President @realDonaldTrump takes a few laps around Daytona International Speedway. pic.twitter.com/H2shfXbqYk
— FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) February 16, 2020
Murrica. Fuck Yeah!
This is all a fucking nightmare, right?
by John Cole| 99 Comments
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President @realDonaldTrump takes a few laps around Daytona International Speedway. pic.twitter.com/H2shfXbqYk
— FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) February 16, 2020
Murrica. Fuck Yeah!
This is all a fucking nightmare, right?
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Jeffro
Yes
SATSQ
NotMax
Very surprised he didn’t stop at least once to ask for directions.
;)
PsiFighter37
We are living in the stupidest timeline.
trollhattan
Yee
-haw!
Have another bucket of hush puppies, you corpulent fuck.
Suzanne
UGHHHHHHHH.
Jackie
Just got done watching the clusterF on CNN. Frumps campaign posted a photo of Air Force I at a crowded Daytona from… 2004 – claiming it was from today. The correct photo from today’s event shows a sparse crowd in contrast. Frump landed, did his thing and flew off before the race even started. He’s such an imbecile??♀️??♀️??♀️
BR
Today I learned that the Trump EPA okayed the use of asbestos:
https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/
Scroll down for a picture that captures it all:
Omnes Omnibus
@BR: They actually go out of their way to be awful.
Keith P
All that’s missing is Stormi Daniels in an American Flag bikini waving out of a sunroof cut into it with a Sawzall.
mvr
He’s going to keep stroking his ego until he strokes out or loses the election. Whichever comes first. This is not a man in good physical or mental health. Hoping he loses the election.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jackie:
It was partly because of the weather, I believe. Still, NASCAR has fallen quite a bit from it’s peak in the early 2000s. Good god, remember the “NASCAR Dads” thing? I have to wonder if NASCAR will recover at all in the next 10 years or sink further in obscurity, retreating further back to a regional motorsport. Personally, it’s decline was sortof inevitable, even without the dumb gimmicks and rule changes that have been commonplace since 2004. The massive popularity from the late 90s-early 00s was unsustainable. All of the big name drivers would have still retired more or less at the same time, the recession would have still hit in 2007-08 putting a crimp on people’s budgets, larger cultural shifts in the US would still take place (car culture dying, people’s attention spans lowering, cable cutting, etc).
rikyrah
Absolutely ridiculous???
Geminid
A fitting venue for the asshole: the premier event of a declining sport with a fan base that is ageing out.
Suzanne
UGHHHHHH.
rikyrah
@BR:
sad to say that was old news??
BR
@rikyrah:
Yeah — I can’t believe I didn’t hear about it, but I guess I can given how much bad news there has been for 3 solid years.
cope
And for only the second time ever, the race was postponed until Monday because of heavy rains.
schrodingers_cat
What exactly happened at the BS rally in Nevada?
ETA There were topless women on the stage.
Obvious Russian Troll
@NotMax:
Like Trump would ask someone for directions? He’d blame his driver for not knowing where they were going while simultaneously telling everybody he knows where it is.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Omnes Omnibus:
And all the asshole Republicans in Congress, including brow-furrowing Suzy Q, are just fine with this. I wish her and all of the fake “moderates” would just croak more than I want Trump to. It’s not like anything would change materially if they did. I just hate the pretending.
What do people like Susan Collins get out of this? Do they get kickbacks? Is it simply the power the ego-boost they get from appearing to be Reasonable Republicans? Collins pledged to only going to serve two terms when she first ran the Senate. (Not directed towards you) What possible justification could she have given for running for a 3rd term? And why wasn’t she hounded about breaking that promise?
Omnes Omnibus
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I haven’t been to Maine since 1975 when I was still ten.
Mike in NC
Fat Bastard would show up for Bingo Night at The Villages if it meant he’d be greeted by an adoring crowd of MAGAts.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat: What happens in Vegas…
Yutsano
@schrodingers_cat: Wait what’?
Martin
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Owning the libs is pretty much their whole electoral strategy.
Another Scott
@schrodingers_cat:
TheHill has a story about it.
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
Felanius Kootea
Apologies if this has already been posted in another thread but I liked this article from the LA Times: Stop pulling out your hair, Democrats. You CAN beat Trump.
