40% of Trump voters think that ACORN—which hasn't existed since 2010—will steal the election for Clinton—@ppppolls pic.twitter.com/mMhuGj3mTy
— Nathan McDermott (@natemcdermott) August 9, 2016
Worse, 40% of Trump voters think he's qualified to be president. The rest just want to stick it to SJWs. https://t.co/EY3wwsgYNh
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) August 9, 2016
Either they’re dumb enough to think ACORN still exists and is stealing all the votes, or they’re mean enough to lie to the pollsters about it. I suspect the Stupid/Evil Venn diagram is close to a perfect single circle, frankly.
Apart from remembering there is always a bigger fool, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Corner Stone
ACORN still exists. It has always existed. It will always exist.
Baud
The New Black Panthers haz a sad.
PsiFighter37
I’m heartened to see Trump getting lit up like a firecracker over his Second Amendment comments. The dude cannot help stepping on his own dick.
lamh36
Olympics…Women’s Gymnastics Team Finals tonight…even knowing the results already (thx NBC jackasses delay broadcasting) I’m still excited to see the ladies routines. At least won’t have to worry about heartburn from anticipations.
Then Swimming Finals, especially that Mens 200M Breaststroke final with Phelps and LeClor (South Africa).
I really want Phelps to beat this South African’s ass.
NBC showed a BTS piece on him and tried to make his youthful adoration a thing to make him all folksy, but hell naw…still want Phelps to BEAT THAT AZZ!
Don’t know my blood pressure can stomach watching that one LIVE though.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
Michael Steele agrees with Gov. Malloy, who is not having any of Trump’s bullshit.
dmsilev
I’m just going to leave this right here:
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@lamh36: I streamed the floor exercises live. The US women were delightful.
Uncle Cosmo
@PsiFighter37:
Oferdogsake. His legs can’t be that short. His schlong can’t be that long!
Could we please retire this physically incongruous & infelicitous bon mot in favor ot something like
or somesuch?
Sawgrass Stan
Perhaps the respondents thought the pollster said: “Hillary Clinton will steal your acorns.” Trump is up over Hillary in triple digits among squirrels– probably not even worth it to poll them anymore.
Mnemosyne
FYWP ate my comment and I don’t feel like retyping the whole thing. Suffice to say, arguing with cops in my family that MAYBE a cop made an error in judgement is like arguing with a brick wall that speaks gibberish. Ugh.
redshirt
Someone smarter than me help me understand this concept, and if there’s a word to describe it:
To the Wingnut Mind, ACORN represents everything bad and evil about the Democrats and liberals; in fact, they have little to no idea about ACORN or any facts surrounding the actual organization. They don’t know what it actually means, but they know it’s BAD and they HATE it.
Is there a word to describe this phenomena?
Uncle Cosmo
@dmsilev: To quote Tom Lehrer:
Liz is #1 Trump-sticker!
Earl
That’s the thing. We’re lucky to have Trump — evil and stupid can be handled.
Evil smart is scary. Imagine someone who could use resentment of Obama/Hillary but could say the quiet parts quietly… Maybe the base wouldn’t have accepted that, but if Trump could stick to dog whistles, plenty of #nevertrump has no idealogical disagreement with him. It’s just that the man is so gauche when hating blacks/women/browns/educated/etc.
Major Major Major Major
Wow. Still with the ACORN. Wow. Just… wow.
Mnemosyne
@Sawgrass Stan:
Squirrels are well-known assholes. I’m not surprised the little rats are voting for Trump.
WereBear
@Uncle Cosmo: I’m sure we can get volunteers to step on it. For the occasion, I will wear high heels.
Baud
@Earl: Interesting question whether Trump’s success is precisely because he doesn’t use dog whistles.
@Major Major Major Major: It took them 40 years to move past Jane Fonda.
dmsilev
@Uncle Cosmo: Paraphrased from some pulpy SF novel I read years ago (and was about the only thing I remember from said book): “That battle was like they willingly jammed their dick into the sausage grinder and then stood there as we turned the crank”.
lamh36
@Mnemosyne: hey did u see that Instagram clip of Lin Manuel & The Rock singing a bit of “No One Fights Like Gaston”. apparently they’re doing some press for Manoa or Lin Manuel as u know is doing much if the music.
