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Hugh Laurie is a very funny fella — even off the cuff:
Apart from working towards a Democratic landslide, what’s on the agenda for the day?
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Hugh Laurie is a very funny fella — even off the cuff:
Apart from working towards a Democratic landslide, what’s on the agenda for the day?
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Another Holocene Human
Shouldn’t the Benton and Beach story, where they promised to whisper in Trump’s ear for an illicit Chinese campaign donation get its own thread?
They came from Rand Paul’s campaign originally. I think this story needs to be worked over in depth.
Cermet
Yet we will spend over $1.3 TRILLION (!) dollars for a vertical take-off stealth jet fighter that is a compromise of every good fighter;and exactly what will this protect us against? What enemy can even threaten us with our current over kill? Also, think about the cost of these couple thousand jets and what that would do to the debt (that thugs say matter) and exactly who profits from this boondoggle? The 0.001%, of course. They invest in the war making industry. ISIS isn’t the threat to us – our insane “defense” industry is our greatest threat along with the 0.001% that intend to milk all the rest of us until we all are living on crumbs.
workworkwork
I got the staples out of my abdomen yesterday and so far my healing looks good. I still have lifting restrictions for at least the next four weeks so my wife will be in respite care until then.
On the (brighter?) side, at least now I have a set of dates to work with instead of just going day-by-day, so I can plan ahead.
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
Obama drops the mic on Trump – BIGLY (clip)
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Found on a former Gary Johnson voter’s Facebook feed: Donald Trump is B. P. Richfield.
raven
@workworkwork: Stay with that. I’m 2 months out of a bi-lateral hernia repair and it was a challenge to not lift anything heavier than a gallon of milk. I’m pretty much back to normal now so I guess it worked.
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
Barry & Harry (photo)
Schlemazel
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:
OH THANK YOU! That is the very best & funniest thing I have seen this cycle! The comparison is fabulous.
Cermet
Glad everyone is healing up well! Understand the issue only too well … .
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
Samantha Bee went postal on Trump
(Part 1)
(Part 2)
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
prob50
Great cartoon, Anne.
Off topic, but I caught the last few 12+ minutes of PBO on Jimmy Kimmel’s show. He was wonderful, as usual. Talked with ease about his learning curve with media. It was funny and cool. He has an IPhone, but doesn’t call,take pictures, tweet or anything except e-mail, and then segued into his youngest daughter explaining Snapchat to him over a typical family dinner. Daughter video’d entire thing and sent to friends. Michelle and Mallea cracked up, then he got serious and talked about the future of media with regard to protecting citizens yet recognizing their rights to privacy and how balancing these issues would take a lot of work and discussion that would likely take a lot of serious time and effort. He shifted smoothly from light-hearted family life to briefly but coherently discuss this totally serious subject matter. As much as I like Hillary right now, I must say it is unlikely we will ever see anyone more suited to the Oval Office in our lifetimes.
Kicking myself for not catching the whole show-didn’t know he was going to be on it.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Joe of the Morning doesn’t think there’s enthusiasm for the HillBeast. Trump’s folk seem to thing AZ and GA are locks.
rikyrah
Good Morning ☺, Everyone ?
TS
I watched so you don’t have to. The man who says he never ever supported Trump – who always said Trump would lose – is on his toes this moring
Joe says the race is tightening
Joe says turnout won’t be good for Hillary Clinton
Joe says Colorado is close
Joe looks at one poll – and says it may be a 5pt race – ignoring the rest of the polls
Joe says people loath Hillary Clinton
Joe says Trump is within 5 points – he can get close
Ah – wikileaks – people were going to vote for Hillary – even though they didn’t like her but wiki will change this
Obama care costs are increasing – Joe & Mika are thrilled that people won’t be able to afford their health care. This will give the election to Trump (I could write a book on this – after SCOTUS removed some of the legislation & the GOP refused to fund other parts – but of course it was Obama’s fault)
Mika looks constipated
Schlemazel
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Of course they do – new numbers were release yesterday showing poll results that the number of people voting FOR HRC not AGAINST DJT has been rising steadily the last few weeks and is now nearly 60% while DJT has dipped (only slightly mostly flat) as near 40% FOR as opposed to AGAINST HRC so ho in the morning HAS to repeat the tired beltway wisdom that supports his candidate
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TS: Republican consultant Rick Tyler said we could solve all the problems with healthcare if we just unleashed the FREE MARKET™.
Hildebrand
I continue to wonder what Trump has on Scarborough.
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
@prob50: you can see it on the net (link)
Mustang Bobby
@TS: And on the morning of November 9 when the caterer drops off a buffet of crow for the gang, Joe will declaim that he knew it all the time and Trump had it coming. At that point I will take the morning off to go to Best Buy to replace the TV that I broke with the sound of my voice screaming at him.
greennotGreen
@Mustang Bobby: Save money. On November 9lth, don’t watch Morning Joe.
