Just so we know, Politico explains it’s not easy being orange, according to President-Asterisk Smallgloves:
Donald Trump can’t decide whether he thinks the transition of power is going well or not.
But he knows he doesn’t like how much attention Barack Obama is getting and is also bothered by what Trump and his closest advisers see as an active effort to poke the president-elect and undermine the incoming administration with last-minute policy changes on his way out of office, according to two people close to the transition.
And the relationship is likely to get worse in the three weeks until the inauguration: Obama is scheduled to give a farewell address Jan. 10 that is expected to be a recounting of his successes and an inherent contrast with Trump and the administration is rushing to make public a report on Russian hacking during the election that intelligence officials say was done to help Trump, though the president-elect has disputed that entirely…
Wednesday night, in response to a question from a reporter, Trump went even further to move past the situation.
“Our staffs have been getting along very well, and I’m getting along very well with him,” he said, “other than a couple of statements that I responded to and we talked about it and smiled about it and nobody is ever going to know because we are never going to be going against each other.”…
Most of all, though, Trump is frustrated with how Obama has poked him, by claiming in a podcast interview with former adviser David Axelrod that he could have beaten Trump had he been eligible to run again. (The president made that claim as part of an insistence that his kind of positive, hopeful campaign would have resonated with Americans, despite what Trump successfully tapped into.)
Trump was also irritated by Obama’s comments at Pearl Harbor on Tuesday afternoon in which he said, “even when hatred burns hottest, even when the tug of tribalism is at its most primal, we must resist the urge to turn inward. We must resist the urge to demonize those who are different.” These felt to Trump like direct criticism of the president-elect, according to two people close to Trump.
Obama administration aides deny that the president was talking about Trump. And the White House is pointedly not responding to Trump’s tweets…
Almost added “Old Man Yells At Clouds” as a category tag, except that seems too playful for the Cheeto Benito. Good for President Obama and his team, regardless.
What’s on the agenda for the evening?
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Bigfooting real news, apparently.
Elizabelle
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: I dunno. I’d had enough of the earlier thread.
A pet picture would be nice.
In good news, sounds like delk’s dog Gav continues to recover. Maybe he will update us. Last we heard, the dog was going commando.
Baud
Baud
@Elizabelle: That was posted when the post first came up an hour ago. See the timestamp.
Inmourning
Rock on, Baud! Or is it baud? And what does the umlaut do to the pronunciation?
jeffreyw
How about a bowl of kittehs?
Another Scott
Seeing “Wrecked” on TBS for the first time right now. The opening is genius! (0:43).
Cheers,
Scott.
Hal
I know I’ve posted this twice, but once more, with feeling; because I still can’t believe the successor to President Obama is Trump.
Baud
@Inmourning: Makes it cool.
(And splits up the vowel sound)
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Are we going to make it through the next four years? Somebody tell me we’re going to make it through the next four years.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I actually think an open thread goes well with a serious thread, keeps the more serious discussion focused
Baud
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): We’re not immortal.
Baud
@Hal: True.
Corner Stone
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): If I were you I would start heading south again post haste. They already know how to exist in the conditions that are coming to America.
zhena gogolia
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
Sorry, I can’t tell you that in good conscience.
Schlemazel
Darrin Bell perfectly explains what Dems need to do
http://www.gocomics.com/candorville/2016/12/29
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
Open thread? Iggy and Muppet comfort the afflicted.
Also, too: back spasms suck.
Corner Stone
@Hal: And male.
zhena gogolia
@Schlemazel:
No, this post originally came right after Adam’s. She took it down for a while.
zhena gogolia
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:
Squee!
Inmourning
Baud, thanks, I think.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): I tell myself that people managed to survive in Russian satellite countries for decades, so we probably can too. Oddly, I don’t find the thought comforting.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@zhena gogolia: That’s what I said when I saw them like that. You realize the dialogues are just a cheap excuse to post pictures, I’m sure.
Botsplainer
@Hal:
Said it before, I’ll say it again – Barack Obama is everything that white Christian conservative America claimed it wanted all black men to be, and they vilified, mocked, scorned, insulted and fucked him.
Jeremiah Wright was correct – God Damn America.
Mike in NC
It just burns Trump’s fat ass that he has to be trained for the job by an uppity Muslim who was born in Kenya.
JaneE
Noble sentiment generally applicable, but Trump feels criticized?
It is going to be a long 4 years.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I agree. I was disappointed that Anne Laurie pulled it earlier. Never have understood all the fussing about “bigfooting,” anyhow. Are that many readers of this blog incapable of toggling from one thread to another?
raven
The princess put a quilt in the washer and it is totally borked. I called the local dude and, after abut 15 minutes, he said “sorry man, this new one is over my head. He didn’t charge me but now we get to wait a week to get drilled by Sears! Bad week for the $$!
Gex
I have noticed this with people like Trump for a long time.
If you talk about racism generally, certain people get very offended and take it as a personal attack.
IOW they voluntarily identify themselves as racists. It’d be hilarious if it weren’t so sad that they don’t realize what they’ve done and how they’ve indicated to the world that they themselves think they are racist.
Pogonip
@Elizabelle: Yay! (That it’s recovering; I have no opinion on its sartorial choices.)
gorram
@Baud: Not to be pedantic, but if it had that effect it would be a tréma not an umlaut (which signals fronting – so Baud that rhymes with Todd would become Bäud that rhymes with toyed).
zhena gogolia
@raven:
Sorry! No matter what they say, I assume I can’t wash quilts. They just stay dirty. I use the lint brush / vacuum cleaner on them.
zhena gogolia
@Gex:
yeah, it’s really interesting.