Trollhattan
@Earl:
Ted Cruz on Line #3 would like to remind everybody he’s wax-dipped and ready to resume running for Czar of all the Americas.
Big Ole Hound
How can there be so much stupidity in Trump supporters. It boggles the mind that someone who is crazier than a shithouse rat can be the GOP nominee. He’s batshit crazy.
Roger Moore
@PsiFighter37:
I think the best way to understand Donald Trump is as a toddler who’s desperate for attention. Any time something happens that pulls the attention away from him, he has to act up in order to get it back. He’s having a terrible time because he had to face first the DNC and now the Olympics. To steal attention back from them, he has to throw an epic fit. It doesn’t matter that this hurts his chances of winning; he needs the attention NOW!
PhoenixRising
@Baud:
Objection. Claim as to fact not in evidence.
MuckJagger
From that chart, it would appear that 58% of poll respondents deserve a President Trump.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: they’ve moved past Jane Fonda? I still see shit about her.
Roger Moore
@Uncle Cosmo:
I’d also question if he is of sufficient size for this. You’ve seen how tiny his hands are…
PhoenixRising
@lamh36: that…is not the Alan Mecken song The Donald’s follower remind me of.
‘We don’t like
What we don’t
Understand, in fact it scares us…”
MCA1
I thought it might be interesting to reflect backwards, in light of this latest disgrace. You know what the news was all abuzz about ONE YEAR AGO TODAY? The intemperate, should-have-been-immediately-disqualifying comments made the previous night by one Donald J. Trump about Megyn Kelly bleeding out of various orifices. ONE YEAR AGO, he showed himself to be who he is. I remember hearing about it early morning in the car on the way to do some trout fishing, and thinking “Well, good. That’s that. He’ll be done by the time I get off the river.”
365 days later, and there are still people who don’t fucking get it, or have intentionally not let themselves get it, and our failure of a media is just now getting around to declaring this absolute shitstain of a human unfit and frightening. A full year later. DougJ’s absolutely right in the prior FP post: Peak Both Sides was a lie.
So, to all in the American media who let this ruse not only continue, but dominate our entire culture, for 1/42 of my life to this point:
Fuck you, you enabling cowards.
MuckJagger
@Baud: I got a poker buddy back home, about my age, which likely means he also missed Vietnam by a couple years, copied and pasted a “We Hate Jane Fonda” screed that popped up on my newsfeed.
Nobody seems to get over anything, even if it didn’t happen to them personally.
debbie
Proof that the public education system has been destroyed. Rebuilding it needs to be as much a priority as repairing the nation’s infrastructure.
Mike in NC
Wife informed me that a wingnut neighbor drove to Wilmington to fawn over Drumpf at his hate rally. She moved here from Baltimore to get away from Those People.
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
what happen to this country?
you can’t even make death threats anymore.
clint eastwood is right – what ever happened to free speech?
Sad!
danielx
@PsiFighter37:
You’d think it would start to hurt after a while.
MCA1
@debbie: Agreed 1,000,000 percent. We have entered the Idiocracy. I honestly don’t know if our culture can be fixed.
Snarki, child of Loki
ACORN went underground, to team up with the Bavarian Illuminati.
If you adjust your tinfoil (NOT aluminum! NO! BAD!) hat to block the mind-control rays, it all becomes clear.
For extra clarity, zip-tie a drycleaning bag over your head to keep out the mind-control gases also, too.
p.a.
Zombie ACORN is much more dangerous than actual ACORN.
Keith G
At this point, voting preference is largely predetermined. Often times for some all that is left to figure out is what to say if someone asks ‘why’. They don’t have a thought out reason since it was never an issue, so they go to the memory attic and pull something out.
danielx
@redshirt:
Much the same could be said in regard to soshulism, liberalism, and a host of other words and phrases detested by wingnuts. Just put it under the heading of wingnuttery and let it go.
Soylent Green
@redshirt:
Idiocracy.
Uncle Cosmo
@dmsilev: Which in turn reminds me of the story of the pickle-packing company who sent one of their assembly-line workers to a psychologist for evaluation, He told the shrink, “I have this overwhelming urge to slip my penis into the pickle slicer.”
The shrink blanched & said, “Now you don’t want to do anything drastic. Promise me you’ll think very hard before you do that.”
