Biden’s cabinet picks went to Ivy League schools,have strong resumes,attend all the right conferences & will be polite & orderly caretakers of America’s decline
I support American greatness
And I have no interest in returning to the “normal” that left us dependent on China
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 24, 2020
Open thread.
DCrefugee
Only in Marco Rubio’s mind is Marco Rubio presidential.
Gin & Tonic
What a putz.
dr. bloor
Quelle surprise. The sooner and more often the grifting nihilists announce their plans to sabotage the next administration, the better.
russell
Piss up a rope, Marco
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
Has Rubio joined Rose Twitter?
Baud
We were forewarned.
dmsilev
Was Marco Rubio in a dehydration-induced coma these past four years? Has he not seen Trump’s Cabinet?
MattF
Took a moment to figure out what `lil Mario was going on about. But then, my Ivy League education kicked in and I got the picture.
dmsilev
@Baud: Every generation has its Cassandra.
Baud
@MattF:
He’s talking about running in 2024, where he’ll flame out again.
randy khan
Leaving aside that he’s obviously wrong, did he really prefer the rude and chaotic active participants in America’s steep decline?
Chyron HR
Oh no, RESUMES!
dm
I will always treasure that scene in which Chris Christie educated Rubio in the debates.
Shakti
@dmsilev: Rubio is thirsty in all the wrong ways.
He’s probably happy he wasn’t up for reelection this year as the junior senator from Florida.
dmsilev
While the Dow is hardly a good measure of the stock market, never mind the actual economy, Trump seems to think it’s a crucial grade on his Presidency. Therefore, I hope someone shows him this headline: Dow cracks 30,000 as transition begins
Baud
Then why haven’t you resigned?
Baud
@Chyron HR:
STRONG RESUMES!!!
Benw
@Baud: lol flame implies burning brightly at some point, more likely he’ll wash out next time he gets a glass of water….
TaMara (HFG)
Pennsylvania certified. And Tapper dropped this tidbit.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I am consistently bad at predicting what the Republicans will do in their primaries, nonetheless, I am confident that Marco, who the other day was complaining about the media being unfair to Republicans, has peaked. In fact, I think he may lose the 22 Senate primary to either Matt Gaetz or Don Jr. I don’t know which of those scenarios (scenarii?) is the more revolting. And I hope the Dems have their eye on a candidate. Val Demmings? Gwen Graham?
RandomMonster
That’s rich.
Chyron HR
@Baud:
BRINKS TRUCKS FULL OF RESUMES
Backing
the
fuck
UP
columbusqueen
Boy, lil’ Marco really wants to beat Ted Cruz for Asshole of the Year award, doesn’t he?
Eric S.
@dmsilev: How’d we end up with 70M+ Cassandras?
Baud
@TaMara (HFG):
Or a lot of Trump voters who didn’t vote down ballot?
We need to see vote totals, not just the difference.
trollhattan
Jesus Christ, Rubio, your main task here is not to make us nostalgic for the logical prowess of Donald J. Trump. And yet, somehow….
debbie
@DCrefugee:
Different day, different ass to kiss.
Jeffro
@Gin & Tonic:
Rubio would prefer what, that a brain surgeon be put in charge of Housing & Urban Development?
TaMara (HFG)
@Baud: Please forward all such questions to Jake Tapper @jaketapper
?
Seriously, though, would love to know that answer.
Bluegirlfromwyo
Since Marco’s concerned about China being part of the new normal, maybe he should get his happy butt off Twitter and have a Wal-Mart chat with his Made in China buying constituency. Oh, wait, that would require actual work.
West of the Rockies
@Baud:
I’m always a bit baffled at the number of would-be presidents who overestimate their charisma, intelligence, gravitas, and appeal. Piggy Pompeo, Cruz, Rubio, et al.
JustRuss
Hmmm, well-educated with solid resumes? Clearly those cabinet picks are too prepared.
Matt McIrvin
The US right seems to be openly courting “antiwar” isolationist progressives now, and some are taking the bait. The branding of the Democrats as the party that was somehow in control during the George W. Bush administration is complete. I’m not sure what to do about it.
dmsilev
@Eric S.: Cloning.
Amir Khalid
I hadn’t heard a peep from Marco Rubio since he showed himself to be such a lightweight in the 2016 presidential race. What’s he been up to these past four years?
