Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) via email: "Do Republicans support Donald Trump's empty podium or Ted Cruz's empty suit?"
— Robert Costa (@costareports) January 27, 2016
The Guardian, praise goddess & real journalism, is liveblogging both screamfests here.
Huckabee and Santorum Will Join Donald Trump For Alternative Debate Event On CNN https://t.co/1tEJNOJWDi pic.twitter.com/TXXDaZUKZb
— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 28, 2016
So this Trump event at Drake is shaping up EXACTLY like Wrestlemania
— Wyeth Ruthven (@wyethwire) January 28, 2016
BREAKING: 'Affluenza' Teen Expected Back in US Within Hours https://t.co/xajLHGvPEv via @law_newz pic.twitter.com/TIiLs4b8rP
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) January 28, 2016
Will take Trump's place at debate. https://t.co/KbijOZstC1
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) January 28, 2016
— laura olin (@lauraolin) January 28, 2016
Per the Washington Post, Fox News streams the undercard (Fiorina/Huckabee/Santorum/Gilmore) starting at 7pm EST; CBSN may livestream the Trump Show warm-up at 8pm; and then the ‘competition’: Fox with the ‘authorized’ debate, and
Donald Trump campaigns @DrakeUniversity in Des Moines #iacaucus – LIVE at 9pm ET on C-SPAN https://t.co/NCuNOmYivX pic.twitter.com/WmtVCDvzUf
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 28, 2016
(Also, Jeb “Wrong Again” Bush seems to be out twenty bucks.)
Mike J
Campaigning in style: How Jeb Bush blew through his warchest
SiubhanDuinne
@Mike J:
Warch, warcher, warchest.
Mnemosyne
Fun day at work today with a special guest, Disneyland tomorrow with bonus day drinking.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Cruz Crumbles in Corn Country on Canada Concerns
jl
Now that the similarity of the GOP primary race to Wrestlemania is ‘out there’ in social media, and we have to talk about it, I might watch another one of these crazy shows if the two teams get in the same ring for a tag team match.
But I have to be assured that scenario would be good. I saw a clip of Wrestlemania where they had ladders and that was so cool. Guys were hitting each other over the head with the ladders, and they would climb to the top of the ladders and slug each other in the face.
I’m not really interested unless the GOP can top that.
Steve in the ATL
Usually it’s the other kind of meth that kills young hillbillies. I must say the Skynyrd shirt was a nice touch.
http://www.people.com/article/dewshine-mountain-dew-racing-fuel-mix-second-death-tennessee
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Katy Tur reports Trump supporters in Iowa believe Trump will return “Christian values” back to country.
Yes, a foul mouth, racist, sexist, lying, philandering, thrice married casinø owner, who never attends church epitomizes “Christian values”
Mike J
Edroso has the preview of what both events will be like.
redshirt
That’s Rowdy Roddy Piper’s Music!!!!
Germy
Iowa Old Lady
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: These people have been making things up in their heads for a long time. Even Trump restoring Christian values is not a stretch for them, since they want to have him in charge beating on the people they hate.
dogwood
The last debates I watched were the three presidential debates in ’08. I try to avoid right wing nonsense whenever possible; it used to be kinda funny, but now it’s just pathetically maddening. I don’t know why I skipped the Obama/Romney debates other than I was pretty sick of it all by then.
Redshift
So are Huckabee and Santorum going to TrumpFest after doing the undercard debate? That’s kind of underwhelming, compared to blowing it off.
Also, I find it hilarious that “Don’t Google Me” Santorum is in the “Fox News – Google GOP Debate.”
Karen
I’m confused did CNN just come up with the event Trump will be at?
Frankensteinbeck
Open Thread? My publisher is about to give me a ARC of the third Inscrutable Machine book, presumably a .mobi file, and wants me to find fans to give it to so there can be reviews up the first day. Any suggestions how this can be arranged without email addresses being passed around publicly?
sigaba
I think we know the answer is “yes.”
Shell
Christ, Santorum is still in the race??? I know Trump sucks the oxygen out of any room, but when was the last time you heard anything of or about Santorum in the media.
