So, at 5:30 am, we were rudely awakened to the sound of the fire alarm screaming:
Fire! Fire! Fire! (pause)
Fire! Fire! Fire! (pause)
Fire! Fire! Fire! (pause)
repeat 20x
(Thankfully it was a false alarm, but it does get you out of bed, rounding up the pup and kitties, etc.)
I fed them at 7, which was too early, but we had all been up for 90 minutes by then, so it seemed only fair.
So of course Henry at 11 am, Henry decided it was lunchtime and would not be convinced otherwise. Henry: 1, WaterGirl zero.
By 9 am, the 3 smoke detectors had been replaced, and hopefully that will be the end of the excitement for awhile.
Thought we could use a light open thread while waiting for the trial to come back in session.
Open thread.
Baud
I’m not sure how we can have a light thread with Henry staring at us like that.
Old School
So the (false) fire alarm went off at 5:30 a.m.?
That’s just cruel.
Chat Noir
That face is priceless. Give Henry all the things!
HumboldtBlue
Henry looks pissed, and he doesn’t seem to be in a fun, light mood. In fact, he looks like he might take a finger or two if you cross him even slightly.
For a smile, he could go read the magats losing their fucking minds on Twitter now that mushroom dick is on trial.
lowtechcyclist
Makes me think of the Horn-Call of Buckland:
AWAKE! AWAKE! FEAR! FIRE! FOES!
Or the Bored of the Rings version:
Awake! Awake! Fear! Foes! Flee!!
narya
So I was banging around in the kitchen this morning, and discovered a mouse having a snack in the kitchen sink. Fortunately, it hung around long enough for me to wake up my friend and ask him to kill it, and later we went to the hardware store and got some traps. We also saw one in the living room last night but were too slow to kill it. Others in the building had reported seeing a few, so I figured it was only a matter of time, but still . . . I also cleaned up the kitchen more thoroughly, which resulted in me throwing out a bunch of water filters that I’ve wanted to recycle but couldn’t find a place to do so.
trollhattan
Periodic Cali power grid update. On a workday (ugh) CAISO grid demand is 22.7GW, renewable supply is 19.4GW or 83%, nuke and large hydro combine for 8% and natural gas is 9%.
2.5GW is charging batteries (for night use) and 700MW is being exported.
A/C season not here yet.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I didn’t mean to scare you.
He’s not really mad, just indignant. Surely it’s time for lunch!
edit: He was not taking ‘no’ for an answer.
WaterGirl
@Old School: I’m not gonna be too ungracious about the false alarm. Just really glad that it was a false alarm.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Here’s a small Henry, just for you.
edit: he still looks mad!
Kathleen
Apropos of nothing I type brand names into Giant Grocer Retailer systems and I had a “Betty Crocker” item and my initial reflexive impulse was to type “Betty Cracker” but fortunately I kept brain engaged and I think (hope) our data base reflects that!
So this is my day.
H.E.Wolf
This is hilarious – thank you! I’ll remember it, the next time our alarm lets loose with its high-decibel “replace my batteries” shriek in the wee hours….
Mousebumples
I’m at work so missing stuff in threads today, but I noticed over lunch that APPARENTLY TRUMP FELL ASLEEP AT THE DESK IN HIS TRIAL? 😂
Also laughing at the fact that Court Reporter Haberman is now actually reporting from court(room).
Happy Monday, y’all
Eta –
TBone
The township finally came by with their portable mulcher this morning (it’s very loud). Of course, neighbor is now out in front of my house replacing the pile of boughs just removed with an even larger, unsightly pile of branches and boughs. It’s an eyesore placed directly in my line of view on the property of our Black neighbor while she is at work at local Uni. They use her street frontage as a dumping ground while she’s not at home. I need a crossbow.
beckya57
I had a similar experience recently: crashed at 8 pm (2-3 hours before my usual bedtime), and naturally woke up at 4 am (1-2 hours before my usual wake up). The cats realized I was awake, and demanded “FEED US NOW!!” So of course they also wanted their dinner early, which of course they got…because #mycatownsme.
smith
Here’s a fun item for your amusement: Stock price for DJT has fallen almost 20% already today.
TBone
@smith: ❤️🤡
smith
@Mousebumples: I saw that — do you think they sedated him so he wouldn’t act up in court?