Favorite excerpt:
I never understood why commenters here paid attention to Sullivan but I thought maybe they saw something I didn’t. I completely ignored his opinion after that episode and refuse to hate watch Bill Maher when he’s on.
Kent
I had a boss back in TX who was a total NASCAR fan. High School assistant principal. Could not help himself, had to use NASCAR references in every damn staff meeting to the utter annoyance of the majority female staff who had the eye-rolls perfected. Especially the black women who I promise you have no use for white supervisors rambling on endlessly about life lessons illustrated by NASCAR. That’s probably some definition of white privilege right there. Thinking that everyone else cares about your precious NASCAR.
I’m sure he is a big time Trumper now. I stopped following him on FB when I left that job.
And good fucking riddance to NASCAR. Never been to a race but I know that I-35W north of Fort Worth becomes obscenely congested and brought to a standstill every time there is a big event at the TX Motor Speedway. And there are absolutely no viable alternative routes around it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Another Scott: Well, I am sure they will have fun at the Democratic Convention in Milwaukee.
mad citizen
I watched his pre-race address on YouTube for kicks. No teleprompter, he read it off the podium, and didn’t make any mistakes, but did read it without nuance or feeling, like usual, like it was his first time seeing the words. The speech was kind of poorly written, but I doubt the current WH has any NASCAR experts on staff.
As for the Daytona 500, great observation about the declining audience aging out. I couldn’t find year-to-year attendance numbers, but did find mention of how the track took out a bunch of seats in a renovation that began in 2013: “When the huge project was done, the number of permanent seats at the speedway had gone from 146,000 to 101,500. That’s 44,500 seats gone, or 31 percent of its former capacity. ”
Finally, in the “everything trump touches dies” category, the race was rained out today. Ha! Dog is on our side!
The Dangerman
I was watching Melania when they were out of the car; she looked like she was having a root canal. Apparently, auto racing is not her thing (nor is football, nor Holiday decorating, nor…).
Assuming she doesn’t try to take it all after Hubby checks out of the picture (meaning, the Children have to end up suing her as opposed to actually, ya know, getting a job), my guess is she disappears and she is never, ever heard from again. Good riddance.
Kent
@Another Scott: Bwa ha ha.
That’ll help him win back Wisconsin.
Mike in NC
@BR: My personal asbestos story: At Bath Iron Works in 1982 a very large wooden crate was deposited on the ship’s quarterdeck one day during overhaul. It was prominently stenciled “Danger: Asbestos” which raised quite a few eyebrows. Then some enterprising sailor showed up with a can of black spray paint and made the issue moot.
Bruuuuce
Since no post on Bizarroworld and its right-wing inhabitants would be complete without their rage overwhelming their common sense, I give you today’s best headline: ‘Communist’ FOX network angers Trump fans at Daytona 500 by cutting to commercial as he begins speech.
Which makes me grin, and gently whisper on the winds of their fury “Heidi” :-)
Another Scott
@Omnes Omnibus: It’s going to be really fun, isn’t it?
(sigh)
Cheers,
Scott.
Mike in NC
@Felanius Kootea: Andrew Fucking Sullivan. Nobody misses that imbecile.
Dr. Omed
Albert Speer and Leni Riefenstahl did it better for Adolf at the Nuremberg rallies.
Mowgli
@Keith P: you win the internets for today, good sir.
jonas
Hey, aren’t all you snobby elitists forgetting the time George Washington came down with his entourage to join some good ol’ boys in a steeplechase through some hamlets outside Philadelphia?
Omnes Omnibus
@jonas: Do you mean that time he put down the Whiskey Rebellion?
mrmoshpotato
@BR: Cool! Now when is Susan Sarandon going to start huffing asbestos, because, “Eww Hillary!”?
@PsiFighter37: Sorry PSI, the timeline just got stupider. See BR’s story at comment 6.
jonas
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): That’s generally what I’ve read/heard as well. NASCAR never quite figured out how to market itself as something you can watch on a hand-held device, or stream, which is where most of folks in that sweet 18-35 demographic get their entertainment these days.
TS (the original)
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
My view is that booing Michelle Obama turned it into a RWNJ event only
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Oh and get this. On r/NASCAR, a young female race car driver, Haillie Deegan, posted a picture of herself with Trump on Twitter, and guess what the consensus is:
“People demanding others how to think.”