Karen
Won’t Fox hold a grudge against whoever goes to the other party at CNN
Anne Laurie
@Karen:
I think CNN decided to cover Trump’s ‘GOP Is Not Boss of ME’ whatever-it-is because Fox had a prior commitment to air the official debate.
Underdogs unite!, cries CNN…
JPL
@Karen: You are not alone..
Mike J
Gabriel Sherman @gabrielsherman 5h5 hours ago
Realistic chance Trump could have his cake and eat it, too: he told people this afternoon he might go to debate tonight after his event.
Howard Beale IV
Paul Kantner, RIP.
raven
@Howard Beale IV: Goddamn!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaHNAVgVkDY
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@Shell: My sources told me Santorum was ending his bid for president to go back to his produce manager job at A&P.
Germy
Live, Love and Learn (1937) original trailer
Robert Montgomery (father of Elizabeth) and Rosalind Russell
slag
Instead of the GOP debate I’ll probably just go ahead and watch this over and over all night. So much more depth and meaning overall.
raven
@Howard Beale IV: The summer had inhaled and held its breath too long
Germy
In October 1980, Kantner was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in serious condition from a cerebral hemorrhage. Kantner had been working in Los Angeles on an album when he became ill.
He was 39 years old at the time and beat considerable odds with a full recovery without surgery. A year later, Kantner talked about the experience, saying, “If there was a Big Guy up there willing to talk to me, I was willing to listen. But nothing happened. It was all just like a small vacation.”
It was his second brush with serious illness or injury, having suffered a serious motorcycle accident in the early 1960s: “I hit a tree at 40 miles an hour head first and nearly shattered my skull. I had a plate in there for a while.” The injury from the motorcycle accident was credited with saving Kantner from serious complications from the cerebral hemorrhage; the hole left by the accident relieved the accompanying cranial pressure.
– from wikipedia
raven
@Germy: Oh yea, he had many miles on him. I appreciated Bowie but the Airplane, the Dead, Hendrix, Quicksilver, Janis. . . that was my music.
tybee
@Howard Beale IV:
https://youtu.be/_Disl35BIzM
ThresherK
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Hicks Nix Sticky Dick…umm
I swear I had something for this!
Gimlet
Editorial ‘toon
http://assets.amuniversal.com/bf0152a0a7fd013337f0005056a9545d
raven
I mark an Airplane show as the beginning of the end of rock for me for a couple of decades. It was probably 74 or so and someone had printed a couple of hundred counterfeit tickets all for the same seat in the Assembly Hall at Illinois. The cops were chasing people all over the joint and lots got thrown out. The thing that really killed it, and shows in general, was that they decided to make people sit down. . .for an Airplane show! Years lated I got back on it with a few Dead shows before Jerry died but the 70’s and 80’s were dead to me.
Germy
We’re entering an era where every other day we’ll be learning about the death of some ’60s rock star or another (even more than we did in the ’60s) as now they’re all aging out.
slag
@Gimlet: Accurate.
raven
If you want to get to heaven. . .
Germy
Chauncey Devega has written that Trump is playing the part of the wrestling “heel” (the bad guy) everyone loves to boo.
MomSense
@Frankensteinbeck:
I think front pagers can arrange email exchanges.
dogwood
@Germy:
As a 62 year old myself, I’ve been to 4 funerals in the past 5 weeks. One of them my brother whose estate I’m going to have to figure out. So the death of 60 something rock stars and celebrities hasn’t moved me much. I think I’ve been commenting here a lot more than usual because I don’t want to think about those good people in my life who are now gone. BJ is a good distraction.
Anoniminous
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
I think I’m going to enjoy the next eight weeks of the GOP primary.
Steve in the ATL
@dogwood: There are some fine people here at BJ. In addition to that, there are many lawyers.
raven
@Steve in the ATL: Ca ching!
Adam L Silverman
The link to the KGW livestream of the FBI press conference regarding whats going on at the wildlife refuge is here:
http://legacy.kgw.com/videos/news/local/2015/05/07/13749341/
raven
I wonder what these sisters at the Trump rally are up to?
