oh my god lol — Trump calls for UN workers to be arrested because his escalator didn't work yesterday
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Bad Granpa is sundowning again, but none of the vicious little minions dare try to take his phone, because what if some other sycophant hands it back to him?
Trumps own videographer tripped the safety. Trump’s team screwed up with teleprompter.
It’s all Trump. His team made problems to get riled up about.— ersatzGrace (@ersatzgrace.bsky.social) September 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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I'm going to start calling all staircases "fatal funnels."
"Do you want to take the elevator?"
"Nah, I'm going to go up the fatal funnel instead."— Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) September 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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the first admin certainly had some of this, but this time around, it’s just this fucking whiny crybaby bitch shit from every member of the cabinet all goddamned day long. fucking loser ass presidency.
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) September 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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"This week is like multiple Watergates at the same time," says Sen. Brian Schatz, reacting to the MSNBC's reporting that Trump DOJ is seeking to indict James Comey in the coming days.
— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris.bsky.social) September 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
On The Road – dmkingto – Death Valley 2006 Pt. 2 – Racetrack Valley Road
Nukular Biskits
Good mornin’, y’all!
Baud
@Nukular Biskits:
Good morning.
MagdaInBlack
Was there some super secret reason they couldn’t take the escalator right next to the stalled one? I noticed it was working fine.
Nukular Biskits
For those of us with Republican governors, US Senators, US Representatives, remember:
DO NOT LET THEM OFF THE HOOK!
They are enabling Trump by refusing to hold him accountable for even the most outrageous lie or abuse of power.
Call their offices. Email them. Write letters.
And, when given the opportunity, pointedly but factually question/criticize them in public (including on social media, directly tagging them).
Nukular Biskits
@Baud:
So how went Cole’s bachelor party last night?
Baud
EscalatorGate is a distraction from Charlie KirkGate.
Jeffro
Lucas is crazy, but Chamberlain is NUTS, holy cow.
Barney
Fox News leads the way in calling for violence:
Longtime Fox News personality Jesse Watters called for the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in New York City on Sept. 23 following teleprompter and escalator malfunctions that plagued President Donald Trump‘s visit for the General Assembly earlier that day.
…
The Fox host claimed that U.N. staffers “sabotaged” the escalator and the teleprompter, calling the malfunctions “an insurrection and what we need to do is either leave the U.N. or we need to bomb it.”
…
“[The U.N. headquarters] is in New York, though, right? Could be some fallout there. Maybe gas it?” Watters continued as The Five hosts could still be heard laughing.
“Let’s not do that,” The Five co-host Dana Perino, 53, retorted off-camera.
Watters, 47, continued: “Don’t gas it. Okay, but we need to destroy it. Maybe can we demolish the building? Have everybody leave and then we’ll demolish the building.”
Fox News’ Jesse Watters Calls for ‘Bombing’ U.N. or ‘Maybe Gas It’
Baud
@Nukular Biskits:
Lots of sparkling clean floors from all the mopping.
Baud
@Barney:
No Republican will ever give up the Security Council veto.
eclare
Boss
instagram.com/p/DO9GFjUEZiI/?igsh=ODJya3dvMXN0aHQ=
MagdaInBlack
@Barney: Is Jesse auditioning for a WH Cabinet (of horrors) position?
Jeffro
I see Psycho Russ Vought is trying to threaten the Dems with mass government firings if there’s a shutdown:
One…how would that be any different than what they already did?
Two…Russ, you putz, it’s YOUR government! You have both houses of Congress and the White House.
Eff this guy – shut it down, Ds!
lowtechcyclist
And they were upset that people weren’t mourning Charlie Kirk. But here they are – arrest! gas! kill! demolish! – because a freakin’ escalator stopped while Trump was on it.
This is dictator shit, pure and simple.
On a more minor note:
Yanno, in 65+ years of riding escalators, I’ve been on a few when they stopped for whatever reason. It’s no big deal if you’re a healthy person. Kind of a nuisance walking the rest of the way up because the stairs are taller than regular stairs, but that’s about it.