Next session the new patient confided, “I went home & I thought about it & decided I had to do it, so the very next day I did it!”
“OMG!” the shrink shouted. “What happened?”
“They fired both of us.”
{rimshot}
Matt McIrvin
@Sawgrass Stan: Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is unbeatable.
Uncle Cosmo
@Trollhattan:
FTFY.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Uncle Cosmo:
We have a bleeder!
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Yes! They were doing some recording in Miami and LMM flew down there for it. (The Rock lives in Miami, so everyone has to go to him.)
I also just found out that my friend’s wife will be helping Daveed Diggs with some recording when he’s out here. SO JEALOUS!!!
(But I have such a huge crush that I would probably be too shy to speak to him anyway.)
Mnemosyne
@Roger Moore:
That’s how a lot of people who have to deal with narcissists describe them — toddlers in adult bodies. They somehow are never able to grow emotionally past that phase.
Truegster
Wikileaks is now offering a $20,000 reward for info about the DNC staffer that was killed. They have finally “jumped the shark”. They must not have any real info if they’re paying for just random conspiracy garbage that probably won’t lead anywhere important.
Elmo
@Uncle Cosmo: My version was slightly different:
I cheered at the banderilleros’ display
As each stuck the bull in his own clever way…
And now it’s stuck in my head, thanks!
Rover was killed by a Pontiac
And it was done with such grace and artistry
That the witnesses awarded the driver
Both ears and a tail.
But I digress.
chopper
@shomi:
well someone is obsessed all right.
Baud
@Truegster: I’m confident that they will get a lot of reliable tips.
Uncle Cosmo
@Elmo:
The moment had come:
I swallowed my gum.
We knew there’d be blood on the sand pretty soon.
The crowd held its breath,
Hoping that death
Would brighten an otherwise dull afternoon.
Then the matador did what we wanted him to:
He raised his sword & his aim was true.
In that moment of truth I suddenly knew…
That someone had stolen my wallet.
Baud
Just realized Paul Ryan’s primary is today. What times to polls close?
rikyrah
The Republicans tried to sink Obama. Instead, the party imploded
If your political priorities are the total defeat of a single politician – not the advancement of your own policies – it fans the flames of extremism
Tuesday 9 August 2016 11.20 EDT
It may seem too early to call, but we already have a winner in the 2016 election.
He’s someone the pundits wrote off long ago. An improbable outsider who rode an insurgent wave to snatch the nomination from the establishment. An unconventional politician whose raucous rallies underscored his appeal to voters far outside his party base.
His name is Barack Obama. And he can thank the freak show that is Donald Trump’s Republican party for restoring his stature as a unifying, national leader with a moderated and mature approach to a complex and unstable world.
Eight years ago, Obama represented an existential threat to the Republican party, and not just because he was going to lead the Democratic party to win the White House and Congress by large margins.
No, Obama’s biggest threat was that he could realign American politics, shifting it fundamentally towards progressives for a generation. He and his campaign aides talked privately of being the Reagan of the left: a transformative figure who would leave an indelible legislative mark at home and restore America’s position on the world stage.
NotMax
Scientists marvel at demonstration of the first acorn which attracts nuts.
Mnemosyne
@PhoenixRising:
I have always wondered if that song was at all a reference to the AIDS crisis since Howard Ashman wrote those lyrics while he was dying of AIDS. No way to know for sure, I guess, though I hear vague rumblings of a possible independent documentary.
singfoom
@shomi: Yeah, how dare people talk about the maps to the territory? And repeatedly as the maps are updated, right? Sure, the maps aren’t the territory. Then, when the election comes and goes, people will talk about the result…
And then other things will happen and people will comment on those things happening. It’ll be awful!
Corner Stone
Bob Wright is a truly awful, awful human being.
Roger Moore
It’s amazing that fewer than 27% of voters thought ACORN was going to steal the election. That puts it in genuinely crazy territory.
Elmo
@Uncle Cosmo: Marry me!
Wait never mind, I’m married. Dammit.
ThresherK
@Elmo: I was thinking the exact same thing. That’s what I get for cleaning the cat box rather than monitoring this site.
Mnemosyne
@Roger Moore:
That was my first thought, too.
Trentrunner
@Corner Stone: Bob Wright is godawful.
