That New York Values quip from the right-wing Bible humper is paying dividends:
Rep. Peter King of New York said in a radio interview on Thursday that New Yorkers should not vote for Ted Cruz in the state’s upcoming primary.
“Let me say something about the New York primary: Any New Yorker who even thinks of voting for Ted Cruz should have their head examined,” King said on the Joe Piscopo Show on AM 970 The Answer. “Really, here’s a guy who refused to sign onto the 9/11 health care act for the cops and fireman. Here’s a guy who talks about New York values.”
“New York keeps going forward,” King continued, citing the city’s response to 9/11. “We’re tough, and to have some guy like Ted Cruz with cowboy boots walk around criticizing us. Look, I hope he gets the cold shoulder and other things from every New Yorker. Send him back where he belongs. He’s a phony, and that was all off the record by the way. I don’t want anyone listening. That was all off the record.”
“I just can’t stand that guy,” he added.
No one likes him. No one.
Corner Stone
Ted Cruz is the fucking worst.
Linnaeus
When even Peter King doesn’t like you…
Major Major Major Major
Off the record? On a radio interview, that I can only imagine was live?
gwangung
ANOTHER thing that unites Clintonistas and Bernie-meisters.
schrodinger's cat
As I said yesterday, he is the worst clown in the scary FAIL parade that is the race for the GOP nomination.
C. Isaac
When choosing between Pond Scum and Ted Cruz and the pond scum is looking inviting…
Cheap Jim, formerly Cheap Jim
Is that what happened to Joe Piscopo? AM radio in Hackensack?
elmo
It is positively scary how well the photoshopped Taliban gear fits that face. Especially the eyes. He has the most sinister, most empty eyes of any politician I’ve ever seen.
NonyNony
So … did Peter King think he was being recorded when it was actually a live interview, or did the interviewer decide that him saying “off the record” after the fact wasn’t sufficient for it to actually be off the record, or was King making a joke?
I suspect none of these things are true and that Peter King isn’t very bright. But I suppose I should be generous with benefit of doubt.
hellslittlestangel
What is it about washed-up former SNL comics and right-wing nutjobbery?
NonyNony
@C. Isaac:
Cruz as a possible Republican president makes W look good.
2008 “Hot Mess” W even – after we knew exactly what kind of a president he was – probably still a better choice for President and would do less damage than Ted Cruz would manage.
redshirt
LOL. So who is King suggesting New Yorkers vote for? The Donald?
redshirt
@hellslittlestangel: I have a theory that as a comedian gets in better shape, the less funny they become. Doesn’t address becoming a right wing wacko though.
Elizabelle
King:
I’ll see those “New York values” and raise you one.
dr. bloor
@NonyNony: He’s probably just familiar with Piscopo’s ratings.
Calouste
IRA supporter Peter King probably recognizes a little bit too much of Ian Paisley in Ted Cruz.
Jackmac
So much more to dislike about the Tail Gunner, but I think Rep. Peter King’s comment alone may kill Ted Cruz in New York. (Yeah, King’s odious, too).
Punchy
Approx. 56% of Wisconsin Republicans beg to differ.
Miss Bianca
@elmo: Agreed. Whoa!
Mike J
Cruz is walking around NY with cowboy boots?
redshirt
@hellslittlestangel: Piscopo, Miller, Victoria Jackson, who else?
NonyNony
@Punchy:
Eh – Republicans as a group know all about voting for lesser evils. That 56% doesn’t necessarily like him either – they just think he’ll advance their agenda more than Trump or Kasich will.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Pretty sure the “off the record” thing was a joke, but with King…I’m not putting money on it.
And he’s right and I agree with not just a Republican, but with one of the worst out there. He is right. I need a bath and some mouthwash.
I also think the GOP is thinking that “lose with Cruz” may be a far better stratagem, and limit the downticket damage, than having the Trumpster fire as the face of their partei. Trump will utterly destroy their party, and for that reason I gotta hope he clinches the nom. Think he’ll fail at that, though. Shame.
mike in dc
Nixon wasn’t beloved, but he had a lot of electoral success. Cruz won’t do well in NY(though Kasich may do okay), but he isn’t far behind Trump in California at the moment.
Origuy
“To know, know, know him, is to hate, hate, hate him” — no apologies to Phil Spector.
hellslittlestangel
@redshirt: You want more?
But I suppose the list of washed-up SNLers is a long one…
LAO
@CONGRATULATIONS!: King has been very vocal in NY about his hatred of Cruz — the “off the record” remark was definitely a joke.
I must say, I once believed that there was nothing in this world which I would agree on with Peter King, but here I am. Cruz is an odious piece of shit.
