As I was listening to Trump verbally blow himself deliver his victory speech tonight, I noticed Chris Christie once again had that pole-axed look that garnered so much ridicule when he wore it on Super Tuesday following his endorsement of Trump. Then it hit me: Cupcake Dog!
Cupcake Dog was a meme that originated from an episode of “It’s Me or the Dog” when the dog trainer lady managed to get an unruly Australian shepherd to stop his kitchen raids and demonstrated his reformation by holding a plate of cupcakes under his nose, with hilarious results.
I was going to do a “separated at birth”-style mashup, but when I went searching for images, I found a Kossak had beaten me to it:
The dog is a beautiful, noble creature whereas Christie is a loathsome prick, of course. But the look of pained, desperate aversion is identical. Open thread!
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
This is beautiful.
Susan K of the tech support
This photo comparison is beautiful. Thank you. Thank you thank you thank you.
BTW, compare cupcake dog Chris Christie to the widely photographed Dance Like Nobody’s Watching image/vid at last night’s Springsteen concert. See? There IS a person in there, underneath the 1,000,000-yard stare.
Major Major Major Major
Cupcake Dog Mitch McConnell is my favorite. http://m.imgur.com/oYgTY?r
dmsilev
@Adam L Silverman: Well, you’d need to put him through the aversion training first.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
This is new: Muppet is taking mouthfuls of food out of her bowl in the kitchen and bringing the food into the living room, where Iggy is sitting and waiting patiently. She’s dumping the food on the floor in front of Iggy, and then they both eat it. Rinse and repeat.
Freaks.
Suzanne
So Spawn started on Lexapro today. Here’s hoping that this helps her regain some sense of emotional control. This anxiety and depression has been a huge stressor for the whole family. She’s been in counseling for a few weeks and she says she hates it, but I have seen some positive things come out of it—she drew on herself with red marker rather than cut. The ex-Mr. Suzanne is being a huge dickhead about all of this and I am considering suing for more custody. The psychiatrist also thinks she has ADHD. Hmmmmm….
I wish I could drop out of life for a few weeks and lay around doing nothing with little to no human contact. Maybe until after the election….
SciNY
Makes sense when you consider that Trump has already promised to bring back waterboarding and “even worse, much worse.” I guess the governor received the full Lewandowski before his first appearance at Mar a Lago, and got a second treatment somewhere near the George Washington Bridge on the way over from his training facility (code name “Governor’s Mansion”) in Trenton.
Redshift
Said goodbye to my beautiful nine year old Georgia bunny tonight. Kidney failure; she was fine a couple of days ago. She was the best.
Major Major Major Major
@Suzanne: One step at a time :) I’ve heard good things about Lexapro.
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: Oh, come now…fat jokes? Adam, really! Lord knows I don’t like the man, but I draw the line at body-shaming.
@Redshift: oooh…poor bunny! Poor you! : (
amk
so the corrupt fat fucker is still hoping the punk will throw some crumbs his way?
Culture of Truth
The dog looks more like: “what the heck is going on??”
Whereas the Christie is more like: “oh god dear lord what have i done?”
Wyliecoat
@Suzanne: know the feeling completely, sorry you and kiddo are going through this. Depression can be a black hole that sucks in everybody around.
JCT
“Verbally blow himself” FTW. Perfect.
This Republican primary is like bad performance art gone terribly wrong. They are going to nominate this preening racist asshole. It is truly shocking.
And Christie that fuck deserves every level of degradation possible. The collateral damage to his career is sweet icing on the cake. Or cupcake.
Adam L Silverman
@Suzanne: Have you considered, and would she be willing to try, either therapeutic yoga or tai chi done for health and wellness purposes (I’m thinking here of the Taoist Tai Chi Society). These are not a substitute for what you’re doing, but may provide supplemental help.
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: More of a self control joke really. I didn’t make any reference to his body composition.
lamh36
D’Angelo singing “Sometimes It Snows In April” With Maya Rudolph singing background!
#TonightShow
And now I am crying…damn!
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: Ah. I sit corrected. As one who will have carved on her tombstone, “*still* has poor impulse control”…
amk
teann is already ‘projecting’ donald dreck as the prezzie. assholes.
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: My dad was grossly obese and struggled with it his entire adult life. It contributed to his much earlier than expected death. I don’t make fun of people’s weight. If this seemed to come across that way, I apologize – that was not my intent. And I’m pulling the comment.
Redshift
@Miss Bianca: Thanks.
Adam L Silverman
@Redshift: Sorry to read of your loss. I’m sure she had a wonderful life. And you can do one more nice thing for her: give another bunny as good a home as you gave her once you’re up to it.
The Ancient Randonneur
Joan Walsh tweeted out a pic of Christie the other day. I promise it is worth the click.
https://twitter.com/joanwalsh/status/724755213542936576
John Revolta
Wottthahell did they DO to that poor dog? Ludovico technique?
