Here’s some exclusive video of Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn working over the Republican caucus in a closed door meeting. Must credit Balloon Juice.
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Here’s some exclusive video of Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn working over the Republican caucus in a closed door meeting. Must credit Balloon Juice.
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SiubhanDuinne
How funny, when this new post appeared the rotating tag was “Good luck with your asparagus.” The tags are not usually quite that on point.
Smiling Mortician
@SiubhanDuinne: I got “Dinky Hocker shoots smack.”
TenguPhule
Reverse Puke Funnel.
zhena gogolia
@SiubhanDuinne:
I got “A Dingo ate my baby,” so that one’s good too.
Gelfling 545
Today is my 67th birthday but I have it on good authority I don’t look a day over 66.
ruemara
@Gelfling 545: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Hmm. I got “Enormous, disembodied, anus”. I don’t want to eat now.
Iowa Old Lady
@Gelfling 545: Happy birthday!
Yarrow
@Gelfling 545: Happy birthday!
Betty Cracker
@Gelfling 545: Happy birthday! All the best people were born in July, including my daughter.
Central Planning
Consistently wrong since 2002. That’s like “never say never”.
Yarrow
Keep seeing random people saying Capito has folder, but haven’t seen confirmation of it online. Anyone have a link?
Betty Cracker
Sort of on topic, since we’re talking food: did y’all know making homemade ricotta cheese is dead simple? It’s so good too!
Yutsano
@Yarrow: I keep seeing ambiguous information about it. Like she might go forward on MTP but not on the vote itself or something.
Honestly if Yerte is just going to strip it all out at the end anyway why bother to move forward?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Gelfling 545: Happy B-day, you don’t look a day over 86.
HeleninEire
@Gelfling 545: Happy Birthday!
Major Major Major Major
@Gelfling 545: Happy birthday! It’s all the commenting here, keeps your facial muscles toned and youthful from all the glowering.
Yarrow
Christ, what has happened to Bill Kristol?
Up is down, pigs flying.
lamh36
As someone said on twitter…Ivanka Trump getting PWNED by Albert Einstein’s quote on twitter…
smh…like father like daughter…eh…smh
lamh36
Paging Sen Graham…paging Sen Graham….
TenguPhule
@lamh36: Graham has other principles if they don’t like the ones he has now.
MomSense
@Gelfling 545:
Happy birthday!
Yutsano
@Gelfling 545: Happy Day of Revolution! Eat muchas cupcakes today!
joel hanes
@Gelfling 545:
Happy Birthday !
Yes, Essence of Gelfling is well known to be rejuvenating.
Much more efficacious than Essence of Podling.
I’ve never known for sure, but I’ve always assumed you were the kind of gelfling with wings.
JPL
@Gelfling 545: Happy, happy day!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Yarrow:
I’m sure he’s still wrong.
Chris
@Gelfling 545:
You will in a day XD
Happy birthday!
Ohio Mom
@Gelfling 545: You’re now a prime number. That has to mean something good!
HRA
@Gelfling 545:
Happy Birthday!
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
He thinks someone in the Senate actually cares about McCain as a human being.
Of course he’s wrong.
Felonius Monk
@Gelfling 545: Happy Birthday, kid.
MomSense
WTF I’m watching Ari Melber’s new show and he has Seb Gorka as a guest??? Seb Gorka is a member of the Order of Vitez which is basically a Hungarian Nazi organization. My stepdad was a Hungarian Jew who lost his immediate family to the Holocaust. Why give this fucking Nazi air time? I’m so mad right now I don’t know what to do with myself.
lamh36
The national Boy Scout organization is complete TRASH for getting Trump to speak at their annual jamboree…smh…
President or not this mofo is NOT an appropriate speaker…but then again…Boys Scout has been run by right wing nuts nationally for years!
Ohio Mom
@Yarrow: Nope, nothing happened to Bill Kristol. In another tweet, he suggests the vote be postponed a week or two, when McCain would be ready to come in and vote.
What bothers him isn’t that people aren’t taking McCain’s well-being into account, it’s that the deadline to vote tomorrow is “artificial.”
So I guess all is right in the world after all.
Laura
@Gelfling 545: Happy Birthday and many, happy returns.
My dear old dad’s is tomorrow.
July’s chock-full of swell folks.