JCT
@redshirt: I think he’s most favorable re: Kasich.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Cruz could win it here. Our state is sadly (not sadly at all) running very short of Republicans at the moment, and the few that are left are either Range War Bundyites or straight up religious fanatics, and Cruz does very well with both those groups. Plus, I’d bet about 90% of Californians live within a hundred miles of someone who has far more money than Trump and is a bigger asshole to boot, so they’re not going to be impressed with his tales of yooooouge success. We hear that bullshit from people every day here. While standing in line at Starbucks. From the baristas, sometimes.
Mike in NC
Pundits are calling dead-eyes Ted Cruz a “tealevangical” in that he embodies the extremism of the Tea Party movement plus the religious fervor of the Christian Right. His first order of business would be to do away with that pesky separation of church and state thing.
bystander
If Cruz gets depressed over his treatment in NY and decides to jump off one of our many tall buildings, I hope he picks Trump Tower and he lands on Peter King.
RedDirtGirl
@redshirt: Are you thinking of Ricky Gervais, by any chance?
Gin & Tonic
Hey, asshole, where is the 2nd CD, where you supposedly live?
rikyrah
uh huh
uh huh
Trump would be awful for the GOP. But Dems think Ted Cruz would be a disaster, too.
By Greg Sargent
April 6 at 3:31 PM
Barely moments after Ted Cruz won his big victory in Wisconsin last night, he immediately pivoted towards the general election, declaring that Hillary Clinton should quake in fear of the increasingly likely prospect that she will be facing him, not Donald Trump, in November. Meanwhile, there’s a good case to be made that Cruz could prevail as the GOP nominee, if a contested convention takes place.
Dems seem to think it might actually happen. Today the pro-Clinton Super PAC Priorities USA Action began running a new digital ad that targets Cruz along with Trump, featuring footage of the Texas Senator declaring that Roe v. Wade is not settled law and calling for the prosecution of Planned Parenthood.
In an interview with me, Geoff Garin, the pollster for Priorities USA, indicated that his group and Democrats were preparing for the possibility of facing Cruz as diligently as they have been preparing to face Trump — and that in some ways, Cruz might be every bit as ripe a target for Democrats as Trump would be.
“Cruz would be the most extreme right wing nominee in modern American history,” Garin told me. “He is deeply out of sync with a large majority of voters on social issues. His role in shutting down the government is anathema to most Americans. If Republicans nominate Cruz, they concede any claim to the center whatsoever.”
Garin cited Cruz’s opposition to Roe v. Wade and his desire to prosecute Planned Parenthood over the sting videos (Trump has actually defended the group’s role in providing health services to women) as well as Cruz’s vow to continue fighting to reverse the Supreme Court’s ruling of a constitutional right to gay marriage.
“The fact that he wants to defund and prosecute Planned Parenthood puts him at odds with voters in a general election and with women voters in particular,” Garin said. “His desire to roll back the clock on marriage equality will be a deal breaker with a generation of voters.”
redshirt
@RedDirtGirl: Ricky has certainly not gone right wing nutjob.
Calouste
@CONGRATULATIONS!: Lose with Cruz only works if Trump doesn’t go third party, or just endorses a third party. The Wisconsin exit polls indicated that about 30% of Republicans wanted to vote third party if Cruz won the nomination (and the same for Trump), and if Trump gives them a party to vote for, that could be fatal not only for the GOP’s presidential chances, but also for a number of down ticket races. Even if the GOP doesn’t lose the whole 30% of their voters to Trump, 10% would probably be enough to flip a number of races.
Corner Stone
That Mullah Cruz picture is freaking uncanny. Are we sure that’s photoshopped?
Trollhattan
His morbid fascination with the death penalty and executions when clerking for Rehnquist will require more airing should Cruz pull out a nomination. The guy has more than a few screws loose in that hard noggin of his.
redshirt
@hellslittlestangel: Sure, lot’s of washed up former SNL’ers; I’m asking about the ones who went right wing nutjob and got a national platform as such.
benw
@bystander: LOL. Call that a Cruz-missle strike.
Steeplejack (phone)
@redshirt:
If Lorne Michaels makes you cry, it’s all downhill after that.
Stacy
Every interview done with him should start with the reporter asking why he thinks women and girls should be forced to carry a rapist’s child to term. Why does a bunch of cells have more rights than a sentient person?
Matt McIrvin
Current polling says that, in fact, 34% of Americans like him.
Trollhattan
@srv:
Bureau of Land Management? Still cleaning up after the Bundy mob.
redshirt
@Calouste: I don’t see how Trump can go 3rd party at this point.
And from my anecdota of “Real” Republicans, they want Cruz. So a “Lose with Cruz” strategy makes sense if it is intended to preserve downticket votes. Trump is too much of a wild card.
LAO
@Matt McIrvin: They just don’t know him yet.
