many of us know how to kid around and get in our zingers but FLOTUS's shade game is the big leagues. Ice cold. https://t.co/uGfjbaJgb9
— Zeddonymous (@ZeddRebel) October 4, 2016
There is a real "silent majority" aspect to Clinton's campaign that is under appreciated. https://t.co/UHhqyxTrkj
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) October 2, 2016
In 2016, the silent majority looks a lot more like a young Latina working in the service sector than anyone who elected Nixon in ‘68.
— Conor Sen (@conorsen) July 25, 2016
The world keeps changing, and sometimes that’s a good thing.
Apart from hoping Hurricane Matthew loses force as quickly as Donald Trump, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Contrary to Trump voters, I hardly ever see profiles of Clinton supporters. She's winning. Yet, I hear a lot about her "enthusiasm gap."
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) October 2, 2016
Yes, the Clinton voter is the most undercovered figure of 2016. https://t.co/ajwWp5fhLV
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 2, 2016
I also think many Nat'l media elites surprised by what's always been there w (esp older) whites, now visible w Trump https://t.co/ZRtEbfi39O
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 2, 2016
Yutsano
I’ll feel better on November 8th at around 8 pm Pacific time when we have an idea who the next President, Senate, and Congress will be. Until then I’m gonna be just nervous enough to keep working as if we’re losing.
debbie
The media needs to stop listening to the GOP explaining the problems with the Dems’ campaigns. I bet their accuracy rate would triple.
Major Major Major Major
The only reason I’m concerned about the ‘silent majority’ thing (which is totally true) is that it’ll make the psychos who think they were robbed by cheating people of dusky hues doubly sure that they were robbed this time.
Trentrunner
Will never again listen to ANYONE who claims GOP isn’t the party of bigots.
The GOP is not only the party of bigots. It’s the party of bigotry.
Anoniminous
Computer Models are now starting to predict Matthew will hit or come close to hitting the east coast of Florida, move up off of Georgia and South Carolina, and then do a loopy-loop and come back and hit Florida again … possibly even crossing Florida to end up in the Gulf where it could, if thing work out just right (= wrong) it could re-form.
TaMara (HFG)
It’s Page Six, so take it with a grain of salt, but sounds like CNN/ABC cannot play nice heading into Sunday’s debate.
CNN/ABC Feuding
Major Major Major Major
@efgoldman: Well, yeah, of course, but it’ll still be annoying. Probably not dangerous though.
Villago Delenda Est
@Trentrunner: DING DING DING DING DING
It’s all they’ve got left. They’ve shed every other characterization that is possible.
OzarkHillbilly
@Major Major Major Major: They were gonna think that anyway. I’ll echo what @efgoldman: said: Fuckem
Villago Delenda Est
One of the things that the Rethugs hate about Michelle is that she throws shade like Nolan Ryan or Sandy Koufax.
All they can do is cower like John Kruk facing Randy Johnson.
Patricia Kayden
Dana Houle has hit the nail on its head. The media is fascinated by all things Trump. Hence, the over coverage of Trump supporters, with all their quirks and idiocies. It’s getting tiring since the majority of voters aren’t going to cast their vote for Trump if the polls hold out through November 8th. The media needs to cover the millions of people of color who are going to ensure that our next President is sane instead of focusing on the alt-right and bitter White people who are planning to vote for the Orange Bigot.
Patricia Kayden
@Yutsano: That’s a great strategy and all of us should have that attitude. Nothing is given with this Election and a win for the only qualified President Candidate is not guaranteed. Unfortunately.
Villago Delenda Est
@Patricia Kayden: It all boils down to one thing, and one thing only: Drumpf is good for ratings. Drudge does not rule their world; Nielsen does.
bystander
I’m detecting a note of Sad! on MSNBC as they struggle to continue screaming Horse race! But they are still intent on reporting Trump’s every hiccup. I’m hoping that hiccup becomes a death rattle in November and we hear this idiot nevermore.
debbie
@Anoniminous:
You know, it seems these storms are doing loopy-loops more often than they used to. I wonder if there some climate change-connected reason.
philadelphialawyer
Women of color, men of color, single white women, and some sane married white women, GLBT folks, religious minorities, and, oh yeah, a few sane white men, too. That’s the new Silent Majority for Hillary. It has plenty of enthusiasm, and it is tired of being bullied, silenced and shouted down by bigoted, arrogant, ignorant, selfish, loud mouthed hetero white Christian men.
