I’m not a political communications professional, but this seems unwise…
Trump: So what they are trying to do with the Epstein hoax is get people to talk about that instead of speaking about the tremendous success like ending seven wars
Narrator: Trump didn’t end seven wars.
I’ll spare you further clips of the mush-mouthed sleazebag, but here are some other whiny quotes from the same exchange:
This is a Democrat hoax. They’re trying to get people to talk about something that is totally irrelevant.
We are having the most successful eight months of any president ever. And that’s what I want to talk about. That’s what we should be talking about. Not the Epstein hoax.
I understand that we were subpoenaed to give files and I understand we have given thousands of pages of files. I think it’s enough because I think we should talk about the success that we are having.
Trump is deeply unpopular, and he’s trying to make a pedophilia scandal involving his close personal friend go away by calling it a “Democrat hoax” and whining about how he’s not getting enough credit for nonexistent accomplishments.
Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but I don’t think this will have the intended effect.
Open thread.
eclare
I don’t even understand. Seven wars?
Kristine
@eclare:
Well, maybe if you count SF, LA, DC, maybe Chicago?
matt
Trump thinks he’s had the best 7 months of any president ever. The people are turning against him very rapidly. He is essentially a brain dead idiot. And he wants to control the information getting to people to stop them from turning against him,
Trollhattan
“Democrat hoax” always settles it.
mrmoshpotato
@eclare: Lucky number seven? Syphilitic seven? Soviet shitpile since 1987? 🤷♂️
mrmoshpotato
@matt:
Essentially?
eclare
@mrmoshpotato:
Love you.
matt
@mrmoshpotato: I’m not saying that based on his whole track record but just based on these current facts. Of course he’s a giant fucking idiot, loser, piece of shit, etc.
Nukular Biskits
@matt:
What does that say of all the elected officials have continued to support him, defend him and make excuses for him?
matt
I was hearing on a podcast that Lutnick’s company which is controlled by his sons is buying up these financial instruments en masse that are the legal rights to credits that the government will have to pay companies if the tariffs are overturned in the courts. Incredible corruption.
MazeDancer
The immediate cut from the Survivors’ deeply moving testimony to this clown in the Oval shouting “Democrat hoax” was jarring.
Almost as unbelievable as my cheering “Go get ’em, MTG!” But she was right on.
Chief Oshkosh
@Nukular Biskits: That they’re shitbirds?
mrmoshpotato
@matt: I was sticking to a recent timeframe too. :)
Chief Oshkosh
How did the rest of the presser with the victims go?
artem1s
ABG – always be grifting
Mr. Bemused Senior
Financial engineering. [/s] Capitalism provides some benefits for society but it also attracts crooks.
Eric S.
@Nukular Biskits: Nothing we didn’t already know.
gene108
I wonder if Trump is so out of touch with reality that he’s living in a delusional alternate reality where he thinks he ended seven wars and America is the best it’s ever been?
I think he gets a pass for what is clearly a deteriorating mental state.
Ishiyama
Nothing says “It’s irrelevant” like trying to drown out the press conference with military jets.
Shalimar
They spent the whole first term telling the base that Trump would fight the deep state pedophile ring. I suspect all this “hoax” talk will do is make many paranoid MAGAs believe that Trump is the leader of the deep state pedophile ring he now claims doesn’t exist.
Ned F
I’m waiting for the end of the war on Democracy.
I was in Lowe’s this morning and there was a crew updating all the price tags on merchandise throughout the store with all the new raised prices. I thought he won the inflation war too.
Shalimar
@eclare: One of the wars Trump claims he ended was India-Pakistan. He told Modi this during a meeting recently and Modi basically responded to his face, “the fuck you did. you had nothing to do with it.”
Edit: that exchange is part of why Trump announced tariffs against India, and Modi is meeting with Putin and Xi this week.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Shalimar: I imagine he’s counting Afghanistan. Apropos the discussion of Cromwell earlier, let’s think about how awful our support of the warlords must have been for people to have welcomed back the Taliban.
mrmoshpotato
@gene108:
No. This is the fascist shitstain who tried to overthrow the government 4 years ago, and who’s trying to completely destroy it now. Fuck him and his fascism.