Gin & Tonic
@Calouste: With each day that passes, “going third party” gets further and further out of reach, particularly for candidates without a really good grasp of minutiae, like Trump and Sanders. Ballot access requirements x50 are daunting. If this is unresolved (on either side) until convention time or close to it, then it’s too late.
SiubhanDuinne
I’m not sure how it happened, but until today I’m pretty sure I never heard one of Ted Cruz’ stump speeches. (I’ve heard him in debates and town halls, of course, but not his actual rallies.) Anyhow, caught a few minutes on the car radio an hour or two ago, and even knowing his background and retrograde beliefs, I was genuinely taken aback at how much he sounds like a grifting tent-revival evangelist. Oily, smarmy, creepy, insinuating, overly intimate….
~~shudder~~
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: Did you hear it or see it? That fucking goofy smile after EVERY point he makes is the public speaking equivalent of an srv post.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
I hate Ted too.
hellslittlestangel
@redshirt: I understand. As far as I know, it’s just those three.
Germy Shoemangler
Ted has a joke he keeps repeating during every speech: “The democrats have a choice between a wild-eyed socialist who’ll ruin the country… and Bernie Sanders.” He repeats the gag a million times, like the polished comedian he is.
Has anyone else seen the clip of Triumph The Insult Comic dog following Cruz from campaign stop to campaign stop? Cruz uses the exact same words in every speech. He’s more robotic than Rubio. Towards the end, Triumph says his speech, anticipating every word.
I know politicians rely on prepared speeches, but this was like watching an adroid.
Steeplejack (phone)
@redshirt:
I think she was referring to him possibly being less funny now.
Germy Shoemangler
@hellslittlestangel: There was also a head writer at SNL (I can’t remember his name) who was/is a major wingnut, and always made sure the “libruls” were mocked constantly.
Nemo_N
CNN anchor is now declaring the fight is full of nastiness on both sides.
geg6
@Cheap Jim, formerly Cheap Jim:
I know, right? As the vulgar talking yam would say, Sad!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Corner Stone: Cosign
raven
Seeing Arnie at the first tee but not be able to hit is a bummer.
eemom
Cruz is the antiChrist. I used to think Cheney was, but I guess Cruz took over after Cheney left office without destroying the world.
Germy Shoemangler
@SiubhanDuinne: Some have compared him to Robert Mitchum in “Night of the Hunter”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3JlGPF4Ko8
Matt McIrvin
@Gin & Tonic: It’s always possible to tell people to write you in and raise hell. I think you do need to register somehow as a write-in candidate in some states to actually have the votes for you counted, but if you’re just trying to make trouble it hardly matters.
But if you’re not on the ballot, the amount of damage you can do is probably really limited.
? Martin
Hillary did her required subway trip without notable incident. Probably unavoidable after the MTA test administered to Sanders. I wonder if the candidates will be asked where Ray’s is (trick question), or if alternate side of street parking is suspended on Shavuot (bonus Jewish pandering there). Maybe, “what are the appropriate condiments to put on a hot dog”.
redshirt
@raven: Yeah, I read an SI article about Arnie and it was clear he’s going downhill pretty fast.
He’s had a great life and I hope the remainder is comfortable for him.
redshirt
@eemom: You’ve read/seen The Dead Zone, yes?
Matt McIrvin
@redshirt: I think Lorne Michaels claimed that Dennis Miller was always a libertarian-ish wingnut; he was disinhibited once he was no longer on Saturday Night Live, and 9/11 made him a super-warmonger in particular.
raven
@redshirt: He was able to get up out of the cart and wave. I know it’s part of the normal wheel of life but it still sucks.
Mike J
@? Martin: Which Ray’s? Famous Ray’s, Original Famous Ray’s, We’re the Real Ray’s That You’re Looking For, Don’t Listen to Those Other Bastards This is Ray’s?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@elmo: Shit, the Taliban dudes’ eyes mostly look like they’re nicer people. Not to be disagreeable.
Germy Shoemangler
@Matt McIrvin: Jim Downey was the SNL writer with… conservative leanings. You could always spot one of his lines because they sounded like Rush Limbaugh trying to be witty.
Roger Moore
@redshirt:
He probably can’t go as an independent- there are filing deadlines and sore loser laws- but he might be able to go third party if he can get one to adopt him as their candidate. I honestly think his smartest policy would be to have that already negotiated as a fallback position. It would certainly give him a much more credible threat in the event of shenanigans at the national convention.
raven
@Mike J: Ray’s creek.
Germy Shoemangler
@raven: I’ve been seeing him on those commercials with Kevin Nealon.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Jackmac: King’s odious to be sure, but he’s an elected-to-Congress-by-New York-voters kind of odious. That’s different up there from Tailgunner Ted who doesn’t even wear nice cowboy boots, near as I can tell.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
That’s fucking golden, raven. Fucking. Golden.
