I’m pretty sure that UF did NAZI see this coming:
HA HA HA Richard Spencer's check to the University of Florida covering the rental fee for the ODome bounced! pic.twitter.com/0oMZuYGFbD
— Mike Bowen (@DrMBowen) November 8, 2017
Remember, when dealing with neo-NAZIs, white supremacists, neo-fascists, neo-nationalists, and other extremists you want cash or money orders or an electronic funds transfer and you want it up front before providing goods and/or services.
Also, obligatory:
Baud
They should have been suspicious when he first tried to pay in Reichsmarks.
Cheryl Rofer
I don’t know if anyone has posted this yet, but it’s worth watching.
karensky
Thanks, Adam. This is just awesome.
japa21
@Cheryl Rofer: Saw that of FB earlier. Well worth watching. Gives a clear picture of what a nasty piece of work Spencer is.
Ryan
Wat? Who could have known?
Major Major Major Major
Nazis are bad people, who knew.
Anybody else’s iPhone having a really rough time with the new iOS?
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major: A bit. I’ve got most of the funky stuff resolved, but it sure uses up battery fast. Even when the phone is just sitting there doing nothing.
cynthia ackerman
What was that movie where Eddie Murphy walks into a country club and finds out white people don’t pay for shit?
JPL
@Cheryl Rofer: Spencer doesn’t know what he’s talking about. That was great, and I thank you for posting it.
debbie
Hope they report him to the BBB.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: My iPad is experiencing glitches. iOS 11 seems to be a mess.
randy khan
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Jeffro
@Cheryl Rofer: @japa21:
Wow…he “embraces it all”…the slavery, the beatings, the rape, the murder, separating families, and on and on.
Why doesn’t someone ask him if it would have been okay for his ancestors to have been treated like that, and then have some jackass try to tell him to his face that it was GOOD for them?
Jeffro
@cynthia ackerman: I thought that was an SNL skit? Or was it ‘Easy Money’?
Major Major Major Major
@Adam L Silverman: @Baud: I have an iPhone 6, and I upgraded to the 11.1 patch today and it resolved some of the typing issues but it’s still pretty stuttery. And not the apps, either, core features like safari and iMessage.
And the battery use, yes! Oy!
Mike in NC
At times in the 1920s Hitler was a homeless, jobless bum sleeping in flophouses, so it’s merely a nice Nazi tradition for Spencer to uphold.
Holaitsmonica
God Richard Spencer is such an odious & condescending piece of shit. He thinks he is smart and I don’t know why.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Mine too. I have an Android phone so I’m used to those issues though.
marcopolo
Eddie Murphy “White Like Me Sketch” on SNL. Apologies that it starts with an ad.
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major: I have a 6 as well.
Jeffro
Meanwhile, Bob Dole has asked for a Friedman unit before the party can truly assess whether or not Trumpism is going to be a drag on the GOP in 2018:
Um ok Bob (geez how old IS this guy?)…personally, I think this is a more accurate take, from another Gooper:
…but that doesn’t mean we can take anything for granted, ever.
(…”its head exploded”…LOL)
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
A deadbeat nazi? That’s unpossible!
Adam L Silverman
Oooooh, Papadapolous video!
ArchTeryx
The Blues Brothers scene is still hilarious after all these years, and the perfect answer to them – make them look completely ridiculous. I remember seeing that in a theater and everyone busting out cheering.
As I did last night when the election results came in.
mike in dc
@Holaitsmonica: Dunning Kruger at work.
Adam L Silverman
The 3 Horsemen of the Derpocalypse!
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: I have an iPhone so I don’t have to be used to them lol
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: You do now!
Percysowner
@Major Major Major Major: My IPhone keeps asking if I want to update to 11 and I keep saying “not really” I keep hearing it’s very glitchy.
Adam L Silverman
@Jeffro: What a lot of folks, whether TV talking heads, folks on right wing radio, just your average Republican forget is that the GOP is over represented in the Federal government because of how the elected positions in the Federal government are structured. The Senate over represents rural, more conservative states that have collectively far lower population than urban, more liberal states and areas. The House, because it is gerrymandered within an inch of its life and because the number of seats was capped in the 1930s before the US population was expected to shift from majority rural to majority urban, over represents rural, more conservative areas that have collectively far lower population than urban, more liberal areas. And because of the electoral college the presidency is weighted for rural, more conservative areas.
