One of the more maddening things about Trump 2, Idiot Boogaloo is that the media continues to keep reporting he says and just rolling with it. Like this nonsense:
President Donald Trump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a third term in the White House, which is prohibited by the Constitution under the 22nd Amendment, saying in an exclusive interview with NBC News that there were methods for doing so and clarifying that he was “not joking.”
“A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call with NBC News, referring to his allies. “But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.”
“I’m focused on the current,” Trump added, in some of his most extensive comments to date about serving a third term.
The only way for him to serve a third term is a coup. The end. It is as clear as anything in the Constitution. Even Clarence Thomas can not finesse it. Just shut up.
It’s Sunday night and I am tired, so I am going to leave you with this- “Why are all toasters still designed to toast only bread in the shape of wonder bread?”
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frosty
I dunno. We have a toaster, I don’t know what kind, but it can toast a half bagel OK. That’s about all I can manage to respond to your post. I can’t even. I can’t even I can’t even.
Hoping to go to the HandsOff march in DC on 4/5 but the forecast is rain. I might melt!!
ETA Thanks John and all the front pagers for the blog. It’s my main news source and it keeps me semi-sane.
scav
I’m assuming that last is a philosophical question because in mere reality, there’s a non-wonder bread toaster in the room next to this one.
Steve LaBonne
He’s going to be in a nursing home by 2028. He’s visibly and audibly going downhill at an accelerating rate. But yeah, the continued sanewashing is infuriating.
Gvg
He has been hinting about a third term before he won the first time. I considered that to be reason to never vote for him and that any American with any loyalty to the Constitution should have been screaming at the scandal right then. It’s a failure of Civics education. Or educate its self. People get taught the Constitution and some history but they don’t understand what it means! Ugh.
Fancy toasters like Breville have really wide and long slots. I think they can toast about anything, but I happen to like my bread almost wonderbread so I never bothered to buy one. I see them at estate sales though. Also toaster ovens.
Scout211
We have a toaster that has two extra-long slots and each slot can hold two slices of wonder bread or one slice of a bread bowl type loaf. And it can toast bagels.
A Ghost to Most
Google toaster ovens. You seem unaware of all kitchen traditions.
TheOtherHank
Besides everything else about how the press parrots what he says, the thing that drives me crazy is how they let him get away his hand-wavy bullshit: “A lot of people want me to do it.” Who wants you to do it? Who, asshole? Tell me who.
Random reporter: Asks question that should have a specific answer.
Shitler: We’re looking into that.
Random Reporter: jots down “they’re looking into it”; doesn’t ask any kind of followup.
TheOtherHank: screams some more
Nancy
It may be a lack of imagination that leads to many toasters being wonder bread machines. I turn my bread over after toasting half.
The sanewashing is disgusting.
Ohio Mom
Just get a toaster oven, it will toast any sized bread of any thickness.
I’ve tried making toast in the air fryer we bought after the toaster oven died but it only browns one side, I have to make sure to turn it after a few minutes. When the air fryer dies, I’m going back to a toaster oven.
BellyCat
Have you SEEN the tariffs for non-Wonderbread toasters?!?!
different-church-lady
Dictators don’t have “terms” as such.
Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)
The talk I’ve seen is that they’re thinking he could run for vice president in 2028 with some zero at the top of the ticket, and if the zero wins, the zero would then resign, and Dear Leader would once again be president.
And the problem is that the amendment doesn’t explicitly rule this out. It only says nobody can be elected to more than two terms, not that nobody can serve more than two terms. Now obviously, this violates the spirit of the amendment, even if it doesn’t violate the specific wording. Even so, anybody who thinks about this for more than three seconds can understand that this was never meant to be some loophole left in there to let people get around the plain meaning. It was a mistake, because whoever worded the amendment never thought that some shitbag would try something like this.
The further problem is that there’s no way this Supreme Court–to say nothing of whatever Supreme Court we have in four years–would do anything to get in Dear Leader’s way if he chooses to do this.
ArchTeryx
@A Ghost to Most: A toaster oven is actually a great kitchen addition. They’re good for more than just making toast. I use them to heat little personal pizzas, Trader Joe frozen stuff and crisp-cook burritos all the time. It’s much more energy efficient than using a full sized convection oven and quicker, since preheating is so much faster. Plus the better models of toaster oven DO convection themselves, so you get an even heating.
kindness
Trump was down with a coup after #45. Why would #47’s end be any different?