Also, Patti Smith is a Godess.
lamh36
?BillinGlendaleCA
@lamh36: The President is an Ex Officio officer in the BSA, so addressing the Jamboree is appropriate. My Eagle Scout card bears Richard Nixon’s signature.
ETA: When I went to the Jamboree in 1973, our speaker/entertainment was Bob Hope; Tricky Dick was unavailable due to Watergate.
WaterGirl
@Ohio Mom: How is 66 a prime number? I thought a prime number was only divisible by itself and the number 1.
@Gelfling 545: I thought that was quite clever, but no one else seemed to notice. Happy birthday!
trollhattan
@Gelfling 545:
HBDTY. And you rook mahverousssss!
lamh36
in a speech for the fuq’n Boy Scout jamboree…he’s talking to a bunch of kids about an election majority of them likely didn’t vote in
@CNN
President Trump recalls 2016 election night: The map was “so red it was unbelievable” http://CNN.it/go
Felonius Monk
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
When I went to the Boy Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge in 1957. Ike apparently couldn’t make it, so VP Nixon came in his stead.
TenguPhule
@lamh36:
Its almost as if he’s got something to prove.
lamh36
@?BillinGlendaleCA: to be quite honest, I don’t fuq’n care…he still had to be asked…yes…
Ain’t no way, I’d be happy to let, that disgusting fool speak to a bunch of kids…not with ALL we know about just how disgusting he is…
But I guess the BSA don’t curr bout ole “grab dem by the P*&^) Prez…such an role model to speak to those kids…sorry, but fuq the BSA national group…
lamh36
ETA: Nevermind…FUQ the entire organization.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Felonius Monk: At least we didn’t get Agnew, then again he was a short timer at that point.
trollhattan
@lamh36:
Just wait’ll he “addresses” the Girl Scouts….
I’ll show myself out.
JPL
@lamh36: The scouts can now say Merry Christmas now.
CBSN has the clip.. He goes off script a lot.
http://www.cbsnews.com/live/video/president-trump-makes-remarks-at-the-2017-national-scout-jamboree/
Major Major Major Major
@lamh36: Wait, how old are these kids? WTF?
Can you imagine if Obama had done this? Or Bill Clinton or, fuck, George W. Bush?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@lamh36: He had to be asked, and if he wanted to speak, he would.
JPL
@Gelfling 545: Let me be the first to wish you a Merry Christmas.
TenguPhule
@trollhattan:
Trump: “I will personally conduct this inspection. Lift up your skirts please!”
Oh who am I kidding, he’ll never say please.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major:
11-17.
TenguPhule
@lamh36: Anyone else got the Hitler youth vibes?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL: Isn’t it great to be able to say that now?
lamh36
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I read u the first time. No offense, but what part of I don’t care didn’t ya quite understand…
Schlemazel
@Gelfling 545:
Happy birthday ya ol fart! I don’t feel a day over 80
JPL
Trump is fine on script, whether you like the script or not, but when he goes off script, whoa… He’s nuts.
lamh36
I feel bad for the likely Boy Scout of color who are just as likely feeling very uncomfortable with some of the Hitler Youth-esque cheering and booing from the rest of their group who they now have to go to their home troops with
JPL
Wow he’s talking about the stock market.
p.a.
… wait until they’ve got you running to their Night Rally…
MomSense
I am so mad and upset. I don’t know what to do. I cannot believe the media would give one second of air time to Seb Gorka. This is not just a case of giving equal time to opposing opinions.
lamh36
Chris
@lamh36:
I’m so happy I didn’t stay in that fucking cult.
It did have an educational side to it: the first gay person I ever met was a Boy Scout.
Chyron HR
Thanks again for not voting, true progressives.
JPL
@lamh36:
https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/889628814120235009
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL: Nixon wasn’t at the one I was at, but there were 2 that year(1973 was the only year they did that). There was the one in Idaho that I attended and one in PA.
lamh36
Imagine the likely uncomfortable bus ride home for those Boy Scout kids of color…smh
Starfish
@lamh36: Maybe God is through with him after all.
seaboogie
@Gelfling 545: Happy Day to you!!!
Laura
@lamh36: Your comment made me think of this:
https://youtu.be/FN7r0Rr1Qyc
japa21
This is the contact info for BSA. I was a Life Scout. They will be hearing from me. This spectacle today makes me embarrassed to have been a scout.
