I think Donald Trump has president envy.
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) August 20, 2020
To be crude, I really hope the Squatter-in-Chief’s staff managed to get an extra dose of tranquilizers into his hamberders tonight, because I don’t want to give the GOP a chance to promote Pence atop some kind of Reconciliation! Look forward, not back! ticket at this point.
“If you want a president who defines the job as spending hours a day watching TV and zapping people on social media, he’s your man.” https://t.co/neYYvPu5W8
— John Cassidy (@JohnCassidy) August 20, 2020
Obama is making the important point we need to hear, even before Trump: We are the masters of our own democracy and there is no substitute for taking responsibility for that, no matter how disaffected you might feel.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 20, 2020
Obama’s Spock quality is useful in discussing Trump. When he informs you Trump is a repulsive garbage barge of filth he’s just delivering a cold, clinical analysis.
— Francis Wilkinson (@fdwilkinson) August 20, 2020
A Gladiator quote… in a race against a needy, paranoid narcissist who has impure thoughts about his blood relatives and spends all his time consuming mass media entertainment … would have felt out of place, to be honest. Not seeing it. https://t.co/FBn6R3CGBL
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) August 20, 2020
Baud
Another grandma call!
Wapiti
It feels like Day 4, but time is out of whack for me.
Adam L Silverman
Baud
Gavin!
Adam L Silverman
I doubt it given that he went full reactionary Christian herrenvolkism in his speech in Scranton earlier today.
dmsilev
@Adam L Silverman: Deploy the Sharpie Of Hurricane Forecasting!
Adam L Silverman
@Baud: 200 yards to safety, death was 50 yards behind.
dmsilev
@Wapiti: I’m pretty sure this is Day 3945 of the DNC and Day 345938 of this election cycle.
Kent
Wait…there’s a hurricane?
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev: The wall will stop it. The one Bannon and Kolfage have been raising money for. It’s weatherproof.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Adam L Silverman:
Not that I want anybody to get hurt, but I’d love one of these storms to destroy Mar a Largo
L85NJGT
Rake 50000 sq/miles of chaparral.
They’ll get right on that Donnie.
cain
@dmsilev:
You still have to roll a 4d8 and make a save vs dipshit.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Adam L Silverman:
Also, stay safe! For you and all other Floridians
SiubhanDuinne
@Kent:
According to my radar map, its name is, and I am not making this up, “Thirteen.”
Yutsano
@dmsilev: And it’s not even halfway over!
EDIT: I have a friend who is a dead ringer for Daniel Dae Kim.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: If we had only raked.
dmsilev
@Adam L Silverman: As the renowned documentary Pacific Rim makes clear, walls do not perform well against threats emerging from the deep ocean.
Adam L Silverman
@Kent: There may be a hurricane sometime over the weekend into the early portion of next week.
cain
time to bring out some nice gin martinis.
Also fuck McConnell.
Anne Laurie
@Wapiti: Thanks for catching that — I’m gonna claim yesterday was so much fun, I want it to happen like that all over again!
dmsilev
@cain: I will remind you that this is the d20 convention.
CaseyL
The DNC’s own feed is having problems syncing up the audio, so I switched over to (of all things) the Lincoln Project’s feed, which is synced up just fine.
Baud
Yang!
SiubhanDuinne
I’m liking this “How I want things to be this time next year” segment.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: fuck it, this didn’t work and I’ll just give up.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Also apparently, not everybody likes the “Florida Man” meme:
HumboldtBlue
@dmsilev:
I traveled to San Diego in January, it feels like it happened in 2018.
Baud
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
I blame Silverman.
dmsilev
@CaseyL: DNC feed seems fine for me; audio and video are synched nicely.
West of the Cascades
Punce!
HumboldtBlue
OK, that was awkward
trollhattan
@Adam L Silverman:
Depression Thirteen would make a good name for an airport bar.
Anne Laurie
According to our local weatherguys, if the winds pick up sufficiently, it’ll be Tropical Storm / Hurricane Laura.
But in 2020, I think continuing to call it “Thirteen” would be nicely accurate!
NotMax
Oh my. Let’s eighty-six the forced light banter onscreen, okay?
trnc
Does anyone back there have a large cane?
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss!
I love their choice of hosts. And the Veep is the perfect one to host Joe Biden’s night.
RinaX
Please make JLD stop with the “banter.” Please.
dmsilev
“Joe Biden subscribes to the Amtrak in-ride magazine” seems, in retrospect, inevitable.
trollhattan
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Pity.
Does CJR not yet understand internet-Twitter memes?
Adam L Silverman
@L85NJGT:
Sister Golden Bear
Danica!
trnc
@NotMax: I looooove Julia Louis-Dreyfus. And I really wish she were somewhere else tonight.
TS (the original)
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
And he’s on about raking again. The hate the man exudes for states that did not support his election is a major way he has stepped all over democracy as it used to be.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: I did as well.
zhena gogolia
@RinaX:
I’m sure she’s just reading what they gave her. I have sympathy for her.
HumboldtBlue
How come women’s fashion gets away with those awesome belts?
I wear one and I look like a pathetic pirate-cos-play dork.
Li’l Cedric and the Chicks. Gotta love that.
That’s a really good arrangement.
Yutsano
Julia is kinda awkward.
Adam L Silverman
@L85NJGT: He’s got an A+ rating from the NRA!
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Pinstripes, banter, kids on your lawn…. What else are you agin?
Baud
The Chicks!
zhena gogolia
Chicks!
West of the Cascades
@Adam L Silverman: You will pry my rake out of my cold, dead hands.
Omnes Omnibus
Chicks. Live ones who made it through the Post Office.
Baud
Nun!
HeleninEire
I love the
DixieChicks.Betty
The Chicks! Great choice.
dmsilev
Anthem from the
DixieChicks.Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Yutsano: I’m a huge fan. And I really hope she’s done with the stand up.
Sister Simone Campbell! Nuns on the bus! I am a huge fan of her, as well.
WaterGirl
@RinaX: it’s like bad Oscar/Emmy banter.
Adam L Silverman
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: That’s generally a good answer to all of our ills.
Yutsano
Now THAT was an anthem!
Anne Laurie
@Adam L Silverman: For the sake of you & Betty & the other Florida jackals, here’s hoping Depression #13 will not get any stronger.
But dang, even the weather gods can’t keep up with the timing this year! IIRC, the Jacksonville portion of the RNC next week was cancelled, the business portion will be held in Charlotte, and the Dumpster Fire Pagentry will be staged in the Rose Garden…
Kent
Yeah…a little too much Academy Awards host happening there. But you get what you get when you ask a comedian to host.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Yutsano: The writers are a little weak, they don’t know how to write for her. I forgive her, she’s adorable.
