Look up what’s trending now on #ProudBoys. You’re welcome, Internet.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 3, 2020
Mr. Takei outed the Nazis, and his followers responded in… kindness!
Taking over #ProudBoys https://t.co/d2bHLmCEtc pic.twitter.com/sTWXDRcY7F
— Eric Alper ? (@ThatEricAlper) October 4, 2020
#ProudBoys
Bless you @GeorgeTakei https://t.co/D7J77QzwYQ— Lincoln's Bible (@LincolnsBible) October 4, 2020
Fantastic, I love this. #ProudBoys https://t.co/ZKB1CgPQC7
— kristen johnston (@thekjohnston) October 4, 2020
members of our government saluting the only #ProudBoys that count at Montreal Pride. ?? (Elizabeth May ftw here)
thank you George Takei. allies unite and share this hashtag! pic.twitter.com/l2FziHHypd
— Lise C (@liseski) October 4, 2020
It just dawned on me, that when trump's always playing 'YMCA' at his rallies…it's actually a dog whistle to the #ProudBoys! Holy schnike! ? pic.twitter.com/TXHG1qU97E
— TWILIGHT ZONE dm 4 your secret ANTIFA decoder BLM! (@TheGreatMueller) October 4, 2020
Cream of the jest, she said piously, is that those cosplay Nazis supposedly sign a pact against masturbation…
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
Let’s all wish President Trump a speedy recovery, among other things…
Omnes Omnibus
I’ll just note that, in the first tweet, only one set of guys looked like they were in good shape. And it was not the Nazis.
Patricia Kayden
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Physical fitness is probably the easiest and G-rated way to tell the groups apart.
Ken
Of course the gays could take over the hashtag. They outnumber the Nazis ten to one.
prostratedragon
That’s how to do it — flood ’em out.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman):
Well said!
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Just in case you didn’t see my reply from downstairs:
Ken
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman): Chins, too. There was a cartoon/meme about that (caption “Why don’t any of the master race have chins”) but I didn’t find it in a quick google.
dmsilev
@Patricia Kayden: Charles Grassley has ‘refused to get tested’. Take that for whatever it’s worth.
JaySinWA
Posted below but fits better here, homophobia does one in:
In West by God Virginia a house delegate resigns to spend time with his family after Facebook group membership exposed:
Referenced article
Omnes Omnibus
@Goku (Amerikan Baka): I left a reply below.
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Ken:
Here you go!
Ken
@Goku (Amerikan Baka): Exactly the one! Thanks!
Omnes Omnibus
@dmsilev: When I was in college, I sometimes refused to balance my checkbook because that way I couldn’t be out of money.*
*The bursar’s office still cashed my checks and, I think, added it to my parents’ bill.
Ken
@JaySinWA: I’m not sure he’ll be spending more time with his family. In the twitter responses, one person posts a screenshot where Mandt says his daughter doesn’t think he’ll be elected because of his anti-gay stance, and “When family turns on you they aren’t family.” Charming fellow.
sanjeevs
https://mobile.twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1312586170325495809
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Thanks for the advice. Your observations are spot on if I’m being honest. I’ll try to keep it in mind going forward
The Thin Black Duke
@Goku (Amerikan Baka): Don’t sweat it, dude. I’m glad you’re here and I appreciate your comments.
NotMax
Pot roast in the Instant Pot and start button pressed. Using directions found somewhere online for cooking it when frozen. Trying a variation for pot roast which includes ¼ cup of horseradish.
Was going to make potato pancakes to go with it but it’s too darn hot to go potchkying around in the kitchen.
JaySinWA
@Ken: Okay the article quote was a different phrasing
Focus on his family is a little different than spending time with them. It appears that his daughter may not welcome his attention.
RaflW
I enjoyed a little trip thru twitter to see lots of very, very proud boys, men, kweens and so on. Lovely!
And, since this is an open thread (and maybe this is old news around here, I was offline for 4.5 hours – woah). Texas A.G. Paxton has had some very serious allegations lodged against him, it seems.
Jay-zuz, not having lived in TX for 25 years now, I didn’t know the bastard has also had pending felony securities fraud charges against him for five fuckin years. So glad I don’t live there any more.