Betty Cracker
@dm: Thank you for reminding me of that — I’d forgotten how Christie curb-stomped that smarmy little fuck-nugget. Well done, Christie! :)
zhena gogolia
@West of the Rockies:
I was astonished to find myself arguing the other day that Pence has Pompeo soundly beat in the charisma department, but there it is.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Why would we want to do anything about it?
azlib
@Baud:
Is this a tell as to what will happen in Georgia? If Trump only voters stay home, it is really bad for the Republicans.
Yarrow
@Amir Khalid: He regularly tweets Bible verses. Other than that, who knows.
RedDirtGirl
What a tool.
p.a.
R Stone front group urging Georgians to write in tRump.???. Of course I want the Dems to gain the Senate, but in a better world I would soooo love to see tRump as part of Yertle’s caucus with Ds in majority. (Honestly think he would refuse to serve without the Presidential pomp.)
zzyzx
Between PA/MI certifying and cutting off any long shot insanity hopes and the vaccines coming, even though things look so bleak right now (WA had its worst numbers by FAR yesterday), I’m starting to look at plans for late summer…
Yarrow
The “American greatness” line is a nod to the MAGA hordes. He’s making an attempt to show he’s on their team while still trying to appear “reasonable.” He’s going to be tossed under the wheels of the Q/Parler/TrumpRepublican bus before he knows what happened.
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: God, I hope you’re right about Rubio peaking. I hate Rubio more than I hate Rick Scott, even though I know Scott is a far more evil and competent (and therefore, dangerous) opponent. My contempt for Rubio turned to pure loathing when he used the Pulse nightclub shooting as an excuse to jump back in the senatorial race after washing out of the presidential primary. The blood hadn’t even dried on the floor. It was one of the most breathtakingly cynical things I’ve ever heard in my life.
Uncle Cosmo
Li’l Micro Rubio isn’t qualified to vacuum the Oval Office, much less occupy it. Even if you spotted him the latest model Roomba.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@azlib:
apparently, the “write-in trump!” campaign on Parler is real, though it’s often hard for me to tell what’s parody on their side. I’d be all in on some Dem rat-fucker promoting a “Sharpies for trump!” campaign
(yes, I know Fugelsang’s not sincere here, but I think it really is a thing on their side)
Eric S.
@dmsilev: Science has failed us again. /snark
germy
Who will Lindsey Graham attach to next?
SFAW
@Jeffro:
Rubio would prefer what, that a brain surgeon be put in charge of Housing & Urban Development?
Libtard! He wants a rocket surgeon.
Amir Khalid
@Uncle Cosmo:
I imagine Li’l Marco riding the Roomba around the room, just like a cat.
Kent
So I actually looked them all up. A pretty good mix from around the country.
Avril Haines – University of Chicago (Theoretical Physics) Georgetown Law School
Alejandro Mayorkas – UC Berkeley undergrad, Loyola Marymount (Los Angeles) Law School
Antony Blinkin – Harvard, Columbia Law School
Linda Thomas-Greenfield – LSU undergrad, UW-Madison MPA.
Jake Sullivan – Yale undergrad, Rhodes Scholar, Yale Law School
John Kerry – Yale undergrad, Boston College Law School
SFAW
@Uncle Cosmo:
Marco’s thinking of a different kind of applied suction.
West of the Rockies
@Amir Khalid:
Well, to be fair, he has occasionally been concerned or lamented “inartful” wording.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
geg6
@TaMara (HFG):
I keep saying that I ❤️ Shapiro. I want him for Senate and Fetterman for governor. They are both awesome and appeal to large numbers.
West of the Rockies
@zhena gogolia:
I think Pompeo appeals only to himself and Mrs. Pompeo.
Mike in NC
We will always be able to mock Lil Marco for needing a bottle of water.
Baud
@West of the Rockies:
You’re half right.
laura
So what you’re saying is that Rubio will be haunting the Sunday Shows for the foreseeable future…..
dmsilev
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The really hilarious part is that both races are run-offs; no write-in votes are allowed. All part of the conspiracy no doubt.
laura
@germy: Pompeo
Delk
Marco, you can chug water, and brush and gargle multiple times a day but you will always have the stench of trump’s dick on your breath.
West of the Rockies
@germy:
Suck Along With Mitch!