Suzanne
@Adam L Silverman: I have taken her to yoga with me a few times, and she has been stressed about it. She has a lot of social anxiety, so doing activities like that around strangers hasn’t been a relief for her, but I’m hoping that this will take some of the edge off so she’ll be more open to trying things, as well as have a better attitude about the counseling.
@Redshift: Oh nooooo. I’m so sorry. Hang in there.
LesBonnesFemmes
I hardly ever post here, but, I just want to jump in here, and say, I can not tell you how happy I am that we can really start saying, “Hillary Clinton, the first woman from a major political party nominated for President of the United States.”
And she’s going to win, too.
Great night tonight. And last Tuesday, as well.
rikyrah
@Redshift:
Sorry about your bunny ?
Adam L Silverman
@Suzanne: No worries. Just an idea. I’ve seen folks make incredible strides, in conjunction with more traditional approaches, from doing some of these things. We’re keeping good thoughts on this end for you and your daughter.
Amir Khalid
@Redshift:
My condolences on the passing of your friend.
I confess I don’t quite understand why Chris Christie is supporting the Donald. It’s not like a Trump Administration (shudder), where he might get the US Attorney-General’s seat or something similar, is anything like a sure thing.
Omnes Omnibus
@Redshift: Condolences.
Major Major Major Major
@Amir Khalid: Cuz his career’s over, otherwise. At least that’s how it looks from here. I don’t even see a spot for him on the wingnut welfare circuit.
Mnemosyne
@Suzanne:
Make sure they do full testing before they put her on stimulants. It should take at least half a day and be a battery of 4 to 5 different tests. ADHD and ASD (autism spectrum disorders) are frequently confused in girls because the outward symptoms can be very similar even though they arise from different causes. My niece with ASD was misdiagnosed with ADHD at first — no harm done, but she also wasn’t having other issues like your Spawn is. Good luck!
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: Adam, no! I didn’t mean for that. Sorry if I sounded policing. : (
ruemara
@Redshift: I’m so sorry. Bunnies are the best. I hope my Thunderball is there is greet your bun.
Re: Christie. May he die in miserable obscurity, fully knowing he was a failure.
Omnes Omnibus
@ruemara: Thunderball ref? Wow.
Miss Bianca
@LesBonnesFemmes: : )
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Redshift: I’m so sorry. My condolences.
Prescott Cactus
@Redshift: Letting go of a loved one thru death is a journey. May it be filled with memories of laughter and love and be of short duration.
SectionH
@Redshift: I’m so sorry about Georgia. I think 9 is a very respectable bunny age? Never had a pet bunny, although we’ve known several very different people who have. We did rescue an obviously abandoned “easter bunny” one time. After some of the people in my office opined that they’d be happy to cook & eat him, we got the fannish (pre-tubes) network going, and found a decent forever home for him.
Mike in NC
Christie is destined to spend the next several months with his nose stuffed up Drumpf’s butthole, as it should be for such a loser buffoon.
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: You weren’t. But if it read as weight shaming, that certainly wasn’t my intent. Better to pull it than to have it misconstrued. No worries for pointing that out.
Mike E
@Mike in NC: That’s one way to close that bridge…
Major Major Major Major
I am going to spend all my money on this wonderful product.
Redshift
Thanks, everyone. Nine is a decent age for an indoor rabbit, though if you’re lucky they can live several years longer. We do have three other rabbits, and do fostering, too, but she was my special one.
Yutsano
@Redshift: Oh wow man I really am sorry about that.
Amir Khalid
@Major Major Major Major:
Oh, wow. How come we don’t have wonderful things like this in Malaysia?
Major Major Major Major
@Amir Khalid: I don’t know what to tell you, man.
Jerzy Russian
@Redshift: My sympathies for your loss. We had a bunny who was on permanent loan to us. We kept him for a few weeks while the owner went to some kind of conference. During that time, a divorce and other things happened, so the bunny stayed with us for another 5 years. He was a world-class sitter: he would sit for hours in the same spot. Sometimes his legs were pulled underneath him, and sometimes he would stretch out. On rare occasions he would stretch out all four of his limbs so that he looked like he was run over by a steamroller.
Jerzy Russian
@Suzanne: I feel for you. Social anxiety and depression are a tough mix (my daughter has both). Simple things that most of us do without a second thought are nearly impossible for her to do sometimes. I wish the medications would act about 100 times more quickly. A wait of three to six months to see if anything has changed is tough to take.
ruemara
@Omnes Omnibus: Nah. He was just superfast and adorable. Thunderball Bunbun. PETA catalog model, unafraid of anything and a rabbit that was a NYC rabbit through & through. We used to go shopping and he’d ride in the cart and he liked to eat pancakes at the diner with his humans. Bunnies are excellent.