Cacti
@Hal:
All due respect to TNC, Obama had to jump a canyon to get the same thing Donald Trump was rolled across a red carpet in a gilded wheelchair to receive.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@SiubhanDuinne: Perfectly capable of toggling (and I wish that were as naughty as it sounds), but new posts right on top of one another do have a tendency to curtail discussion on the earlier ones, and I thought Adam’s had the potential for interesting discussion and was just getting going. I’m not in charge here (duh!) but it looks like maybe AL thought something along those lines, too.
Schlemazel
@raven:
What kind of washer is it & what exactly is the issue. I have sadly become an expert on the damn things, maybe I can help you out
Botsplainer
So I wonder how much Obama could get under Trump’s skin by being the junior senator from Vermont? I hear there’s a race there in 2018…
SiubhanDuinne
@gorram:
I thought it was a diaeresis.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: speak for yourself, I plan to be a robot soon.
Baud
@Cacti: True.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: How’s the roboBaud project going?
MazeDancer
Something’s brewing in GOP land.
Trump is saying “move on” about Russia. KellyAnne is on TV saying “move on”.
And neither Ryan nor McConnell is falling in line. Both their statements were anti-Russia. McConnell – who stopped Mr. Obama from revealing any facts before the election – is now calling for investigations.
Maybe there is new info coming out in the big intel report next month? If the Trump Campaign – not just Trump or Manafort, but say, the whole campaign – is found to have known about Russian hacking, has to be noted Paul Ryan is 3rd in line of succession.
tybee
@raven: our experience with sears was that it took a week (or two) to get the guy to the house and after he poked around a bit, he ordered a part, which took another week (or two) to show up at our door and then it would take another week for him to show up. damn near a month of down time each time the appliance crapped out. which happened 3 or 4 times a year. they finally replaced it. after 18 months of jerking around. never. again.
Baud
@MazeDancer: Could also be a self-interested move to remind Trump that he has to work with them on their agenda as well.
HermanNewticks
The reason he can’t decide is because he still hasn’t figured out with the job entails. And the reason he’s frustrated with Obama is that what little he has figured out about the job demonstrates to him that Obama is doing it better than His Orangeness ever could. Narcissists can’t stand to see someone outclassing them. And you gotta admit, Obama makes a hard job look easy. It’s got to be evident to H.O. that PBO outclasses him by a mile.
The Lodger
@efgoldman: Now that the collar is off, it’s easier for him to see the keys.
hovercraft
For once I can type, he is correct. Obama was taking a shot at the shitgibbon. For once his being a thin skinned imbecile was useful.
Major Major Major Major
@MazeDancer: maybe they haven’t got marching orders out yet.
@Baud: it got put on the back burner on account of not being a video game.
rikyrah
How the Presidency Was Stolen
SiubhanDuinne
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
I wasn’t specifically talking about you. There’s one commenter who seems to leap on nearly every new post with merry cries of “STOMP! STOMP!” if the timestamp’s within about 45 minutes of the previous thread. I think s/he really started annoying John with all the accusations of bigfooting. Haven’t seen that commenter around recently.
For me, one of the quirky charms of this place is that we can go all day long, seven or eight hours sometimes, on a morning open thread, and then have four or five new posts by different FPs over the course of an evening.
delk
Gav lounging around
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Can we make Baud! The Video Game?
@SiubhanDuinne:
I thought you were going in a much sexier direction.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
In fareness, hes not a very gud speeler.
Baud
@delk: Yay!
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: that’s gonna cost ya.
JPL
@delk: He looks good!
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
I take my endurance training wherever I find it.
SiubhanDuinne
@delk:
OMG, what a face!!
hovercraft
@Hal:
Point of order, he had to be a white racist man, who promised to put blah and brown people back where they belong, and women too. As to rich, he claims to be, but then again Bernie Madoff gave showed us that looks can be deceiving.
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
Naaaah.
Elizabelle
@delk: He looks great! Soulful little look at the end.
The dog. Must find safer things to consume. Stay well, Gav.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: I’m good for it.
Keith G
Somewhere an irony angel just got it’s wings and proceeded to fly into a wall and die from head trauma.
rikyrah
Jonathan Chait Verified account
@jonathanchait
Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald unite to dismiss Russian hacking story
hovercraft
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
The odds are 50/50, depending on where you live. If you are near a major city your chances are 25/75. Good luck, I’m only 30 miles from NYC, so I think my chances of survival are pretty slim.
Schlemazel
@delk:
Looks like googie is recovering nicely! thanks for sharing
rikyrah
Kurt Eichenwald @kurteichenwald 13m13 minutes ago
Career intel officer told me Trump et.al. dismissing hack findings on basis of nothing is causing greatest demoralization at CIA in years.
rikyrah
Joy Reid Verified account
@JoyAnnReid
Joy Reid Retweeted Washington Examiner
A culture clash is coming between multicultural DC culture, Republican culture and Trumpist culture.
John
I dislike (or rather hate) Trump as much as the rest of you, but may I make a suggestion? Let’s stop calling him names. Trump will do fine.
My reason? When you read a comment or a post from a right winger with “O’bummer” or “Obonehead” or “Eunuch in Chief” what is your reaction? If you’re like me, you discount it immediately and stop reading.
There is a ton of valuable content on Balloon Juice, and trust me I share your sentiments. But maybe if we tone down the name calling maybe we can actually get someone on the fence to move to our side? Otherwise this is just a smarter DailyKos.
Just a thought.
cynthia ackerman
I like BHO’s slow boil of PEOTUS so far, and I hope it builds to a succession of toxic olive branches.
zhena gogolia
@John:
I tend to agree, amused as I am by the various nicknames.
rikyrah
Josh Lederman Verified account
@joshledermanAP
Wow. Russian spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Obama: “It’s not an administration, it’s a group of foreign policy losers, angry and ignorant.”
