Ready for spooky season ?? pic.twitter.com/VQcEaX5SeL
— Awwwww (@AwwwwCats) October 11, 2019
Tonight is the fourth DNC primary debate, 8pm EDT, at private liberal arts college Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus.
Podium order announced for the CNN/New York Times Democratic presidential debate https://t.co/R41KgORK1V pic.twitter.com/gLiJOiUofY
— Vaughn Sterling (@vplus) October 2, 2019
Despite her ‘threats’ last week, Tulsi Gabbard will be on stage. As will Tom Steyer, ratite-resembling billionaire, for his first (and I devoutly hope last) appearance. (He’s already qualified for the November debate, but maybe tonight’s experience will wean him off his electoral fantasies.) Apparently 12 candidates on one stage is a new record — here’s to cutting that number in half by next month!
Elsewhere…
Asked if there is one thing Donald Trump has done right, Kamala Harris said, “Uhh…” She looked off into the distance and paused. “I’m rarely at a loss for words, but I am.”
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 13, 2019
It's easier to understand Trump's view on the Kurds if you assume he genuinely cannot understand why you would ever want to help anyone else unless that person has something you need right now.
— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) October 14, 2019
NEW: @FiveThirtyEight's impeachment tracker now shows majority support for impeachment for the first time. https://t.co/P9SykwnU3E pic.twitter.com/gzpTGKHGrB
— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) October 14, 2019
Breaking: Bolton instructed aide to report Giuliani pressure campaign to White House lawyer. “I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Bolton said, according to testimony to House investigators. @npfandos https://t.co/GO1pnMSyBl
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) October 15, 2019
OzarkHillbilly
This really doesn’t surprise me. Bolton has a moral code that he lives by. It’s a straight and narrow road (and lonely, oh so very lonely) that he travels and he will not stray from the path of the righteous.
NotMax
Couldn’t find a thread yesterday which seemed right for dropping these in. Morning threads are more freewheeling and eclectic, so a couple of little stories which recently caught the eye.
1) New Yorkers of a certain vintage may want to take a brief moment to unwistfully wave good-bye. Tad’s Steaks finally closing its last NYC outpost.
(In)famous for plastic-wrapped pre-poured glasses of wine and steak-flavored shoe leather. So old can remember when the price for the steak platter shot up to $1.09.
2) Face/palm to the nth power.
‘Jesus Shoes’ Filled With Holy Water Selling for More Than $3,000.
Betty Cracker
Missed the news last night because baseball, but according to The Post:
If accurate, that seems like kind of a big deal. The Trump admin can attempt to sub-bus Giuliani, but there’s that pesky not-transcript of the “perfect” call with Zelensky, during which Trump makes it clear Giuliani is his man in Ukraine.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax:
There’s a sucker born every minute.
ETA Loved this: “Greenberg added: “We were wondering, what would a collab with Jesus Christ look like? As a Jew myself, the only thing I knew was that he walked on water.”
Betty Cracker
Here’s an amusing story about a lazy-ass mastiff who got tired on a hiking trip and had to be carried off the trail on a stretcher:
There’s something to be said for knowing your limits. My old boxer dog Bart was that way. He loved to go for walks, but in his later years, if you took him too far afield, when he got tired, he’d just plop down and refuse to budge. I had to call my husband to come get us in the car a few times.
Kay
Oh, good. More of them.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: I had that experience with my Alzheimered father. I would take him to the local city park where they had a nice lake with a paved path around it that was easy for him to negotiate. He always enjoyed the walk, the exercise, the air, the “young” people, etc etc, and then one day he sat down on a bench at the halfway point and that was that. The good thing about Alzheimer’s is they soon forget why they are doing what they are doing. So we sat there and discussed the geese, and discussed the geese, and discussed the geese, (always the same discussion) and after a half hour or so we got up and finished the walk.
I took him on shorter walks after that.
JR
@OzarkHillbilly: Robespierre, the incorruptible.
Kay
The more the merrier! ” I am not part of whatever drug deal literally all of these people are cooking up”
Mary G
@Kay: The more people in this administration implicated in criminal acts the merrier. Especially the Murikans. I try to keep track of all the Russians Adam has in his poss and my head feels like one of the compulsive people in the movies with all the yarn stretching across every wall.
Also, this story in WaPo about a dog that ran out of the house in Orlando and was found 12 years later in Pittsburgh is sweet. The owner said she paid $35 a year to keep its microchip going. Is this a thing? I thought you got the chip and were good to go.
rikyrah
HOW did Steyer qualify????