So what I’m hearing is Trump and his fan club admitting that he’s an invalid. Good. About time we had this conversation.
eclare
I took my dog, Lucy, to the vet yesterday, and the problem was dehydration. On one hand, yay! a fixable problem. On the other, huh? Because there is always water in the blue bowl in the kitchen. The vet said maybe she didn’t feel well, got out of her routine of drinking water, never got back in. I have no idea.
She got iv fluids at the vet yesterday, and she goes back this morning for more blood work. But she is much better. I filled up one of my large mixing bowls full of water for her, and she seemed to really like that, so maybe that will be the new water bowl in the kitchen.
MagdaInBlack
@eclare: Good! Glad it was an easy fix.
MagdaInBlack
Delete. Good morning, redis error.
Anne Laurie
But the Trump videographer (who apparently tripped the emergency shut-off) was at the head of the stalled escalator!
You expect Trump to choose ‘ordinary good sense’ over keeping his face on media?!?
MagdaInBlack
@Anne Laurie: Well, yeah, that was kind of dumb on my part =-)
Anne Laurie
Great news about your poor dog!
Some dogs just like *big* drinking bowls. We always had weeny little (~15lb) dogs, but our first beloved fella trained us well. We used those big bowls designed for party-sized salads or ice cubes… and put out more than one, so they had the luxury of ‘choice’.
Baud
What’s the story with the supposedly fake bullets Kash Patel tweeted out?
Baud
@eclare:
That’s good news.
MagdaInBlack
Yesterday afternoon I checked my Google news feed on the Dallas shooting. Dallas Fox affiliate headline said “detainees shot.” Network Fox headline said “Ice agents shot.” I should have done a screen shot, I suppose, as I can’t find that now, but…there you have it. As usual.
mappy!
This latest Taco screed, like some other recent posts, sure doesn’t read like he wrote it. It stays on topic and is too articulate. Maybe he isn’t trusted to post on his own now, or post unsupervised?
eclare
@Anne Laurie:
I think that is the way to go. Lucy is not big, around 45 pounds, but she has a big head.
Thanks!
TONYG
A childish little man.
Professor Bigfoot
@eclare: Great news (if somewhat perplexing!)!!!
Yay for Lucy!
Chief Oshkosh
@Jeffro: Huh. I thought that the Chamberlain piece was parody/sarcasm. It’s amazing these people an feed themselves.
eclare
@Professor Bigfoot:
And I must give a total shout out to my neighbor who picked her up off of my porch yesterday and carried her to my car to go to the vet.
Gvg
@eclare: I always use the huge stainless mixing bowls for my cats. It seems to me that the small bowls water gets “stale” too fast and I sometime see a film of dust or stuff on top of small bowls. All my pets have preferred to drink from very large bowls given a choice and I always have more than one in case they decide one doesn’t taste right or I forget or something. I also try and dump and refresh fairly often.
it’s challenging because my current batch of cats like to play in water. Not typical cat behavior. They stand in the bowls and dunk toys. So cat hair in their water bowls…plus toys to dry off. But they want clean water to drink!
Anyway
Surprised that Melania joined him —- thought she stayed away unless absolutely necessary…UN doesn’t seem like a “joint appearance” kind of event.
Chief Oshkosh
@Barney: Example 8,765,143 of me not understanding rightwing “humor.”
How did Canada avoid the Murdoch menace? Someone on this here blog mentioned several days (weeks?) ago that Canada somehow minimized Rupert and scions’ impact and reach while still maintaining their equivalent of free speech protections.
Anyway
@eclare: Glad to hear Lucy (and you) got off easy. Maybe monitor her water bowl for a few days and make sure she’s drinking some. Go Lucy!
eclare
@Gvg:
That is odd cat behavior. But it must be fun to watch!
Ocotillo
@Anyway: Maybe she thought she had a chance of running into Trudeau again?
lowtechcyclist
@eclare:
Yay for Lucy, and big props to your neighbor!
Anyway
@Ocotillo: Or Macron?
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
Tell me you can’t walk up stairs anymore without saying you can’t walk up stairs anymore.
I take DC’s metro system in to work on a daily basis and wind up walking up or down escalators that aren’t working all time. I had no idea I was taking my life into my hands by entering a “ fatal funnel” on the regular. I mean I guess that makes me one of the bravest people on the planet.
