lolsob — Kamala Harris with a couple callbacks to her infamous "nothing comes to mind" answer during her The View appearance just before the election
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Kamala Harris on The View on election night: "That night — I grieved in a way that I have not since my mother died. The pain was not at all about losing a race. I knew what it was going to mean for the country … all I could say over and over was 'my God, my God, my God.' It was very difficult."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Kamala Harris: "We also need to remember those 107 days around some other stuff that he said — mass deportations, that he would weaponize the DOJ against his political enemies, that he would silence critics. And he has done that consistently."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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But nooooo…
Don't think I've ever felt this embarrassed to be an American. There's shame and anger too. But mostly embarrassment. We're the laughingstock of the developed world. And we should be.
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) September 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
(Yes, the entire UN speech was an embarrassment to all thinking people… but those aren’t the ones Trump was talking for. The clips designed to go viral on Reichtwing media will show a proud leader speaking of his many triumphs, and the fact that every word is a lie and every promise an empty threat will be overlooked by his cultists.)
Baud
Harris would have been great, but it’s hard to overcome the appeal of a really old presidential candidate.
HinTN
@Baud: “There are no redeeming qualities. “
Baud
@HinTN:
For his supporters, that’s his redeeming quality.
JiveTurkin
This is a paragraph from the opinion piece by Josh Hammer, a supposedly sane conservative:
The body of my friend Charlie Kirk, who was tragically assassinated last week during a campus event in Utah by a leftist transgender-adjacent “furry” fetishist, had barely returned home to Arizona before some grifters on the ostensible “Right” started trying to capitalize on his memory. Instead of focusing on the metastasizing evil of a distinctly leftist political violence or the fact that transgenderism had yet again found itself implicated in a horrific shooting.
WHAT the fuck is transgender-adjacent? Apparently anybody knowing a transgender person who commits a violent act must have been influenced by the violent tendencies of transgender people. I appreciate the fact that Mr. Hammer backs his statements up with data showing how prevalent violence is among transgender people.
BTEW, this is from the Newsweek website.
Betty
Even the cultists have to be squirming as they struggle to deny the inescapable reality and deflect the blame for it on someone or something else..
BeenHereSince2003
Reminder that RFK Jr doesn’t wash his hands after using the bathroom. Even #2
Baud
@JiveTurkin:
There are sane haters.
Trollhattan
@JiveTurkin: As opposed to why the shooter shot, WHO DID THE SHOOTER HANG OUT WITH?!?
Big brain thinking, right there.
Scout211
This!
Yes, AL. That was my sad conclusion when earlier today I tried to find online reactions to the Trump UN speech today. I used “Trump UN speech embarrassment” as a search and what popped up on Google was article after commentary after opinion piece from 2018!
So yeah, he’s done this before. The UN delegates know this and were not surprised today. We are not surprised. No one is surprised. But the right wing media will sane wash it for their viewers.
It turned out that I was doing that search too soon and now there are pages of reviews of the speech today. But it was a kick in the pants to realize that it was just a repeat of his previous performance.
But just because we’ve seen this before shouldn’t stop us from continuing to push the message that his embarrassing speech is hurting our nation in the eyes of other countries and world leaders.
And also to, that he’s a narcissistic idiot.
eclare
@BeenHereSince2003:
He has also been photographed walking barefoot to the restroom of a plane.
Matt McIrvin
@JiveTurkin: Remember, in Florida a couple of years ago the state government started claiming that not only are LGBT people all “groomers” (that is, pedophiles), all ALLIES of LGBT people are also “groomers”. If you so much as don’t hate the people they hate, you’re some kind of pedo.
Now, the accusation is of terrorism rather than pedophilia, but it’s the same kind of thing.
They’re trying to get cis people to throw trans people under the bus by threatening them with political demonization, violence, doxxing and loss of jobs, prosecution etc.
Matt McIrvin
@BeenHereSince2003: Natural poo germs strengthen the immune system!
NotMax
@Matt McIrvin
“It’s organic.”