?BillinGlendaleCA
Being that “On the Road” is in hiatus…I took a trip to the
coastbeach Sunday night to see if I could get the cool reflection of the Sun on the water as it set(like I’d seen a couple of weeks ago driving in) and the full Moon rise. I was successful in my quest.This set is a test set for my Patreon that is currently up, though not all the “plumbing” and content is all there yet.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: Ukraine was “special” to Team Trump because they wanted to prove Russia was framed and there is/was a deep state conspiracy against Trump. But there’s no doubt in my mind the Trumps subverted U.S. foreign and domestic policy for personal gain. Hopefully someone is looking into the patents and deals granted to Ivanka’s knock-off bag and shoe company by China and Japan, which happened to coincide with major trade meetings. Maybe it’s time to question the private prison company that dumped millions of dollars into Trump properties as detainee facility contracts were being handed out. The corruption was open, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be addressed.
Kay
@Mary G:
Agreed. It will also be delightful if we find out that Giuliani only received the one 500k payment. They bought him cheap! God almighty he could have gotten MUCH more selling US foreign policy. Worth billions to them.
OzarkHillbilly
@JR: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.”
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: You say Giuliani, I say Sondland, Let’s lock them all up.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
Me too. It’s all they care about. That and their giant egos, which is of course the reason Trump chases the conspiracy theory- it tarnishes his win.
Interests aligned. Everyone had something they wanted. It’s just kind of embarrassing that what all the Americans wanted was so petty and self-interested. No grand plan on our side! Just greed.
satby
@rikyrah: well, Steyer at least will turn every question into a rant about impeachment, so be careful what you wish for.
JDM
@OzarkHillbilly: I wouldn’t call being a war-mongering asshole a moral code (an ethos, maybe) but Bolton doesn’t want to go to prison, and he’s at least smart enough to see that this particular fork in the road has one path that’s likely to lead there.
satby
@Kay: you somehow expected our kleptocrats would be different than other nations’ kleptocrats?
Betty Cracker
Tweet from NBC WH correspondent Kristen Welker:
Watching the amoral Trump flunkies fight like meth-addled ferrets in a sack is going to be schadenfreude overload.
Mary G
@Betty Cracker: Ivanka got Chinese patents on voting machines. It reeks.
Waldo
@OzarkHillbilly: Aw. Good story. I shared it with my wife; we both laughed at the kicker.
OzarkHillbilly
@JDM: Well, I didn’t say they were good morals…
Debbie(Aussie)
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Bill how do I purchase your beautiful photos. They really are exquisite.
Bobby Thomson
@Betty Cracker: don’t libel Floyd. His dad was hurt and he stayed by his side. He’s a good boy.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
Rudy’s a good get because he’s loathsome and a criminal, but we need administration people. We already have the President, who confessed. Now get 20 or so below him.
This is JUST such a great crime story because it’s the opposite of what people always say “get the little fish, pressure them, etc” We got the kingpin the first day! Going down, not up.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Debbie(Aussie): Thanks, just click on my nym, it takes you to my store.
Kay
Not that it matters and not that anyone is surprised, but China played Trump and there’s not a thing he can do about it unless he wants to hurt his own re-election chances. They won. He will get nothing for those tariffs and the public didn’t just pay the tariffs, they paid the huge agriculture bailout. It’s a total loss.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@?BillinGlendaleCA: If you’ve looked at those photos, there’s two Milky Way shots. The good one*(the first pic) is from July of last year when I took the kid up to Red Rock to teach her how to take Milky Way pics for her trip to New Zealand. The one further down with the lifeguard station was taken on Sunday with the full Moon(that’s why it’s pretty faint).
*The reason it’s in this set is I redid that photo from the original source images, I’ve learned a bit since last year.
Jeffro
@rikyrah: @satby: If (LOL ‘if’) Steyer fades, there’s always Bloomberg, waiting in the wings and “itching” for his chance to run:
Give
Me
A
Break
Bloomberg better figure it out, like Howard Schultz (BLESSED BE HIS ‘CENTRIST’ NAME!) already did: any third-party candidate to the left of trumpov just helps trumpov.
These big-money guys are making the case for heavily progressive taxation rates every time they open their mouths.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: Yep. This lie was the tell:
LOL! He got rolled. He always gets rolled.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jeffro: Considering that the latest tax data show that we pretty much have an effective flat tax(with a small bump up at the top 5% and then it drops for the top .01%), even progressive tax rates would be an improvement(heavily progressive would be even better).
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
Not a fan, but I’d like to see him testify. I wonder if he’s spiteful enough to.
Barbara
@Betty Cracker: Ooh, cage match!
debbie
@Kay:
Isn’t it still being “papered”?
p.a.
Bolton: effing INCOMPETENT corruption ruined my effing war plans!
Betty Cracker
@Jeffro: Glad to hear he’s not considering a third party run, at least. That’s what really worries me about these billionaire egomaniacs who can’t read a fucking room.
