Today 7 years ago Lehman Brothers went down and took the economy with it. Not even its secret weapon could save it. pic.twitter.com/lTPnWmOOmU
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) September 15, 2015
5. With Trump, better to rememberer the distinction between lying and bullshitting. Jeb is a liar, Trump is a bullshitter. Very different.
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) September 15, 2015
7. When Jeb says something untrue, it's likely he knows it's untrue on some level but does so out of political expediency.
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) September 15, 2015
And not in a good way! RT @woodruffbets New CBS poll has Jeb! tied with Huckabee. http://t.co/WJqB0NkOl5
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) September 15, 2015
Ya can’t take yer eyes off these bastids, not for a minute!
Baud
Since the front pagers here rarely post about Democrats…
mai naem mobile
Its just not good enough till Jebbeh! is tied with Bobby Jindal.
catclub
Kasich was also employed by Lehman.
cmorenc
So did Lehman wind up actually hiring Jeb! or was it simply a Wall Street rumor that didn’t pan out to actually happen? And if it was true, when did Jeb! leave the sinking ship?
balconesfault
ahh … just read other thread …
rk
Is it possible that people are simply lying to pollsters? I find it hard to believe that two such obvious idiots are getting 50% of the primary vote.
I feel that it’ll be kasich. He came across as the most sane in the entire bunch. But sanity is apparently not a qualification for a GOP presidential candidate.
Baud
@cmorenc:
I googled in response to your comment, and it seems to actually an open question what Jeb did for Lehman.
hells littlest angel
@Baud: I sincerely hate to admit it, but given a story about a horrible, shitty thing that a Republican said and a story about a really thoughtful policy proposal by a Democrat, I’ll more often read the former first. There’s something wrong with us.
Baud
@hells littlest angel:
Everyone stops to see the train wreck. It’s human.
Jeffro
So I see the “Sanders is now under GOP attack” thread is at 343 responses and counting…
…people, I take it y’all had the afternoon off?
Holy cow.
benw
Ya’ll know that Lehman only went under because once it became clear that Obama would be elected, the business sector lost confidence in the U.S. Is that a lie, or just bullshit?
SiubhanDuinne
When I saw the “Never Forget” thread title, I actually thought this was going to be the topic:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing
HumboldtBlue
@Baud:
Or a wildfire as evidenced by this video which got more than a million views in just over 24 hours.
Baud
@Jeffro: It’s all the same lazy bums commenting over and over again.
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: You look familiar, come to think of it.
Baud
@HumboldtBlue: I’m not surprised. That is some crazy shit.
Anoniminous
@rk:
May be or may be not. There are some funky stuff a’happening. There was a discussion about polling last night and @Jim, Foolish Literalist fairly well destroyed Quinnipiac. Other pollsters are known to be questionable with Gallup leading the list. Others have questionable procedures such as YouGov. And some like Gravis Marketing dish out the stuff suitable for fertilizer.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic: Ha! I actually didn’t comment in that thread, although I really wanted to. Damn the whole “working for money” crap. I wish Russia or China would just pay to me to comment here.
rk
@hells littlest angel:
I don’t feel guilty about it because I know I’m going to vote for a democrat come what may. I like Bernie Sanders and I like Hillary (though I still hate her shenanigans against Obama in 2008, but if Obama can forgive her so can I). With republicans it’s so fascinating to see how completely bonkers they’ve become. I thought they were horrible insane lunatics in the 1990s when they went after Clinton. Then I thought they were horrible, insane racist lunatics during the Obama years. But now, I don’t even have words anymore. I can understand a dictatorship where you get a Trump like figure and the hapless populace has to endure the evil clown. But here, a certain percentage of people seem quite happy to vote for the evil clown. It’s like watching a bad cult movie.
Jeffro
@Baud: Any Webb or Chafee supporters pop in to liven things up? No? Just the usual Hillary vs. Clinton stuff?
Peale
Crap. It’s Monday again. I just went through that yesterday. Maybe philly will pull it out this time.
benw
@Jeffro:
You’re confusing the BJ comment section with your hot Clinton fan fic, again.