Kent
@West of the Rockies: Assuming facts not in evidence. Although Susan Pompeo is reportedly a corrupt piece of work so maybe they are meant for each other.
scav
Oh, the poor dear. I sincerely hope he extends his disdain for competence, experience and training to all his plumbing, medical and automotive needs.
RobertDSC-Work
Lil’ Marco should take a drink of water and then go fuck himself.
burnspbesq
@columbusqueen:
Can’t be done. Louie Gohmert retired the trophy.
Kent
Fetterman strikes me as more of a governor type. His degree of badassery would be kind of lost in the Senate.
LeftCoastYankee
When you call his name, he answers “Polo?”
As a certain wicked auntie would say: “Good thing he’s handsome.”
Capri
@West of the Rockies: Not so sure about Mrs. Pompeo
Chyron HR
@Amir Khalid:
Tweeting bible quotes as a display of fealty to Trump, whom he apparently believes to be a religious figure.
NotMax
Says the face that launched a thousand sips.
trollhattan
For the thread’s open aspect: it seems so obvious now, but show jumping need not be limited to horses when we also have bunnies.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
is it possible that a combination of the emotional crash and the side effects of (I will believe this until it’s proven otherwise) taking those mood-boosting steroids far longer than doctors recommend have made him even crazier? We’ll soon see….
laura
@Kent: that Fetterman gives off a strong Pat Tillman vibe.
japa21
@dmsilev: And a write-it vote, since there is no space fror it, invalidates the ballot so it doesn’t count in the number of ballots cast.
WhatsMyNym
@zzyzx:
Double check how many days the numbers being reported are actually for.
Also seeing higher state reported numbers for my county than what our county is reporting, and the state hasn’t responded to questions about the difference (too busy?).
TheOtherHank
To be fair, he does have a minor point. This country’s infatuation with Ivy League educations is a mystery to me. I have worked with numerous PhD holding people over the years and the main differentiator between our Ivy League friends and people who went to (gasp!) state schools is their absolute conviction that they are better/smarter/etc than everyone around them because they went to Haaaahvad or whatever.
trollhattan
@West of the Rockies:
He’s got that collar-bursting angry belligerence that 70 million Trump voters have shown they love. We’ll see whether it gets him anywhere post-administration but among Republicans not named Donald Trump Senior, I think he’s the front-runner for ’24.
Somewhere in a corn field, Ben Sasse looks at a mirror and dreams.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: okay, sort of yes, sort of “never mind”
I guess I should be glad he didn’t declare war on Fredonia or The Grand Duchy of Fenwick
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Thanks, Joe!
Baud
@TheOtherHank:
Biden and Harris aren’t Ivy League.
Kent
Oh, but they are all different subcategories of asshole.
Gohmert wins the mindnumbingly stupid asshole award. But he’s too stupid to actually be very damaging. He’s more of an annoyance. He competes with Jim Inhofe and others for peak stupidity.
Cruz wins the deviously evil asshole award. He’s so much smarter than Gohmert that he targets his assholery for maximum damage and manages to make everyone hate him, even his allies. Gohmert bangs on wood to annoy his colleagues in a hearing. Cruz shuts down the whole entire Federal government on his own.
Rubio competes for the smarmy brown-nose asshole award but usually gets beat out by Lindsey Graham in that category.
And, of course, they are all ruled by the alpha assholes, Trump and McConnell.
zzyzx
@WhatsMyNym: Yeah, I’m wondering if all the insanity around Thanksgiving means that numbers won’t make any sort of sense until next week.
We were seeing a plateau of cases (with the lag in hospitalizations/deaths to come) which would have been a hopeful sign but who knows how things will get with the holiday?
dmsilev
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: All of the news headlines are “Dow breaks 30,000 on news that Trump is really truly officially a loser”, so I’m not really sure why he wants to boast about it.
MJS
@TaMara (HFG): PA confounds me, and I’ve lived here all my life. Our current very low-key, mild mannered Governor absolutely annihilated a Trump wannabe in 2018. I really expected Biden to do the same to Trump. I’m hoping it’s just an affinity for Trump himself among these voters, and that 2022 gets us another Democratic Governor and a Democratic Senator to go along with Casey.
SiubhanDuinne
@zhena gogolia:
Ah, the famous “curdled mayonnaise is better than rancid lard” discussion.
trollhattan
@TheOtherHank:
I suspect your trajectory coming out of a top Ivy is simply greater than from other schools, giving you a head start along a career path. I doubt voters give a shit where their candidates went to college, but the people who craft and finance those candidates certainly do.