And what makes Bloomberg think it would be up to him personally to represent moderate Dems? I mean, if Biden dropped out (not gonna happen), Bloomberg and pals could bankroll Klobuchar or Buttigieg or Bennet if they were serious about addressing the Warren Peril. It’s all about their gigantic egos…
satby
I wish everyone below the top 5 or so would drop out. I saw a list of the number of offices opening for the organizing in every state, and most candidates have barely any. Buttigieg and Warren have the most, as of the date of that article anyway. The others aren’t putting their money into organizing as much and they’ve all raised millions. No idea what they’re waiting for.
Ah, read it here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/us/politics/democratic-candidates-campaigns.html
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: I read the other day that he has a book deal. Testifying would give too many spoilers.
OzarkHillbilly
I truly can not imagine the horror this poor man must have felt in that moment.
ETA forgot the link
TS (the original)
I foolishly keep thinking MJ might stop being a republican hack – how stupid am I with this thought. Dear Sens McConnell and Graham are upset about Syria & want to stop the withdrawal. Democrats – well nacy Pelosi – should not let this chance go by to support what the GOP wants to do. No more – I’ll check it out when the impeachment is well advanced.
The right to rule is strong with these imbeciles
Leto
@rikyrah: @satby: @Jeffro: I don’t know how he qualified, but I wish he’d actually help Dems out by sending money to vulnerable Dems in the House (like SC-1 Joe Cunningham) or to help win back the Senate. Conservatives have ample multi-billionaires willing to write blank checks to help fund every race, including dog catcher. Wish our pocket change allies would do the same.
Leto
@Betty Cracker: His ego and other people’s ability to smell a mark. The old adage about you being at the poker table…
rikyrah
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
What a beautiful series ??
rikyrah
Get well, Tweety ??
Hardball (@hardball) Tweeted:
Chris hasn’t been here for the last few nights and we wanted to let you know why.
Chris is recovering from prostate cancer surgery last week. The procedure went well but he’s taking a few days to get back into fighting shape. He’s looking forward to getting back very soon. https://t.co/3ofupU3HJy https://twitter.com/hardball/status/1183914029754015745?s=17
Patricia Kayden
@OzarkHillbilly: Bolton accepted a position in an administration which was rife with scandal and intrigue at the time he started working in the White House. He’s not righteous. He’s just smart enough to know how to preserve his freedom. He’s one of the rats who jumped out of the sinking ship and saved his skin.
satby
@Leto: no argument from me! I wish they all would. Steyer is a jonny-one-note on impeachment though. And to be fair, he’s been blowing that horn for the last two years, before any of the other elected officials did. In a way, he softened the ground for it.
But he’s not a contender and I hope he decides soon to support red to blue Senate races, where he might really get his money’s worth.
rikyrah
@satby:
I don’t get it. I don’t want him on the stage ?
JMG
Boston TV is of course saturated with Steyer ads due to our proximity to New Hampshire, but last night I saw something really unusual — a Joe Sestak for President ad!!!
rikyrah
@Kay:
And destroyed their markets ??
David Evans
A reasonably well-informed man of Trump’s age would see GREAT PATRIOT FARMERS and immediately be reminded of Stalin.
On second thoughts, maybe he likes that.
Leto
Whelp, I picked the wrong morning to stop drinking Drano:
Trump Campaign Running Facebook Ads with Racial Slur
Trump, Kushner, Zuckerberg… dipshit trifecta. The ad is at the link, and of course it’s as disgusting as you think.
OzarkHillbilly
@Patricia Kayden: No, he’s very righteous, I would say a zealot. One should always beware of “true believers,” no matter what stripes or spots they wear. There is nothing they won’t do in the name of their cause because the ends always justify the means. In this case, Bolton recognized the danger the machinations of Giuliani and crew posed to his cause.
satby
@rikyrah: I know, but he qualified. The DNC should have tightened the rules drastically. He’s already qualified for next month.
Honestly, thanks to bullshitter Bernie, we’re stuck this primary with a ridiculous system just to avoid the “rigged” charge. And now he’s a seriously sick old man who won’t quit even if it kills him. He’s never been fit for office either, he’s as much of a toxic narcissist as Trump in his own way.
rikyrah
@Patricia Kayden:
Reminds me of the dude who worked for Cheney and after listening to Hope Hicks plot on AFO, resigned as soon as the plane landed. He wasn’t going to jail for these jokers??
Betty Cracker
@satby: That’s what pisses me off about Steyer — impeachment was his whole thing! Well, congrats Steyer, there’s an impeachment inquiry, so why does the vanity campaign continue? I just saw an presidential campaign ad last night. Jesus, imagine what he could do if he dumped those dollars into down-ticket races.
Leto
@rikyrah: “Do we have parachutes? No? What about that presidential safe room pod like in the Harrison Ford movie? No? Really? Well I guess I’ll have to wait until the plane lands…”
Raven
@Leto: I had a friend who drank drano. It didn’t kill him immediately but the rest of his life was not good
Dorothy A. Winsor
@BillinGlendaleCA: The pics are beautiful. And there’s nothing like learning something new to make you feel good.