MazeDancer
@Baud:
Have always assumed they’ve warned Trump either sign our granny-starver stuff or we’ll impeach you. Because Trump’s base hates Ryan and Trump would like to not sign as a way to kneecap Ryan as payback for election insults.
Trump probably thought he’d bought off McConnell by appointing his wife. And maybe Russia had something on Ryan. But maybe not.
@Major Major Major Major:
Maybe. But Trump has been saying “move on” for a while. And a few GOP are going full Vlad’s the Man. So, Ryan and McConnell must know what Trump wants.
Guess we won’t know more til the report is released.
zhena gogolia
@rikyrah:
Yes, we fail to have the wonderful foreign policy of Russia, which consists of bombing cities into the stone age.
hovercraft
@Botsplainer:
We always knew he was.
The last few years have been real eye opener for many white people. Between the unwarranted contempt Obama has had to endure, the killing of black people for no reason by agents of the state, and finally the rejection of a supremely qualified woman in favor of carnival barker, people can now understand.
Baud
@John:
Fixed.
lamh36
Here I am in 4th grade. Someone on FB tagged me in a yearbook post on the page for alumni of my elementary school…and guess who was featured in one of the “snap shots”…ME!
Ruviana
@rikyrah: Wow, the Russian spokespeople are taking speechifying lessons from Trump! Sad!
Major Major Major Major
@MazeDancer: I think also Ryan is trying to maintain a detached ‘working relationship’ with Trump. Not sure that’s going to work out for him.
ThresherK
@raven:
@tybee:
I have had good luck in 1) advice and information about symptoms, including direct replies via webforum, 2) diagrams to determine part numbers, and 3) timely shipping of reasonably-priced parts, from SearsPartsDirect. One could do worse if one is of a mind to do a little wrenching themselves; I didn’t know I could fix a refrigeraor or dishwasher, but I did.
This was at most recent 5 years ago. I can’t say the hedge fund guy running Sears into the ground now hasn’t left this division alone.
Schlemazel
@John:
Thanks for the advice, I will try really hard to not call Trump:
Orange asshat
Adult blobfish
Deflated football
Fart-infused lump of raw meat
Melting pig carcass
Talking comb-over
Human equivalent of cargo pants that zip away into shorts
Seagull dipped in tikka masala
Bursting landfill of municipal solid waste
Mountain of rotting whale blubber
Sputum-filled Orange Julius
Gangrenous gaping wound
Racist, sexist block of aged Cheddar
Oversized wasp exoskeleton stuffed with old mustard
Neo-fascist real estate golem
Abandoned roadside ham hock
Bewildered, golden-helmeted astronaut who’s just landed on this planet from a distant galaxy
Monument to human hubris crafted out of rotting Spam
A walking pile of reanimated roadkill
Heaving carcass
Stately hot dog casing
Flatulent leather couch
Swollen earthworm gizzard
Narcissistic bowl of rotten gazpacho
Yellowing hunk of masticated gristle
A human/Komodo dragon hybrid
Blackening scab artfully hiding in your Raisin Bran
“Taco truck”
A man who could one day become the first hobgoblin to enter the White House
A pair of chapped lips superglued to a hairball
Horsehair mattress stuffed with molding copies of Hustler
Malignant corn chip
Human Kinder Egg whose inner surprise is a tiny pebble of rat shit
The sculpture your three-year-old made out of soggy ground-up goldfish snacks
A man with the hair of a radioactive skunk
Roiling Cheez Whiz mass
Cryogenically frozen bog man
A glistening, shouting gristle mass with a history of saying terrible and stupid things
Screaming giant cheese wedge
Republican frontrunner and 250-pound accumulation of rancid beef
Day-Glo roadside billboard about jock itch
Temperamental gelatinous sponge
Sentient hate-balloon
A Rumpelstiltskin inflated with a bike pump and filled with bacteria
Sun-kissed ass plug
Self-tanning enthusiast
An enraged, bewigged fetus blown up to nightmarish size
Parental pile of burnt organic material
Human-shaped wad of Gak
Walking irradiated tumor
Uncooked chicken breast
KKK rally port-a-potty holding tank
Neon-tinted hellion
A plentiful field of dung piled into the shape of a presidential candidate
Malfunctioning wind turbine
Seeping fleabag
Sloshing styrofoam takeout container filled with three-day-old mac and cheese
A sticky, grabby, Cheeto-hued toddler with no sense of adult deportment
Figurative rubber, and also literal rubber
A carnivorous plant watered with irradiated bat urine
Sentient waste disposal plant
A disappointment
Poorly-drawn fascist
Racist teratoma
Lamprey eel spray-painted gold
A hair that you pluck, causing a cluster of hairs to sprout in its place
Sunken, corroding soufflé
Nacho cheese golem
Undead tangerine
A cartoon representation of Irritable Bowel Syndrome in a pharmaceutical ad
Fossilized meatball
Horking mole-creature suffering from radioactive spray-tan
Tattered Craigslist sofa
A full-grown Monopoly dog carefully balancing a spongecake atop his head
Play-Doh factory explosion
A new superfood made of finely-ground clown wigs
Unkempt troll doll found floating facedown in a tub of rancid Beluga caviar
Melting orange popsicle
A dangerous and stupid bigot who I do not have the heart to give a silly nickname to right now
A desiccated, hollowed-out pumpkin stuffed with wasps
A rusted refrigerator left out in the sun until its contents rot and swell into one noxious, congealed mass
A regurgitated wombat
Moldy pumpkin spice latte
A tax-avoidant opossum testicle dead-set on becoming president
Shrieking carbuncle in a red power tie