TS
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I turned off as he started. Can’t take any more today – you will have to watch for me.
I don’t know all the details but a few health care issues
1. The GOP refused to fund the unders/overs pools for health care providers who had issues during the first few years (folks who hadn’t had insurance catching up on everything!)
2. GOP attacks on people being fined for not having health care has meant this has not to date happened. If there is no financial incentive young people will not take out insurance until they need it. Single Payer/insurance in most western countries that have same cover everyone.
3. The medicaid expansion that SCOTUS made optional
4. The non stop attacks by republicans – whose alternative is get sick and die
No doubt Richard can explain it with many more facts and detail – I find his posts fascinating in providing health insurance/health care insights
TS
@Mustang Bobby: He is in that mode already – “I’ve never been a Trump supporter” – I will watch on Nov 9 to point and laugh.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TS: Richard’s posts are real detailed and informative, but they make me want to start drinking again.
amk
@greennotGreen: better yet, don’t watch morning moron ever.
Schlemazel
@Hildebrand:
Joe and Mika used Trump hotels for their affair, he has the receipts. Maybe some for Joe and a certain intern . . .
amk
deadbeat donnie – you built this.
BruceFromOhio
Hugh Laurie had an interesting turn in The Night Manager.
Cubs come to Believe-Land, I hope the fans brought the cold weather gear, will be in mid 40’s with a northwest wind at game time. I’m ecstatic to see a Cubs/Indians series, good teams with dedicated fans hungry for a win, we are going to be treated to some fine baseball.
Yankees fans can jump in the lakes.
OzarkHillbilly
@workworkwork: @workworkwork: good to hear
Schlemazel
FYWP keeps eating a post I am trying to make that explains Joey’s morning rant. A poll was released yesterday showing a rise in people voting for Clinton not against Trump. Now near 60% while people voting for Trump not against Clinton is mostly flat but dropping slightly to about 40%. HoHoHo in the morning has to protect the narrative.
TS
@workworkwork: Sounds good – may the healing keep moving on schedule.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: you were never normal to begin with.
Bill E Pilgrim
Republicans get whiny when people call them Nazis but they don’t generally threaten to sue, they get petulant when people call them racists but oh well, but calling them Trump supporters? That’s really crossing the line:
prob50
@David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch:
Thanks!
prob50
BillinGlendaleCA: I turned off as he started. Can’t take any more today – you will have to watch for me.
Me too! Joe, Mika and guest morons just too freaking annoying right now
OzarkHillbilly
@BruceFromOhio: Indians all the way.
prob50
@BruceFromOhio:
I was rooting for the Dodgers but the Cubs were clearly the better team. LA had a chance if they had played near perfect baseball, but they looked awful after game 3.
Baud
@David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch: Nice.
ETA:. Just featured on GMA.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@prob50: I turned it off about half a hour ago.
My favorite part was when Meeka was talking about the Wikileaks stuff, “NBC news has not verified that these are true, but lets talk about them anyway as if they were”.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: They showed that on Morning Joe too.
debbie
@TS:
I listened to Glenn Beck the day after the 2012 election just to hear him cry. It was glorious!
debbie
@BruceFromOhio:
Those ticket prices are absurd.
Hildebrand
@Schlemazel: It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
rikyrah
@David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch:
Love my President ??
rikyrah
@TS:
Mayhew is a treasure.
Baud
@debbie: Since he’s been anti-Trump this time, he may not cry.
Iowa Old Lady
@workworkwork: That sounds promising. Go you!
debbie
@Baud:
Oh, he’ll be crying. If not for the fact that there’ll be another President Clinton, then for the death of the Constitution, for the death of the American Experiment, etc., etc. For big babies like Beck, there’s always stuff to cry for.
TS
@debbie: Whenever I have any doubts about this election I listen to Rove stuttering Ohio numbers after Fox declared the President had been re-elected in 2012 – but Joe & Mika looking like the end of civilization on November 9 will be epic.
David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch
When Trump is right – he right.
Baud
New news meme: Michelle Obama may run for office. Seen it several times now.
Jeffro
Just wanna point out: Catherine Rampell’s op-eds are usually on point and brave…this one is exceptionally on-point and even more exceptionally brave.
Never gonna drain the swamp until the Breitbarts and Drudges of the right are exposed for what they are: just another way to fire up and fleece the rubes.
hueyplong
Election night plan, as always, is to watch my side (MSNBC, kind of by default), and then, if things start to break as I am hoping, straight over to Fox News for the duration, culminating in that wondrous, sadly intoned Der Fuehrer ist Todt moment, followed by the whining parade of horribles a God-fearing nation will have to endure now that Killery will be seated on the Iron Throne. In 2012 I saw Rove’s meltdown in real time, and if that segment had lasted for 4 hours, I’d have had to call my doctor.