TS (the original)
@CaseyL: Working for me – restarting it usually fixes any problems
Elizabelle
Nuns on the Bus! After The Chicks.
We have all the best women. And the bravest.
CaseyL
@dmsilev: Yes, I switched back and it’s OK now.
SiubhanDuinne
To my absolute amazement, every night this week I have found both the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem not only tolerable but truly uplifting. That … hasn’t happened in a very long time.
Marcopolo
Nuns on the bus! If they are onboard we’ve got almost everyone pulling together—I know a few of them, they are about as left as you can get.
Edited to add: the sane left :)
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne: So Olivia Wilde is going to rain on my house on Tuesday morning? Got it.
Sebastian
OK jackals, admit it, who of you works for Meidas Touch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pNW_kFWC3s
Shalimar
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): In fairness, the drug-addled, mentally ill, and homeless are pretty much half the population of Florida, so it still fits.
Sister Golden Bear
As an aside, I discovered the someone I used to know was part of yesterday’s group Pledge of Allegiance. I will resist singing the Song That Shall Not Be Named. //
lamh36
Awww…that was Cedric Richmond’s son who lead the Pledge of Allegiance!
https://twitter.com/stefcutter/status/1296616243177361411?s=20
Kent
I just had to explain the whole Dixie Chicks controversy to my woke 17 year old daughter. She didn’t know anything about it or who they were. It all happened the month before she was born.
zhena gogolia
Great prayer, Sister Simone!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TS (the original): I know, being that I live in one*.
*Probably the greatest offender of all.
Baud
@Kent:
They were cancelled!
Adam L Silverman
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): We have several dozen posts here that resemble that remark.
Yutsano
O hai der Chris!
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@Kent: you get what you get when the whole thing has to essentially happen on TV so eyeballs is all that counts.
So, yes, the Academy Awards, but with more god-bothering since it’s trying to reach the kind of people who don’t usually watch movies.
Betty
@Anne Laurie: It is the 13th tropical depression. Fourteen is in the Gulf. Marco is concerned that one will be named for him if it becomes a tropical storm. That is a lot of storms so far, and it is still early.
Curtis
Ugh, too much faith. I know why they have to do it, but it’s pretty annoying (to me).
cain
@Adam L Silverman:
One hopes a visit to Mar-a-Lago
Adam L Silverman
@Baud: Blame Florida’s sunshine law. It’s why every arrest has to be publicly posted for the local newspapers to cover.
cain
@dmsilev: :D
WaterGirl
@Chacal Charles Calthrop: I don’t think the previous 3 nights felt like that, though.
Marcopolo
Chris Coons room rater: looks like he is in a cozy B & B in Maine.
WaterGirl
Very slow start tonight.
Mary G
Nuns on the Bus’s Sister Simone. Luv huh. Biil Barr and his crew of Nazis who pretend to be Catholic must be fuming.
Baud
@Chacal Charles Calthrop:
Swing states suck.
Adam L Silverman
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): @Baud:
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
He doesn’t like people calling themselves “Dr.” unless there’s a stethoscope flung round their neck.
Ian
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
The Florida man meme is similar to the Karen meme. Its fun and games for the rest of us. People who actually have disorders who fall into these categories become easy fodder for clickbait stories. At that point the reporters/ hacks writing the thing become muckrackers.
It is fun to play with, but does little to help our actual understanding of people in Florida or people named Karen and why the do what they do.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Baud:
Well, it is always his fault //
Omnes Omnibus
Oh Noes! Biden talking about forgiveness. He’ll look forward not back!
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Ha!
MomSense
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
That was a wonderful prayer.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@Baud: I have been noticed by the great Baud! I am honored.
But I am also forced to agree
Elizabelle
Tear gas and federalized troops to get to church.
LOL.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Curtis: I’m with you. Sister Simone Campbell and the Divine Spirit, bring it. Chris Coons… not so much.
Oh no. No. Julia, no. No jokes in between Biden talking about faith and loss and Mother Emmanuel, and transitioning to John Lewis.
zhena gogolia
This is sad — they didn’t write “jokes” for Longoria, Ross, or Washington. Poor Julia.
Marcopolo
I’ll live but JLD is killing this (not in a good way) for me. Artificial banter and forced humor sux.
PsiFighter37
Usually I’d love JLD’s humor, but man – it strikes me as a bit tone-deaf for this event.
Adam L Silverman
@Yutsano: Always has been. Of course, I think Seinfield was awful and everyone on it was and is awful. So I’m probably not the target demo.
HumboldtBlue
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’m with you. Both have their place and time and when done well can remind of us of who we are.
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36:
Beyond adorable!
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
She’s the only professional comedian of the four.
cain
@SiubhanDuinne:
Right? But I think we are also not living in normal times and these things are comforts – like a psalm that might be annoying in the good times – is a salve during times like these.
(this day seems to be more religious than the other three days)
zhena gogolia
@Marcopolo:
It’s not her fault! She didn’t write this!
Mary G
JLD is used to bouncing off a cast of live actors and visibly uncomfortable talking by herself to a camera.
TS (the original)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Seems not – I’m not liking the presentation as much as the earlier nights. Not fitting the reality of what is happening/has happened.
Omnes Omnibus
@zhena gogolia: Do we know if she was just handed a script or if was she a part of it?
Yutsano
@PsiFighter37: The church joke was at least kind of funny. But you can tell this was written by people who don’t normally write comedy.
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
I know. But I’m sure she didn’t write this stuff.
dmsilev
@PsiFighter37: Yeah, this isn’t working. Fortunately, the “host” bits are short and the actual speakers are much better.
Adam L Silverman
@zhena gogolia: @Omnes Omnibus: @HeleninEire: @Betty: @dmsilev: And they actually have the vocal range to hit all the notes, which almost no one does.
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus:
My impression is she’s reading a script, not creating these jokes. She’s not a writer.
PsiFighter37
@Baud: These are serious times. If I wanted funnies about people dying, I’d watch Colbert or Trevor Noah.
Baud
@Chacal Charles Calthrop:
The religious stuff isn’t for most of us here, but my guess it’s important to many black church goers and possibly Latino as well. These are people we need to turn out.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Adam L Silverman:
One of the replies:
Yup
RinaX
@zhena gogolia: Who thought this was necessary? The first three nights were fine without the awkward segues.
Adam L Silverman
@Anne Laurie: As long as it stays off shore and keeps heading across the gulf, we’ll be fine.
tokyocali (formerly tokyo expat)
Agree that JLD is not fitting with the tone of the event. The joke after Biden talked about the loss of his son and forgiveness, ugh! Just be an MC and leave the jokes for comedy night.