ArchTeryx
@Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.): I think that the worries about Trump ending up in a third term are overblown. Of course, he’d do it if he thought he could get away with it. But he’s not some spry 45 year old. He’s an old man rapidly sundowning into dementia.
I would be far more worried about the Heritage Foundation selecting the next candidate, and leveraging them into the Presidency without an election. The Vice President Switcheroo could work in reverse, too, particularly if Trump is incapacitated. Replace Vance with the Heritage Foundation apparatchik of choice, Trump resigns or is incapacitated, their new young guy takes over and simply runs for the third MAGA term with a fresh new face, and incumbency behind them
Trump is an eggplant with an autopen at this point. It’s the young Heritage Foundation apparatchiks like Musk that are the true threat and they’re the ones directly demolishing the government.
Ohio Mom
Oh god, I can’t worry about Trump’s possible third term, it’s all I can do to worry about this one.
@ArchTeryx: And melted cheese sandwiches, put a slice of cheese on a slice of bread, stick it in the toaster oven and a couple of minutes later, gooey goodness. For those who care, many fewer calories than traditional grilled cheese (I dont’t, I just like the lack of pan and spatula to clean).
Birdie
@TheOtherHank: The only time I have seen this happen was Jen Psaki responding to a question from a reporter.
Reporter: Many people are saying…
Psaki: Which people?
Reporter: Uh…
They are lazy just like Trump is lazy. Not enough people are willing to pay for thoughtful, informed and hard working journalists, so we get the US media instead.
Ksmiami
@kindness: the way he’s going on the economy, I doubt he makes it 6 months
Chetan Murthy
@Gvg: Gaslighting little fucktard.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-third-term-white-house-methods-rcna198752
“I’m not joking,” Trump said, when asked to clarify. “But I’m not — it is far too early to think about it.”
When asked whether he has been presented with plans to allow him to seek a third term, Trump said, “There are methods which you could do it.”
NBC News asked about a possible scenario in which Vice President JD Vance would run for office and then pass the role to Trump. Trump responded that “that’s one” method.
“But there are others, too,” Trump added.
Asked to share another method, Trump simply responded “no.”
ArchTeryx
@Ohio Mom: Ooooh, yes. I do that all the time to make myself a nice snack. Toast the bread lightly, put a slice of munster on top, and bake it until it’s melted, then sprinkle it with spices and let it cool a bit. Quick open-faced cheese sandwich.
Percysowner
A toaster oven covers everything you need to toast. The new ones often include an Air Fryer function. You can also get a Toaster Oven/Air Fryer/Microwave.
Albatrossity
Every few days I email my senators and congress critter a note with a simple question.
If Trump announces he is running for another term, will you support him?
It’s a simple question; a yes or no answer would be a simple reply. But because that sort of reply is not included in the boilerplate bullshit machine that they all use for answering emails, I have yet to get an answer.
Invertebrates, all of ’em.
Ramalama
@Ohio Mom: toaster oven for thirty years. I can’t even with a regular ole toaster. Life’s too short. Bread’s too thick. Bagels from Montreal after day 2 too tough. A cut to the ribs. A swipe to the face. Fairmount bagels must be softened with heat. Lines standing outside no matter what time of day back me up on this. Even the new, as in recent, Mexican population that’s sprung up in Quebec … and suddenly there are fresh corn tortillas … and it’s not me being a delicate flower of demands. TOASTER OVEN.
Gin & Tonic
@Chetan Murthy: Why Trump admires Putin so much.
Belafon
“Trump is promising Americans more anthrax and tire rims as solution to the nation’s ills.”
Doc Sardonic
@Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.): The last sentence of the 12th Amendment which covers the election of President and Vice President knocks that theory right out.
Since he has already been elected to two terms as President he is Constitutionally ineligible.
Gin & Tonic
@Ramalama: One time I hit Fairmount at about 0430 before a trip to Jay, then home, and there was no line. But damn if they weren’t stale by the time I got home.
Chetan Murthy
@Ramalama: Oh wow, I googled the place, and it makes me hungry just to look at the pics & videos.
Ramalama
@Gin & Tonic: yeah. No preservatives. Also time of day. You gots to wrap those suckers up tout de suite.