If all goes well this year, Nov 9 AM will witness Morning Joe denying he now or has ever heard of Donald Trump. I expect his sidekick to call in sick.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: And now Today show.
amk
@David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch: the thug keeping kicking them on their teeth and these pos with zero self-respect still keep kissing his thugly ass fiercely. pathetic.
Patricia Kayden
@amk: Exactly. Don’t watch it unless it’s the morning after the election and you want to laugh at them. Otherwise, why put yourself through Morning Joke and Shut Up Mika?
Jeffro
@Baud:
She should…even my dad and brother admit she would win any office she ran for, in a walk.
I’ve been reading David Pflouffe’s “The Audacity to Win” and he notes that it was Michelle’s speeches as much as Barack’s in Iowa that helped them really swell turnout and win the caucuses. Her nickname was “The Closer”. She sure has been on fire this season.
debbie
@TS:
Right. And then fast forward to this election and Karl’s ten little whiteboards proving his thesis that Clinton is terribly unwell, and you’ll know the GOP hasn’t changed a bit. Even Megan Kelly couldn’t stop laughing at him.
Baud
@Jeffro: I’m sure she could win. I don’t know how interested she is in that type of work.
Patricia Kayden
@David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch: Strange that Trump is going after Hewitt. Hewitt is one of his biggest fluffers.
prob50
@Baud:
Ooh, good! Now I can catch Prez Obama there in a few hrs (I’m on the West Coast)
Iowa Old Lady
@Jeffro: I just started to read that and burst out laughing because she says Trump will get a “schlonging.” I want people to use that word a lot! It will drive him crazy!
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: Why would Michelle want to put herself through what her husband has suffered for the last 8 years? She and her husband deserve a nice, relaxed life post-presidency. I hope they go to a tropical island after the inauguration and put their feet up for a few months to collect themselves. They deserve some rest.
TS
@Baud: I’ll wait and see – find it hard to believe
hueyplong
@Patricia Kayden:
The dig on Hewitt is more than a year old. The small smear of cream cheese on Trump’s tail makes it clear that a come to Jesus moment transpired in the interim.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Patricia Kayden: I hear they know folk in Hawaii.
Jeffro
@Iowa Old Lady:
Using Trump’s own words does seem to be the key to victory against him…that decision alone, way back, probably helped HRC more than anything else…just let The Donald do the work for you.
Speaking of using his own words against him, PBO did “Mean Tweets” on Kimmel last night and here’s basically the mic drop to end all mic drops…OUCH!!!
Iowa Old Lady
@Jeffro: I’m going to miss that man.
Paul in KY
@Schlemazel: It would be irresponsible not to speculate…
Ceci n'est pas mon nym
@Patricia Kayden: Maybe we’re already in the “drop your most loyal minions into the piranha tank” phase of Trump’s Evil Empire
Paul in KY
@OzarkHillbilly: Go Tribe!!! Let’s get another!!!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Iowa Old Lady: He’s about 15 miles away from me right now, POTUS is in town. I think they said he’s at the W in Westwood.
Paul in KY
@Baud: I had heard her prior statements of non-interest were Shermanesque. She would do a Hell of a job, I can tell you that.
Kathleen
@Another Holocene Human: Only if it was mentioned in a Hillary email.
Paul in KY
@hueyplong: That’ll be my hoped-for plan! Get a good buzz & just cackle at them. Man, 2008 & 2012 were so sweet!
Paul in KY
@Baud: I’m thinking she is developing an interest in kicking Repub ass (personally). Winning big races can accomplish that.
Joel
Someone posted Milbank’s anti-Scarborough piece in the Post from yesterday. He has a great burn buried in that one:
Baud
@Paul in KY: She would be very good, especially in comparison to the other goobers up their. That said, it’s a different skill set, and she’d have to really want it to be effective.
Baud
@Joel: C’mon, man. Halperin is exactly the type of guy Karl Marx had in mind to lead the proletariat revolution.
Joel
@BruceFromOhio: I’m pulling for Cleveland; it’s the unpopular bandwagon choice, but Francona was unfairly forced out of Boston. Nothing unfair about how Epstein got to Chicago.
OzarkHillbilly
@Paul in KY: everybody is on the Cubs band wagon, and for good reasons. Normally I’d pull for them too (not least of which is my Joliet born father was a life long Cub fan) but with everything the Indians have been thru this year the fact that they just keep on winning is near unbelievable. For them to win it all?
That would be a fairy tale sports story to rival Kurt Warner’s. Almost too good to be true.
Joel
@Bill E Pilgrim: To be fair, David Jolley has been anti-Trump since the beginning.
