Millennial: your generation got houses and jobs
Boomer: yes but we lived with constant fear of nuclear winter
Millennial: hold my avocado
— Ken Norton (@kennethn) August 8, 2017
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Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, what’s on the agenda for the day?
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These (bad) numbers have held for a week or so. Actually getting a bit worse, if anything… pic.twitter.com/1fuZ08gAgE
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 8, 2017
I have yet to encounter a Trump supporter who thinks this is even mildly bad news. https://t.co/kwtUHg7toj
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) August 8, 2017
(Jeff Danziger’s website)
Baud
Is that a millennial thing?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
After the spasmodic NK-US-China-Russian nuclear exchange occurs, can we at least have a pact that any surviving Twitter executives will be hunted down by surviving Juicers for food?
Citizen Alan
@Baud:
There was some moron who wrote an essay a few weeks back suggesting that the reason Millennials are so poor is that they squander their money on frivolous things like $15 avocado-on-toast appetizers. It was exactly as stupid as my brief description made it sound.
Baud
@Citizen Alan: What’s a reasonable price for avocado-on-toast appetizers?
Sometimes, I can’t tell if anti-millennial screeds are directed an anti-millennials or at millennials who like to hate read and then talk about it on social media.
Frank McCormick
@Baud: “Avocado toast” has become both a standard Millennial slam AND a quick snark on trivial Boomer comments on “The Yute these days”.
Baud
@Frank McCormick: I learn something new every day.
Schlemazel
@Citizen Alan:
The ‘best ‘ part was that it was not an American pundit the oozed that opinion
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ???
Felonius Monk
How do you toast an avocado? Or is that a secret of the millenium?
Felonius Monk
How do you toast an avocado? Or is that a secret of the millennium?
Felonius Monk
How do you toast an avocado? Or is that a secret of the millennium?
Felonius Monk
How do you toast an avocado? Or is that a secret of the millennium?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Staccato. I like it.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Blog’s broke.
Felonius Monk
Something is not working correctly. My apologies for the multiple comments.:(
Schlemazel
Thats part of this blogs charm!
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
So here’s my thought of the morning – I’m seeing a lot of whining about him not being given a chance, being “obstructed” and those of us who oppose Him not wanting to see a “successful Trump presidency”.
Wondering what a successful Trump presidency looks like in their eyes – as in, what the end result looks like.
OzarkHillbilly
@Felonius Monk: 6 times! must be some kind of record.
Baud
So when millennials get old, will they be all like, “we ate avocado on toast, which was the fashion at the time*?
Amir Khalid
@Felonius Monk:
This is not so bad. One time it happened to a comment of mine that just happened to mention boobs.
Debbie(aussie)
@Schlemazel:
We proudly get to claim the asshole. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/15/australian-millionaire-millennials-avocado-toast-house
Raven
@Amir Khalid: this joint is full of boobs!
OzarkHillbilly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Captain Obvious strikes again! This is rather rich after 8 years of GOP obstructionism.
Anne Laurie
@Baud:
It’s a floor wax and a dessert topping!
Pretty good WaPo explanation: “Don’t mess with millennials’ avocado toast: The Internet fires back at a millionaire“
sm*t cl*de
Does Nate Silver bother to type in these tweets himself, or does he have a bot set up to send them out automatically at weekly intervals?
Schlemazel
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
I read a story saying hair furor was irate that Kelly wanted to control the tweeting. I took that as a very good thing. As long as the tangerine tantrum continues to careen out of control the damage he does will be lessened and the likelihood of a total GOP collapse increases. I was seriously concerned that Kelly would bring some discipline to the administration and magnified the damage
Schlemazel
@Debbie(aussie):
Yup, and you can keep him we have plenty of our own, thanks.
A great line from “As Good As It Gets”: Sell crazy someplace else, we’re all full up here!
different-church-lady
@Baud: Avocado smoothie, to be precise.
raven
@Schlemazel: You left off the best part!!
raven
@different-church-lady: ick
different-church-lady
@Felonius Monk:
Start by tapping your glass to quiet the guests…
different-church-lady
@raven: I know, right? No wonder nobody wants to give them jobs!