“Guilty by association”
Ahhhhahh! Oh my god, this shit pisses me off so much! It’s fucking everywhere on places like Reddit. This is a fantastic example of the banality of evil. JFC. I’m sorry, but if you’re willing to pose with Trump in a picture at this point, you’re a terrible person. Full stop. He is personally responsible for the deaths of thousands of human beings whether they be Puerto Ricans hung out to dry after Maria or the unnecessary migrant deaths in CBP custody. Or hell, the soldiers NASCAR and it’s fans pretend to give a shit about before every race. Over 120 troops suffered traumatic brain injuries that Trump called “headaches”. The absolute unwillingness to turn away from this POS by his supporters is fucking disgusting. There’s no bottom.
Trump has also hollowed out many institutions, is an active threat to American democracy, and has stolen years we could’ve been using to try to mitigate climate change. Not to mention a whole slew of other shit.
You know something else? Hitler was a vegetarian who abhorred animal abuse. Literally nobody is a mustache twirling caricature. Many people are perfectly nice in person, to certain people. But they can still be awful people otherwise. Many KKK members back in it’s heyday were important civic leaders and were probably lovely fathers to their children. Still awful terrible people, on balance. Posing with Trump isn’t the worst thing in the world, but it definitely shows a lack of awareness at the very least and at the worst approval or just flat out not caring
I wish people would stop with this “Politics are icky and I’m so above it all and when you criticize me/people I like that really means you’re demanding I think a certain way!”
James E Powell
@Felanius Kootea:
In the quoted excerpt, the writers says “Democrats immediately proclaimed the end was nigh” then quotes Andrew Sullivan. No one saw a problem there?
I don’t remember any Democrats proclaiming that, but by then I was moving toward getting all my political news second hand here at Balloon Juice.
Anya
Democrats should mock him for his desperate need for attention.
mrmoshpotato
@Omnes Omnibus: That’ll be a hoot. Enjoy!
Villago Delenda Est
@Felanius Kootea: Andrew Sullivan’s thing is he immigrated to the US because he could never get what he wanted the most in the UK: to be a member of the upper class. Here, if you kiss enough ass, you can be elevated, but in the UK if you’re Irish you’re fucked.
Villago Delenda Est
@James E Powell: The writers (good Villagers all) did what Villagers do.
My nym. Over and over again.
Wipe them out. All of them.
James E Powell
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Money, power, fame, good seats to everything, the illusion that their lives have meaning.
Martin
@Villago Delenda Est: Mostly, but not entirely. Trump couldn’t get into the NY upper class.
Mai naem mobile
Mango Mussolini is coming to Phoenix on Wednesday for one of his Nuremberg rallies. Rally is at 7pm. Venue opens at 3pm. The place is called Veterans Memorial Coliseum located within the the state fairgrounds. The venue is very near the two major freeways in Phoenix and not far from another two. Thus guaranteeing neither trains or cars will run on time in Phoenix on Wed during rush hour. BTW I find it interesting they chose a state owned facility for the event. I am guessing the state will be stiffed by the campaign for pretty much everything. Also too the capacity is 14500 incase Mango Mussolini lies about that. Oh, my other thought is that nobody else thought Mango would pay up so turned them down
Cckids
@Geminid:
Shalimar
He nicknamed the limousine that rode him around the track, “The Beast”. I guess putting a 666 on the side would have made it too obvious.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Omnes Omnibus:
It wasn’t specifically directed at you, Omnes. Just me ranting, is all
@Martin:
It’s disgusting
Another Scott
Meanwhile, in Africa… Al Jazeera:
(Emphasis added.)
You can’t? Who says???!!
(sigh)
Cheers,
Scott.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Cckids:
As funny as that is, I have to defend the NASCAR drivers. It takes a great degree of athleticism to be a race car driver, believe it or not. These people spend several hours in extreme temperatures going around race tracks at high speeds. It’s not easy. I don’t like the culture surrounding NASCAR, but I do have to give props to the drivers themselves for what they do
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mai naem mobile: He’ll be here on Tuesday, I’m headed to the desert.
Another Scott
@Shalimar: It was called “The Beast” in W’s days.