That said, I think it’s fair to tie a candidate to the de facto head of his party. We’re not a parliamentary system but the Republicans operate that way.
Frankensteinbeck
@Joel:
I think this is true(ish). Trump’s refusal to accept a loss gets traction with a few people, but most have vastly better reasons to loathe him and are not surprised to hear he’ll be a WATB when Hillary beats him.
Paul in KY
@Baud: Excellent point, Baud.
Baud
@Baud: *there*
Kay
I got a call from an activist Democrat yesterday on “security” in polling places. He went in to early vote and there was some Trumpian in there ranting about rigged elections. He wants more security in the polling place (which is literally right next door to the sheriff’s office). There are TWO sheriff’s deputies on duty on weekdays for the whole county. They can’t take one and put him in the polling place. I hate this about the internet and national races,where people freak out and BELIEVE what someone like Trump is saying. Obviously everyone should be concerned about lunatics in polling places but there are always people ranting in any kind of government office and having a nervous breakdown just isn’t appropriate given the “threat” potential of the Trumpsters in THIS county. I wouldn’t mind having a metal detector at that location because the real issue is probably guns- that’s where one person can do a lot of damage- but the threat of heavily armed nutjobs is just a given now- it’s not specific to Trump and/or elections.
Paul in KY
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m a White Sox fan in that town, so no Cubs for me. When I was at Lolla, Cubs fans (displaying) completely overwhelmed any Sox fans at fest.
Follow Cleveland in all 3 major sports. In baseball, a Reds fan the most.
rikyrah
@TS: that Rove clip from 2012 is a classic ?☺?
Jeffro
@workworkwork: @raven: Congrats, fellow ‘walking wounded’! I had that labrum-tear surgery on Friday and other than not lifting anything heavier than 1-2 lbs with my right arm, I’m doing pretty well. Best wishes to you both!
workworkwork
@raven: Good to just know there’s an end-point.
Meanwhile, I need to explain to the kitties why climbing up on me is not the ideal activity these days. (Particularly the littlest one, who is used to sitting right where I now have my scar.)
Patricia Kayden
@hueyplong: Ewwww. Now you’re making me nauseated about cream cheese. This election has ruined everything!
@Ceci n’est pas mon nym: If TRUMP TV had a show like that, I’d actually watch it. **snort**
Patricia Kayden
@Kay: When I voted in person in 2012, there was a zone in which protesters couldn’t enter which allowed voters to go in and out of the voting location without being harassed. Isn’t that the same in Ohio? I would kind of freak out if there were protesters close to the voting location screaming in my face.
OzarkHillbilly
@Paul in KY: I’m a Cards fan. Grew up in STL. Football has become unwatchable for me, basketball never lit my fire, and soccer, while I love watching the beautiful game, it is hard to catch one. (Outside of HS games)
JPL
@workworkwork: I’m glad that you are on the mend.
TS
@Joel: From your quoted article
It warms my heart to know there are others who see Joe & Halperin as Trump apologists.
The lap dogs of democracy
WereBear
@Jeffro: Except…. Michelle Obama doesn’t want elective office. And I can’t blame her.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: I’m thinking of going to the polls on Election Day as a zombie. Then I will spend the rest of the day wandering around Walmart proudly displaying my “I voted” sticker.
I’m wondering if I can get the poll workers to give me a dozen or more “I voted” stickers? Maybe I can borrow a school bus too.
Matt McIrvin
So this nonsense about how the email from 2008 about “oversampling” meant Podesta was rigging all the polls originally came from Zero Hedge (via Drudge). Apparently this year they’ve gone full Trumpist and have been heavily into poll-unskewing for months, on top of their usual delusional moon economics. And Trump is citing their work!
workworkwork
@TS: It helps that I’m on a news fast. I haven’t even been on Twitter.
Speeds my healing like you wouldn’t believe.
OzarkHillbilly
@TS: I just see them as complete idiots.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Cermet: The F-15s and F-16 were built in the 70s, so they Airforce needs to replace them because they are falling apart.
hovercraft
Why is Cheryl Mills being attacked by Joe the Asshole?
Valerie Jarrett first, now Cheryl? I wonder what they have in common.
And when did Joe become the arbiter of who is a progressive, who knew that she was a moderate, DLC neocon?
OzarkHillbilly
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: so build new F-15s and F-16s, not a pos that while it can do everything can’t do any of it near as well as what we already have. (An exaggeration I know, but the F35 will ever live up to it’s design requirements)
TS
@workworkwork: I don’t do twitter – I am inclined to lose it with wing nuts and know if I used twitter I would be apologizing or deleting most of the time. I also stay away from facebook. Wondering around blogs & discussing the issues with like minded folks is good for the soul – and the healing :)
I do watch MJ to point and laugh – although I can’t last an hour. Good to see other parts of the media calling him out. Poor dear isn’t happy that people use his words against him – mmmm someone else gets upset about that.
