Visual representation of my state of mind right now:
If you recognize this picture and need no explanation, congratulations you are old and we are trauma bonded together.
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dmsilev
Chyron says Clinton/Obama primary, so obviously early or mid 2008. Doesn’t ring much of a bell beyond that, except of course there was much agita at the time. Seems almost quaint now.
Spanky
Everybody that skipped over the flash fundraiser over <—, please go back.
J. Arthur Crank
I don’t recognize the picture. Can I still be old and trauma bonded to you?
Spanky
I gotta get back to
sniffing leadmy window rehab.JerseyBeard
We need more drunken calls to morning Joe. I’m hoping Biden makes one tomorrow morning after we get a big helping of good news tonight.
Geoffrey Martin Knobl
U.S. releases strategic alcohol reserve ahead of election.
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/us-releases-strategic-alcohol-reserve
Yarrow
Went to the grocery store and ran into three neighbors, which almost never happens. One was wearing a Harris-Walz shirt. Eight bottles of wine in his cart. We were stress bonding when another neighbor showed up and we added her to the group. Then the third neighbor wandered by, cart filled with goodies. We were all comparing what we had in our carts that we thought would get us through the stress of (hopefully only) tonight. The stress out there is real.
Chris
Clinton/Obama was the first U.S. (primary) election in which I was eligible to vote, and I chose not to vote. Seriously, I didn’t see the point. Their policy positions were pretty much the same and largely agreeable to me (or at least as agreeable to me as anyone who could actually get elected in 2008 America was likely to be). Obama had less baggage than Clinton, but that’s because he was brand-new on the national scene and therefore had less experience, so it kind of canceled out.
Naturally, I voted for Obama in the general, and would’ve voted for Clinton just as happily.
(It was also the election where I shed any kind of Sorkinian bipartisan notions I might have had. At the very beginning of the year, I was still just politically uneducated enough to buy the whole image of McCain the Bipartisan Wonderboy. By the end of the year, I was very much cured. “This is the best they can do? THIS? No thanks.”)
Old School
Can’t say I remember it. Does that mean I’m too old?
The Audacity of Krope
Someone will need to raise funds for me before I do any giving right now.
suzanne
I am way too stressed to enjoy food or drink right now.
I mean, I am eating my lunch, but it’s more like fueling than enjoying a meal.
In recent years, I have gone almost entirely alcohol-free. Not out of any specific reason. More like just not enjoying it as much.
Yarrow
I remember that drunk ass McAuliffe in that stupid shirt. I have been paying attention to this shit for too long.
VeniceRiley
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/us-releases-strategic-alcohol-reserve
Betty Cracker
@Yarrow: Same.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Per above, if you can spare a few bucks, send it in.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
I swear if I didn’t have to work today (though obviously I’m not as focused as I should be) I’d be struggling not to start pouring the wine.
robtrim
The first time I voted for President it was George McGovern vs Richard Nixon – 1972. I could have voted in 1968 but I was in SE Asia in the Air Force. McGovern was the peace candidate and he lost in a land slide.
It was bad, but not as sphincter-tightening as today. There’s not much else to say … Trump & Vance are psychopaths. Losing is not an option.
Josie
@Yarrow:
You took the words from under my typing fingers.
HumboldtBlue
Otherwise, my only concern is when will the power be cut off, PGE working on replacing a pole a block over.
Dangerman
With all due apologies to Dick Motta, it’s not over until the Fat
LadyFucker sings.Deep breathing.
Zen.
If necessary, put on some appropriate music (Native American Flute or Death Metal, whatever does it for you today).
Soprano2
@suzanne: I hope you’re planning on some yoga tonight! That’s a great stress reducer. Leave some of it on the mat, it’ll help.
Baud
@Yarrow:
I came close to going full normie after Biden won. Might consider that again after this election, especially if Harris wins.
RaflW
Dunno who that is, even if I’m an old (58.9 years so far!)
Semi-relatedly: This can be a hard stretch for folks in recovery. I’m going to my Tuesday night AA meeting at 7pm CST, followed by dinner out with several group members. I’m sure I’ll look at my phone some while we wait for the food to arrive, since by 8 CST some news will come in.
But I worked hard to put together 22+ years of pretty contented sobriety, and there’s no f’ing way the GOP will take that away from me.