Villago Delenda Est
@debbie: While it’s always unwise to associate individual weather events with overall climate change, yes, one does have to wonder how much the overall trends steer the individual weather events.
Mnemosyne
@Anoniminous:
Hmm. I wasn’t super worried about Matthew on a personal level because my family members are on the Gulf side (Naples), but now you have me worrying again.
DCrefugee
@Anoniminous: Take off. Nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure…
Tripod
@Anoniminous:
Florida knows what it did.
Kropadope
The old silent majority, as far as I can tell, was always pretty loud.
So, I’ve been working on fulfilling Michelle Obama’s admonition to get three people registered to vote. Since the Presidential race is pretty non-competitive here, I’ve been focusing on ballot questions as a driver. I have two considering it, including one who was all stoked for Bernie and I found out on primary day he wasn’t registered. I have one straight refusal “I don’t know about those things” type of answer.
Hal
An old coworker friend commented on facebook about Pence being smart and conservative. The country needs to lean right and maybe Trump will get struck by lightning and Pence can take over.
I’m thinking she thinks so little of Trump as to wish a cull by lightning but she’s still voting for him. Oh, and Pence, so smart. This is someone who thinks Nixon got railroaded and was impeached for deleting a few minutes of recording, but Hillary’s emails! So I guess I shouldn’t be that surprised, but man am I going to be side eyeing some people I know from now until eternity.
debbie
@efgoldman:
I sense a trend…
Villago Delenda Est
@efgoldman: She cancelled the rest of the trip, and will resume sometime in the spring when hurricanes are much less likely to rain on the vay-cay.
debbie
@efgoldman:
Scroll down. She’s posted a thread.
Mnemosyne
@efgoldman:
Yes — they abandoned ship and headed home for a staycation instead.
SFAW
@bystander:
My, aren’t we optimistic? It took the Sunday dimwits how many years to stop having President-in-Exile McCain on their shows? And Chuckles Todd will find some way to shoehorn Deadbeat Donnie into various programs. Maybe he and Halperin can do a Trump joint venture. (And in this case, the joint where they’d be venturing would be Trump’s and I ain’t talkin’ Trump Tower. Brain bleach available in Aisle 6, by the way.)
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman:
Fixed it for Ya.
Mary G
If you go to http://www.thatMexicanthing.com, you arrive at Hillary’s website. Smart!
laura
@Yutsano: we’ll be enjoying Taco Tuesday on election night, and damn well better have a taco truck on every corner the next damn day!
Major Major Major Major
@BillinGlendaleCA: Baldwin absolutely nailed that part of his impression. And all the other parts, but he nailed that part, too.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: I would have put it in gold sharpie script, but FYWP.
SFAW
Tonight’s agenda: either watch the M-E-T-S! or continue fighting off the flu (or whatever I’ve got). Might need to take some combined general anesthetic and germ killer, perhaps single malt.
Actually, the flu/whatever isn’t hitting me too hard, but you can never be too careful.
sdhays
I don’t think the majority is particularly silent. More like “silenced majority” since the media isn’t interested in covering them.
Felonius Monk
@efgoldman:
You said that earlier. I think it’s time for the doubles and triples. Or perhaps (Fuckem x 10.E06).
RaflW
So I’m hoping that 20 hours after the debate, pundits (and the Trump campaign) are realizing that Pence’s frequent, condescending head shakes are a videographers dream. Along with the stupid-to-deny, incredibly easily assembled clips of Trump saying exactly what Kaine said he said.
Maybe even Hack Halperin has a sad.
SFAW
@efgoldman:
From your lips to FSM’s
orechittyorchieteyorchiteryear-like appendagesMajor Major Major Major
@sdhays: I know a number of people, mostly women, who don’t talk about Hillary on social media because they get mansplained at by horrified ‘friends’.
@RaflW: Somebody shared a Daily Beast mashup of Pence shaking his head when Kaine pointed out something Trump had said, intercut with Trump saying those things.
jl
Implicitly sympathetic white bigot panic freakshows seem to be favored by corporate media. But that is only about 50 percent, or a just little more, of all Whites now. If Trump loses, maybe we can thank him for driving that proportion down, since a lot of Whites got a lesson in how stupid it is.