OzarkHillbilly
Because there are no Republicans on the House Oversight, Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees. I guess.
artem1s
Well at least this is one Bolton war fantasy I can root for. There has to be a way to get Newt Gingrich into this scrum. He and Giuliani are the perfect storm of a dumb person’s idea of a smart person.
satby
@Betty Cracker: I know when he announced on FB that many followers there begged him not to run, thanked him for what he had accomplished, and asked him to turn his attention to flipping key Senate seats. As did I. Not enough I guess negative feedback I guess. Or ratfucking Republicans donating token amounts to keep Steyer in the running more likely.
Ken
@Kay:
We’ve been living with that embarrassment for decades. I remember back before I could vote being vaguely ashamed when one of my state representatives was arrested for corruption, and it came out that his favors could be bought for a steak dinner and a thousand dollar campaign contribution.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: evidently not Republicans deemed sufficiently loyal to his traitorship rather than to the Constitution.
Ken
@Kay:
When he confessed, thinking it would exonerate him. Plus, we know he’ll throw every one of his minions under the bus to protect himself, because he’s done it for years now.
Spanky
@Leto:
Meaning the purpose here was to push it out to other markets under the guise of “news”. And our media betters will happily follow along.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly:
FTFY
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: You never know when one of them might turn, hence the need for a Commissar to ensure their loyalties.
Ken
@OzarkHillbilly: Rep. Gaetz is definitely a candidate for a canary trap.
The analysis will be easier than usual, since after Gaetz goes running to the White House with the “confidential” document, Trump will undoubtedly tweet a picture of its first page.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@OzarkHillbilly: I love how timeless Mark Twain is. Many modern grifts are to be found in his pages, grifting the rubes 100-150 years ago.
In “Innocents Abroad” he describes vendors in Italy selling enough splinters of The True Cross to make a dozen crosses.
And the ancestors of the televangelists are in Huck Finn.
SiubhanDuinne
Balloon Boy Anniversary!
Ten years ago today, one of the great hoaxes/media overreactions happened (link to Wiki), which in turn generated arguably one of the finest and funniest Balloon Juice threads EVER (link to thread.)
Michael Gass first shows up around Comment #35 and entirely dominates the rest of the thread (which runs 323 comments and lasts for five days!)
And a fair number of beloved former commenters are represented, including arguingwithsignposts (whatever happened to aws, anyhow?), asiangrrlMN and valdivia (I think they both lurk, and I wish they’d come back and play occasionally), and the late General Winfield Stuck (I’d forgotten the “Winfield”).
Plenty, too, who are still active commenters: for instance, JPL shows up in her former incarnation as Demo Woman. And litlebritdifrnt briefly goes O/T with a very funny story about her mum and a pot of stew.
If you have some time today, celebrate this amazing BJ moment, ten years on.
P.S. Would have sworn this was the thread with “faxing my credenzas to John Cole,” but while the idea is there, the credenzas aren’t. At least, not that I could find.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@JMG: WTF?
He’s from this area of PA, most recently seen running for Senate. What’s he doing running for President in Boston? President of what?
Patricia Kayden
@Betty Cracker: That’s exactly how my Boxer behaves. He loves going on walks but has no endurance. When he’s tired, he plops down and stays down until he’s good and ready to start walking again. My mixed Boxer/Great Dane is the opposite. Never gets tired and hates when you stop to rest.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: True believers are always self-righteous. They know the one and only path to salvation. Any one who says otherwise is a heretic and needs to burned at the stake.
Mandarama
@SiubhanDuinne: I cannot believe it’s been 10 years since those dour helicopters weren’t joking! And I really miss asiangrrlMN.
Immanentize
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: The King and the Duke in Huck Finn remain two of my favorite characters. Grifters who meet a hard end. But what fun!
Patricia Kayden
@SiubhanDuinne: I’m dying of laughter at the Balloon boy hoax. I vaguely remember the incident. We can be so ridiculous at times. That poor kid though. What weird parents he has.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Betty Cracker: If he was smart he’d have Jacob Wohl or James O’Keefe back that up with video evidence.
First you get some obviously non-Chinese to buy some potatoes at local farmers markets, using bad stereotyped accents copied from Charlie Chan movies. Then you coach the farmers (on camera) to say “The Chinese are buying from us”. Then you film them saying that.
It’s flawless!
Ken
@SiubhanDuinne: “Balloon Boy” is a timeless reminder that you shouldn’t center your conspiracy around a six-year-old who’s likely to blurt out a confession on live TV.
Or a septuagenarian with the mental faculties of a six-year-old, but that goes without saying.