Baud
@efgoldman:
My peeps! My base! I can always count on you.
I’ve been working on a campaign song. What do you think of this?
It’s based on this music.. What do you think?
Eric S.
@rk: even a dictator needs a minimum base of support.
David Koch
PPP Florida Poll
Trump…… 28%
Carson…..17%
¡Jeb!………13% ◄
Rubio…….10%
Cruz………9%
Fiorina……7%
Kasich……5%
This is crushing. ¡Jeb! is losing his home state (a winner take all state) by 15 points.
47% want ¡Jeb! to drop out (OUUUCH!!)
Anoniminous
@Anoniminous:
Oh hell, link be hosed.
Jeffro
@benw: LOL
Ok, total brainfade (and on a Tuesday, no less). Of course I meant Bernie vs Sanders action.
Baud
@Jeffro: Ha! Good recovery.
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
I like your political priorities.
@Jeffro:
I’ve been wondering about that. Where have Webb and Chafee been hiding? There hasn’t been a peep out of either man in absolutely ages. They don’t even have their own Thoughtful Today thumping the tub for them on Balloon Juice.
Baud
@efgoldman: Congratulations!
Baud
@Amir Khalid: Thank you. I wish you could vote for me.
What am I saying? We’re Democrats. Of course you can vote for me!
A guy
Thank you to Barney Frank and the do gooders who relaxed lending standards for the collapse. God I still love Stuart varneys slam of Frank for that mess
Frankensteinbeck
@rk:
Trump’s message is ‘Mexicans are rapists and murderers’. Carson’s message is ‘Black people are lazy, so let’s get rid of welfare.’ I’m not surprised at all that they’re leading the pack.
EDIT – @Baud:
Sir, you have my sword.
benw
@Jeffro: Nice.
@Baud:
Baud was a commenter on BJ
Who decided to be president one day
He wrote a nice song
It wasn’t very long
So the rest of us were happy and gay!
Tommy
@hells littlest angel: Things go wrong. I do not. Do not. Let me say that again just to be clear I do not wish for a second bad things on any Republican. But we have gotten to the point, IMHO, where things bat shit stupid, happen everyday.
You want to talk about the debt or spending, fine. But don’t throw in Planned Parenthood in and then think I can talk with you. See we are going to have a conversation as adults and that means you can’t start off my saying stupid shit.
Baud
@benw:
Excellent. Turning American gay will be one of my Administration’s top priorities.
Right to Rise
We know the situation with the polls, and we are addressing it, though the internals look much more hopeful for Jeb.
There is not panic in the campaign. The key will be persistence, staying the course through turbulent waters. Before you start counting Jeb out remember Election Night 2000, when I’m sure many of you said “it’s over” when the TV networks called Florida for Gore.
The TV ad buy just went live three days ago in IA and NH, national ads yet to run. Trump is sinking and Carson rising. Looking to be much like the 2012 Primary with Jeb playing the role of Romney.
Still early yet, with plenty of cold hard Benjamins for the long haul.
Stay tuned, folks!
SatanicPanic
@rk: I don’t know, Kasich is polling near the bottom. He’s got a long way to go before being a contender, and I thought his debate performance was pretty dull.
Baud
@Right to Rise: Keep reaching for the rainbow!
Jeffro
@Amir Khalid:
I believe they are sharing non-office space with Jim Gilmore? Apparently they all have a lot in common…
/meta
benw
@Baud:
Turning the American gays into what?
Anoniminous
@David Koch:
Florida does give a candidate 2 delegates if he wins a Congressional District.
Edited to remove stupidity
Baud
@benw:
Into Baudenistas!
Steeplejack (phone)
Redacted.
Patricia Kayden
@mai naem mobile: We’re getting there. Wouldn’t be surprising if that happens by the next GOP debate. Jebbie is just not exciting the bigots enough in his party. As things stand now, Trump is a shoe in to be the Republican candidate.
That would be great — for Secretary Clinton (or even Senator Sanders).
Baud
@Patricia Kayden:
Or Baud!
Central Planning
@mai naem mobile:
Heh.
Right to Rise
Hillary Clinton is just plain sinking.
