He’s on fire:
President Biden is FIRED UP, spiking the football at the White House Inflation Reduction Act celebration.#DemocratsDeliver
— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) September 13, 2022
I didn’t want you to miss it. Otherwise, open thread
TaMara
…and I stomped on Watergirl – hopefully, she’ll forgive me.😉
rikyrah
@TaMara:
She will….it’s not like you were the same subject.
TaMara
And now he’s stomping all over Ron Johnson. I hope it hurts. LOL
Baud
@TaMara:
Good. RJ needs a good stomping.
WaterGirl
I wonder if this was the LIVE event that just kind of got disappeared when news of the Queen’s passing came out.
Old School
And James Taylor performed! (Fire and Rain)
LadySuzy
He doesn’t seem to have a teleprompter.
He is killing it !!!!
Total dedication to the future of his country and of his people.
Total, natural connection to the workers of America.
Effective communication here.
And I must say… those aviators are FINE !!
Betty Cracker
This is the cutest thing! I’ve watched it several times:
Also, the dog is on a gorgeous boat, possibly a vintage Chris-Craft?
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: That is just too awesome.
TaMara
@Betty Cracker: I have watched that multiple times myself!
TaMara
I have nothing to say about this, because my mamma raised me right:
Baud
@TaMara:
Oh well, back to the Queen.
ETA: 76 is relatively young.
Bunter
@TaMara:
My dad was of the de mortuis nil nisi bonum school; my mother carried grudges until her dying day. I take after her.
Betty Cracker
@TaMara: Meanwhile, both Clintons are still alive. Good!
Sister Golden Bear
@TaMara: Yes, very sad. Anyway…
Jay
@Betty Cracker:
fiberglass lapstrake hull, mahogany trim, a fairly typical British “launch”. Not a speedboat, made for puttering around so that you don’t spill your tea.
dmsilev
@TaMara: His tenure at Baylor was, in many respects, even worse than his behavior as Special Persecutor. Which is impressive, in its own way.
Old School
@TaMara: Add another name to Hillary’s list.
geg6
@TaMara:
Good riddance to bad trash. Fuck this guy. I wish I could believe in hell so I could enjoy the thought of him there.
Martin
@TaMara: Good. Hope it was painful.
That’s what he covered up. Fucker should have died in prison.
I know Kent says that Waco isn’t a terrible place, but there are so many reasons that I think Waco is where the meteor should hit.
Sure Lurkalot
@TaMara: From the obit…unbelievable (literally):
Baud
DOJ reply on stay request.
Splitting Image
@Baud:
Plenty old enough for the likes of him.
geg6
@Sure Lurkalot:
They forgot “his disgusting sexual prurience and his coverup of literally dozens of rapes and sexual assaults.”
WaterGirl
@Baud: @TaMara:
Had I been eating or drinking, i might have choked on “a scholar and a gentleman”.
Lapassionara
@Sure Lurkalot: very unbelievable, he was a sanctimonious bully.
Anoniminous
Because I’m a pill ………………………
Here’s the FTNYT from January 27, 2022.
Here’s the current take from the Ukrainian victory shatters Russia’s reputation as a military superpower
“The stunning success of Ukraine’s recent counteroffensive has exposed the rotten reality behind Russia’s reputation as a military superpower. More than six months since the onset of Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine invasion, it is now obvious that his army is in fact a deeply flawed institution that bears almost no resemblance to the immaculate fighting force of Red Square parades and Kremlin propaganda. Instead, the Russian military suffers from endemic corruption, low morale, and poor leadership, with individual initiative in short supply and commanders deeply reluctant to accept personal responsibility. Last week’s disastrous defeat in northeastern Ukraine will only worsen the situation, with officers gripped by fear as Moscow seeks scapegoats for what is shaping up to one of the most shameful military defeats in Russian history.”
Cacti
No, it really isn’t.
Kropacetic
I just finished yesterday’s speech Biden made in Boston. I’ll watch this soon. I’m turning into a Biden superfan.
Why won’t the national media cover speeches like this consistently while we were treated to Trump’s rambling, dishonest, repetitive, grotesque verbal diarrhea for years?
Splitting Image
@Sure Lurkalot:
There’s nothing wrong with the text here. It just needs to be read in Herbert Lom’s voice, presumably as the author intended it.
WaterGirl
@Baud: What do you mean by “reply”.
They were the ones who asked for the stay, right? So how can they reply?
Are they replying to the bullshit reply from the Trump team?
Baud
@Cacti:
For rich white people?
rikyrah
@LadySuzy:
They were meant for him. They fit him perfectly :)
CarolPW
@Old School: I cannot believe he did not sing Gaia
He strummed a couple of the chords, and it would have been much more appropriate than Fire and Rain (we have the fires here, but not much rain).
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Yes, it’s a reply to the BS. Trump’s filing is called an opposition. This is DOJ’s reply to that.
rikyrah
@Baud:
For a rich, White man. True.