Baud
@Anne Laurie: Thanks, AL.
Kay
@Baud:
Millennials are right, though:
Also- avocado toast sounds delicious.
Schlemazel
@raven:
I had forgotten that first part . . . That could have been Kelly talking to his boss this week
great line – thanks for completing it.
raven
@Schlemazel: Funny, I had remembered it as Olongapo City! I guess that was Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and the great ping pong ball caper!
Schlemazel
@Kay:
That, in a nutshell, is the problem. The difficult part is, what’s the solution? How do you convince billionaire CEOs and Investors to take a little less and give a little more?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Schlemazel:
Firing squads, guillotines (for when the bullets run out) and rope (for when the blade gets too small after the sharpening).
Baud
@Kay:
Avocado is supposed to be healthy, but I can’t eat it.
Kevin Drum has recently put up a couple of charts and posts talking about the big changes in income distribution. The big inflection points were 1980 and 2000, both of which were the beginning of big income increases among the rich.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@different-church-lady:
Desert dry…
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Which the rich will be happy to sell to the People for a profit, because they know those things will be used on minorities first.
Baud
The one time Trump’s NLRB will side with the worker.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Kay,
Did you see my post to you about the tweet that the DOJ has approved Ohio purging voters that haven’t cast a vote in two years???
rikyrah
@Baud:
Seems that he falsified his credentials. So, isn’t that a reason to fire “for cause”?
JPL
I’ve not eaten avocado toast, but there is a local restaurant that has wonderful avocado fries. Yum!
Luckovich’s mad men
https://cmgajcluckovich.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/lk080917_color.jpg
Baud
@Baud:
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/08/chart-of-the-day-middle-class-incomes-vs-the-rich-1946-2014/
raven
@JPL: I grill them along with pineapple and Mahi-Mahi serve them with black beans and rice.
Baud
@rikyrah: Maybe. But I don’t know what the NLRB has to do with it. They deal with unions and collective bargaining.
TS
@Schlemazel: The investors (in many cases the folks who look after our retirement investments) can stop the massive pay the CEOs receive – why they don’t is the hope that one day … they might get that job. Most ceos are like trump – FLUWOEs
Central Planning
@Amir Khalid: Clearly FYWP likes boobs.
Kay
@Schlemazel:
I’m not sure anyone “convinced” them before. They took it from them. They made them pay higher taxes and if they didn’t raise wages they went on strike.
There was a whole spate of stories after the financial crash on how really wealthy people were worried about “unrest” and I wondered about it- what were they worried about? Poor people don’t have any power. Looking at that graph though they should be worried, because it isn’t just poor people. It’s really wealthy people versus literally everyone else. The gains over time is the thing. All middle class people have is money over time. They need 30 years of slow gains because they don’t get big gains. They just didn’t get it and they can’t make more time. They can’t create an extra ten or twenty years. They just run out of working years. Millennials are right because the gains have to be there when they’re younger or they can’t make it up. Money is worth more at 30 than it is at 50. What’s surprising to me in my practice is how fragile “middle class” is and was. You really need a whole set of factors and you need them in place at the right time- earlier rather than later. There’s a window and if it closes for a generation it’s too late.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Re Avocado toast: Haven’t had it, but have gotten fond of beans on toast over a couple trips to the U.K.
Re Glen Campbell from the thread last night: Didn’t see anyone mention the documentary, so allow me to recommend I’ll Be Me, filmed in his farewell tour after the Alzheimer’s diagnosis. It’s remarkable to see how performance revives him and keeps him going. We watched it on Netflix after seeing an article mention it.
I am among those who had no idea how good a guitar player he was. I was more aware of him as background music, a voice I heard a lot on the pop radio stations because he had so many crossover hits.
Schlemazel
@rikyrah:
It is the last 2 Federal elections, so 4 years. But still the object is to disenfranchise poor and people of color
Baud
@Kay: The election of Donald Trump tells me that the wealthy need not worry.