Calouste
@SFAW: Allegedly that whiny loser is rather heavily in debt to Putin’s cronies, or in other words, the Russian mob. If that whiny loser doesn’t win the Presidency, chances are that he will have trouble paying off his debts, and the mob tend to use, ahum, alternative solutions for people who can’t pay their debts rather than taking them to court.
Splitting Image
@SFAW:
McCain spent years currying favour with the Sunday dimwits before his 2008 run. Trump doesn’t have that reservoir of good will. His brand is entirely based on him being a “winner”, which he won’t be if he loses and his empire collapses.
Ivanka the “moderate conservative” is the one to worry about. Fox news will find a spot for her easily. And if Americans aren’t careful, so might the Senate.
Patricia Kayden
@philadelphialawyer: Very well said. This is the coalition which will elect Secretary Clinton and save this country (and the world) from a clearly unqualified Bigot. It cannot be said enough that Republicans should never be allowed to live down their decision to nominate an ignoramus for the most powerful job in this country. Shame on them.
jl
Intentionally missed the veep debate last night. Good thing, at least from what I saw in the new HRC ads today.
I may be in minority, but I don’t think a smooth liar posturing as a sage sound man, while quietly lying with his mouth and with his gestures is more civil or polite than breaking in to point out outrageous bald faced lies broadcast to the whole country.
I didn’t know Pence got his start as a wingnut radio host. Need to give him credit for knowing how to put on a shrewd media performance. At least shrewd enough to get him through the evening personally unscathed Too bad for GOP Trump is running for president rather than Pence. Seems like as an OK debate for Pence, at least until all his lies get called. I don’t see how it was good for Trump.
Miss Bianca
reposted from t’other thread, since it seems more appropriate to this one:
Turgidson
@efgoldman:
Plus it still gets cold in the winter in Washington DC so obviously Al Gore is fat.
The Ancient Randonneur
Surprised? No. Embarassed that many of their peers and parents are in that seething pile of crap.
P.S. All you Mets fans better be praying to the FSM that MadBum isn’t in post season mode tonight.
Major Major Major Major
@Miss Bianca: I was canvassing in Reno in 2012 and people threatened to shoot me. Same with Denver in 2008, but I don’t think the Denver folks actually meant it. Reno, I wasn’t so sure; I ended up running away.
jl
And question for BJ commenters with enough fortitude to watch the debate and accompanying pundit jabber.
Is it true that, during the debate last night, the ignorant dolt and corporate hack pretending to be journalist, Chuck Todd, claimed on TV that GW Bush did NOT negotiate the Iraq withdrawal. And whosits, the guy who peddled deluded fantasies about his war reporting flat out admitted that he didn’t know. Like it was not unexpected that the topic would come up during the debate? And that they should know about in detail anyway?
If so, have these goofs been publicly shamed and corrected yet?
SFAW
@Calouste:
Oh, I’m sure he’ll be able to talk his way out of it. After all, Putin is such a patsy, not very bright, non-confrontational, etc.
@Splitting Image:
Interesting point re: Ivanka, hadn’t thought that far ahead. (And I was kidding re: Deadbeat Donnie being on anyone’s show outside of Chuckles and Halperin.)
cynthia ackerman
Everyone should take a break and watch a very happy polar bear cub rolling in ice cubes
Kilgore Trout
@efgoldman:
It’s like when my son was pitching in high school, he didn’t bring the heat, it was more of a warmth.
Kathleen
@Major Major Major Major: My cousin’s husband retired from BLM in Wyoming. She told me that he noted the Reno office had bullet proof glass. This was as far back as the 90’s. You did the right thing!
Boussinesque
@debbie: As VDE said, we don’t usually associate specific weather events with climate change, but the general case is fairly solid (disclaimer, I am an ocean scientist, not a meteorologist).