Is the Democrat Party going to nominate a senile, New England, red diaper baby Marxist? That means 1972 all over again for the Donkeys.
Some guy
Seeing Jeb! Get his as handed to him in Florida is so sweet.
The clown car is providing a very entertaining spectacle
David Koch
@Anoniminous: In a hilarious version of the law of unintended consequences they recently changed it to winner-take-all to help ¡Jeb! Now it’s gonna help sink ¡Jeb!
Baud
@David Koch: That’s awesome.
Right to Rise
@Some guy:
Florida isn’t happening for months. Are you seriously going to listen to polls for Florida at this date?
The base will come home.
Never “misunderestimate” the Bush Family.
Some guy
@Anoniminous:
But the Florida GOP has gerrymandered all those CDS so they are wingnut majority. Trump in a landslide
Jeb might serial by on Dade, but that is it.
Baud
Says the troll who’s always relying on current polls about Hillary.
Omnes Omnibus
@benw: Genetically engineered super-gays, I would presume.
Germy Shoemangler
Headline:
Voting Machines in Some States Will Be Nearly Old Enough to Cast a Ballot Next Year
https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/americas-voting-machines-risk
Tommy
@Baud: Wish we could turn much of this nation gay. I am often told I am gay, or metrosexual would be a far better for or more accurate word. If I had a dollar for every time I got hit on by a gay guy I might be rich. It used to piss me off. Now I view it as a compliment. I know my sexual thinkings. Don’t need somebody to tell them to me.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
We can rebuild them. We have the technology. We can make them better than they were. Better, stronger, faster.
Right to Rise
@Baud:
Iowa and New Hampshire polls are legit. As are general election polls to show trends.
Florida primary though? Too early. Give me a break.
Trump is sinking now. Carson will rise next. Then Jeb.
Anoniminous
@David Koch:
That is glorious.
The whole JEB! campaign is turning into a Charlie Foxtrot of massive proportions.
Baud
@Tommy:
Agreed. But do you want somebody to tell them to you.
Some guy
@Right to Rise:
Watching the UF College Republican kids proudly wear their Trump shirts and buttons to last Saturdays Gator game gives me great joy that Jeb is a loser here. A yooooge loser. Nobody likes da loser
Baud
@Right to Rise: I too believe in picking and choosing.
Schlemazel
@Baud:
You have my vote
But be aware, windmills are my specialty
Elizabelle
LA Times: Trump’s Blunt Talk not selling in one blue-collar community
I guess Trump decided addressing his new fans from his own golf course might not be the visual he sought. 11% of San Pedro community is military vets; a few expressed displeasure at Trump’s sniping at John McCain.
Baud
@Schlemazel: Tilt away, my friend. Tilt, tilt away.
Anoniminous
@Some guy:
Cool.
Amir Khalid
@Germy Shoemangler:
It’s a democracy. The more voters ya got, the better. Right?
Elizabelle
NBC Nightly News doing a sad panda story on Jeb! and his “underperforming” campaign.
David Koch
Bill Kristol says he’s leaving Republican Party if Trump wins nomination.
There will be a lot of rats fleeing the sinking
TitanicTrumpSchlemazel
@Baud:
BTW why do you engage that idiot? I’m serious, it’s not like it will learn or become reasonable. I don’t see much fun in pretending it’s worth responding to
Anoniminous
@Elizabelle:
No way a Republican takes California in the general. Trump is there to rile up the mob for the primary.
Germy Shoemangler
@Amir Khalid: Do you have paper ballots in your country? Or newer machines?
Right to Rise
When Jeb wins the nomination I’m going to link to all these quotes gloating about the “defeat” of Jeb.
Remember what happened the last two times you prematurely started celebrating the “end” of a Bush campaign?
Baud
@Elizabelle:
Do they call Jeb “cerebral”?
Schlemazel
@David Koch:
THERE! That’s the schesim I was hoping for
Baud
@Schlemazel:
Because the wine went to my head tonight and I’m a little tipsy!
Tommy
@Baud: No clearly.
From a sexual POV I am about the middle of the road, not a interesting person. What you do in your bedroom so none of my business. Go get crazy. I could care less. Maybe you do it with a dude, I could don’t care. Enjoy yourself and then come to work ready to work. That is all I care about!