HinTN
Exactly
HinTN
@Raven: Who among us is the Teutonic Titwillow?
Kay
@rikyrah:
I think the Texas case is much more egregious because Texas met the standard of “intentional discrimination” (which is hard to meet) and still the Trump Administration is defending Texas.
Federal courts have said that Texas and North Carolina deliberately changed their laws to discriminate against black and brown voters. Intentional. There’s no point in having federal voting rights protections if Sessions doesn’t enforce that. They found intentional discrimination! That’s what conservatives said we had to prove! That’s where the federal government steps in. Sessions is simply not doing his job.
Husted is in my opinion the front runner for GOP governor candidate. He’s smart and tenacious and he could win. He’ll use that office to appeal to the GOP base as we get closer to the race. So that’s the big threat in Ohio- he’s running for governor. They all are- just about every statewide office holder in Ohio is running for governor but Husted is serious and could win. On the GOP scale of voter suppression he’s not the worst- he’s a 5 if the scale goes to 10.
debbie
@Frank McCormick:
Avocado toast is the new arugula.
HinTN
@raven: That sounds delicious. Thanks for the idea.
Kay
@rikyrah:
It blows me away that conservatives don’t take more heat for Texas and North Carolina. They intentionally discriminated against black and brown voters. Carefully crafted laws over months and months to try to stop certain citizens from voting.
It’s appalling. But now it’s been normalized on the Right. It’s just business as usual. That’s a real erosion from even the 1990’s, when conservatives were at least still pretending they were pro-democracy. It’s not a mystery why it’s Texas and North Carolina, either. They’re terrified of non-white political power. AA in North Carolina and Latino in Texas.
debbie
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Usually spoken by the very people who refused to give the previous president a chance and actively hoped his presidency would fail. Then you get the current talking point: “But here and now…” as if simultaneously acknowledging and dismissing this fact.
NotMax
Twenty bucks?
Great googly moogly, what does a real entree cost?
MomSense
@Citizen Alan:
My millennials make homemade avocado toast. It’s yummy. Why a millennial made one for me just last week!
debbie
@Schlemazel:
Is anyone really surprised that Sessions’s DOJ would side with the OH SoS on this. This is the guy who thinks he should be able to purge voters even more quickly.
Quinerly
@rikyrah:
Good morning from the Quinerly tribe!
Central Planning
@Quinerly: Hey – I sent you an email yesterday to the email address you posted. Did you get it?
Ohio Mom
I made myself avacado toast: mash half an avacado, spread on whole wheat bread (which I did not toast, so maybe this isn’t authentic), with a dash each of salt and lemon juice. It was okay, the texture felt like cake frosting.
I’m at the stage of boomerhood/encroaching oldsterhood that I am developing a morbid interest in what young people are doing these days.
debbie
@Kay:
Last week, it was reported he raised less than Jim Renacci, the Tea Party candidate.
Kay
@rikyrah:
I know you could repeat this every day, but Trump is such a liar. Yesterday he intimated that the opiate addiction crisis came about because of lax drug law enforcement. That’s not what happened. The opiate crisis came about because of legal drugs. They deliberately targeted certain populations with a huge influx of powerful painkillers. They sold enough opiate-based painkillers in Ohio to treat every man, woman and child 20 times over. The attorney general gives presentations with a map of the counties. The over-prescribing started ten years ago and you can watch each county turn red as it spread. They track prescriptions. There’s a record of every transaction. They KNOW this happened. The LEGAL drug industry created this crisis. Deliberately.
Kay
@debbie:
Maybe they’ll go with a lunatic again – they did vote for Trump- but Husted is the best of the bunch IMO. What do I know though- I thought they should have nominated Kasich for President and they hated him.
NotMax
There must be a real humdinger of a story brewing beneath the surface.