If anyone in BJ land is 24 hours sober, or 24 weeks, or 24 years, hang on. Go to a meeting (in person or online). Call a friend (in the program or not) and just shoot the shit or bare your soul, whatever you need.
For you normie drinkers: Enjoy. A little less moderation once in a while is ok. But please, don’t over do it. Your liver is your friend. Be nice. :)
Damien
I’ve been making calls since 6am PST, and I’m not stopping until either every poll closes or Kamala cinches it.
but also, real talk that I’m going to go live in Ireland for a while no matter who wins. My stress level is off the charts and I need to be away from the idiot monsters who would vote for a felonious rapist
zhena gogolia
I did not recognize it, and I don’t remember this incident. Gee, I’m so sorry about that.
JoyceH
My usual reaction to vaccines is just to feel like I was punched in the shoulder. Today I feel like I was punched in the shoulder REALLY hard. Oddly, I didn’t even feel the shot itself. Instead of my usual to-do list I’m making up a things-you-could-do-if-you-feel-like-it list.
Kirk
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: heh.
For a six-seven month window of time that is half-over, my workday is 4:30am-5:30pm Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
It has been and will likely continue to be peculiar having four days that are “mine”. And yes, resisting the wine (or the rye) will be a constant today
(I feel the need to add that it’s the day, not the habit. My average consumption is around 1 drink a week, some weeks 2, some weeks none. )
suzanne
@Soprano2: Oh, definitely. Hot-ass sweaty disgusting yoga, too. I might not leave.
RaflW
Also, I voted early, so I scheduled my flu shot for this morning (a couple weeks later than ideal, but still likely well timed).
Older man who got called from reception said on his way, to the two medical receptionists “Don’t forget to vote today, if you haven’t!” They both early voted, and I heard them talking about the lines – one voted two days ago and was surprised by how many others were in line.
Then in my exam room, that nurse and I briefly talked about it. She early voted as well. “I’m not political, but I’m looking forward to just knowing the answer!”
Driving home in the cold rain, I was glad that Minnesotans seem practical and have banked their vote. I’m not worried about how we’ll go in E.C. terms, but I want us to run up the score. I want as big a popular vote margin nationally as possible.
(1/3 of the way thru my 4h drive-ppl-to-the-polls shift, I haven’t been tapped yet. But we had a huge signup, so I think there’s just good coverage.)
Almost Retired
God I hate, despise, loathe, abhor, detest….and the rest of the thesaurus….fake “reasonable” Republican John Kasich. Turning off MSNBC. If Cornel Belcher strangles him with his bare hands live and on camera (which could happen), I should be able to catch it later on You Tube.
ETA: Back to making phone calls for Whitesides. It was a mistake to turn on the cable news.
JoyceH
BTW, Dr Phil is rescinding his Trump endorsement. He told Piers Morgan the endorsement was an “act of rebellion” because Harris wouldn’t give him the time of day. He’d wanted to endorse HER. Dang, that doesn’t sound like the behavior of an adult, does it? Anyhoo, he’s not saying who he’s voting for.
Old School
If your looking for an amusing semi-distraction, you can join the speculation as to whether the sunglasses-wearing woman with Trump today is Melania or not.
TBone
Made my home into a nosh pit today, fancy pants trays of finger food apps – olives, marinated baby mozz balls on toothpicks with basil leaves & cherry tomatoes, sliced soppressata, sliced NY extra sharp cheddar, crackers, celery & carrot sticks & onion dip, and the pièce de résistance is lump crab stuffed baby portobellos.
Antifapasto trays!
TaMara
I decided to use today to refinish a walnut table. I thought mindless sanding would be good for me, instead of mainlining potato chips and leftover Halloween candy.
I had a bunch of songs I was going to put together for while we wait. But I just don’t have it in me. Barely have it in me to read the posts. And I already cursed out MSNBC’s ugly coverage and tuning out until they change over to the late afternoon crew
Chet Murthy
@JoyceH: His agent gave him the bad news, eh? Too bad, so sad, Phil boy.
TaMara
@JoyceH: Fuck him and his “DEI” hire speech. Can’t take that shit back now, can he?
Sherparick
@Baud: Gee, 16 years ago and the lunacy was just getting started. McAullife was not a bad Governor, but his second campaign against Youngkin was a disaster, although having both the Washington Post and Politico in the tank for Youngkin did not help him.
NotMax
As a card-carrying Old, gotta say I’ve no clue about the what and the why regarding the picture.