No TV in my car. Audio only. But I’ve seen that “smile” and I agree.
raven
@Germy Shoemangler: Yea, it makes me wonder when they were made. Of course he may just have a problem that doesn’t allow him to swing but he looked pretty rough and thinner than in that ad.
Germy Shoemangler
@raven: The problem with the wheel of life is that it speeds up towards the end. I remember when I was young and summers seemed endless. Now they fly by too quickly.
Gin & Tonic
@? Martin:
It’s next to Starbuck’s.
raven
@Germy Shoemangler: Don’t I know it. Being able to finally go to Augusta Monday was great but there were some ghosts along the way.
Calouste
@Roger Moore: That’s the way I would think as well. Minor party Presidential candidate has a turn about, retires from politics, and Trump steps in as the replacement. Former Minor party Presidential candidate is later found to have lifetime room and board at Mar-A-Lago and other Trump properties.
Germy Shoemangler
@raven: Off topic, but I heard something on the radio this morning about Vietnam vets with Hep-C. Turns out they’d gotten it from the innoculations with the high-power air injectors that were reused again and again. I hadn’t known about that.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Matt McIrvin: Al Franken has said the same thing, not a wing nut but somebody with some conserve-tarian instincts. but I remember lots of pretty liberal rants and riffs from a pre-9/11 Dennis Miller, from laughing out loud at Helene Chenoweth on the old Maher show to sucking up to Janeane Garofalo on his own.
@Germy Shoemangler: In fairness I think Downey wrote some pretty good stuff– but that’s a vague impression, I couldn’t cite evidence. And I’m pretty sure he’s the guy who said that SNL has just never found a comic hook with Obama, he’s too measured to be a punchline beyond, the pauses and the “let me be clears” and other minor verbal tics. I think that’s what drove MoDo around the final bend, she couldn’t get a hook in him and she resented him for it.
Trollhattan
@Matt McIrvin:
During Miller’s SNL run I think his schtick was the source of a lot of amusement and derision amongst the gang.
raven
@Gin & Tonic: Well, you can call me Ray or you can call me Jay. . .
sherparick
Somehow all this failed to register with the high school theater critics at Time Magazine. http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-few-more-softball-interviews-like.html#links They are marveling at his ability to fool the rubes and go from the most hated man in the Senate to perhaps being the favorite to win the Republican nomination .
redshirt
@raven: True that. But as the Buddha said, “life sucks, then you die.”
MazeDancer
@Gin & Tonic:
Looked it up and, indeed, the first big deadline is May 9th. That is when Texas requires any independent candidate for President to have filed. There are a bunch of states that have June deadlines.
Texas has the Libertarian and Green parties already on their ballot. So those are possible buy-your-way on the ballot in TX. Write-in filing deadline in TX is June.
There are no 3rd parties that have 50 state ballot access already. Though the Constitutional party is on in 24. And 7 states do not allow write-in candidates.
raven
@Germy Shoemangler: I was telling someone about them the other day. If you stood still you were OK but if you moved, and lots of dudes freaked out and did, that sucker would cut you wide open. As far as the HEP-C, my doc made sure I got the shot just because I’m in that population.
eemom
@redshirt:
Read it a long, long time ago. Don’t remember much.
lollipopguild
@Corner Stone: Its a photo from one of his recent Town Hall meeting back in Texas.
Peale
@? Martin: Yeah. I hate this kind of crap, but as I wrote this morning, if Iowa gets to have the candidates for six straight months eating deep fried spam at its county fairs, New York can at least get three weeks of candidates pretending that they regularly eat pastrami, but like it on white bread so we can all faint at the failed pander. Take a subway ride, wear a yankees cap, eat a hot dog. At least we don’t make you wrestle greased pigs to prove that you’re some kind of yokel at heart.
Germy Shoemangler
@Peale: Michelle Bachmann devouring an Iowan corn dog spawned some embarrassing photos online.
I wonder how many candidates get food poisoning?
Just One More Canuck
@raven: are you following a group?
redshirt
@eemom: It basically had Ted Cruz running for President, and he was the monster of the story.
raven
@Just One More Canuck: I was only able to be there Monday, won tickets in the lottery they run. Not only was I able to take my bride I made a ridiculous amount of $$ selling the 2 extras.
lollipopguild
@raven: But yah doesnt have to call me RayJay.
raven
@lollipopguild: Interestingly, my last name is. . .
dogwood
@eemom:
Cruz is probably more odious than Cheney because it seems to permeate every aspect of his humanity. I wouldn’t want to shake Dick Cheney’s hand because I find his politics and world view dangerous and ugly. I wouldn’t want to shake Cruz’s had because the thought of him touching me is repellant. He’s completely gross on every level.
lollipopguild
@raven: Lollipop?