The Moar You Know
@TaMara: I hope it hurt like hell the entire time he was expiring like a cast-off party balloon, because my mama was a world-class grudge hoarder and did a really shitty job of raising me
He made the world a shittier place by his very existence and had no redeeming value as a human being whatsoever.
Old School
@CarolPW: He’s got to play the hits.
For those who didn’t watch, James Taylor actually performed three songs.
Fire and Rain
You Can Close Your Eyes
America the Beautiful
Cacti
@Baud: Fair point. But he was always a bit on the heavy side. Heavier men tend not to make it much past their later 70s.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
OT but on the relevant topic of Democrats telling Republicans to go fuck themselves:
https://abortion.ca.gov/
Newsom’s email:
hueyplong
@The Moar You Know: In this difficult time I’m comforted by the reference to the illness as “lengthy” and hope that the hagiographic nature of the story led to the omission of several, even more unpleasant modifiers which were equally applicable.
WaterGirl
@Baud: What’s your take on the reply? Summary?
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
Dang it, I swear any time I post a comment with a blockquote, it gets spammed. Can someone please fish it out? Merci.
Jeffro
@TaMara: my parents raised me only mostly right, so I get to say…good!
TriassicSands
I hope it wasn’t a mistake naming it the “Inflation Reduction Act,” since most people won’t likely see much change in the short term due to this legislation. The admistration may have been counting on inflation going down naturally (the Fed) and American’s general lack of understanding would attribute the change to the legislation. The WaPo today used its headline to emphasize increasing inflation, when they could have just as accurately pointed to its slowing. The cap on out-of-pocket expenses for Medicare medications is good, but that doesn’t generally help younger people.
I also think that the more important aspects of the act are found in the potential to finally do something — anything — about climate change. But I see very little indication that the typical American cares enough about a future catastrophe, which has clearly already begun, to cause them to alter their own lives in any significant way. An example: What percentage of Americans ignores speed limits? When I have to drive to a nearby town for health care, I am constantly passed by speeding vehicles. The worst offenders are large pickup trucks and SUVs. The irony is that they pass me on the way, but when we arrive in town, we once again bunch up at traffic lights and I often get to my destination before they do. It’s as though every driver figures their behavior is insignificant (if they think at all) in contributing to carbon in the atmosphere, but since most people act the same way, the accumulation is significant. One thing that has long mystified me is why climate considerations never seem to enter into the decision-making process of even my most liberal friends.
Once, when I lived in Colorado, there was a play in Denver that I really wanted to see. However, on the day of the performance, there was a serious air quality alert and drivers were asked to avoid any but necessary vehicle trips. I stayed home and my friends thought I was crazy. The play sold out. To this day, I am sorry to have missed that play, but my first priority then, as now, is to act responsibly.
I’d love to know what percentage of BJ drivers pay attention to speed limits.
rikyrah
@TriassicSands:
I live in a city saturated by Red Light speed cameras.
I pay very close attention to speed limit signs.
Matt McIrvin
@WaterGirl: If I recall correctly, he was going to do one about the new COVID boosters when the news came out.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: It basically reiterates the argument that it made for the stay. It calls the judge’s reasoning nonsense on stilts and reminds the judge that other people can see what is happening. All in perfectly polite legal language.
HumboldtBlue
Berman dropping all sorts of bombs with Wallace.
Baud
@HumboldtBlue:
He stomped all over Barr this morning on Morning Joe.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
What Omnes said.
Ksmiami
@Cacti: your words give me hope via a vis Tfg
Old School
Dorothy A. Winsor
James Taylor says he thinks of American the Beautiful as the national hymn. I’m not sentimental about patriotic stuff, but his singing of that song brought tears to my eye
ETA: OTOH, no tears for Ken Starr. He was vile
hueyplong
@Omnes Omnibus: I agree that, while the reply tears Trump’s arguments apart (usually noting how they fail even to address the arguments for the stay), the entity getting whacked by the brief is more the court than Trump. The reply reads a lot like what we’d expect from an Eleventh Circuit order reversing Judge Trumptroll.
A judge with a sense of shame would recognize that and find a way to reverse course, but this judge seems to have already decided to be Trump’s advocate. She started with a pro-Trump result and worked her way back to idiotic reasoning in support and it would be a pleasant surprise if she admitted as much now.
TaMara
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: I just pulled 3 of your comments from SPAM – ask WG, but I’m wondering if it’s the emojis in your nym.
You should be set for a while. Fingers-crossed.
artem1s
@Betty Cracker:
Now I totally understand why Irish Twitter was singing “Lizzie in a box” the other day.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@hueyplong: She just keeps digging herself deeper and deeper
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@TaMara: Hmm, if so I can definitely take them out, although it never seems to be a problem with comments that don’t have links or blockquotes.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@The Moar You Know:
But he loved his family, surely that’s what counts? /s
Steeplejack
@Baud:
Hey, give us a warning when it’s a PDF. Some devices download it automatically without an option to decline.
zhena gogolia
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Has she done something?