Tim Now Sir Simon Poshlord
Punch Nazis, or Make Fun of Nazis?
Which is more fun?
Follow yr heart.
In
BigJimSlade
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
dmsilev
@Omnes Omnibus: Ah, quantum financial management, aka Schrodinger’s Checkbook.
Omnes Omnibus
This sort of fits here.
Thor Heyerdahl
@JaySinWA: File this under “I didn’t think I’d get caught, so I’m under attack.”
Kay
Wouldn’t it be great if the DOJ lawyers who invented a crime to please Dear Leader got fired for this campaign stunt they pulled? Remember when people used to get fired for garbage work? What happened to that?
We should start that again. Quality is really suffering with these incredibly low standards, where nothing is ever a firing offense.
Kent
I’m a little out of tough with PA election news. But according to the recent PA Supreme court ruling wouldn’t these ballots have been considered “naked ballots” as they were in unmarked envelopes, and therefore, weren’t they actually REQUIRED to be thrown out?
Kay
Pathetically desperate to remain in power. We all have to make sure and vote and get rid of these people. As bad as it is now, they’ll get worse.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Golly, I missed that episode of Austin City Limits. Nice.
JaySinWA
@Thor Heyerdahl: I don’t think he feared being caught. I think he is shocked that this blew up on him, and he fears the repercussions. I doubt it crossed his mind that this was going to amount to anything. Suddenly it did. Of course he was trying to keep it within a circle of like minded people, so in a sense he new it was a problem, but he expected his party to support him as this leaked out.
ETA he was living in a bubble and thought people like his daughter were outliers.
Kay
I was thinking today that even if we win Melania will do the Christmas decorations again. So that’ll be awkward, knowing as we do now that she resents the work and doesn’t want to do it. I for one think she shouldn’t have to. Just hire someone for that, right? I’m sure they’ll be fine decorations. I bet people would volunteer “I’d be honored” Great! Have at it. We’ll just have to muddle through somehow, even without the red trees or scary hall of mirrors.
Steeplejack (phone)
Somebody was hungering for this information earlier.
MisterForkbeard
@NotMax: We just started trying a new variation on this in the slow cooker: sliced pepperoncinis with the pot roast, some water or broth with onion and some pre-packed ranch and au jus seasonings. Really good, actually.
Mai Naem mobile
@Patricia Kayden: well, some people are making comments about Chuck Grassley refusing to take a test. I mean I don’t know anything about it. I just saw some people talking about it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Kay: he’s relentlessly signing a blank piece of paper cause he can’t even fake doing the work
Mai Naem mobile
@Steeplejack (phone): dumbass CJ John Roberts was there maskless – as were the Scalias. I hope the Scalias don’t socialize with the liberal justices. I did not have praying for Roberts to be okay on my 2020 Prayer Bingo Card.
Kay
More potential victims of the Trumps. They basically invaded Cleveland. There will perhaps be casualties.
HumboldtBlue
Jaime Harrison: so, the first step in terms of working with the other side is not to call the other side nuts.
Ken
@Kay: You think Melania will still be in the White House after Trump loses? I’m betting she’s back with her parents, and the only reason I think she won’t have already filed for divorce is the pre-nup doesn’t allow it.
Original Lee
First BTS, now Gay Pride! The douche-Nazis are definitely getting humiliated from all different directions!
Found out today that a neighbor who had a “mild” case of COVID-19 has had his sense of taste skewed since he got it back, and he’s depressed because half of his favorite food tastes terrible. Dishes with garlic and/or onion in them taste like dirty sweat socks. He is hoping things will return to normal eventually.
Ken
@Kay: They were at the hotel several hours before the debate, and still arrived late to the debate? “Stuck in traffic” does not apply to the president, so the late arrival almost had to be deliberate.
gwangung
@Steeplejack (phone): Why am I not surprised these people are not good with personal security?
Ruckus
@dmsilev:
If he doesn’t get tested he can’t die of covid. Which would mean who the hell knows what at the end of the day. I’ve given up trying to make any logical sense of republican views/bullshit. They sure have.