So you mean Jay’s peak VT? Or going to see our Jay…located on the other side of the country? The country being Canadia?
jefft452
Around 20years ago I was talking to a coworker who was around 15-20 years younger then me
She said that her parents didn’t want her to eat Wonder Bread as a kid because it had too many chemicals in it
I told her that my parents wanted me to eat Wonder Bread BECAUSE it was filled with chemicals, that’s why they called it Wonder Bread
NotMax
A tad more $$ (after all, it is a bigger unit), this Oster toaster with extra wide, extra long slots is versatile and does what it’s supposed to do very well.
No screens, no apps, can handle bagels and non standard shaped artisanal bread slices like a champ.
Martin
@Ohio Mom: One of our greatest decisions was a range with a cast iron griddle between the burners. Every day it stares at you begging to make proper grilled cheese. Only a monster could deny it what it was born to do.
Ramalama
@Chetan Murthy: Sent our worldly niece home on the train back to Toronto with two dozen bagels from Fairmount. Her favorite the garlic bagels. My wife, her Tata, wrapped them up in skin flint bagel bags, just barely holding 6 at a time. It was a production, side of the car where we’d managed to park right in front. The car smelling like sesame, garlic, onion for days. The niece telling all her friends about everything she’d eaten on the trip. I live high up in the hills, aka the mountains. But I sure do miss the big bad city.
Gin & Tonic
@Ramalama: Jay Peak, as in skiing. Also one of the most unpleasant US Border Patrol encounters I’ve had. Tiny two-lane road through Highwater, QC, probably sees two cars an hour. You can see Jay Peak, it’s the ass-crack of dawn, I’m dressed for skiing and all I have in the car is my ski stuff and a small overnight bag. Twenty questions, then “please open the trunk, sir.” I can only guess the guy was bored.
SpaceUnit
Pretty sure the coup has already taken place.
Also, I prefer my burgers to be square on toasted white bread as opposed to round buns. I have no toaster angst.
SW
Fucker is a lame duck right fucking now. Time he was treated as one.
SFAW
@Steve LaBonne:
What bullshit. Here’s why:
Whilst trying to kill a few more brain cells earlier today — successfully, I might add — I clicked on a link sending me to a list of the who the smartest/dumbest (by IQ) presidents are/were. Surprisingly, That Fucking Guy came in at #5, because “although he has never taken an IQ test, he claims ‘my IQ is 156, so too bad, losers’.”
“Surprisingly,” because I figured he would have claimed his IQ was north of 170, or whatever it would take to put him in first place.
So there’s no way he’s going into a nursing home, because he’s too smart.
On the other hand, I can see him having an IQ of 156 — if it’s 156 in Base 7.
I eagerly await him telling us that he has never had a lower bowling score of 290, shoots a non-handicap 52 at Torrey Pines, once kicked a 75-yard field goal, threw a 115 MPH fastball, and once had a 37-foot long jump.
And the MSM would doubtless print it as gospel.
BretH
Saw NBC News the other night and a reporter was proudly talking about her questions to FFOTUS. But merely reporting what he said without pointing out the responses were nonsense. Like “ the President Washington not clear on a timeline to take military action against the cartels.”
I mean, taking military action against elements in another country is Bin Laden level stuff – if the reporter followed up we sure didn’t hear about it. No wonder some people think he’s a tough guy doing a great job.
satby
@NotMax: Yeah, same concept, much cheaper, 38k 4+ star reviews.
I got this one because I was sick of my sourdough slices not fitting.
Ramalama
@Gin & Tonic: highgate springs border crossing, right? I’ve passed through there more than 400 times. One time I had an Algerian in my car, rideshare. He didn’t speak much English so the other rideshare dude and I translated for the border guard who was pissed and also bored.
“What is he really saying?”
Fun times.
Jackie
The only negativity about toaster ovens is the countertop space it consumes. A toaster is brought out, used, then put back away.
NotMax
@SFAW
Also the most popular model ever in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue!
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BretH
You can’t beat Bodos Bagels in Charlottesville. No, not taking questions at this time.
Kayla Rudbek
@ArchTeryx: I would like to get a toaster oven as it would heat the kitchen less in the Virginia summers, but we don’t have any counter space for it.
Jay
@Ohio Mom:
American Cheeze? Kraft Singles?