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AM in NC
Something that made me smile today – this statue on the national mall . . .
upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/09/23/trump-epstein-statue-national-mall/9841758649132/
Maybe we are finally learning from our British friends how to properly mock the tiny-handed, ferret-topped blob of spoiled butterscotch pudding.
eclare
@Matt McIrvin:
I have no doubt that is what he believes.
cain
@Betty: Wait till the govt shutsdown. I hope as fuck the Dems try not to save the country by negotiating – this is the only time they have any political power and the rest of us are keenly hoping that they will rise to the moment even if it means a shutdown.
They’ve already seen what happened to Disney.
debit
I remember a plot point in a novel from the 70s (one of the Gregory McDonald ones, I think) about a spy changing a couple of words in a political speech that rocked the world with scandal and upset international trade. Now I think “that was so quaint.”
eclare
@cain:
I was talking to a good friend of mine this morning, and we agreed: shut the fucker down.
She was also supremely pissed because her ABC station is owned by Nexstar, so she won’t get to see Kimmel til tomorrow.
TONYG
What’s particularly embarrassing about Trump is the fact that roughly half of the Americans who bothered to vote in three separate elections — 2016, 2020 and 2024 — chose to vote for Trump. He is an embarrassment and the people who voted for him are an embarrassment.
Betty Cracker
I could so relate when Kamala Harris compared her grief on election night to what she felt when she lost her mom. My sister and I were heartbroken in November 2016, and we agreed we felt a similar desolation when we’d lost our mom two years prior.
We were disappointed and disgusted with the 2024 outcome, of course. But it wasn’t as surprising. We know now.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
I feel the same.
Jeffro
@cain:
@eclare:
Exactly – shut it all down. The GOP has majorities in both houses and a complete tool in the White House…let THEM fund the government and keep it “open”.
Deputinize America
cnn.com/2025/09/22/politics/us-is-blocking-iranians-shopping-costco-unga
Do they have the COSTCO clerk demand that people prove they aren’t Iranian diplomats? “Put back the Kirkland coffee, and no, you can’t have that 10 pound jar of olives.”
OGliberal
@eclare: Tom Nichols would be appalled. But, seriously, what is wrong with this nepo baby? I know old money people can be weird but this dude is nuts. He is, kind of, Grey Gardens adjacent via his deceased aunt, so there’s that.
lowtechcyclist
@Jeffro:
Yeppers. And that’s really all we need to say to low-info people.
But if they are vaguely aware that they supposedly need Dem votes:
we tell them, sure, there’s a Senate rule that says they need 60 votes to keep the government open. But they only need 50+JD to ditch that rule. Hell, with 50 votes + JD, they can toss the entire Senate rulebook in the wastebasket. It’s not like they have any problem with running right through rules that stand in their way.
So: they really don’t need a single Dem vote to keep the government open. They have total control. It’s all on them.
David Collier-Brown
@BeenHereSince2003: And that was the most common cause of illness in WWII, even more than bullets. “Oral-fecal transmission”
Shalimar
@JiveTurkin: For those who aren’t aware, the Newsweek you remember has been dead since 2013. The Newsweek you see online now is a rightwing zombie organization that spun off the name in 2018. It is not even remotely as credible as the old publication was.
WaterGirl
@AM in NC: Is that real? When I saw it earlier, I assumed it was photoshopped.
rikyrah
@JiveTurkin:
absolutely ridiculous
transgender adjacent??
FOH
Elizabelle
It is to cry.
lowtechcyclist
@Deputinize America:
The rationale is kinda bizarre. From your link:
I’m sure the Iranian people suffering from our sanctions will totally take our side upon hearing about this. I mean, if this was the actual rationale, the right approach would be to let the diplomats come home with all sorts of goodies, and make sure the Iranian people knew about it. And then the diplomats would get lynched.
Nah, this is just hassling their diplomats for the sake of hassling their diplomats.
rikyrah
@cain:
ICAM
We have got to stop trying to save this country from itself.
Sad, but, true.
catclub
ask Adlai Stevenson about that.
rikyrah
@JiveTurkin:
they are so desperate to blame anyone other than a right-wing White man raised by MAGA conservatives
Jeffro
THIS, over and over
Have at it, MAGAts! You wanted to “rule or ruin”…so…rule!
catclub
low bar.