Oldgold
A New York Times Upshot/Siena College survey released on Tuesday confirms that Mr. Trump’s standing has deteriorated considerably. Hillary Clinton has a seven-point lead over Mr. Trump in North Carolina, 46 percent to 39 percent, among likely voters in a three-way race including the Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson.
Cermet
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: But spend $1.3 trillion dollars?! Then replace them (F-16/15) with a non-vertical T/O; oh, we have that – called an F-22 and it will far out perform the F-35 in every area except close in combat (ie dog fight.) So again, why do we need that VTOL fighter?
Kay
@Patricia Kayden:
This is early vote- they go to the bd of elections to vote. In bigger cities there are several early vote locations. The “zone” you’re talking about applies to “electioneering”, not complaints to the Bd of Elections employees about whether they are rigging an election or not.
You have to be careful, too, because voting is a civil right and law enforcement presence could cut both ways. There’s discretion involved. So say we put one in there and he asked Trumpians who were just sort of grumbling to leave. He’s preventing them from voting (maybe). Also, apply it to OUR voters because many people are intimidated by law enforcement and some of that is completely justified. How would voters feel if there were a heavy (county) law enforcement presence in AA precincts in Philadelphia? They’d be wary of that.
When you go thru the metal detector at a court it’s manned because you have a right to go to court and some of this is discretionary. So the deputy will TAKE your pocket knife and hold it for you because if they didn’t and just refused entry you’d miss your hearing.
I just hate this kind of panic-driven response to lunatics and hacks. We can’t have both political Parties go insane.
Oldgold
A new survey from Public Policy Polling (PPP) finds that 63 percent of those who say they voted early back Clinton, while just 37 percent say they voted for Trump. Less than a half of a percent say they voted for Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson.
TS
@hovercraft: I stopped watching at the health care stage. Does the Cheryl Mills attack have anything to do with this?
“There is no leaked e-mail in which longtime Clinton aide Cheryl Mills called the Benghazi dead “idiot soldiers” and expressed that she was glad they were tortured.” …. The “idiot soldiers” e-mail was not the first time falsified documents were passed off as authentic leaked e-mails.”
Seems lots of emails are being fabricated – Snopes
amk
the deadbeat’s last refuge polls, both of ’em katie, have the she-devil at +1. Sad!
Kay
@Patricia Kayden:
We tell people to ask for the reason, the state statute, when they are given a provisional ballot. It’s hard because you’re allowed to question these elections people. I think an auto registration is a “government document” under Ohio’s ID law (I”m right too), so I want them to question that if it’s refused. Politely, we tell them to step away from the line and ask for the polling place manager, but we really don’t want to go overboard on “security” based on threats from Donald Trump because he doesn’t know the first thing about US process or rights or anything, really. He’s an idiot. We can’t be running around responding to idiots.
Patricia Kayden
@Kay: Okay. Thanks for the explanation. Unfortunately this election cycle has been rather ugly and I suppose there will continue to be freak outs on all sides. Glad this is almost over!
hovercraft
@TS:
No it was about a Podesta e-mail where she was urging “secrecy, and obfuscation, her default position”, apparently she is just like the Clintons secretive and corrupt. It seems that she is simply the Machiavelli who is behind the scene pulling the levers. It’s not so much a specific attack just an evil black powerful woman who is always in the room.
amk
Jeffro
@Oldgold:
Well, yeah, with all the difficulties remembering a) to vote and b) who to vote for, that sounds about right. ;)
See also: “The Problems Inherent With Being Stoners’ #1 Candidate”
Kay
@Patricia Kayden:
I’ll be glad too.
We have a younger volunteer, a single mom. She worked her heart out in ’12 and I saw her last night at a school function and she told me she has a much better job now so she can’t volunteer- she’s done at the end of the day.
I told her “good! That’s great! Don’t apologize!” Yay for better jobs in the private sector for single moms! Moving ON! :)
Jeffro
Btw it should just be pointed out that the Trump-despised media are conducting themselves in an almost merciful, hospice-like manner towards the Incredible Dumpster Fire that is the Trump campaign. I have a feeling that if Trump were the one essentially ignoring a hapless Clinton and aiming his guns down-ballot, there’d be a microphone in front of every Dem candidate from Senate to dogcatcher, asking breathlessly: “Still supporting Clinton?”
(Not to mention much wider coverage of Dem congressional candidates threatening lawsuits against people tying them to Clinton in ads!)
O. Felix Culpa
@Paul in KY:
Me too, but Ms. O is a lifelong Cubs fan, so I gamely cheer along for the sake of marital harmony. (They warned us against mixed marriages, but did I listen? Nooooo.)
That said, we’ll always have 2005.