A Chipotle burrito taken to its natural, digested conclusion
Evil toddler and our Republican presidential nominee
A clump of moldering drain hair
An inflated pig stomach full of rotten pierogi
Flatulent butternut squash
One putrescent orange marshmallow
A sentient pile of dirty sheets covered in poop
Pilonidal cyst
Sexist sentient carrot
An abandoned cruise ship full of people afflicted with the Noro virus
A jack-o’-lantern that at least ten people have been using as a toilet
Bruised yam
Flaming sack of shit
Overflowing litter box
A repugnant pile of fetid horse shit
Shaved bear
Demonic, racist goldfish
Everyone’s least favorite Republican presidential candidate/rotting jack-o’-lantern
The embodiment of a long and thunderous fart in a stalled elevator
Rancid Halloween Oreo filling
Rage-addled Oompa Loompa
Rotten tanner-saturated gourd
Man-sized ass cyst
Your shitty racist uncle
A wizened ogre of a man with a mouth like an anus
Bewigged swollen gall bladder
A wheezing Blurrg from Endor’s forest moon
Trumpelstiltskin (whose gift is turning billions of dollars into air molecules)
Inflamed carbuncle
A face like a rusted manhole cover, hair that legally qualifies as a fire hazard, and the diet of Templeton the rat
A soggy cracker spread with spoiled shrimp compote
Amphibious
Noted chode
An industrial-sized wastebasket in a clip-on tie
Impacted molar
A bag of hot garbage moldering in the summer sun
A dry creek bed mysteriously studded with dog turds
A haunted bidet
A yellowing mop dripping with an unidentifiable, viscous fluid
Anthropomorphic lie
A rooster who wandered into the house and has to be restrained beneath a metal wastebasket
The political equivalent of one of those mutant factory farm chickens with breasts so big it can’t walk
Spray-tanned blobfish
The human equivalent to a hideously oppressive smell with no known provenance
A parking cone with emotional issues
Moldy prawn burrito
Gelatinous heap
A horrible man with hair like used dental floss and ideas that threaten the definition of democracy as we know it
A hexed tub of Velveeta that’s been brought to life and won’t stop screaming racist insults from inside your kitchen cabinet
A scabies outbreak in your freshman dormitory
Fetid pooh-face
Floppy sack of rancid chicken fat
Self tanner-soaked Whoopee cushion
A cicada husk dipped in fermenting carrot soup
Fire ant infestation with too many resources
A cirrhotic cheetah liver dusted in gold leaf
Walking staph infection
Large orange baby
A sociopathic golem whose mouth puckers like an anus
Serial woman-cherisher
Besuited Chucky doll
Objectively horrible person
Toxic algae bloom
Noted orangémon
A man whose head firmly resembles a lone radioactive testicle sealed in a jar of formaldehyde
The contents of a dumpster behind a Roll N Roaster
Doritos Spicy Asbestos Flavor
A snot-flavored Jelly Bean gaining a frightening amount of power and influence
Malformed traffic cone
Decaying, hollowed-out tree trunk that is now housing a family of malnourished, furious possums
An enlarged brick of spittle-flecked Crisco sliding headlong towards the White House
Our favorite fascist wad of upchucked puréed carrots
Gold-tipped mucus plug
Melted Claymation villain
Unwashed fumigation tent
What happens when a GOP-leaning member of mutant gang in The Hills Have Eyes has a wet dream
An eggroll to which someone has wastefully glued a hairpiece
One of those piles of sand by a highway
A golden goose so loved by God he was transformed into a human man, only the Lord got tired midway through and paused for rest, never to resume
Moldering Cheez-It
A hunk of beef jerky that rolls under the couch and is left there to harden, becoming covered in dust and cat hair until a cockroach takes it back to its lair and makes it his wife
Actually three bigoted baby Muppets stacked on top of one another
Half-melted pile of candy corn from Halloween ‘83
An angry ghost
Giant mound of hardened Cheez Whiz
A smushed up caterpillar your 6-year-old brother set on fire with a magnifying glass
Rotten kabocha squash
Schlemazel
@Schlemazel:
Because look at how badly the rights name calling hurt the Republicans in this past election
schrodingers_cat
@lamh36: Cute and sassy!
raven
@tybee: Ugh, I’m looking a appliantology right now but I really don’t think I can handle this because it went to computerized instead of mechanical.
Major Major Major Major
@Schlemazel: you forgot Il Douche
rikyrah
Frank Rich @frankrichny 4h4 hours ago
Lingering question from Trump campaign, more relevant than ever: What did Paul Manafort know and when did he know it?
hilts
Flipping back and forth between Breaking Bad and Downton Abbey marathons.
EBT
@Schlemazel: Needs deadbeat donnie.
NotMax
@ThresherK
Location matters. The few times have had need of calling Sears for repair have found them each time to be prompt (as in show up next business day, and on time), knowledgeable, polite, efficient and (when there was a charge) affordable.
rikyrah
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
We will make it
Denali
@John,
You forgot TEFA and our own favorite,Shitgibbon,as well.
Suzanne
Fuck you AGAIN, 2016.
Drove up to Flagstaff for a snow day with the family. Leaving with a broken finger with seven stitches in it and blood all over my clothes. Wicked pisser.
Starfish
@John: I agree.
In some earlier thread someone was calling Lindsay Graham, Miss Lindsay, and that comes across as homophobic nonsense.
ThresherK
@NotMax: Hmm. I haven’t had to get their actual on-site servicers (or -authorized contractors). Glad you’re near a good site for that. No idea of the reputation around my county for ’em.