Nukular Biskits
With apologies to BettyC for somewhat hijacking her open thread …
Y’all since this is an open thread, I have a favor to ask: Can y’all provide recommendations/suggestions for places to go for a short vacay within reasonable driving distance from Mississippi Gulf Coast?
Long story short: we have a very short window of the next four weeks.
ETA: corrected some stuff … I hate posting mobile
rikyrah
HOAX
HOAX
THEE ENTIRE PHUCK!!
Mike E
@eclare: sexually transmitted diseases, his Vietnam, after all
@mrmoshpotato: heh
hueyplong
@Shalimar: To be honest, if you gave any credence at all to any of that stuff, you’d almost be logically required to conclude that the denial of its existence by Trump actually acts as a full-bore admission of active participation in wrongdoing.
Anything else would be tacit recognition that you’ve been in a crazy cult all this time. What’s totally bizarre, and kind of plot-device cool, is that the leader of the cult turns out to be the great satan. It’s like these fools have never seen a movie.
Shalimar
@Mr. Bemused Senior: I could go back and make a list. I assume someone else has. There have been a series of conflicts this year where Trump has called both adversaries and told them to get it solved, then took credit when they did what they would have done anyway.
They Call Me Noni
@Nukular Biskits: That they don’t have enough healthy brain cells to make a rational decision.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@gene108:
For the damage he’s already done, and the fact that few of us will live long enough to see his wrongs set right, the only pass I’m willing to give him is one through a meat-grinder.
Betty
@Shalimar: And allegedly asked Modi to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Same response from Modi so India gets an extra load of tariffs.
Jackie
Another Democrat is challenging Susan Collins for her seat. Watch his kickoff video:
TaMara
I know it’s not the point, but he looks like shit. They may have been able to prop him up with enough meds/stimulants yesterday, but today he looks like he’s playing through a three-day bender.
And in case you missed it, FAUXNews got the memo and is distracting his braindead followers with the military flyover. Predictable fuckers.
Ishiyama
Say what you will against Cromwell; He was an enemy of Kings, and he faced reality. When they painted his portrait, he told them to paint him “warts and all”.
Shalimar
@Nukular Biskits: The ocean liner SS United States is currently in Mobile being cleaned so it can be sunk off of Destin, FL as a reef. You can only see it from a distance so it definitely is not worth a trip by itself, but maybe as a stop if you’re headed that direction anyway.
edit: The WWII-era USS Alabama and Drum, battleship and submarine, are also a very nice tour, I think $18 per person.
They Call Me Noni
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: Imma come sit over there by you.
Jeffro
So if it’s all a “Democrat hoax”, Mr. President…why not release absolutely everything, and make sure that justice is served? Not just on the folks who visited Epstein Island but also the folks who are trying to smear you, etc.
Prosecute the child molesters and sue the defamers, amirite there Mr. Soooper-Genius?
No?
Why not?
mrmoshpotato
@Bruce K in ATH-GR:
Meat grinder abuse!
Betty
@Shalimar: Ah,memories. I traveled to and from France on the USS United States. Going over in 1968, our group traveled with the Rhodes Scholars, a group that included Bill Clinton and Robert Reich.
tobie
Thanks for these summaries and digests. I really appreciate that I don’t have to listen to the shit-stain on our country thanks to this blog. Just today I was admiring today that Jamie Raskin has somehow managed to maintain his wits, his energy, and even an irrepressible cheerfulness to fight all these selfish bastards. He’s a mensch, a sweetheart, but he’s also a fighter. What a combo.
I giggled at this clip from today where you can just tell he studied French when he mentions the name of a certain French political party,
matt
@Jeffro: it’s a hoax of irrelevance – the facts are correct, but they’re not the facts dear leader wants you to know.