CaseyL
@Adam L Silverman: I think she got this gig because of Veep, not Seinfeld.
I hope the jokey thing ends. It jars. It jars real bad.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Shalimar:
lol
Yutsano
@Adam L Silverman: Pfft! It’s only an octave and a half!
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
One of the duties dumped on me as low man on the totem pole when I was a newsroom writer for a local station in Minnesota was writing the banter lead-ins to breaks for the newscasts.
A) It ain’t a walk in the park to do so on a tight deadline.
B) Takes a toll on the funnybone to come up with material which is new, snappy but not too snappy and uncontroversial to fill less maybe 5 or 6 seconds at a time. For both evening newscasts.
West of the Rockies
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
I’m digging her comic slaps to the face of the tangerine turd.
zhena gogolia
@RinaX:
They also had awkward segues, but they were serious so you didn’t notice it so much.
Adam L Silverman
@Kent: She’s a comedian? When did that happen?
PsiFighter37
@Mary G: Kind of makes you realize how much it might depend on an agent putting their clients in a position to succeed vs. the actors themselves being self-aware.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
The
DixieChicks are nice, but I was hoping for the Spice GirlsMary G
@Adam L Silverman: Come sit six feet away from me. I never made it through five minutes of Seinfeld.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
also, since I’m sure everyone’s waiting for my commentary: Having watched Andrew Yang, I still very much don’t get it, and get even less why anyone, anyone at all, was tantruming to get him included in the program.
I hope twitter is sending JLD the same message we would, and that they’re quickly toning the yuks down on the fly
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: Without most of his teeth!
cain
Elijah!
Raven
Speaking of the gulf, we’ve been tuned out of everything for the last three days.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Adam L Silverman: 38 years ago when she became a member of SNL
Anne Laurie
Kamala, on the other hand, is already assembling a Truth & Reconciliation task force*…
(* I sincerely hope)
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Young people. They liked him after Bernie.
Omnes Omnibus
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Well thank you for telling us what you really, really want.
Raven
@Adam L Silverman: I misread the post and thought the JDL was making jokes!
trnc
I would give a body part for slow. My wife and I cringed and almost crawled under furniture when JLD came on, and we’re both big fans.
I see that some people like the bits, so I’m hoping it’s just an off night for me.
Marcopolo
The leaders of the March on Washington had Lewis tone down his speech. They felt it was too aggressive.
Also amazing to see how the protests now reflect the protests then.
Bill Arnold
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Dorian2019) teased Trump a bit; one or two forecast cones had Mar a Lago on/close to the center line. But the surrounding area is Democratic, I believe (New Yorker here). Too much collateral damage. The stall over the Bahamas before it turned north was utterly devastating.
cain
Cenk was trending – and apparently rose twitter was very unhappy with him saying he would lose respect for anyone who voted for Trump.The toxicity by these people – and I refuse to give them a label because I don’t believe they stand for anything.
PsiFighter37
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Because there’s a non-immaterial portion of liberal / Democrat voters who want to be conned by a sucker.
Baud
John Legend.
gwangung
I’m hoping for more of a battle fleet.
Omnes Omnibus
John Legend again?
ETA: With Common, okay.
dmsilev
RIP John Lewis.
Not sure anything else needs to be said.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Adam L Silverman:
I’m everybody’s supervisior!
Marcopolo
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: I hear they’ve changed their name. They are just Spice now.
cain
I’m really sad that John Lewis is not able to witness a Black woman running on a major ticket as I am that Obama’s mother/grandmother and Kamala’s mother couldn’t.
Kent
And for my religious white rural dairy farmer relatives in Pennsylvania. They eat that shit up. Don’t need to peel very many of them away from Trump to tip the balance. They are not happy with Trump but afraid of Dem cooties.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Omnes Omnibus:
If you wanna be my president, you gotta get with my friends
Make it last forever, friendship never ends
If you wanna be my president, you have got to give
Taking is too easy, but that’s the way it is
MomSense
@Omnes Omnibus:
What you did there, I saw it.
lamh36
No matter how many times I hear it, “Glory” gets me in the feels every time. It’s just a great song! Kudos to John and Lonnie!
TS (the original)
@Baud:
Also highlighting the lack of religion/faith/care that comes from trump.
MomSense
@Omnes Omnibus:
It’s the song they did for the movie Selma.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Dump thinks Kierkegaard is a foreign porn star
zhena gogolia
@lamh36:
Yes, this is really good.
Anne Laurie
And, to be fair, also to a certain Joseph Robinette Biden.
The man doesn’t spend half his media time mouthing cheap pieties, but — like our last Democratic candidate! — he’s genuinely a believer in a way most of the Talibangelical Pharisees can’t even imagine, much less live.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
OK, much as I love JLD, I admit her segments are really cringe-worthy.
I sang “Glory” with a chorus last year. Very cool to hear the original. It was a showstopper, even with a white chorus and a white guy doing the rap.
Adam L Silverman
@Chacal Charles Calthrop: @Baud: It’s also traditional to start with an invocation or benediction, the pledge, and the national anthem and then finish with another benediction. And if they didn’t do these things, every political reporter, every pundit, every talking head, and every Republican politician and their surrogates would crucify them as unpatriotic and anti-G-d. Some things you do because it is an easy way to immunize yourself from stupid responses.
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
Wasn’t that the flip side of 19th Nervous Breakdown?
;)
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Ian:
I still tend to think the “Karen” thing is sexist. Get a load of this spicy meme
This type of “Karen” stuff is pretty common
Omnes Omnibus
@MomSense: I was surprised at first because Legend had already performed and I am sure there is a long list of singers who would love a spot here.
Emma from FL
So it’s all ruined now?(p.s.) yes, I’m a bit cranky.
cain
This music is really good – a great balance. But it makes the party living in the now, not in the past. Republicans are a bunch of folks living in the past, old white males the majority. Look at us.. the contrast has never been so severe..
Adam L Silverman
@CaseyL: I’m sure of it. A whole bunch of Democratic political consultants and beltway insiders were consultants for the show.
dmsilev
I’m sure the dynamic duo of Kid Rock and Ted Nugent will have no trouble topping that next week.
zhena gogolia
Legend and Common are making me think we’re going to win!
cain
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
One of my go of my good friends is named Karen – I refuse to use the Karen meme because she’s such a wonderful, caring person that I could never dishonor her by using that meme.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@trollhattan:
Apparently not. It comes across the school principal scolding the auditorium
Wolvesvalley
I’m cringing at JLD, too.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@Baud: I know! But I’m serious about the “people who don’t watch movies” crack. When Mel Gilbson’s “Passion of the Christ” came out, a black co-worker of mine who was religious confided that she wanted to see it, even though she lived way outside of the city & didn’t usually see movies. So I suggested that we see it together, right after work, because (as a classics major) I wanted to see how close the spoken Latin was to Italian (because Mel Gibson was an idiot, the Romans spoke Latin and the Jews spoke Hebrew, even though at the time everyone actually would’ve spoken demotic Greek). So we saw it.