Ripley
It’s Florida; I think you mean “mobile home.”
Germy Shoemangler
I had a Baud 2016 sign on my lawn, but it disappeared. I checked my security cam and saw grainy footage of a heavy-set man tossing it in the back of his pickup truck (it had a Jeb? bumpersticker). So the dirty tricks begin…
Baud
@Tommy:
And a new American idiom was born!
Baud
@Germy Shoemangler:
They are afraid.
Elizabelle
@Baud: No, but they did highlight the bilingual.
Soundbite of Jeb! saying “Donald Trump” and then something in Spanish they didn’t bother to translate.
boatboy_srq
@Jeffro: [crickets]
Schlemazel
@Baud:
Everyone should have a hobby I always say!
SiubhanDuinne
@Tommy:
Oh, Tommy, you are such a much nicer person than I am. I find myself wishing bad things on Republicans* pretty much all the time.
* (your parents excepted)
Amir Khalid
@Germy Shoemangler:
We have paper ballots. They have absolutely no interest in voting.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Dunno. I know they call the wind “Maria.”
Baud
@Schlemazel:
Mine are Balloon Juice and running for president.
mdblanche
@Right to Rise: The war situation is developing not necessarily to your advantage, is it?
Schlemazel
@SiubhanDuinne:
But Trump calls a spade a spade.
Gimlet
If “The Donald” does well and the poll numbers suggests no change in the trend, the GOP desperation will be even more noticeable next week.
Schlemazel
@mdblanche:
He’s still getting paid so it’s going well for him personally
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne: I thought the wind cried Mary.
Elizabelle
From the local San Pedro (area) paper, the Daily Breeze (won a Pulitzer in 2015, woo hoo!):
Reporter spoke with a fiftyish male, too, who bought a ticket and expects to be entertained.
Tommy
I mentioned last night about a death in the family. How my parents would handle it. Just got a phone call. He didn’t want anybody to grieve for him. His ashes to be spread on the mountain he lived on. No funeral, he laughed at the concept. I just went and did a happy dance for him, John, goodbye!
NotMax
@Right to Rise
We?
Talk about a neon green flashing tell.
You must be a really, really poor p0ker player.
Remember to keep looking at the backs of your paychecks for the telltale “Cash by 6 p.m. on day of issuance only” stamp.
Elizabelle
@Amir Khalid: The hazy smoke from agricultural fires made ABC World News Tonight.
Elizabelle
@Tommy: Condolences, Tommy.
boatboy_srq
@Elizabelle:
Isn’t that how they plan to run the entire campaign? Red meat for the wingnut base, and carne asada for the Latino base that isn’t then served up to the wingnuts because This Is Ahmurrca – Speak English™.
ploeg
CBS News Poll.
N=546 likely Democratic primary voters nationwide. MoE ± 4.
"Who would you like to see the Democratic Party nominate as its presidential
candidate in 2004: [see below], or someone else?" Names rotated
1/12-15/04 12/21-22/03 12/14-16/03 11/10-13/03
% % % %
Dean 24 16 23 14
Clark 12 10 10 9
Gephardt 11 9 6 12
Kerry 7 4 4 7
Edwards 5 5 2 2
Lieberman 5 6 10 9
Braun 4 6 1 4
Sharpton 3 2 5 3
Kucinich 1 2 1 2
Other (vol.) 13 16 10 15
Don't know 15 24 28 23
That being said, the fundamentals aren’t so great for Jeb! right now either (to wit, he’s stupid and everybody hates him), but being establishment counts for a little bit, and the advantage of being establishment is not necessarily easy to see without actual primaries and caucuses going on.
Right to Rise
@NotMax:
“We”, just using the second person to refer to all active Jeb supporters.
Don’t you see Carson rising, and Trump sinking?
Ask President Perry about early poll numbers…what matters is having cash for the long-haul.
Jeb has the Benjamins to burn. Keep on rollin’, baby.
Baud
@Tommy: I’m sorry, Tommy.
Elizabelle
@boatboy_srq: Good catch.
