America's silliest political traditions
4. Turkey pardons
3. Candidate memoirs
2. Don Lemon
1. The electoral college https://t.co/nIeaoRVRSD
— Jonathan M. Katz (@KatzOnEarth) November 25, 2015
Speaking of overstuffed turkeys…
I'm watching Rambo III. The dedication at the end only appears in the VHS version for… reasons. pic.twitter.com/a6RKZRn5Xp
— a bulgy underpant (@buttdiamond) November 3, 2015
Dessert:
(Via io9)
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Anything else on the agenda, as we prepare to face the crushing hordes / go back to work / both?
raven
Morning surf fish then up to the Emerald Coast Community College for a Virginia Tech- Iowa State and Illini-UAB double hooper.
NotMax
Thread comes in, thread goes out, thread comes in.
The circle of life.
amk
who will be the first kkklown to drop out after turkey day?
raven
@NotMax:
Take your place on The Great Mandala
As it moves through your brief moment of time.
Win or lose now you must choose now
And if you lose you’re only losing your life.
Schlemazel
@NotMax:
you can’t explain that.
mainmata
I don’t get how Don Lemon is any kind of tradition even for other lemons. My company charitably gives the day after T-Day off but I have a work planning deadline so I end up working anyway. But it’s manageable and so part of the day will be free for….raking leaves. Back to your oars, No.41.
Betty Cracker
The guests are gone and the family is all tucked away, so the sofa and remote are mine again! Man, this was a long day.
xenos
@efgoldman: Ben C. Will end his campaign when he learns Armstrong Williams is making more money from it than he he is. Lawsuits and general merriment will follow.
Amir Khalid
There was a time, not so long ago, when a film made by conservatives in Hollywood had words of praise for mujahideen (fighters in a jihad).
andy
They gave me wednesday off because I work today, so I made a pot au feu yesterday and started with a light breakfast today. Thank Reason I at least don’t work retail…
Betty Cracker
Can Aaron Rodgers pull off a miracle? One play left…
Betty Cracker
Nope.
redshirt
What’s up with the Pack?
Amir Khalid
@efgoldman:
It’s definitely not going to be Gilmore. At this rate, he can afford to keep his campaign hardly moving at all right up to the convention. A (most likely complete) lack of delegates will eventually force him to face reality and give up, but only after the first big round of primaries. Fiorina probably still believes she’s a contender. Maybe Pataki or Huckabee or Santorum, depending on who is first to realise he’s still being ignored by the party base.
Soprano2
I remembered why I don’t usually drink very much. Ooh, I feel terrible. ..
NotMax
@Betty Cracker
Can sympathize. Spent 2½ hours mowing the property today; after that put together and cooked all the sides, but was by then simply too tired to face prepping and cooking the duck had planned for dinner.
Shall be enjoying that tomorrow night.
Light rain just now began, so am happy that got the lawns done.
Anoniminous
@amk:
There’s no reason for any one of ’em to drop out as long as they can rake in some bucks.
And I want to apologize for yelling at you the other day. I was mad at the Kentucky debacle but that’s no excuse.
FlyingToaster
This morning, the microwave started humming with the door closed and the cup o joe inside started boiling….
So instead of doing laundry all day, I have to schlep over to my local appliance guys (it’s like a mile away, local family-owned firm, no BF sales) and order a new one for delivery/installation next week.
We get a second thanksgiving tomorrow with our friends. We had a great thanksgiving with my SIL and her husband and boys. Our friends had a “do not say anything or one of these idiots might get a gun” family thanksgiving that they fled home from this evening. They count on us to detoxify the holiday.
Mike J
@Amir Khalid:
There’s a good chance she’ll get the VP nomination, so it makes sense for her to stay out there.
MomSense
@Betty Cracker:
I’ve got the sofa but the boys have the remote. One of their friends is home (he’s a Marine stationed in CA) and we are all camped out watching whatever they want to watch. I’ve known this kid since he was 3 so it is really nice to have him here and see all four of them together.
