Gilligan’s Island slander!
Dear 2120 historians:
The apocalypse may have cost you some identifying information, so I'm here to help.
Boaters, L-R
Donald Trump
Brad Parscale
Melania Trump
Robert Mercer
Betsy deVos
A Trump voter from a small-town diner who was interviews by 743 reporters
Seb Gorka pic.twitter.com/UlpBQGSgof— Jacob T. Levy (@jtlevy) August 18, 2020
Aaaand part of a longer thread…
Looking forward to the GOP roll call:
ALABAMA: Roy Moore, legally standing a hundred feet outside a mall
ALASKA: Hunters lighting up caribou with AK-47s
ARIZONA: Joe Arpaio licking a taser
ARKANSAS: Tom Cotton smashing a bottle on a bar, daring the camera to fight…
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 19, 2020
NEW HAMPSHIRE: [postponed due to bad weather]
NEW JERSEY: Chris Christie, directing traffic in Fort Lee
NEW MEXICO: Someone insisting that "the wall should have been to the south, please, sir, we're Americans, please"
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 19, 2020
Kent
Please, can we get Clint Eastwood talking to a chair again?
HumboldtBlue
I’m re-watching everyone.
Here’s Senator Professor Warren
Jim, Foolish Literalist
how does anyone do Gilligan’s Island as trump world and not cast Jared as Gilligan?
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
They’re going to play Giuliani’s doctored audio tapes during the convention and scream about Hunter Biden for 4 days, aren’t they?
?BillinGlendaleCA
Copied from downstairs…
There’s the real RNC list of speakers:
I should note, these speakers are for Tuesday through Thursday. Monday will be the Roll Call of the States.
opiejeanne
OT, Anne Laurie, I tried to send you some photos for the Sunday Garden Chat, but I am afraid all three emails bounced. (There are three emails from me because I tried to only send a few in each email)
I sent them all to your gmail account, but maybe you’ve got a new address?
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Well.
Doesn’t that sound exciting.
RaflW
@Kent: That really was more of a sign of things to come than I realized at the time. Strange as it was then.
RaflW
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
That is an incredibly thin list. We’ve heard from three former US presidents.
As I said a little differently in the earlier thread, as much as the Trumpified GOP resents GWB, it also likely burns them up that he avoided 2016 and is in total hiding now.
Anne Laurie
@opiejeanne: Dang! Both annelaurie.bj[at]gmail.com and anne-laurie[at]balloon-juice.com were working this morning…
ETA: I send you a message, at the email attached to your comment. With luck, you can use the ‘reply’ to send your pics!
Mary G
JaySinWA
@J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford: Rudy is supposed to have a big reveal tomorrow (today for some of you) https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1296155509108678656?s=20
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: The other day the wife just blurted out, “everyone around Trump is a white guy”. I was like “yup”. But that list does have some diversity, Haley’s Indian and Tim Scott is Black, but other than that, it’s pretty white bread.
HumboldtBlue
@Mary G:
That’s perfect.
JaySinWA
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Whoa, I missed Nikki Haley from the list. I would have bet she would stay miles away from this. I wonder if they just put up a wish list and not confirmed speakers.
ETA Cotton and Ernst I can see, they are pretty tightly hitched to the wagon so they might has well go for the ride, but Haley’s been keeping a pretty low profile.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@RaflW:
And three former first ladies, our nominees from 1976, 1980, 1992, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016: and three Secretaries of State.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mary G: Heh, this is true, but the ones at the RNC are always b-list musicians.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JaySinWA: Wouldn’t surprise me.
MisterForkbeard
@opiejeanne: They got literally every Republican woman in there! Exciting
ETA: And Tim Scott, so… token minority, y’all!
Calouste
@?BillinGlendaleCA: And, in a certain way, the GOP nominee of 2008. And unless Bob Dole is going to show up at the RNC, that’s one more than will be there.
Calouste
@MisterForkbeard: Well, Herman Cain is dead, so it was either Tim Scott or Ben Carson.
Ruckus
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
It’s the whitest of white bread. The most tasteless, the least nutrition and it falls apart when you pick up the sandwich, which is 2 slices, one piece of tasteless American cheese, a dab of imitation mayo. IOW a navy midrat sandwich. The midrat which comes with a deviled egg and a Twinkie and the Twinkie is the best part.
joel hanes
Open thread?