Manyakitty
@WaterGirl: he looks OUTRAGED. Bless his furry little heart ❤️
Mousebumples
And apparently Thomas was MIA for oral arguments today? 🤔
TBone
Female pundit just said “off-gas” regarding diaper man. 😎
TBone
@Mousebumples: I hope he has long Covid.
HeleninEire
I’m hungry too, Henry!!!!
BellaPea
MSNBC has been showing close-up photos of the Orange Ass all morning. He looks like a crazed freak with clown make-up and beady, red-rimmed eyes. I can’t for the life of me understand what these MAGA idiots think, idolizing a stupid, ugly lunatic.
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: too bad there are no cameras!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Mousebumples: Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead
Soprano2
That’s the look my cat has when he wants to be fed and is swatting at me and biting me. For some reason the past couple of months he’s taken to biting me when he wants something. It’s an unpleasant habit that I don’t know how to fix.
I was talking to hubby yesterday a little bit when I brought him a glass of milk to drink. I’ve found it’s better if I just put things there, because then he’ll usually eat or drink them. He looked at me and said “You take such good care of me”. It was unusual for him to say that, he acts like he doesn’t need help most of the time. It made me tear up, so then he told me not to cry, which made me want to cry more. I try so hard not to cry in front of him, because I don’t want to upset him. I let him rest on the couch all day yesterday because we had a pretty active weekend – we went to the bar Friday night, to breakfast Saturday morning and to a ballgame Saturday night. My niece’s husband got permission to use his employer’s suite at the ballpark, and while no food was provided it was nice to be able to sit inside and have a private area. I thought it was good for him to see some of the family, too. I think it tired him out a lot, though, because it took him a long time to get dressed yesterday after he took a shower.
stinger
Henry! XOXOXO
WaterGirl
@Manyakitty: he really does! I have never seen him look mad before.
Mousebumples
@smith: could be. Would totally believe that like a half dozen people all secretly gave him just a little Valium to chill him out.
Oops? 😂
Also, per #LawBluesky, Court is boring? The stories of lawyers falling asleep were amusing. (also, I guess this is one of the more interesting days of trial, so there may be more #NapTime in his future…)
Manyakitty
@WaterGirl: now you know!
Citizen Alan
@Mousebumples: Bastard’s just teasing us.
SiubhanDuinne
@Kathleen:
I have done exactly that on more than one occasion. At this point, Betty Crocker looks like a typo!
stinger
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I need that embroidered on a pillow!
Delk
Judge says trump has to show up everyday or be arrested.
frosty
@TBone: No, not Long COVID. Even with brain fog and fatigue they’ll wheel Thomas into court to vote. I can’t think of anything debilitating (like dementia) that would prevent that.
What can we do? Impeach him? Hah!
Eunicecycle
@Soprano2: I am glad you can still do things you enjoy together. Is he doing better since the hospitalization? I may have missed an update.
Yutsano
Nominated!
SiubhanDuinne
@Mousebumples:
“Sleepy Don.”
Mousebumples
@TBone: I hope he has 6-feet under COVID.
@WaterGirl: I’d love to see tree courtroom sketch artist interpretation. And there are photos, just no video.
@Dorothy A. Winsor: true!
hueyplong
@Citizen Alan: One thing I’ve never thought when seeing a photo of Clarence Thomas is, “That guy’s gonna live forever.”
trollhattan
@WaterGirl: Not mad so much as disappointed.
trollhattan
@Mousebumples: Trapped in RV when electric door locks failed.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: @Kathleen:
Yes! It’s Betty Crocker that seems wrong.
Mousebumples
Seriously, between Trump, Thomas, and McTurtle… None of them strike me as super healthy. Maybe surviving on the tears and blood of innocents, sure, but not healthy…
Marcopolo
@SiubhanDuinne: Every accusation is a confession. Remember all of his afternoon “executive time” when he was Prez?
TBone
@Mousebumples: I fell asleep in the jury box once. I was suffering from Lyme fatigue and the case was dental malpractice. It was really, really boring. Thankfully, the judge didn’t notice. I got to tell an old joke during jury deliberations. Door #1 is you have to drink an entire bottle of Jack Daniels. Door #2 is pull an abscessed tooth from a mountain lion. Door #3 you have to satisfy a nymphomaniac.
Contestant goes behind door # 1: glug glug glug!
Goes behind door #2: MEOWROAR!
Comes out and says “Now, where’s the bitch with the abscessed tooth?”