Mailing Address: PO Box 152079, Irving, TX 75015-2079
Physical Address: 1325 W. Walnut Hill Lane, Irving, TX 75038
Office Phone: 972-580-2000
I know they didn’t write Trump’s speech, but they should apologize for it.
Baud
@Yarrow: This makes me uncomfortable.
delk
I can guarantee that my scoutmaster would have had a long talk to us about why “Courteous” is part of the scout law.
Baud
@lamh36: Wow. I hope the reaction is swift and severe.
Izabela
It’s almost getting hard to remember that not all that long ago we had an intelligent and dignified President of the United States. It’s seems impossible to believe that anyone could possibly think using a speech at Boy Scout jamboree to raise partisan rancor is anything a president should do. Yet we can bet that there will be at most some concern by Republican leadership.
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Maybe by his title it’s appropriate, but not when you look at the man and what he stands for. Is he any of the things the boy scouts is supposed to stand for? No. So I think you are missing the larger point to say it’s appropriate for him to speak there.
Cheryl Rofer
So this is interesting.
Senate rules allow McConnell to call the bill back if he votes AGAINST it. So if he says he’s voting for, he’s either got the 50 votes or is giving up on the bill. The latter is hard to imagine, so it’s likely he’s got the 50.
CALL YOUR SENATORS, ESPECIALLY IF THEY’RE REPUBLICAN!
ETA: He could be lying, too. so CALL YOUR SENATORS!
bemused
I thought I heard wrong but Trump really did say Obama was most ignorant president in history. Trump’s projectile vomiting projection is killing me. Lordy, we’re watching Chet turn himself into a yuge pile of shit.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
Trump’s giving a Hitler youth speech including bashing the former president, who was a Boy Scout, and they’re cheering. This country’s over. Heckuva job, white people.
TenguPhule
@Izabela:
You are unduly optimistic.
Major Major Major Major
@Cheryl Rofer: Or he thinks he’s #50.
I mean, they’re having the vote tomorrow come hell or high water, it seems. It’s not like he can’t hold it open.
ETA: Ah, yes, or the simplest explanation, he’s lying.
ETAA: One last edit. He’s shown that he’s completely willing to just write a bill himself out of whole cloth, so just because he “can’t bring a bill back up” if he doesn’t vote against it because of that One Weird Rule doesn’t mean he can’t:
1. Vote for this bill even though it will lose, thus as stated fulfilling his promise;
2. Watch the bill fail without changing his vote; and
3. Just fucking bring it up again later anyway, since he can apparently bring whatever bill he wants up for a vote.
JPL
@japa21: Parents should be calling outraged.
Mention to ask if Trump was ever a scout..
sdhays
@lamh36: Would anyone notice? After all, diplomacy is run out of Mr. Ivanka’s office anyway, right?
DesertFriar
@lamh36: @CNN
President Trump recalls 2016 election night: The map was “so red it was unbelievable” http://CNN.it/go
————-
Actually, it was due to embarrassment.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: I agree, but they couldn’t say no.
WaterGirl
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: Party before
countryeverything. Even human decency.lamh36
And Rick Perry and Tom Price…just laughing their dumb azzes off in the background…fuckers!
Steeplejack (phone)
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I’m laughing at the thought of Bob Hope addressing the Boy Scouts. Thinking of one of his USO shows in Vietnam. “How about that Joey Heatherton, guys!”
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major:
Yep, the infamous 3 hour open floor comes to mind.
Of course, this one could take a bit longer, but its not like they have anything more important to worry about.
Jeffro
All these clowns do, in their attempts to preserve their dwindling privilege, is destroy long-held traditions and norms. Redistricting every year/every opportunity instead of only right after each Census. Extreme gerrymandering. Making it acceptable to take unlimited ‘dark money’ donations. Suppressing the vote. Refusing to even allow hearings for, much less vote on, Supreme Court nominees unless they’re nominated by a Republican. Colluding with hostile foreign powers. All in the service of keeping (white, male) Republicans in power, to service the rich. In this, McConnell, Ryan, and Trump are exactly the same: whatever it takes to hold on, tradition, norms. democracy, history, Constitution be damned.