They also forget that their platform is toxic to the majority of Americans. But because of the structural advantages either conferred by the constitutional structure or by partisan gerrymandering, they are insulated from the effects of this toxicity. It isn’t just that they have chosen to ignore these realities, rather they believe they don’t exist.
Waratah
@Major Major Major Major: IPhone and IPad.. my son is ignoring my calls for help.
Steeplejack
@Jeffro:
Bob Dole is completely irrelevant at this point. From this comment and the (few) others I have seen from him in the last year or so, he seems to be living in a shadowy dream world where the Republican Party still bears some resemblance to the GOP he remembers from his heyday. Hey, Bob Dole—it doesn’t!
I thought he would have had a moment of awakening a few years ago when he pleaded with Congress not to reject some disabilities-rights treaty and the Republicans did that anyway and then pushed his wheelchair down the Capitol steps.
Corner Stone
Neera Tanden is drunk again. On TV. Geez.
Adam L Silverman
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Ees a puzzlement!
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: Everybody needs someplace to be drunk. TV is as good as any other.
Mary G
Another great article in a magazine I have never even considered reading, even at the doctor’s office: Harper’s Bazaar. “The Glorious Anger of Hillary Voters, One Year Later”
Why the fuck are Politico, WaPo, NYT not talking to us, not writing about us? And I don’t mean just women, I mean all Hillary voters, who are, after all, the actual majority?
Corner Stone
@Adam L Silverman: I don’t have a problem with it. But if they don’t book her before noon she starts doing some weird shit also, too.
Jeffro
@Steeplejack:
At this point, and for the past 21 years, I believe. =)
Sometimes you’ll see a quote in an article and go, “Was there NO ONE else the reporter thought to call, to kind of ‘feel the pulse’ of the situation?” I mean, Bob. Dole. Who the eff cares??
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: It hasn’t hurt Charlie Rose’s career.
PaulWartenberg
Not only was Spencer a terrible guest, the SOB isn’t worth inviting anywhere.
Universities have every right to ban him now. Not because of his hate speech but because the bastard is writing checks his ego can’t cash.
Adam L Silverman
This seems topical:
Jeffro
@Adam L Silverman:
If they ever admitted they bankrupt of ideas and were only still hanging in there due to unfair structural advantages, then, well those would be what we call ‘fictional Republicans’. They HAVE to believe they don’t exist. Good points though.
We’re long over due for some sensible solutions to this – ending gerrymandering is one. Getting rid of the Electoral College would be another. Getting rid of the Senate – or at least taking away its legislative duties – would be awesome.
Quinerly
@Jeffro: Dole was involved in bringing Manafort to Trump. Pretty sure Manafort was Dole’s campaign manager way back. Yes, it’s ridiculous that Dole is being interviewed. If you recall, the GOP made a big deal about wheeling him out at the convention. Elizabeth Dole was at the WH a few weeks back…photo op at an Executive Order signing.
Jeffro
Btw a nice roundup of what we were talking about earlier today: you couldn’t find any evidence of the VA and NJ elections on Fox for quite some time last night and this morning.
Hannity in particular – 6 seconds, Sean? (Probably not the first time he’s heard that question, lol)
Ruckus
@Jeffro:
If you get rid of the Electoral College and end gerrymandering the house could act as half of the legislature and the Senate wouldn’t be nearly as big an issue. The basic structure isn’t all that bad, it’s just been so fucked up over the last 50-60 yrs that it has become dysfunctional.
randy khan
@Percysowner:
I’m on a 6s and not having any trouble with iOS 11. (I haven’t typed “i” meaning “I” yet, though.)
randy khan
David Frum just described Steve Bannon as a “nihilistic spirt of destruction” on O’Donnell’s show. I think he’s been practicing that one.
Jeffro
@Ruckus: The first two are much bigger issues, certainly. The Senate still over-represents rural/less-populated states. Plus, Senators are just generally irritating to me, I guess.