WaterGirl
@Yutsano:
You can’t fire me, I quit!You can’t nominate that, I had already added it! :-)
zhena gogolia
@Soprano2: This is heartbreaking.
Soprano2
@Eunicecycle: Yes, he’s a lot better this time. I think they sent him home too soon the first time. All the numbers said he was better, but I don’t think he was. We’re meeting with a social worker on Wednesday to find out what services are available. My main question is “What do you think he needs?”. I know what I think, but the social worker might have other ideas because he has experience with this stuff.
Juju
@narya: Mice hate strong smells. Clove, cinnamon, peppermint, things like that. I had some mice last summer and when I did research about how to keep them away, or kill them without using rat poison, which can kill a mouser if the mouser eats the mouse, I found out about the mouse dislike of strong spicey smells. I also learned that mice can’t digest a lot of baking soda. I put out peanut butter mixed with equal amounts of baking soda, and that took care of the mice, but they went off and died in an unknown place and it left an odor. Fortunately that smell dissipated quickly since it was summer. I keep partial cinnamon sticks in drawers and where the garbage/dogfood bin is located. When the smell gets faint, I scrape the stick with a nutmeg grater to perk the smell up a bit. I haven’t seen or smelled a mouse since.
Yutsano
@WaterGirl: Well fine! Take away my fun as I go through a very boring training about things I have known about for years. But I have to respect the newbies in class with me, and I hope they learn a couple of things from my occasional squawks.
sdhays
@Mousebumples: Ok, now I agree with all the people arguing that the trials should be televised.
I really want video of him wiping drool off his chin when they wake him up for his snack break.
Soprano2
@Juju: My cat is a pretty good hunter, but I can’t remember him catching a mouse in the house (I know we have them, it’s an old house and we have a basement). He’s killed and eaten two squirrels (that I know of!), so I know he can hunt and kill things.
Marcopolo
@smith: Today’s fall seems to have been exacerbated by Truth Social announcing they plan to do a secondary offering of an additional 21.5 million shares. Just seeing it crater gives me joy; even better though is knowing for every dollar 💵 some drumpf supporting maga nutjob loses, someone on the other side of the trade just made a buck (so far that’s a couple/three billion!). I mean c’mon, $4 million in revenue/year & they are paying Nunes $1 million/year + a $600,000 retention bonus! Always remember ETTD.
smith
This is why I’m not losing any sleep over the prospect of major civil unrest if TFG is convicted, or goes to jail, or loses the election. Trumpists like performative virtual violence on line, preferably anonymously, but not out in the open where an FBI agent might be at their elbow. That’s the one thing they learned from J6.
Baud
Reddit comment for fun speculation
Redshift
@Delk:
Not just the judge, that’s the standard way criminal trials work, apparently.
Marcopolo
@Soprano2: My friend’s cats used to watch the mice in their house as they went along doing their mouse stuff. They actually took a video of it. Lazy? Bored? The mice paid them off? Who knows.
TBone
@Baud: ❤️🤡
Mousebumples
Twitter content –
(it’s like a whole haigiography thread, ugh)
Wonder if Ginny and Alito and Leo have seen Weekend At Bernie’s ….
Mousebumples
@Baud: does he feel shame? Or is it more than his shirt eating grin would be poor form in an election year?
Yutsano
@smith: I’m coming to the conclusion that J6 was a sui generis happening rather than an actual support of strength for Dolt45. So unless he tries to do another rally on that day (assuming he loses) there won’t be another storming of the castle without him whipping up a frenzy.
Also: FYWP
WaterGirl
@Soprano2: Try to hold on to that moment with your husband. I’m glad you have that.
Baud
@Mousebumples:
Who knows? Maybe someone would come up with some awkward hypothetical questions about billionaires buying houses for someone’s mama, and he didn’t want to face the stares.
Redshift
@Marcopolo: I am sorely tempted to learn how to short a stock so I can be one of the ones taking their money. And so I can say “I’m shorting DJT!”
WaterGirl
@Yutsano: I was just teasing you! No need to go off in a huff. :-)
(Pretty sure you were just teasing me back.)
Jeffro
@Mousebumples: “Don Snoreleone” LOLOLOLOL
Juju
@Soprano2: I have a dog that I know would probably eat a mouse if she caught one and I am not willing to risk that her eating rat poison in the process. I’m impressed that your cat caught squirrels. Treat that cat well. I had squirrels up in the attic a number of years ago, and they are a pain to get rid of, and they can do a lot of damage. I used to try to avoid squirrels when I was driving, now I aim for them.