Cheers,
Scott.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Shalimar:
The Presidential limo got that name when the new one arrived at the beginning of the Obama administration.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Another Scott:
Yeah. I think it’s a huge mistake for these African countries to placing all of their eggs in one basket. Especially in the hands of a nation that has so incompetently handled the COVID-19 outbreak. It remains to be seen how bad the economic fallout of COVID-19 will be, as well
Mai naem mobile
@The Dangerman: I haven’t paid that much attention to the clips from the NASCAR event today but whoever was with him leaving the WH the other day looked like fill-in Melania. I can’t wait for this stupid family to disappear from my daily newsfeeds. They’re just such an ugly inside and out disgustingly coarse family. Just go away.
Shalimar
@Another Scott:
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Fine, then we need a different joke. Neither of them ever took it to Daytona. It’s NASCAR. It needs a number.
hitchhiker
Good friend of mine is a Formula One driver who mostly works as a private coach to rich people who want the thrill of driving difficult precision cars as fast as possible and risking death while doing so.
By contrast, Nascar is a glorified box car derby, with lots of goofballs and rules set up to make it all as entertaining as possible, with drivers bunched up and overtaking each other.
I was at an event once where there was a Nascar driver speaking; my friend got up to follow him and said he understood there were some Nascar fans in the audience, so he was going to try to remember to talk real slow so they could follow along.
He has no fucks to give.
Amir Khalid
@Shalimar:
I’d guess that previous versions of the POTUSmobile had that nickname too. Its bodywork is heavily armoured and its windows are thick bullet-proof glass. With all that extra weight, it probably doesn’t handle worth a damn and gets terrible gas mileage.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@hitchhiker:
Do you happen to remember the driver’s name? Was he young? Retired? NASCAR fans often complain about young “corporate-types” with no personalities in the sport now, so I can imagine someone like that might not be too fond of the redneck fans
ETA: NVM. That was your friend lol
Another Scott
@Amir Khalid: Wikipedia says it weighs 20,000 pounds.
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
BR
Anyone know or have contact with reporters on the campaign trail, or live in either NV or SC and can go to some events?
We need someone, urgently, to get the Hawaiian pseudo-candidate whose main support seems to be Fox and online sock puppets on the record. She is either is looking to be a spoiler against the Dem nominee or wants VP to Bernie. We need someone to get her on record (with video) answering something like this: “why are you competing against Bernie given your past support of him and why do you think you’d be a better president than Bernie?” She’s allowed to get coverage without ever answering this basic question, and we need to put daylight between her and Bernie now, not a few months from now, so that his supporters don’t wander off regardless of who wins the nomination.
If she doesn’t have to answer this, and she doesn’t get picked by Bernie for VP (if he’s the nominee), she’ll lead her own purity brigade and turn 5-10% of the Berners against him for insufficient purity. If he isn’t the nominee then she will aim to take 5-10% of the Berners with her since the nominee won’t be sufficiently pure. Win win for her, lose lose for us.
So, anyone in NV or SC who can go to a rally of hers and ask, with a friend taking video?
The Dangerman
@Amir Khalid:
Several inches of plating and glass; probably drives Trump crazy (er, crazier) because he can’t hear his adoring fans cheer him on. Maybe they pump in outside acoustics.
If it is acoustically isolated, I hope it has a kick ass stereo system.
Duane
@hitchhiker: Trying to watch a NASCAR event is torturous. Even with pizza and beer it drags on and on, almost every lap the same as the others. Any sportsball event is better, at least there’s a ball to watch.
mrmoshpotato
@Mai naem mobile: The stadium is opening 4 hours before this shitpile has a meltdown rant fueled by drugs and a decaying brain?
Venues don’t even open their doors that early for people who pay to go see a game or show. Are locusts and frogs scheduled for Phoenix at 3:30 or something?
Martin
@Another Scott: Most people don’t realize when Trump isn’t in it, it only weighs 13,000 pounds.
Amir Khalid
@The Dangerman:
Trump was probably disappointed to learn that it doesn’t have all the cool gadgets they put in James Bond’s Aston Martin.
Villago Delenda Est
@Another Scott: Pompeo? Talking about the “rule of law”? This Dominionist shitstain cannot die enough deaths for the blatant hypocrisy he spews. Jesus would beat his ass from Jerusalem to the Indus.
Uncle Jeffy
@BR: Doubling down on things that cause cancer, eh?