Wright: “Both parties are having to appeal to their extremists.”
Yes, Bob, Hillary does this by agreeing to free public college and Trump does this BY THREATENING TO KILL HIS OPPONENT.
GxB
@Baud: Typically 8 pm CDT.
jl
Well, deluded sheeples believe it when MANY SAY, that ACORN no longer exists.
But… does it?
Even if GOPers have bragged about killing it, why can’t Obama just put his time machine in reverse? Huh?
Use evidence, reason and logic folks. Evidence reason and logic. That is all I ask. Please.
jl
MANY SAY, ACRON no longer exists. But does it really no longer exist?
And regardless, Obama could just put his time machine into reverse.
Edit: many say you cannot use the s h ** pul word anymore without getting a comment trashed. That is real proof Cole is a Bilderberg/Illuminati double agent.
Steve in the ATL
My crazy sister informs me that wikileaks just rekeased a new batch of DNC emails that will end Hilary’s campaign by tomorrow at the latest. I’m pretty sure that trump’s campaign is the one that died this week, but I’m not on the right mailing lists so I don’t know.
Has anyone seen this or has it been lost in the news of trump calling for his opponent’s assassination?
Steve in the ATL
@jl: would have been a great place to write “irregardless”
JordanRules
@shomi: Kick rocks idiot!
Mandalay
@Earl:
@
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch:
Well to support the first claim and rebut the second, former Deputy Director of the CIA, Mike Morell, was on Charlie Rose this evening openly advocating that we covertly kill Russians in Syria to teach Russia and Assad a lesson.
What could possibly go wrong?
jl
@Steve in the ATL:
You want the grammar police at this blog to hold me in irregard?
redshirt
@danielx: My question was sincere – is there a word to describe this phenomena? It’s not limited to Wingnuts necessarily, though they do specialize in it these days.
Is it “Totemism”?
amk
@Steve in the ATL: wiki what?
jl
@redshirt: Those are worship words.
Sawgrass Stan
Re Our Gal Senator Professor Warren:
I think all Trump protestors should shout the following chant:
YOU’RE LOSING TO A GIRL!
YOU’RE LOSING TO A GIRL!
YA NA, NA YA, N’YAA!
YOU’RE LOSING TO A GIRL!
The two tiny, soggy, “plop” noises we hear will be the sound of his minitesticles exploding.
dmsilev
@Steve in the ATL: There doesn’t seem to be anything earth shattering on Wikileaks’ Twitter feed, and I’d imagine that would be the sort of thing that they’d be boasting about.
redshirt
@jl: Explain further please.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steve in the ATL:
Being an only child has it’s advantages.
Iowa Old Lady
Small town living: My upstairs AC needs to be recharged and my contractor says he’ll call the right guy and come over with him. So I gave the contractor the key to my house, in case I’m not here.
Technocrat
They should have asked if S.P.E.C.T.R.E. will steal it. I’m honestly curious how low the bar goes.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Hearing reports that people are leaving the Trump rally in Fayetteville early.
Mnemosyne
@Mandalay:
I’m pretty sure that is NOT a game one wants to get into with the Russians. They are way more creatively vicious than we are, at least going by reports from the Cold War.
Steve in the ATL
@dmsilev: odd–she’s never been wrong before, except for FEMA camps, jade helm, bible banning, gun confiscation, Mexican invasion, Muslim invasion, I could go on but my flight is taking off after only four hours delay–less than half of yesterday’s!
Truegster
FYI, they ARE still bitching about Jane Fonda.
Less than a month ago at a family reunion, an uncle (who would not stop talking about guns, ever) was pissed that a niece recently bought a Jane Fonda book. He and his wife were the most annoying stereotypical right wing couple you could imagine. He was trying to get the young relatives to vote for Trump.
Mike E
@chopper: You forgot Poll land!
hovercraft
According to Zeke Miller, Carly is going to run for RNC chairman in January. She is going to be instrumental in rebuilding the republican party if Trump loses. So when a black man wins they select Micheal Steele, and now when a woman wins they are going to pick a woman.
But democrats are the party of identity politics. Hey dumbasses, we can see you, we’re not stupid.
jl
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: Soon we will have to guess what portion of a Trump rally audience consists of people rubbernecking at a political freak show?