Rose Judson
Jesus, I get buried by work for three weeks and President Choad somehow solves SEVEN wars?
BTW, if you have BlueSky, please enjoy Jamie Raskin ripping Nigel Farage a new arsehole here: bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lxx32n7tuk2a
Deputinize America
@Nukular Biskits:
Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola is pretty great.
I also HIGHLY recommend Fort Morgan on Mobile Bay.
pajaro
@Shalimar:
There was another temporary cessation of hostilities, between Thailand and Cambodia, where we. threatened to increase tariffs if they didn’t agree, and are taking credit for an agreement negotiated elsewhere.
There are two disputes where we helped the parties that didn’t involve any warfare at the time (Egypt-Ethiopia and Serbia Kosovo)
There’s also the cease-fire between the US, Israel and Iran, which stopped fighting that had been commenced by Israel and the US;
so those are 5 out of the seven wars that Trump claims credit for having stopped…..
SW
Labeling the Epstein affair a “Democratic Hoax” might get some of the QAnnon freaks to rethink the “Russia Hoax”.
Other MJS
I know he’s dim but his unawareness of his own absurdity is astonishing. It’s like every time he sits on his golden toilet it’s the greatest poop in the history of the cosmos.
Parfigliano
@Nukular Biskits: Why would you want to go to a racist shit hole like Mississippi
SW
@Other MJS: he should live stream them
Jackie
FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS!!!
mrmoshpotato
@Betty:
Did they let you fly any jets? Wheeeee!!!! 😁
SS United States
Must’ve been an incredible trip.
p.a.
@Jackie: I’m pretty much over IPA mania, but Maine Lunch is still a go-to. (Actually an APA).
Lyrebird
@MazeDancer: Thanks – I didn’t see her speak, but I was a little bit shocked to see her a) standing up for survivors against the Orange Menace and b) not taking the spotlight away at all from the other speakers. Kudos to her.
To the kakistocrat in chief, failure, failure, failure. He’s not capable of feeling shame sfaict.
Melancholy Jaques
@Jackie:
I’m leery of “I’m not a politician” candidates and those who run against “Washington.” It’s too close to “both sides” for me, but at least he didn’t say Democrats abandoned the working class.
tobie
@Jackie: Hmm…just think how the chances of this situation would have been limited if Trump hadn’t walked away from the JCPOA that the Obama administration negotiated. The Trump Admin then but especially now is amateur-hour on full display.
Jackie
@TaMara:
Funny. I watched the conference on MSNBC and only heard a couple of jets whose noise was audible for just a few secs. The speakers were only momentarily silenced and continued on unfazed.
Betty Cracker
@Rose Judson: That was awesome! Farage was squirming like the loathsome worm he is!
catclub
@Nukular Biskits:
Anything good on at Alabama Shakespeare festival?
Cheryl from Maryland
@Shalimar:
@Nukular Biskits: Wayne and I spent a very nice four days in Mobile about ten years ago. Besides what Shalimar mentioned, there is a ferry to ride and a lovely small museum dedicated to Mobile’s Mardi Gras parades. Also good food.
catclub
I was amused by Newsmax suing Fox news for monopoly.
Fox news may have a monopoly on conservative viewers, but is that really a monopoly. may they both waste money on the fight.
HinTN
@Nukular Biskits: Chattanooga, TN, is a lovely city with many amenities. There’s the Bluff View Arts District, which is anchored by the Hunter Museum. There are excellent restaurants. There is the history of the Civil War in the park on Lookout Mountain and elsewhere. There is the natural beauty of the area and the opportunity to venture forth into nature in the State Park system.
If you choose to try ‘Nooga, I sportive any fruit pager to pass along my contact info.
Melancholy Jaques
@MazeDancer:
For those of us who can’t stand watching or hearing her – and maybe it’s just me – can you give us a summary?