Perhaps a Spanish speaker could catch the segment online (or later broadcast).
Central Planning
@Schlemazel:
Why do we have to have the hobby you say?
If the hobby is BfP (Baud for Pres), then ok. We could come up with some new words/phrases too. Like Baudacious. Or The Baud Squad.
Finally, using the anagram server for “Baud for President” I get “A Forbidden Purest”, “Debased Fruit Port”, and “Forbidden Pasture” (and almost 100k more)
And FYWP for good measure.
Cervantes
@Right to Rise:
That’s great. How about deck-chairs? Do you have deck-chairs?
Right to Rise
@ploeg:
Finally one of you speaks some sense.
Jeb has the establishment. Jeb has the name. Jeb has the persistence. Finally, Jeb has the donors–it’s all about the Benjamins, baby!
Amir Khalid
@Elizabelle:
The smoke has also been making my eyes sting for the past few weeks.
Right to Rise
@Cervantes:
The only Titanic in this campaign is the HMS Hillary, running straight into a Bernie Sanders iceberg.
MazeDancer
How about a little Open Thread opportunity for uplifting and heartwarming…
This little boy meeting the president in the Oval office is so adorable: https://twitter.com/markscogan/status/643802827316301824
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Maria.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3DrOqRQQ9mg
trollhattan
@benw:
Actual log cabins.
mdblanche
@Schlemazel: For now. But when the troll army becomes an unaffordable luxury for a struggling campaign you know he won’t work for free.
SiubhanDuinne
@Tommy:
Tommy, I love that you did a happy dance for your friend John. I hope when I die people will dance and get crazy.
(I also hope that is a long time away.)
Gimlet
@Right to Rise:
Does Jeb feel uneasy flying on those commercial airliners with all that campaign money he’s holding?
Right to Rise
@Gimlet:
Save now, spend later when it matters.
Come January the campaign is going to be like this.
raven
Good to see the boys are busy:
boatboy_srq
@Elizabelle: Wingnuts don’t speak Spanish (it’s unAhmurrcan), and it’s not especially likely a Spanish speaker will disillusion them. That’s how ¡HEB! got away with all the air time on Univision: nobody paid attention to his pandering so long as it was in one o’ them furrin’ langiges.
SiubhanDuinne
@MazeDancer:
The look on that little boy’s face is so wonderful I don’t even have the words to express the level of wonderfulness.
Amir Khalid
@Right to Rise:
All the Benjamins in the world won’t make Jeb a less inept candidate, or persuade the exclamation point to come back to his campaign logo.
Right to Rise
@Amir Khalid:
I remember when George W. was panned as an “incompetent” candidate who could never hope to compete with Al Gore in a debate.
raven
@boatboy_srq: mexican not spaninsh
Right to Rise
@Amir Khalid:
Plus Malaysia isn’t even a democratic country, so why should anyone take what you say about politics seriously?
Baud
@Right to Rise:
But the Supreme Court believed!
weaselone
@Right to Rise:
Bush might pull it off, but he is not currently in control of his own destiny. He’s the team hoping that the current division leader drops their next 3 games so they can sneak into the playoffs.
You may want to consider requesting your salary be paid in advance, just in case.
boatboy_srq
@Right to Rise: As opposed to the entire catalog of RNC-approved-and-endorsed Lusitanias headed right into the Trumpedoes?
MazeDancer
@SiubhanDuinne:
Well said. Felt exactly the same way.
Repeat link people. Feel good for a change: https://twitter.com/markscogan/status/643802827316301824
Right to Rise
@boatboy_srq:
Trump is the Kaiser in September 1914, thinking he’s about to knock the Entente (Jeb) out of the war early.
But instead, it’s going to be a long, bloody, interminable struggle, and you know who is going to emerge in the end in that case–the side with the most money and resources.
boatboy_srq
@raven: True, in a sense: very different dialects. But you’re right that it shows exactly how small the wingnuts’ world is…
Baud
@Central Planning:
I’m thinking of “Broads for Baud” for my women’s outreach group.
Gimlet
@Right to Rise:
Speaking of that, what was that thing on his back at the debate?