Kay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I loved how we all had to pretend the nation would grind to a halt in his absence. There might be a noticeable drop in revenue at his golf courses now that we’re not footing an inflated tab for this weekend, but that’s about it. Slightly fewer lies were told, although the team made a good effort to fill in for him there. No can match his lie volume, of course.
JaySinWA
@Ken: I don’t get the Melania divorce talk. She’s riding the tiger and doesn’t dare dismount. There’s no money there, and I’m not sure there’s another sugar daddy at the end of the line. Sure, she hates him but they were kind of made for eachother. Grifters both.
Kay
@Ken:
I disagree with the conventional wisdom on Melania. I think they’re a perfect match. She’s exactly like him. In the tape her best friend made of their conversations – apparently just standard behavior in Trumpworld, secretly taping friends and family members- she mentions the children her husband put in cages and then blames Obama. It’s like listening to him. They’re made for each other.
MisterForkbeard
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Its not even a blank piece of paper. It’s a folder/sectional divider for a 3 rong binder. See the red tab on the side?
What clowns. Can’t even propaganda right.
JaySinWA
@Kay: Jinx
dmsilev
@Ruckus: Trump spent months claiming that the US was doing too much testing, and that the only reason we had so many cases was that we did too many tests. I guess Grassley is just showing his allegiance to Dear Leader.
Another Scott
@dmsilev: If he’s tested and positive, then he won’t be able to sit in the Judiciary hearings for Amy Covid Barrett.
Moscow Mitch is trying to say that they’ll have virtual hearings, but the Democrats are saying Nuh-Uh, let’s do the sensible thing and wait at least a couple of weeks when people aren’t spewing a deadly virus to have a hearing for a lifetime appointment for the SCOTUS…
Cheers,
Scott.
HumboldtBlue
JaySinWA
@Another Scott: COVID gets a vote as well, one or more R’s may be too sick to participate, even virtually.
smike
@RaflW:
Yeah, I still live there and I must say that I heartily approve of his cohorts’ actions. Imagine how bad it must be for them to do so. Scha-de-licious.
ETA stuff
Mai Naem mobile
@dmsilev: I can’t make out Grassley at the WH event, not that the pics are super clear when you zoom in. C. Boyden Grey was sitting right behind Kelly Anne and he looks ancient. Kind of surprised to see him invited, being a Bush guy.
Jay
As fall and winter hit, people will once again, die in hallways or alone at home.
Jay
Mary G
Maggie wants voters to find out when Twitler got the ‘Rona? Isn’t that her job?
Jay
Punchy
@Jay: 7 kids? And I thought my uber Catholic sis’ 5 kids were excessive. Roe v. Wade is gone-zo….likely, so is gay marriage, birth control, and the color pink.
Jay
ICE has gone full Klu Klux Klan.
RaflW
BTW, an aviation reporter I follow just pointed out that the two different photos the WH put out this evening, one with white cabinets and Trump in a jacket, and one with stained wood cabinets and Trump in shirt sleeves, show in the EXIF data embed that they were taken 10 minutes apart.
Jay
@Punchy:
yeah, my Evangelical bro has 5, too many, and feral.
other than 1, (spectrum) all nasty pos.
fake Christians.
Jay
NotMax
Just for the record, pot roast turned out really tasty. Now Instant Potting baby potatoes in the cooking broth; couldn’t wait for those to be done before sampling the meat.
Steeplejack (phone)
@RaflW:
Got a link? I’m seeing chatter about pictures on Twitter and Instagram, etc., having EXIF data scrubbed automatically. People are trying to find other sources for the original photos.
Steeplejack (phone)
@NotMax:
Sounds good.
Jay
Redshift
@Steeplejack (phone): I’d be interested to know about the videos. Based on these guys’ track record, I would not be at all surprised if Trump’s “I’m feeling much better” video today was recorded before he left the White House.
Jay
@NotMax:
pot roast,…….mmmmmmm
JaySinWA
@Steeplejack (phone):
The photos released by the WH tonight of the president working at Walter Reed were taken 10 minutes apart at 5:25:59 pm and 5:35:40 pm ET Saturday, according to the EXIF data embedded in both @AP wire postings that were shared by the White House this evening. pic.twitter.com/EzeqIkGdf7— Jon Ostrower (@jonostrower) October 4, 2020
Steeplejack (phone)
@Jay:
Ha! Good one.