Origuy
@redshirt: Wikipedia says that Adam Sandler contributed to Guiliani’s presidential campaign. He’s reportedly a registered Republican.
raven
@lollipopguild: Close
redshirt
@lollipopguild: I love your user name btw.
Germy Shoemangler
@dogwood: I like the way Tom Toles draws Cruz. He captures his features perfectly.
Matt Taibbi said Cruz’s face “looks like someone sewed pieces of a waterlogged Reagan mask together at gunpoint”
Origuy
@? Martin:
The appropriate answer to that is “I have no idea, I never drive in the city.”
Germy Shoemangler
Jerry Maren is still alive. He was one of the original members of the Wizard of Oz Lollipop Guild. I think he’s about 95 years old now.
Mike J
@Origuy:
If he cared about making the world a better place he wouldn’t be making movies. Of course he’s a Republican.
Origuy
Oh, and Rob Schneider is a Republican and an anti-vaxxer, to boot.
NonyNony
@Mike J:
What if Sandler sucking up all of the funding is what is stopping the world from getting Mike Myers doing “The Love Guru 2”?
Technocrat
@Peale:
This is so true. I can’t wait for them to start pandering in PA, so I can be judgemental about where they eat cheesesteaks.
Yes, there are correct places.
Germy Shoemangler
@NonyNony: I always wanted to see a “Sprockets” film from Mike Myers. I doubt anyone will ever bankroll a Dieter movie, though.
lollipopguild
@redshirt: Thank you. It comes from having The Wizard of Oz on the TV every year as a kid. Does yours come from Star Trek?
Brachiator
Babies will start crying just from the sound of his name.
He can spark road rage from people sitting in parked cars.
He’s been permanently disqualified from ever winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
[music swells] He’s the most hated man in the Senate. Ted Cruz.
“I don’t always drink beer, but when I do, no one will drink with me.”
Germy Shoemangler
@Brachiator:
Tim C.
@dogwood: Seriously! I know this is damning with faint praise, but there was one thing. ONE THING! I appreciated about the Bush/Cheney years. Bush, for all his crimes and every single horrible/evil/incompetent thing he ever did, didn’t directly encourage hate against Islam. If I had to pick Bush’s finest hour, it was after 9/11 when he visited the Mosque and made it clear that at least openly and politically, his branch of the GOP wasn’t going to go down that path.
https://www.michigandaily.com/content/bush-visits-mosque-urges-tolerance
Cruz and Trump are so very very far below even the underwater threshold W set.
redshirt
@lollipopguild: Of course.
*DIES
lollipopguild
@Technocrat: When I was at Temple in the late 70’s a good cheesesteak always had provolone. The only place that served them with cheesewhiz was the cafeteria.(horrible!) Now I see where cheesewhiz is ok? When did this change?
Gin & Tonic
@Technocrat: You *know* the Repubs will want to go to Geno’s.
redshirt
@Tim C.: Agreed. I also appreciate the manner in which W. has conducted himself since he left office. That is, out of the public eye. Can’t say the same for Darth Cheney or his apprentice.
Mike J
@redshirt: You have read Scalzi’s book, I hope.
lollipopguild
@redshirt: But you are the Wiley Coyote(TM) edition so you always come back to life.
lollipopguild
@Brachiator: That was superb!
redshirt
@Mike J: I have. He stole my bit! But it was really Galaxy Quest’s bit first.
redshirt
@lollipopguild: Real question: Doesn’t everyone root for the coyote at this point? Fuck Roadrunner.
lollipopguild
@redshirt: Yes, he is always running away from life. Coyote always struck me as a creator/inventor type.
SFAW
@Mike J:
Ha! I’m so old, I can remember when there was only one. It’s like Highlander in reverse.
But without Sean Connery (praise Jeebus). Although I guess they’ll put ham on a pie …
Mike J
@redshirt:
It was a running joke at Science fiction conventions for decades before Galaxy Quest.
Elizabelle
@Brachiator: That’s gold. Well done.
Brachiator
@redshirt:
Problem is, ACME Roadrunner Fuckers don’t work worth shit.
SFAW
@lollipopguild:
I think it’s related to the rise of conservatism, somehow.
ETA: Lost my head there for a second. In reality, it’s Obama’s fault.
Roger Moore
@Technocrat:
It’s so rare for the campaign ever to get to California I don’t even know what they’re supposed to pander about here.
SFAW
@Germy Shoemangler:
Fixed
redshirt
@Brachiator: True. Coyote should really switch brands by now.
lollipopguild
@Brachiator: Try the AJAX model.
Germy Shoemangler
@SFAW:
Happened the same time that ketchup became a vegetable.