Patricia Kayden
@OzarkHillbilly: His cause being ginning up Middle East wars? Destroying the UN? Bolton didn’t report his concerns to the FBI or some other investigatory agency but I wonder if he’ll testify before the House if called to do so.
satby
@SiubhanDuinne: omigod, what a great thread and memory! Thanks for posting this!
OzarkHillbilly
I’m not a gamer, online or otherwise, but this cracked me up: Is Fortnite down? Is it just hype? And is it all Elon Musk’s fault?
This 2:00 minute video with dialog is hilarious:
Well done, Fortnite, well done indeed.
And as much as I deride Beetlejuice, I have to give him credit for this retweet of an old one of his:
OzarkHillbilly
@Patricia Kayden: I am really unsure of what his cause is. He’s never seen a war that America shouldn’t start/be in/end because AMERICA IS THE BEST AND THE WORLD SHOULD JUST SHUT UP AND DO WHAT WE (I) SAY!!!!
I mentioned above that I read somewhere that he had inked a book deal. I think testifying would give away too many spoilers.
Matt McIrvin
@OzarkHillbilly: Loving war seems like a really straightforward cause to me.
Jeffro
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I hear you. I’ve been posting, re-posting, tweeting, etc that Leonhardt NYT op-ed for a week now.
We could be doing so much more good in this country, but instead we let the 1% and .1% and .01% throw vast sums around to bang on our democracy.
geg6
@SiubhanDuinne:
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Best thread ever!
OzarkHillbilly
@Matt McIrvin: Yeah, I might be showing my myopia because I think wars should only be fought for just causes and then only as an absolute last resort.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jeffro:
So much wrong here.
Gin & Tonic
@SiubhanDuinne: I miss those young and carefree days when commenters would end with “nym +n” Bunch of humorless teetotalers here any more.
Jeffro
@Betty Cracker: Exactly. Heck if Klobuchar wanted to, she could cut ads to that effect. “Thanks Mike but we don’t need yet ANOTHER Dem candidate running. How about you give to my campaign and also Stacy Abrams’ voter un-suppression efforts?”
(Right. And then I woke up…)
Marcopolo
@Leto: Good morning folks.
Steyer has pretty much bought his place on the stage. First by spending a lot of money running those “Impeach Trump” tv ads in 2017/18 to develop a mailing/ contact list w/ 8 million names—that he then leveraged to get his 130,000 donations. Second, and more recently, he’s been backing up the Brinks trucks full of cash running incessant campaign ads in the 4 battleground states to get his state poll numbers up to 2%. I don’t have the exact figure on the tip on my tongue but it is over $1M/week (just used the google—apparently he “spent over $7M in the first month just on ads dwarfing expenditures by his opponents.”). According to his FEC filing, he raised about $2M in Q3 and spent over $30M.
So, yep, he’s trying to buy the nomination. Guess we’ll find out how well that works.
Just One More Canuck
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: “Brass rings in their ears and fraud in their hearts” is one of my favourite lines in any book
Frankensteinbeck
@Patricia Kayden:
Yes. As near as I can tell, most neocons are entirely sincere and passionate in their belief that everything will be awesome and the world a better place if America conquers it.
Marcopolo
@Jeffro: Or to help pay off the fines/debts of the ex-felons in FL so they can vote. Lots of great ways to put $ to work.
Also too, I’ve been giving Fair Fight 2020 a small recurring monthly donation. I’d love it if anyone else here would like to join me:
https://fairfight.com/fair-fight-2020/
guachi
I was just starting my deployment to Iraq and completely missed Balloon Boy. Thank you for wasting my morning with the link to the old thread.
Kay
“I am not part of whatever deal – fill in the blank(s)- are cooking up”
I love this as a generic denial. Recite this to your attorney every morning and you’re good to go for the whole day!
Kay
I have an event at the high school so I can’t watch the debate. The debates make me miserable anyway- I hate the questions and…the answers.
Gin & Tonic
Wonderful (and accurate) piece by the BBC about borshch, its true origins and current interpretations, and how Russians have culturally appropriated it, to use a current term.
Yes, I prefer “borshch” as a transliteration, although the author writes “borsch” – although either one is preferable to “borscht.”
Just Chuck
@Gin & Tonic: I’m just never sure how to quantify my +n. Joints? Bowls? Dabs? +0 right now, left all my greens at my gf’s place 80 miles away.
Immanentize
@Kay:
Denials don’t last as long as the did in the good old days. With Trump, you have to now issue two denials each day covering different scandals.
Kay
This might matter in a prosecution except the perp confessed and gave us the call record. Can they really be this dumb in the elite conservative brain trust? This isn’t relevant at all to the issue. How do they get these jobs?
HalfAssedHomesteader
OK, I looked up ratite in the dictionary and I still don’t know what it means!
Kay
@Immanentize:
Bolton is an old hand, though. “Go tell that lawyer over there- cover my ass”
I am NOW reporting this to…any random lawyer standing around!