Nukular Biskits
@Gvg:
You may want to consider one of those drinking fountains that filter the water.
I had one of those and it kept the water mostly fresh. Did require weekly cleaning of the filter, though.
MagdaInBlack
@Anyway: Was it her?
Did she smile? If so, it was not her.
JoyceH
I don’t know about dogs but vets often recommend water fountains for dehydrated cats. Cats seem to find the moving water intriguing and drinking it is more fun.
Geminid
There was an important meeting Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, between Trump and leaders from seven Arab and/Muslim nations: Egypt, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE; and Turkiye, Pakistan and Indonesia. Ankara-based Clash Report gave a summary:
Axios‘s Barak Ravid reports on this in an article titled, “Trump’s Gaza plan gets support from regional leaders.” There’s a sign-in wall though.
There’s not one for a Times of Israel article that covers much of the same ground. It’s titled:
My sense is that the latter points are not a negotiation position, but instead reiterate assurances given by Trump and his team* at the meeting. That’s something we’ll find out more about in coming days
Something else we’ll find out about is whether Hamas and Israel will agree. White House envoy Steve Witkoff has a back channel to Hamas by way of Israeli Gershom Baskin, so it’s possible Hamas has agreed already. Baskin negotiated a large prisoner swap in 2011 and has since maintained his contacts with Hamas leaders.
As for Israel, we may find that out Monday, when Prime Minister Netanyahu will visit the White House.
This link to the TOI article might work:
timesofisrael.com/trump-presented-comprehensive-plan-to-end-gaza-war-in-un-meeting-with-muslim-leade…
* The TOI article has a picture taken at the meeting. It shows a U-shaped table arrangement. Trump is seated at the head table with Turkish President Erdogan on his right. Leaders on his left include Jordan’s King Hussein and Qatari Emir al-Thani.
Marco Rubio is seated immediately to Trump’s left, at his elbow so to speak; special envoy Steve Witkoff is seated behind Rubio, looking over Trump’s left shoulder, while Susan Wiles is seated next to him.
Jeffro
here’s one for Betty (seen on BlueSky)
LOL
Jeffro
@Chief Oshkosh: I had to look up “PNG” to see exactly what it is El Nutso wants to do to the diplomats…”persona non grata”, ie, expel them from the U.S. As in, expel the entire world’s diplomats and UN delegations from the United States.
Because an escalator froze.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@eclare: I’m so glad the problem was fixable. Drink up, Lucy!
Princess
@Jeffro: Yeah, they’re going to do mass firings of government workers the day after they told us they have to hire back hundreds of workers Musk fired. Sure. Anyway, please proceed. Go ahead and fire everyone a month before the elections in Virginia.
Princess
@Baud: They haven’t released the names of the people supposedly killed yet and I learned this morning that they claim the gunman went to a building across the way and killed himself. With a long gun. That’s a neat trick, if true. Did any of this actually happen?
Ramalama
Why not let them off first as TIFFs or JPGs.
Baud
@Ramalama:
Heh.
Ramalama
@eclare: So glad. What an easy fix. She sounds like me as a kid who got bored with water, and complained whenever we ran out of the generic version of Kool-Aid.
Geminid
@Jeffro: I heard a Winsome Sears ad yesterday on the Harrisonburg radio station yesterday. One theme was the Transgender issue, the other was Abigsil Spanberger’s anger.
It seems Spanburger is angry because Winsome Sears has exposed her plan to put men in locker rooms with little girls. She’s angry because her plan to allow kids to change gender without their parents’ knowledge will be frustrated by Winsome Sears. Spanberger is angry because she is lying about her “Woke Washington posse’s” plan to *transform* Virginia’s schoolchildren, and Winsome Sears has caught her out.
Baud
@Geminid:
She’s really leaning into people’s economic anxiety.
prostratedragon
“If someone in the building wanted T— …”
Aha!
Baud
@prostratedragon:
That someone is most probably Melania.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@Geminid: Spanbuger should do an ad where Sears is hauled away in a straight jacket making these claims. Spanburger should make a compassionate plea for Sears to get the mental health care she needs. Seriously, call it crazy. It is.