Quinerly
@JPL:
Love fried avocado! If ever in Santa Fe, check out the fried avocado at El Farol on Canyon. Tapas place, low slung bar, seasonal changes on food. Supposedly the one of, if not the oldest bar in the country…bar there since the 1700’s. My friend remembers it having a dirt floor and pool tables in the 1970’s. Now somewhat upscale. Also, the the fattest WHITE anchovies I have ever seen if they happen to have them. Sometimes off menu item. Now I’m hungry.
Baud
@NotMax: Probably voted for Hillary.
Ohio Mom
@Schlemazel: I think I told this story once: the people we bought the house from died in a car accident a couple of years after the sale.
There was a stretch there when Ohio sent absentee ballots to every registered voter, whether they had asked for them or not. When theirs arrived, I called the board of elections and they told me they could not take the previous owners off the rolls unless someone brought them death certicates, or they hadn’t voted in two presidential elections.
That seemed fair to me, shortening the time span does not. Many people only vote for president.
We do have a very motley crew running for governor. I’d say, “Maybe they’ll cancel each other out,” but after the Republican presidential primary race, now I live in fear about who will rise to the top.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: And made a lot of money doing it so it’s all OK.
JPL
@raven: Do you grill slices or just cut the avocado in half? It sounds amazing.
NotMax
@Quinerly
Another oldie but goodie: Fraunces Tavern, pouring libations since 1762.
Iowa Old Lady
@Schlemazel: Unions and/or government regulation. Somehow, you have to balance the employer’s power. The weakening of unions is a tragedy.
Quinerly
@Central Planning:
Yep. I got it and it didn’t even go to the spam folder first. Last name didn’t ring any bells but I know his street well. When are you heading to PKS? Are you in NC? We have another commenter here who has Carteret County connections. Met her and her mom and sister at the Ruddy Duck in Morehead on that May trip. Turned out her BIL was the public safety director in PKS for 20 plus years, and I knew him. Small world. How often are you down there? I’m back in October and then again in the spring. No Christmas trip this year. Will email you back a bit later. Thanks for reaching out. Have a great day
JPL
Before six this morning, my phone issued an alert. I looked and it was only a flash flood warning. Phew!
Kay
@Schlemazel:
One thing that rural people do for their grown kids (which I see in my practice) is if they have some property or assets they pass it to the grown kids at the right time. So rather than wait until they die they give them some stake when they marry or move out or graduate college or get their first job. That makes a lot of sense. If you’re going to give it to them give it to them earlier, then they can take advantage of more time. I wonder if they have a longer view because many of them started with some boost from their parents- usually property- land. They have a better sense of generational transfer. So a larger down payment given at 25 means a smaller mortgage and less interest over 30 years…that sort of thinking. Generally you would want to get more into the hands of younger family members, earlier. You have to think of your family as a sort of ongoing enterprise though, and I’m not sure a lot of people do that.
Quinerly
@NotMax:
Thanks for the link. Interesting. I’ve been a bit suspicious of El Farol’s claim. It’s old but I suspect probably 1800’s. Eventually, I will make a trip to NYC. Never been.
OzarkHillbilly
Any Evangelical who remained in their cannibalistic church expressing moral superiority over little ole atheist me is risking death by speaking in my presence.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Looks like I picked the wrong week to vacation in Guam.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Not deep fried?
Iowa Old Lady
I’ve never even heard of avocado toast. I don’t know if that’s because I’m old or because I live in Iowa.
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: I must not be a millennial then because I rarely eat avocados. I assume that’s a California hippy thing.
Patricia Kayden
@Iowa Old Lady: I made the mistake of ordering avocado toast from Cheesecake Factory. Yuck! Just not my thing.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
It’s like she’s Nostradamus, only in reverse.
raven
@JPL: Yea, a little olive oil and S&P, coat the pineapple in butter and honey and they brown nicely.
Kay
@Iowa Old Lady:
Doesn’t it sound good, though? Just those two things together. Toast and anything, really.
They do eat fancy food, the devil may care millennials. My son and his wife are always giving me exotic treats. Then they laugh at me because of the word “fancy” – they say “oh, FAN-cy!”