So brave these people. Such incredibly dedicated public servants.
It reminds me of the episode of The Office where one of them thinks “declaring bankruptcy” means just that – “I declare BANKRUPTCY”
frosty
@SiubhanDuinne: Thanks for digging that thread up. A nice break from our ongoing shitshow.
Aleta
@Betty Cracker: Floyd’s face: I didn’t want to go up to begin with, but he never listens.
For the volunteer rescue team, a practice drill.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
I sure hope somebody is cooking up a videogame featuring all these players and all the buses they are throwing each other under. You could add steamrollers, tanks, humvees with MAGA stickers,… I’d certainly play it.
It’s like “Lord of the Flies” but as if the adults had arrived another month later. So appalling but so predictable.
OzarkHillbilly
@HalfAssedHomesteader:
Or so says the google.
Matt McIrvin
@Gin & Tonic: At the big National Air and Space Museum annex in Virginia, they have an exhibit on space food that includes a toothpaste-like tube of cosmonaut borsch. I was slightly surprised, but should not have been, to discover that the word has four letters.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
it’s all just squid ink to give Joni Ernst and Cory Gardner talking points, or stammering points
rikyrah
@satby:
tell the truth
HeleninEire
@SiubhanDuinne: Girlfriend. That was the best thing ever. I’ve got stuff to do today and I just spent an hour in bed reading the whole thread.
So worth it. Jeffreyw at 158 was brilliant. And then when Michael came back at the end???? Da bomb.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Matt McIrvin: Yeah, but one of those letters stands for about 17 English letters.
I’m guessing the last letter is щ which is transliterated as “shch” and which we’re told is “just pronounced as SH followed by CH” as if that’s possible.
Reminds me of when I first saw haiku written in Japanese. The Japanese syllabery uses one character per syllable, so the 5-7-5 pattern makes a whole lot more sense in that system, where the lines are exactly 5-7-5 characters long and form a visual pattern.
Gin & Tonic
@Matt McIrvin: Indeed it does. I’ve had issues with trying to enter Cyrillic letters here on B-J, but the last letter, after the “R” equivalent, is more accurately transliterated from Ukrainian as “shch” and not “sch” – in Polish it’s rendered as “szcz.” Here’s a Wiki article about that particular character.
Gin & Tonic
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: The Slavic languages have many consonants.
Kay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
It’s really what defendants actually say. “She hates me!” Of course she hates you- everyone does- the problem is they have the 5000 texts you insisted on sending because you never fucking stop talking.
We’re past the whistleblower. Moving ON.
RobertB
@Betty Cracker: My sister-in-law took their boxer mix with her on a walkathon, and he did just that. Got tired and called it a day. Had to get my father-in-law to come pick him up.
rikyrah
I do believe I’m going to get the Disney streaming service
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Disney Plus unveils its massive lineup of over 600 movies and TV shows… spanning nearly 100 years of content
Disney unveiled an epic Twitter thread unveiling all of the titles that will be available upon the launch of Disney Plus
The movies and TV shows include Disney’s first feature film, 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
There are also obscure films like The Story of Perri and films from the 20th Century Fox merger such as Miracle on 34th Street
Other titles include the numerous Star Wars movies and TV shows, and superhero adventures from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
There will also be titles from 20th Century Fox, National Geographic, Pixar, Disney Animation Studios and much more
By BRIAN GALLAGHER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 19:51 EDT, 14 October 2019 | UPDATED: 19:59 EDT, 14 October 2019
Leto
@Kay:
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@rikyrah: Guess we won’t be seeing much of you for a while. Make sure you pause the stream at least once a year on election days and go vote. Also take breaks to eat meals every couple of days or so.
Couple of months ago we had an urge to watch the animated “101 Dalmations” and couldn’t find it anywhere. For some reason Disney had apparently made it unavailable for streaming or on DVD. A quick glance shows me it’s apparently available once again, so I don’t know what that was about.
gbbalto
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: “Fresh cheese” and “fish chowder”?
Miss Bianca
@geg6: I was lurking here at that time but somehow missed that thread IRT. Someone posted a reminder about it a couple years ago and yeah…pretty much the best thread ever.
trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
“You’re the bomb.”
“No, you’re the bomb! Bomb, bomb, bombidie-da-bomb, Rudy is a big ol’ bomb!”
“Maaaaaaaaaaaa!“
Miss Bianca
@rikyrah: oh, man…I don’t stream, but if I could lay my hands on such obscure Disney gems from the 60s like “The Horsemasters” (starring Annette Funicello!) thereby, I would be seriously tempted…
Kay
@Leto:
Then the 56 people who heard it got very nervous and told the WH lawyers, who did….nothing with this information except participate in covering it up.
Just excellent work all around. A real bunch of heroes Trump hired.