I highly recommend the movie Chef. It’s a happy story about food, friends, and family.
Jay C
@efgoldman:
My guess it will be Pataki: even New Yorkers, whose Governor he was for twelve years, scarcely recall who he was. Then again, maybe not: after all, what else does he have to do…?
PurpleGirl
@raven: I went looking for a YouTube of Theordore Bikel singing The Great Mandala. Couldn’t find one.
Amir Khalid
@Mike J:
I can see where Fiorina would see herself as a VP contender. But that would assume the nominee making some sort of semi-rational, least-bad choice. I’m not willing to give Trump that much credit. My own hunch, which of course I can’t justify, is that Trump will pick Ted Cruz, just to send the biggest, loudest possible Fuck You to the party establishment.
NotMax
@PurpleGirl
Just imagine the money they would have raked in during the late 60s had GM only thought to crank out a Pontiac Mandala.
:)
Mike J
@Amir Khalid: I don’t think she’s a least bad choice. I think they view her as inoculation against charges of sexism. “See! We love chicks! We even let one get on stage and do her lady blahblahblah thing!”
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Should it come to it, can’t see Trump choosing someone else, like Cruz, who can’t keep his lips buttoned and also views himself as a wheeler-dealer extraordinaire.
Actually, Trump being Trump, can’t really envision him choosing anyone who had the effrontery to run against him in the primaries.
Maybe somebody like Kelly Ayotte, though.
FlipYrWhig
@NotMax: Cruz will never ever ever let himself willingly be #2 at anything. This is a guy who didn’t want students from “lesser Ivies” to be cluttering up his Harvard Law study group. Well, one exception. He’s angling to come in second, then ride the momentum to the nomination in 2020.
FlipYrWhig
@NotMax: I think Trump would pick someone else from a non-political background. Someone like Ralph Peters.
David Koch
@Mike J:
Of which country?
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
Hmm. Good point. Trump/Cruz would actually be my dream Republican 2016 ticket; the two candidates who get up my nose the most. But if Trump doesn’t go for one of his primary opponents, he could pick almost any politician at all — likely someone completely unsuited, but whom Trump thinks would do well on The Apprentice.
Mike J
@efgoldman:
She’s going to be primaried by a teabagger and lose. She won’t be running for senate in November.
Amir Khalid
@FlipYrWhig:
Cruz strikes me as deeply unlikable. I suspect it will end his political career sooner rather than later.
magurakurin
@Amir Khalid: If the gods somehow hated us that much and one of the Rethugs ended up Prez and Fiorina was his VP, I’m pretty sure whoever the president was his first order of business would be to hire a food taster to check for the poison.
magurakurin
@Mike J:
Of course that will fail after the first time the eventual nominee is caught on tape saying to her, “Honey, why don’t you go get us some coffee.” Double plus ungood for them is they give her a slap on the butt after they say it. Don’t laugh, it could happen. The on tape part, I mean. Because that scene will happen, whether or not it gets on tape is another question.
magurakurin
@FlipYrWhig: I think is more likely that Trump picks Triple H. I mean Triple H has managerial experience and Trump likes managers. That’s what America needs, management.
magurakurin
@efgoldman: lol, no, why Hunter Hearst Helmsley of course.
David Koch
Trump has a tough choice to make: does he select Gary Busey or Meatloaf as his Veep.
jl
@efgoldman: If he become president, I predict Trump will pardon the possum on his head for Thanksgiving. You read it here first.
Anne Laurie
@FlipYrWhig:
Theory at the moment, among the mostly leftwing sites I follow, is that Cruz has carefully positioned himself so that once Trump implodes (gets bored), he’ll be able to suction up the Trump voters without ever having to say the Really Bad Words out loud in front of the “independents” (and pundits). The Sensible Alternative, for people who hate nigros and messicans and filthy hippies and bleeding hearts, but who prefer a veneer of ‘hard headed truth telling’ on their bigotry. And if somehow that doesn’t work, then he’ll be poised for 2020.
