the area that we helped Jodi Habush Sinykin with for the 2023 State Senate race. She didn’t win, but it was way closer than was expected.
Chet Murthy
OK, who crossed the streams? Own up to it! https://www.rawstory.com/nick-fuentes-2669567900/
Betty
Two things. Give the NYT credit for doing their best to create the political environment they describe as they have given no credit to Biden for his remarkable accomplishments. And second, trust the ladies, John. We will get it done.
Scout211
I’m sorry Nick Fuentes, you are not allowed to join our side. There are no take-backs for you. You went too far, too often and you are not welcome on our side.
Also too, Nick Fuentes, what the hell are you up to?
Never mind, I really don’t want to know.
lamh47
It’s amazing to me this one poll has maga screaming “Dems trying to weigh down poll avg in favor of Harris” when the GOP pollster been flooding the poll avg with favorable Chump tabs this entire time since Harris nominated 🙄
satby
The cast of the West Wing narrate the latest Lincoln Project ad. And it’s beautiful.
japa21
@Mousebumples: Menomonee Falls is Waukesha County. Graduated from HS there sometime in the Middle Ages.
Comrade Colette
Chapstick is the new mustard.
Scout211
@satby: 😭 OMG! That is so beautiful.
Chet Murthy
@Scout211: Nick should think seriously about getting some career advice from Aaron Schock. Anybody remember him?
Splitting Image
@Scout211:
Fuentes has realized that not only is Trump very likely going to lose and lose badly, but some very rich, very powerful people are going to be looking around for someone to blame for the debacle.
And they’re going to take the cash value of the tax cuts they won’t get from Harris out of their scapegoats’ rotten, stinking hides.
Fuentes’ tune is “I tried to warn them!” They being the scapegoats.
3Sice
Hand sanitizer works pretty well as a ring lube.
Another Scott
@Chet Murthy: Made me look.
Wikipedia indicates he’s 26 years old. I saw value in Ayn Rand’s writing when I was that age… :-/
TheHill has a story about some dust-up between him and JV from August where Vance “disavows” him.
Maybe there’s been a problem between him and them for a while?
Maybe Fuentes is starting to grow up?
Who knows.
“Repubs in Disarray.” Amirite??
Forward!!
Cheers,
Scott.
JustRuss
Jackie
@satby: I got chills and goosebumps! An awesome ad!
Thanks for finding and posting!
eclare
@satby:
I never watched, and it’s on a service that I have. Worth a look?
eclare
@Chet Murthy:
Hehehe…
p.a.
“Neo”-Nazi: tRumpists too fucked up to be effective Nazis.
3Sice
@Another Scott:
Rubles dried up.
MisterForkbeard
@lamh47: As always, they accuse us of the things they’re doing.
Another Scott
Anecdotes aren’t data. Yet.
Forward!!
(via JoJofromJerz)
Cheers,
Scott.
dmsilev
@lamh47: Also, what average? I took a look at 538’s poll database, and there are basically no Iowa polls. Beyond Selzer now and a month or so ago, there’s an Emerson college poll today (Trump up several points) and …that’s it.
Chet Murthy
@Another Scott: i dream of Texas turning blue. I have for years and years and years.
RaflW
@lowtechcyclist: I got my first shot March 18, 2021. We drove several hours to get it. Had a tasty piece of pie on the way home, at a spot the BF had visited several years earlier for a story he reported (back before his big career switch). The owner of the restaurant remembered him, and it was really just a day of growing relief. I think he got his 1st maybe a few weeks later (I was over 55 so got an earlier opportunity).
Like John, I’m very pro-vaccine. Which reminds me, I need to get my flu shot! Eeep I’m behind on that.
MagdaInBlack
@Jackie: Just saw that. Ain’t that interesting. ( they know hes gonna lose)
CaseyL
John, I really think if you collected all the stories you’ve told over the years and put them in a book, it would sell. I mean, I’d buy it, to have them all in one place instead of having to hunt through the archives. Phones in the toilet, cars in the field, mustard in the nth dimension. And now, a high-tech ring stuck on a decidedly non-tech finger. Oh, the stories!
@satby:
I consider myself ad-proof, rhetoric-proof, and Lincoln Project-proof as well. But that ad gave me chills and made me tear up. I hope it’s airing somewhere a lot of people will see it.
John S.
@Sister Golden Bear:
That’s freaking hilarious. I am totally borrowing that for use.
NotMax
John, you didn’t make even a single “My precious!” quip?
satby
@Another Scott: Fuentes is a conman and a grifter, and he’s reading the tea leaves. Time to start putting distance between himself and the losers; look for his new solo act as the last true (whatever) after the fall of MAGA.
satby
@eclare: yes, I think so.
Kent
I think he and his other white supremacist types know they would have zero role in an actual fascist Trump administration. Because they are actual trash and uneducated college dropouts at best. They would be the brown shirts who all get shived by the SS. And besides, it is much more fun to be in the opposition then be responsible for actual governance.
Lyrebird
@Chet Murthy:
@lowtechcyclist:
Yes, I cried with relief when my parents got theirs… slept better after I got mine.
When the fascist candidate asks, were’nt you better off 4 years ago, well that’s less awful than most anything else he says and does but srsly? No we were not!
Ramona
@Chet Murthy: Me too! Years and years! Blue Texas means game over for this incarnation of the GOP!
Jackie
We MUST ELECT Kamala Harris for president!
Surviving TCFG is one thing. Surviving RFK jr is a matter of life or death.
Chet Murthy
@Jackie: I read a summary of that meta-study. It was, like, 1-2 points on the IQ test. That was it. And on the other side, (even leaving aside the importance of dental health per se!) there is the massive influence of bad dental health on cardiac health.