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: I can’t even imagine the rambling crap you’d get if you asked Dump to talk about James Bond.
“Uhhhh…the best Bond, not like all those other loser Bonds…”
Villago Delenda Est
@Amir Khalid: I actually got a chance to sit inside one of them when then VP Poppy Bush visited Honduras. The doors had power assists, they were so damn heavy.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Amir Khalid:
“The name’s Trump. Donald Trump.”
Just imagine him sitting in the driver’s seat of the limo, turning the wheel like a child does
“Eat missiles, Nancy! Hahaha!”
BTW, do you have a favorite actor that played James Bond? I liked Pierce Brosnan myself
Villago Delenda Est
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): While Sean Connery is the standard, Timothy Dalton is my runner up for best bond, with Daniel Craig right on his heels.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Villago Delenda Est:
Oh yeah, Daniel Craig is my second favorite Bond. He’s one of the “serious ones”. Apparently, the seriousness of the performance cycles with each actor
Amir Khalid
@Villago Delenda Est:
Craig is my own favourite Bond. His portrayal is the most up front about the deeply messed-up dude that is James Bond.
eddie blake
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
i dunno. goldeneye was pretty serious and a solid bond film.
skyfall was ridiculous
eta: the way the movies always seem to go down, it was my impression that 007 james bond was a codename, not a man- like explaining in universe the doctor’s regenerations, this allowed the studios to rotate actors.
Suzanne
@Mai naem mobile:
I find it interesting that they’re not going to be at the convention center this time. That’s where past rallies (including the ones I attended and protested) were held. Vets Memorial is significantly more downscale. I think it may also be smaller.
Villago Delenda Est
@Martin: He didn’t kiss enough ass, and defer enough. Sullivan at least had the good sense not to be gauche; Donald is gauche incarnate.
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
Strangely enough, when Remington Steele was on TV in the early 80’s, I remember saying that Brosnan would make a good replacement for Roger Moore.
That said, Craig is more in line with the Bond I envisioned when reading Fleming’s novels as a teenager.
Moore just seemed “off” somehow after reading the books.
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Everyone forgets about David Niven as Bond.
;)
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Amir Khalid:
Have you watched Craig in Knives Out?
Amir Khalid
@eddie blake:
There were several 00 agents at Ian Fleming’s fictional MI-6. Sean Bean played a fellow 00 in Goldeneye.
The idea that James Bond is a code name doesn’t square with the existence of a Bond family home in Skyfall.
Amir Khalid
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
No.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@NotMax:
The dude sorta looks the part I’ll give him that lol
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
The trailer. More James Bonds than you can shake a brolly at.
eddie blake
@Amir Khalid:
that was part of what i didn’t like about skyfall. other than the many rube-goldberg plot devices.
connery’s bond gets out. moore (sort of) gets out. brosnan gets out. craig in skyfall (imo) gets silly.
i mean, it’s definitely not canon, but the final scenes of the final movies of the actors seem like they’re getting out of the business, and then are replaced in the next movie by a new actor.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Mai naem mobile:
My question—especially at this point—is whether any of these venues have ever heard of the concept of requiring a deposit in advance, and have it clear the bank, before the event is approved to take place. ?
Steeplejack (phone)
@NotMax:
As well they should.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman):
I hate Roger Moore as James Bond. He’s too jokey, too cartoonish. But I’ve been watching reruns of The Saint recently on some third-tier cable channel, and he’s actually very good in that. Go figure.
Sally
@NotMax: I love that first Bond movie, the best by far (IMHO). Casino Royale. Beautiful scenery, beautiful people, beautiful clothes, I’m desperate to ski at Cortina.
Ruckus
@Martin:
It’s their entire life strategy.
It’s bad enough that their “leader” has the maturity of a 5 yr old brat, but they think that’s a good thing. Every single one of them is an idiotic follower and they found what they think is a demigod to lead them. They are of course wrong about who he is and what he is and what he is doing to them and the rest of the country.
Bruuuuce
@Amir Khalid:
Nor does that home square with the idea, mentioned several times (Casino Royale, among others, IIRC) that Bond was an orphan raised by MI-6 or selected by them because he was one.
Dr. Ronnie James, D.O.
“
1) Drive hard
2) Turn left
3) Repeat”
These instructions work just as well for voters as they do for NASCAR drivers.