Redshift
@Kent: I do recall one article saying that the whole situation was arguably caused by GOP lawsuits about absentee ballot procedures, but I don’t remember the details.
Jay
Calouste
Pompeo is cutting short a trip in Asia, that he’s only leaving for today. Apparently he wants to be back in time to attend the shitgibbon’s miraculous recovery.
HumboldtBlue
@Jay:
Damn.
Elsewhere, I was watching soccer highlights and I ended up here. Tank!
Mai Naem mobile
@JaySinWA: I know Walter Reed is an old hospital but 1/ i thought it was recently remodeled and 2/ I just don’t believe Walter Reed’s cabinets would be wood -even in the presidential wing. For sanitary reasons wouldn’t they be laminate?
Jay
Steeplejack (phone)
@HumboldtBlue:
Never get tired of that.
HumboldtBlue
@Steeplejack (phone):
Nope.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Pots are delicious.
Sister Golden Bear
@Ken:
Here ya go
NotMax
@Sister Golden Bear
Supply was depleted. Mussolini had cornered the market on chin.
;)
Morzer
@Jay: Amy Covid Barista really does seem to have that magic Trump touch doesn’t she? #ETTD
rikyrah
@Patricia Kayden:
Yes, they are lying
rikyrah
@NotMax:
Tell us how it turns out
rikyrah
@Kay:
No lie told???
rikyrah
@Kay:
Her decorations have been horrible?
NotMax
@rikyrah
Quite satisfied with the result. Enough so that am currently cooking the second hunk o’ beef in the same broth (pot roast comes in two-packs at Costco).
Hilfy
@Punchy: Amy Barretts has five natural born children. She and spouse adopted two children from Haiti.
rikyrah
@NotMax:
Thanks for the update.
How long did it take?
RaflW
@HumboldtBlue: Saw a couple clips tonight. Harrison is very impressive!
I kinda want to see Lindsey’s pathetic responses, tho.
NotMax
@rikyrah – @NotMax
Only negative (and that so slight as to be hardly worthy of mention) is that since the meat is unthawed it cannot really be seared before cooking.
prostratedragon
@HumboldtBlue: Combined with the anniversaries of the Wilson stroke and the Mocking of Hillary yesterday it’s enough to make a person hedge a bit.
TS (the original)
@Steeplejack (phone):
I’m so old I can remember the GOP members screaming for President Obama to display the White House visitor logs.
But – they are some interesting pictures and information on who was at the event. I hope they are all having panic attacks.
NotMax
@rikyrah
2½ pound roast got an hour and ten minutes at pressure (would have been 50 minutes if thawed).
Martin
@MisterForkbeard: The red tab is a ‘sign here’ flag. Trust me – I see a zillion of them.
That said, you only put those on a paper where it’s unclear where to sign – not on an obviously blank piece of paper.
rikyrah
TS (the original)
@Punchy:
Get rid of birth control & we’re back to the 19th century when every woman had a dozen or more children and died having the last one.
This is what they want.
rikyrah
Where is Barr?
What about John Roberts?
MagdaInBlack
@rikyrah: That it was deliberate has been my thought all day.
rikyrah
rikyrah
MagdaInBlack
@TS (the original): Quiverfull: Psalm 127: 3-5
rikyrah
Mike S
I saw the term “cosplaitriots” and now I don’t use anything else to describe them.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@HumboldtBlue: Hush. You’re giving away our secret cabal’s super secret strategery for secretly taking over the world. It’s a SECRET.
Sab
@rikyrah: I live near Cleveland and have a degree from CWRU, and I am furious with Cleveland Clinic and CWRU higher ups who thought that it was a good idea to bring this people into town. They spread disease wherever they go. Why did the Clinic and Case think that this time would be different?
mrmoshpotato
@Mike S: I’ve always been partial to calling them White Supremacist Nazi Trash myself.
prostratedragon
Hardly shocking considering this group, but certainly appalling:
rikyrah
Chunk the Groundhog has helped me through this Pandemic. Watching the videos of him and his friends ?
https://youtu.be/PkQz1lHsqiM
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah: Nom nom nom. Thanks.
eclare
@rikyrah: Very cute!