Jeffro
@randy khan: Or watching SNL this past year…
burnspbesq
@Baud:
Not having any issues with either device.
Major Major Major Major
@randy khan: I believe the bug is that you get a unicode error, not a lowercase i.
mike in dc
@Mary G: I suspect the sexual assault/harassment outcry also ties in to both turnout and a response to Trump’s win last year.
randy khan
@Major Major Major Major:
Yeah, that’s my understanding. Apparently it was caused by some machine learning issue.
randy khan
@Jeffro:
I guess portraying him as the Grim Reaper gets to the same thing.
Adam L Silverman
The Thelma and Louise remake is gonna be weird!
Major Major Major Major
@randy khan: We should definitely put that stuff in charge of everything STAT.
mike in dc
@Adam L Silverman: Just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Steeplejack
@Adam L Silverman:
This is true. It is becoming more and more apparent that the Republicans have climate-change levels of denial about virtually all policy issues. Their ability to hold their positions no matter what contradictory proof or facts emerge is astounding.
Bob Dole is 94, so who knows how sharp he still is, but it is crazy for a former top Republican “statesman” from the (somewhat) pre-crazy years (he retired in 1996) to reduce the current policy debate to “his party could improve its standing if it manages to pass major legislation” and then to assess that legislation, the wretched “tax cuts for billionaires” bill, thus: “If Congress passes the tax bill this year, this will help the president’s popularity.”
Pure partisan politics. Nothing about the demonstrably awful realities of the bill. And this from someone from Kansas, which has been Brownbacked into near bankruptcy over the last decade by following the Republicans’ economic playbook to the letter.
Gin & Tonic
@Adam L Silverman: The interesting thing about that photo is who blurred out what’s right above Donna’s head on the gold background and why?
Jeffro
@Adam L Silverman: “…more Dems should tell the truth.”…about the abuses that went on in Clarke’s jail, or his visit to/connections with Russia? I’m good with either. Or both.
Starfish
Adam, I tried to watch the Papadopolous video, but it was all Greek to me.
different-church-lady
@Percysowner: I think you mean an “A’phone”.
Betty Cracker
UF should throw Spencer in Lake Alice so the gators can eat him.
Omnes Omnibus
@Cheryl Rofer: What the fucking fuck? I, uh, Jesus, what the…
I’d have decked him.
Jeffro
@Steeplejack:
It’s what happens when their major funders are billionaire Randians and crooks (but I repeat myself). They are literally there to thwart progress of any & every kind, otherwise, it gets tougher for them to make scads of money, and tougher to justify their self-serving ideology.
What I find shocking is that on most major issues of the day, conservatives could propose a relatively moderate, yet still conservative-leaning solution, declare victory, and go home (at least until the next issue). But they’re so wrapped around racial and gender issues (or should I say, so desperate to maintain white male supremacy) that they can’t give an inch.
GregB
I remember back in the Bush years when they had a bunch of wins and were steamrolling the Dems and people thought they would keep winning.
It was when that line by Rove about how they were creating their own reality.
It was their high water mark. Then their power crested and they were still talking like they were winning.
Trump and the rightwing media are effectively the old Russian politburo.
They will collapse in a cataclysmic fashion.
Quinerly
@Steeplejack: Bob Dole was in Trump’s corner from the beginning. I actually recall hearing an interview with Dole a year plus ago with Dole singing his praises. Many Dole associates from years ago worked on Trump’s campaign….Roger Stone and P. Manafort were big in Dole’s campaigns.http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article82021592.html
Mary G
@mike in dc: You’re right, she even gets into it later in the piece:
guachi
@Gin & Tonic: It’s not intentionally blurred. It’s just how the photograph turned out.
It’s a really low grade camera phone picture. The picture isn’t even in focus so everything is blurry.
Betty Cracker
@Adam L Silverman: Always kinda liked Donna Brazile, but she’s approaching Lanny Davis levels of loathsomeness. Clarke is a repugnant sadist from whom decent people should instinctively recoil.
Quinerly
@mike in dc:
You and me both. Why on earth would she stand there and be photographed with that cretin?