Brachiator
@rikyrah:
Hmmm. Did Disney acquire all of Fox’s library in their recent acquisition? The Disney movie and tv vault was already massive, but this is ridiculous.
artem1s
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Grapes of Wrath has a whole chapter on evangelicals and sexual predation
guachi
@Brachiator: Disney acquired everything that Fox hadn’t already sold/transferred to someone else. I’m not actually sure if Fox owns the entirety of its library of movies, but whatever Fox had went to Disney.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: Sen. Chris Murphy’s Twitter feed is always informative. All I ever get from my senators is self-referential bible verses and self-serving “outsider” gibberish. :)
Aleta
I saw he resigned (instead of properly fired) but I missed this news last night so (even if repeating here)
Dorothy A. Winsor
Dictionary shade
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@gbbalto: Right. Now drop the FRE and the EESE from FRESH CHEESE. And say it all as one consonant.
I could tell you that the English word SIXTHS is all one syllable, which theoretically it is. And we can even pronounce it. But that’s not the same as trying to pronounce XTHS as one consonant. Just say XTHS to yourself a few times.
Gin & Tonic
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Whoever runs their social media deserves a Pulitzer or a Nobel or something.
SiubhanDuinne
@Miss Bianca:
Try this.
https://youtu.be/flle83PY9vg
Gin & Tonic
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I love when non-Slavs try to pronounce “Mstislav,” as in the cellist Rostropovich.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
As a Twitter lurker, some are much better than others. I like Talking Points Memo a lot and Josh Marshall seems like a good person but he doesn’t understand Twitter. I wouldn’t be good at it either! But he’s a pro. He needs a Twitter tutorial.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Gin & Tonic: German as our cousin language should be easier for us to pronounce, but it’s probably really fun listening to me trying to ask directions to Marktplatz.
ETA: That was the example that came to mind off the top of my head but it’s actually not that hard to get out. I went looking for more examples, and found a few with double PF’s like impfpflicht, Sumpfpflanze and Dampfpflaume
Jeffro
Hey everyone, trumpov is busy complaining about “a lack of transparency” in the House impeachment inquiry.
Yes really.
The guy who hasn’t released one tax return, who used a shell corporation to hide his mistresses’ payoffs, who goes by “John Barron” and other names to ‘brief’ reporters…yes, HE is complaining about a “lack of transparency”.
LOLOL
Steeplejack (phone)
@SiubhanDuinne:
The credenzas were a day or two later. I will look it up.
Kay
@Jeffro:
Did everyone know Trump Administration got rid of WH visitor logs? I just found that out. That’s just so bad.
The Dem nominee has to hit “transparency” hard – people love it- I think we’re gun shy because Clinton released so much and they used it against her in dishonest ways, but it’s a good thing and we should support it. Plus, it’s popular.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
neo-liberal corporate Dem sell-out
Betty Cracker
@Jeffro: One reason I believe they (Republicans) are in deep shit is because the talking points are so terrible. Trump and his most devoted elected toadies (Graham, Paul, Jordan, McCarthy, Gaetz, etc.) are out there ludicrously and hypocritically complaining about “lack of transparency” and “due process,” as if they don’t know how congressional investigations work. Well, to be fair, Trump probably really doesn’t understand how it works. But the rest of those mooks have participated in investigations and hearings before, and most of them even have law degrees. Yet this is the best spin they can put on it? Yeah, they’re in deep shit.
Kay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I’m not a health care purist but I have to give the Lefties The Overton Window. They were right about that, I was wrong.
We’re going to end up at a Medicare buy-in as the position and that’s an unqualified success.
chopper
@SiubhanDuinne:
my favorite bit about that thread was at the very end, after it was dead, the guy came back saying that cole sent him an email saying the guy was right and everybody else was a jerk I SWEAR IT HAPPENED
JR
@artem1s: Elmer Gantry is an entire novel about that, pretty much.
Matt McIrvin
@Betty Cracker: It’s the same as the standard response to a #MeToo outbreak: dudes demanding dude process, as I think one of the LGM posters put it. As if everything in the world was the same as a criminal conviction in court (including the investigations without which you can’t have a criminal conviction in court). Conditions constantly heightened in order to create impossible gridlock.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I hope so, the question is when, and what effect will the “No allies to the right!” battlecry have this time around.
CliosFanboy
@Mary G: you pay every year. it’s sad when you have to go online to tell them that you will not have to renew because your dog passed away. :(
Kay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I don’t know- my youngest is one. Oh well. He could have gone Right. It could be much worse. He says Warren is a “centrist”
I might run for delegate to the convention – I would pledge to her but I’m easy. I’ll switch if someone else gets it. It’s a caucus which is a PIA.
They should hold all the nat conventions in Denver. Perfect weather. Is that fair? No. But life isn’t fair :)
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack (phone):
“Faxing the Credenzas: The Story Behind the Story.”