Lyrebird
@Nukular Biskits:
Hey I hear kalakal runs a nice library! Well maybe not all by himself. but hey the Clearwater Marine Aquarium is open again after some repairs, and they say they have a sloth currently! And shops in Tampa do sell that pecan beer you recommended, last I heard. ETA: you have already fed rays probably, but there’s also a little boat trip out to a small island.
HinTN
@p.a.: I love a good IPA followed by a nice rich porter.
tobie
@Rose Judson: Did you see this tag-teaming??? I don’t know if this kind of humor works in the UK. It’s hard to judge from afar.
Jeffro
I see that Florida is about to end all vaccine mandates for schoolchildren. Same day that it’s announced that California, Oregon, and Washington are forming a “West Coast Health Alliance” to make sure that vaccines are widely available in those states.
I would have thought the U.S. would break up over guns, or abortion. But vaccines?
Anyway…the blue states are going to have a field day recruiting red-state refugees in every high-need field for the next couple of years, methinks.
HinTN
@Parfigliano: Mr Biscuits lives in Mississippi, much like I live in Tennessee, which has some reputation as a redneck, racist, misogynist shithole. We all make do.
Jackie
@tobie:
I spewed ☕️ Jared has the gift that just keeps on giving 😂
Madeleine
@Jackie: I was watching BBC and heard three jets distinctly. I thought it was obviously meant a sa distraction. It failed.
MattF
Trump lies about everything. All the time. We hope that people do catch on, eventually.
Nukular Biskits
@Shalimar @Deputinize America @Cheryl from Maryland:
Probably should have been a little more specific.
I’ve family in Mobile and been to Battleship Park several times over the years. Also, Ms. Biskits was stationed at Eglin AFB. Not that there’s anything wrong with those. And, yes, the food is good!
Problem is Ms. Biskits loves shopping, shows/entertainment, fine dining and I’m an anti-social misanthrope whose idea of “vacation” is to get away from all humanity … LOL!
@Parfigliano:
While I’m often of the opinion that folks should avoid MS until it moves forward into the 20th century (yes, 20th), I live in Gulfport, MS. So … yeah.
@catclub:
Interesting … I’ll have to look that one up.
Snarki, child of Loki
“Maine brewery owner Dan Kleban (D) announced in a kickoff video that he is mounting a Senate bid”
I, for one, would like to know more about this Kleban cat.
Nukular Biskits
@Lyrebird:
Hmm. Maybe we could go down that way and visit BettyC! 😂
tobie
@Jackie: Moskowitz is made for stand-up comedy.
I read that Farage left before Dan Goldman got to question him. What a wimp, if true!
HinTN
@HinTN: Dear FSM, “I sportive any fruit pager” should have been I approve any front pager.
The Other Bob
@Jeffro:
…and federal taxes. Considering blue states pay the bills and aren’t getting our priorities met.
All I want for Christmas is a Constitutional Amendment to allow states to leave the union.
Nukular Biskits
I’m gonna call my US Rep every damned day to ask if he’s signed onto the Discharge Petition.
That coward.
Jackie
@Jeffro:
My daughter and family live in FL. Thankfully their family doctor is science-based and anti MAGA. She’ll follow his recommendations. AND thankfully both grandkiddos are in high school and already have most of the FORMER CDC’s recommended vaccines.
Geminid
@pajaro: One of the others is the Armenian/Azerbaijan war. That 30-year conflict effectively ended October of 2023 when Azerbaijan took the Armenian enclave of Artsakh.
The two countries had pretty much worked out a peace treaty already when Trump invited the two leaders to the White House to sign a memorandum stating the terms agreed upon thus far. Both Armenian PM Pashinyin and Azerbaijan President Aliyev made the most of this brown-nosing opportunity.
Timill
@Nukular Biskits: Maybe Memphis?