Matt McIrvin
@redshirt: Star Trek reference. “The Omega Glory” was a pretty bad episode on the whole–the story really doesn’t make any sense even by Star Trek standards–but the image of the US Constitution reduced to a meaningless totem in the religion of barbarians is a strong one.
jl
@hovercraft: Carly Fiorina? The runner-up liar and BS artist of the GOP primaries? That will fix something?
dmsilev
@hovercraft: And by ‘rebuilding’, I assume you mean an attempted merger with the Libertarians which will fail catastrophically, resulting in Carly being forced out (but with a nice golden parachute, of course).
Sounds like a plan.
Mnemosyne
@jl:
Reminds me of a classic line from To Be Or Not To Be, which is a Nazi officer referring to Jack Benny’s performance of Hamlet:
Mary G
@hovercraft: I know! Because it worked so well with Sarah Palin.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: 8:00 pm CDT.
Miss Bianca
@MCA1: OMG, the Megyn Kelly thing was *a year ago* already? (buries head, whimpers softly).
dr. bloor
@hovercraft: Kind of an interesting thought experiment. What happens when you put Carly in charge of something that’s already irretrievably broken?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@hovercraft: Demon Sheep!
germy
Nine out of ten dentists recommend crest toothpaste.
The tenth dentist will be voting for Trump.
Joel
I hate these kinds of polls.
redshirt
@dr. bloor: VICTORY?
Shaun Appleby
Blind pigs.
dr. bloor
@Miss Bianca: Or, as the Tangerine Ballsack would put it, twelve bleeding from her whatevers ago.
Joel
@Steve in the ATL: the both sides do it crowd was right on one front: dumb shits are all around us.
NotMax
@Mattg McIrvin</a.
Read A Canticle for Liebowitz to encounter the same type of plot device used earlier, and better.
germy
@dr. bloor: It stays broken and she gets paid to leave.
Miss Bianca
@Matt McIrvin: In fact, I’ll go out on a limb here and call “Omega Glory” one of the WORST ST:TOS episodes ever. I’ll watch “Plato’s Stepchildren” before I watch that one again. Hell, I’ll watch “Spock’s Brain” before I watch that one again.
But yeah…the Constitution thing was the only good, powerful thing about that episode. Which just goes to show that even the worst Star Trek has redeeming facets.
@Omnes Omnibus: are we rooting for ignominious defeat? (does that race have a Democratic opponent?)
Mnemosyne
@NotMax:
They probably swiped the idea from the book. Classic Trek is kind of notorious for that.
WereBear
@Miss Bianca: Maybe so. But I really can’t watch “The Apple” again.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I finished going though my pics of yesterday’s urban hike: Celluloid Heroes, History, and a Big Rock.
Emma
@NotMax: Yes!
hovercraft
@Sawgrass Stan:
If Rachel was on tonight I’m sure she’d scold her for the use of the world ‘girl’. #likeagirl
Miss Bianca
@dr. bloor: AAAAGH!
Or would that be the “Tangerine Umbilical Stump”? ; )
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: It is the partisan primary. The D. opponent is being chosen today as well.
Raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I scanned a bunch of my LA and Atlanta Olympic pics today. I have my ATL tix but I can’t find the LA ones.
Roger Moore
@hovercraft:
The Democrats are “the party of identity politics” only because whites are incapable of seeing whiteness as an identity rather than the default.
ThresherK
@WereBear: Oh, if you didn’t like that, you’re gonna hate this The Apple.
Sawgrass Stan
I’m having real second thoughts– Surreal Donald Trump’s Sekkint Memmement comments are hilarious and fascinating, but do you all think there’s a serious threat here? And exactly how much more will it take before Senator McMaverick disowns DT even before his primary? No, really– there’s got to be some shame down there someplace, how low does DT have to drill before he hits it?
Miss Bianca
@WereBear: “The Apple” is pretty bad too. But there’s one from the first season that is so wildly, aggressively dull that I can’t even remember its name, and that one counts as the absolute worst, IMHO.
Roger Moore
@dr. bloor:
The pieces get even smaller.
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: I know it’s the primary. But is it better for the Dem to run against Ryan or his Teabagger primary opponent?
ETA: In the general election, I mean.