JaySinWa
@JiveTurkin: Everybody knows transgender cooties make you a rabid assassin, /s
catclub
no evidence thereof.
lowtechcyclist
@rikyrah:
You’d think this Administration’s furniture-adjacent VP would really set them off.
Glory b
@BeenHereSince2003: He doesnt even wear shoes in a pu license restroom.
There are photos of him leaving an airport men’s room and HE IS BAREFOOT.
lowtechcyclist
@rikyrah:
What’s this mean? Google was no help. Identity, Credential, and Access Management? Innovative Coordinated Access and Mobility? Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter?
It doesn’t seem to be in the BJ lexicon either.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Reddit comments I saw said it was real.
lowtechcyclist
@catclub:
You really have to dig Adlai.
Glory b
@rikyrah: THEY WANT TO SHUT IT DOWN.
A shutdown gives presidents even MORE powers under the Antideficiency Act.
Okay guys, but be very careful about what you wish for.
Timill
@AM in NC: “Bring Me Sunshine”
Damn – no good Eric’n’Ernie clips on Youtube…
Another Scott
@debit:
Obligatory … Kwintessential.co.uk:
Language is weird.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Baud
@Another Scott:
To Denmark.
OldManGamer
@Glory b: Yeah, I’m hoping for a result that isn’t heads I win, tails you lose; but I fear that either shutdown or negotiation it heads that way, so it is a case of “which harm” to inflict.
Last time they chose negotiation.
coin operated
@Glory b: He refused to meet with Schumer and Jeffries this week…bet he already knows about that act and is gonna use it
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@Glory b: They win if they shut it down. They win only slightly less if they don’t. Under one scenario, they own it all.
HopefullyNotcassandra
@Betty: those folks are in deep denial, wondering why the rapture has not happened yet.
eclare
@lowtechcyclist:
I assume it means “I couldn’t agree more.”
The Pale Scot
If it hasn’t been posted yet
Mysterious new statue of Epstein and Trump holding hands appears on the National Mall
eclare
@Another Scott:
That’s funny!
HopefullyNotcassandra
@Scout211: many people are saying this president is the full dark tetrad. Sad
eclare
@WaterGirl:
Same here. It’s real?
HopefullyNotcassandra
@Matt McIrvin: E. coli to the rescue?
eclare
@HopefullyNotcassandra:
Your kidneys will love it!
HopefullyNotcassandra
@cain: let us all find a way to blame the Republican party for all of this churn. All of this nonsense and destruction is brought to us by the current iteration of the grand old party.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Glory b:
He’s already dismantled entire departments and agencies, like the Department of Education and U.S. AID. What more power could he possibly have if the government shutdown? What would he be doing differently? What’s the point of funding agreements if the admin will just disregard them?
lowtechcyclist
@HopefullyNotcassandra:
Still twelve or thirteen hours until it’s September 24 or 25 everywhere. The Lord hasn’t let them down yet.
HinTN
@BeenHereSince2003: The General in The Shape of Water washed his hands before toilet.
lowtechcyclist
@eclare:
Thanks, I’ll go with that.
How’s your dog doing?
HopefullyNotcassandra
@rikyrah: or the gop politicians’ endless refrain about the need for second amendment remedies.
That kind of talk was always nuts.
HopefullyNotcassandra
@lowtechcyclist: yes. Tomorrow, rinse and repeat as a new day will be set for an event not remotely mentioned anywhere in either testament.
HopefullyNotcassandra
@JaySinWa: Here I thought it was libtard joy that caused rightwing rabidity.
NotMax
Talk about bad timing.
eclare
@lowtechcyclist:
I found out she loves the frozen grilled chicken strips that I usually have on hand (of course I heat them up). It was the blandest thing that I had. Other than that, mopey and motionless. Vet tomorrow at 9:20 CDT. Thank you!
sab
@lowtechcyclist: Try googling: urban dictionary ICAM : I Couldn’t Agree More
ETA I remember when old ladies thougt LOL meant Lots Of Love when everyone else knew it meant Laugh Out Loud.
AM in NC
@WaterGirl: Apparently real and the base is actually made of marble, so not going to be removed without some effort!