Oldgold
Cook Political Report:
We are increasing the range of expected Democratic pick ups to five to seven seats. This means that we feel that the prospect that Democrats will have at least 51 seats is greater than the odds of a tied Senate, or of Republicans somehow holding their majority.”
amk
Matt Wuerker
Peale
@Jeffro: I’m surprised that the media hasn’t actually come out and shamed the democrats for making these upstanding Republicans have to sue them for the completely normal practice of trying to tie a relatively unknown political opponent to someone better known and unpopular. They like to pretend things are novel when they’ve been standard since, I don’t know, 1800.
Weaselone
@Cermet:
Actually, I suspect they’ll get the F35 to that point given the willingness to spend nearly unlimited money on the program. My problem is that all the technology they develop to get to that point is almost certain to be stolen and reverse engineered by the Chinese and Russians at a fraction of the cost and then used to develop their own aircraft which won’t be basket cases.
Uncle Cosmo
@David ?▶️Bad Hombres▶️? Koch:
Ooohweee, Sam FTW!
Kay
@Oldgold:
Thank God. I wouldn’t be that upset if they kept the House. It’s kind of a safety valve for the loonies and it’s honestly a big lift anyway. They can hold endless bullshit hearings and everyone else can get some work done. I give them 3 months before they’re calling for impeachment. My husband said yesterday “they wouldn’t run the same play with this Clinton, would they?” Then he answered his own question “yeah, they would”.
PPCLI
@TS: The fact that the header indicated the message was from two months before the Benghazi attack took place, and she ended the message with “Black Power!” made it extra plausible.
Oldgold
What are Joe and Meeka smoking? ABC trackkng poll released this morning shows HC’s big lead holding.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/stressed-election-youve-company-poll/story?id=43024209
“Voter preferences in the latest tracking poll, based on four-day results through Sunday night, remain the same as the initial three-day result reported Sunday: 50 percent support Clinton, 38 percent Trump, with 5 percent for Gary Johnson and 2 percent for Jill Stein.”
Ceci n'est pas mon nym
@Oldgold: I think PA is considered one of those likely pickups by odds-makers but it’s still kind of a nail biter right now.
Joel
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Never say die, Iron Eagle!
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: I’d feel better about the lunatic fringe having an even firmer hold on the house if it wasn’t for the fact that all budget bills have to originate there.
Kay
So we had a big event at the middle school band concert. One of the trumpet players was clowning around at their performance so the band teacher (who is a perfectionist and a little obsessive, although I like him a lot) lost his temper (after 3 subtle warnings- he points at the offending player which the kids know but is hard to detect if you’re watching) left his post there at the front, took the trumpet, sat down and played instead of the student. The student had to stand there for 3 minutes with half the town watching.
25 years I’ve never seen him lose his shit. Maybe he’s just done with these unserious 7th grade goofballs :)
Oldgold
@Ceci n’est pas mon nym:
Big Mo’ and ground game will make the difference in your Senate race.
Gin & Tonic
@Kay: Middle school trumpet players always clown around. The only worse section is percussion.
Oldgold
Democrats dominated the first two days of early voting in Nevada, accounting for more than half of the ballots cast over the weekend.
Of the 92,339 votes cast in-person statewide Saturday and Sunday, 47,402 were Democrats and 28,178 were Republicans, according to the Nevada Secretary of State’s website. That’s a margin of 51 percent to 30 percent.
amk
Cracker and toast
People still obsessing about polls. Lol.
This thing was won the day Trump got the nomination. Just amazes me that people are still worried about winning. Progressives are so fucking pathetic.
Obsessing about how big a landslide ok fine and It’s gonna be YOOOGE. BIGLY.
Why in the fuck do you people care what fuckwads like Morning Joe wankers think??? It’s all horseshit.
Kay
@Oldgold:
This is Morning Joe.
They keep promoting the third Party theme although Johnson at 3 is actually less than what he had in ’12. It’s important they continue to tell people that people hate Hillary Clinton.
If Johnson ends up with 1 in actual vote they should all apologize, but they won’t.
Gin & Tonic
@workworkwork: How’s your count these days, if you don’t mind my asking?
D58826
Article on Mother Jones about a reporter who went underground, joined a militia and went along a ‘border patrol’. Depressing and frightening.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/undercover-border-militia-immigration-bauer
Ruckus
@Hildebrand:
Remember joe s was a politician. A right wing politician. He is now a right wing media moron. That means he’s just as stupid but has a bigger microphone.
workworkwork
@OzarkHillbilly: This.
hovercraft
Cook Political Report Predicts Dems Will Win Up To Seven Senate Seats
From TPM
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
Glockenspiel players are some wild and crazy folk.
(Not intended to be a factual statement.)