Bill in Section 147
Innovation will fix problems like too much vacation time.
jl
@Sawgrass Stan: Josh Marshall has pointed out at TPM blog that Trumpism is going further and further in a bad direction towards permitting political violence. And on his twitter feed today that the US has a history of political assassination that is worse than comparable high income industrial countries. So, I think overall, what Trump is doing is a serious threat.
Miss Bianca
@Roger Moore:
Ladies and gentlemen…it’s White!Wing!America!
mapaghimagisk
@Roger Moore:
In hands that small, even a tiny one feels gigantic!
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca:
Only my opinion, but I want the Teabagger to win. The Dem will have an uphill struggle against a the incumbent Speaker of the House, but an effectively open seat is another matter. Besides, if Ryan loses a primary, his career is done. SAD!
Villago Delenda Est
@efgoldman: The 1860’s.
Mike E
@Miss Bianca: Spock’s Brain gets a vote… the switcheroo one where Kirk gets inhabited by a crazy woman is the worst (also the last) one by many accts
amk
@Omnes Omnibus: when will we know if the granny starver wins or loses?
WereBear
@ThresherK: Thanks?
Roger Moore
@Miss Bianca:
That’s not much of a limb you’re climbing out on. IMDB user ratings put it in the bottom 10% of episodes, which seems like a reasonable basis for calling it “one of the worst”. Calling it the absolute worst episode instead of real stinkers like “And the Children Shall Lead” or “The Way to Eden” would be going out on a limb.
hovercraft
@amk:
His chances of losing are very, very slim.
WereBear
@Mike E: Seeing William Shatner play a woman in his body has its amusing aspects. Not like he needed a License to Ham…
Pogonip
@redshirt: Acornophobia?
sukabi
@Mnemosyne: part of cops training should include re-enacted scenarios that have involved cops shooting unarmed people… remove the badges, uniforms ect from the “cops”, change the ethnicity of the victims and see what their response would be… murder or not?
ThresherK
@WereBear: It’s a cult classic. And when I say cult, I mean cult.
I’d recommend watching the whole thing without the Rifftrax or any such stuff. It really doesn’t need embellishment.
redshirt
@Pogonip: I want a serious answer!
It’s a fascinating concept and I’m sure there’s a word to specifically describe it, but I’m not sure what it is.
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, the world’s saddest song is playing on the world’s tiniest record player chez MB at the prospect of Ryan’s career going Up in Smoke…
Miss Bianca
@WereBear: My God, which episode is this one? My mind is blanking.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Miss Bianca: This one.
I had to look it up to remember as well.
redshirt
@Miss Bianca: Great movie!
Miss Bianca
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I don’t remember seeing this one! And I just watched them all on DVD over the course of the spring! They couldn’t have left it off the disc, could they??
@redshirt: A classic!
debbie
@Omnes Omnibus:
Also too, Ryan represented the party’s future.
Mary G
UC President Janet Napolitano has finally managed to dislodge Linda Katehi, the chancellor of UC Davis, whose campus cops pepper-sprayed student demonstrators sitting on the grass and then spent a lot of taxpayer money on a failed attempt to remove the incident from the internets. Disappointingly, she will still be allowed to teach as she was ruled innocent in a bunch of other charges.
Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap
Everyone should read this about Trump just “joking”.
Quinerly
The Secret Service has tweeted!! It is aware of the comments. Trump’s name was not mentioned in the actual Tweet.
Mary G
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I’ve been all of those places and I have a sad that I don’t live up there anymore and a Randy Newman earworm. Thanks.
redshirt
@Quinerly: The Secret Service tweets?
Jesus, I weep for our future.
Credenzal Jocularity
@redshirt
@redshirt:
It’s a good straight line. I’ll scroll up and apologize if anyone already said:
Conservatism
amk
@Quinerly: wonder what they will do in this odious issue.
Sawgrass Stan
@efgoldman: Yes, they see sunflower seeds as an entitlement. How many of the lazy little loafers actually even gather acorns anymore? There’s no damn acorns for Hillary to steal, voter fraud or not.
redshirt
@Miss Bianca: Re Omnes: “That’s fucking vodka, man!”
debit
@srv:
Who really knows? Sweet hopscotching Jesus.
redshirt
@Credenzal Jocularity: It’s practiced heavily by “Conservatives” today, but it’s not entirely specific to conservatives. Hard core Bernie or Busters behave the same way when it comes to certain phrases or words; extreme environmentalists will hate any reference to “nuclear power” regardless of the technology.