Adam L Silverman
@Steeplejack: No arguments here. When you have one policy for all domestic issues, regardless of actual domestic conditions, you don’t have a policy. It’s the equivalent of the nat-sec folks who went all in, and have stayed all in, on counterinsurgency as the post-graduate level of war BS that is appropriate for everything that ails us in terms of nat-sec and foreign policy.
Schlemazel
@Jeffro:
You might want to reconsider that Senate thing for a bit. Despite it being jackle majority it has done what the founders intended. The Senate has stopped the worst impulses of the wingnut Congress & blocked the worst of their work.
Adam L Silverman
@Jeffro: Yep and yep.
Adam L Silverman
@Gin & Tonic: My guess it was whoever was taking the picture for Clarke.
Adam L Silverman
@Starfish: Well played!
Adam L Silverman
@Betty Cracker: That’s animal cruelty.
Major Major Major Major
@Adam L Silverman: Meh.
Davebo
@Adam L Silverman:
She’s paving her new future! Dems aren’t buying her book so she has to seek a new market.
I give it 3 months tops till she’s a guest with Hannity.
lgerard
@Jeffro:
If you go to their website, you still can’t find any mention of it
Caution: Fox News
burnspbesq
Yes, Dan, there is dirty business afoot in the Ways & Means Committee.
http://danshaviro.blogspot.com/2017/11/dirty-business-afoot-in-ways-and-means.html
Omnes Omnibus
@Schlemazel: Radicals are such fun.
Ruckus
@Jeffro:
Senators irritating. How is it that I don’t find this a strange concept at all?
One thing I will say here once again. Reasonable term limits. 20-25 yrs. Right now part of why you find them irritating is that they never seem to go away. At least not the shitty ones. I realize that term limits are not very well thought of, we do have elections after all.
Also the senate is in session what 4-5 months a year? I’m semi retired and I work more than that. And don’t make the kind of money the job pays, let alone the perks that seem to pay far better. Someone the other day pointed out that McConnell has made 24 million while a senator. I seem to recall that a good bit of that was inheritance, but that of course puts him in direct conflict with issues like the estate tax. Part of the problem with the senate is the growth of the wealthy who really don’t have to work, and don’t have a real job but who want to protect their wealth from taxation. I can’t recall but I think that all the senators are multimillionaires and quite a few house members as well. A rhetorical question, are any commenters, even a small percentage?
Adam L Silverman
@Mary G: As I mentioned last night, I think from early indications in some state capitols, that you’re going to see this wash through elected and appointed officials in the states and at the Federal level. It is going to get real ugly real fast once momentum picks up. And it’ll come in three forms: sexual predation (harassment, assault, rape); infidelity leading to cries of hypocrisy, with some of the infidelity involving lobbyists leading to accusations of sex for favors; and officials who are closeted homosexuals outed for hypocrisy some of whom may have also engaged in predation a la Hastert and Foley, some for infidelities the same as their heterosexual colleagues; and finally some who are just going to get outed as it all finally comes out.
LurkerNoLonger
@Jeffro: I honestly didn’t know Bob Dole was still alive and when I think of Bob Dole I picture Norm Macdonald’s impression of him on SNL. I also remember that video of him falling off the stage in ’96.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major:
@Baud: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: I will state for the record that I have never cheated on someone with whom I had an agreement of monogamy (not saying I’ve never been a slut). That should be enough for the Baud Admin, right?
rikyrah
Rude Pundit on point
http://rudepundit.blogspot.ca/2017/11/random-observations-on-first-good-night.html?m=1
Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]
@Gin & Tonic: From the door beneath it, I think those are the floor lights to the elevator….
Mary G
@Adam L Silverman: Oh, yeah, and it’ll be equal opportunity, not just Republicans. The women in Sacramento are complaining about our supermajority in California. Here’s the LA Times report, and they note there are lots of women who have stories but refused to go on the record. It’s gonna be the snowball that turns into an avalanche, I suspect. About time. My college roommate interned both in Sacramento and Washington DC in the early 70s, and she had some hair-raising tales to tell. There was a whole network of women who shared coping tactics. Which did not include telling anyone in power, and it was toxic to a couple of her friends.