JAFD
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Reminds me of Septembers at my alma mammy, newcomers attempting to talk about the river or the expressway running past the campus…
Immanentize
@Gin & Tonic:
That’s why Wheel of Fortune never made it in the region — no vowels to buy.
StringOnAStick
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I hope and pray we end up with a Medicare buy-in option, because then my husband and I can retire. We both have pre-existing conditions and his has the potential to be expensive and long term, so we can’t retire until we know how the 2020 election goes because losing the pre-existing condition protection from the ACA would leave us naked.
I enjoy (in a twisted way) explaining how health insurance works in the US to people from other western countries; they always look so bewildered by our “system”, like “why do you people stand for such treatment from your government?”.
prostratedragon
@David Evans: Makes you wonder anew who’s writing those things.
patrick II
@Mary G:
You underestimate how much time she spends in the shed out back tinkering on new inventions.
prostratedragon
@Ken: It creates a tremendous leverage opportunity for the rich. If we stripped down all the billionaire holdings and put them into the treasury, it probably wouldn’t be enough to change the fortunes of the country (though some targetted spending would be great), but look what the motivated among them can do by way of these legal bribes with just a small fraction of it.
Mnemosyne
@OzarkHillbilly:
At least he found the other baby in time. Dang, that would be one hell of an opening scene for a novel.
MisterForkbeard
@Kay:
As the parent of a much younger child, I have to ask: Did you have the urge to slap your kid when he said that? Right now all I have to deal with are tantrums, which make a certain amount of sense but can still be incredibly annoying. :)
patrick II
@TS (the original):
The problem with stopping the withdrawal now is that the Kurds (justifiably) may not be your friends anymore. You will be surrounded by Syrians, Russians, Isis, and betrayed Kurds. Get the hell out or send serious backup.
Searcher
@Jeffro: Jesus, Bloomberg is OLDER than Biden.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack:
Bless you for finding that!
MisterForkbeard
@patrick II: Right. It’s too LATE to just back up and reverse what we did. That was an option for the first day or two.
Now there’s been executions, murdered civilians, the beginnings of genocide, escaped prisoners, and (lest we forget) our allies the Kurds had to ally with Russia and Syria to survive.
Unless we go in with a MASSIVE force and start doing something to earn back their trust (impeaching Trump would help a lot, guys!), it’s too late. Trump fucked up and handed the whole game to Russia (again) because Republicans don’t have spines. This is just McConnell and Graham trying to pretend they actually care. If they cared, they would have done something before it was unrecoverable.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
“A far away country of which we know nothing”
Uncle Cosmo
@Immanentize: In fact it was a number of factors, depending on the country:
In Polish, the “helper consonant” z, which is a crucial component of sounds like sz (“sh”), cz (“ch”), and rz (the “ř” in Dvořák).
In Czech, the “ambiguous sounds” r and l, both of which function occasionally as vowels (prst, finger; vlk, wolf)
In both the above plus Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian (when written in latinitsa), diacritical marks (čárka, háček; kroužek in Czech, ogonek in Polish). And all kinds of fun in Hungarian: single & double acute accents, umlauts…
A tak dale…
J R in WV
Can we get that Michael Gass dude back to troll some more? What a loon [not to diss loons, I love loons, but that sound, OMG that sound] that dude was.
Seal, mine fields, cop, ER doctor, what didn’t he do that was heroic? And certificates for every heroic dangerous task he ever undertook!!
I pulled a guy out of a burning car once, imagine that! And never got a certificate from the authorities! ! I did get a nice thank you card from his landlady… Hilarious thread, no thanks to Mr Gass who was the most humorless POS in the history of the innertubes.
Thanks for posting the link ot that thread. What a gas, and then “Comments are Closed for this thread!” so disappoint when I saw that.
Now I’m gonna take a nap. Yesterday was really busy and tiring, got both puppies to the vet, had to carry them around some, I’m tooo old for that action.
Luv and pease to all!!
NotMax
@JAFD
Gonna hazard a guess it’s Schuylkill.
Uncle Cosmo
@NotMax: The SureKill? Good buddy who grew up in the Philthy ‘burbs told me that in the day (1960s) the water was so vile that participants in regattas on the river were issued cyanide tablets in case they fell in… I think he was kidding. I think… :^D
Of course I now have a nephew in his second year of vet school at Penn, so…
Miss Bianca
@SiubhanDuinne: OMG, I love you!!
SiubhanDuinne
@Miss Bianca:
?? Backatcha!
Origuy
Learning Russian, this has always confused me, because when I hear щ pronounced, it doesn’t sound like SH followed by CH. I found a YouTube video that explains it. This isn’t the one I used, but it’s good. Essentially, you pronounce SH with the tip of your tongue raised to your hard palate.