Trollhattan
@Yarrow: Halloween for grown-ups, ahoy!
Trollhattan
@JoyceH: So, “doctor” Phil is now the NYT editorial staff?
rikyrah
I don’t drink…just cause..
but, I eat.
But, this election has made me so upset that I haven’t been eating. I never thought anything would take away my love of food.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Hopefully we can feast tomorrow.
TBone
@JoyceH: thank you for sharing that, I just rubbed it all up in a maga nose 💩
HumboldtBlue
@TBone:
Now I need a snack!
jonas
@JoyceH: Sounds like someone who needs to go discuss his emotional maturity issues on the Dr. Phil show. That guy keeps it real, you know.
scav
@JoyceH: How to kick yourself in the face in the full glare of the spotlights. Master class there, Dr Phil.
TBone
@HumboldtBlue: slowly but surely eating my way through the munchies today, and making and eating finger foods while high is a great way to stay busy. Goes great with BJ!
Issit champagne o’clock yet?
Trollhattan
@robtrim: Ironically, McGovern was an actual war hero: 35 missions over Europe piloting a B-24. Distinguished Flying Cross. IOW Dirty Hippie material.
South Dakota, you used to be better.
Peale
@JoyceH: God, what a phony. No one made you give your “bow down before your overlord and it will go well with you” speech at his shitshow.
Melancholy Jaques
@Baud:
I’ve thought about doing that after Harris wins. I am going to retire from working. It might be a good idea to retire from the arguments about politics & policies, the same arguments over & over since the 1980s.
Quiltingfool
@JoyceH: Too little, too late “Dr.” Phil.
He chose to make an ass of himself at MSG.
He supports Trump, he likes that paternalistic shit. He’s now figuring out his Trump support may cost him what few viewers he has now.
Trollhattan
Lemme just say I was on pins and needles waiting for this one. Note: the needles are unrelated to anybody’s HGH habit.
NutmegAgain
I’m on Medicare, so officially An Old, but I can’t remember that image. The two are possibly related.
David 🐝KHive🐝 Koch
I just want to tell you both, Kam and Tim, good luck. We’re all counting on you.
Chris
@Trollhattan:
The real tough guys are never the ones you think.
Watching John Wayne play opposite Jimmy Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a treasure for exactly that reason; they’re playing their usual archetypes as the badass gunslinger versus the weedy little nerd, and they do it so well, you could be forgiven for thinking that only one of these people served in the war, and it wasn’t John fucking Wayne.
EarthWindFire
@JoyceH: Oprah has a lot to answer for. Not an original thought, but really would love to ask her, Girl, why did you inflict this man on us?
Yarrow
@Chet Murthy: Doubt that’s the issue. Dr Phil moved to Ft. Worth a year ago and started his own network. Seems to cater to mostly white, Christian people. White male grievance fits right in with that ethos.
EarthWindFire
@Trollhattan: There’s some shock and awe for you (since we’re going down trauma bonding memory lane in this thread)
Chris
@Melancholy Jaques:
Jesus, if only.
We’re on like our hundredth iteration of Roosevelt vs Hoover and our two hundredth iteration of Lincoln vs the Know-Nothings, to name only two of our arguments.
Chris
@David 🐝KHive🐝 Koch:
It’s been an entirely different kind of election. All together.
Quiltingfool
I voted this morning in my blood red county in blood red Missouri. No lines (there never are in tiny Macks Creek!) and, as usual, the election workers were cheerful and friendly.
Ballot was easy for me; if the candidate had a D behind their name, they got my vote! County candidates, nope, didn’t fill in the circle. See, in Camden County, only Republicans run for county offices, so if you want to choose which flavor of Republican you want, you have to vote in the primary. Nope, not voting for a Republican in a primary or general – I ain’t voting for members of a party who are good with state sanctioned murder of women.
However, there were 2 guys running for Sheriff, one R and the other was C something. No D, no vote. I had to look at the top of the ballot to see what party he was in – it was Constitutional something Party. Oh hell no, I say.
The scanner spit back my ballot. Everyone said it didn’t like the ballot right side up, just turn it over. It worked, then! Cranky scanner.
Baud
@Chris:
Smoot-Hawley Ii: Electric Boogaloo.
Quiltingfool
I read on a previous thread about a possible Missouri jackal get together? I think it would be fun; Columbia might be the best central area for everyone.