Patricia Kayden
@PaulWartenberg: I’m glad he stiffed them. Hate speech should be banned on public campuses. Hope they never get that money from him. Serves them right.
Omnes Omnibus
@rikyrah: Not how I would phrase things, but I can’t dispute a word he said.
Major Major Major Major
ughh my clueless booksmart startup neighbor just posted this on facebook
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Right, what I meant to say was, I paid extra specifically to avoid this!
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: You’ll have to check with Baud. I’m not the shadow ethics czar. I’m the shadow bone breaker.
Adam L Silverman
@Mary G: Long overdue. It is going to be ugly.
Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]
@GregB:
I think you are right on that point GregB, of course that might not happen in my lifetime. The only thing that seems to be holding the Republican party together anymore is the promise of riches and the hatred of Democrats. From what I’ve seen from reading is that the various factions really despise each other.
If I do see the REAL crack-up of the Republican party, I think it’s going to go from “The Republican party shambling along” to “2-5 faction parties” within 48 hours.
Omnes Omnibus
@Patricia Kayden: And here we are going to disagree. Who chooses what to ban? People argue the BLM does hate speech.
Ruckus
@rikyrah:
I find rude to be on point most of the time. This was no exception.
Adam L Silverman
@Patricia Kayden: Public university. First amendment applies. They had no choice. If they said no they would have ultimately lost in court.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: I say don’t ban him. Say he has a bad credit rating and we don’t rent to deadbeats.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: If a payment is required to get the space, demanding cash or certified check needs to be done.
NotMax
Cannot be the only one who noticed that Dolt 45’s tongue got flustered and tripped over the word Nazism during his
speechCliff’s Notes primer to South Korea’s legislature about their own history. It came out ‘Nahssism.’Patricia Kayden
@Adam L Silverman: Her idiocy had no impact on the elections which suggests that Democrats don’t care about her claims. I’m done with Donna. She’s showing her true colors.
Major Major Major Major
@Adam L Silverman: Can I be shadow metaethics czar?
Ladyraxterinok
@Jeffro: I think one of the reasons people hate/hated Barak and Michelle was that they felt that in a ‘just world’ the Obamas would be their slaves, and they could whip and rape them at will.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: I don’t listen to him first-hand. I do need to be able to sleep.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: I imagine that would cancel pretty much all of his appearances.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: That works and the 1st Amendment never comes into play.
Ruckus
@Mike J:
What a shame, he can’t hate on credit.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
And here I thought that plum assignment was for cousin Phil.
;)
Patricia Kayden
@Jeffro: I don’t get the point of even speaking to him. We already know what he believes without giving him another forum to spew his hate.
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major: Don’t ask me, ask Baud. I just clear comments out of moderation and ban people.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: I got into the car this morning and the radio played the clip of him advertising his golf course during his Korea remarks. It was maybe a couple sentences. I looked at my coworker and said, well, that’s my allotment for the day.
Omnes Omnibus
@Patricia Kayden: It was a British TV station. Also, he got owned by the Black, British interviewer.
Duane
@Adam L Silverman: Hannity, Bolton, and Gorka are so dismal even Trump doesn’t want them in his administration. But hey, they’re a perfect fit for Fox. They might as well hire Spencer, too.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: You get Trump ads? Sorry. I have never heard one. I got a couple of Johnson ones during the 2016 campaign but the WI GOP knows that Madison in not fertile territory.
NotMax
And then there was one.
Major Major Major Major
I found a cool mural yesterday.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: Oh, no, it was on NPR (KQED), they were talking about how he has ethics problems.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: Got it. Still too much.
NotMax
FYI.
Tenar Arha
@Major Major Major Major: Mostly okay on my 6S Plus, but some weird lagging scrolling through text of comments here on Chrome. Plus some odd behavior in linked website viewing on Twitter, but that could be the 280 characters mod or iOS 11.1.
Duane
@Adam L Silverman: Hannity, Bolton, and Gorka are so dismal even Trump doesn’t want them in his administration. But hey, they’re a perfect fit for Fox. They might as well hire Spencer, too.@PaulWartenberg The Universities, and any place elsewith with any decency, should tell Spencer to take a flying fucking leap. It’s not like he has the money to sue you. Even if he does, it’s a fight worth having. Expose the racist bastard for everyone to see.