Betty Cracker
@Nukular Biskits: There’s a place called the Lodge at Wakulla Springs near Crawfordville, FL — south of Tallahassee. It’s on the beautiful fresh water spring where they filmed “Creature From the Black Lagoon” in the 1950s. The 1930s-era hotel has got a real Old Florida feel. The rooms are spacious, and some overlook the spring, where it’s a lot of fun to swim. They have boat rides on the river where you can see lots of cool birds and other critters. There’s an onsite restaurant that’s pretty good and an old-fashioned soda fountain. St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge is nearby. Very cool if you want to lose yourself in nature.
Lyrebird
@Nukular Biskits:
She certainly could recommend some of the best Swimming* With Manatees locales!
*might be once again exaggerating or misremembering
Hope you and Ms. Biskits have a great trip wherever you go.
Lyrebird
@Betty Cracker:
you type way faster than me in this format!! (see prev comment from me :-)
Melancholy Jaques
@MattF:
His cult members know he is lying, but since his lies disparage and infuriate liberals, they love it.
Nukular Biskits
@Timill:
I was just looking at that. Never been to Beale Street. Could care less about Graceland but she probably would like that.
But, then, there will be people there! Bah humbug!
Matt McIrvin
@Ishiyama:
Not really–he effectively made himself a hereditary monarch. He was just an enemy of the Kings who were called that.
His line of succession didn’t stick, but that wasn’t his intention.
Betty
@Rose Judson: Brits on Threads are enjoying this immensely and daring the BBC to air it.
Geminid
@HinTN: The Chickamauga battlefield ten or so miles south of Chattanooga is a good place for walking.
Nukular Biskits
@Betty Cracker:
Now THAT really appeals to me, a country boy!
Ms. Biskits is a city girl, so I’ve got to somehow “split the baby”.
rikyrah
Nicholas Fandos (@npfandos) posted at 0:05 PM on Wed, Sep 03, 2025:
BREAKING: Advisers to President Trump have discussed the possibility of giving Mayor Eric Adams and Curtis Sliwa positions in the admin to clear the field and damage the chances of Zohran Mamdani, according to 3 people with knowledge of the discussions
t.co/hrJWF5toqG
(https://x.com/npfandos/status/1963287287225045235?t=zfafx-uWYItSlNj5OxJJaQ&s=03)
Gin & Tonic
@Parfigliano: Um, he lives there?
Baud
I’m warming to the idea of giving Obama another Peace Prize.
Paul in KY
@Shalimar: I hope so.
Nukular Biskits
@Baud:
Make it seven …
Jeffro
@Jackie: This is good news, but…once the % of vaccinated kids drops below whatever it takes for herd immunity (95%?), infection rates go way up. Even for the vaccinated.
(The unvaccinated are far more at risk, of course).
The Fro fam has already been on a boycott of vacationing in red states, Florida most especially. That’s pretty well locked in now.
Paul in KY
@Nukular Biskits: Gulf Shores! Also, NOLA.
Gin & Tonic
@Snarki, child of Loki: ISWYDT.
Jeffro
Man, that is sliiiiiiiimy. And fortunately it’s obvious as hell.
Paul in KY
@Shalimar: The submarine is really interesting, because when you tour it you just can’t believe they had 80 people on this thing.
Paul in KY
@Betty: I traveled over from England to US on Queen Elizabeth when I was 2. Do not remember the trip.
p.a.
@Jeffro: Mamdani will just: “tRump making it easier for Cuomo. Why is that Andy? Do you want his support Andy?”
Paul in KY
@Deputinize America: I also highly recommend the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola. Also a great restaurant called The Fish House.
Suzanne
@rikyrah: The fact that FFOTUS hates Mamdani so much, and obviously wants to assist Andrew Fucken Cuomo….. well, that reflects well on Mamdani and, uhhhhh, unwell on Cuomo.