One of the main drivers of climate change are imbalances in the global energy budget. We’re trapping more energy via GHGs, so there’s more overall energy (kinetic and radiative) in the atmosphere and surface layer of the ocean. Storms involve motion, hence, energy. Imagine you have a curve representing probability of a weather event vs. the “intensity” of that weather event (however we want to define that); generally high probability for low-intensity events, generally low probability for high-intensity events. Increasing the total energy available in the atmosphere will shift that curve towards higher intensity (obviously there’s a lot more to this, but as far as a bare-bones explanation goes, I think it’s good).
The EPA actually has a really good page about this.
Gravenstone
@Felonius Monk: So, a MegaFuckem?
Steeplejack (tablet)
@jl:
Not true! Somebody made a joke to that effect on one of the threads last night and wasn’t clear about it. None of the networks do “in-line” commentary while the debaters are speaking.
Woodrowfan
say, what happened in the Jays-Os game last night? I’m sure Buck Showalter’s long managerial experience made a difference!
(seriously my sympathies to O’s fans. Jesus what a stupid thing to do)
trollhattan
@Anoniminous:
This is what will happen if Florida does not send Rick Scott to sea tied to a wooden raft by sundown! You know what you have to do, Florida, the next move is yours.
trollhattan
@The Ancient Randonneur:
Right. I see less than a degree separation between Trump voters and the Sarah voters and the Tea Partiers. They’ve had a whole lot of camera time these last eight years.
Aleta
Activists win ! (Thousands in the streets.)
After mass protests, Poland won’t back total abortion ban
photo
jl
@Steeplejack (tablet): OK, thanks. I saw some echoes of the joke in the comments, I guess. I found it hard to believe. I still think Todd is an ignorant dolt, and same for whosits.
Edit: Brian Williams (the fantasist kicked down from NBC to MSNBC for fantasizing about his war reporting)
Lizzy L
More phone banking. GOTV GOTV GOTV.
PPCLI
@jl: I’d like to know that too, if it is true. I saw it from someone here ( I wasn’t watching the debate itself) and repeated it without confirming it, or finding out if the original remark was facetious or mistaken. So I’m eager to know if I was just too gullible.
ETA – Ah, I see above that I was too gullible.
LAO
@TaMara (HFG): I sent you an email re:puppy pictures, if you’re still interested.
My evening agenda involves attempting to convince a North Carolina puppy that peeing on concrete is totally acceptable in the big bad city. Oh, and some team I root for is playing a baseball game tonight. I fear, due to injuries, I will be more successful than the metropolitans.
? Martin
@efgoldman:
Yeah, states like like Massachusetts would never elect a shit for brains conservative Senator.
Felonius Monk
@Gravenstone: Yep.
Aleta
@Major Major Major Major: Another Trump impersonator, Anthony Atamanuik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfXdmHseiFA
(Baldwin uses some of his ideas to make his bit.)
Walker
@Steeplejack (tablet):
Supposedly the commentary was on the YouTube stream, not a network
Hungry Joe
@Villago Delenda Est: To be fair, it was the All Star game and Kruk was laughing at himself. You could absolutely see what he was thinking: “I’ll try to stand my ground in real game, but I ain’t eatin’ a 98 mph fastball comin’ from ten feet away” — Johnson’s reach, as it appeared to the batter — “in THIS circus.”
It was a great baseball moment, both hilarious and instructive of just how difficult it is to hit a small, hard object flung by, as Roger Angell once put it, “a 200-pound optimist.” (Except Johnson was about 240.)
Miss Bianca
@cynthia ackerman: OK, thank you for that. I feel cleansed.
Felonius Monk
@efgoldman:
My youngest daughter was one of those. Actually English major, music minor.
Johnnybuck
I have suspected this for some time. Trump supporters, and Republicans in general, are loud so they think they’re winning. Interesting that Trump is -17 with white voters than Romney was in ’12. If this holds up, there’s going to be a reckoning. I like Hillary. I want her to win bigly, not just because it will be good for down ticket races, but because she deserves it. Hell, I deserve it, and you do too.
Patricia Kayden
@Johnnybuck: I want Secretary Clinton to win “bigly” to send a clear message to Republicans that nominating a Bigot isn’t going to fly in the U.S.A. in 2016. They need to lose the Senate at the very least so that they aren’t confused about how the majority of Americans feel about Trump and the Republican Party’s support of him. This should be their end as a national party.
Patricia Kayden
@Aleta: That’s good. Waiting for Ireland to do the same.