And because the movie studios knew that a lot of (religious) people were going to see it who didn’t usually see movies, there were previews to just about every single film due to come out in the next six months, just in case they might lure in someone who otherwise wouldn’t have gone. I have never, before or since, sat through a movie with so many previews of other films. And I found myself explaining Marvel superheroes to her, just because she honestly did not know what they were about.
So that’s my anecdotal evidence to how I know religious people don’t usually see movies – the movie people know they don’t usually see movies. And they would know.
cain
“proud to be a nasty nasty woman” – YES – this is not bad.
Adam L Silverman
@Yutsano: You do it.
I’m not even going to try, before you ask. I couldn’t carry a tune to save my life. There was actually discussion of having me lip synch my bar mitzvah.
Marcopolo
Parson Meacham! First time he’s ever endorsed a candidate.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mary G:
May I join you guys? I’ve never watched an episode and couldn’t/can’t to this day understand all the fuss.
Adam L Silverman
@Marcopolo: At least a living one.
Baud
The humor theme sucks, but I’m not going to obsess over it. JLD ain’t in the ballot.
RaflW
@trnc: Yeah, based on FB it seems some of my friends are loving her, but they’re the on the ‘oh, snap!’ end of my friend continuum.
I feel a little cringy about her, uhh, jokes.
Kent
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): If Florida doesn’t like “Florida Men” they should stop producing them. Carl Hiaasen did it best a long ago anyway. As well as Dave Barry.
Mary G
The gospel chorus is safely distanced from John Legend and Common, but pretty close to each other’s aerosols. Hope they had good air circulation. Looks like a big sound stage with a large volume of air.
Meacham annoys me.
PsiFighter37
I wonder how much JLD is improv-ing. If she is, I would tell her to tone it down and follow the script. How many people does she think watched Veep on a subscription channel?
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: For the US single, it was actually Sad Day.
Adam L Silverman
@Mary G: How are you doing with the fires? If you want, I can see if we can connect you with other jackals in neighboring states that might be able to give you a safe place to evacuate to well ahead of time. Just let me know.
James E Powell
@SiubhanDuinne:
All taste is taste.
Baud
@Chacal Charles Calthrop:
In our bubble, we often forget how different the information space in other people’s bubble is.
Betty
@Mary G: Yes, quite pompous.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
I’m loving JLD
zhena gogolia
@SiubhanDuinne:
I made the mistake of watching the Chinese restaurant episode. Agony.
Adam L Silverman
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: I don’t find SNL funny.
Sister Golden Bear
@SiubhanDuinne: Can you fit me in as well. Saw a few episodes and just didn’t get the appeal.
Adam L Silverman
@Anne Laurie: I really need to do that post tomorrow.
Elizabelle
Why does Jon Meacham get all this time?
Albeit, delighted he is on Team Biden.
Baud
@Anne Laurie:
Yes. I didn’t mean to imply that it was insincere. But it was still a choice to emphasize it tonight.
Adam L Silverman
@Raven: The only thing funny about those guys is they don’t realize they’re the joke. Often a dangerous and deadly joke, but a joke nonetheless.
Mary G
I want to move to New Mexico just for the gorgeous jewelry.I
scribbler
I’ve got to disagree with the masses. I love that JLD is taking it to Trump. The jokes are all really harsh, smashing Trump in his face, and I bet that he hates it.
Marcopolo
Deb! I supported her campaign in ‘18. Feels like a lifetime ago. 35th generation New Mexican. Now that is dry humor!
PsiFighter37
@Elizabelle: I would replace JLD with him as moderator. Not a campaign-changing issue, but it’s the first time where the Biden campaign has let control of the narrative – one they fully have control of – get away from them.
Adam L Silverman
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Don’t push it kid.
WaterGirl
@trnc: By “slow” I guess I meant slow in pulling me in, slow in getting to something I waned to watch.
So far tonight I have appreciated John Lewis and Legend and Common, a little bit of a Joe clip, but the rest has mostly left me cold. Tonight is definitely not for me; I hope it’s resonating with someone.
Baud
USPS!
Betty
Happy to see this segment on the post office.
dmsilev
Glad to see that the Post Office fiasco is getting attention here.
Baud
Sarah Cooper!
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Kierkegaard is trending on twitter
so is “Vice President Poonce”
HA!
Amir Khalid
@SiubhanDuinne:
Seinfeld was a sitcom about four irritatingly self-absorbed people. Apparently, its audience found something there to identify with.
dmsilev
OMG! Sarah!
Marcopolo
I like this humor.
Okay, that was the first time I’ve actually heard her lovely real voice. This segment is working for me.
Baud
Nice message. Go Sarah!
cain
Did Ice-T show up there??!
Sarah Cooper!!!
MomSense
Sarah!!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Amir Khalid: are you talking about me?
dmsilev
I’m not sure how I feel hearing her actual voice. Seems wrong somehow.
PsiFighter37
Blaaaaah kill me. What the hell is with the need to try and be funny?? So. Stupid.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
Sarah Cooper for the win!!!!
Adam L Silverman
My childhood babysitter was the first woman, also person, to speak in the “when I cast my first vote” segment. And the last one to speak too.
I’m watching on a delay, I had to hit pause to take the dogs out.
cain
@Amir Khalid:
I think that’s why the last episode irritated everyone – that was the final statement.
Omnes Omnibus
I think Cooper has a real great speaking voice. Far better than the one she uses for her bits.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: We don’t have the fires that they have up in NorCal.
cliosfanboy
@Marcopolo: me too. And I hated Steinfield.
eclare
@PsiFighter37: Agree. So tone-deaf. Is this the end of democracy or open mic night?
WaterGirl
Most of tonight has felt like preaching or whining to me. It’s bringing me down.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I’m guessing we’re supposed to think of “Veep,” not “Seinfeld,” when we see JLD. But we are old.
guachi
The use of Sarah Cooper was very well done. Using Trump’s own words but mocking them as you use them was perfect.
NotMax
@Sister Golden Bear
Couldn’t grok it as well – until something inside clicked which told me to view it as a comedy science fiction series about 12-year-olds forced to survive in adult bodies.
Thenceforth, through that lens, it all came into focus.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@WaterGirl: Yeah, tonight feels kind of choppy.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
I don’t like the emcee joking. Otherwise it’s fine. Not great, but not depressing.