Yutsano
@WaterGirl: I hope you did throw it up there, because it’s beautiful!
At lunch now so I’ll be quiet for a bit.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I hope that’s true!
If it is, though, I wonder why the Supreme Court would take that case, unless they plan on ruling that gifts to the SC are just fine, even if gifts to anyone else are bribes.
TBone
@frosty: I want him to suffer as I am suffering. For a long time. But dead is good, too.
smith
@Yutsano: Also there will be people in charge who are well prepared and who won’t have people at the top blocking effective law enforcement.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
There was a circuit conflict.
narya
@Juju: Oh, that is super helpful. I have four traps out; I’m gonna see if any of them get sprung. I have SO MANY cinnamon sticks (and cloves, for that matter); I’ll put some around!
WaterGirl
@Yutsano: It’s definitely a new rotating tag. I make it earlier today.
Mousebumples
@Redshift: I’ve heard it’s crazy expensive since everyone wants in on that game, lol.
But I’m not an expert.
@Jeffro: 🤣
WaterGirl
@Baud: Well, shit. There goes my hope.
Redshift
@Yutsano: I think even the cult members who were sure the country was going to rise up to support what they started were clued in by the fact that he didn’t pardon any of them when he had the chance.
No matter how many times he claims now that he’ll pardon the “hostages” if he gets back into office, they know he didn’t, and have to weigh whether any new calls to action will again be “loyalty means you do stuff for me, not that I do stuff for you.”
Brachiator
@Yutsano:
Trump is mentally ill. He cannot stand losing. He will try to pull some bullshit when he loses in November. Hopefully, his MAGA cult won’t allow themselves to be pulled into doing something stupid.
But Trump will be an asshole. It’s all he knows.
Soprano2
@WaterGirl: It’s gratifying to hear him say it every now and then. When you’re a caregiver like this you don’t get much appreciation. It’s more that people resent that you have to do it, or ignore that you’re doing it altogether.
Chief Oshkosh
Judge Merchan provided 47 questions that each potential juror must address. One of them is about which media the candidate follows. Sadly, there appears to be an important entity not listed:
Which of the following print publications, cable and/or network programs, or online media such as websites, blogs, or social media platforms do you visit, read, or watch? (Read aloud)
New York Times
USA Today
New York Daily News
Huffington Post
Wall StreetJournal
New York Post Newsday Washington Post
CNN
MSNBC
Google
Facebook
X
Fox News Newsmax MSN Yahoo Truth Social
Tik Tok
Other (name)
Brachiator
@Mousebumples:
If Trump is convicted and goes to prison, will Haberman go to the joint with him?
Soprano2
@Juju: Been there done that, had an electric wire on the front of our house for awhile to keep them out. It’s a whole long story. Squirrels are the devil’s animal.
Marcopolo
@Redshift: Basically you are “borrowing” a share (usually from an institutional investor or company that holds folks shares) that you then immediately sell with the promise you will make good on returning that borrowed share plus a transaction cost by buying a replacement share a week or two weeks or whatever down the road. It’s called purchasing a contract and it does has an expiration date for when you must have that share to return it, though you can execute it sooner if the pricing is in your favor. I looked at doing this years ago for some company so this description is probably only roughly accurate but you get the picture.
Marcopolo
@Chief Oshkosh: Lordy, I consume way too much news to ever be on a jury. In fact, the only time I was ever in a jury pool I was not selected.
Baud
@Chief Oshkosh:
No need to list Balloon Juice. Jackals can be identified by the hanging rope they brought to voir dire.
brendancalling
@TBone: I hope there’s a vacancy on SCOTUS.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: JL Cauvin had a DJT video in which he was looking forward to the “dear voyeur” process.
Sister Golden Bear
@BellaPea: When the Oompa Loompas tell you that you need to use less make-up…
WaterGirl
@Soprano2: Exactly! I would hold on tight to that appreciate for you taking such good care of him. I might even write your short story about that somewhere if I were you, so you can pull it out when you need a reminder of who he is right now, and that he appreciates you.
lowtechcyclist
@Juju:
Wow, talk about “news you can use”!