Anoniminous
@debbie:
We are seeing a decrease of West to East and increase of South to North air flow caused by global warming but I don’t know if that has anything to do with it or it’s One of Them Things.
debbie
@cynthia ackerman:
That’s our Nora, cruelly stolen by the Oregon Zoo! Grrr.
workworkwork
I might (might) be getting out of hospital tomorrow. Platelets still zero but I think I can be transferred to outpatient infusion treatment.
The staff here are fantastic and have been keeping me in the loop with my treatments and explaining my options in a lot of detail.
My brother’s an RN and I never realized how much more of a role they play in personal patient care. They are my heroes and the folks here are an inspiration.
debbie
@Boussinesque:
Thanks, I’ve bookmarked the page.
All I know is that there was a hurricane back in the early 1990s, I think, that did a couple figure eights and people saw it as a freak incident. Now, the last two hurricanes (providing Matthew follows predictions) have loopy-looped, and one hurricane recently formed over land. No idea what, but something’s going on.
ThresherK
Hey, not that I trust Wikileaks, but whose ass is Assange pulling things out re “Hillary sold weapons”?
All the sites carrying it are like Mediaite, Angry Patriot, Daily Caller, TownHall. Is there a real journo on this?
aimai
@Splitting Image: Really? You think she’d have a chance in hell coming from New York? And if she carpetbagged, where would she carpetbag from? No way.
SFAW
@efgoldman:
Speaking of music: how did Mrs. efg’s audition go the other day? I expect it went well, but haven’t been checking here as much.
BruceFromOhio
This evening is sitting in the back yard with friends, listening to the crickets and drinking some beers. It is simply a gorgeous evening.
Villago Delenda Est
@Hungry Joe: That’s a good point about that particular confrontation, and you’re right, Kruk would probably not have reacted that way if the game was one that really counted, like say game seven of the World Series.
Still, as you say, it was a great baseball moment.
SFAW
Finally got to see a clip of Mrs. Obama at Charlotte. The tapping-the-microphone bit was so smooth and quick — amazing.
Major Major Major Major
@ThresherK: A cursory googling is turning up nothing.. What are you seeing?
Villago Delenda Est
@ThresherK: Selling weapons is one of the things the Secretary of State is supposed to facilitate. Duh. It’s a tool of statecraft. That anyone is shocked, shocked about this tells me more about the shockee than it does about any Secretary of State. It’s like they don’t expect an embassy to be a nest of spies. That’s what embassies are all about, really.
Villago Delenda Est
@workworkwork: That is good news!
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Walker:
Post a clip (or a source for the “supposedly”). I’d love to see confirmation. I couldn’t find anything on the Google, and I couldn’t find an MSNBC stream on YouTube. Here is the NBC stream, and it doesn’t seem to have any interpolated comments in it.
ETA: The only thing I have seen was the ambiguous comment here on Balloon Juice, and I think that commenter said it was a joke later in the thread after some people took it seriously.
Turgidson
@Patricia Kayden:
The Pence strategy of denying the existence of Donald Trump in favor of “Dona!d Trump, typical Republican asshole, but NOT a full-blown racist scumbag” probably telegraphed what the GOP will do after the election. Basically, they will do nothing. They’ll shrug, say “glad that’s over” and the party will largely reunify around their shared blinding hatred of Hillary Clinton. Just as the GOP instantly slapped a Teabagger sticker over their Bush/Cheney 04 sticker and pretended 2001-2009 either never happened or was Obama’s fault, they’ll either pretend the whole Trump business never happened or just say he was some bizarre fluke that was somehow Hillary’s fault.
RedDirtGirl
@SFAW: I’ve been out sick all week with something. Throaty-coldy-fevery. If it’s not better tomorrow I’ll jump on the dreaded antibiotic train :(
Roger Moore
@philadelphialawyer:
We’re only silent because nobody thinks it’s interesting to report on our opinions. It’s like the tree in the forest that falls when there’s nobody there to hear it. If a Clinton supporter expresses an opinion where there’s no reporter to repeat it, do they make a sound?
Roger Moore
@DCrefugee:
Not according to NOAA. Yes, the US government has expressed an opinion on the advisability of nuking tropical storms!