They make their own reality. Unfortunately, we’re forced to live in it.
redshirt
@Roger Moore: I’d love to see the candidates try and surf or skateboard.
lollipopguild
@SFAW: Drop a beer truck on.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@lollipopguild: Naw, it’s guild. I hope he doesn’t hate me for telling.
Roger Moore
@Tim C.:
I thought inviting McCain and Obama to sit at the table and help deal with the financial crisis was also well done. I assume there was a measure of panic there- he was trying to get all the help he could find to deal with it- but it was also a proper recognition that the crisis was going to last long enough that his successor would still be dealing with it, and both candidates needed a chance to get involved so they’d be able to hit the ground running. It was still politics, but it was the politics of trying to get something important done rather than the politics of party advantage.
Technocrat
@lollipopguild:
Small world! I was at Temple in the late 70’s. As far as when “whiz” became acceptable, I don’t know. I live in Pittsburgh now, so I’m no longer sure what a real cheesesteak looks like ;=)
@Gin & Tonic:
Ugh. And eat them with forks and knives.
cmorenc
@John Cole:
Not even his mother? Of course, she could be jivin’ too.
LAO
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Left you a (bundy) message on the site maintenance thread.
SFAW
@lollipopguild:
Well, unfortunately, AJAX was bought by ACME last week. The press release said something about “the synergies of our core competencies will allow us to deliver our world-class mission statement value proposition and delight the customer with vertically-integrated potrzebie production. And a pony.”
Roger Moore
@redshirt:
I wonder if they’ll be examined to see if they put sour cream and guacamole in their burritos. Of course that’s a very tough pander, because you’ll be dissing somebody no matter which way you choose.
SFAW
@lollipopguild:
Would that it were so. Just as long as it’s some crappy beer — don’t want to waste the good stuff.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@LAO: Heading off to look, junkie that I am.
lollipopguild
@Technocrat: People eat cheesesteaks with forks and knives? Shudders. Its just another sign of the end of the world as we know it.
Roger Moore
@SFAW:
But everyone knows it’s just a tax inversion scheme.
lollipopguild
@SFAW: The beer truck could be empty- the truck would weigh enuff to do the job.
Aleta
“On 9-11 I didn’t like how rock music responded.” T Cruz
WTF does that even mean except that he is an artificially unseeded clone of a fraud.
SFAW
@lollipopguild:
That’s Atlanta (well, Athens, technically), not Philly.
But do you feel fine?
SFAW
@Roger Moore:
Nice try — they’re both currently HQ’d in the USofA.
SFAW
@lollipopguild:
I shoulda thunk of that. How embarrassing!
redshirt
@SFAW: LEONARD BERNSTEIN!
Aleta
@C. Isaac: Now that you mention it, pond scum has never promised to deregulate Wall Street and take away health care.
lollipopguild
@SFAW: Yes, To quote Young Frankensteen I feel “Right as Rain”
elmo
@Roger Moore: Fish tacos in the south, Pinot Noir in the north.
Technocrat
@Aleta:
My first thought was: I do not ever want to know what bands Ted Cruz rocked out to. Because I might have liked those bands. And that would put me in a very dark place.
lollipopguild
@SFAW: I can see a bright future for you writing ad copy for a Vibrator Co. telling everyone how the products “delights” the customer.
lollipopguild
@elmo: Would you like a nice Napa Valley wine with your Burrito?
Iowa Old Lady
I would not be surprised if Cruz turned out to be some sort of simulacrum rather a human being.
maeve
@lollipopguild:
Reading “when I was at Temple … ” – my first thought was “Cheesesteaks are kosher???” (then I got it)
Technocrat
@maeve:
With “cheese” whiz, they probably are.
SFAW
@lollipopguild:
Something about the latest buzz …
Chris
I never thought I’d say this: thank you, Peter King.
For my entire admittedly short life, the heartland and the Wholesome Small Town Country Folk in it have been held up as the epitome of everything moral, all-American, and that we should aspire to. And all they fucking do is bitch about how they feel disrespected, looked down upon, and just generally still aren’t getting enough hugs, somehow. Meanwhile, cities like New York, LA, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, are held up as Sodom and Gomorrah, so terrible and sinful that the two most famous preachers in the country could react to the murder of 3,000 New Yorkers and Washingtonians on 9/11 by calling it God’s judgment on them for having too many gays and feminists, and hardly anyone raised an eyebrow. And they’re expected to be okay with this.
Essentially, it has been okay for decades now to treat blue state big cities in exactly the way that the heartland thinks it’s being treated. It is long past time that this kind of bullshit be met with pushback, and if Peter King and yes, Donald Trump, are the ones to do it, good on them.
Felonius Monk
There was a foul odor in the air here today. The most likely suspect is Ted Cruz who was holding a rally a short distance away. I believe they are bringing in an army of front end loaders and dump trucks to cart off the mountains of bullshit he spewed.