Mom used to do that, Kraft Single on a burger bun, with little bits of bacon and a tomato slice, toast under the broiler until the edges of the cheese are browned slightly.
SFAW
@NotMax:
JHC, give us a trigger warning before you write stuff like that.
SpaceUnit
I saw an add for a smart toaster the other day. WTF.
Just toast the fucking bread. Why the hell do I need an AI toaster connected to the internet? Jesus.
Gin & Tonic
@Ramalama: No, Highwater, QC to North Troy, VT. Kind of out of the way, by Lake Memphremagog.
Ohio Mom
@Jackie: That is a problem. The better toaster ovens are on tne larger size, the smaller ones are cheap pieces of crap that don’t toast evenly,
Wombat Probability Cloud
@A Ghost to Most: Breville toaster ovens work great for…toast…bagels, baked potatoes, heating swiss-chard pies, etc. Last a long time and very versatile.
Andrya
@Doc Sardonic:
Trump would argue that by the exact wording of the 12th Amendment he’s not ineligible to be president, just ineligible to be elected president. (However, I’d bet the running mate would be Don Jr, not Vance.)
He could also declare martial law, and delay the election indefinitely on that basis.
scav
@Jackie: At which point, there is the long skinny, a version I first met up with in France (in a cheaper, orange and white Monoprix incarnation). Ze world of toast’aires, she iz a varied one.
Martin
@BretH: I’m sorry, it is not possible for the best bagel shop to exist outside of NYC. It’s axiomatic.
Kayla Rudbek
And I am still freaking out and having crying sessions about this breast lump I found on Saturday. I know that it’s likely to be benign, but having lived through bilateral breast cancer, I am worried. Regular oncology checkup is scheduled for early April and I messaged my oncologist tonight in MyChart to see if that would still work or if they want me in earlier and to get a mammogram.
Almost Retired
@Gin & Tonic: …..and thusly today I learned that there is actually a place called Lake Memphremagog.
It sounds like it comes from the Book of Revelation – a boiling, sulfuric body of water that scalds non-believers after the rapture or something. Admittedly, I’m a little shaky on my eschatological theology.
Jay
@Martin:
https://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/canada/quebec/montreal/experiences/news/if-you-think-new-york-has-the-best-bagels-youre-wrong
Ramalama
@Gin & Tonic: wow looks like a small border crossing. Have never taken it. There’s a minescule border crossing, also in the eastern township, but next to an elk farm, not far from my usual route, My SIL recommended it to me, but I was met with suspicion….”Why are you taking this crossing?” Long, long ago.
SpaceUnit
@Kayla Rudbek:
Very sorry to hear that. Sending good thoughts and vibes your way.
Jay
@Almost Retired:
The lake is within the larger territory originally inhabited by the Abenaki tribe. The lake’s name, Memphremagog, is derived from the Algonkian language:[20]
Ramalama
@Jackie: yeah but who’s ready for an emergency samosa reheating?
Wombat Probability Cloud
@Kayla Rudbek: Hope that is benign, and the good news is that you are tuned in and finding potential problems early.
Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)
@Doc Sardonic: Well, that only works as long as the Supreme Court says it works. And I don’t have any faith in them any longer.
pajaro
@Chetan Murthy:
thank you for posting. why would’t Vance, who would be elected President, and have the votes entitling him to be president certified by the states, just, you know, allow the votes to be counted on Jan. 6th and become President? And then turn to Donnie and say, oops, you’re not in the line of succession any more, sorry.
Marc
We use ours for baking and broiling in pans that fit. It heats up a lot faster than our regular oven.
Gin & Tonic
@Almost Retired: It’s a lake that spans the Vermont-Quebec border. I think by mid-summer the water gets all the way up to the low 50’s, so no, not boiling.
Ramalama
@Jay: ok link looks dead rn but speaking of food and Canada: Top Chef is spending this season in Toronto.
Last season or a couple seasons prior, they were in Italy, giving the winner plane fare and tickets to the Olympic Games held in Japan. Right as the pandemic was hovering over us all. I watched the entire season, grimacing.
It’s a food show that’s got a fickle finger on the pulse of world events. I mean Canada? Now?
Jay
@Gin & Tonic:
@Ramalama:
Never take the small border crossings. It was bad enough in the past when they were just bored, now they are empowered to let their Nazi flag fly.