J R in WV
@Quinerly:
He might buy a copy of her “book”, right?
Patricia Kayden
@Omnes Omnibus: I doubt that Spencer’s supporters will think he was owned. Maybe it’s just me but I refuse to watch certain people. Just strikes me as pointless to watch a racist spouting nonsense. I’ve heard it all before already.
gene108
@Jeffro:
After the 1910 census, when the USA determined it had 92 million people in it, the Congress, in 1911, set the total number of Representatives in the House at 433, with two seats held for when Arizona and New Mexico would become states later in the decade.
If we increase the number of Representatives in the House, to reflect the urban and suburban demographics of this country, we will solve a lot of issues including the excessive weight given to small states.
The House could do this in 2021 for the 2020 redistricting. No major changes to the Constitution required.
I think it is worth calling Democratic Representatives and encouraging this idea.
NotMax
Major Major Major Major, as someone more tech savvy than I, might that last sentence in the excerpt in #122 possibly be interpreted that they were (both lazily and unwisely) using something off the shelf such as Tor?
Adam L Silverman
@gene108: Yep. Though I seem to recall the capping was formalized in the 1930s ahead of the 1941 reapportionment. Regardless, if we added seats as we added population like we did prior to the change we’d have over 700 members of the House and a majority of them would be from urban areas.
Patricia Kayden
@Duane: That’s what I say. Let him sue and go after him for his hate speech which shouldn’t have any protection if it promotes violence.
Omnes Omnibus
@Patricia Kayden: Mr Younge totally pantsed Spenser. Me, I thought people might enjoy watching it. Sorry if I offended.
Czanne
Of course it did. Grifting, check-kiting, loan-kiting, money laundering — it’s all part of the scam. It’s not like Nazism ever actually paid the bills through popular demand. It has always been financed with theft, graft, grift, corruption, and blatantly illegal activities.
@Mary G: Good Girls Make Poor Copy. Also, I think some familiarity breeding contempt — I’d say the majority of journalists who aren’t writing for RWNJ outlets trend on the left side of the curve, so they think they understand the majority, and don’t need to explain us to ourselves. But because they tend to be more like us, they also don’t think we’re especially interesting. Hopefully, this week wakes them up.
Open Threadiness: Both kitties are settling in. They’re eating well, have the litter box down, and are starting to explore. Julia the Younger/Lovey comes upstairs every morning just after Spouse’s alarm goes off. She got a bath today. As in sink full of water, kitty shampoo, towels, blow dryer (with diffuser) and heater. She was a brave little champion, and hated me for about two hours, but seems to agree that the blow dryer is better than the towel, and the oil-filled radiator heater is the BEST THING EVER and I’m a monster for not letting her marry it. Julia Younger no longer smells like shelter/litter box, and I lost neither skin nor blood. Joke’s on her: she’s a medium hair, looks like a miniature calico Maine Coon, down to the toe tufts, so we’re gonna be brushing daily, bathing and drying at least fortnightly, with bath cloths in between, until she becomes a properly fastidious adult (she’s a slovenly tween, after all) or she accepts the reality of baths.
Julia Younger hates human music. She’s perfectly fine with and zones out to David Teie’s EP for cats, but human music makes her nope right out of the room, though nothing else does. However, she likes both John Oliver and Rachel Maddow, so she has good taste in television. Julia Younger would very much like to be best friends with Julia Elder, and given her druthers, will follow Julia Elder everywhere, but Julia Elder is not quite ready to deal with a kitten’s adoration. (No hissing, no swatting; Julia Elder is just easily startled and Julia Younger thinks Julia Elder has a magnificent tail which should be chased, bathed and adored.)