VeniceRiley
@rikyrah: Early US to give in abundance to and for Thanksgiving tomorrow!
Chet Murthy
@Yarrow: Perhaps [a boy can hope] his network has seen viewership crater since little Tr(I)ump(h)-of-the-Will bravura performance.
VeniceRiley
@Trollhattan: Joe Rogan endorses keeping his grift going. *Yawn
Geminid
@Sherparick: This is like Terry McAuliffe Day at Balloon Juice. We beat on him in the morning thread, and now we’re at it again.
But having gotten my licks in this morning, I will say this in Terry’s defense: he lost to a strong candidate who ran a very efficient capaign.
A lot of people think of Youngkin now as some charlatan who pulled the wool over the electorate’s eyes. There is some relative truth to that takeaway, but I watched Youngkin throughout the wacky nomination process and the campaign that followed, and I could tell Youngkin was a strong candidate who would not be easy to beat. He was a very slick communicator who managed to appear all things to all people.
We’ll all get to see Youngkin in action during the 2028 Presidential primaries. He’s been preparing that campaign ever since the night he beat McAuliffe. My joke is that Youngkin has developed a special high-tech vest for that race, that will change colors depending which side of his mouth he’s talking out of.
sdhays
@JoyceH: …He fucking gave Trump a full-throated endorsement at Trump’s Nazi-fest JUST LAST WEEK!
He’s lying about wanting to endorse Harris, of course, but what an “explanation”.
I guess it’s no longer his time of the month. //
Fascist asshole.
Scout211
Speaking of the olds, I was at Quest Lab with Mr. Scout (who is older than my old) and I noticed a man older than Mr. Scout’s old who wandered in and was just standing there. I realize that he had no clue what to do next. He did have an appointment so someone helped him with that at home because he had a printout with the QR code. I asked him if he needed help. He said, “I don’t know a dang thing about computers!” It was definitely a cry for help. So I helped him log in at the iPad kiosk and got him set up for his appointment. He was so grateful.
Then I got home and an email from the DMV told me I needed to apply for my license and REAL ID renewal. I’ve been dreading this because of the written test required for the olds. But much to my surprise, the olds do not have to take a written test anymore in California! I felt like I won the lottery.
All good things happening today and many more yet to come tonight!
suzanne
A friend shared, “Today it feels like the whole country is waiting for a STD test result”.
Trollhattan
@EarthWindFire: The vast # of dude-bros sitting at home awaiting the news: “I ain’t voting until Joe tells me HIS choice.”
Enormous Dude-Bro Scramble Clogs Polling Places will be a headline before nightfall.
Geminid
@Chris: Lincoln actually had the Know Nothings on his side. When the American “Know Nothing” Party dissolved itself in 1860, most of its adherents transfered their allegience to the recently-formed Republican Party.
But your larger point is well taken.
HumboldtBlue
The Trump campaign spent $134.38 on anti-trans ads for every single trans person that actually exists
TooManyJens
@sdhays:
Hey now, most of us manage to get through menstruation without endorsing Donald Trump.
suzanne
@TooManyJens: Men are too emotional to let them run anything.
HumboldtBlue
ArchTeryx
@RaflW: That’s why I’m in the medical pot program. Far far less problematic for the body that booze.
Spanky
@Almost Retired:
An evergreen statement.
I finished scraping and sanding the one window frame I was planning for today. Turns out working overhead screws up my neck.
JoyceH
@HumboldtBlue: What’s weird is that in all those “issues most important to voters” polls that I keep seeing on the news, trans issues isn’t even on the list!
Soprano2
@Quiltingfool: I didn’t know you lived in the former speed trap capital of MO! My ballot is a little bit better, we have more D’s to vote for but most of the local races only have one candidate, and it’s always an R.
VeniceRiley
@suzanne: snowflakes would melt crying at the pain and unfairness of a life of having to be us.
TBone
@sdhays: 😆😍
TBone
I am texting all my peeps the meme where ponytail girl in blue kicks maga man with the tiny-trunked elephant head right in the NUTS! 😆😍
And a Photoshop of Donold as the Hamburglar in FcDonalds.
Chris
@Geminid:
Lincoln was criticizing them earlier, back when they were still powerful.