Trollhattan
@Aleta:
His word hole formed that sentence? I can’t imagine there’s a single dog that can interpret that whistle, unless he follows on with taking on those darn kids and their dungarees.
He’s like your unloved funeral-home director uncle, circa1957. “Say, Skipper, would you like to come over and see the embalming table?”
Trollhattan
@SFAW:
Does Cuba have some crap beer brand in the same vein as Corona? That would be a perfect fate. “Fidel says ‘hola!'”
SFAW
@Iowa Old Lady:
Well, something like that, perhaps an alien. [Caution: not the most appealing of images. Not unlike Ted himself. But there seems to be a resemblance.]
Chris
@Roger Moore:
I liked it when he fired Rumsfeld, brought in Gates, and stopped listening to the entire neocon clique that had been setting the tone for the Iraq War (and some of which now seriously wanted a third war, with Iran this time) in favor of letting people on the ground go with Shit That Actually Seems Like It Might Work. What a damn pity he didn’t do that five years earlier, at the beginning of the war on terror, instead of waiting for the voters to give his party its worst shellacking in a generation before he finally sat up and paid attention.
SFAW
@Trollhattan:
I think if they had a brand named Pendejo, that would be appropriate.
NotoriousJRT
@Origuy: and I do…
Roger Moore
@elmo:
Fish tacos are more of a San Diego thing; you’re never going to pander to Angelenos that way. Maybe a burrito from one of the classic burrito stands.
lollipopguild
@SFAW: You will “get off” on our products. They could hire the actress who did the shampoo commercials several years ago who sounded like she was having an orgasm while she shampooed her hair.
Aleta
@Trollhattan: “But where are all the puppies Uncle Ooze?”
NotoriousJRT
@CONGRATULATIONS!:
Cali republicans: don’t forget military – ex & active.
lollipopguild
@Chris: Agreed.
Iowa Old Lady
@SFAW: Oh god, that is super creepy.
Cermet
Sorry Philly, but the only place to get a real cheese steak is in Old Town (Alexandria), across from DC at Murphy’s Pub (sorry I was forced to miss that BJ meeting! Damn!) It is a real steak (never over cooked) on a toasted steak bun (with butter) with your choice of provolone or Swiss. The Irish stew (if at least two days old) is the very best available in the mid-Atlantic. NEVER eat their Irish Ruben if you plan not to be digesting for three days; an Afghani (ex-fighter against the Soviets; he left after the religious loons won) laughed at me when I warned him about it; so he ordered it …next day he apologized!
Mike in NC
Musicians Cruz would enjoy must include reliable loons like Ted Nugent and Hank Williams Jr.
Mike J
@Felonius Monk:
Good for the HS students who refused to be a backdrop for Cruz.
Doubly good for them for understanding how civil disobedience works and saying, go ahead and punish us, we have to do this.
Roger Moore
@Aleta:
I think it means he likes the way country music fans responded to the Dixie Chicks.
lollipopguild
@Cermet: Next thing you are going to be telling me is that they make a good pizza someplace other than New York or Chicago.
SFAW
@Iowa Old Lady:
Both the vid and Cruz (and the perhaps-resemblance).
SFAW
@lollipopguild:
That would be like saying you can get great local lobster in Omaha.
The Lodger
@Cermet: We may put this to the test when we go to DC later this spring.
redshirt
@lollipopguild: NOOOOO! THAT’S NOT POSSIBLE!!!
Just Some Fuckhead
In fairness, nobody likes Peter King either.
Chris
@Cermet:
Thanks for pointing me at that. I rarely venture into Alexandria, but I do love me some cheese steak, so….
Kathleen
@Nemo_N: Yeah, so did NPR. Their political coverage is abysmal.
mclaren
This is why I’m loving this election cycle. The Republicans have a choice between cyanide and Polonium-210. They can pick garotting, or the guillotine. They have the option of dying by ebola, or leprosy.
Basically it looks like it’s coming down to Donald Trump vs. Ted Cruz. Over at Fivethirtyeight, check out the article “Ted Cruz, Not Paul Ryan, Would Probably Win A Contested Convention” by Nate Silver.
Silver is data driven, so this is not a puff piece pulled out of some pundit’s ass.
What with the Wisconsin results, Trump seems less likely to hit 1,237 delegates by the time the California primary rolls around.
So, good times. Get a bucket ‘o popcorn and sit back and enjoy the Republican cannibalism.
Aleta
@Roger Moore: And he resonated with that bandwagon a year and a half before it rolled.
Technocrat
@Cermet:
I had a little panic attack reading that. Breathe. Breathe.