Ramalama
@Kayla Rudbek: I’m so sorry about your recent finding. Hoping that it’s just fatty tissue.
Rusty
@Wombat Probability Cloud: Our regular oven died days before Christmas. The Breville toaster oven roasted vegetables, made pies, roasted the ham (I did slice off the top of the ham to make it fit) and more. I was surprised how versatile and well it worked. It came with the house, I don’t know how we lived without one before.
Ohio Mom
@Kayla Rudbek: I also had breast cancer, still taking an estrogen blocker 12 years later and all I can say is, Oh dear, crossing my fingers, ties and eyes for good news. Keep us posted, please.
NotMax
I like toast, bur for a fistful of C-notes? No way, José.
cmorenc
@Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.):
Except that’s not what would happen if Trump was VP and President Zero resigned – the Speaker of the House would be constitutionally next in line if the VP was ineligible to become president.
A more realistic potential scenario is to have Donald Trump’s son Don Jr run successfully for President, with dad Don Sr as chief advisor and real power behind Don, Jr. It would sort of parallel how Putin kept control of Russia during the interim when he was ineleible to run for another conseutive term, with the difference that the Russian constitution did not contain an absolute prohibition against Putin again becoming President following the expiration of the term of the zero ho nominally was President during the period Putin was ineligible.
Jay
@Ramalama:
Lot’s of good Canadian food, with good Canadian ingredients, and about the only place in North America that a US reality TV Food show can afford eggs.
Jay
@Kayla Rudbek:
Hoping for the best for you.
No One of Consequence
Not an authority on air fryers, but before anyone goes all in on spending hard-earned cash on them:
Look at the underside of the unit with the basket out. I believe you may find that there is a nichrome coil (heating element in an electric stove or toaster) and above that sits what appears to me to be a CPU fan. It might not be quite THAT simple, but it is pretty fuggin’ basic. Great idea, and I am warming to mine (first pun noter gets shot) but wanted to throw this out there for the curious among us who don’t like to google things until we cannot puzzle them out ourselves.
I may just be weird.
-NOoC
No One of Consequence
Oh, and hence the need to flip your eats halfway through your air frying. I wouldn’t trust
conductionconvection to get it *AS* evenly done as a flip would get you. YMMV and probably will.-NOoC
Ohio Mom
@Jay: NYC bagels and Montreal bagels are not really comparable. I wouldn’t say they are different species, more like different breeds of dogs. Can anyone prove that beagles are better than collies, it’s a spurious argument.
Ramalama
@Jay: omg yes. This week they’re recreating food from a sugar shack. The judge told the contestants that he Really Loves Soufflés. Watch, this season’s going to weirdly be all about eggs (et aussi maple syrup, poutine, etc). They’ve already filmed the show.
RandomMonster
Get a toaster oven and liberate yourself. So much more flexible.
Jay
@Ohio Mom:
Technically they are Polish Jewish style Bagels, while New York Bagels are ruZZian.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Ohio Mom:
I have been enjoying Discworld lately and Moving Pictures came to mind.
satby
@Kayla Rudbek: Keeping good thoughts for you. {Kayla}
Jay
@Ramalama:
In a sugar shack, you tend the fire, stir the sap, nothing much else to do but cook and eat.
Wonder if they will cover off an Ice Hut.
frosty
@Jay:
We crossed at a small one last summer, from Minnesota. Having been surprised on a trip a few years ago I had a good list of all our cocktail mixin’s, fruits, and vegetables, and estimated duty of about $US50. The border agent looked at the list and waved us through. Seemed to me like he didn’t want to do a bunch of paperwork that day.
Andrya
@cmorenc: Your realistic scenario was actually pulled off by George Wallace (ugh) in the Alabama governor’s race in 1966. He ran his wife, using the slogan “Vote for Lurleen and let George do it”. She won.
Jay
@frosty:
Fruits and Vegetables, you Criminal!
Ramalama
@Jay: sugar shacks , some, are big and elaborate, now.
but yeah baby. Ice fishing hut, caban a peche. Anthony Bourdain had the best time in one on his show with 2 quebecer chefs. Top Chef’s gotta cover that.
stinger
@Kayla Rudbek: Damn. Keep us informed, please.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Kayla Rudbek: 🤞 Best wishes.
Jay
@Ramalama:
I just hope they don’t give away the location of Canada’s Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve
I miss Anthony.