Geminid
Nick Fuentes turned on Trump months ago at least. He claims Trump has been “captured” by the globalist elite that runs the Republican Party and can no longer lead the America First Movement.
For some reason, reporters still think it’s news when Fuentes goes off on Trump. I guess he’s good at playing the media.
Kent
Harris is on SNL right now
Chet Murthy
@Geminid: i remember Nicky boy went anti-TCFG quite a while ago, but the thing I thought was interesting was him saying that MAGA was a cult now.
H.E.Wolf
Hee hee! That’s brilliant.
prostratedragon
Hmm. I wonder if the syrup from boiling down cider can be reconstituted to a proper drink later with water. A 1/7th or /8th syrup in a sealed jar should keep a couple of days without being frozen. And if the reconstution didn’t work, would be great on oatmeal, pancakes, in yogurt, etc.
I gotta get out of this place
@JaySinWA: I always take fresh homemade cookies with me when I get a shot. I want the person who is sticking a needle in my arm to think fondly of me before they jab me.
NotMax
@prostratedragon
Two words: apple butter.
Available at grocery stores most everywhere.
Torrey
@Scout211:
So according to this guy, saying you did something (you now claim) you didn’t do is “hyperbole” and, according to TCFG saying something you now kind of wish you hadn’t said is “sarcasm.” This has been another episode of Stupid People Who Didn’t Pay Attention in English Class.
frosty
@Eunicecycle:
Thank FSM you’re not in a swing state. I tuned in to the local news before SNL. In 15 minutes, NOT ONE COMMERCIAL FOR A PRODUCT!!! Every one was political. Both presidents, both Senators, both Representatives. AAARRGGHH Make it stop!!!!
Same thing online. Youtube especially.
RaflW
Also, re; Iowa. The Downballot did a post about two House races back on Sept. 25th that, in light of the Des Moines Register poll, on reflection suggest maybe things in IA are more competitive that we’ve thought. Basically it says that IA Republicans made some surprisingly large ad reservations rather abruptly this fall, defending what had been seen as ‘safe’ seats. Also some internal polling from a D challenger that at the time said in the dist he’s challenging (IA-03), Harris was ahead 50-46, where Trump had been ahead by 0.4 four years ago.
So, interesting time coming this Tuesday night!
NotMax
@frosty
Tips for banishing ads on YouTube have been offered here dozens of times in the past.
RaflW
@Jackie: I do think Trump running hard with RFK and Musk is not working for him. Donold is too rattled and stuck in the closed loop to know how bad those two guys look to normies. Or at least I hope so.
frosty
@NotMax: Thanks, but I don’t use it often enough to bother. It was more a comment on the content instead of having ads.
PS Sorry we didn’t get to meet up in Maui last year*. The visit was too short and the whole family was with me. Instead of the meetup my older son treated us all to a golf outing. My fourth, my younger son’s first. Best ball, we each beat him once or twice. Win!!!
* Maybe if you get to NYC again, I’m not that far away.
Trivia Man
@japa21: did you buy a car from ernie von schledorn? Those 2 names are permanently linked in my ear.
NotMax
@frosty
And so it goes. Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn’t.
;)
Jess
@Ksmiami:
LOL. Sorry I missed this earlier!
wjca
Yup, here in California I get bombarded with ads for a couple of state propositions. Also for a bunch of San Francisco candidates and propositions, even though I’m 30-40 miles away and can’t vote on any of them.
No ads for Presidential candidates. No ads for Congressman. No ads for state legislators. And nothing for town council, school board, etc.
David 🐝KHive🐝 Koch
RFK, jr.: Make Polio Great Again
pat
I am in Austria and just got up and chuckled at John’s report of the ring and then I came to the FTFNYT headline and oh how I wish they would come up with this:
How Can Anyone Think That Trump in the White House is a GOOD IDEA????
Or some such.
Maxim
@wjca: I am seeing lots of ads for my local Congressional race (Garcia vs. Whitesides). And when I watched the World Series, there were ads for Harris and Felonious Punk. Plus some of the ballot measures, as you said.
Mousebumples
@japa21: whoops, thanks. I knew it wasn’t Washington or Ozaukee – wasn’t sure on Waukesha vs Milwaukee. Thanks for the correction!
Chris Johnson
Told you that editorial in big big type was just a fake pivot. They’re in the tank 100% with no reverse gear. Trump (technically, Russia) owns them completely so anything they do that looks like a pivot is fake, and they’re going to be trying to sabotage America for the next four years.
Nationalize the fuckers.. They’re beyond redemption. I don’t know which other media outlets are fully RT but the Times is past saving.
rikyrah
@lamh47:
Thanks lamh🤗
Super Dave
More Cole, please.
wjca
@Maxim: I’m in central Contra Costa, which may matter. Also, our TV/YouTube provider may just have our lication wrong.
AnthroBabe
@Sister Golden Bear: omg that brings back the storybook my father brought out that terrorized and delighted my brother and I : Max und Moritz!
ps zooms on thanksgiving would be lovely still deciding what to do
Chris T.
Krugman (who is kind of the expert on international trade and macro) thinks that being the reserve currency isn’t really all that important. I don’t quite get it myself but I imagine he’s right.
Still, the kind of thing that would make the dollar quickly fall away from being the current reserve currency (remember that it was the pound sterling in the 1800s, up through WW2 in fact) would be terrible. I think even Krugman would agree with that. And Project 2025 would be that kind of thing…
Chris T.
@Gvg:
My wedding ring is a bit loose now as my personal fatness has decreased. So, there are other factors…