Geminid
@Anyway: Melania Trump got to meet a classier set of people at the UN than she’s accustomed to at the White House, like Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa yesterday. A sharp-dressed man.
It’s not unusual for spouses to attend the Fall UN meeting. For intance, Mrs. Zelensky and Mrs. Erdogan are there. They set up their own meetings on issues of interest to them.
Melania may get to meet with Emine Erdogan today, if her hubby brings her to the White House. I’m hoping Emine wears her cat glasses.
Gin & Tonic
@Geminid: But she did not agree to meet with Zelenska.
Abnormal Hiker
@Ramalama: or send them to Papua New Guinea
Betty
@Ocotillo: She got some media coverage and a chance to talk to Macron, who, by the way, gave an impressive speech about the need for solidarity among members.
NotMax
From the UN Headquarters Agreement:
Nukular Biskits
@NotMax:
Odd that a “stable genius” would not know that.
Geminid
@Gin & Tonic: The meeting between Presidents Zelenskyy and al-Sharaa and their delegations sounds like it could have been very interesting. I think their two nations have not had formal contacts since 2014. There were reports that Ukraine provided assistance to al-Sharaa’s rebels when they toppled the Assad regime last December. That might account for the big smile on al-Sharaa’s face when he greeted Zelenskyy.
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
“Looking to do just one good deed before she died.” – Dylan
Dorothy A. Winsor
Someone on tiktok says 2025 feels like when the Kens took over in the Barbie movie. LOL
trnc
Which is what you’re supposed to do when you step onto an escalator.
Scout211
Rex Huppke in his USA Today commentary called it “stair-orism.”
What is really weird is that there were already news articles out on Wednesday quoting White House staff admitting who actually was responsible for the malfunctions. We discussed it in the comments for the past two days. And then the comms team and Trump started this counter argument blaming the sinister plot to force Trump to walk up an escalator.
scav
Shouldn’t his Orangenese be pitching a right royal fit over Sarko, a former leader!, being convicted of a crime and facing a (gasp!) prison sentence!?!
Shalimar
@eclare: maybe she would like one of those fountains with running water? I know they are usually for cats and my dog won’t go near mine, so maybe dogs don’t like them for some reason? I wouldn’t buy one just to try it, but might be worth seeing if a friend has one you can borrow for a day
edit: Amazon has them as cheap as $20, so they aren’t outrageous
narya
@eclare: Great news! I remember reading somewhere that some cats–and maybe dogs?–prefer larger bowls because then their sensitive whiskers don’t hit the sides of the bowl. NO clue if that’s true, though.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊 😊 😊
NotMax
@Scout211
2018, in Rome. Major deadly catastrophe.
rikyrah
@eclare:
Yeah 👍🏾
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
rikyrah
@Jeffro:
They control.both Houses of Congress.
Not one Democratic vote 😡😡
iKropoclast
Assuming he did, Trump has no patience for any procedure that might slow him getting his way. He wouldn’t honor it.
I could see him try to send the feds in to make arrests, be told why he can’t, then it’s a coin flip whether he TACOs or calls in the national guard to invade the UN.
Librettist
Don Phillips died. He was long time transportation columnist for WaPo and various industry journals. They don’t cover that beat these days. I guess reporting on national transportation policy is too socialist or something…. just regurgitate some GOP snark about Mayor Pete.
Anyway, a quote from when he was a UPI stringer in Atlanta:
That should be the minimum job requirement for those toadies in the White House press corpse.
iKropoclast
What do you call an escalator that has stopped?
Stairs.
Librettist
@iKropoclast:
That’s why it was a fatal funnel.
Jeffro
@Geminid: I guess the MAGA GOP’s plan is to just keep yelling “TRANSGENDER!!” at voters until it stops working?
Scout211
Ken Klippenstein at his substack yesterday actually asked the friends and acquaintances of Joshua Jahn what might be his motives to shoot detainees at the ICE facility.
. . .
Jeffro
@rikyrah: AMEN
Nix Besser
Happy post-Rapture Day! Everyone still here?
prostratedragon
@Baud: Well, she was in front, …
Ben Cisco
@Geminid: She seems nice.