The Republicans won the argument, but absorbing the Know-Nothings meant they were able to just re-start it again from the inside and drag the party down in a more and more anti-immigrant direction anyway.
mapanghimagsik
The fact this is Bacardi (and not a good one) makes this extra sad
Kent
His grift will continue either way and probably will do better under a Harris presidency. But he isn’t stupid enough to alienate 75% of his audience.
stinger
@Old School: Definitely not. Different figure, different carriage, different face shape when she smiles, not to mention that she smiles too readily to be Melanoma. Just somebody “similar” wearing the same type of hair and clothing.
rikyrah
@JoyceH:
Nope. He said that ‘this isn’t a DEI Country’ with his whole entire chest.
phuck him
Anonymous At Work
Who needs to recognize that picture to need no explanation?
JoyceH
Meanwhile, the bomb threats that have been phoned in to majority black districts in Georgia have been traced back to Russia. Because of course Vlad wants his racist bigot buddy Donald back in the White House.
geg6
I would love to cook but I don’t want to use much water due to our sewer problem. Cooking is how I distract myself. So instead, I’m going to pick up a bottle (or two) of wine and some paper plates and then peruse local restaurant websites to see what I want DoorDash to bring.
RaflW
There’s some sh*t going down in GA. I really think we need to increase the use of disbarment on these sonofaguns.
eta: Earlier in the thread ~
JoyceH
And Giuliani showed up at his Florida polling place in Bacall’s Benz that he was supposed to turn over to Freeman and Moss.
RaflW
@rikyrah: One suspects Phil hasn’t received many engagements for his social calendar (and maybe his
griftbusiness calendar) since he came out in favor of the Orange Fartcloud.There’s been a long discourse today on Bsky about wether conservatives are owed compassion if they lose today. I’m in the camp that says that of course we’ll do nothing to mess with their human rights, but shunning them socially is perfectly fine. They’ve earned our scorn, but not undue retribution.
Princess
@Old School: That doesn’t look at all like Melania. It might *be* Melania because she gets a plastic surgery tune up to her face every year, but if it is her, they overdid it this time.
TBone
@JoyceH:
I fervently hope he tries it in NYC, he gonna Find Out!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lMalvNeJFLk
Or anywhere but the nation’s wang, for that matter.
NetheadJay
@RaflW: Oh, that is great. I love that formulation, reading [someone] for filth. And yes in a better world some of these people should/would be disbarred.
catclub
Um, you do know what happened in 2010 after the Obama landslide in 2008?
Quiltingfool
@Soprano2: Oh, Lord, don’t get me started on the infamous Hwy 54 speed trap! I was teaching at Macks Creek school during the speed trap heyday. The school was to get a percentage of the take (for the kids!), but our school got bupkis. It was a grift for certain well-placed people in the town.
Ah, if I had a nickel…
Baud
@catclub:
I don’t understand your question. What does that have to do with me choosing to be a normie?
SomeRandomGuy
@suzanne: Here’s hoping tomorrow starts with a yummy, enjoyable breakfast, mimosa optional, but the fantasy of a yummy, relaxed, feeling-fine, breakfast, “oh a mimosa, I shouldn’t but… oh, alright,” is strongly encouraged.
@Yarrow: I just remember Morning Joe played along with the Schiavo shitstorm, so I never watched him. I have been doomscrolling politics that long, though. Might even have been reading here, off and on. I’ll give him props for recognizing Trump, but, geez, slander a good man, just to help the birth family drain Terri’s trust fund, because they were bitter over him not sharing his loss of consort award, while making statements completely counter to the medical *AND COURT* records, the latter of which were publicly available, proving the entire shitshow was based on lies.
Still, for a vile spreader of hate, he does score like Pence, push him far enough into being an evil hatemonger, and he’ll decide to be human again. Good on him.
@JoyceH: To Republicans, “I wanted to, but Dems were mean!” is a perfectly rational statement. I wonder if editors see politics as akin to the gossip column – I mean, they couldn’t be that stupid… could they be?
@Old School: I don’t really care, do U?
@mapanghimagsik: Eh. I think Barcardi’s a decent rum for mixing – if I were rich enough that dumping a $60 bottle into the blender for fruity mixed drinks, I might agree with you more, though.
@catclub: Don’t misread history – Republicans blamed the entire financial crisis on Obama, and they deliberately refused to provide additional relief, in hopes of killing Obama’s presidency.
@suzanne: Smile when you say that, stranger. That said: it does hold for Republicans.