NotMax
@No One of Consequence
Have a compact model from the same company which makes the Instant Pot which is ideal for a small household of 1 or 2. This one changed my mind 180 degrees about air fryers. Used to have a large one which didn’t do its thing nearly so well and I grew to loathe; glad when it expired.
Almost more than you wanted to know about them watch: Air fryers are simpler than you think, but still pretty neat.
Ramalama
@frosty: when I crossed the border weekly, I killed them with detail until they rolled their eyes and said, alright already, and almost always let me in, minimal hassle.
“Two packages of Oreos, four steaks, 4 blocks of cheddar, two bottles of wine, some sandwiches I picked up from the gas station at exit 10, Trader Joe’s mocha ice cream, a pint of Ben and Jerry mint chocolate cookie ice cream (hint: Quebec does not seem to be a fan of mint ), 4 bags of peanuts.”
Border guard, throwing my passport back at me, saying, “ok ok ok.”
I no longer commute, but obviously those times are gone.
frosty
@Jay: TBH that was a return a few years earlier to the US. They took everything except the tomatoes that were from Mexico. Who knows???
NutmegAgain
@Almost Retired: And then there’s Lake Webster, otherwise known as Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. (You fish on your side, we’ll fish on our side, and nobody will fish in the middle, roughly.) South of Worcester MA. It’s useful to know in some situations, like when I get shit from Germans about American places names and compound nouns.
Medicine Man
@Kayla Rudbek: I’ll say prayer for you, Kayla. I’m sure you’ll be ok.
VFX Lurker
@Kayla Rudbek: Wishing you swift answers and the best possible outcome.
dww44
@Steve LaBonne: they are just plain scared that he will impact their bottom line. Our for profit media caving. Each day it becomes more clear we are the only ones who can save ourselves. I will be at our own local Hands Off Rally on Saturday. Sign suggestions would be appreciated.
Kristine
@Kayla Rudbek: best wishes for best possible outcomes.
Kristine
I love today’s photo. It looks like an Impressionist painting.
prostratedragon
@Martin: Around 30 years ago (aaarrrrggh!) there was a bagel shop on North Wabash near Lake in Chicago that made bagels as good as an above-average NYC bagel. Disappeared after a couple of months. Not bagel country, I guess. Never had another decent bagel outside NY.
NotMax
@NutmegAgain
Take it away, Ethel.
;)
Madeleine
@Martin: Bah. NY bagels are big puffy blobs, sometimes without even proper holes in the center. I’ve searched and only briefly found the true bagel in a shop in midtown Manhattan, which promptly went out of business. Bagels should be dense and chewy like bagels Zingerman’s bagels in Ann Arbor, my former home. How I miss them!
Ivan X
We have reached the nothing means anything phase of existence.
NotMax
@Madeleine
The bagels at Costco here are quite passable, albeit I find them saltier than I’d like. Just enough light crustiness on the outside.
(BTW, their madeleines are pretty tasty too.)
Jim Appleton
@Steve LaBonne: My experience with relatives makes clear to me that it’s mostly ill advised to project a time frame. Don’t dispute current observation of iDJT’s (pronounced “idjit’s”) dementia, just the speculation about when and how severe it will get.
He’s still able to articulate fairly complex concepts sometimes.
His infantilism and narcissism notwithstanding, he could deteriorate slow or fast, no one knows.
prostratedragon
And just like that I see H&H is opening several stores nationally this year, including one in the Fulton area. We’ll see if they can deliver a good, fresh product.
BigJimSlade
@Ohio Mom: you can also just throw slices of bread in a skillet – pan fried is good and has a slightly different texture (a little more firm).
Thor Heyerdahl
Worst crossing I had was at Portal, North Dakota in the late aughts.
“Ever been arrested for drugs?”
“No sir.”
“Ever tried them?”
“Uh…no sir.” (Ahem)
I get summoned into the office and was eventually on my way after the proto-maga was done with stupid questions.
(This was before legalization in Canada and various states, but I so wanted to answer “you ever been to Vancouver? You don’t even have to take pot willingly – just walk three steps behind.”)
mark
@SW: The Incredible Dr Pol could fix him. Or maybe euthanize him.
mark
@Thor Heyerdahl: My old man was born there in 1933. Small world.