TS (the original)
Interesting evening. Segments definitely for different people. I like this section of voting & the Post
Baud
Booker!
cain
@WaterGirl:
Eh? Example?
Well, if you want we can talk about Cenk.
Anne Laurie
Not gonna look for it right now, but somebody on twitter pointed out that ‘Karen’ was only popular as a given name for a period in the 1960s-1980s. And that the (mostly) men swapping those ‘Karen wants to see the manager’ memes were squarely in the age group to have moms named ‘Karen’.
If it weren’t for You are not the boss of ME!, half the RoseBros and Cosplay Socialists would have no guiding principles whatsodamnedever.
Wag
@Omnes Omnibus: This.
guachi
Though overall it feels like tonight is lots and lots of filler. It’s a 4-part miniseries with only enough material for three parts.
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
I like this first hour better than last night’s.
Omnes Omnibus
I wonder if some people are disappointed with tonight’s proceedings because it’s a bit of an anticlimax because the people they really wanted to hear have spoken already.
Adam L Silverman
@Elizabelle: He has executive style hair.
Doug R
So much kvetching about the jokes. What is this, a convention?
Marcopolo
Corey Booker is who Clinton should have tapped for V.P. That is all.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s not the issue for me.
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus:
I think that’s definitely what’s happening. JLD is the worst emcee, but it’s not that bad.
Yutsano
Booker is killing it!
Baud
It’s possible that in the scramble to make this virtual, certain segments are less polished than others.
Elizabelle
@Omnes Omnibus:
I think that is what is happening. Although — Joe!
Omnes Omnibus
@Marcopolo: Delete your account.
Elizabelle
@Adam L Silverman: ESH.
JCJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
Nicely done!
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: There was a lot of yesterday’s convention that wasn’t the “big” people speaking.
Too churchy for me, too preachy for me, I don’t even care for the way they talked about the post office, and I hated hearing Donald Trump’s voice. Ugh.
This conversation between Joe & this fellow feels canned and insincere tome. 7 minutes to the second hour, hopefully there will be a change then.
PsiFighter37
@Marcopolo: 100% agreed. Honestly, I think he might have been a better VP pick than Harris, but I’m not going to complain.
Raven
@Adam L Silverman: Hence my surprise!
Chetan Murthy
@Anne Laurie: Huh. I thought the first one was “Barbecue Becky”, no? I do agree, that “Karen” has stuck. But it seems pretty anodyne by contrast to the way we all characterize the deplorable males: it starts with Cletus (a pretty blistering insult already) and heads downhill. Not that I’m arguing we shouldn’t: these racist/misogynist/homophobic males deserve every bit of what they get, and then some more.
I’d have thought that limiting it to calling them “Karen” and ridiculing them was actually going easy on them — I mean, that monster Amy Cooper (was that her name? The one in Central Park) is pretty goddamn evil, and it seems to me she got off easy, just being called “Karen” instead of the fucking attempted murderer she actually is.
Ken
I’m still holding out hope for a surprise Republican speaker tonight.
NotMax
@Doug R
And the punch lines are so small!
:)
trnc
@WaterGirl: I agree about the way it started. The schlocky jokes weren’t working for me, but I think it’s getting better.
HumboldtBlue
@James E Powell:
As my mother used to say, “you’r taste is all in your mouth.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Elizabelle: I think a good number of people here are still lukewarm about Joe himself while being very enthused about getting him elected.
Anne Laurie
I’ll have you know I was finding SNL unfunny back in the Phil Hartman / Bill Murray era, whippersnapper.
Cringe humor, I just do not like. Even Christopher Guest — Spinal Tap was fine, for what it was, but his other movies just seem like middle-school kids at the ‘nerd table’ making fun of the ‘short-bus luzers’, in hopes of attracting some positive attention from the Kewl Kidz (like Lord Guest).
Amir Khalid
It’s a good thing My City of Ruins is one of my favourite Springsteen songs. I’m not sure there’s another song that wouldn’t irritate the heck out of me if I kept hearing the same two snippets every couple of minutes.
West of the Cascades
Surgeons general!
tokyocali (formerly tokyo expat)
@WaterGirl: Agree. Last night captured me and I wanted to see everything! I connected. Tonight, I feel more like an observer. Some of it’s good, but it’s not drawing me in like last night. There’s still more to go, so we’ll see how the rest plays out.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Ken:
Okay, that made me laugh.
Marcopolo
For me one of the high points of this format is how it allows so much more “every person” content. I like hearing from regular folks (even though I realize they are probably sorted/ vetted ahead of time). And the absence of the crowd noise makes it a more intimate conversational experience.
Omnes Omnibus
Tammy B!
TS (the original)
The doctor was good
SiubhanDuinne
Dr. Murphy was very impressive!
guachi
Final night should have just been 60 minutes. 15 minutes of intro and 45 minutes of Biden.
Yutsano
Apparently I didn’t miss much when I was iff feeding the dogs.
Tammy Baldwin!
EDIT: that pre-existing story was a powerful one.
PsiFighter37
No JLD for a while. I wonder if they decided to yank her offstage midstream.
Marcopolo
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Mike Pence would really bring down the house if he showed up.
Anne Laurie
I always look forward to your posts, sir!
zhena gogolia
Why is it that “effing” sounds more obscene than the actual word to me?
dmsilev
“And yes, it was a big f’ing deal”
guachi
Gotta admit, I hate when people go to whisper voice to sound impassioned. I hate it.
Omnes Omnibus
@PsiFighter37: No.
Sister Golden Bear
@trnc: I think the jokes are out of sync with the overall tones, but also JLD’s delivery isn’t helping.
If you’re gonna throw cut someone down to size, you need to be cutting. JLD needs to embrace her inner drag queen throwing shade.
TS (the original)
@PsiFighter37: Quick rewrite before her next appearance
Edit: And I now have to refresh the screen every time she appears to get the sound back in sync with the picture
L85NJGT
Trump is pro-Covid.
Fuck that guy.
Jeffro
@HumboldtBlue: I hear you. We were talking about that tonight over dinner… Everything and anything feels like it took place five times as long ago as it really did
Baud
@zhena gogolia: F if I know?
Baud
Here’s your secret Republican.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ken: Here he is.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
okay, the “take’s one to know one” joke was well-timed and funny
Yutsano
Okay now THAT one stuck the landing. I think they are re-writing on the fly.
guachi
Okay, WW II vet is pretty good way to start the ten o’clock hour. Need more of him.
NotMax
@guachi
>
But modern attention spans are—
—ooh, shiny!
//
Elizabelle
I am Edward Good. (Veteran, Republican, NRA member, 95 yo.)