SiubhanDuinne
@Suzanne:
Yeeesh! What happened? Whatever it was, I’m so sorry.
Baud
@Suzanne: I’m sorry. Almost over.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Major Major Major Major: Also Baby Hand Model.
Baud
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant): My God, what a hideous baby that would be!
Ella in New Mexico
Ok, I’m starting to suspect that we’re all being trolled here by @realDonaldTrump.
How do you go from
to this
in six hours? And seemingly not have any recollection of what you said earlier?
Does Dumhole really do any of the Twittering at all? Or is it really Kelly Anne under the influence of Ambien?
Schlemazel
@Major Major Major Major:
that is not even half the list & does not include many of my faves, like Mango Mussolini, Hair Furor, Tangerine Tumor or animated Animate funnel cake
Schlemazel
@Starfish:
It would be wrong if her were out of the closet and supported gay rights but that he remains closeted and anti-gay rights the judges will accept it
ThresherK
@Suzanne: That sounds awful. Hope things heal quick.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Major Major Major Major: Also Hair Furor, Orange Foolius, Truculent Tangerine, Trumplethinskin, Pumpkin(dick)head, Oleaginous Offal, Agent Double-Naught 7, and But-he’s-nuts Squash.
NeenerNeener
“Angry Circus Peanut” is missing too.
mai naem mobile
What bugs Lumpy about the O-Man is that Obama is smarter, self made, good looking, became more powerful at a younger age , and finally, that Obama won both elections in straight out modern landslides without any hanky panky help. Oh,yeah also Obama has long beautiful fingers and you know,wink wink,what that means.
Suzanne
@Baud: Husband and I found some dark humor in the situation—this has been such an expensive year medically that we hit our deductible a couple of months ago. So at least this has been free.
mai naem mobile
@Suzanne: jeezus,you need to catch a break.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Baud: You’re welcome.
Ella in New Mexico
@rikyrah: How very Trumpish of her.
raven
@Schlemazel: Kenmore Laundry Center. There is no rhyme or reason to what it does on the various settings, will fill, empty and agitate but not spin. The tech just shook his head and pointed out the two “computers”, one one the inside case and the other behind all the dials.
Baud
@Suzanne: You still have a day left to have emergency surgery. Good luck!
Ella in New Mexico
@Schlemazel: That is just the best list evah. How long did it take you to come up with it? lolol
SiubhanDuinne
@Suzanne:
Saw the photos. Is it just a coincidence that it was your bird-flippin’ finger that was injured?
SFBayAreaGal
@Schlemazel: You forgot my favorite Twitler
Schlemazel
@Schlemazel:
One thing that I think has not gotten the attention it deserves is how successful the right has been as using the lefts own sensitivity against itself.
For example: There was an article on that cow (SEXIST) in NC who approved of Mrs Trump as “classy” as opposed to that ape in heels. I commented that the future first lady had nude photos which were very classy while the current FLOTUS was trashy because she weore a sleeveless dress. I was attacked for “slut shaming”. I had not said anything negative about the pictures though if you actually saw them you would not positively compare them to artistic nudes, they were pron shots. So, instead of discussing the hypocrisy of the GOP the thread wanted to discuss slut shaming. That is something you would never see the right doing to itself
Woodrowfan
@raven: use Angies List and.or Yelp to find a reliable repairman and forget the warranty. Sears and Best Buy and the rest contract with the shittest repair guys. The ones whose business would fail if the manufacturer didn’t send them customers. I learned that dealing with Whirlpool. Every repair place they recommended had a huge number of complaints on Yelp. We called one, he showed up 8 hours late and we were not home. I called a repair guy we used before, he came the next day, and fixed the problem for under $100.
Schlemazel
@Suzanne:
WTH did you do to yourself?
Iowa Old Lady
@Ella in New Mexico: My assumption is that Trump tweeted the first one and someone on his staff tweeted the second.
Schlemazel
@raven:
Oh yeah, thats not good. Sorry but there is no helping on that. There will have to be a new electronics board installed and that is something I can’t help with.
I have a lot of experience with the mechanical bits, a lot of pumps and motors and belts but the electronic stuff is custom built and there usually is not much to be done.
raven
@Schlemazel: Yup, I repaired my old one about 10 times.
Schlemazel
@Ella in New Mexico:
like I always do, I cheated!
http://theslot.jezebel.com/every-description-jezebel-used-for-donald-trump-during-1772372244
If you are not reading Jezebel and their sub site The Slot you are missing some good stuff, both serious and snark
rikyrah
@delk:
Gav looks good.
raven
@Woodrowfan: There is no warranty. As I already said I called the local dude with a good rep and he just threw up his hands. He didn’t charge me and asked me to let him know what they found out.I don’t feel as if I have any choice.
Baud
@Schlemazel:
Why does a site have a sub site? And why don’t we have one?
mai naem mobile
@raven: i don’t think this will work but you might want to you tube your problem. I’ve found a lot of fixes for different stuff on YouTube – even on appliances. You could also call the place in town that carries part for it. They might have run into your problem before.
Woodrowfan
@raven: sorry, I missed that post. My apologies….
hovercraft
@Schlemazel:
Two thumbs up !!
Schlemazel
@raven:
So you would have been on top of anything I could have helped with anyway. Sorry I can do more.
We bought an LG front loader years ago & it had the most delicate drain pump in the history of wash machines There was an access panel on the front but it was a fake so the whole machine had to be disassembled to get to the damn pump. I could take the whole thing apart and put it together blindfolded after 10 years. I had kept the dry going for 35 but finally could not get parts I needed so we broke down & bought a new set. I made sure I can clean the pump from the front on this one!