HumboldtBlue
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
It wasn’t me!
I can’t even kibbitz.
TS (the original)
@MagdaInBlack:
One of my gg grandmothers had 15 children. She died having the 16th & at the inquest everyone said – ” She had all the rest so easily, we didn’t expect this to happen”
NorthLeft12
@sanjeevs: What the hell is a bodyman?
I am getting a weird Baron Von Harkkonen vibe.
Ohio Mom
NorthLeft12: I am assuming that “bodyman” is the Americanized version of “personal valet.” Which all presidents have.
I heard Michelle Obama talk about Batak’s. All I remember is that this fellow took care of the president’s wardrobe, laying out the day’s clothes, taking care of laundry, etc.
But I imagine it is also things like supplying towels at the excercise machines, water at the podium, etc.
Michelle described this position’s purpose as ensuring the President can concentrate fully on his job. No wandering around the kitchen wondering What am looking for again? for the president.
Kropacetic
And if the other side is nuts?
I guess suck it up, buttercup, and play nice.
Uncle Cosmo
@JaySinWA: He “resigned” from a legislative body that’s been out of session since March, and “suspended his campaign” for re-election less than a month before the general. How much you wanna bet he wins next month & slides back into his seat next January as if nothing had happened? Because in Thugworld, nothing really did happen except he pissed off a bunch of f****ts and f****t-enablers, and that doesn’t count, amirite?//
evodevo
@Patricia Kayden: Given the constant atmosphere of terror the WH staff works under, I would not doubt it….plus there is the fact that they DON’T test everyone every day…it’s done randomly with a testing regime that gives a lot of false results…so….
debbie
Now this is something that restores my faith in humanity. Thank you, Mr. Takai.
Uncle Cosmo
@Ken: IMO there are three things the All-White House hopes to hide from the US electorate:
IMO revelation of #3 is the (you should pardon the expression) killer for his reelection chances. And TBH I think it’s only a matter of time. Maybe that’s what Rick Wilson was tweeting ominously about last night.
debbie
@Uncle Cosmo:
Imagine being so callous as to disregard sickening your own donors. Fuck your gravy train!
Ian
@Another Scott: I don’t claim to be a senate parliamentarian, but for what I recall senate committee meetings can be held in remote. Grassley could be sick as all hell and still get Barrett out of the judicial committee. It is the full senate vote that requires in person voting. We would need 8 Republican senators out sick.
Furthermore, I believe these are rules of the senate, which if Mitch McConnell cruelly finds bothersome he will vote to change without losing a moment of sleep
*edit- truly, not cruelly. My computer knows what I’m thinking better than my fingers.
Betty
@Kay: Chris Wallace reported that they came too late to the debate to be tested as required. This needs some follow-up since it appears they were in town.
J R in WV
@Mai Naem mobile:
That too. But just look at the other furnishings, carpet, drapery, stuff you can’t sanitize without tearing it out first. Someone with no idea of how to finish a space that must be sterile at all times picked out the whole suite furnishings. Someone who never spent any time at a hospital at all. A political Hack, in other words.
Actually, I think wood is more sanitary than plastics, naturally anti-microbial in many cases. I know that’s true of cutting boards, wood is safer than plastic.
debbie
@J R in WV:
FWIW, Clorox and Lysol wipes’ instructions include that they can be used on wood surfaces. Not that I intend to do something that might mess up my furniture.
MagdaInBlack
@NorthLeft12: In my world, a “body man” is a “collision repair technician”……the one who repairs the damage when you have wreck your car.
brantl
@Mai Naem mobile: I think, ironically that the only liberal justice to socialize with the Scalias would have been Ginsberg.
brantl
@J R in WV:
Um, no, wood isn’t as its porous, and bacteria are harbored in the pores. They use bleach on wooden cutting boards, in commercial kitchens.
KrackenJack
@HumboldtBlue:
Clearly he angered the God of the Old Testament. Too bad.