Enhanced Voting Techinques
@ThresherK:
Jealous Swedish SAAB Defense workers? I do find the self righteousness of Swedes over arms sales always more than a little disgusting since one of the biggest death merchants in the world is headquartered in their country.
Shana
@laura: I made Chicken Enchilada Chili for the Clinton campaign office’s lunch tomorrow. Not tacos, but close enough.
PaulWartenberg2016
I know I’m in Polk County, which is White Boy Central in Central Florida, but I gotta tell you most of the Pro-Clinton voters I’ve seen so far have mostly been White. Slight diversity in age – mostly in their 20s – but a good number of 40something, a handful of 60-plus, and mostly male.
…
Granted, I’ve seen far too many pro-Trump people too (damn them) but this should be part of the story: Clinton’s supporters cover nearly every ethnicity.
If there has been a shared background with all the Clinton people I’ve met, it’s been the college education.
Boussinesque
@Roger Moore: The fact that that’s showing up under NOAA’s “frequently asked questions” heading is both hilarious and highly disturbing. Kudos to them for providing an actual scientific explanation for why it wouldn’t work, rather than just a snarky response (“Cocaine is a hell of a drug” would be my go-to in this situation).
Major Major Major Major
@Roger Moore: Glad they gave it more thought than the government has with nuking various other things
Shana
@Splitting Image: “Ivanka the “moderate conservative” in the Senate? From New York? I don’t think the voters of NY are that stupid.
Iowa Old Lady
@Steeplejack (tablet): I saw that on a live stream too. As I recall, what I read said someone asks Todd if that’s true. Chris Hayes starts to say something and Todd says no. (ETA: In what I read, it wasn’t clear if Todd was referring to the claim that Clinton didn’t negotiate the status of forces or Bush did.)
I was reading here, on Kos, and on the Guardian, but a quick look doesn’t show any such thing.
Bodacious
@Boussinesque: Thanks!!! I appreciated the link – and the layman version.
Josie
@philadelphialawyer: Word.
lamh36
Evening peeps.
So fellow comic fans..should we go ahead and start planning a meetup…lol.
Final Wolverine Movie name and teaser poster revealed
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@jl:
OMG, you’re so cute!!
Van Buren
@Splitting Image: Not from the Empire State!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Katrina van den Heuvel is fucking deluded.
ETA: arguing that Donald Turmp is at least shaking up the establishment, stopping just, just short of saying he’s a force for good. Chris Hayes, to his credit, is fucking having none of it.
ETA, A: very politely and incredulously fucking having none of it
lamh36
whatever your belief…this child was sent to hospital for help and guidance, and hopefully understanding. The hospital staff who did this…ugh…
He was 14!!!!
He committed suicide.
Transgender boy’s mom sues hospital, saying he ‘went into spiral’ after staff called him a girl
lamh36
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Isn’t Katrina, the one who’s always defending Putin in The Nation?
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
It’s particularly bad because it was at a hospital that has a clinic specifically for transgender youth. It’s not like he was at some small-town hospital in Kansas that had never had a transgender patient before.
NotoriousJRT
@efgoldman:
My exact thought.
lamh36
@Mnemosyne: Exactly…I don’t know if the mom knows who the staff was, but if she did and could prove it…they should be fired.
If not, then her suing them, may make the hospital screen the staff better and counsel them on tolerance…smh.
JustRuss
I love FLOTUS’ WTF face as she’s tapping on the mic. As for:
Honestly, do our media elites not know any older whites? I guess in rarefied circles they have the grace to keep thier bigotry to themselves, but out in the real world I’ve found it pretty easy to find racist jerks.
Roger Moore
@PaulWartenberg2016:
True. People talk about Clinton not winning the white vote, but there’s a big difference between losing 60/40 the way Democrats have been losing the white vote in national elections and losing 70/30 or 90/10, the way the Republicans have been losing every non-white group. There are still plenty of white Democrats; there are not plenty of black Republicans.
lamh36
As a Med Tech, this is a VERY interesting development!
supposed to be the new cutting edge in Infectious Disease early detection
Investigations showed she may have fudged her research…smh…smh…my job as a Microgiology Med Tech is still safe…LOL
Theranos Will Close Labs and Lay Off Hundreds of Employees
Gvg
@debbie: I have seen historical maps. No, there were always some looped de loops. In the 1600’s and all this area was pretty empty so the tracks are known to be incomplete but some of those in the last century when we have pretty good records are really weird looking. Not all, just some.
hovercraft
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
And she has been forever. Basically she still thinks the political revolution is imminent.