ETA: Can we kick Andrew Cuomo out of the party?
rikyrah
THESE PEOPLE ARE CRAZY
WIRED (@WIRED) posted at 8:29 AM on Wed, Sep 03, 2025:
Surrogate pregnancies are increasingly popular in tech circles, and the practice is expected to explode globally in the coming decade. It’s also shockingly unregulated. This is a story about what happens when it goes horribly wrong. t.co/pLn3PVuf8k
(https://x.com/WIRED/status/1963232771582595157?t=VWFC6RxOpyGAABE8iJlMkg&s=03)
Chief Oshkosh
@Nukular Biskits: Keep driving north until people start remarking on your weird accent and/or you start realizing that you don’t quite understand what the locals are saying to you because of their weird accent.
Enjoy!
Steve in the ATL
@Snarki, child of Loki: well played
Nukular Biskits
@Paul in KY:
Gulf Shores is a.k.a. “The Redneck Riviera” … LOL! Been there many a time in my 60 years. Ms. Biskits loves the idea of the beach … but she doesn’t like the sun. Still, it’s after Labor Day so the rates should be pretty good and the crowds less.
As for the Big Easy, been there many a time. Great food and I could always go for some more Cafe du Monde beignets and hot coffee!
Nukular Biskits
@Chief Oshkosh:
LOL!
rikyrah
CAN SEE IT FROM A MILE AWAY
KennyMack1971
@kennymack1971.bsky.social
Follow
Trump’s whole send in the troops to cities with large numbers of Black people gambit is frustration that Black people to this point haven’t taken the bait and been all out in the streets so now he’s trying another provocation.
September 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
bsky.app/profile/kennymack1971.bsky.social/post/3lxullwu4os2u
tobie
@Suzanne: Absolutely!
Betty Cracker
@Nukular Biskits: Yeah, Wakulla Springs is pretty remote, so it might not work for the missus. Tallahassee is the nearest city, and I don’t know that it’s a shopping and dining hub (I generally avoid it because ewww, Tallahassee!).
Steve in the ATL
@Paul in KY: the Fish House is quite good, and not a tourist trap as I feared. Also, Pensacola is the only place in the world where I’ve been asked upon returning my rental car, “Have there been any guns in the vehicle?”
Baud
@Suzanne:
Didn’t the voters kick him out?
And, no, US parties have no ability to kick someone out.
Paul in KY
@Nukular Biskits: I lived in Biloxi (was a Keesler). If you want o get away from people, then St. George Island (60 miles East of Panama City) is great. For nightlife, NOLA or Nashville or Atlanta would be best, IMO.
Baud
@rikyrah:
100%
They want a BLM redo.
Montanareddog
@Kristine:
And the Great Cracker Barrel Logo war.
Betty Cracker
Was just reading that the Epstein abuse survivors who spoke at the Capitol today are thinking about publishing a list of client names themselves.
Melancholy Jaques
@rikyrah:
Just have to keep reminding NYC voters: that asshole wants Cuomo to be mayor.
Melancholy Jaques
@Betty Cracker:
Don’t see a downside.
NotMax
@Montanareddog
Bowling Green Massacre II?
//
Paul in KY
@Nukular Biskits: Wife and I were in NOLA at end of July. Was her 1st time visiting. She really enjoyed stay…until she unfortunately saw a homeless person taking a dump on sidewalk and that really hurt her view of NOLA. She did love Audubon Park and zoo and the great restaurants.
We are headed down to Anna Maria Island in early Oct. Very excited about that.
catclub
My understanding was that Kentucky, West (by God) Virginia, and Tennessee did NOT go all in on the confederate treason. I could be mistaken.
Ishiyama
@Matt McIrvin: that word “effectively” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
catclub
@Paul in KY:
Apalachicola ( when I visited almost 30 years ago) was much more very old southern backwater than the beach towns. … with great oysters!
Betty Cracker
@Paul in KY: Anna Maria Island is great. When in town, we like to go to the Lazy Lobster in Long Boat Key for cocktails and seafood.
MazeDancer
@Melancholy Jaques:
MTG was just whole heartedly supportive. Praised the survivors.
My sister, who is represented by her in Congress, was so stunned she phoned and praised her courage.
Marge just spoke with Manu.