WaterGirl
@AM in NC: Excellent!
eclare
@AM in NC:
Whoa!
WaterGirl
@eclare: Sorry to hear she has still be mopey. Fingers crossed!
eclare
@WaterGirl:
She isn’t getting any worse, at least. I just put some chicken strips in the toaster oven for her dinner.
sab
@Deputinize America: They will have ICE thugs in the parking lot checking Middle Eastern looking men’s Costco cards and IDs as they come out of Costco. Punishes the men and Costco.
sab
Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that Sinclair and Nexstar owned ABC stations will not be showimg Jimmy Kimmel Live. In Ohio that means won’t be seen in Columbus, Dayton, Steubenville or Youngstown. Also not in Washington DC
ETA Cleveland’s ABC station is owned by Scripps.
eclare
@sab:
My friend who gets ABC out of Knoxville TN through Nexstar will have to wait til tomorrow to watch it on Hulu. Wow is she pissed!
Luckily in Memphis ABC is owned by Tegna.
cain
@Glory b:
I think Trump is now at the point where he’s cashing checks he can’t afford. If that shutdown happens, he will own it. Dems should negotiate in good faith with the understanding that if they don’t get what they want then they need to let it happen.
The thing with our party is that we understand the bigger picture and that a lot of harm would happen if we don’t keep the govt open. The thing is, the GOP Is already causing harm in a manner that is widespread. Plus, this man will absolutely ignore any deal, any use of money.
Since his party and the SCOTUS are quite willing to give him what he wants then he, his party, and his voting supporters absolutely deserves this pain and so do his supporters even if it is at our expense. His supporters are already hurting – amount of small businesses that will close.
I expect his supporters to turn on him at this point and thats when he will turn on them.
cain
@eclare:
I haven’t watched late night since the early 2000s. I haven’t watched broadcast tv in years. I hope it he does a good job of putting Disney in even a bigger predicament.
I wonder if the fee increase is that they plan to do the end run around against ABC affiliates?
Bill Arnold
@sab:
Usually, just adding “urban” to the query will work, by the way.
Suzanne
@sab: There’s been a fair amount of criticism of Costco that I’ve seen on Xhitter in the past few months. Why? Because they sell food items targeted to various immigrant cohorts, and these bigots only want to shop around white people.
Can we just deport the Republicans?
geg6
@sab:
It’s possible that Steubenville and Youngstown may pick up some Pittsburgh stations. If they can get WTAE in Pittsburgh, it’s being shown there. Hearst owns it.
eclare
@cain:
Kimmel has evolved a lot over the years. I have no doubt he will be brutal. He is the most dangerous kind of person: no fucks left to give.
The only thing that might hold him back is that he cares about his staff.
kindness
Here’s my Kreskin: The country shuts down in a week and Republicans and the entire MSM blame Democrats. How’s that for going out on a limb?
Eyeroller
@kindness: Historically, at least, when shutdowns have happened enough of the public has blamed them on the party in power (i.e. Republicans since Democrats never do this). Of course it’s not certain that would always be the case. But it’s not automatically true that Democrats would be blamed. Whether it hurts Republicans in midterms does seem to depend on the proximity in time. However, it’s not obvious it hurts Democrats.
WaterGirl
@cain: That fee increase has been long planned. The timing just sucks for them, but the fees didn’t go up BECAUSE of the Kimmel crisis.
Captain C
@Baud: Especially one who talks in a word salad.
Gvg
@WaterGirl: I am sure the fee increase was planned for a long time, but they need to can it for at least 6 months. It’s really bad timing business wise and might really make things worse. They need to lay low and not get attention for awhile. I don’t know if they can, but they need to.
WaterGirl
@Gvg: I was surprised to see that they announced the increase on the original schedule.
JaySinWa
@HopefullyNotcassandra:
Trans cooties is just one vector for libtard joy.
Another Scott
@kindness: @Eyeroller:
I heard a bit of C-SPAN – Schumer’s news conference today in Brooklyn (8:25):
A statement, then some Q&A:
Chuck is good at showing that 47 doesn’t actually know how to do politics. It’s not “strength” to post a deranged bloot and pull out of a negotiation meeting that you scheduled 2 days before. It’s petulance.