… I think Trump is the worst president we have ever had.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sister Golden Bear: Does everyone have an inner drag queen?
Yutsano
There’s the Republicans segment. Blah.
Elizabelle
Army vet!
Mary G
@Adam L Silverman: Cross your fingers, no fires close to me yet. Only one about 90 miles away that’s 95% contained.
Geologically my town isn’t as susceptible because we have no narrow canyons and passes to compress and accelerate the hot winds. Lots of rich people with very expensive houses around me assure we’ll get resources poor places won’t. I am all set up to go, so I won’t have to, just like it never rains when I have an umbrella. NoCal is a nightmare. Hope all the jackals up there are OK.
Omnes Omnibus
@guachi: Combat jump into Germany. That’s serious shit.
Adam L Silverman
@Sister Golden Bear: I don’t think there’s enough room in that dress for both her and a drag queen.//
Yutsano
This is your segment Leto and Avalune!
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
Edit window got me. Obviously, that’s Dr. Murthy — which is what I originally typed, but apparently Autocorrect didn’t believe me.
trollhattan
@Amir Khalid:
[Raises hand.]
TBF I also watch (and cringe at) “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
WaterGirl
@Yutsano: That’s me tonight. I can go brush my teeth during this one. Now that it’s dark, I can go close the blinds, close the front door, etc. during this part.
NotMax
Glad the WW2 vet has come around to supporting that young whippersnapper Biden.
;)
Ceci n est pas mon nym
There was a lot of party star power last night. After all those rock stars it was kind of inevitable that there’d be a little feeling of anticlimax tonight. Guess they wanted Joe to have the spotlight alone.
zhena gogolia
You guys are really going to get sour when Bloomberg comes on.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
I’m looking forward to Pete.
Adam L Silverman
@Mary G: Alright, just let me know if you need me to put up the Jackal signal.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: I didn’t think he was Irish.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: He looks damn good for 95.
Barbara
@Anne Laurie:
That was funny!
I think, perhaps, that four nights is perhaps just one night too many?
Yutsano
DUCKWORTH!!!
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Operation Varsity.
https://armyhistory.org/operation-varsity-the-last-airborne-deployment-of-world-war-ii/
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Tammy B, Tammy D, Pete, and Joe are pretty good mix.
Marcopolo
Tammy Duckworth is awesome! Since I live in MO I consider her an adopted Senator from across the river.
Interesting VP vetting story that said Biden & his folks liked her but her birth situation was a minus since they didn’t want to face a possible legal challenge.
Elizabelle
This is so perfect, because Trump is the most weasely*, least qualified Commander in Chief we have ever had. He is a joke. He is a coward.
** with apologies to actual weasels, who have a lot more going on. Hyenas too.
JCJ
Tammy Duckworth! Go Thailand!
Baud
Tonight’s segments seem clearly aimed at swing and casual voters, not us.
Jeffro
Whoa – Duckworth going there with ”coward in chief” ?
??????
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: Yep.
zhena gogolia
Tammy rocks!
Elizabelle
Coward in Chief.
Yep. It is what we have.
JB would never let tyrants manipulate him like a puppet.
… unlike Trump, JB has common decency.
Baud
Duckworth was good.
Yutsano
@JCJ: Does she speak Thai? I would love it if she finished her segment that way.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: If casual viewers tune in, it’s for the last night.
Yutsano
Annnd tears.
Elizabelle
@Baud: Yep. And at Republicans that Joe can pick off.
And there may be more than we suspect.
Sister Golden Bear
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes, but they require sufficient quantities of the-higher-the-hair-the-closer-to-God wigs, oversized lashes, glitter, costume jewelry, and stripper heels to come out.
Emma from FL
One question: who pissed on your cornflakes?
Democratic conventions are never going to be tasteful and restrained. There will be folks there you don’t particularly like. We’re a coalition. Live with it.
p.s.add me to the “who said SNL is funny” crowd
West of the Cascades
No one will ever say words like this about Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr.
Omnes Omnibus
Tonight’s onion chopping.
Baud
Pete!
Kay
I find this very endearing about Biden- not that he talks to people, but that you always get the sense he feels incredibly lucky to have his job and just loves it. He’s so old and he’s still like “I can’t believe I’m here! I have really made it!”
It’s great.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sister Golden Bear: That sounds expensive.
guachi
MILITARY!!!!!
I think I sense a theme here.
Sister Golden Bear
@Omnes Omnibus: As St. Dolly said: It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.
gwangung
@Marcopolo: That’s OK. She can be Kamala’s VP.
Baud
“future former Republicans”
Omnes Omnibus
Future former Republicans.
Yutsano
i still think Pete could run for Senate in Indiana. And win.
Elizabelle
@Yutsano: I hope that he will. Senator Pete. Would be great.
guachi
Buttigieg is good at gauzy uplifting speeches like this.
NotMax
Thought Buttigieg is old enough to have learned how to shave by now.
//
Marcopolo
@gwangung: I think she’d make a very credible Sec. Of Defense.
Baud
OMG they got Bernie for this segment.
Yutsano
Test…
Omnes Omnibus
Okay, Booker’s Sanders joke was funny.
Elizabelle
Bernie has a charming smile in this segment.
Jeffro
@Baud: yup…Dems could not be any more behind him, and he’s over the 50% mark nationally. The only folks left are the few disenchanted/weekly attached Republican voters, and occasionally-voting independents
and lord knows young ‘uns aren’t watching this ?
Anne Laurie
Nah. IMO, the big star power people pumped everyone up last night, and it was wonderful. But the earnest nerds deserve their time, too — they’re the ones who made all this possible, and who will keep working through Election Day and beyond. And Joe Biden, of all people, appreciates him some earnest nerds!
HumboldtBlue
Alfred E. Neuman looking motherfucker.
Omnes Omnibus
@Marcopolo: No! No denuding the Senate.
Marcopolo
New thread?
dmsilev
Memo to the Senate: “Joe Biden is Watching You”.
SiubhanDuinne
The folks who were voted off the island on Survivor. This is a good segment!
ETA: Although where the hell are Tulsi and Marianne?
zhena gogolia
Pete spoke very well. I look forward to his further career.
Jeffro
I’m watching this panel and I don’t think neckties are ever coming back
Elizabelle
Everything JRB does becomes the new reasonable. — Andrew Yang.
Anne Laurie
It is what it is. But also, I always wondered if Duckworth really wanted to take on a job as big as VP while her daughter is still so very young. Senator Duckworth is young enough, in political terms, to have other chances in her future.
Baud
@Jeffro:
Pete disagrees!
NotMax
Six Democrats and an old fart.