“On WH criticism that signing onto Massie bill is a ‘hostile act:’ “The hostile act has been against these women for so many years now'”
Says if the Survivors give her a list, she’ll read it on the floor of Congress.
Jackie
@rikyrah:
Republicans will have to wear maga thick blinders in order to pretend they don’t see how blatantly their Dear Leader is openly cheating to skew elections to his benefit.
Another plus to donning maga thick blinders is not having to face themselves in the mirror.
Madeleine
@Betty Cracker: they’re confidentially gathering a list. I have the impression that they’re not ready to publish—there are serious legal issues—law suits, destroying lives, physical danger.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@MazeDancer: Methinks Ms. Greene has decided the First Felon is more of a liability than an asset to her future prospects.
catclub
@catclub: I looked it up. Tennessee was a traitor state.
catclub
Bloody hot this time of year. try november.. or February.
Cafe Degas!
Betty Cracker
White House officials frantically polishing a turd:
My shitty GOP rep (Bilirakis) is flat-out lying to constituents to try to sell that turd of a law. They’ll all have to lie because it’s indefensible to shred the safety net so Musk and other centi-billionaires can buy half a dozen more yachts.
Jackie
@Jeffro: I can’t and won’t boycott my FL family. I refuse to let FFOTUS, Brainworm and DeStupid separate us. Sadly, between school and soccer (yr round) and daughter’s job, it’s much easier and cheaper for me to visit them than vis versa.
Chief Oshkosh
@Rose Judson: Farage is another one of the mokes that needs to step on a rake.
Paul in KY
@Steve in the ATL: The actual city of Pensacola I don’t like at all. Pensacola Beach and area East of it are what I like about it (beyond The Fish House).
tam1MI
@Nukular Biskits: Can y’all provide recommendations/suggestions for places to go for a short vacay within reasonable driving distance from Mississippi Gulf Coast?
New Orleans is a fairly easy drive away.
Paul in KY
@catclub: I haven’t been there in 12 or 15 years. The town only had a Piggly Wiggly supermarket (nothing at all like the standard Publix type one). I spent most all my time out on St. George Island (which only had 1 gas station, 1 liquor store and a small grocery and 2 restaurants).
Jackie
@Melancholy Jaques:
The downside is these courageous survivors will need excellent security. We ALL KNOW there are names who will attempt to silence them via death threats to them and their families.
Timill
@catclub: Tennessee nearly did a Virginia, which would have given us a state of East Tennessee seceding to join the Union.
Paul in KY
@Betty Cracker: Thank you! We are going to go if possible!
Paul in KY
@catclub: It was soooo humid! I came from balls-to-the-wall heat and this was a bit worse! Had a free stay at a really nice Holiday Inn place as they tried to get us into the timeshare game. Just had to endure a 2 hour presentation one morning (that we got $240 for). Sure agree that we didn’t visit at the optimum time.
I used to go to Voodoo Music Fest (RIP).
Jeffro
@Jackie: I didn’t, and never would, recommend boycotting family over a state’s current government’s insane policies. I completely sympathize with you and would do the same.
Vacation, though? That’s another story. Same with where folks choose to go to college, or which conferences they attend, etc etc.
Shalimar
@catclub: Eastern Tennessee including Chattanooga was pro-union just like West Virginia but did not break off into a new state when Tennessee seceded. What they did do was provide significantly more troops to the Union Army than the Confederate Army.
Geminid
@Paul in KY: Fort Pickens, across Pensacola Bay from the city, is a great place to camp. I camped there with a tent, but that place would be worth renting an RV for. It’s part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore.
Jeffro
@Betty Cracker: let’s see: they’re skipping town halls, they’re redistricting/gerrymandering, they’re “renaming” the OBBB, they’re flat-out lying…
…probably time to nuke another Venezuelan boat or order another DC flyover! 0_0
Nukular Biskits
@Betty Cracker:
Can’t really say much about that section of FL. I’ve been through Tallahassee on my way to/from Jacksonville … dammit my bluetooth keyboard died … LoL
Shalimar
@catclub: Apalachicola 30 years ago was one of the few places in the US that didn’t have a chain fast food restaurant. There is a Subway downtown now but it really hasn’t changed that much.