Just after reading this string of comments, I was wiping the pollen off my BBQ grill, and when I lifted the lid, there was evidence that some small critter had been trying to build a nest inside – mostly strings of moss. I’m betting it’s mice; birds would have a more difficult time getting in through the small holes available.
I’d already removed the nest materials, now I’ve sprinkled cinnamon over the bottom of the inside of the grill. We’ll see whether any more nest materials appear.
zhena gogolia
@lowtechcyclist: There’s a good peppermint spray you can get from Amazon. We use it all over the house.
lowtechcyclist
@WaterGirl:
“If that’s too soon, [he] can leave in a minute and a huff.” – Groucho
Sister Golden Bear
@Soprano2:
Rats with cuter outfits.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@lowtechcyclist: mice once nested in my car’s engine compartment (was parked outside). My mechanic recommended a bar of Irish Spring soap. That seems to have worked.
Ken
It was hilarious when the Stooges did it.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Mr. Bemused Senior: A mouse once crawled into my car’s AC system, got stuck, and died. For weeks, every time I turned on the fan, the smell of it would jump out and punch me in the nose
Jackie
@Mousebumples:
He was up all night on a whine-tweeting binge.
I hope TIFG’s dozing off keeps happening because instead of sleeping at night, TIFG is ranting and raging on his social media; causing Judge Merchan to make verbal note of it, suggesting a night or two in the pokey sans cell phone will help his alertness in court.
Kathleen
@SiubhanDuinne: I know! It’s not our fault!
lowtechcyclist
@zhena gogolia:
I’ll keep that in mind, but hopefully it won’t come to that.
The grill is outside on the deck; there’s no evidence of mice inside the house. About a decade ago, two mice made a home in our grill, and after I got rid of the mice (hauled the grill into the woods and dumped them out there), my wife made me get rid of the grill because the mice had been living there.
Since I really really like the grill I’ve got (the previous one had been just kinda so-so), I want to get rid of the mice before my wife even knows about them. So if at all possible, no ordering stuff and having to explain what I got it for.
WaterGirl
@lowtechcyclist: Cinnamon is also a good way to get rid of ants in your kitchen.
Sprinkle cinnamon over your countertops
Also, bunnies do not like clove or cinnamon!
prostratedragon
Henry looking all peremptory and shit!😼
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Link please!
Miss Bianca
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
OMG, LOL
Words to live by, Ms Wordsmith!
WaterGirl
@lowtechcyclist: haha! never heard that before.
Kathleen
@Dorothy A. Winsor: My brother in Dallas had the same thing happen to him except it was a rat.
Anyway
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
The CarTalk guys had a similar caller/story!
#BackInTheDay
frosty
@TBone: I’m sorry you’re dealing with it. It’s awful. I have a friend who caught COVID in January 2022. She’s still dealing with it, over two years later. She couldn’t work full time so they let her go. On disability now. Every so often when AL posts something that might be useful I send it to her.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Miss Bianca: Sadly, I didn’t make that up. I saw it somewhere.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@TBone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkUpF7BXs3k
Build it, put it in the front yard.
Dorothy A. Winsor
From Kos’s coverage of Trump’s trial:
Ken
Maybe the snoozing is an angle for making an appeal, but considering the Supreme Court has a couple of times upheld convictions where the defendant’s lawyers have fallen asleep during the trial….
Oh, and dozens of people have already used the “fighting wokeness everywhere” joke, so don’t bother.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@narya: you need a cat. From the streets or a shelter that rescues them off the streets, not a pampered surrendered pet like a certain cat of my acquaintance who just stared, baffled, at a mouse and then looked to me to ask what should happen.
@Old School: I found out why fire alarms go off at four am just because the battery dies. Batteries die faster when it’s chillier and it’s usually chilliest in a house right before dawn. Pay more for the kind of smart alarms that send a signal to your phone when the batteries start to get low and you won’t have this problem.
lowtechcyclist
@Brachiator:
Nah, but she’ll stop by as often as they allow (probably more often than Melanoma will bother doing), in order to interview him for material for her next book.
Matt McIrvin
@Brachiator: Trump can certainly try. The difference from January 2021 is that he won’t be in control of the Federal government, and won’t be able to hold back law enforcement or the National Guard because “these people like me”. Nor will he be pulling strings from within the administration to try to disrupt the counting of electoral votes, and the Vice-President in charge of the proceedings will be Kamala Harris, not Mike Pence.
