We really are living in the dumbest goddamned timeline. Open thread!
Florida woman, still rocking a punk rock ethos in the 2020s, which is kind of sad. Betty Cracker has been a Balloon Juice writer since 2012.
Squeeee! Open Thread
If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably seen this, but it’s worth watching again:
Because everything sucks, please enjoy this dad making a roller coaster out of a laundry basket.
pic.twitter.com/dULYjvRJtC— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) October 13, 2018
We had a very short fall when Hurricane Michael sucked up all the moisture in the air and deposited it northward. It’s back up in the 90s and humid again today.
But at least we have electricity, a roof over our heads and fully stocked stores. Not so much in the Panhandle.
We thought about trucking some supplies up but figured we might just get in the way. So we donated to a relief fund instead. Charity Navigator is a good place to start if you want to help.
Open thread.
Saturday Night Open Thread
Watching TV with Badger. Daisy and hubby are here too, but they’re snoozing, so their opinions don’t have to be considered for program selection.
You?
Never Change, Florida
Of course there’s a Dildo Key:
What’s the most embarrassing and/or interesting place name you know?
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Friday Afternoon Open Thread
I’m on news and politics hiatus for mental health reasons, but here’s a pretty flower to look at:
Open thread.
Thursday Mid-Day Open Thread
Here’s a blurry-ass photo of an egret in flight. It’s not a great picture of the bird, but I think the overall composition is accidentally pleasing, what with the puffy clouds and moss-laden trees:
Birds, water, clouds and trees can help during tough times, but they aren’t always enough. Balloon Juice reader Libraryguy needs help to keep a roof over his head. Here’s a link where you can help.
I’m staying away from the news for a while. It’s all too much these days, so my plan is to keep chugging along and stop worrying about bullshit I can’t control. That’s the plan for now, anyway. One foot in front of the other.
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President of the Unbearable Shitheads (POTUS)
Hurricane Michael just roared ashore in the Florida panhandle with sustained winds at 155 MPH. Trump and his droopier-than-usual ‘do held a press availability to demonstrate that he can watch a radar blob cross a screen and utter inanities about it. A reporter asked if Trump would cancel his MAGA circle jerk in PA tonight to monitor the situation in Florida:
A tired-sounding Trump says he's not planning to cancel his campaign rally in Pennsylvania tonight despite the storm because "there are thousands of people already lined up… we have thousands of people going tonight, and many are there already… it's sorta unfair to them." pic.twitter.com/AlsY57t4KG
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 10, 2018
“Not my president” became a popular rallying cry in the days after Trump was sleazed into office. While certainly an understandable sentiment, it’s inaccurate in a sense because, thanks to the slaver vestigial Electoral College, voter suppression and foreign interference, Trump is technically the President of the United States.
But as he’s demonstrated time and time again, Trump considers citizens who don’t support him (the majority!) as enemies, not constituents. He rails against “angry mobs” that are in fact patriotic citizens exercising their right to peaceably assemble and express themselves. And he’d rather go jerk off with a bunch of slack-jawed cultists in Pennsylvania than show respect for the citizens in mortal peril in Florida.
So yeah, not my president.
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