Geminid
@Nukular Biskits: I guess you’ve been to Dollywood already. And it is kind of far.
jonas
@matt: As ever, IOKIYAR
Nukular Biskits
@Geminid: Not Dollywood itself but Gatlinburg area.
Captain C
@rikyrah:
Does that mean Adams will be gone immedately? Also, that sort of thing might not help Cuomo as he will be (even more) easily painted as a Trumpy stooge in waiting.
Captain C
@Suzanne:
He’s already running as a sore loser independent, so he’s kind of self-deported. Also, fuck Andrew Cuomo.
Paul in KY
@Geminid: Have heard really nice comments about it. Hope to visit it some day.
Baud
@Captain C:
The election is only two months away. Why would anyone accept an appointment in the administration knowing they’ll be tossed aside in a couple of months?
Captain C
@Baud: Adams might be dumb enough. But I think he likes having the office of mayor (though not the job) and knows he has a better line of corruption with it.
mappy!
Apparently Connecticut is the only state that has a law allowing a political party (a party’s registrar of voters) to remove someone’s party affiliation…
Geminid
@Paul in KY: The actual Fort Pickens is a big brick fort constructed in the 1830s. It’s 8 miles from the park entrance, so there’s a lot of beach on the Gulf side and Bay side. There’s good walking, good bicycling, and also a small fishing pier on the Bay that does not require a state license. The park admission fee covers it.
There are a lot of fortifications built between WWI and WWIi; big casements for 10 inch guns and smaller structures as well.. One of my campsites had its own concrete pill box with flowers growng out of it.
HinTN
@Steve in the ATL: Where there are guns there’s ammo and that can get overlooked. These cars often are driven to Eglin and they don’t want any surprises.
HinTN
@Shalimar: It’s still a lovely old Florida town. The Pig is a really good grocery store. Appalachicola Coffee and Chocolate Company is worth a visit and there’s a photographer’s gallery almost next door.
rikyrah
Kenny BooYah!![]()
(@KwikWarren) posted at 0:21 PM on Wed, Sep 03, 2025:
Dems will want Dems who raped girls/women w/Epstein held accountable. MAGA Republicans will excuse trump&Republicans who raped girls/women w/Epstein. Rank&file MAGAts will defiantly circle the wagons around trump—no matter what. GOP will never impeach/remove trump—no matter what.
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JBWoodford
@tam1MI: Almost a Big Easy drive away, amirite?
Ben Cisco
@Shalimar: Including my 3x great grandfather.
Just me
@Paul in KY: was there a couple of months ago. It was amazing that all the flooding from the hurricane was not noticeable. Now the pier restaurant is completely gone.
Miss Bianca
@MazeDancer: DAMN, Skippy. When you’ve lost MTG…
Seriously, kudos to her.
Kayla Rudbek
@Lyrebird:
@Nukular Biskits: I have visited Key West and Kennedy Space Center and liked those a lot, but that was about 15+ years ago
JaneE
A politician hiding something makes people suspect there is something serious to hide. If he is just mentioned as a dinner guest where no untoward activity occurred, just show us. At this point just about anything among consenting adults would be better than what many of us are thinking. The more Trump fights disclosure the more it looks like guilt by association may be real guilt too.
p
jayne
@eclare: He said “end,” not “win.” So we’ve got the war on cancer, the war on child hunger, the war on poverty, the war on climate change, the war on corruption, the war on recession and I don’t know. Probably the war on drugs.
Paul in KY
@Geminid: That would be pretty cool (IMO) to have your own pill box at the campsite! We need to visit it!
Paul in KY
@HinTN: Plus at least 3 really nice oyster houses!
Paul in KY
@Just me: Just hope the beach is still nice (was last there in early 2020).