In a way, it’s just a more extreme version of language itself; all words are symbols, as are letters.
Ivan X
Today I got a new client who was the first person I as a layperson could say is in a clinical sense paranoid, in the sense of chem trails, government persecution, persecution by an unspecified “they”, associations of unconnect items, and on and on. Figuring out how to communicate with that person in a way that wouldn’t make them feel threatened required much more poise than usual. To unwind from that, I went to my local/favorite bar/restuarant for drink/dinner. I sat next to a regular I have a casual association with, having met her there a couple of times before. Perfectly pleasant conversation, suddenly interrupted by her spontaneously stepping out, and coming back clearly upset, so of course I asked what was up, and…she had just learned her 25 year old nephew had been killed in a car crash. I consoled her as best I could for being a near-total-stranger. She asked the bartender for another glass of wine, and she cut her off. She went home. The bartender then, unsolicited, told me that she just couldn’t, half the bar had been asking her what was wrong, and two days ago the same patron was also sobbing because she had just lost her job and couldn’t pay and had been doing the same at another nearby bar. Meanwhile I’m two martinis in, which is not my top of cognitive facility. THE FUCK. At least it allowed me to forget about this election for a half minute, but that’s about all I can say. Tragedy all around. I’m happy for what I have.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: I see they are pulling all state funding for state parks.
Omnes Omnibus
@amk: Within a couple of hours at most. I’ll report back when I have any info.
Mike E
@debit: forget it, Jake… it’s Performance Troll
Quinerly
@redshirt:
I was shocked that they tweet, too! As for being aware of the comments…several of them obviously were standing right there when the comments were made. Their twitter feed is rather interesting right now. The tweet about this was this afternoon. I first saw it on LGF but MSNBC is now reporting it.
redshirt
@Quinerly: I’m afraid to follow the SS on Twitter. Feel like that’s an automatic file somewhere.
germy
I read some of the youtube comments and they were pretty much what you’d expect. Horrible, hateful stuff. But I found one funny one:
Omnes Omnibus
Wisconsin primary results here.
@raven: Assholes.
Credenzal Jocularity
@redshirt:
I see what you are going for. My first attempt was a malamanteau of Shibboleth, Projection, Epistemic Closure and Caproic acid. But the Frankenword was long and tortuous. And the cheap joke beckoned…
amk
@Omnes Omnibus: ok, thanks.
Ivan X
And also FYWP I can’t edit what I wrote (I don’t “have permission”) and nor can I request for deletion which is what I feel like doing after rereading.
Quinerly
@redshirt:
I’m with you on that. Plus I don’t have a Twitter acct. Just followed the LGF link and read the thread. Many people that do follow are confused since Trump’s name wasn’t actually mentioned.
raven
@Ivan X: Nobody gives a shit.
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: Your political junkie companions thank you. : )
Ivan X
@raven: Yeah. That’s why I tried to request for deletion, but FYWP wouldn’t let me. Also, too, FY2. Mod, can you delete all my posts in this thread?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mary G: From Glendale station that was all on public transportation(Metrolink, Metrorail, and Metro buses).
redshirt
@Credenzal Jocularity: Probably better in the original German. ;)
raven
@Ivan X: Don’t let it get to ya. Moderators are few and far between in this joynt.
Matt McIrvin
@Miss Bianca: Maybe “The Alternative Factor”? That’s the worst first-season episode I can think of. It’s the one with the crazy time-traveler guy who keeps fighting with his doppelganger from an antimatter universe. It’s a half-formed idea padded out to episode length through repetition, with a dumb non-ending ending tacked on.
But I think my personal anti-favorite is “The Way to Eden”, the one about the god damn space hippies. Though it does have camp value that some of the nonsensically boring ones don’t.
germy
@debbie:
So he beat off his primary opponent?
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: Oh, fuck me, O2…what is this “gold for Iranian hostages” BS? I thought Feingold was better than this! Repeating a fucking Trumpism? Sad!
germy
@Ivan X: “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright”
Miss Bianca
@germy:
Phrasing!