Jay
Since the 70’s, I have always been able to get great Montreal style bagels and NYC style bagels here.
Bread is a keystone of life.
Sadly, not Grocery Stores or Costco, where bagels are basically weak bread in a donut shape.
But from local, small bakeries and a few specialty shops.
The Naan we get from Shiraz Market, is the product of a small Surrey, that run’s 50 tandoori ovens, just to make naan.
Jay
Since the 70’s, I have always been able to get great Montreal style bagels and NYC style bagels here.
Bread is a keystone of life.
Sadly, not Grocery Stores or Costco, where bagels are basically weak bread in a donut shape.
But from local, small bakeries and a few specialty shops.
The Naan we get from Shiraz Market, is the product of a small Surrey shop, that run’s 50 tandoori ovens, just to make naan.
prostratedragon
Funny, I’ve been thinking lately about the Lone Wolf and Cub movies, and here’s TCM now with a couple. Actually, the first is a sort of sequel to the series, with a woman at the sword.
Quaker in a Basement
“Why are all toasters still designed to toast only bread in the shape of wonder bread?”
It seems like it’s a contest. They change the bread. They change the toasters. So they change the bread. I mean, a slice of bread used to be like, 3 inches across, so the toaster slot was 3-1/2 or 4 inches. Now you have all these artisan breads where a slice is 4 or 4-1/2 inches. THEY DON’T FIT IN THE F’N TOASTER!
ascap_scab
Oster convection toaster oven – $95.
Buy it. An absolute must for re-heating pizza.
https://pulpyfresh.com/product/toaster-oven-digital-convection-oven-large-6-slice-capacity-black-polished-stainless-tssttvmndg-shp-2/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw16O_BhDNARIsAC3i2GA6Cnmb8fAKsq19cPvOVTqs9-X8CU_6HgkJZaWSb3Tg7vC5klKRAkYaAuM_EALw_wcB
prostratedragon
Sean Casten:
Martin
Here’s the thing you all get wrong about this question. NYC bagels are an experience. You can’t reduce them down to mere bread. One of the things that makes NYC bagels great is that you’re in NYC when you eat one. You can’t just gloss over that part.
Martin
@Quaker in a Basement: This is either revisionist or evidence of trauma. I grew up in NY, and now live in CA, and on both coasts round loaves, braided loaves, and everything in between were common. Good luck getting that center slice from a round sourdough or round rye loaf into anything other than a toaster oven or the long skinny posted above by scav.
I think the problem is that everyone who fondly remembers bread always fitting the toaster grew up with shitty bread, and you should spit on your parents or their grave for dishonoring you in this way.
Martin
@ascap_scab: Spend the extra money and get a Breville.
Chris T.
@SpaceUnit:
To annoy you, of course! Red Dwarf Talkie Toaster
Geminid
The armored vehicle that sank into a peat bog last week while on a night exercise in Lithuania has been recovered. U.S. Navy divers stationed at Rota, Spain were finally able to attach two cables yesterday and the Armored Recovery Vehicle was carefully winched out.
Crews had been working around the clock for days, but some took time off yesterday to attend a Mass for the four Army 3rd Division soldiers trapped inside the Armored Recovery Vehicle.
This is from news aggregator “OSINTdefender.”
Geminid
From Saudi-based Al Arabiya:
Ronno2018
Condo in Spain I was in last month had a neat single sided grill toaster. I cannot find it online though.
Ramalama
@prostratedragon:
Professor Bigfoot
@Ohio Mom: I have a Cuisinart air-fryer/oven/toaster and it works GREAT.
It’s only problem is that it is slow to do plain ol’ ordinary toast; but it’s become my go-to oven for almost everything anymore.
Spc
@Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.): 12A should prevent this scenario.
Poodle Mom (fka KM in NS)
Since it looks like this thread is still going… and G&T mentioned border crossing, I thought I’d give my recent experience travelling to the Red State of my birth.
pre-cleared US customs and Immigration in Toronto and got the usual questions: where are you going; how long are you staying; what’s your purpose; what do you do for a living. No issues and way more friendly than the border crossing in St. Stephen, ME.