Mandalay
@ploeg: Exactly. Folks are getting way too carried away with polls.
At this stage four years ago Rick Perry was leading the pack and kicking ass.
Oops.
boatboy_srq
@Right to Rise: Something tells me ¡HEB!’s treaty is going to look less like Versailles and more like Brest-Litovsk.
benw
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yikes. The comments section over at Savage Love would get more… interesting.
@trollhattan:
Or maybe less interesting?
@Baud:
So, uh, what’re you doing later?
Baud
@benw:
What do you have in mind?
Elizabelle
@MazeDancer: Thank you.
I love that little face.
Renie
@HumboldtBlue: That’s horrifying. I hope that person made it out safely.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Baud:
Everyone called her Windy.
Cervantes
@Right to Rise:
How about Machiavelli, Gandhi, Mandela, Wałęsa, and Havel? Where did they live?
Baud
@Elizabelle:
It is precious.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: It’s National Hispanic Heritage Month.
boatboy_srq
@Cervantes: Makes me wonder why wingnuts venerate Adam Smith when he lived in a mercantilist state; clearly he had no idea what he was talking about either.
Schlemazel
@efgoldman:
Sadly, I am more the guy with the mirrors, I have never been big on delusion.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Hey, Tweety says Trump is talking to “Da Vetrans” tonight!
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
¡Ay caramba!
raven
@efgoldman: Wait, I thought I was. . .
Renie
@Right to Rise: Give it up already, will you!!! Jeb is a loser!!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack (phone):
So you tried to quote one of Hillz emails?
Baud
@raven:
I hope his tales of boarding school doesn’t trigger their PSTD.
Tracy Ratcliff
@Right to Rise: This is the second historical analogy that seems odd, the other being comparing Jeb! to Czar Alexander I and this one comparing Trump to Kaiser Wilhelm II. Is the Bush campaign outsourcing their trolls to Putin’s troll factory?
Elizabelle
@Baud: Thinking that might have been a highlight of President Obama’s day too.
Makes it worth doing all the heavy lifting and putting up with all the disrespect and idiocy and what must be overwhelming responsibility about the presidency.
We don’t see his face, and he might have been just as thrilled.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Ha!
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Redacted = Benghazi!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Right to Rise: And yet, you’ll tell us again and again how HRC is sinking. Based on what, current polls?
Cervantes
@Right to Rise:
Is Sanders unsinkable, then?
What happens to the little Republican flotilla in this scenario?
SiubhanDuinne
@MazeDancer:
Someday, that little kid is going to be a father, and then a grandfather. That photo will be framed and in pride of place in his living room. And the father will tells his own kids about the thrill of meeting the first African American POTUS, and the grandfather will be able to tell his gems that not only was BHO the first AA President, he was also one of the finest, most historically respected Chief Executives in the history of the country.
Schlemazel
@mdblanche:
He might hang on till late. He can’t be expensive given the low quality of work.
Hmmm, if it were Dump I would bet he was using Chinese trolls to save money. JEB? Might go for Costa Rica not sure
Archon
@boatboy_srq:
Always bemused me how history books mention how Draconian the Treaty of Versailles was without at least mentioning the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk which Germany forced on Russia to get out of the war. That treaty makes Versailles look like Appomattox in it’s magnanimity.
Beth in VA
@Baud: Excellent! Extra points to the first BJer to use that well in perfect context. Like a response to “Who won the CNN GOP debate?” “I could don’t care”.
benw
@Baud:
Trying to kindle the tiniest flicker of human intimacy to try to light the gaping, black maw that is the empty, meaningless core of my existence? Or, failing that, we could just get blackout drunk. You know, Tuesday night.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud:
Do you have enough binders?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
If so Tommy, Baud!2016.
Right to Rise
@efgoldman:
Who won the GOP primary in 2012?
Who?
Oh, that’s right. Mitt Romney.
It’s all about the Benjamins, baby…
Baud
@Right to Rise:
Who will then melt away thanks to Jeb! climate change.
HumboldtBlue
@Renie: They did make it out and shockingly there has been only one fatality so far.
Baud
@benw:
I could go either way.