And by nice I mean CRAZY AS A SHITHOUSE RAT
iKropoclast
It actually wasn’t working initially, when they first moved on to full-throated trans bigotry after the legal regime they imposed against gay people mostly collapsed. It took years of pushing this and, even then, they have found exactly one way of framing the question that garners them any sympathy, women’s sports.
Point is, I don’t think this is a strategy, they just really hate queer folk of all sorts.
schrodingers_cat
Gaza protesters were back. They were at a KH event to heckle her. Tell me that this is not an anti-Democratic op.
This theater helps no one other than Republicans.
sab
@Anne Laurie: We have two buckets in the kitchen. Works fine for the staffie, but it’s a bit of a stretch for the cats if the water level gets down
ETA If they want to get picky then they can go drink from the china soup bowl on a matching saucer in the basement.
Soprano2
I know I shouldn’t be, but I’m constantly amazed by these people’s inability to problem solve, and their constant need to be a victim. Why couldn’t he use the next escalator – it’s right there! FFOUTUS is used to everyone smoothing the path of his life, so he has no idea how to overcome an obstacle. The people around him, however, should be masters of that at this point.
Librettist
@Jeffro:
Rinse, repeat. They’ll never shut up about it. It was Kirk’s one weird trick, and they’re pushing for deification.
UncleEbeneezer
Love seeing the FreePalestine movement doing the important work of…harassing private citizen Kamala Harris on her book tour. Lovely stuff from the people who so many here assured us were oh so serious, totally acting in good faith and not just obsessed with hating Dems…
But really, these are the people who should totally lead our coalition next time we have an election. They seem trustworthy…
sab
@Soprano2: Didn’t take them about a week in the first term to figure out how to work the lights?
iKropoclast
@UncleEbeneezer: I’d like you to prove to me that you’re not an anti-Democrat op. Among some others.
Soprano2
@schrodingers_cat: What is even the point of them doing that? I agree, at this point it seems more like an op than a sincere effort to get action. Why do they assume they have no influence with FFOTUS and other R’s, especially since FFOTUS has claimed he wants the fighting to stop? That’s their excuse for not protesting him and the other R’s.
NotMax
@iKropoclast
“In a move to try to defuse the controversy, House Republicans propose a bill banning bathrooms.”
//
Scout211
@eclare: Good news!
When that happened to our cat, the vet found a sore spot or bruise from a possible fall. Cats don’t eat or drink when they are in pain so it can be a very serious problem. We had to give him food and water through a large syringe for a few days until the anti-inflammatory medicine started working. It was scary.
I’m so glad your pup is improving.
schrodingers_cat
@Soprano2: At this point my working theory is that they are Republican operatives
Link to the story
iKropoclast
I’m sure you can get the HHS secretary to endorse that move. Bathrooms aren’t natural, they must cause autism. We should wipe our asses with a pine cone like the lord intended.
Kristine
@eclare: Good news.
Librettist
@Scout211:
Party of personal responsibility. White male family member having a mental health crisis? Access to guns and ammo is clearly the solution.
schrodingers_cat
@eclare: Have you tried a water fountain? My kitties seem to like it.
sab
@Geminid: King Abdullah of Jordan
ETA I do really appreciate your Mideast ( and other) comments.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@Nix Besser: Well, the sanctimonious God-botherers who claim that their cars will suddenly be driverless in the even of the Rapture seem to all still be here with us. I don’t know if that’s good news or bad news.
Geminid
@Scout211: Klippenstein can do good journalism on occasion, when he’s not shitposting about Democrats. These accounts from Joshua Jahn’s friends accord with an interview Jahn’s older brother gave to the New York Post.
My own take on Jahn is that he was not motivated by ideology so much as by depression. He was suicidal and decided to go out in a flare of notoriety.
NotMax
@iKropoclast
In the heyday of ocean transit, so many passengers in third class (a.k.a. steerage) had never seen a flush toilet that crew had to instruct them about what they were, why they were there and how to use them.
SiubhanDuinne
@TONYG:
He is so incredibly fucking petty. I saw somewhere (Digby, maybe?) that he has installed a new “Hall of Presidents” gallery along a White House corridor with a portrait of every POTUS in an elaborate gold frame.