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: That of course was in the House (you’re talking medicare part D i assume), where such things are less uncommon.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack (phone): Heh, ol’ Bob opened with “Hello troops”; the singer was Tony Orlando.
MomSense
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
It really is a Fucking Nazi speech. And then the supposed liberal news channel MSNBC has a GD Nazi on their show as a guest talking about health care.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major: Yes, but as McConnell has repeatedly demonstrated, he’s perfectly willing to follow the House’s example and fuck the rulebook.
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
It’s appropriate for a President of the United States to address the Boy Scouts.
Given the video footage, it’s hard to argue that Trump’s address to them was appropriate.
Patricia Kayden
@Gelfling 545: Happy B’Day to you!! And wishing you many many more.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: Again, I agree about the content; but they could not say no.
Gelfling 545
@joel hanes: When wings are an option, always pick wings.
JPL
@MomSense: When Trump said they were going to get rid of Obamacare, the scouts shouted USA,USA..
MomSense
@JPL:
It’s an outrage.
lamh36
@?BillinGlendaleCA: real question, is the BSA a publicly funded group? Do they receive federal funds that could stop if they maligned the President?
Cause I can bet if they NEVER issued the invite, Trump would have never even thought about the BSA?
Baud
@MomSense: I don’t know much about Scout families. Are they really that wingnutty? I know the Scouts as an organization is conservative.
Gelfling 545
Many thanks for the birthday greetings. I’m off to drink champagne and make serious inroads into a cheesecake sampler.
Alain the site fixer
@Betty Cracker: try yogurt. Amazingly simple – get milk almost boiling, let cool a bit (lookup the temp) then add a tbs or two of plain yogurt you like. Stir and when blended well, pour the hot milk-starter into a big jar or four and put in a 200 °F preheated oven then turn off heat and leave closed for 6-10 hours. No maker or fancy crap needed. Make it when you go to bed you have room temp yogurt for breakfast. The fresher and better the milk, the better yogurt, but even plastic jug milk from Walmart tastes pretty darn good as yogurt.
Steeplejack (phone)
@MomSense:
A GD Nazi who is an official White House employee: deputy assistant to the president, working on the “national security advisory staff.”
I share your disgust. But as GD Nazis go he’s bona fide.
Mnemosyne
@Baud:
They’re pretty wingnutty, but usually Mormon, which could complicate the response. Mormon parents tend to be a little horrified by open rudeness.
JPL
@MomSense: Hopefully, the MSM covers the speech because it was horrifying. I’m streaming MSNBC and it appears that Hayes is going to cover Kushner.
I know this sounds simple, but this shit has to stop.
satby
@Gelfling 545: Happy Birthday to you ?
Barbara
@Yarrow: I looked but could not find anything.
TenguPhule
@JPL:
Expect Republicans to double down by tomorrow.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@lamh36: My answer is pretty much what I said before…
I do not know if they receive federal funding, however the President is an Ex Officio officer in the BSA. It is traditional to invite him to speak.
MomSense
@Baud:
I don’t know that the families are uniformly wingnutty but the organization is rife with problems.
@Steeplejack (phone): Never thought I’d see this.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
Depends on the region. They reflect the people who live there.
Hildebrand
The Boy Scouts are pretty heavily influenced by the right-wing end of the spectrum – many troops are sponsored by Roman Catholic or Mormon congregations.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne:
Not really, but usually affiliated with a church.
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
It was also traditional to release tax returns once upon a time.
People and organizations are going to have to seriously take a look at traditional norms which they can no longer take for granted.
Yarrow
@Alain the site fixer: Have you ever made yogurt without already having yogurt to add to the milk as a starter? Apparently using chili pepper stems is a traditional ways of doing it in India. I’ve read you can use other things as the starter as well. You get a quite different flavor of yogurt and different bacteria.
lamh36
https://twitter.com/Stonekettle/status/889638078897377281
lamh36
https://twitter.com/Stonekettle/status/889638078897377281
MomSense
@Yarrow:
I’ve only made yogurt using yogurt as a starter but if you have a recipe for a different method, I’d love to see it.
schrodingers_cat
@MomSense: Same here.
ETA: Also used a starter that you get from Amazon.
MomSense
@schrodingers_cat:
I made some Raita this weekend. I add
Green chilies to the mix. Sooo good.