//
Jeffro
@Jeffro: whoops…”weakly” ?
Omnes Omnibus
That O’Rourke guy could have a good future in politics.
SiubhanDuinne
Bernie has very pink cheeks. He looks like a cockatiel.
satby
@Yutsano: nope.
@Elizabelle: it would be nice, but after living here, I’m sometimes surprised he won South Bend. The red state stupid is strong here.
Baud
Bloomy.
Monala
@SiubhanDuinne: I’m okay with them not being there, but why isn’t Julian Castro part of the group of Dem candidates?
Omnes Omnibus
Fuck this guy.
SiubhanDuinne
Ha! Bloomberg actually made me laugh!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Omnes Omnibus: Sanders’ Booker joke was funnier (and I’m rather cool to both)
OKay: I give Booker major points for saying that choosing not to vote is a gross act, and abuse, of cultural privilege. I still remember an angry Joe Conason column making this point in 2000 about the Bore and Gush crowd.
Elizabelle
@Omnes Omnibus: Not enough vinyl in the background.
Loved that in yesterday’s video.
What does he have? Maybe a lot of T Bone Burnett.
Jeffro
@Baud: he’s outvoted four to one
ugh, Bloomberg.., I better read about some serious Mike Cash dropping for the Dems in next two months in order to justify this
Elizabelle
Bloomboig.
TS (the original)
@Jeffro: Mr TS gave them away in 1970. Had to go to court once in the 1990s & someone in the courthouse gave him a tie to wear. Only time in 50 years.
dmsilev
@Omnes Omnibus: The phrase “put your money where your mouth is” comes to mind for some odd reason.
Yutsano
Why is Bloomberg in Colorado?
guachi
Still don’t know why Bloomberg was giving time in the 10 o’clock hour except if he’s going to attack Trump and drive him crazy.
SiubhanDuinne
@Monala:
Or Gillibrand?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: He looks older than he did before Liz Warren got to him.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jeffro: the arc of the moral universe is long….
ETA: @Yutsano: a “ranch” near Telluride, between Ralph and Oprah? Now that I think of it, I think I have read that he owns a couple of hundred acres near Aspen, bought it from somebody else whose real estate transactions make Page Six
Anne Laurie
Don’t forget the support garments. Really supportive support garments, for some of us!
(I didn’t have a defined waist when I was a size 12, and that was almost fifty years ago… )
Adam L Silverman
@Baud: OMG they got Bernie to comb his hair for this segment.
Baud
@guachi:
Based on the speech, it’s to appeal to small business Republicans and independents.
Gin & Tonic
@Yutsano: Didn’t he buy some super-expensive property there?
zhena gogolia
This is a good speech by Bloomberg.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Beto ?
Omnes Omnibus
Alright, a real billionaire taking it to Trump over business. Still, pony up, motherfucker.
NotMax
@Monala
Or Swalwell. Or Bennet.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
He does look more aged.
Mary G
Bloomberg is actually doing a good job on this speech. Now cough up the cash, Mike.
dmsilev
This is the “I’m an actual billionaire and I have contempt for Trump” speech.
guachi
@zhena gogolia: Yeah. I want to hate it but it’s actually good. A direct attack on Trump.
Marcopolo
So that fly I’m seeing is on Bloomberg’s side of the screen, yes? If so, too funny.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Agree. I think it’s useful for that audience.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Five Democrats, an old fart, and whatever the fuck Yang is politically/ideologically because he’s not a Democrat.
cain
I must admit that Bloomberg is doing good. He’s making a good case to small business. He’s trolling Trump pretty good.
Leto
@?BillinGlendaleCA: He still hasn’t replaced all the blood lost from that night.
Ken
Bloomberg doesn’t have to attack Trump to drive him crazy, merely being successful in a way Trump never managed is enough.
Anne Laurie
Seconded! And I think that’s the voters this night is pitched for — not us cynics, but the people who unironically believe in the American Dream where any kid can grow up to be President. Even the female / non-white / non-straight kids, these days!
Adam L Silverman
@Monala: Maybe they asked him and he didn’t want to be.
cain
@Adam L Silverman:
I am not a Yang fan.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
One thing I’ve been grumpy about this whole convention: the two-camera shoot on so many speakers. I can’t see what is gained by staring at the speaker’s ear for a few seconds every minute or two.
Omnes Omnibus
If Bloomy would have ended by whipping out a check book….
Baud
Stutter segment. Very nice.
Gin & Tonic
@Elizabelle:
Indeed they do.
Elizabelle
Yea Braden.
guachi
THIS KID ROCKS!!!!
HumboldtBlue
I’m crying
dmsilev
Prediction: Trump is going to Tweet something absolutely disgusting about this segment.
Baud
This is the best segment of the night so far.
Yutsano
Where’s Suzanne? Shout out to speech therapy!
Omnes Omnibus
Oh Christ. What a brave kid.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Somebody who’s sentimental and doesn’t have a cold, black piece of anthracite where there heart should be might be moved by this kid. I wouldn’t know any thing about that.
zhena gogolia
Oh, I’m blubbering.
Ken
No, but we haven’t even hit a TBogg unit yet.
Baud
@dmsilev:
Yeah, they’re turning on the signal jammers at the White House right now.
guachi
I saw tweets about this funeral. AWESOME!
HeleninEire
@Baud:
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yes. By a million miles.
Anya
I am standing in my family room clapping for that awesome kid. This was the awesomest moment in the whole convention and there were many moments to choose from.
SiubhanDuinne
Oh, that was amazing. Great kid, powerful message.
Sister Golden Bear
@Anne Laurie: The drag queens’ rule of corsets: If you can complain about how tight it is, you’re still breathing. If you’re still breathing, it ain’t tight enough.
Plus some of my drag queen friends wear four pairs of pantyhose so they don’t have the shave their legs (it takes that many to cover up the hair).
Beauty knows no pain. //
Omnes Omnibus
Grand-daughters….
Mary G
@dmsilev: yep, Braden got me in the feels.
NotMax
Four thumbs up for the kid segment. More power to ya, sonny.
@ Ceci n est pas mon nym
Mining the motherlobe.
;)
Ceci n est pas mon nym
The grandkids can’t get their story straight about the ice cream flavor! Ice Cream Gate!
Sister Golden Bear
@zhena gogolia: Who started chopping onions in my living room?
Anne Laurie
He’s at the stage where he needs the beard shadow to reassure elderly doubters like you that he’s old enough to shave.
Mai naem mobile
Jeezus. I don’t remember getting emotional about any convention. Not even Obama’s. I’ve been running late all day and am listening to this on the radio in a parking lot trying to hide,umm, the dust from the dust storm getting in my eyes lol.