Every POTUS except Joe Biden. Instead of a portrait of Biden, there’s a close-up of his autopen.
Childish indeed.
Scout211
That was my thought as well.
prostratedragon
In 1929, artist Cyfil E. Power saw far into the future, clear to September 2025.
Geminid
@sab: Thank you for the correction. King Hussein was Abdullah’s father.
The Qataris are easier. The Emir, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister are all al-Thanis. As Sly and the Family Stone sang, “It’s a family affair.”
iKropoclast
@NotMax: Stands to reason. Flush toilets were once a luxury. When America was once great…
Keith P.
@SiubhanDuinne: and looking backwards in the rearview mirror as alway.
Manyakitty
@schrodingers_cat: makes sense to me.
Professor Bigfoot
@Scout211: Jesus H. Christ— it’s just a fucking JOKE to these punkass edgelord boys.
American* culture.
Baud
Professor Bigfoot
@schrodingers_cat: It REEKS of anti-Blackness.
schrodingers_cat
@Professor Bigfoot: That too.
Anti-Black, antisemitic and xenophobic. Hmmm who does that remind you of
I am describing the so called “progressives” who want to take over our party and who worship at the altar of Maplesyrup Messiah.
Deputinize America
@Ben Cisco:
I have always wondered about the etymology of this phrase.
Like what makes a shithouse rat so crazy, and who noticed it first?
Geminid
@sab: And thank you for the words of appreciation. I’ve always had an interest in the Middle East, but lately it has approached an obsession. I try to limit my comments here to developments I think are especially important.
Belafon
@Scout211: As someone on bsky pointed out, his “non-politics” sure sounds like right wing violent politics.
narya
@Geminid: Adding my voice of appreciation. One of the things I like about this place is that there are people who know a lot about a whole bunch of stuff that I’m never going to dig into, but that I’m glad to get some informed info about.
NotMax
@Baud
From the article:
“That’ll do it. Problem solved.”
//
Belafon
@schrodingers_cat: “I’m sorry, I’m not president. Go protest the guy in charge.”
Geminid
@sab: And thank you for the words of appreciation. I’ve always had an interest in the Middle East, but lately it has approached an obsession. I try to limit my comments here to developments I think are especially important.
Ed. Although, I try to post the good news stories too, because they are important collectively.
Kirklin
@eclare: good
sab
@schrodingers_cat: That seems the most likely theory.
iKropoclast
I remember when their CEO was so concerned a wild eyed radical like ::checks notes:: Elizabeth Warren was so dangerous, he would have to run himself to stop her challenge to ::checks again:: Donald Trump.
Deputinize America
@Baud:
Could consider dealing with administrative bloat and trimming the returns to shareholders.
People are only willing to buy so many $6 cups of burnt coffee.
sab
@iKropoclast: I don’t think it’s a boycott. I just think that a lot of people have decided that $5 per cup coffee is a luxury they can do without.
Soprano2
@SiubhanDuinne: They act like grade schoolers. I’m sure all the MAGA’s think that’s a sweet burn, but most normal people will think he’s being his usual asshole self.
iKropoclast
That’s why you put in a blend of a dozen or so flavor shots at a dollar a pop (included in the cost at Dunkin).
@sab: Tariffs certainly can’t be helping.
NotMax
@Deputinize America
“What if we increase the bosom size of the mermaid?”
//
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Having a woman hold Trump’s hand so he doesn’t stumble looks more manly than if a guy does it.
Booger
@Geminid: We’ve been seeing a constant barrage of Spanberger ads on Hulu, which are tend to lean on making Windom Earle look incredibly unpleasant and batshit crazy, while pushing Spanberger’s bona fides.
Not to put too fine an edge on it, but Sears doesn’t seem like a nice person.
piratedan
@Jeffro: could be, gotta go with the fear of the other when you got jack shit else to run on.
Geminid
@iKropoclast: I saw an alien once, in Roswell, New Mexico. He was green, 12 feet tall and holding up a Dunkin’ Donuts sign.
iKropoclast
@Geminid: A massive alien gotta eat and put a
roofairplane hangar over his head.eclare
@narya:
That could be! The more I thought about it, I switched water bowls to a more decorative one maybe six months ago.