Secret handshakes and such.
trollhattan
@SiubhanDuinne:
Isn’t it a little like comparing a Ken doll to an injured wolverine?
zhena gogolia
@trollhattan:
Delightful!
cain
@TheOtherHank:
Yeah, I don’t get it either – on the other hand, all the people hiring them are from Ivy schools. You do have to wonder how many of these people get in because of their families vs academic achievement. George W. Bush comes to mind.
TheOtherHank
@Baud: I wasn’t referring to them or even the cabinet picks. Just this assumption that operates at high levels that hiring people that went to Ivies matters. I mean look at the Supreme Court; the only one of them that didn’t go to an Ivy is Barret.
cain
I’m ready for Joe to take the inauguration oath in a tan suit. The press is looking for a controversy – let’s start with this one!
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
O/T, but hope you are having a great birthday!
Gvg
@p.a.: trump is not a resident of Georgia. I don’t think he is eligible and senators can go to jail, so i don’t think he even wants it.
Kent
They will probably pick some random person out of the crowd who isn’t wearing a mask and be scandalized by that.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@cain: and I don’t think the Bushes even had to write a check, a la Papa Kushner and Jared. I’m sure young trump was able to transfer to Penn, besides a little boost from his brother knowing somebody in the admissions office, because word got round that the weird and taciturn slumlord from Queens was more than just a slumlord, and they hoped for some fat donations. I’m betting that bet never paid off.
NotMax
@TheOtherHank
Ghost of Roman Hruska on line 2.
:)
TheOtherHank
@cain: When I was in graduate school (studying molecular biology) the joke (not a joke) was that the only way to get tenure at Harvard was to have at least one degree from same. Thus the assumption that anyone that hadn’t attended Harvard and was junior faculty there was enhancing their resume in anticipation of getting tenure somewhere else.
MomSense
My world certainly became more terrible. My dad is in the hospital in Florida waiting to hear from the vascular surgeon about his aortic arch.
NotMax
@Kent
Additional swearing in performed by Merrick Garland?
the mugster
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Don’t sell Pam Bondi short in a GOP primary!
scav
@trollhattan: Probably for a bit, but a few solid years or so of interaction builds up secret handshakes, shared jingo and shortcuts to even the differently schooled. Especially if the otherly schooled has power.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Heh, nice.
BR
@p.a.:
I wonder whether some of the folks pushing the “write in” campaign actually know that since it’s a runoff there are no write in options and they are actually trying to get people to turn out and then vote for the GOPers because they have no choice.
Gvg
@MomSense: i am sorry to hear that. Where in Florida?
Kent
Part of it is actually geography.
Washington and New York are in the east coast where private schools have always dominated because that part of the country is so much older and was established long before public universities were really even a thing. The rest of the country is newer and has much more robust public universities than the Northeast.
SUNY -Binghamton or U-Mass might be decent schools but they aren’t Berkeley, UCLA, or Michigan.
If the Federal government or Wall Street were located in say, California then they would be dominated by Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, and USC grads.
BlueGuitarist
@TaMara (HFG):
@Baud:
PA votes:
Biden 3,459,041
Trump 3,378,148
Shapiro 3,445,311
R for AG 3,149,434
Shapiro larger margin,
Biden 13.7 k more votes than Shapiro.
But 130 k fewer votes for AG than president
with votes for minor candidates
BR
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
This seems like a bad idea for Dems to push, and I hope folks send the message to people who are going to run this campaign/billboards/etc. Trump attracts lots of inconsistent voters, and Dems benefit by not having him be the reason to show up to the polls. It’s a runoff, so no write-in as I understand it, and what will happen if a bunch of Trump voters *do* show up, see there are no options for write-in — probably a fair number will vote GOP anyway.
Frank Wilhoit
I don’t like your math. You could put Marco Rubio in a sensory-deprivation tank and he still wouldn’t amount to 50% of anything.
Seriously, the whole problem is nutshelled in one word in the tweet, and that word is “dependent”. It goes without saying that I don’t know what he means by that word; and you (i.e., anyone reading this) don’t know either. Neither do any of Rubio’s audience, and they don’t care. The word is not a sign function. It is a little cluster of sounds. We are on the brink of a split between humans who have language and humans who don’t.