Kay
@Gin & Tonic:
I’m always interested in how harsh kids are. He’s a popular teacher so that may be part of it but the three 8th grade band members I spoke to after (my son and two of his friends) they completely approved. It passes their weird little honor code- it’s “fair” because he was warned. Kids are the “fair” police force. It has to be fair. Other than that, they’re flexible.
Oldgold
@Cracker and toast:
I always appreciate a ray of sunshine on a rainy day.
Immanentize
@Cermet: And let’s not forget the A-10! Cheapest, simplest bestest plane that we cannot have anymore because its not new fangly.
amk
workworkwork
@Gin & Tonic: Platelet count is great – 500K. I’m going to have to do vaccines for life. Plus my red and white cell counts will always be a bit elevated.
The bruising is fading, which is a good sign.
Pain-wise, I feel like I’ve gone backwards a bit since the staples came out. Curse you, gravity!
On the plus side, I can now shower like a regular person.
Immanentize
@amk: Even crappy partisan polls revert to the mean close to the election so that they can next time claim they are the best, closest and most accurate predicting things except for God Almighty….
Lurker Extraordinaire
@Jeffro: Cellphone drop is the new mic drop.
Cracker and toast
@amk: No no. Rasmussen has him winning. I’m really worried. Clearly the Al Gore factor is now kicking in just like Ball Juice said it would. Also the dreaded ‘pivot’ to the left is having an effect just like wrong way Cole warned us it would.
Clearly history is repeating itself and all the same old shit that went down in 2012 is happening again. And yet people still haven’t learned from it. Humans really disappoint me sometimes.
Iowa Old Lady
@Patricia Kayden: Maybe we need escorts for voters like those helping women enter Planned Parenthood clinics.
Gin & Tonic
@Kay: Truth. I spent a lot of time working with kids in that age cohort, and you’re right that equity (being “fair”) is practically all that matters, as opposed to any objective judgment of the nature of the punishment/consequences.
Gin & Tonic
@Cracker and toast: “Ball Juice”
I was worried for a second when that phrase was inexplicably missing from your first post.
Gin & Tonic
@workworkwork: Good news, I guess. It took my son months to get above 100k, but he kept his spleen.
OzarkHillbilly
@Oldgold: Yes, it’s like stepping in a nice warm pile of dog shit in your bare feet first thing in the morning.
Uncle Cosmo
@OzarkHillbilly: They tried “all things to all services” in the 1960s with the TFX. Didn’t work then (the ruggedized-for-carrier-landings Navy version ended up too heavy to meet its operational specs) & the airframe kicked around the periphery of the USAF as the F-111. Probably won’t work now. Even if it did, the F-35’s useful life will end when someone builds an autonomous drone-controlling computer smart enough to dogfight, small enough to fit into an airframe smaller than a Tomahawk, able to survive & function in maneuvering that would kill a human pilot, & cheap enough to build a whole shitload of ’em for the cost of one Blightning Too. That’ll happen in the next 10 years.
Steeplejack
@Kay:
I was talking to a friend of mine who’s a middle-school teacher (six or seventh grade), and she was talking about getting to know the kids as the school year starts, who are the ones to keep an eye on, etc. Then she paused and said, “But, you know, my fourth-period class—they’re just . . . bad people.”
hovercraft
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:
Oh my God, between the dinosaur and the breast feeding I’ll be chuckling all day. Thanks.
Elizabelle
Putting out a blogs and links request to the BJ community:
met two young potential third party voters last night. Looking for some snarky or funny but accurate links to send them to convince them to vote for Hillary.
Wish we had something along the lines of the immortal “John Kerry is a douchebag but I’m voting for him anyway” blog from 2004.
The guy wants something “non-biased.”
Will you come up with stuff and post the links? When I run across voters like that, I take their email addys and tell them I will send them some good links, once I find them.
Many thanks.
AND: Elizabeth Warren is in Raleigh tonight. Woo hoo!
Poopyman
@Kay:
Sorry, no. We need the House. How long has it been since the House produced a real budget? I’m guessing not since the Dems held it. We’ve been running on Continuing Resolutions for ever. And frankly, the money needs to be redistributed in a more Liberal direction.
Yeah, I have an agenda, but putting 10X the money into science and technology in a smart way isn’t the worst agenda.
Elizabelle
@Cracker and toast:
Um, dude.
Elizabelle
@Cracker and toast:
And there I agree with you.
Joe of the Morning is the lame, the halt, and the blind, all in one person. But he’s got backup.
Horrible program. Shame on NBC/MSNBC.
Jeffro
@Gin & Tonic:
Hey hey now, that’s just not…um…ok, actually, it’s accurate. Never mind.
/HS percussion player
Major Major Major Major
@Cracker and toast: back already, dear?
bystander
@Joel: @TS:
Thanks for posting. It was really satisfying to see somebody with some reach criticizing the nonsense of Moanin Joe. Guess Millbank won’t be on the show tomorrow. Or ever.