The mountains on both sides of Silicon Valley are afire, lit in literally hundreds of places by lightning a few nights ago, and now growing and joining. The governments have nothing like the resources required to fight fire on this scale.
Big Basin Park has burned. The mountain communities of Bonny Doon and Felton have fire on their outskirts, and are losing houses. Felton and Boulder Creek and La Honda have evacuated. The Santa Cruz mountain fire is only a mile from the campus of the University of Santa Cruz.
On the other side, part of the front side and the entire back side of Mount Hamilton are burning, and I fear for the observatory. Del Valle regional park is burning.
North of the Bay, an enormous fire is building strength in the hills above the wine country.
These are huge fires, and are pretty much 0% controlled.
The state government has advised everyone in the entire state to make preparations to evacuate if so ordered. We’re filling the gas tanks on the cars, parking nose-out, buying bottled water, and thinking through what belongs in the go bag.
No rain in the forecast — only continued high temperatures.
Trump does not want to send emergency aid to California, because most of us won’t vote for him.
I’ll be glad when 2020 is over.
JaySinWA
@JaySinWA: Scott not Cotton.
@MisterForkbeard: Ok I read Tim Scott and managed to mangle it to Tom Cotton, thinking of rumored 2024 presidential hopefuls. Maybe Cotton is being coy.
Sfinny
The California fire map looks horrifying.
Kent
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Poor Tim Scott. He’s going to be the only non-white face in the entire convention.
MisterForkbeard
@Sfinny: California is pretty horrified by it. :(
John Revolta
@joel hanes: Good luck buddy. Damn.
opiejeanne
@Anne Laurie: I think they went through this time. I used the gmail address, so let me know if you see them. Thanks.
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I expected him to have a couple of tokens that his handlers insisted on, but it’s a really dull group of speakers and I think I’ll be busy washing my hair every night, so darn.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: Come on, everyone loves to watch a train wreck.
opiejeanne
@joel hanes: Where in California are you?
I’m having waking nightmares now, remembering the firestorm in Paradise (Camp Fire), the firestorm in Oakland in 1991, the one Julian ,San Diego County 2003, the Old Fire in 2003 (San Bernardino Mountains, Lake Arrowhead, Crestline, et).
We sold the cabin in Blue Jay a year ago because I decided I was too old to sift through the ashes of a place I love, because I know that the next time that mountain catches fire, they won’t be able to save the town, let alone a cabin 800 feet from town.
opiejeanne
@MisterForkbeard: Even though I don’t live there any more, I feel like crying. It will always be home to me. I lived there for 60 years, 51 of them in SoCal, and I still love California.
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You might almost persuade me with that, but I figure I’ll catch the highlights (lowlights) the next day.
Frankensteinbeck
@J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford:
That has not occurred to me, but the odds a doctored video tape is played at the RNC are pretty high, aren’t they? Trump loves them, which means he believes them, and why wouldn’t they? There’s nothing to stop them.
@Mary G:
Dang, that also did not occur to me. I need to listen to some of last night’s singer. Professionally, I need to know who/what is currently popular.
@JaySinWA:
Yay. I’m sure Rudy will produce another idiotic flop.
@JaySinWA:
Listing unconfirmed speakers would be typical. Trump has done it before.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@JaySinWA: They found Al Capone’s vault!
oh wait…
Aleta
@joel hanes: grief
NotMax
To pull in the Hamilton crowd, Melania will perform a rap number, Mega MAGA Man, composed by “Biggie J” Kushner, while she’s dressed as Susan B. Anthony.
Then in a surprise segment Dolt 45 will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, with Extreme Super Bestest Distinction, to…
…himself.
Luciamia
@RaflW: okay, I’m blanking. Clinton, Obama…was it Carter?
joel hanes
@opiejeanne:
Santa Clara, in Silicon Valley, out in the flats west of San Jose and SE of Sunnyvale.
Been making lists, trying to figure out where to jump to if I have to evacuate my family (three households).
I’m now thinking Pismo Beach: unlikely to burn, outside the fire areas, there’s a way to get there that isn’t much threatened by the fires, many motels, reasonable temperatures, a beach where we can get some socially-distanced time together.