Marc
@Baud: I heard a rumor that Rubio has been assiduously practicing drinking from a water bottle. So he may yet be a force to be reckoned with.
CaseyL
@Betty Cracker: My understanding (I could be wrong) is that Rubio ran for his old Senate seat (which he left to run for President) when his sugar daddy Braham told him to. Braham has mentored/sponsored Rubio’s entire career, mostly to get business and tax policies he likes, and likely considers him an employee/servant.
topclimber
MARCO LIES!!!
Alejandro Mayorkos, pick for DHS, is not an ivy leaguer. Maybe Rubio doesn’t count him because he is not the out-of-shape white guy that Trumpkins think of when they envision a cabinet member.
Shakti
Rubio never seemed like much of a leader, so his running for President made no sense to me.
OT, tangentially, this Sarah Taber thread (thread app link) explains a lot:
Auntie Anne
@MomSense: Sending all good thoughts your way!
Uncle Cosmo
@TheOtherHank: There are two types of colleges:
The great majority of schools are the former, usually distinguishable by C-curves; the latter (Ivies and other snob-appeal institutions) by B-curves.
SFAW
@Gvg:
Good. I was having unsettling visions of him winning either/both of the seats as a write-in.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Heh. Nice.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
“sacred number”
West of the Rockies
@MomSense:
Oh, dear, that’s scary. I hope you get good news.
LAO
@MomSense: That’s terrible — I’m so sorry.
ALurkSupreme
Sorry if I missed it above, but Dave Wasserman and the Cook Political Report say Biden has surpassed 80 million votes this morning.
And an obligatory FU to Marco Rubio.
Tom Levenson
@MomSense: I’m so sorry. Best wishes for your dad and you.
SiubhanDuinne
Biden live, announcing his latest Cabinet/NatSec picks. No link. I’m watching on MSNBC.
piratedan
and Rubio never asks why is China one of the new manufacturing hubs? labor costs, environmental protections and new modern production built from scratch versus the costs of modernization and the guys who run businesses seeking profits above all else…. ever wonder WHO those guys vote for?
I hate this kind of bad faith bullshit that we get relentlessly from the GOP who have made it readily apparent that as far as they are concerned, taxes, good government and liberal are all epithets not concepts.
LAO
@Uncle Cosmo: I graduated from a type 2 college too. It was literally impossible to fail out. If a student wasn’t doing well, the administration moved heaven and earth to provide counseling and tutoring. It was very nannish.
Matt McIrvin
@Kent:
Virginia is a big exception–they have a great collection of public universities, many of which are popularly believed to be private.
topclimber
@topclimber: For bottom-up readers, Kent has a more comprehensive listing at #52.
smedley the uncertain
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: As a proud resident of Fredonia, New York I will tell you we’re ready for him…. After his 2 week quarantine.
WhatsMyNym
@topclimber:
Also, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, pick for U.S. Ambassador to the UN, went to Louisiana State University and a master’s degree in public administration at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
BC in Illinois
From @JacobRubashkin
Matt McIrvin
@Betty Cracker: For me it was when Rubio, who’d been touted as the guy who was going to fix immigration, signed onto eliminating the jus soli citizenship clause in the 14th Amendment (which seems to be a Republican litmus test now).
Felanius Kootea
@MomSense: Sorry to hear this. Hope all goes well for him.
Ruckus
@Bluegirlfromwyo:
And a concept of life beyond his mirror.
SiubhanDuinne
@MomSense:
Oh, that’s so worrying. I hope it all goes well with your dad — please let us know.
Xavier
I’m not interested in going back to a “normal” that gave us Trump.
MomSense
@Gvg:
Naples.
Peale
@ALurkSupreme: I wish we’d express that more. We are more troubled by the voters we didn’t have than celebrating the ones we got. It really isn’t any wonder why the Times will send out reporters on cletus safaris. We just aren’t that interested in ourselves.
leeleeFL
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Me or Betty or Emma? C’mon, any one of us would run rings around Skeletor orMarky Maypo. GahDangIt, why can’t the FSM just stuff their pieholes with something hard to chew?
frosty
@TaMara (HFG): The PA numbers for Shapiro could also indicate a lot of Trump voters who didn’t vote down ballot. Either way, a good omen for ’22… knock wood.
ETA @Baud: I see we think alike. Scary, isn’t it?