Freed of those hobbies I got to rebuild the head for the water softener. SIgh, should have been born rich instead of smart
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
How come everybody but us gets nice stuff?
Zinsky
Schlemazel – Wow! That’s an impressive body of work!
I’ll take Being Black for $800, Alex…
seaboogie
@John: I’m wit’ you on this – otherwise we risk becoming like the cons who rejoice in namecalling that lacks wit and never finds its target.
In addition to calling Trump by his name, I am embracing treating him as a regular politician, and calling him out on what he does in that capacity, which is what the Italians finally learned to do with Berlusconi. Remove the mystique and celebrity, and treat him as any other pol/President who is roundly and regularly criticized for their actions.
For an individual who cannot tolerate the slightest criticism, the fact that he ran for and won the most scrutinized job on the planet that comes with daily doses of criticism from friends as well as foes should be his undoing. And if we call him names, we are not only acting like his supporters, we are also acting like him – which does not reflect well on us.
Schlemazel
@Baud:
each gawker site has subs based on subject focused on a specific area. I suppose BJ could do that.
raven
@Schlemazel: Yea, I use Samuri Appliance Repair for advice and they have done me right. I knew I was getting into a different ball of wax with this but we have to have a stackable and this was a decent deal. I’m reading the local sears tech reviews and, with a grain of salt, they look decent.
Baud
@Schlemazel: Sounds confusing. I’m a simple man.
Mike in NC
@Schlemazel: Said RWNJ cow was in West Virginia, not NC. But we will give them a run for their damn money.
NotMax
@raven
As they used to say in vaudeville, “Pay the two dollars.”
Schlemazel
@Mike in NC:
fucking slave state all look alike to me
thanks
Gin & Tonic
@Suzanne:
I didn’t know you were from Boston?
hovercraft
@Suzanne:
Ouch ;-(
Sorry.
seaboogie
Today I received an email from our most favorite President – one Barack Obama.
A couple of weeks after the election I sent a brief email to the Whitehouse.gov site, addressed to POTUS, FLOTUS, Malia and Sasha – offering deep gratitude their gracious service to our country and wishing them well as they join us as private citizens once again. In doing so, I did say that while I took great joy in watching both inaugurations, I will be doing something other than watching them leave on Jan 20.
The letter that the WH staff sends on his behalf in reply is very gracious and very much in Obama’s voice, and I will treasure it in the years to come. It is signed “All the best, Barack Obama”
Whether my particular message is one that is read by Obama is not important to me, but the sending of it gives me comfort.
If you are so inclined and have not already doneso, I invite all here to send the Obama family out on a massive tide of messages of gratitude – it’s a rather healing feeling…
debbie
@Schlemazel:
OH, good. I can keep using Mango Mussolini.
schrodingers_cat
@Schlemazel: For you for producing the prodigious list of names, Ustad Rashid Khan singing Albela Saajan in Ahir Bhairava , a morning raaga.
debbie
@Suzanne:
Hope the healing’s speedy. I hit my deductible last week. Fuck me for thinking the lower deductible would be a help.
Meg
@raven: I made quilts and sometimes wash them in gentle cycle and lay them flat to dry.
raven
@Meg: This may have been more of a bed spread, the dog puked on it.
Mike in NC
@seaboogie: We will write them. I have a framed Certificate of Appreciation for Service in the Armed Forces of the United States of America from President Obama. Glad that I timed it to miss Bush and Trump.
EBT
@Baud: I miss when a forum with threads was good enough for people.
The Lodger
@Schlemazel: Yeah, don’t do that.
At least not all at once.
Schlemazel
@schrodingers_cat:
Thanks for that!
Maybe you can help me on the subject of Indian music. There was a very famous Muslim performer who was famous for doing these incredible religious songs. He died within the last 5 years or so. NPR did a story on him & I found the music so moving I looked it up online. I discovered that he had some stuff recorded bu not much was publicly available because the songs tended to last for an hour or more so wouldn’t fit on an LP. I have lost what I did have and now can’t remember his name or get close on google. Is there any chance you can guess who I mean from that crappy amount of information?
Steve in the ATL
@Suzanne:
I assume you were mixing up with some Bernie bros? They are hardheaded as well as insufferable!
Another Scott
@John: I understand the sentiment, but I dunno.
Politics ain’t beanbag.
If Donnies’ fee-fees are so delicate that he can’t tolerate being called Donnie (and worse), well, he shouldn’t be in politics.
His insisting that he be called “Donald” is pretentious. Just as Larry O’Donnell insisting on being called Lawrence™ is pretentious. I call them the diminutive form of their names to show that I think they’re being pretentious. They’re free to do that, of course, but I don’t have to call them that if I don’t feel like it. I usually try to call people the name they prefer (hey, I have always gone by my middle name, so I know what it’s like), but Donnie is a whole ‘nother kettle of fish…
Donnie’s decisions are going to affect the lives of hundreds of millions or even billions of people. He has a history of insulting and attacking people that he doesn’t like. He can see what it’s like not to be surrounded by Yes Men, see what it’s like to be the object of childish taunts and biting criticism and worse, and see what it’s like to be mocked and hated and laughed at – it goes with the job…
My comments here are my personal opinion and I have no obligation to be “fair” or “civil” to him.
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
Schlemazel
@Another Scott:
I give as much respect as I am shown. If the inflamed asshole is incapable of showing any respect then he should expect none.
I get that we should try to be civil despite the fact we are opposed by inflamed assholes incapable of civility but the time for genteel civility passed when they elected an unqualified, unprepared, open bigot while reveling in his racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, demeaning assholishness. Fuck him and fuck them
seaboogie
@zhena gogolia: The laundromat is your friend, WRT to quilts, pillows and the like. Plus which, when I do wash an errant cat piddle off mine (the pee pads don’t always catch everything), I see the folks who do all their laundry there, and am doubly appreciative of my personal W/D for daily purposes.
schrodingers_cat
@Schlemazel: Ustad Rashid Khan is still pretty much alive.