Almost Retired
With Ken Starr’s passing, America loses one of its best porn writers.
hueyplong
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Agree.
Normally I’d say she was in for an epic beatdown from the Eleventh Circuit, but I’m losing my faith in the legitimacy of GOP-appointed appellate judges (including, of course, SCOTUS justices, who lied under oath about Roe in front of the nation at their confirmation hearings and would literally take the position “what are ya gonna do about it?” if they for so much as a moment thought they owed anyone an explanation about having done so).
Omnes Omnibus
@hueyplong: Yeah, the 11th could cut and paste chunks of it when overturning.
Baud
@Steeplejack:
It’s a PDF.
Martin
@TriassicSands:
I sold my car for a bike, and I can’t ride fast enough to hit the speed limits. I do ride very slowly around pedestrians, though.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@zhena gogolia: Not this afternoon, as far as I know.
zhena gogolia
@TriassicSands: I do!
Old School
@TriassicSands:
You always have to be paying attention. How else are you going to know what to go down to when you see a police car?
Steeplejack
@Baud:
For future reference.
Omnes Omnibus
@hueyplong: I still think they will overturn. If not, can I get my crow done a la coq au vin?
Omnes Omnibus
@Old School: Good point. The question was open to that interpretation.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@TriassicSands: I plead the 5th.
Wanderer
@Sure Lurkalot: maybe this was written for Ken Paxton?
CarolPW
@TriassicSands: I always pay attention to the speed limit, but I am overly obedient sometimes.
When I lived in Sacramento we had some vague idea that the downtown parking meters did not require feeding at some point on the weekends. I put money in the meters both days at all times, and my ex didn’t put money in the meters at any time on the weekends. Neither of us got tickets (it was pay Saturday, free Sunday).
prostratedragon
@Splitting Image: George Sanders!
hueyplong
@Omnes Omnibus: Rooting for you to miss out on the crow and enjoy something better in celebration of a certain district judge’s comeuppance.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@The Moar You Know:
Thank you for that sentiment. Identical to mine including the world-class grudge hoarder mother.
Martin
@Omnes Omnibus: In any authoritarian movement, your strength comes from the unelected government officials you can put in place to shield the elected ones.
Berman’s assertions that those unelected officials were put in place specifically to protect Trump are why nobody has any faith in any of these courts to overturn jack shit, at least as far as Trump appointees are concerned.
Cacti
@Ksmiami: Seriously, I don’t think Trump is much longer for this world.
He’s overweight, has heart disease, eats terribly, and is always raging about something.
Anotherlurker
Re: The passing of Ken Starr. It is a good start.
zhena gogolia
@Cacti: How do you know he has heart disease?
HumboldtBlue
@Cacti:
We’ve been saying that for six years.
prostratedragon
@rikyrah: FDR had his cigarette holder, JRB has his aviators.
hueyplong
@zhena gogolia: “How do you know he has heart disease?”
Anyone familiar with Trumpspeak knows that his statement about being a “physical specimen” is likely an admission of heart disease. Hell, McDonald’s itself would probably admit under oath that consumption of their products at a Trumpian level inevitably leads to same.
Cacti
@zhena gogolia: It was in one of the medical reports he released.
Sanjay Gupta talked about it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Martin:
Time will tell, In the meantime, please remind me how many election lawsuits Trump won.
J R in WV
@Old School:
I try to run about 6 mph above many speed limits, esp on the 4-lane corridor. City streets, not so much…
WaterGirl
@Matt McIrvin: Right, that was it, thank you!
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: The thing is, if you see that from my laptop, it opens in a tab just like any other web page, so it’s not at all obvious that it’s a .pdf
J R in WV
@Omnes Omnibus:
That would be none — zero — goose egg, zip !!!
I’m also hoping Ken Starr was in pain, and also violently allergic to opiate pain relief.
My mom would retch after pressing the button for more morphine in her post op hospital room recovering from her frozen shoulder procedure. Docs could do nothing for her. She got over it, then. But I held the basin for her when she had to press the button for more morphine.
Mom was a lady, size 3 or so, and pro-abortion rights in spite of being a Republican all her life. “Don’t tell your dad” she said! so I didn’t. I believe she had a dear friend or perhaps a cousin who died of a botched abortion back in the bad old days.
Ken Starr was a monster, think of those women at Baylor he allowed to be raped. Hope he was miserable for months!!
Wanderer
@Wanderer: Not Ken Paxton, sorry, Bill Paxton was the actor I was thinking about. Sorry for the error.
tybee
@Baud:
:)
WaterGirl
@Baud: Okay, not a lawyer obviously, but I read the .pdf and it sure seems like the DOJ holds all the actual cards and that Trump’s case is built on a house of cards.
So this DOJ reply went to Florida, which means it went to the corrupt Trump judge and not to the 11th circuit.
Am I right in thinking that nothing actually goes directly to the 11th circuit until the Sept 15 deadline has come and gone?
The Lodger
@hueyplong: Having worked in a hospital lab, I’d definitely call Trump a specimen.