Trentrunner
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yeah, Katrina and Jill Stein drink from the same rancid “purity” wellwater, I’m afraid.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@hovercraft: @Trentrunner: I’m hoping a pigeon craps on her head as she makes her way back to her roomy classic apartment on the UWS.
Steve in the ATL
@Shana:
Send down to Georgia. Most people here are way stupider than that!
jl
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch: I’ve always typed like that. You’re just noticing now?
Seems like a lot of squee for a liberal mob enforcer bitch.
J R in WV
@efgoldman:
She’s home, check the down threads. If I were her, I’d be headed for Atlanta.
jl
@Steve in the ATL: Ivanka would be an OK Senator from Georgia. Better than Isakson for Perdue. But would she cotton to Oklahoma?
Jeffro
@laura:
Ok now I’m officially inspired…don’t know if I can do tacos for breakfast on 11/8, but I sure as heck can have ’em for lunch and then throw an Election Night Watch Party w/ a taco bar. Might even stop by TRU and get some little toy trucks for decor, too!
philadelphialawyer
@Patricia Kayden: Thanks. And, absolutely, shame on the GOP. They nominated a straight-up fascist/racist/misogynist/xenophobe/religious bigot for President. Who was entirely without resume to boot. And an asshole even in his personal life. Disgusting, and should disqualify their whole party, for, like, ever.
@Roger Moore: Too true. We are not silent, but silenced. And outshouted, and, too often, intimidated. I can only hope…not any fucking more. Fuck you, Donald Trump. Fuck you, anyone who supports him. Fuck you, anyone who tries to suppress the vote. Fuck you, all y’all.
@Josie: Thanks.
jl
@philadelphialawyer: And, dummy. You forgot ‘dummy’.
Jeffro
@lamh36:
Count me in! His hand reminds me of ORIGIN…the kid’s hand reminds me of the epic UXM #205…no reason why #205 can’t be the ‘frame’ while he has flashbacks (to ORIGIN) and flash forwards of all kinds.
Ok yeah, that was a little much…it’s just fun to speculate! (almost irresponsible not to ;)
Pest Bog Mummy, Frakensteinbeck
@JustRuss:
Our national media elites ARE older whites, so this simply CAN’T be about racism as far as they’re concerned. Maybe it’s economic anxiety? Maybe Trump is a con man who has mysteriously become the candidate by a trick? Who knows?
philadelphialawyer
@jl: Sorry! LOL!
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Iowa Old Lady:
What is that exactly? You saw the actual video or just a report? What you describe is exactly the “joke” comment made here.
hovercraft
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: @Trentrunner:
Or a plague of rats, nice big nasty City rats.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Iowa Old Lady: @Steeplejack (tablet): Um… that was me… I thought it was clear I was snarking on what some people might have imagined happening on the MSNBC set
hovercraft
@Steve in the ATL:
Don Jr floated the idea of running against Bill DeBlasio, and basically got shot down, none of the Trumps would stand a chance in the City or state wide, they could probably win out on Long Island, Staten Island or upstate, not Westchester but up in the hinterlands.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Iowa Old Lady:
ETA: Oh, maybe by “live stream” you meant a live-blogging stream here or elsewhere? Not a video stream?
Nemo_N
CNN talking heads declaring that once again the bar for the next debate is low for Trump because he lost the first one and high for Hillary because she won it.
philadelphialawyer
@hovercraft: Long Island is no longer safe territory for Repubs. Nassau and Suffolk have gone D in every presidential race since 1996. And, in governor’s races, Spritzer and Cuomo both won Nassau, and Spritzer won Suffolk. Coumo lost the less populous Suffolk by one point.
Trump Jr, in my opinion, would win nowhere in the metro NYC region besides SI, and would lose in a landslide to any credible statewide Dem for Governor. For Mayor of NYC? Fuggetaboutit!