We’ll see what happens.
Strength, everyone.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Matt McIrvin
@HopefullyNotcassandra: the one to watch out for is M. C. Escherichia coli, it gives you projectile vomit that falls upward and diarrhea that violates the laws of perspective.
it’s easy to detect though because the bacteria perfectly tile an infinite hyperbolic plane
Geminid
@Matt McIrvin: Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Scout211
Insiders Spill Embarrassing Truth About Trump’s UN Pratfalls
. . .
Trump clearly does not know how things work.
Harrison Wesley
@Matt McIrvin: That’s what he’s using to coat his Big Beautiful Ballroom?
lowtechcyclist
@sab: The problem is, I have to be reminded to remember that the Urban Dictionary exists. Usually, Google will turn up stuff like this without any help like that.
HopefullyNotcassandra
@Matt McIrvin: aargh! Thank you for that imagery
mrmoshpotato
@AM in NC:
What did ferrets and/or butterscotch pudding ever do to you?
mrmoshpotato
@lowtechcyclist:
Now this is some wordsmithing (and the perfect amount of pepper). Bravo!
Jackie
@Scout211:
Wouldn’t Susie Wiles be the one in charge of making sure everything was up to snuff and working?
mrmoshpotato
@Scout211:
Why – so they could deport the person to a gulag in El Salvador?
SAD!
mrmoshpotato
@Matt McIrvin:
How do I not nominate this?!
MagdaInBlack
@mrmoshpotato: They are just so gd persecuted, aren’t they, poor things. Everything is out to get them, even escalators
(and, as usual, it was their own fuk up.)
mrmoshpotato
@MagdaInBlack:
BOOGA! BOOGA!
lowtechcyclist
@MagdaInBlack:
Yeah, there’s a real Dennis the Peasant “help, help, I’m being repressed! Come see the violence inherent in the system!” vibe to the entire right of center in this country, and the Orange Turd exemplifies it perfectly.
MagdaInBlack
@mrmoshpotato: I’m starting to see stuff coming out that DHS lied about what happened with the man they killed in Franklin Park.
You’re shocked, I know.
They Call Me Noni
I watched escalatorgate on YouTube and when the escalator stopped Melania proceeded to walk up the steps leaving Trump babbling to someone.
Later in the clip Trump was railing about how the first lady could have hurt herself if she wasn’t in such great shape. Camera panned to her and she looked like she was gonna burst into tears. It was not an Oscar worthy performance.
mrmoshpotato
@MagdaInBlack: Conman’s bastard administration lied?!
satby
@Betty Cracker: I had lost my mom in 2016, and I was catatonic after that election for days. Barely went through the motions of keeping me and the critters alive. Just crushed.
MagdaInBlack
@mrmoshpotato: I know!
I should have told you to sit down first.
NotMax
@They Call Me Noni
Which is why you keep one hand on the handrail of an escalator.
Because the speed of the rail is set to move slightly faster than that of the stairs, doing so extends your arm enough to act as a brake in case of a sudden stop, keeping one from being pitched forward.
Harrison Wesley
@mrmoshpotato: And at the word ‘pudding’ the White-Booted Custard Assassin rises from his lair….
Harrison Wesley
redis dupe
mrmoshpotato
@MagdaInBlack: I was sitting – on the front porch – in Hellhole, IL.
I can’t believe the Mets and Cards didn’t demand these 2 3-game series get relocated to their cities.
mrmoshpotato
@Harrison Wesley: “Pudding? Someone say pudding? I guess we can take a short break from destroying Florida’s kids’ vaccine recommendations.”
Jackie
FFOTUS trying to improve job numbers?
Kayla Rudbek
@HopefullyNotcassandra:
@Matt McIrvin:
@David Collier-Brown: cholera also transmits in the same way
Paul in KY
@Deputinize America: Notice that they can still go Sam’s! Wonder why that is…
Paul in KY
@rikyrah: Standing beside a transgender person gives you transcooties and thus causes you to murder people. Ipso facto…
JaySinWa has come to the same conclusion!