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
I have seen many, many photos of President Obama interacting with babies and little kids. I have never seen a single picture where he wasn’t completely engaged with them. If he hadn’t been elected Prsident, he could, I think, have had an incredible career working with children in, I dunno, some capacity. It is a magical connection he has. And children seem, equally magically, to respond to him the same way.
Mike in NC
@Right to Rise: Smell the flopsweat in the Arbusto camp. Almost time to stick that fork in Juan!
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
And House Republicans!
MazeDancer
@SiubhanDuinne:
So true!
Remember Bill Clinton’s pic as a teen with JFK? You never know. That little kid could be on his way. Certainly, the future will need some Obama inspired leadership.
benw
@Baud:
Your choice. I could don’t care.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Does one ever have enough binders?
Steeplejack (phone)
@Elizabelle:
Veterans for a Strong America appears to be yet another right-wing astroturfing operation. Article from Mother Jones in 2012.
Baud
@benw:
So Chinese take out then?
Wait, what were we talking about?
ETA: oh nice use of the new idiom.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tommy: Condolences.
Timurid
@Right to Rise:
Just like 1972 if you ignore the small problem that there’s nobody in this Republican field who could carry Richard Nixon’s jock with a forklift…
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: That’s a trick question.
Debbie
@Baud:
Too lazy to see if someone’s already said this, but I can see “And then there’s Baud” as a yard sign.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Central Planning:
Bawds for Baud.
Debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
Daycare organizer??
Omnes Omnibus
@Right to Rise: You start a conversation, you can’t even finish it.
You’re talkin’ a lot, but you’re not sayin’ anything.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Right to Rise: Malaysia’s not a democratic country, really? What form of government do they have?
Baud
@Debbie:
Me too! If I ever start my own blog, that’ll be the name of it.
Cervantes
@BillinGlendaleCA:
It’s a kakistocracy.
A kleptocracy at best.
benw
@Baud:
Sounds good.
Fighting about Bernie Sanders, I think.
Thanks. Someone upthread said I’d get a prize.
NotMax
@Baud
(To the tune of The Ballad of Jed Clampett)
Come and learn about the story of a man named Baud
A dark horse running who will leave you really awed
One day he said “I can be the president!”
To the commentariat a striver heaven-sent
(more to come…)
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
A Khalidocracy.
Roger Moore
@Baud:
Bqhatevwr
Beth in VA
@benw: This won my internet night. If only blog posts had Emmys or Tonys.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
As your Director of Outreach, I think you just might want to rephrase that just a tad.
JPL
@Omnes Omnibus: He’s probably getting paid by Trump. just guessing
Baud
@NotMax:
My second choice was:
Sweet things are made of Baud
Who am I to disagree
I travel the world and the seven seas [foreign policy cred]
Everybody is looking for something.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Any suggestions?
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: How offensive do you want to be?
Debbie
@BillinGlendaleCA:
To be all in your face, it should be Bitches for Baud.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
As much as possible. It seemed to work for Trump.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: As I noted, the local Office Depot is having a closing sale. I might be able to get more binders there at a good price.
JPL
@Baud: I happen to like
Ain’t no mountain high enough
Ain’t no valley low enough
Ain’t no river wide enough
to keep from voting for you…………
That encompasses our country.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Then consider Debbie’s suggestion above.
benw
@Debbie: Bitchez 4 Baud. There, I made it 20% edgier and more in your face for you.
NotMax
@Baud
Took some actual effort to work in the word commentariat and have it scan properly.
:)
BillinGlendaleCA
@Debbie: I like it, could steal the biker babe vote from Handsome Joe.
Omnes Omnibus
@benw: “Baud’s Bitchez!” Pithier.
Debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
The only other Presidential photo of a president being so engaged with a child is the one of Lincoln reading to his youngest.
The photos of Obama literally down on the floor with a baby are the absolute best! Not one other president has had that kind of genuine compassion.
Baud
@benw:
Baud’s Bitchez!
I feel like I’m a prison big shot!
jl
I still think the best line i have heard on Trump was from Larry Wilmore (paraphrasing): Trump says random stuff, and then knows it has to be true just because he just said it.