Julia the Elder/Heidi/Mósí/Gídí spent her first day hiding, but will allow me to remove her from hiding for food and 5-10 minutes of petting. She found four difficult hiding spots in six hours, including burrowing between two 40 pound knitting machines. That’s trauma, so good thing she’s got a behaviorist for her thumb-monkey. I convinced her to stay in the one safe space we can agree upon, while I made the difficult ones inaccessible to her, and found her three alternates. She now has four safe spots where Julia Younger leaves her alone, but where her human can get her for meals and socialization. We’re doing the cat version of trauma-informed CBT. Catnip definitely helps Julia Elder relax, so she’s getting as much as she wants. She’s been here 48 hours; she’s now transitioning from stress-purr to happy purr in about 2 minutes, which is down from 10 minutes when I first got her. I am extremely privileged; Julia Elder showed me her belly, let me pet her belly without deploying the trap, then captured and bathed my hand for several minutes after supper. She’s also starting to meow, and venturing out of her safe spots on her own. She does not mind music or television, though creaking floor boards startle her. Nip mellows her, but it also makes her drool.
Julia Elder half-way responds to both Mósí and Gídí as names, which fits — she’s from the Navajo Nation, and while she’s not feral, she’s a lot closer to self-domesticated than hand-raised. Mósí and Gídí are the Diné cognates for cat (from Spanish moza (maid-servant or girl cat), not gato) and kitty, respectively, so she probably heard them all of her life. But I think Heidi might stick.
I am spamming my twitter feed with pics of both of them, though Elder is much harder to photograph.
On iPhones and 11: My iPad Pro keyboard is a lot flakier now, but it’s also two years old and I use it heavily. My 6s is behaving, except the camera’s taking lots of video, not stills. I do not like the podcast app “improvements”.
NotMax
@Patricia Kayden
Then again, the ACLU could be tempted to come to his defense, and I for one would prefer they spend their resources elsewhere.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
House was temporarily expanded to 437 after Alaska and Hawaii became states, prior to the next election.
Tenar Arha
@Mary G: We all know why. Too many Halperins, not enough diversity, bad promotions, too few women in charge…. But seeing what’s already happened at a few magazines & news sites, if I were a smart reporter at Buzzfeed & Vox, I’d be looking at all three publications with a microscope. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I suppose we’ll see.
Did you hear about Ridley Scott deciding to replace Kevin Spacey & re-shoot his scenes with Christopher Plummer?
Major Major Major Major
@NotMax: So if I made a twitter app (very easy) called M4 Tweetz, and posted a tweet to the twitter API from that, it would show up as having been posted via “M4 Tweetz”.
It would be trivial to make a webpage that China hadn’t blocked, which took text input and tweeted that from an account I had access to. You could set it up so that the text input was cryptographically signed to verify which computer sent it. Just spitballing. That’s without touching tor.
Millard Filmore
@Adam L Silverman:
Ah ha! I thought so! You really ARE John Reese.
https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=QegDWv-oF-Sd0wLskr7YAQ&q=person+of+interest+reese&oq=person+of+interest+reese&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l10.689.7732.0.13426.24.12.0.0.0.0.560.1901.0j4j3j5-1.8.0….0…1.1.64.psy-ab..16.8.1885…0i10k1.0.yW2kkwCRboM
EDIT: link does not copy correctly. Google “person” “of” “interest” “reese”
This one is better:
http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/John_Reese
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: I’ll update their files.
Corner Stone
@Czanne: Skipped.
fuckwit
@Jeffro: Slave states. The Senate was explicitly designed to over-represent the Slave States.
fuckwit
@Adam L Silverman: Not only that, but the districts would be smaller which means candidates could win with smaller budgets and less ass-kissing to rich donors.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Gin & Tonic:
Screw her and her stupid book.
Mary G
@Tenar Arha: Women have to vote with their wallets, too. Conde Nast is pulling Teen Vogue from print, which is too bad. Hillary guest-edited the issue coming out Dec. 5 and wrote a letter to her teenaged self:
She is such a trooper.
Major Major Major Major
@Mary G: Ugh, reading her is still too heartbreaking.
Yarrow
@Davebo:
She’s on Tucker Carlson’s show tonight.
Villago Delenda Est
@Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]: The serious fighting will be over who gets the spoils: the party organization itself. That is a valuable thing alone.
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
Thanks for that. On the other hand, we’re talking about a gang who were stumped by light switches.