Of course, these same people seem to be lining Marc Rubio up as the Establishment Repub, since he may be the strongest remaining contender in that lane, and even quite optimistic Repub-leaning writers have difficulty envisioning a GOP contest that comes down to two Cuban-Americans with not a lot of actual experience behind either and their separate reputations for being completely unlikeable (Cruz) and prone to stepping on his own tongue (Rubio)…
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Ralph Peters. He retired as an Eastern European Foreign Area Officer (FA 48E) who specialized in the Soviet Union. Prior to that he was an Army intelligence officer. He’s authored a number of fiction books and made a name for himself by being a commenter on Fox News. I’ve been told he cries a lot when discussing Soldiers in combat. He was galactically, stupendously (O’Hanlon level of) wrong in regards to what was going on in Iraq in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. He eventually did an about face and became very critical of what was happening or what was being done including the surge. He then flipped again when the surge appeared to be working. Basically, the guys a crank with a platform at Fox and USA Today. If you do an image search, you’ll see he’s had a major makeover over the past five years or so. Gone are the glasses and the sweaters traded out for expensive suits, etc. I do not personally know him, and he retired long before I ever got recruited to work with the Army, but what I’ve seen from him in his post-Army career does not indicate that he really has any idea what he’s talking about. Especially at the higher operational levels of policy and strategy.
Adam L Silverman
@magurakurin: And if you’re not down with that, we’ve got two words for you…
Anne Laurie
@efgoldman:
Nah, as you pointed out, Sen. Ayotte (R-Rep of Gilead) can compete in both races — if whichever Repub picks her as his understudy implodes, she retreats to NH and waits for 2020. Problem is (apart from getting primaried from the right by a raving teabagger) which of the contenders would ask her to the big dance? Graham loves her, but Graham’s not getting the nom; Jeb might’ve taken her as the Token Vagina-American, but Jeb’s getting as much traction as a longhaired dog on a newly polished floor. Looks to me like her natural candidacy, such as it is, would be as a #FITN sop for one of the Bible-bangers… and Cruz might be her best remaining hope, in that lane. Except I have the impression that Cruz wants a “more seasoned” (older) mope on the underticket, to burnish his self-impression as a Bright Young Man — and from all reports, the NH voters loathe Cruz as a snake-handling self-promoter who doesn’t appreciate their key role in ‘vetting’ presidential candidates, so unless he looks like a lock associating with him might do her more harm than good.
redshirt
Like pardoned turkeys aren’t sent to the slaughterhouse.
Brachiator
@Mike J:
There is no chance that Fiorina will be the VP choice. She doesn’t bring any states or constituencies, and lost her only other previous attempt at public office.
The Republicans had Sarah Palin as a previous VP choice, and the rank and file loved her. This largely immunizes the GOP against charges of sexism. But the GOP does not care about diversity politics as much as they care about political ideology and religion.
Botsplainer
Post late-meal indigestion insomnia. Part of me wants to lay here; part of me wants to go out to the kitchen for a pinch of baking soda.
Denali
To me, Trump’s mocking the disability of the NY Times reporter is beyond disgusting. How anyone could support someone like that is beyond my understanding.
Zinsky
I’m thinking Minnesota’s own Amy Klobuchar as Hillary’s running mate would awesome! Amy is younger than Hillary and Democrats could be looking at 16 years of female presidencies, which would change the American political landscape for generations to come!
Calouste
I don’t think Trump will pick any establishment Republican as his VP. On the other hand, his son Donald Trump, Jr. is old enough to be VP, and he has enough children and grandchildren for them to be president for a long time, even with 8 year term limits. And face it, what the Republicans really want is a monarchy. It doesn’t look like they will get it with the Bushes, so they might go for the Trumps instead.
Trump/Trump 2016!