We have a vacation house and I like to come after them because they leave Vietnamese coffee, things like that. Fizzy water! Yay! I won’t buy it but I’ll eat theirs.
Baud
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Nostadumbass
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Only at the state fair.
Matt McIrvin
@sm*t cl*de: As you can see on the chart, before this past week or two, Trump’s approval numbers had actually been pretty steady for months. One might have been able to imagine that the damage had been controlled.
NotMax
@MomSense
But were they free range avocados?
;)
clay
@rikyrah: Two years?!??! So if someone only votes in Presidential elections, they could get purged? That’s obscene.
Matt McIrvin
@OzarkHillbilly: I had to look up that quote because “Gervais” sounded so much like Ricky Gervais, grousing about it to Stephen Colbert, perhaps.
Kay
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
The DANGER of Hillary Clinton. Please. She’s like a standard Methodist. They created this whole person who doesn’t exist. I love the “crimes” because they’re so fucking crazy. She’s a PEDOPHILE and a MURDERER. A SEX TRAFFICKER.
She looks like my mother in law and she goes on and on about the earned income tax credit. They made this person they hate up. Invented an enemy. Hillary Clinton is not that exciting. She would have done a good job but that wasn’t enough. They required drama. Well, they got it.
Baud
@Kay: This. It’s morbidly fascinating how so many American minds can’t handle the idea of Hillary.
bemused
@Kay:
JAMA recently reported about large percentage of opioid prescriptions after surgeries were unused. My husband only took two pills after hernia surgery, 28 still in the bottle. I didn’t pay attention to the amount when I picked up the prescription for him but we both thought prescribing 30 pills was overkill so to speak.
Trump is a know nothing. The people who live in the areas with the worst addiction and overdose numbers sure know how so many of their loved ones, friends and neighbors became addicted. Trump calling those places drug infested dens is true in that the drug companies infested our communities but that isn’t how he perceives or portrays the issue. I still suspect he could be on something or prescribed something that he doesn’t want revealed.
Kay
My husband plays tennis seriously- he’s on two leagues- and after all this time married his tennis mates convinced me to play. I’m a bad athlete, generally. So they suggested I play “pickle ball” which is like easier tennis. I went and played yesterday with women who are 20 years older than me and they kicked my ass. But I’m going back because now I have to beat them. One of them at least. The one with the tennis injuries who plays with all kinds of leg braces. The weakest link, as it were.
Kay
@bemused:
It’s just that it’s recognized. Our attorney general is a wingnut who will do literally anything to mollify his base and he’s the one giving these presentations I’m attending. My House member is Latta, he’s a far Right Republican and he’s a lawyer so he has to go to the same training I go to. I’ve seen him there. They know the cause of the opiate crisis. There’s no “debate” over what caused this. Two opiate producers caused it. When they couldn’t get the legal drugs anymore (because they closed down the ‘pain clinics’) they went to heroin. Heroin is actually cheaper.
Betty Cracker
It’s unlikely, but wouldn’t it be great if the GOP attack on voting rights created this huge backlash that made people willing to jump through absurd hoops to get IDs they shouldn’t even need and willing to crawl through broken glass to vote in every single election? What if voting became a subversive act, a way to express defiance? What if the suppression efforts backfired so spectacularly that turnout reached 80% or so for even boring old city council races?
OzarkHillbilly
@Matt McIrvin: Normally I add a link, but in this case those 2 quotes got it all. Sorry ’bout that.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: The FOX effect.
Kay
@Baud:
This is horrible but that’s why she shouldn’t have been the nominee. The myth is too set. You saw the coverage she got. They start with the assumption that she is doing something nefarious. It’s baked in. It’s not fair and it’s not her fault but it wasn’t just the far Left and the far Right. They treat her like a criminal.
I didn’t know how bad it was but I have to say when I saw the NYTimes coverage Whitewater came flooding back and I thought “oh, THIS. I forgot about THIS”. It’s real and it’s a real problem.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: Haha! I’d never heard of pickle ball until my snowbird in-laws showed me a court at their retirement development, but it turns out it is commonplace in Florida among retirees. Kick that old lady’s butt!
different-church-lady
@Baud:
Minds? That’s rather generous of you.
different-church-lady
@bemused:
Still, it was nice to see him admit that he only won the NH primary because the voters were drug-addled.