Ken
Possibly a not-so-subtle reminder to a lot of grandparents about why their grandchildren can’t visit?
Omnes Omnibus
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: He likes what they like when he is with them. I’ve watched my father with his grandkids.
Anya
Riley Curry for president
JCJ
@Yutsano:
Yes she does.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Joe Biden and Julia Louis-Dreyfus sneak some ice cream, get busted.
Joe and Julia, it begins. The first shot is total Jackal-bait.
Marcopolo
Steph Curry outside of the bubble! And this adorbs family. You don’t get this in a normal convention.
Ken
The new thread’s up.
Sister Golden Bear
The Curry girls are absolutely adorbs!
Subsole
@Jeffro: I think she’s taking the President’s approval of Russian bounties on our servicepeople a mite personally.
For some reason.
Kropacetic
I haven’t watched tonight, but if John Kerry had good jokes, how bad can JLD’s be?
Anne Laurie
He’s old. When the coronavirus was first peaking, I suspect he did the sensible thing & got the hell out of NYC. And Colorado is, I’m told, lovely at this time of year — Manhattan, not so much.
Adam L Silverman
@Yutsano: My Mom’s an SLP. She tried to SLP him through his speech through the TV.
Marcopolo
So yesterday I realized for the first time that I wouldn’t be sitting in a living room surrounded by friends on election night. Cheering or, as was the case in 2016, mourning. 2020 sucks.
Anya
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: YOU LIE
NotMax
@Ken
Ragga-fragga phones are rendering Tbogg units extinct.
West of the Cascades
I’m liking Hunter being one of the people to introduce Joe. They know next week’s scuzzbag convention will go after him, and they’re like “bring. it. on.”
Anne Laurie
*Ahem. * Fresh post, same topic, up top!
Mary G
Love the Curry family and JLD getting a bit choked up.
Hunter and Ashley are so much classier than the grifter spawn.
MoCA Ace
Yes… Mrs. MoCA and I went to the Rose Bowl in January and we were talking the other day about how it seems like three or four years ago.
COVID time SUCKS!
satby
@Anne Laurie: He’s that very fair skin / very black hair combo that sometimes requires two shaves a day because the five o’clock shadow really shows.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Pro. Jeck. Shun.
Italics added, and…
Kay
I’m glad dumbshit telegraphed Barr’s plans. Gives state Dems and the one or two state Republicans who aren’t sniveling cowards time to block his goons.
MCA1
@Baud: Yes. Based on my experience, a significant portion of the gettable undecided votes out there are country club Republicans or older Republicans just having the scales lifted from their eyes about what their party has become, who were openly expressing that they would happily vote for Bloomberg in the General if he were the Dem nominee. So he’s got some cred with that crowd, for whatever reason.
Anya
Why am I so nervous for Joe? Ugh! Did I internalize Rose Twitter’s bad dishonest attacks?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Kay: what “law enforcement” would he send?
Omnes Omnibus
@Anya: Joe’s got this.
Baud
@Anya:
Yes. And because we freak out at the smallest imperfection.
Anne Laurie
The Repubs would’ve immediately started claiming he was trying to buy votes.
I agree he needs to step up & chip in, like he promised, but *not* tonight.
For one thing, whipping out a checkbook (for a check he never signs) is a Trump podium gesture.
Anya
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I am so glad this comic villain doesn’t have a dog. I feel like he tortured dogs when he was a kid. Who the fuck thinks dogs are treated badly?
Subsole
@Adam L Silverman:
Maybe in some backwards-diagonal mirror-universe where the Libertarian party hadn’t been coopted by plutofeudalists and “ackshully it’s ephebophilia” types, he would be a member.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Anya: he’s not an orator, he’s a chatter. The last couple of months, and this convention, give me confidence that he and his staff know this and they’ve prepared for this moment.
Holy crap! I’ve never heard that story about Joe’s mother threatening to rip “that bonnet” off a nun’s head.
MisterForkbeard
@Anya: I get a little nervous for him sometimes. He’s a good person and a good speaker when he feels strongly, but he also gaffes sometimes.
But on his worst day he’s about as bad as Trump at his best.
NotMax
@West of the Cascades
Could barely detect his Chikrainian accent.
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Subsole
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Breaks up the eye-contact and makes it feel less threatening/uncanny valley.
Adam L Silverman
@Kay: As I predicted on the front page last month.
Subsole
@Sister Golden Bear:
That trick with the hose could look really cool if you layered different patterns…Dear god I bet it’s murder in the summertime, though.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@MisterForkbeard: every Republican president of my political awareness* has been to some degree at war with the English language, even when they had a script, a couple of them. A couple of them got re-elected.
*I have no real independent memory of Ford–only Chevy Chase’s version of Ford– or Nixon– I remember adults talking about Nixon
Sister Golden Bear
@Subsole: Worst show I did was during a heat wave when it was over 90 in SF. On stage it was probably at least 120 (small stage, overly-big stage lights). Thankfully I shaved my legs, so I only had to wear a single pair of hose. But I still think I sweated off five pounds during my number.
NotMax
@Sister Golden Bear
Singing Heat Wave, When You’re Hot, You’re Hot or Steam Heat?
:)
trnc
Wowzer! NICE!
Dan B
@Sister Golden Bear: You got the Saint part right about St. Dolly!
Now we can debate the part about how to address honorary Doctorates….
Dan B
@gwangung: I was reading Sister Golden Bear’s commant about St. Dolly and thought for a moment about a Kamala / Dolly ticket. Or at least my mind inserted Dolly for Tammy Duckworth. Ha! Would be fun for all.
Yutsano
@Dan B: That would be interesting. However you and I both know Dolly would politely decline in the most Dolly way possible.
Sister Golden Bear
@Yutsano: True. But just floating the idea would be a great way to watch heads explode across Redneckistan.
Yutsano
@Sister Golden Bear: It would almost be worth it just to watch Tennessee struggle to go Democratic. But I’m holding out this weird hope for Senator Taylor Swift.
Which reminds me: there was a push about 15 years ago or so to get Tim McGraw to run for the Senate in Louisiana. The thing is he probably would have won and would still be there.
Booger
@dmsilev: Great. Next thing you know we’ll be building Jaegers.
Booger
@Adam L Silverman: All due respect, you should be so lucky.
Uncle Cosmo
Amazing, there are a few folks here I actually have something in common with!
Swinefeld in four words: Repulsive characters behaving reprehensibly.
(Or in more political terms, “Deplorable characters behaving despicably.”)
Uncle Cosmo
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Floriduh’s Founding
FatherFathead, Pence deLoon….taumatugo
@guachi: The DNC had $18 million reasons.