Major Major Major Major
@NotMax: I mean I doubt they had those idiots on this, it’s something you’d want actual crypto people to do. As far as “gear” to “make it happen” goes, in my example, you’d need, like… a laptop you controlled. Super fancy stuff.
Duane
@NotMax: If the ACLU represented Spencer, the sound of Nazi heads exploding would be deafening. In a glorious way.
NotMax
@Duane
Too young to remember Skokie?
Honus
@NotMax: hell, last August in Charlottesville. The ACLU represented Jason Kessler, the organizer of the Unite the Right rally, in federal court and on first amendment grounds successfully enjoined the city from moving his rally from the crowded downtown business district to a large park a mile away. It probably cost Heather Heyer her life.
Major Major Major Major
@Honus: @NotMax: @Duane: I’m so old I remember the classic Onion article ACLU Defends Nazis’ Right to Burn Down ACLU Headquarters.
Duane
@NotMax: That’s how lawyers make a living. Someone has to defend Nazis.
Redshift
@gene108: Yes! Repealing the Apportionment Act of 1911 had been a quixotic political goal of mine for a while.
Patricia Kayden
@GregB: Republicans still get the majority of White votes so I don’t see them disappearing anytime soon. 63 and 51 percent of White men and women respectively voted for Gillespie in Virginia yesterday. If it wasn’t for the Black voters, he would have won.
Patricia Kayden
@Omnes Omnibus: No need to apologize at all. That video is popping up on several progressive blogs. I’m just hypersensitive about folks like Spencer. But I get why some liberals enjoy seeing him challenged.
poleaxedbyboatwork
@Omnes Omnibus: What the fucking fuck? I, uh, Jesus, what the…
I’d have decked him.
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Wouldn’t it be pretty to think so?
No. You would not have. Nor should you.
Not to say you couldn’ta. Or that you wouldn’ta wanted to. It’da been immensely satisfying, even justified inna “certain-faces-fuckin-begged-to-be-punched” sorta way, tho not — important! — lawful. But no, you would not have. (imo)
(Not that it matters greatly, but you can take up the righteous cause should you choose, course.)
On topic — hadda vitriolic disagreement with a McCain guy one drunken night back in aught-08 prior to the election, I was holding for Obama. McCain guy pulled a gun on the docks of Pelican when it got contentious (ain’t always easy being a lib in Alaska). My response? Taking a page from Oscar Wilde and Brave, Brave Sir Robin — make it funny lest they kill you — sez I with my bravest cockeyed face: “I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree.” And walked away. (Safely, thanks to goodness.)
The political powder-keg upon which we find ourselves at present, and one wholly promulgated and exacerbated and demagogued by Trump, is one which is not easily dismissed simply by bein in the right (life ain’t fair — reminders available daily! — n the dickhead divisive genie’s already out the fuckin bottle!), even tho Trump is transparently demonstrably irreducibly wrong. On virtually every-fucking-thing. Speaking as a res of an incredibly well-armed state, fulla reactionary mobilizable gun-nuts, must say don’t find the twice-removed bravado rhetoric much helpful.
Onna personal note, been a lurker for a piece, and have gleaned you are a military vet, Omnes. Don’t doubt your courage. Ain’t my point and don’t doubt it. Just saying, tall talk on the front porch don’t help reclaim the persuadable winnable ground we wanna/needta stand on.
Ain’t holding for being a squish. Am saying that sometimes it’s more important to win than posture/feel good. No, I don’t much like it either.
ymmv, fwiw.
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
He might be trying to emulate Churchill’s pronunciation as well as the determined scowl. I’ve heard audio of Winston saying it “Naar-zee-z’m”. Me, I’d say it “Naat-siz’m”.
Central Planning
@NotMax: I thought the ACLU said recently (past 3-6 months) that they weren’t going to defend Nazis, even if they have the right to free speech. Or it was something like that.
Tenar Arha
@Mary G: I hate it when publications do that. Probably still quite a few who’d prefer paper, including libraries, yet they still do this. It reduces their readership, & widens the digital divide.
StringOnAStick
@Czanne:Much applause from me for your rescues! Good pet parent!
TenguPhule
@Schlemazel:
I have at least 3 US SC seats that say otherwise.