Quinerly
@Baud: So stealing that.
Kay
@Baud:
I think there’s almost a culture in political media of treating Hillary Clinton like a criminal. There is no “benefit of the doubt”. It’s decades now. It’s unfixable. It’s a bad marriage. There’s a whole history there. They attack, she defends, they attack her for defending. It’s irretrievably broken.
The email wasn’t the harbinger. Benghazi was. There was nothing there but they trumped it up for two years. They believed she did something wrong and it was just a matter of finding it. That should have been the tip-off of what we were in for because there was nothing there.
Quinerly
@Baud:
But seem to like Bill.
zhena gogolia
@Kay:
Haha, that’s what my husband always says, “She’s a Methodist.” That’s like his go-to characterization of Hillary. Too bad that wasn’t a meme.
oldgold
@OzarkHillbilly:” The FOX effect.”
Don’t get me started.
Baud
@Kay:
I had assumed the left of center was ready for prime time and was strong enough to defeat our enemies. I was wrong. Too many of us turned out to be addicted to right wing hate culture. Still, it ended up being Comey who delivered the coup the grace. Almost.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
It’s fun – it’s more like ping pong than tennis. Still, I almost fell twice. I get over-enthusiastic. It’s going better than my attempt to learn to ski at 40 which was a disaster. I think you have to learn to ski as a child.
The old ladies are really aging jocks- they all played something in high school and they all play or played tennis. You forget there are as many older women who played sports in their youth as there are men. They’re quieter about it “I was all-county in volleyball”, just casually mentioned :)
A Ghost To Most
8:30 AM on the east coast, and no twissives from Him Wrong-Orange? Wierd.
Weaselone
@Kay:
I’m not certain this is true just of Hillary though. It seems like all Democrats in power are guilty until proven innocent in the eyes of the press.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: To be honest Kay, there is never anything there, no matter who they are attacking. We have become inured to it. What we could not overcome (I certainly was aware of the anti-Hillary bias) was the 20 years of BS with a fresh dollop of Comey just days before the election.
ETA BS=bull shit, not wilmer tho some may not be able to tell the difference.
Amir Khalid
@Kay:
A basic playing tip. I hope it’s helpful.
Take the racquet back as you run towards the path of the ball so that you’ll have plenty of time to make your stroke. Remember, power in the groundstroke is generated not so much by swinging your arm, but by planting your feet and turning your body. The arm swing is merely an extension of the body turn, and the purpose of the racquet is to steer the flight of the ball rather than to drive it. If you do the body turn fast enough, it is possible to pull your feet off the ground. If this happens, pay it no mind.
Patricia Kayden
@Betty Cracker: That would be more than great. It’s exactly what is needed. If after all that the GOP has put us through (including putting a Mad Man in the White House), voters aren’t roused to get up and vote out every single Republican next November then I don’t know what would rev them up.
MomSense
@NotMax:
HA! And GMO Free!
bemused
@different-church-lady:
Ha, ha. I just wish a good laugh didn’t come with wanting to cry at the same time so often now.
Amir Khalid
@Kay:
If Hillary shouldn’t have been the Democratic nominee last year, who should have? Wouldn’t the Republicans have demonised that person too?
Quinerly
Book of Faces “memories” of one year ago is telling me that Trump suggested that the “2nd Amendment people might take out Hillary.” The Secret Service investigated. Washington Monthly and 535 had big pieces up talking about an EC landslide for HRC. She had opened up a double digit lead. Fake medical reports about HRC were being posted on Twitter. Trump was questioning her mental health. And Saint Bernie had just bought his third home. I miss last year.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: @Patricia Kayden: Billboard: “Piss off a Republican, VOTE!”
Quinerly
@A Ghost To Most:
It’s probably not raining.
leeleeFL
@different-church-lady: This one made my morning! Almost sprayed oatmeal all over my kitchen! Thankums very much alot!