I’m not really worried about the situation where he loses. I’m worried about the situation where he wins.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Same.
Scout211
Living out here in the boonies, we often have mice crawl into our cars, under the hood and into the air filters. And our cars are parked in the garage. My Accord seems to be less attractive to them compared to our older CRV. When I drove the CRV regularly, it was a regular occurrence that one would die and the car would stink for about a month. Rinse and repeat. But the worst was when the dead rodent attracted flies, then maggots (unbeknownst to me at the time) and when I left my volunteer job at the library and started up the car, a swarm of flies came out of the vents and filled my car cabin. It was gross!
And my husband’s truck wiring was so damaged by mice and other rodents that we filed an insurance claim because the damage was so high. That is when we had a second garage built so he could park his truck inside the garage.
Rodents are expensive. LOL.
cain
@BellaPea: He was probably up till 3am and then had about 2 hours of sleep or maybe didn’t sleep at all. So of course, he fell asleep.
He’ll need a nap, and some ketchup to throw and he’ll be back on twitter at 2am attacking everyone.
Ruckus
@BellaPea:
I can’t for the life of me understand what these MAGA idiots think, idolizing a stupid, ugly lunatic.
Sit down, close your eyes and think only of this sentence you wrote.
Ask yourself why would any sane person like a stupid, ugly lunatic?
Is it making a touch more sense now?
They are not sane people or they wouldn’t like or want to be ShitForBrains.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: Mighty Mint Rodent Repellent
smith
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I was thinking about this earlier. If I were asked if I could be impartial in this case, what would my answer be?
I believe that if facts were presented that showed he was not guilty, then I would vote not guilty.
The rub is that I don’t believe there are any facts that could show him to be not guilty.
So what would the truthful answer be?
Old School
@WaterGirl:
You would not be impartial. It’s the prosecution that needs to prove its case.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Thank you!
Mice like my shed, but I do not like mice.
Brachiator
@Matt McIrvin:
Either way, Trump will be a problem and a nuisance. It is also clear that he is trying to hire people who at least pretend to believe his bullshit. And he continues to have his idiot toadies in Congress eager to do his bidding.
When you get down to it, he bumbled January 6. I am not worried about him succeeding in 2024 or 2025.
But it is very likely that he will have to be dealt with and slapped down again.
cain
@lowtechcyclist: I heard that if you grow mint it keeps the mice away.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@WaterGirl:
For me that’s easy, my answer would be yes…and then I’d vote to convict him. Maybe not on all counts but enough of them to make him feel the hurt.
Fair trial and fine hanging applies here.
JMG
Any rational person called for jury duty for this trial would say they couldn’t be impartial, or any other excuse they could use to get out of it. Empaneling a jury could take a long while.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, … Defense.gov – Follow-up report on Kabul airport suicide bombing.
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
TBone
Comment of the Day (so far):
cain
From reddit, someone posted about an article talking about truth social stock pricing and the rubes are still buying it! But apparently their faith is being shaken – haha!
ETA to add link: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1c4qi4v/every_time_i_buy_more_the_price_drops_more_trump/
TBone
@smith: 🔥
Dorothy A. Winsor
Judge Marchan introduced Trump to the jury as “Mr. Donald Trump.” I’ll bet Trump was annoyed.
TBone
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: ❤️🩷 💜 this is why I come here
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Nice
TBone
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
Here’s a good one along those lines 😆
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-qaC3NJ5ww
narya
Already caught one mouse . . .
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I thought the sketch artists weren’t supposed to sketch the jury? Yet I am seeing jury sketches on the KOS life blogging.
Ken
@WaterGirl: Perhaps this article from the Onion will help.
(Poor Onion writers. I can’t imagine what it’s like waking up each day with a brilliant idea for political satire, only to find it’s the morning’s top headline.)
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Could be fake jurors.
Danielx
@BellaPea:
I would be ever so happy if I never had to see his bloated orange visage again. I’ll add Elon Musk to that wish.
Baud
@Ken:
Haha.
Dangerman
I’ve seen that look in my mirror today.
Curiously, it is also Tax Day.
Correlation
ETA: I hear Trump is pulling some passive aggressive shit on the jurors? Fuck him.
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Wondering where you saw that? I am following on the KOS live blogging and I didn’t see that.
Brachiator
@cain:
Wow. These people are just sad. And years from now, some of these people will talk about how glad they were to take a financial hit for their beloved Orange Leader.