Are you talking about Pundit Bhimsen Joshi, who was not a Muslim but was a foremost proponent of Hindustani Classical music. He even got India’s highest civilian honor, Bharat Ratna. Joshi was famous for his abhangas, devotional songs composed from the 12th to 16th centuries. He passed away in 2011.
Teertha Vitthal, Kshetra Vitthal I found a live performance when he was a young man.
Felonius Monk
@Schlemazel: You also forgot to list fatuously egotistical, semigelatinous fartbubble.
fuckwit
What’s with the asterisk? I don’t get it.
seaboogie
@efgoldman: The best Trump name insults were the Scottish ones when he went to his golf course pre-Brexit. Apparenty the Scots have a traditional and singular talent for “taking the Mickey” out of someone, and their insults were both zesty and bracing. My fave from that time was “ludicrous tangerine ballsack” and “Spooon!”
Now that the silly bugger has won, though – I am going to get a bit more constructive by calling him by his name, and then letting him have on policy. That will hurt him more than names will – being called out on his incompetence will be more effective.
Another Scott
@Schlemazel: Dunno who you’re thinking of, but here’s a couple that turned up for me in a search:
Bismillah Khan (21 March 1916 – 21 August 2006)
Jagjit Singh (8 February 1941 – 10 October 2011)
I hope this helps a little. Good luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
mainmata
@Hal: Absolutely. That’s the tragedy of this very flawed country.
Schlemazel
@schrodingers_cat:
that does not sound familiar and I think I remember their discussing his being a Muslim but I will look as it sounds really possible. THANKS!
dexwood
@Schlemazel:
I’ve been calling the insidious, treasonous, toxic prick Agent Orange.
schrodingers_cat
@Another Scott: Bismillah Khan was a Shenai player, a wind instrument. Jagjit Singh, not a classical singer, mostly famous for gazhals and Hindi movie playback. Kinda of a like a male Snorah Jones in Urdu.
Schlemazel
@Another Scott:
thanks, Bismillah Khan sounds about right but the timing is wrong. Maybe they did the story long after his passing
@schrodingers_cat:
OK, if he is not a singer than thats not him either.
I am going to bed so I’ll google the names you provided and let you know tomorrow. Thanks again to both of you
amk
Fuck you, 2016.
Show us
whatwho else you got.schrodingers_cat
@Schlemazel: Joshi is a quintessential Brahmin name, definitely not a Muslim.
Lizzy L
@seaboogie: Thank you. Excellent suggestion! I just wrote my letter, and emailed it at whitehouse.gov.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I can’t really think of a worse name for him than Donald Trump.
Ksmiami
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): HMM. I DON’T THINK SO. It’s over. America will most likely continue a period of decline. Trump is a deathknell
hedgehog mobile
@delk: That face!
zhena gogolia
@seaboogie:
Good idea. The only time I’ve written to him was about gun control after Sandy Hook.
James Powell
@Schlemazel:
Do you mean Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan?
He was Pakistani. Sang a song with Eddie Vedder on the Dead Man Walking soundtrack. Which is the only reason I heard of him.
LAC
@efgoldman: and I third that. That Orange tinged Buffon and his followers can go fuck themselves with their feelings.
J R in WV
@jeffreyw:
Awww, that is SO cute! Thanks so much. Big bowl of kitteh, the white and orange guy looks like a tiny Rufus, who was colored like that but weighed close to 20 lbs. All muscle!
So sweet. Thanx again.
brettvk
@Schlemazel: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan? He died in 2007, though. One of my favorites, he was Sufi.
eta: too late
danielx
@John:
Man, I’d love to go along with you…but Trump really is a douche rocket.
danielx
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
Consensus at lunch today was four out of four (including two confirmed Republicans) – this asshole is going to get us all killed.
Jeffro
It’s funny, almost, how Trump reads so much into Obama’s statements about the perils of hatred and stupidity…
…it’s almost like Trump probably thinks the song is about him (don’t you, don’t you)?
What a maroon. Can’t wait for Obama’s farewell address (well, only in the sense that it will lay down markers for all time, i.e., a decade at most in Americans’ train of thought, about both who we should be as a nation and his record of almost unparalleled success). And I REALLY can’t wait for his Russia-hacking report to drop: Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Rex Tillerson, you have been warned…
debbie
@brettvk:
Your link says he died in 1997.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Another Scott: “Respect is EARNED, not given away.” – Worf
Omnes Omnibus
@danielx: Also, I am not sure that this site will persuade a leaner to switch.
schrodingers_cat
@brettvk: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan died in 1997 according to his wikipedia pg. His nephew Rahat is very good as well. @Schlemazel: Bismillah Khan may not sing, but he was pretty awesome too.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman:
Some?
ljt
If one more of my FB friends, who I’m fairly certain voted for Trump, posts the following (I’ve actually seen a couple different versions), I’m going to puke.
“One of the most important lessons I’m taking into 2017….If you can’t do anything about it, then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change.” Tony Gaskins
This is a disgusting attempt to forgive themselves for the shitstorm they’ve unleashed.
brettvk
Well, obviously I’ve lost at least a decade somewhere…one beer didn’t useta be so effective.
Omnes Omnibus
@brettvk: How much acid? Just asking…
J R in WV
President Obama said:
And for some completely unknown reason Donald J Trump felt like these words were a criticism of his campaign ! HOW could this BE?