Ruckus
@SFAW:
I thought that was rocket sturgeon.
Nelle
@TheOtherHank: A long ago friend, who was awarded a MacArthur genius grant, did his undergrad work at a state university, then grad school at Ivies. His take was that the education was equivalent. The Ivies were about connections.
narya
@TheOtherHank: A professor I knew referred to the “Folding Chair of [his discipline]” at Harvard for just that reason.
WhatsMyNym
Avril Haines, pick for Director of National Intelligence, has the most interesting educational path if Wikipedia is accurate –
Another Scott
Replying to Rubio’s tweet at the top:
(He hates Rubio with the heat of 1000 suns. I don’t know the full back-story.)
Cheers,
Scott.
Jeffro
@SFAW:
LOL
Half the time I use the “it ain’t rocket surgery” joke, people think I’m the idiot, which cracks me up even more. :)
patroclus
@Kent: Technically, it’s “Georgetown University Law Center” (or “GULC”), not Georgetown “Law School.” I guess those of us who have degrees from GULC are the only ones that care about stuff like that – I’m happy to see that Avril Haines is a fellow alum. And we Hoyas are not Ivy League.
Ruckus
@dmsilev:
He is a fucking idiot.
Jeffro
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: had risen above 30,000…on the strength of knowing that a real live grown-up administration is on its way? Did anyone point THAT out?
This clown, I swear…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
David Frum having a fine time with Wee Marco’s efforts to grow from a trump pigeon to a China hawk
If anything, I think he could have gone on a lot longer
laura
Sending out All the Good Vibes for Momsense and her dad ?
Jeffro
It’s a huge plus for the state in many ways. Even Tech ;)
RedDirtGirl
@MomSense: I’m so sorry to hear that. Take care of yourself.
RedDirtGirl
@MomSense: I’m so sorry to hear that. Take care of yourself.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
See the lyrics per your request downstairs (additional edit at #197)?
RedDirtGirl
@LAO: Hey, nice to see you around these parts!
Steve in the ATL
@LAO:
huh. I didn’t realize that Yonkers Junior College was like that.
randy khan
@Matt McIrvin:
And then there’s New Jersey, which has Rutgers, the state university most mistaken for an Ivy League school (which, in fairness, was one of the colonial colleges). I had a friend who went there, and when someone would say “Rutgers, isn’t that Ivy League?” to him, would reply “We’re very close to Princeton.”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ruckus: Sounds kind of fishy.
M31
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: yeah, the last time we had a war with the Duchy of Grand Fenwick the US lost
Sister Golden Bear
Dear Mario,
Fuck you, we won.
No love,
Me
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: too funny! Drumf is exactly the kind of guy who would lose to Grand Fenwick
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@MomSense: I’m so sorry. That’s not good news ever.
Dave
@Betty Cracker:
You have such a way with words. If you and I weren’t already married, I’d propose to you!
dnfree
@patroclus: my daughter went there also.
patrick Il
@germy:
Kamala
Ramalama
@Chyron HR:
Random snicker: “Two Corinthians walk into a bar…”
zhena gogolia
@MomSense:
I’m so sorry. I hope things can be taken care of safely.
John Cole
under pigboy’s “leadership” we got pantsed by China
The Moar You Know
@John Cole: every month since he got inaugurated we set a new record for our trade deficit with China. Last month was no different.
They have been eating our lunch – and I have no doubt he’s gotten a cut of the action – since the day he stumbled into office.
LAO
@Steve in the ATL: no no no. I went to Yonkers Community Law School. I knew you never paid attention to my comments. Sheesh
LAO
@RedDirtGirl: waving hello!
Mary G
@MomSense: So sorry; waiting for news is awful.
Brachiator
Wow. It’s been a busy day and I have been away from the Internets. Good to see Little Marco and the GOP committed to bullshit.
Challenge accepted.
Jackmac
First reaction to Rubio’s comment was “what an asshole.” It was also the second, third and fourth reaction. Then I realized it’s just Little Marco being Little Marco and he should just be ignored.
Aleta
@MomSense: ?
rollSound
@zhena gogolia: Zero is larger than any negative number, so there you have it.
NobodySpecial
The Ivies are just the”new” nobility.
There is a club, most of us ain’t in it, yada yada.
Eventually it all turns into W or Trump. Entitled assholes who know nothing and learned nothing, but they got to kiss the ring.