The only fear and trepidation I had was in TX because I worried about getting measles the whole time I was in the airport.
worth noting: my parents had MSNBC on all day. I saw coverage of protests around the country and Morning Ho was aggressively covering “Signalgate”. The local news didn’t cover any protests in the state capitol even though the local independent newspaper told me there were protests over the weekend.
came back to Canada and breathed a sigh of relief… although, it’s still too early to tell about the measles. Even so, I have to think I still have immunity from my childhood vax.
sentient ai from the future
@TheOtherHank: custom made for the goose meme.
Soprano2
@Kayla Rudbek: I’m so sorry, I can’t imagine how scary that is. They should get you in right away!
Poodle Mom (fka KM in NS)
Gah! Missed the edit window… St. Stephen, NB/ Calais, ME.
Soprano2
@Poodle Mom (fka KM in NS): Your doctor can check your immunity, it’s a simple blood test. I had it done several years ago and found I needed a booster.
Ramalama
@Poodle Mom (fka KM in NS): do you live in NB? Gotta say they saved our bacon, NB power company, when Hydro Quebec couldn’t get our power restored after 23 days. Storm.
Kinda worried about the nut left in California who don’t vaccinate. I’m going to try to see my doctor to check titres for MMP before I go in June.
Was it different being back in the States now that the wrecking ball’s in full swing?
oh wait…you’re in New Scotland (Nova Scotia)?
lowtechcyclist
The cheapo Hamilton Beach toaster we bought at Walmart toasts bagel halves just fine, and has no problem with the long slices of Arnold bread. (Their OatNut is my go-to sandwich bread.)
Poodle Mom (fka KM in NS)
@Ramalama: yes, Nova Scotia.
lowtechcyclist
The 22nd Amendment nowhere prohibits a 2-term president from being in the line of succession and becoming president again upon the death, resignation, or impeachment and conviction of the incumbent. It just says he can’t be *elected* president again.
Therefore such a person is constitutionally eligible to be president, so the 12th Amendment doesn’t prohibit him from being vice president.
Maybe the writers of the 22nd Amendment *meant* to exclude a 2-term president from becoming president again by *any* means, but it’s not what they *said*.
lowtechcyclist
Alternatively, if the GOP were to win the Presidency and the House in 2028, they could vote FFOTUS to be House Speaker on 1/3/29. Nothing in the Constitution can be said to prohibit this.
On 1/21/29, the President and VP both resign before a new VP can be sworn in. FFOTUS goes directly from being Speaker to being President, skipping right past any interpretation of the 12th amendment.
Wanderer
@Kayla Rudbek: Hopefully they will bring you in at first available basis. The worried waiting must be so difficult to manage. Sending you every wish for a speedy visit and good outcome.
lowtechcyclist
@Martin:
I had a center slice from a big round loaf just yesterday. I toasted it in my cheapo toaster via the One Weird Trick of….cutting it in half. Each half easily fit into a toaster slot.
I’m sure there’s some reason why this is regarded as a sin against all that is good and holy about good bread, but so what.
Kosh III
My Toaster is a mechanical Cylon model, not the sexy Tricia Helfer model.
Seanly
@jefft452:
True story – my Mom sent me, roughly 11 or 12, to buy some bread. I bought Wonder Bread.
Mom came home, saw Wonder Bread and freaked the fugg out. She was ranting about how it wasn’t bread, it was just a bunch of air, etc etc. At one point she said it wasn’t even good as tissue. She then proceeded to take a piece out, rolled it flat & blew her nose in it.
Telling the story to a room full of strangers I realize I may have been emotionally abused. But I’ve never bought white bread since then…
Assuming Trump lives long enough or hasn’t descended into full-blown Calcigula mode (think we’re getting close to that to be honest), what keeps Vance from being elected President & then refusing to resign for Trump?
ron
@A Ghost to Most: gonna say the same thing. We use ours to do way more than just toast of course. An actual appliance that is worth the money.
DFH
To fit odd things that won’t fit into a toaster, try a toaster oven. Just remember it gets hot, so use hot pads.
Ramalama
I love how the lines have been drawn around here.
Toaster
Toaster oven
Air fryer
Blow torch
Plus the discussion about bread. Better than doom scrolling!
apocalipstick
@Gvg:
“People get taught the Constitution and some history but they don’t understand what it means! Ugh.”
Because people do not want to understand what the Constitution means. More education is like pouring water on a rock: don’t be stunned when plants don’t grow.
brianc91764
@satby: I cut sourdough slices in half to fit. A Procrustean solution, as it were.