I think that is consistent with Heer, since that is a king of bullshitting, more than it is lying.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
But you repeat yourself.
Debbie
@benw:
Edgy spelling might alienate the older, pink-hatted contingent.
benw
@Baud: @Omnes Omnibus:
Brevity is the soul of an offensively sexist campaign slogan.
Edited to reply to @Debbie: or confuse them into voting for Baud, which is the only way the campaign is going to pick up that particular block!
Baud
@NotMax:
You did good. You’re my chief media consultant.
Baud
@benw:
Polysyllabism is anathema to bigots.
SiubhanDuinne
@MazeDancer:
Would not surprise me at all.
Roger Moore
@Omnes Omnibus:
The world does not contain enough binders.
Cervantes
@boatboy_srq:
The key, I think, is that they venerate “Adam Smith,” not Adam Smith.
SiubhanDuinne
@Debbie:
He’d be like the Pied Piper with them.
Cervantes
@SiubhanDuinne:
Counter-example: the House Republicans.
Roger Moore
@Debbie:
Not the one of Shrub reading The Pet Goat?
Debbie
@Roger Moore:
Talk about a study in contrasts!
mdblanche
@Archon: I blame Keynes.
@SiubhanDuinne: There’s a delegation from the Baby Anti-Defamation League here to see you. They don’t look happy.
Redshift
@Right to Rise:
Actually, Carson is rising but Trump isn’t sinking. Carson’s rise is coming out of your guy and the others, just like Trump’s did. But you “The math”/skewed polls types tend to favor magical thinking, believing that your certainty has some influence over reality.
Mandalay
John King on CNN just flatly asserted that Reagan ended the Cold War.
Our liberal media at work.
Baud
@mdblanche:
I know. Babies grow up! Totally unfair.
Omnes Omnibus
@Right to Rise: Those who don’t know history are doomed repeat stupid shit about it.
rikyrah
@efgoldman:
Carson got EVERYTHING FREE FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
But, we are supposed to forget about that.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Archon:
Probably because that treaty ended up being broken by Germany and Turkey less than a year later.
benw
@Beth in VA:
Aw, thanks! And the Emmy goes to… benw’s comment #178!
SiubhanDuinne
@Debbie:
There was one not too long ago of a little boy having an absolute tantrum on the floor of the Oval Oofice. Obama is all like “Whatevs.”
OFFICE not OOFICE. Stoopid Autocorrect.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Debbie:
Either that, or Obama hasn’t wrecked his knees like most people his age, so he can still get down on the floor.
;-)
SiubhanDuinne
@mdblanche:
Babies can go fuck themselves.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
You’ve been reading the Republican platform, I see.
Debbie
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
My back and right knee are fucked, but neither would stop me from getting down on the floor with a baby. I’d bitch and moan when standing back up, though.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
I’m hoping this little patch of rain we’re getting in So Cal will help us avoid burning to a crisp this fall. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Steeplejack (phone)
@BillinGlendaleCA:
It was right there on the HillzKillz.com server just this morning!
Roger Moore
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
It’s more than a little patch of rain; lots of places got between 1 and 2 inches. That’s a fair bit for one day, especially with more expected this evening. It should be enough to drastically reduce the flammability of local vegetation until more storms arrive.
WereBear
@Baud: me likely.
CaseyL
I love this thread so much :)
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Amir Khalid: Webb is in Hawaii:
Chafee gave a speech in Iowa (in July – that’s the latest thing listed on his blog).
Looks like Chafee isn’t even as active as Webb, if you can believe that. :-/
Cheers,
Scott.
Tommy
@Roger Moore: Most times I don’t understand things. We had so much rain this year. It just rained and rained. But I think many hate this. The world is changing.
Last month we put the field into crop. Soy beans.I don’t ever really us planting a crop in August.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@SiubhanDuinne: Obama – Baby Whisperer.
:-)
Cheers,
Scott.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@Right to Rise:
Do you remember when he lost both the popular and electoral vote and was appointed by his dad’s SCOTUS appointees?
SiubhanDuinne
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
Yes. Wonderful, isn’t it?