J R in WV
@Redshift:
Sorry for your loss! Any pet you have cuddled and loved for years will be a shock and a loss when they – have a fatal illness. I have felt your pain for my cats and dogs.
Balloon-Juicers, we’re in the path of numerous relative mild thunderstorms all night tonight. Flashes of light, thunder, rain, light hail – which I watch coming down-stream from the west on a couple different radar systems.
Then I looked at the National Composite Radar, which show a bright red stripe of storm activity from Dallas/Fort Worth all the way north to Des Moines, moving toward St Louis.
It looks really bad through N TX, OK, KN, MO. and of course that system is heading west, slowly. Ozarkhillbilly, best of luck! Balloon-Juice staff in the midwest, take care. Be ready to go to your storm shelters if you hear a storm forming near-by.
We have waterfalls in the little stream beds north, above the bedroom of our house. They roar after heavy periods of rain, being steep and rocky. Usually just a shower of white water, but after a big rain event, it’s solid bars of white foam, with a roar from real waterfalls in the head of the holler out house was sited into in 1991 when we started building it.
I don’t expect things here will get really dangerous. We do have a substantial basement – foundations are 10 inch block with rebar and high-strength concrete fill, which isn’t going anywhere, except as a group movement sometime in the distant future. If it gets scary, we will sit in the basement and wait out the weather. We need the rain – a lot of rain.
Spring has been holding on, suspended in growth, waiting for enough water to start something and be able to finish it. The Lilac we call Mom’s Lilac did bloom Monday or so, and that smells great. It’s been allowed to grow wild until now it’s like a tree almost.
Best of luck everyone between here and that band of storm running from Dallas to Kansas City! Hang in there.
I’ll talk politics after the real world starts to slow down a little. Take care!
Mike J
Let’s pretend were Harpers:
Hillary’s (non-super) delegate count, after tonight: 1661
Non-super delegates left: 1016
Number required for a majority of non-supers: 2026
Hillary needs 365 for a majority of non supers
With supers, Hillary had 1941 before tonight+218 from tonight for 2159 (plus any supers that committed tonight)
2383 needed with supers.
224 is the magic number with supers rolled in.
Wikipedia says there are 191 uncommitted supers left.
seaboogie
@Suzanne: I have social anxiety too, and have had self-harming issues as well that started when I was your daughter’s age. Sorry that your ex is a douche and counter-productive. Do consider suing for more custody.
When therapy starts, it can be like a boil coming to a head, but probably not quite there yet, in her case, so hard and painful right now. And if your daughter’s loyalties are divided, and she has the issues she has, and she is in the throes of puberty and hormones, it is absolutely overwhelming for her. School not usually a plus either.
So I am suggesting to dial down the stimuli for her, and to take her for a drive or a walk, make her a bubble bath, just try to get her back into her body and dial back the input in her life, while letting her explore the things that soothe her if she is ADHD, and let her know that you are there with her to support her, and she is not a freak or a loser (not my words, but possibly hers). Sometimes the soothing is possible because you acknowledge the perception of the situation, rather than dismissing it. As long as her hyper-focus is not self-harming, most anything else is a positive step. My best intention goes out to you and your daughter.
Emma
He looks like a man who has seen his doppelganger and heard the family banshee.
Radio One
I still cannot believe the GOP actually allowed this to happen. The Trump convention in Cleveland is going to be amazing.
seaboogie
@Redshift: Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun! Bun!
A twenty-one Bun salute in honor of your fluffy buddy….
PurpleGirl
@J R in WV: I have on the Weather Channel right now (2:36 AM) and they talking about the severe weather tonight. I’ve said a little prayer for all the Juicers in storm areas, and especially for OzarkHillbilly. I hope everyone is safe.
Amir Khalid
@Radio One:
I don’t think the GOP let this happen. I think the party, and a surprisingly weak field of presidential candidates, got blindsided by the Donald. The Donald himself seems surprised that he, of all people, is the presumptive nominee.
cckids
@Redshift: My condolences, I’m sorry for your loss. I just found out yesterday that my 17-year-old Pom has some kidney issues, and we’re not ready for this.
dollared
@Amir Khalid: Agreed. I like Scott Lemieux’s comment over at LGM tonight: “You know, after a while you get used to living inside a satirical novel.”
dollared
@The Ancient Randonneur: Good God, couldn’t he take off the tie for a Bruce concert, at the very least? He’s like that kid who always overdressed on every occasion in grade school….
GezzaMtk
What have “loathsome pricks” ever done to deserve Christie being included among their ranks?
Steeplejack (phone)
Went to bed at 1:00 EDT, now wide awake for over an hour. Unusual for me. Maybe it’s the weather. The temp is dropping rapidly (now 65°), and it feels kind of wild and spring-like outside. Maybe rain in a little while.