BruceFromOhio
In contrast to the two-bit ratfuck soulless criminals & con men who will speed that plow RIGHT INTO A DITCH SUCK IT LIBTARDS
lofgren
@TheOtherHank: In order to have a point he would have to be making a good-faith argument. He doesn’t actually care about their credentials.
Barbara
Upon reflection, this is just Lil Marco puffing out his chest and declaring that he too is man enough to run for president in 2024. Unfortunately for him, trying to play a serious person in whatever venue, including Twitter, just makes him look ridiculous.
NotMax
@Barbara
Cognomination is destiny.
He’s a walking, talking blond joke.
:)
frosty
@LAO: @Uncle Cosmo: I went to a school that was hard to get into and hard to graduate from. About 50% of my freshman class didn’t make it. No coddling at all. What’s that make us? A Type 3?
KenK
@trollhattan: @#90 “…comparing a Ken doll…”
I beg your pardon ;)
KenK
@MomSense: sorry to hear that; best wishes.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@The Moar You Know: I work in manufacturing and up tell Trump insourcing back to the US was a big open secret since the cost of labor and gone up so much in China since the ’00s. Then Trump starts with his big, dumb trade tariffs that only jacked our costs and did nothing to China.
Worthless, worthless idiots all of them.
Ruckus
@MomSense:
Best of luck to you and your dad.
H-Bob
@BlueGuitarist: So, like usual, Tapper’s analysis is wrong — Shapiro got fewer votes than Biden, and lots of Trump voters didn’t vote for AG. I guess he should stick to Cletus safaris.
J R in WV
@Amir Khalid:
Lil’ Marco has been facilitating Trump’s destruction of the world’s first Democracy. Working hard at it, in fact.
Little monster, he’s also spent a lot of time kissing Trump’s wet ass
ETA: Baud, others, well said up above!!!
Uncle Cosmo
@LAO: At the Hop, the major exceptions to B-curving were the engineering courses, which were C-curved. My conjecture as to the reason for that goes thus: In a non-engineering discipline, no Hopkins graduate could do much to embarrass his alma mater without an advanced degree, and enough Cs would keep the doofuses out of grad school & force them to seek stoop labor like public school teaching. Whereas an incompetent with a bachelor’s in engineering could create major mayhem for an employer who hired them on the strength of that Johns Hopkins sheepskin, with a concomitant downgrading of the reputation of JHU engineering programs. So engineer-wannabe nitwits got slammed with Ds and Fs until they took the hint & switched out of engineering. Many a Hoppie who emerged with a degree in psych or sosh or polly-sigh walked onto campus with his sights set on an EE or MechE.
Uncle Cosmo
@MomSense: Let me relate my own experience, which may help you deal with the very clear concern:
A few years later I was in an ER for stomach pains, & they were about to release me when I offhandedly mentioned this episode & they all but chained me to the gurney until they could arrange a sonogram of the abdominal aorta – which showed nothing to get flustered over. And twenty-plus years on, it still isn’t.
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Many years ago one of my coworkers, a retired Army colonel, had an aortal aneurysm go south on him on the golf course. He passed out, but it was neither a total rupture nor a dissection large enough to block the vessel (the two conditions that cause the textbook to list the primary symptom as “sudden death”). They got him into surgery and repaired the aorta, and he recovered – he looked terrible at first, as he’d lost a lot of weight in the hospital, but eventually filled back out, and worked a number of years before retiring again.
Since then the sawbones have developed minimally invasive techniques for stabilizing aneurysms which have very high success rates outside of emergencies. And there is always the possibility that for Dad like me, it’s a feature-not-a-bug. The hopeful factor is that they know it’s there and can keep very close tabs on it so it never becomes an emergency. Here’s a link to a WebMD article that might be helpful.
Best wishes for Dad & you both!
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** Just FTR, a not-terribly uncommon comorbidity with the arthritis I suffered from.
***The iodine infusion felt to me like nothing so much as pissing my pants in a blue serge suit – I got a nice warm feeling all over but no one else noticed. (I’ve been waiting for decades for a chance to use that analogy…)
Uncle Cosmo
@WhatsMyNym: Wow, how did I miss Adrian’s Book Cafe when I was often haunting the streets of Fells Point?!?!
Totally cool that someone with Baltimore, Fells Point and Hopkins connections is gonna be DNI!