Kathleen
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I think St. MoDo, Patron Saint of Perpetual Petulance, is mad at Obama because he didn’t sign her yearbook.
dogwood
@Roger Moore:
He didn’t invite McCain and Obama. McCan suspended his campaign and went to Washinton promising to meet with the President to forge a solution. McCain invited himself and W called his bluff saying no meeting without Obama. All hell was breaking loose and McCain wanted a photo op. The WH was justifiablly pissed and even more disgusted when the meeting was over and McCain hadn’t said a word. Hank Paulsen’s account of that meeting several years later is a real testament to what a worthless idiot John McCain is. But you’re right, it was one of W’s better moments.
mclaren
@rikyrah:
Source: “Wisconsin primary: 5 takeaways,” CNN news, 6 April 2016.
WaterGirl
@Stacy: They should follow up with a question, what if it’s a terrorist who raped the girl/woman? Does that change anything?
Cermet
@lollipopguild: Got me there and no, I’d not say that. Pizza in DC is, well, a lot like DC.
mclaren
@Technocrat:
I thought real Philly cheese steaks used American cheese, not provolone or swiss.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@LAO: You might look at the bundy criminal corporations from our dealer if you want to shoot it over.
Cermet
@Technocrat: Type too fast …of course, not eating mammals any more, my advice is dated and I shouldn’t promote such activities … .
Cermet
@mclaren: Amerikan cheese isn’t even real cheese but is well named for that very reason … .The color is even faked!
redshirt
@dogwood: Oh gosh, I remember that now. Obama actually engaged everyone and McCain sat there huffing and puffing. LOL. What a loser.
redshirt
@Cermet: Now veggie cheesesteaks, let me tell you what’s allowed and what’s not….
Technocrat
@mclaren:
To be perfectly honest, I…don’t know what cheese they’re supposed to use. A shameful admission, but there it is. I’ve always had either provo or whiz.
ETA: Definitely not swiss though. A cheesesteak with swiss might actually provoke violence in South Philly.
Roger Moore
@redshirt:
I think it was the key event that turned the campaign from a close one to a blowout. It’s so rare for there to be a genuine crisis during the campaign, and Obama clearly handled it much closer to the way you’d want the president to handle a crisis.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Cermet:
Pupatella in Arlington. Certified and bona fide. Eat on site!
I like Brick’s for takeout/delivery (h/t Redshift).
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Technocrat:
I think what you meant is that you’ve either had provolone or none. I also stumbled over at Temple before I twigged to the U in the place in the food name. Slow brain day.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Steeplejack (tablet): Thanks for the advice below.
lollipopguild
@mclaren: Not when i was there in the 70’s but these Kids today, i do not know how they turned out this way.
lollipopguild
@Roger Moore: Obama came across as an Adult while Mccain came across as unhinged.
Steeplejack
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Happy to help.
redshirt
@Roger Moore: Yep.
Gads did I love it when they ran ads against him for being a global superstar, featuring the gigantic Berlin crowd as a backdrop.
redshirt
@lollipopguild: Obama has been the Dad who’s pretty much fixed everything up and now has to go down to the store to buy a pack of cigarettes (he doesn’t smoke).
prob50
@C. Isaac:
Even the Pond Scum holds it’s nose and tries to keep from puking when Ted Cruz is nearby.
He is truly a nasty, vile piece of work.
prob50
@redshirt:
Does Dennis Miller counr?
redshirt
@prob50: I already gave you the three: Miller, Piscopo, Jackson.
prob50
@raven:
80-year old past champion Gary Player made a hole-in-one during Wednesday’s Par-Three contest.
My Dad made one on the last hole of golf he ever played. He had always been pretty good golfer but had never made one before. Sculled a nine-iron on a 103 yard hole. The previous week he actually hit a great shot on that hole that landed on the green took one big hop and stopped dead pin-high, 2 or 3 feet to the right. He was 84 at the time.
prob50
@Brachiator:
Best riff on “The World’s Most Interesting Man” that I’ve seen to date. I’ve been trying to suss something out of that ad series to emphasize Cruz’s unlikeable slimyness without using the 5th-grade schoolyard epithets, but every time I try to consider that toad I want to call him a csucker.
Your’s was elegant and true. I bow to your prowess.
frosty
@Roger Moore:
Maybe a chili burger from Tommy’s at Ramparts and Beverly?
Paul in KY
@NonyNony: If I had to choose between Batshit McChimpy & Darth Creepy, I’d take batshit any day of the week.
Paul in KY
@Origuy: He’s a multi-millionaire. Not crazy for him to be a Repub. Plus, he sucks in his movies & comedy, so he’s a fit for GOP.
Paul in KY
@redshirt: I think the poor guy has stock in ACME.
No One You Know
@lollipopguild: The Cheezwhiz is a foul canard introduced by people who live in Fishtown. You didn’t eat such heresy anywhere near 9th & Catherine, back in the day. Provolone, that’s the ticket.