MomSense
Regarding the “Propaganda Document” Dolt45s lackeys give him every day. Doesn’t that sort of sound like a participation trophy/safe place for a special snowflake?
WTF. That in combination with his fury and fire threats to North Korea are setting off all my warning lights.
25th amendment time. This is bullshit.
bemused
@Kay:
That’s just it. Trump’s voters are recognizing it. They want more funds for their communities to fight the epidemic with addiction treatment, etc. I think people who realize drug companies to blame want them held accountable too. Instead Trump pounds on stronger drug laws enforcement. Just a day ago Price said no declaring national opioid addiction emergency because it doesn’t meet requirements, something, something. I just wonder how many Trump supporters are catching on that he’s not going to help them on this either.
Quinerly
@Quinerly:
And Book of Faces “memories” is telling me that 2 years ago today, women were tweeting and emailing Trump updates on their periods. He had just made the the Megyn Kelly remark. I miss two years ago.
satby
@Amir Khalid:
Of course they would have. Just like they’ve done to Pelosi, Harris, Obama….anyone. Being capable and Democratic is a crime worthy of the most vile smears. Clinton was a great candidate on her own merits, that the media has been able to slander her for years with nothing but anemic pushback from everyone who cares about facts in news is a national disgrace.
And the left wing tools who parrot right wing propaganda should never say another word in public. They’ve lost the right to tell anyone else anything.
Peale
@bemused: come on. We all know that it was the emptiness of white existence that caused them to turn to these drugs, which were all prescribed by Undocumented Guatemalan Gang Bangers posing as doctors when they weren’t murdering white women as part of their initiation rituals and stealing your job.
Quinerly
Three years ago Michael Brown was murdered in Ferguson, Missouri. Our local NPR station has been covering the anniversary most of the morning. The mention of his name still makes me cry. I learned a lot about my born and bread St. Louis friends 3 years ago. Purges on FB, folks I knew 20 years that I don’t even acknowledge in public. St. Louis is still a very racist town.
Quinerly
@MomSense:
and fascinating that someone leaked it. the knives are out. Pence???
Chris
@Schlemazel:
Agreed. I don’t want discipline in the White House and certainly not from someone like Kelly. Chaos is the least bad option.
Jeffro
Hey everyone – good morning! Let this lighten up your day a bit: Sorry, Mike Pence, But You’re Doomed.
I’m going to email FB and see if he has ever heard the term, “Shit Midas” ;)
Chris
@Kay:
Don’t forget the stupendous college debt that millennials often have accumulated, which means that not only can they not save adequately for retirement, but they’re often starting out with a shit-ton of negative points that they have to make up for. For years, a ton of the money they earn will go down the black hole of debt repayment instead of being put down for their retirement, or used to buy a home or a car or just more groceries, y’know, the kind of things that actually are good for the economy.
bemused
@Peale:
Oh gawd, I’d laugh but there really is no bizarre, flaky conspiracy theory floated that wouldn’t instantly be believed in numbers that are horrifying.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Nothing but truth.
rikyrah
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Which is why they are mad.
They thought that we would have crumbled by now. They really don’t get it. Don’t understand. The paradigm has changed.
I’ve said it before.
This isn’t 2000.
This isn’t even 2004, after Shrub lied us into two wars.
There is something fundamentally altered, and so many in the MSM, and especially on the right, think that folks are playing with him.
NO. We do not respect him.
NO. We will not ‘respect him in the office.’
Mainly because, as a human being, we find him disgusting.
But, also, because we have 8 years of receipts of what you did to 44, and nobody is letting anything slide.
And, yes, your vote for Dolt45 condemns you for YOUR lack of character.
Chris
@Weaselone:
True. The treatment of Republicans v. Democrats in politics is pretty much another case of the phenomenon minorities know well, the “you have to work twice as hard to make half as much” thing. Which isn’t surprising, since the Republican/Democratic divide in politics is basically the proxy for the white/nonwhite, male/female, and other cultural divides.