Randy P
Feh, I’m not fooled. The dog learned there’s a rule against eating kitchen food. That doesn’t mean he’ll stop, only that he should wait till people aren’t around, and do the guilty look if caught.
Our lab knew darned well she wasn’t allowed on the sofa. So whenever she was caught there after people had been away for an extended period, she was very good at the “oh my goodness, how did I end up here” routine.
Xenos
@Suzanne: I hear you. Although the situation is less immediately pressing, getting help for a teen with severe anxiety issues is difficult, both at a pragmatic level and at an emotional level for the parent. I am in a relatively quiet moment with mine, but life can go off the rails without notice, and the unpredictability of it all gets exhausting.
The custody issue is a big one. Get good advice from a lawyer you trust to push for the best solution for your daughter.
? Martin
@dollared:
Once a College Republican, always a College Republican.
Central Planning
@Major Major Major Major: I wonder if they would call Mitch McConnell
Darkrose
@Redshift: My condolences.
different-church-lady
This bears repeating from last night.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Redshift: I’m so sorry for your loss. It’s hard to lose a loved one. I’ve lost pets before, and sadly once they become middle age or older, the loss can come out of the blue. It sucks.
Joel
@Major Major Major Major: dude, McConnell rocks the Innsmouth look.
Aimai
@Suzanne: i am so, so, sorry! My youngest has a severe phobia for bugs and some general anxiety. Nothing like what you ste going through. But i can imagine the pain and anxiety you feel watching her suffer. Especially with an unhelpful ex. I will keep you and yours in my thoughts. Hoping for a good recovery.
satby
@Redshift: Sorry Redshift. Sounds like you have your bunny a wonderful and long, Happy life. Condolences.
satby
@Suzanne: Hoping it helps. Glad that the therapy has helped a bit.
Aimai
@seaboogie: beautifully written!
Aimai
@Emma: this, a thousand times. This picture isnt even the worst. He looks frozen here but in some moments he has such a look of dread and horror that he might be looking at his own violent death. In the clip I saw while trump is vomiting out nonsense about “numbers…im good with numbers” a twinge of life crossed his face like he wasnt going to be able to control himself. He looked like a man waking from a nightmare to begin vomiting and screaming. The guy must have iron self control. Or trump has his family chained in a basement.
cosima
@Suzanne: I’m sorry for the pain that you & your daughter are going through. Our oldest will be 26 this year, and went through much of the same in her childhood. I could write a book (have often been told that, as a matter of fact!). Our medication options weren’t as vast back when it was considered for her, so apart from one try at it, we basically tried every other thing under the sun. And going to court over custody issues to regain primary physical & legal was one of those — thankfully we succeeded in that.
When she was a teen she became incredibly averse to counseling, and she was at an age where I couldn’t force the issue — she was quite capable of going in & spending the hour silent, lying, or both. I wish that I could say that she benefitted from the years of CBT therapy, but she really didn’t. Now, as an adult (a young one, though), she is finding a lot of benefit in keeping a diffuser going with calming essential oils in it (there are some on amazon that have great reviews, but I send her Neal’s Yard blends from here in the UK). She finds that it relieves a lot of the anxiety, and the ones that promote sleep help her too. Her OCD & anxiety & depression issues still take up a lot of space in her life.
Have you &/or your daughter ever read Hyperbole & a Half — the blog or the book?
Hang in there — it makes such a difference to them, even as they continue to struggle, to know that you are fighting their corner. I think our daughter didn’t have a huge grasp on that when she was going through the angst & drama of her teen years, with the side dishes of OCD & anxiety & depression, but once she was well out of her teens she began to fully appreciate it, and we are now so incredibly close.
The Lodger
@different-church-lady: Nothing about His Bobness bears repeating. Ever.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Redshift: I’m so sorry for your loss. The leave such big hop prints on our hearts.
Paul in KY
@Suzanne: Sorry to hear that, Suzanne. Do hope Spawn improves as quickly as possible.
Paul in KY
@Redshift: Sorry to hear that, Redshift. She was lucky to have you caring for her.
Denali
@Suzanne,
So good that you are there for your daughter. I will always regret that I was not fully aware of the trauma that my daughter was going through as a teenager and did not offer the help that she needed.
Miss Bianca
@Suzanne: Hoping things improve for you and Spawn.
No One You Know
@Suzanne: Hi, Suzanne. I’ve been reading your posts with concern. Had your doctor also looked at the possibility of either a major anxiety disorder or OCD?
Both are often comorbid with ADHD. I have a good bit of personal experience. I was once there, myself.
For what it’s worth, take it a little at a time. I feel very much for you. It takes a lot out of you to see your child in such pain.
Wishing you well, and that things grow better as you walk this road.
Paul in KY
@Amir Khalid: I would say Omarosa has as much chance of getting it as Christie. He knows it too, which might account for his demeanor.