UncleEbeneezer
Kyle Cheney on Xitter:
gvg
This trial is supposed to last 2 months per estimates I have seen. Add in things like possibility of being sequestered and people are going to want to get out of it. Who would take care of my cats?
Then you have Trump making threats against everyone.
WaterGirl
I laughed.
Quinerly
Don’t get me started about mice and Desert Pack Rats. Huge phobia going back to the original “Willard” (I have been told there has been a remake) and the sequel, “Ben.” Have had some wires damaged in the Ford Escape….nesting field mice.
Right now, I am dealing with at least 4, if not 5, underground Pack Rat nests on my property here in NM. Way too close to the house for my comfort level. They eat cactus and break off portions of Cholla Cactus to place at the entrances of their tunnels that lead to their underground nests. They are tough and survivors. The bastards are coming out at night and are eating my Ice Plants and emerging Daylillies. My 3 yard Bull Snakes appear to be MIA. Haven’t seen them since the Fall. We have ruled out Prairie Dogs and Ground Squirrels. We don’t use poisons here in Eldorado…poisons the food chain. So I am left with trapping and quick death. Although, there are people who trap and relocate….actually take the rats for a ride and release. No way am I doing that. Quick death…and a sacrificial offering to my giant Ravens.
trollhattan
@WaterGirl: Access schmackcess, Mags not getting a Trump Xmas card this year.
trollhattan
You can hear the banjos all the way from Orange County.
WaterGirl
@trollhattan: I don’t read Maggie. Did she actually do some reporting re: Trump, instead of mostly spinning in his favor
edit: hahaha she reported on Trump sleeping at the table in court.
hueyplong
@WaterGirl: Her offense was merely tweeting out that Trump had fallen asleep. That’s a little too Woodward and Bernstein for Trump’s taste.
Mousebumples
@WaterGirl: yupppp
Dorothy A. Winsor
@WaterGirl: I don’t remember.
WaterGirl
PSA: If you’re interested in the Einstein zoom this Wednesday at 8 pm Eastern, send me an email to RSVP and get the zoom link.
cain
@trollhattan: Start making some arrests – giving them a criminal record will help.
trollhattan
@WaterGirl: “Eyes tightly closed, President* Trump nevertheless strained to conceal his rage at the kangaroo court’s attempt at falsely damaging his reputation.”
He was probably expecting something like that.
*Not to be confused with any actual president.
WaterGirl
@trollhattan: I am not sorry he’s having a bad day.
Also, it’s probably tough to give Trump enough drugs to keep him calm, without putting him to sleep.
Plus, I don’t know if you can build up a tolerance for the kinds of drugs he usually takes, but that likely makes it even trickier.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@WaterGirl: Found it. It’s on Kos but in a different post:
You have to scroll down a bit. Some posts from Katie Phang are right before it, but I don’t think she’s the source.
Brachiator
@JMG:
I would not mind being on this jury. And I would have no problem being impartial.
lowtechcyclist
@narya:
Oh well, the best-laid plans of mice. /HHG
rikyrah
@cain:
the rubes be rubing….
we can’t stop them
lowtechcyclist
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I get a big banner blocking the content, asking for contributions. The banner goes off the page to the top and bottom, so if there’s an X in the corner to click, it’s off my screen.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Marcopolo: Our housecats are so bored they go after flies and spiders. A mouse would be nirvana. But what would probably happen is the mouse would go hide under the stove or something similar and I would have two cats hunkered down in front of the stove ALL DAY.
WaterGirl
@lowtechcyclist: interesting!
what kind of device are you on? I don’t get that on my laptop.
Scuffletuffle
@Mousebumples: i fell asleep in court once as a juror…the judge was displeased.
Ken
I didn’t know that “Woodward and Bernstein” is Cockney rhyming slang for “truthful”.
Jay
For those having an issue with rodents and vehicles, prop the engine hood up with a chunk of 2″x6″.
It makes the engine compartment no longer a “safe space” from predators and they will not nest there.
Packrats, live trap and relocate, at least 25 miles away. Then pee on the nest, let it dry and rake out the nest. That stops another pack rat from taking over the nest site.
At our previous house, (40 acres in the woods), mice, packrats, marmots and beavers were mostly pests. Muskrats, coyotes, hawks, Great Grey Owls, and Black Foot Weasels were a blessing.