The Sacramento Bee has the best overview (probably paywalled; I’m a subscriber)
joel hanes
@Aleta:
yeah
it’s been that kind of year
NotMax
@Luciamia
Yuppers. Jimmy and Roz, together, were heard from.
NotMax
@NotMax
And to top off the final evening of festivities there will be a massive paper towel drop.
opiejeanne
@Joel hanes: Yikes! I know about where you are. I lived for 9 years in Castro Valley and worked a couple of years in Silicon Valley. I hope you can be safe and don’t lose anything or anybody.
The reply buttons aren’t working for me, but it’s probably a glitch on my end. My Mac has been acting up since this morning when Apple did an upgrade of some sort. This site looks a little off, as do several others.
And I see that BJ doesn’t remember me, so probably none of my passwords will work on other sites. Drat.
Van Buren
@opiejeanne: In August of 1969, when I was 7, my family spent a week at a campground in Blue Jay, just before my father was scheduled to go Vietnam. As it happened, in September, he needed an appendectomy and didn’t make it overseas until December.
Had not thought about that vacation in a long time, but the name immediately rung a bell.
opiejeanne
@Van Buren: Was it a place with a lodge and a bunch of little cabins? Because that property was for sale a couple of years ago. The lodge and cabins are long gone, the foundations are still there, but the property was about 40 acres IIRC, and the price was kind of a bargain.
opiejeanne
@NotMax: Paper towels will burn nicely.
opiejeanne
@RaflW: It would be kind of amusing if W endorsed Biden. Can you imagine the orange outrage?
JPL
@opiejeanne: It would not surprise me at all and if that happened, the current president would tweet in all caps until election day.
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@Ruckus: you got Twinkies! Wow
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@joel hanes: can you get a hotel reservation in Pismo Beach now if you give them a deposit? I m just remembering what happens outside the danger zone around here when we have a natural disaster…the hurricane had hotels jacking up prices after the storm passed.
Anne Laurie
@opiejeanne: Got all three sets — thanks!
opiejeanne
@Anne Laurie: Yay!
Ken
@JPL: He’s already doing that. Maybe he’ll start using more exclamation marks – as Terry Pratchett said, a sure sign of a diseased mind.
opiejeanne
@Ken: I dislike Bryan Williams but tonight he expressed extreme disgust that while Obama was speaking, Trump was tweeting in all-caps. He emphasized “while President Obama was speaking tonight“.
He also expressed annoyance at an article in the FTFNYT by Peter Baker that disingenuously tried to pretend that Obama’s speech was about how much he has at stake, how much Obama’s legacy would be destroyed, as if Obama was that shallow. As if Obama wasn’t raising the alarm for the loss of our country and the end of democracy.
Van Buren
@opiejeanne: Yes, that sound right
WaterGirl
@joel hanes: When I read earlier that the entire state ha been told to make preparations to evacuate, I hoped that someone had gotten that wrong.
That’s mind-boggling and scary as hell.
With how fast things are moving, is a California check-in thread helpful every day? Every few days? Just once was enough?
WaterGirl
@opiejeanne: You might want to check to see what was upgraded this morning – the operating system? small updates? an update to Safari?
WaterGirl
@opiejeanne: Isn’t there supposed to be a surprise Republican endorsing Biden tonight? Or do I have that wrong?
artem1s
@opiejeanne:
wonder if he will say the same about Rudy – a noun, a verb, 9/11
artem1s
@opiejeanne:
F W and his scummy SCOTUS appointments. I still can’t believe Lewis’ family let Skippy McDumbass anywhere near the funeral as he is directly responsible for destroying the Voting Rights Act pre-clearance rule and the Bush Crime Family let Karl Rove run amuck with gerrymandering, rigging voting machines, and voter suppression in every state in the union.
leeleeFL
@artem1s: That was a Joe Biden tour de force! I said at the time…..”Let us Savor!” Sooooo delicious!
Also, Sen. Warren is a favorite of mine, always, but she won my Grandma heart in that video with her Aunt Bee! My Mom was my Aunt Bee for a while and it made it possible for me to end a bad marriage and start a different life.
leeleeFL
@artem1s: There will be a special place in hell for W, Cheney, Rove, Alberto and their band of merry destroyers. Not sure they could turn anyone around anyway….decent Republicans ( I know, I know ) are already with us and the others are totally in the bag for tRump.