Is it possible that Trump ran for office by fanning hatred, by demonizing those who might be perceived as different?
NO, NO it couldn’t be that he ran as a racist hater! Oh, wait… yes, he did. And he knows that he did just that, this is why he thinks President Obama might be calling him out. Even though Obama didn’t mention his name at all, he knew when his name was being called.
Sibelius
@Suzanne: Ah deductable exhaustion!, we had literally the summer/fall of CONSTANT strep throat between my wife and youngest daughter. From June until 2 tonsillectomies 2 weeks apart in October. The day before youngest daughter’s surgery, other daughter fell on a field trip, hit her head and got her first ambulance ride to the ER. Longest 5 minutes for me was the phone call from the school, “there’s been an accident and there is a head injury”. No cell service where they were and it took some time to get to a land line so the EMT could tell me she was ok. Still waiting on the ambulance bill! Good riddance to 2016 for us here. Hope you’re on the mend soon.
J R in WV
@Schlemazel:
But you can accurately call him Drumpf, which was his grandfather’s name, when he came to America from Germany as an immigrant. According to online experts, this translates from the German into English as “dull”.
Enuff said !!
Alright, there’s more. As a person who’s grandfather arrived here as an immigrant, this guy has no room to be calling other recent arrivals out in any way shape or for. Dull ~!! But it seems to have worked out for him, so far. We’ll see, interesting times.
danielx
@efgoldman:
For fuck’s sake, at least Sanctus Ronaldus Magnus could act the part.
I suppose that’s one (of many) thing that irritates me about He, Trump. Every other president in my adult memory* has known how to at least act ‘presidential’ to greater or lesser degrees, if from nothing more than political instinct. ‘Presidential’ being one of those deals where I can’t define it but, at the saying goes, I know it when I see it. Maybe showing some signs of understanding the dignity, history and importance of the office (yeah, yeah, I know, Dubya doing the two step during a funeral). If the word ‘presidential’ is shown in the dictionary, there is, or should be, a picture under it of the shitgibbon labeled ‘not him’.
And on that issue of not calling him names…Trump is an asshole, and he not only knows it but actively uses it as a tactic and indeed revels in it. That being the case, it almost behooves me to call a spade a fucking shovel.
*more than six, but my memory groweth dim.
J R in WV
@Mike in NC:
Geeze. They didn’t do that when I got out. Thanks, Nixon, for nuttin!
satby
@delk: good to see him home!
satby
@Schlemazel: when was the last time I told you how much I love you??
Captain C
@Ella in New Mexico: IANAD but maybe ADHD and early stage dementia as factors? Plus a distraction from his and Rethug deeds and failures.
Tehanu
@Schlemazel:
Heck, Schlemazel, tell us what you really think!
[Of course, I instantly copied it to my desktop file headed by John Oliver’s wonderful formulation: America’s Wealthiest Hemorrhoid.]
Captain C
@Schlemazel: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
bluefoot
@Schlemazel: Perhaps Maqbool Sabri of the Sabri brothers? I think he died in 2011.
Suzanne
@Steve in the ATL: Sledding mishap. It was surprisingly warm, so I wasn’t wearing gloves. I drove home, and the numbing stuff wore off about 20 minutes before I got home. I normally try to avoid all pain mess, but I am taking Vicodin tonight. Eff.
TriassicSands
The downside of what Obama is doing is that he’s dealing with a vengeful adolescent. Once in office, DT will probably spend as much time as he can, when he’s not secretly trying to enrich himself, getting even with Obama. That said, fuck Trump.
@John:
There’s only one thing I want to call Trump — Convicted Felon.
(Though “disgraced ex-president” would be OK, too.)
rikyrah
@Botsplainer:
Truth
Sab
@SiubhanDuinne: I agree. I used to think my pointless comments killed threads, until I realized I was just the final commenter on a thread that was already dead. Cannot kill a lively thread by boycotting.
Barry
@raven: “The princess put a quilt in the washer and it is totally borked. I called the local dude and, after abut 15 minutes, he said “sorry man, this new one is over my head. He didn’t charge me but now we get to wait a week to get drilled by Sears! Bad week for the $$!”
I was told by a Sears repairman a few years ago to stay away from electronics whenever possible. He said that the majority of his repairs were to the electronics (i.e., computers) on appliances. His were all old fashioned switch-controlled machines.
Barry
@Baud: “Could also be a self-interested move to remind Trump that he has to work with them on their agenda as well.”
Well, we can rule out patriotism as a motivation. Perhaps they want to get some real dirt on Trump into their own hands, not just in Putin’s.
John
I don’t understand what is so hard to understand about my argument.
You can call Trump all the names you want. Your comments make very little difference whatsoever in the short- or long-run. But if it makes you feel good, continue.
The front pagers should know better. Or at least understand that the first time someone on the fence reads “President Tangerine Asterisk Smallgloves” it will be the last time they will take this blog seriously.
Another Scott
@John: Someone on the fence isn’t going to read Balloon-Juice. Or at least, not enough people to matter. People on the fence read David Brooks and people like that – they’re naturally Republican but haven’t come to grips with all that means yet. (If the weren’t naturally Republican, they would be on the Democratic side already.)
We (or at least I) do understand your argument, but you’re not understanding the audience and the community here. We (or at least I) do not take our (political) comments here too seriously because we know we’re not going to convince people on the fence or those on the other side. It’s just (mostly) like-minded people talking.
Stick around, but don’t get easily offended. :-)
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
mainmata
@Hal: Yeah, we pretty much all agree with you.
No One You Know
@Another Scott: Yes to all that. Sea lions aren’t funny, but the Trumpify app continues to attract fans (and fresh new exercises in pejorative poetic rhetoric).