Idiot. I am going to use my biggest mixing bowl on the floor of my kitchen. I am not practicing for GBBS!
Professor Bigfoot
@Geminid: Adding more appreciation here— indeed, one of the reasons why this “almost top 10,000 blog” is so successful is that it has so many intelligent, thoughtful, knowledgeable people in so many areas that I know I’m never gonna get to dive into; and it makes me smarter (by showing me how dumb I am sometimes!)
Professor Bigfoot
@sab: “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.”
Scout211
LOL. Am I a bad person because I am looking forward to him stumbling and taking both of them down?
When he walked across the lawn in England holding onto Melania’s hand, I was disappointed. They made it fine.
UncleEbeneezer
@iKropoclast: You can look at my comment history and note that I’m always urging everyone to vote for Dems and support our coalition instead of tearing it apart.
Shakti
@Jeffro: Russ Vought, I think, benefits from nobody really knowing who the hell he is. And he’s really awful and destructive.
Because otherwise he should have more people after him and not really be able to enjoy meals at restaurants being out in public, etc. Or am I wrong?
And he and the Republicans in Congress are using recissions, left right and center, so it’s not even like hammering a budget and making awful shitty concessions makes any fucking sense, because these clowns renege on their deals anyways. Plus isn’t DOGE still running around doing bullshit?
And I forgot — don’t the Republicans have enough members in Congress to pass a budget without any Democrats? What is his shit?
NeenerNeener
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: Yep, Winnie acts like somebody off her meds.
Belafon
@eclare: That might be why PetSmart and PetCo sell the big round metal bowls. Maybe a wide flat one would work if you can find one.
iKropoclast
@UncleEbeneezer: Right, but you’re also routinely demanding silent compliance from a segment of prospective voters on an issue of grave ethical concern. You treat the very concern as insincere, like no one could possibly care that our tax dollars are being out towards eliminating a nation of people in the name of protecting American imperial hegemony.
Might as well out up a big “not welcome” sign with a list of unapproved views. Your own purity test.
Belafon
@UncleEbeneezer:
iKropoclast runs around here thinking they’re the one true Democrat. Something I often see from former zealous Republicans. Maybe he’s a Depublican (think Saul becoming Paul).
eclare
@Belafon:
That describes my big OXO mixing bowl!
It will be the new water bowl. I don’t have plans to make 50 scones.
satby
@SiubhanDuinne: bet Obama isn’t on that wall either.
mrmoshpotato
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Glidwrith
@Gvg: one of my cats likes to dig in the water…..
Shakti
@schrodingers_cat: @Soprano2: @Professor Bigfoot: @sab:
I saw that. It makes zero sense to do this.
They’re not going after Republican operatives or Trump because they run the risk of being beaten, jailed or thrown into untraceable deportation centers.
Kamala Harris has no government position or pull in the federal government now; doesn’t have secret service protection (which Trump yanked early and I’m not sure what she’s doing for private security now).
For similar reasons, I don’t think these protesters would show up at the Atlanta Book Festival to protest anyone there (link to brochure)
Like Charles Schumer who is the current Senate Minority Leader, and promoting his book. Yossi Cohen, Yaakov Katz, and Eli Sharabi are also promoting books. (There’s John Kasich, Douglas Murray, John Grisham, among others).
Yossi Cohen is Rahm Emanuel’s colleague at Centerview Partners, Rahm’s ex-embassadorship gig, and an ex Mossad director.
They’re not going to risk getting on the radar of Israeli intelligence that way.
UncleEbeneezer
@Professor Bigfoot: Kamala’s blackness doesn’t count because she’s a cop and too pro-Israel etc. I’ve told this story before, but fuck it, I’ll tell it again:
I once attended a small meeting with NAACP elders, a Black Civil Rights attorney, a Jewish Civil Rights activist/attorney (who literally stood outside Fannie Lou Hamer’s house with a shotgun as the Klan circled it back in Mississippi, back in the day), a Black police reform activist and a couple White Progressives™/BernieBros.