Obama/Trump is probably the starkest contrast.
rikyrah
@Quinerly:
Morning Poco and Ivan :)
rikyrah
@Kay:
yes yes yes yes yes
Remember the story about the drug company that they found the documents of their plans to literally FLOOD West Virginia with those pills.
It was disgusting. But, this is totally and completely a man-made ‘crisis’.
rikyrah
@NotMax:
I know when I read it, I was like WTF?
O. Felix Culpa
@different-church-lady: @leeleeFL: Yes! We have a winner!
Fortunately I had just finished my oatmeal when I read that comment.
rikyrah
@Iowa Old Lady:
I live in the big city and had never heard of it either. :)
O. Felix Culpa
@satby:
Especially anyones who aren’t white males. And the purity left would join in on the right-wing attacks because…purity.
Immanentize
@rikyrah: Maybe they are emulating the Catholics and covering up sexual abuse of minors? It would be wrong not to speculaye?….
satby
@O. Felix Culpa: Agree, though they went after Carter and Clinton too. But the knives really come out for the people who threaten white male supremacy.
MomSense
@Quinerly:
I honestly don’t know. I think Pence is up to his lying eyeballs in the Russia/Mike Flynn/Manafort mess and I’m not sure that this helps him at all. I hope it’s the Mooch finally figuring out how delicious back stabbing can be.
MomSense
@rikyrah:
Yes the opiate crisis was totally started by over prescribing legal drugs. The way it was tied in with Worker’s Comp (getting people back to work cheaper than longer term treatment), physician incentives, and Medicaid patients. Doctor’s don’t want a lot of visits with Medicaid patients because they don’t get paid as much. Physical therapists and specialists don’t want to spend multiple visits with them either. So they gave them 3 months worth of opiods and sent them on their way.
Quinerly
@rikyrah:
Poco is at school. Ivan ended his hunger strike this AM. Happy dance. John Lennon is fat and lazy…that will never change. All waving paws and tails back at BJ. Have a great day, everyone
Tenar Arha
@rikyrah: @Iowa Old Lady: It’s probably because we’re not English. I would guess that avocados are less common in England so it’s a special treat? I only heard about it from the article in mid-May, & people were already making a meme of it in mockery by Memorial Day.
Applejinx
@Schlemazel:
Stop basing your political survival upon donations from them.
Patricia Kayden
@Quinerly: Missouri as a whole appears to be a very racist state. Hence the NAACP’s warning to Black travelers. Thank goodness my job no longer requires me to visit St. Louis.
GregB
Ivanka has done a wonderful job in keeping her father calm and leaning in towards liberal causes.
Quinerly
@Patricia Kayden:
I love the city. I’m glad law school brought me out here in 1982. I live in a wonderful, diverse historic neighborhood in a 1890’s Victorian that I have been restoring since 1993. It’s a great, progressive urban neighborhood….Soulard. A few blocks from AB Brewery…very walkable, great restaurants and bar scene. Live music 7 nights a week. A lot of people showed their true colors 3 years ago re Ferguson. They weren’t in my neighborhood. Enough said.
sheila in nc
@Kay: Well, no, there aren’t quite as many. Remember that we 60-somethings were pre-Title IX. The women I know who are my age and who were varsity athletes did so at private schools. My highly regarded public high school in suburban DC didn’t have any varsity sports for girls until after I graduated. (Although we did have gym class, something that’s endangered at many cash-strapped high schools.) I did dancing in HS but never discovered my inner athlete until I had the opportunity to play rec softball in grad school. I’ve never looked back.
Tennis is a great game for people of all ages and levels. My husband and I took it up about 10-12 years ago, and now it is my main social and exercise life. I play on and captain multiple teams every year. My husband retired from Federal service last year, turned around and trained/qualified as a USTA and college tennis official.
Dalai Rasta
Anne Laurie:
I had tried to update you on Bella and my father, but I haven’t been able to get through by email. I had tried to contact you via Contact a Front Pager, but I don’t know if you received my message.