Barbara
@lamh36: Okay, not in my district. My son is a scout and we would not allow it if it were like this. The troop has always been sponsored by a church that is now quite liberal in outlook.
Yarrow
@MomSense:
I haven’t done it myself but i know someone who did. Then he used the chili stem yogurt as a starter for the following batch. Said the flavor changed over time. He branched out to all sorts of things as starters–cucumbers, apple, whatever he had around. Some took longer than others. He said he’s never buying yogurt from the store again.
Here’s a link to the Wild Fermentation website with someone’s description of it. I think you kind of have to wing it a bit. Just get in a play around with it. Wild Fermentation is Sandor Katz’s website and his book is the bible of fermentation.
MomSense
@Yarrow:
Thank you!
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Mormons are a huge deal in Boy Scouting.
Yarrow
@MomSense: You’re welcome! Sandor Katz runs intensive courses and various workshops. I have his book but haven’t even cracked it. Got it about two weeks before my life fell apart and haven’t had time or energy to get into it since. I love what he does, though. Have followed his blog and others who do fermentation. Very cool stuff.
Honus
Two of the most liberal people I know have the Silver Beaver. But this is an outrage.
Ithink
@lamh36:
Well as a Boy Scout of color myself for over 10 years & an Eagle Scout for the last nine, and having heard & seen more than an ignorable number of my melaninin-deprived fellow scouts hurl n***** and jiga*** with aplomb in my presence (not to mention the occasional rebel Cobfederate flag cap on), its not the MOST offensive experience one can have in regards to the organization. Still have respect and am grateful for the institution and all they taught me but not of inviting the heathen Hair Furor to speak . AT ALL!
Ithink
@TenguPhule:
I’d say its definitely dependent on the geographic area and the demographics of said space thereof but if the rural, white working class paradigm of the most blood red states in our union that handed the Presidency to a vulgar talking yam is any indication, the writing is pretty much on the wall in terms of their political world views literally looking at the racial composition of any given troop.
MomSense
@Yarrow:
I’m really glad you are here.
Ithink
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
I always relied, as a person of color, on the still white super majority of this country to always ultimately do the right thing regarding the country after perhaps trying all the wrong things. Then I saw how so many of them reacted to the successful election (TWICE!) of B.H.O and realized I was (somewhat) of a fool to have earnestly believed it all along.
JMG
FWIW, the Scout troop where my son made Eagle in my very Democratic Boston suburb is run by the parents who also are the most influential in town politics. So you never know.
McCain will be back for the vote. His last serious act on earth will be to fuck tens of millions of people, as he will be the deciding vote.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ithink:
No, as a white person (of the minority liberal bent), I honestly can say we need all the help we can get from the rest of you.
Denali
I just got home from an Eagle Scout ceremony for the son of a dear friend, and I am sick to my stomach over this speech. This man does really besmirch every group he comes into contact with.(sorry to end with preposition, English majors).
Ithink
@Omnes Omnibus:
Then do my damnedest I will continue to do!
Ithink
@Denali:
I’m trying to figure out where all you cool cats watched Derp Fuhrer’s Boy Scout speech because I’m pretty sure none of the major networks carried it (the Death Care revival screed probably turned them all off!); if I can stomach it, where in the hell can I re-watch the screed?
Ithink
@JMG:
If McCain is 1.) Able to travel & does so against doctor’s wishes then 2.) Actually positively votes for this monstrosity of a legislation I will not wish for his death (I still want some high ground for when they go low) but I will have absolutely lost all respect and higher regard for him, even as a war service hero that our sitting man-baby of a President so thoroughly degraded.
Ithink
@lamh36:
Absolutely disgusting but its a sign of the times, I guess.
Ithink
@Jeffro:
Nailed it as always, but its sad this reality isn’t dissipating anytime soon!
Omnes Omnibus
@Ithink: As will i. If enough of us do, we will make it through.
rikyrah
@Gelfling 545:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY :)
Amir Khalid
@Gelfling 545:
Selamat harijadi, bonne anniversaire, alles Gute zum Geburtstag, and also happy birthday.
@Denali:
The man is a walking affront to decency and grace, among many other things. It’s only to be expected that such an appalling man will say these appalling things.
Ending a sentence with a preposition is perfectly good English grammar. I hereby give you permission to do it as often as you wish.