The topic of the meeting was whether or not we should protest at a local event honoring a beloved Black community servant who had worked for the city of Pasadena for decades, in order to keep pushing the City over a terrible incident of the PPD profiling and then beating a Black, Altadena resident. Our police reform group had been notoriously white for a long time and we were trying to bring in more actual black voices to guide us. The White Progressives™ were insistent that we do the protest. The Black members of our coalition were like:
“No, this is a terrible idea. Not the right time. Not the right event. Not a good look. He’s a beloved member of our community being honored and it will look terrible for a bunch of white activists to disrupt that.”
The White Progressives did NOT take it well, basically accusing the Black Elders of not caring about police violence!! And then stormed out in a huff.
Moral of the story: White Progressive respect for Blackness is very quickly abandoned the moment that Black People disagree with them. And then you see the low-key Progressive version of racist condescension come out. We see it all the time with Jeffries, Kamala, Obama etc. I know this is nothing new to your eyes, but it would be nice if more of My People would be aware of this bullshit.
iKropoclast
@Belafon: I’m not a Democrat, I’m unenrolled (unaffiliated). I have voted a straight D ticket every election except 04, my first, which was just a majority D ticket.
I’ve stated both these things several times. I don’t expect everyone to remember. But don’t be making shit up.
Dave
@Belafon: Edgelord shit posting isn’t exactly right wing politics but it operates on a sort of South Park depressed nihilism that lineups far more comfortably with the right especially the modern right and it’s abandonment of any principle beyond “I want and you are awful for stopping me from getting what I want”.
I’ve been waiting for this and unfortunately I suspect this is just the beginning of a wave of this that will be exploited by the right and totally not understand or explained by more traditional media.
Paul in KY
@Gvg: I have one that likes to pull it towards her with her paw. If water splashes all over the place, that’s your problem staff person…
Paul in KY
@Anyway: Her Russian handler was there.
Paul in KY
@schrodingers_cat: I bet if Netanyahoo visited here for some reason, you wouldn’t hear a peep out of them.
Paul in KY
@Professor Bigfoot: Sure enjoy reading yours and our other great commenter’s perspectives!
Paul in KY
@Shakti: Maybe our (Democratic Party’s) fault we didn’t work harder to make his crazy ass known to all voters except those who live as hermits in caves. Hindsight, of course…
Ben Cisco
@Deputinize America: Don’t know who noticed it.
As for what made the shithouse rat crazy, imma go ahead and blame the shit?
Shakti
@Paul in KY: There’s what he’s been doing for the last nine months and what he’s doing now.
I have to think to remember him. And if someone like me has to think to remember him?
He is directly responsible for a lot of the long term damage which has happened. I don’t know if it’s going to be repaired in decades. He revels in fear and pain and shouldn’t escape scrutiny and hatred while operating in plain sight.
Uncle Cosmo
@Baud: I went into my local Safeway yesterday to pick up a prescription and…something seemed very off. And it was. There was a large area of open space where the instore Starbucks had stood. I wondered who’d nuked it and why. Now I know.
Paul in KY
@Shakti: He’s doing it all with glee! My comment was more pre-election and tying him around TACO’s neck. It appears that ‘Project 2025’ wasn’t visceral enough for stupid voters who usually vote for us but either sat it out or went with TACO. He (IMO) and his evil grin are visceral.
Ken B
@Booger: Not to put too fine a point on it, but she isn’t nice person.
She is nuts, though.
Bill Arnold
@eclare:
During dry weather, and particularly during hot dry weather, I keep a small concrete mixing tray (black plastic, like 2 feet by 3 by 6 inches) full of water outside, as a watering hole. Birds and a couple of neighborhood cats drink from it. (Also, some insects.)
Hummingbirds have a feeder with sugar water, so they stay hydrated too.
persistentillusion
@NotMax: When my ex was drafted into the Army during ‘Nam. several in his platoon hadn’t ever seen a flush toilet and had to be instructed in its use. This was 1973.
Parfigliano
@Anyway: It was a chance for the Slovenian slut to see Macron.
Geminid
@narya:
@Professor Bigfoot: Thank you both for the kind words. It occurs to me that it’s not that I know so much, it’s that I know where to look. Middle East news is reported constantly and in detail by Middle East news sites. Generally speaking, U.S. sites don’t do nearly as good a job.