Omnes Omnibus
@germy: Ryan is getting 85% of the vote right now. 97 of 341 precincts reporting.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Miss Bianca: They are Republicans.
Miss Bianca
@Matt McIrvin: That’s the one! “The Alternative Factor!” I actually really enjoy the awful/campy ones – I love “The Way to Eden” for example – it’s “awful/dull” that I can’t stand or forgive.
germy
@Miss Bianca: Whatever it takes to win.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@redshirt: Phronemophobia?
Cheers,
Scott.
Miss Bianca
@raven: @Ivan X: I wouldn’t go that far. raven just meant that nobody cared if you…ah…overshared, in your opinion. Didn’t you, raven? (side eye).
Matt McIrvin
@Miss Bianca: Somehow the combination of first season and “wildly, aggressively dull” was enough information to pinpoint it.
redshirt
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: That’s not it.
Let me try and re-define: A word that evokes a predictable emotional response in a listener even though they don’t know what the word means.
raven
@Miss Bianca: yup
Miss Bianca
@Matt McIrvin: Just what I had hoped. : )
Matt McIrvin
@Miss Bianca: “The Mark of Gideon” from season 3 also has that nonsensical-yet-boring quality. Also, an atrocious pseudo-moral.
Uncle Cosmo
@shomi: We can always count on you to barge into a thread & remind us that our side of the aisle is not totally bereft of fucking arseholes who deserve to be found floating face down in a septic tank.
(Don’t know who that is? Look in a mirror. Assuming you even have a reflection. Then fuck off & die.)
Michael Bersin
@Matt McIrvin:
I reach…
redshirt
@Uncle Cosmo: When you respond harshly, the troll wins.
Ivan X
@Miss Bianca: Indeed. Thank you for your emotional moderation, and your comments here in general. With that said, Raven is not wrong. Fortunately, all was made ok by the incredible discovery that there exists a fourth season of The Eric André Show that just started, and my TiVo actually recorded the first episode.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@redshirt: I don’t know of such a word. Someone who knows Greek could potentially construct a XXXXphobia for you.
But I think you’re looking at it the wrong way.
People who hate ACORN have reasons for doing so even if they can’t express why in coherent sentences. There’s lots and lots of misinformation about ACORN out there. People hear bits and pieces about things in the news and make up their minds based on tribalism. It can be as little as: “Fox News says ACORN is bad, so ACORN must be bad because I trust Fox News!”
Or it could simply be fear of change, or fear of others and their ways of doing things.
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.
redshirt
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: Yes, I’m sure that’s entirely it: Fox News says ACORN is BAD and EVIL and LIBERAL.
LIBERAL is BAD and DEVIL and so on….
So the people absorb this viewpoint even if they have no real idea why – the actual reasons. Or facts. Or truth. What does that matter?
They believe.
Might this be called Faith?
Mnemosyne
@Miss Bianca:
WTF is with that headline?
The Lodger
@jl: Ohio lost its fourth largest city? That’s terrible!
Uncle Cosmo
@srv: Fuck off & die, shitstain!
(Can’t be said often enough for the stupid rethuglican vulture…)
redshirt
@Mnemosyne: Like the bumper sticker I read today on an old Toyota Camry: I don’t trust the Liberal Media.
Miss Bianca
@Mnemosyne: IKR?
Dadadadadadada
@Miss Bianca: The Alternative Factor? That one was a piece of crap.
Dadadadadadada
@hovercraft: But so were Eric Cantor’s. We can dream.
Uncle Cosmo
@redshirt: Speak for yourself. It felt remarkably refreshing here.
Sawgrass Stan
@efgoldman: Lucky you. I have world-class Olympic jumpers.
J R in WV
@Snarki, child of Loki:
FTFY
J R in WV
@Trentrunner:
FTFY, too.
J R in WV
@Ivan X:
That was a perfectly good comment. Hang in there!
Anne Laurie
@Truegster:
This is exactly like Donald Trump offering whatever ridiculous sum he promised to anyone who could find President Obama’s “real” birth certificate. It’s a cheap way to chum up noise, there’s no way to ‘prove’ that it wasn’t a murder, and most importantly: Even if someone did show up with the Real Iron-Clad Proof, good luck collecting your reward, sucker!
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Miss Bianca:
I’m glad that we’re still doing “Phrasing.” I hate to feel alone.