NotMax
Ho hum.
Thursdays are the red-headed stepchildren of any week.
redshirt
@dogwood: Hope I die before I get old, we said, long ago…
raven
@NotMax: I bet there won’t be any Kantner threads.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
So MSNBC has both Clintons and Bernie Sanders on mute so they can talk about Trump while waiting to go live to Trump?
Steve Schmidt. Maybe Hayes will mention there’s a direct line from picking Palin to Trump winning.
Helen
@Adam L Silverman:
Oh man – they are going to show Tarp man getting shot. They have videos.
Anne Laurie
@raven:
He was never in my wheelhouse — I’m not musically sophisticated — but if you have any links you’d like to see front-paged, by all means let me know.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Was looking for a link to the story about Vandehai and Mike Allen parting ways with Politico when I saw this
NotMax
@raven
At first suffered a brain burp and thought it was Paul Krassner.
Had a subscription to The Realist back in the day.
chrome agnomen
@raven: i saw you…
raven
@Anne Laurie: Nah, I don’t think the Airplane had the kind of widespread appeal as some of these other folks. Jorma and Cassidy were the real driving force of the music and that’s evidenced by the continuing popularity of Hot Tuna. I take heart that my FB friends from those days are joining in. You had to be there.
raven
@chrome agnomen: Pretty pretty song.
NotMax
@raven
I was.
And, surprisingly, can even remember snatches of it.
:)
raven
@NotMax: I figured. . .
trollhattan
@Howard Beale IV:
Nooooooooo!
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: so what’s up with that – do they think they can start up their own place, like Ezra Klien?
Steeplejack
@Howard Beale IV:
Rest in peace. Jefferson Airplane, “Today.” Written by Kantner and Marty Balin.
frosty fka Bro Shotgun etc etc
@raven:
The Airplane was my gateway to the Haight Ashbury musical scene. They were the first band I heard in my backwater Pennsylvania town and probably my favorite of them all. Picked up on Big Brother and Zappa a little later. I was never much of a Deadhead but a big Quicksilver fan.
Howard Beale IV
@Steeplejack:
I was fortunate to be at the reunion concert at Pine Knob in 1989: had 3rd row seats. Caught a panda bear that Grace Slick was throwing out in the audience (it was the name of the last track of the reunion tour album/CD.)
Jorma and Casady performed their acoustic set on our side of the stage-saw all of Jorma’s tats.
Something I’ll never forget for sure.
NotMax
@Howard Beale IV
Stuffed, one hopes. Otherwise things might turn ugly real fast.
;)
mclaren
What a clusterfuck shitshow fail parade America has become. Now the latest great idea: set up a site to crowdfund people’s astronomical medical bills. Because this sick joke of a country can’t manage to set up the same nationalized single-payer health care system every other advanced country uses:
Crowdfunding site helps pay patients’ medical bills
Hey! Here’s a brilliant idea! We could extend this!
Instead of taxes, we could hold bake sales whenever we need to build a bridge or a dam. And then we set up a lemonade stand to fund our military! And then we could sell brownies if we need to fund the National Institute of Health…
The so-called country misnamed America is such a bizarre joke, it’s like watching a bunch of three-year-olds trying to operate a nation. Beyond absurd. The world points at us and laughs with mixed disgust and disbelief.
redshirt
@mclaren: I think it’s only recently, though. America used to be fairly rational.
J R in WV
@Frankensteinbeck: Do you have an author web site, or author blog or book site or anything like that?
Because people could send you their web site, or you could coordinate with the publisher, who has a web site, to receive email addresses from fans here, for example, or wherever you alert fans to the ARC opportunity.
Annie Laurie is semipublic and we all know her email address, perhaps she would accumulate them and forward them to you?
I imagine she would be willing to do that for a famous published author blog poster. Exp with such a classy Nym as yours!!
Steeplejack
@J R in WV:
Frankensteinbeck’s nym contains a URL to his site (duplicated here).