Jeffro
@Nemo_N:
I give her 5 minutes tops before she notes that Pence wouldn’t support Trump, except for lying about what Trump had/hadn’t said…”we’ve been running ads with the truth, with your own quotes on video, Donald – would you mind showing one to Mike please so that he’s aware of what you’ve been saying? Poor guy…”
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Thank you! I was preparing to get into the diving suit and descend into the Googlesphere.
LadyNorth
@SFAW: Oh…. I hadn’t thought of that. You may be onto something. The networks won’t abandon the cash cow. They’ll compete to sign Trump for “political” commentary.
Indeed, it took them years to get over their infatuation of McCain. And it took the shooting of Gabby Giffords to end their infatuation with Sarah Palin…
Damn… we’ll be stuck with Drumpf for quite a while…
Jeffro
Boy…The Atlantic really lowered the boom, didn’t they?
Just another American institution weighing in for the sake of history…reporters, please ask Ryan, McConnell, McCain, etc what they think of this.
You have to wonder just how ugly the GOP civil war is gonna get…the #NoMoreTrumps faction is going to get started early, I bet. Nov 9th can’t come soon enough…
Aleta
@LAO: attempting to convince a North Carolina puppy that peeing on concrete is totally acceptable
You’ve really got to feel for those country dogs come the city or giant parking lot, walking and walking to find that grass before they’re able pee. (Had one.)
Jeffro
@LadyNorth:
I doubt it…he’s likely to go down in flames, bashing everything & everyone when he does. He’ll be too radioactive to bring in-house and why do that when you can just keep reporting on whatever crazy thing he’s doing in any given fifteen minute period? And he’s not going to do anything he can’t “monetize”; the best way for him to do that is his own exclusive cable channel & website…TB (for Trump-Bannon) TV.
TB…how fitting…
Aleta
@Hal: (Pence) someone who thinks Nixon got railroaded and was impeached for deleting a few minutes of recording
And he’s running with a paranoiac who bugs his employees and records his visitors and who knows what else
glory b
@Shana: Chicken enchilada chili? Recipe?
Aleta
@philadelphialawyer: shame on the GOP. They nominated a straight-up fascist/racist/misogynist/xenophobe/religious bigot for President. Who was entirely without resume to boot. And an asshole even in his personal life.
Absolutely. And even after a large number of their ilk have spoken against him, so that telling the truth is not so lonely any more, they would rather watch people die than denounce him.
MikeS
@Gvg: Hurricane Hazel is supposed to have made a loop over Pennsylvania in 1954. That’s why we got so much rain the year I was born. If you go to Accuweather’s historic storm tracker and look it up, Hazel’s early track looks incredibly like Matthew’s!
philadelphialawyer
@Aleta: Totally agree. Any elected or appointed GOP official who did not denounce Trump early, often and consistently should have it thrown in his face for as long as he presumes to play a role in public life….”You supported a fascist for POTUS, ergo, what you have to say is worth less than zero, and you are not fit to hold any governmental office of any kind, ever. Now, fuck off and die in a fire, fascist enabler.”
Joel
@philadelphialawyer: FYM
NoraLenderbee
@Jeffro: And on NPR this evening, the commenter (missed her name) said, “That wasn’t really a *ringing* endorsement, was it?”
FY NPR
SFAW
@efgoldman:
Glad to hear it. Looking forward to hearing her sing some day.
sherparick
Pence is as much an authoritarian as Trump. Trump is the white nationalist authoritarian while Pence (and Cruz) are the Christianist Authoritarian Wing of the Republican Party. That is what the Republican Party now is at its base. And frankly, as far as the Business elite, at the “Libertarians” in that elite, they are also Anti-Democratic and the American Constitution. They believe democracy is “anti-Libertarian” when the only “Liberty” you care about is the “Right of Property” and the “Right of the Property Holder” to treat his employees and renters however he (almost always a “he”) sees fit. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/08/bleeding-heart-libertarians-jason-brennan-voting-democracy/ Hence you see Peter Thiel and other Hedge Fund and Silicon Valley libertarians supporting Trump. They want an authoritarian Government to crush workers, environmentalists, and others who contest their vision of creating a United States of Galt Gulch. This is the modern Republican Party.
khead
@Turgidson:
In keeping with the recent Caine Mutiny theme here at BJ…
“You ought to read Pence’s testimony. He never even heard of Donald Trump!”