The Moar You Know
@Kay: I was probably the only school band player in all four years I was in high school to actually go on and become a working musician. And my band teacher wasn’t the best, but he taught me a bunch of shit that, had I not known it, I never would have made it out of the starting gate. None of which had to do with music, everything which had to do with public behavior, comportment, professionalism. Never be late. Never talk shit about your band. Tell your bandmates when they fuck up – backstage. Don’t noodle when you’re not supposed to be playing (this is a hard one for a lot of people). Tune up BEFORE you hit the stage. Know the music in your head – sheet music can blow away. And the biggie is, of course, don’t sit there and fuck around in a public performance. That band teacher of yours did that kid an immense favor, and as unpleasant as it might have been for the kid, he won’t fuck around during a public performance again.
ETA: I was drum section.
catclub
@Jeffro: Also this at Business Insider
also this: Fact free conservative media.
raven
@The Moar You Know: What’s “noodle”?
Immanentize
@Kay: That sounds exactly like my high school music instructor. Huge hard ass perfectionist. Not quite “Whiplash” mean (what a great movie) but still pretty manipulative and harsh. But I learned so much from the guy about preparation and resilience and a love of the beauty that comes from precise teamwork. (Baritone horn, Euphonium, Bombardino de Gamba).
On of my classmates (french horn) is now playing in the Hungarian Orchestra. Big deal position which he owes in large part to our music director.
Immanentize
@raven: I think he means talking and/or messing around with your instrument? Like blowing out spit noisily or obviously adjusting your music stand, etc.
EllenH
@Elizabelle: this isn’t snarky but this fb post was making the rounds a few months ago and is pretty persuasive IMHO
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Elizabelle:
Saw this just this morning – it’s pretty great. After watching it, I’d like it to be explained to me like I’m five years old how anyone can not vote for Clinton.
Steeplejack
@EllenH:
Bad link. Fixed: Bob Haslanger on Clinton.
Tip: When you create a link with the button above the comment box, always delete/overwrite the
htpp://
prefix that FYWP (un)helpfully provides. Trying to edit your link to accommodate it (or failing to do so) is the cause of 99% of bad links.Major Major Major Major
@Immanentize: noodling is sort of playing music that isn’t your written part, or just idly playing music not during a song.
Paul in KY
@O. Felix Culpa: 2005 was so special!!! Best wishes trying to look authentic when cheering them.
EllenH
@Steeplejack: thanks!
catclub
@Immanentize:
I thought it was going over fingering of part you are about to play – with lips on mouthpiece.
I guess we need to ask an expert.
Paul in KY
@Gin & Tonic: Back in my day it was the trombones where the Animal House types lurked.
Elizabelle
@EllenH: Problem with link. (At least for me.) Please try it again. Thank you!
Paul in KY
@Immanentize: Maybe making fart noises with it? Back in the day, noted funny guy Henry V was besieging some French castle & when he addressed them, asking them to surrender, etc. an idiot with a 15th century version of one kept making fart noises while the king was speaking.
When Henry finally took the castle, that person was hung. One of only 4 to have that happen to in that particular siege. So, band can be dangerous…
O. Felix Culpa
@Paul in KY: Yes indeedy it was! I remember the excited – nay, jubilant – phone calls with my die-hard Sox fan son, who was studying in Houston at the time. Great memories.
Elizabelle
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: I watched about three minutes, and I’m not sure she ever said which candidate was so horrible. Entirely possible I missed it, but I didn’t notice names.
Enhanced Voting Techinques
@OzarkHillbilly: Because the airforce needs the new fighter to be able to last for 40 years and the F-15 is a 70s design. Keep in mind F-15s are pretty pricey as it is, so while sink a pile of money into a soon to be obsolete design? The Russians and the Chines aren’t totally inept…
Other issue is they want one one fighter for all services, that’s why all the crazy requiments for VSTOL, stealth and long range. See the F-111 and the F-4 for a previous example in this.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Major Major Major Major:
Ah, the return of shomi…
He’s the guy in the restaurant complaining that “the food is terrible… And the portions are too small!”
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Elizabelle:
Oh, she gets to that, believe me.
catclub
@Enhanced Voting Techinques:
Other other issue is that the Army is not allowed to have fixed wing aircraft – like the A-10. The relevant book is Grounded.
Air Force delenda est
sukabi
@TS: so, just another day for Moanin’ Joe and his enabler.
sukabi
@Jeffro: yes, more like that please.
The problem with the gop actually taking a look in the mirror, is that they’ve chased any thoughtful, informed people out of the party. Those left in all believe their own bullshit, ie they are all one shade to the left or right of drumpf.
catclub
Good news everyone!
Well, lack of horrible news is practically good news.
EriktheRed
Cubs.