the right wing grievances are now “I’m totally allowed to do a thing and I’m totally going to do that thing but I’m totally furious that some people refuse to make me feel good about the thing” https://t.co/s18rPiAgth
— kilgore trout, four seasons appreciator (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 25, 2020
I can understand the thrill of competitive shopping, but not the aggressive ‘conservative’ whinging about how everyone has to publicly applaud your every action. Ooooh, you get to do what you like, with only the tiniest modifications to your usual routine! What a bold free spirit! Yay, snowflake!
Medieval proverb: Take what you want, and pay for it, says God.
Best Buy has doorbuster deals on ventilators. https://t.co/50XKa7p2fy
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) November 27, 2020
Speaking of pissy little snowflakes…
Whoever did this OWNS the internet ????
— Jay Arnold ?? (@jadedcreative) November 23, 2020
dmsilev
Important news:
Jerzy Russian
Is the clip in that last tweet real? I can’t tell anymore.
Also, too: “mask Karens”? Jesús, María y José.
Anne Laurie
@Jerzy Russian: The first part, AFAICT, where Trump yells at the reporters, is real. And so is the image of Trump ‘dancing’… but that’s photoshopped in from one of his pre-election rallies.
West of the Rockies
Republicans are addicted to playing the victim. If there is a cross to climb, a dirge to be sung, a lamentation to be wailed, and–especially–a camera to sob into, Republicans will go full Sarah Bernhardt.
Achrachno
I’m getting old and stupid, I guess. That Trump video made no sense to me, and not just because T. was talking. Was that a cat or a guinea pig? What was I supposed to take from this?
Another Scott
@Achrachno: It’s just making fun of Donnie via a mashup of videos of 1) one of his press beratement sessions; 2) him “dancing” at a couple of his COVID rallies; 3) the famous bopping cat.
It’s well done – note the cat in the videos on the monitors and the shadow of Donnie on the wall.
HTH!!
Cheers,
Scott.
Brachiator
The country would be better of if Trump did nothing but his goofy dance from now until January 20.
Oh man, that clip is so well done!
Great music selection as well. It’s got a nice beat; you can dance to it.
Major Major Major Major
@dmsilev: indeed!
mrmoshpotato
What is “competitive shopping” and what is the thrill?
Kent
Well Geez….who remembers Bush asking everyone to go shopping after 9-11 as a form of national sacrifice or something?
That’s the GOP way. When the going gets tough the tough go shopping. It’s your fucking patriotic duty.
mrmoshpotato
Fixed.
mrmoshpotato
I do! War criminal Bush can hop in a lava lake too.
Luciamia
@dmsilev: A la Teddy Roosevelt, lets have a full menagerie at the WH. Including a goat. Will help keep the lawn trimmed.?
mrmoshpotato
Let me find a hat so I can put it on, and take it off to you. :)
Jay
#DiaperDon
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N60ceYRlY2I
Midas Touch new ad,
Mary G
Per WaPo, the CDC has been forbidden to use certain words:
Jay
@Luciamia:
Add a lama, alpaca, some chickens and ducks, ( Indian Runners, preferred), please.
Jay
@Mary G:
82 more days ‘till sanity,….
Sm*t Cl*de
@Luciamia:
A ‘Trump shouting at goat’ meme. Make it so.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mary G:
Interesting that there are seven words/term in that list. Like George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can’t Say on TV.”
The WaPo article is from late 2017. I wonder whether the directive still remains in place. I feel as though I’ve heard CDC officials use the term “vulnerable” to refer to high-risk individuals, but perhaps those are health experts from non-HHS agencies.
mrmoshpotato
@Mary G: Shades of Flori-global-what?-duh.
PeakVT
@mrmoshpotato: I can understand there might be a bit of excitement if you are bidding at Sotheby’s or Barrett-Jackson. At Wally World, I have no idea what the thrill might be.
mrmoshpotato
@PeakVT: Sorry. “thrill”
I don’t understand it either. We’re in the grip of a deadly, contagious, global pandemic!
Jay
@PeakVT:
at Wally World, it’s not a bid, a money competition, it’s physical, combining track and field, with MMA.
oh, and “Outbreak”,…..
WereBear
@mrmoshpotato: The “thrill” is exercising power. “I’m Cult of the Savvy! I never pay full retail!”
I wonder if they would be any different if this was an actual Zombie Virus. “Not everybody turns into a Zombie. And my mother-in-law is exactly the same. You’re just trying to scare me.”
mrmoshpotato
Even in nice, friendly Canadia?
mrmoshpotato
@WereBear: I know.
And I hope your MiL comes to her senses.
And I hope you and your hubby are safe and well.
Jay
@mrmoshpotato:
yurp.
Co workers told me that half of the shit, ( and it is shit), in the “Black Friday” flyer, which was supposed to start Monday, only arrived today, Covid.
And Order Online and Contactless Delivery is down 40%.
Assaults are up 22%.
Lucky I wrote off a Shingle Hatchet for Tool Rental Use back in February when nobody was paying attention.
WereBear
@mrmoshpotato: Thanks. So far, so good, and what else can anyone ask these days?
mrmoshpotato
@WereBear: True. ♥️♥️♥️
Speed up January 20th!
Jay
@WereBear:
not having Zombie Minks?
or Murder Hornets?
or Poisonous Rats?
or Brain Eating Amoebas in the water supply?
mrmoshpotato
@Jay: Stop being a dicknose. You are disgracing your country.
Jay
@mrmoshpotato:
so, you didn’t hear about the poisonous rats?
cute, black and white, fluffy,
chew then groom with Poison Arrow Tree bark mixed with saliva, into specialty hairs designed to hold the poison, and yet, for some reason, ( they haven’t figured it out yet), aren’t affected.
Every thing that bites them or handles them is.
So when confronted, their whole attitude is, “what, you want a piece of me?” , really? then, saunter off.
It’s been a weird year so far, we could use less weird.
I don’t know about Werebear’s MIL issues. I don’t get to read every comment these days. Brain fog amongst other stuff.
Geminid
Since a few days after the election I’ve been trying to listen to less news, more classical music on my commute. I was amused the other day to hear that French composer Offenbach wrote music for a Snowflake Ballet.
Frankensteinbeck
Assholes demand to be praised for being assholes. This is central to Republicanism and has been for at least a decade, because it’s an extension of their demand to be praised for being racists and that has been central since Reagan. Trump’s election was specifically about that demand. They wanted, not just a racist, but a raging and idiot asshole to validate them. They got it, and they’re having a hissy fit that life is reining in that freedom to be the worst human being they can be. They are, in fact, entirely willing to die for it as long as that requires no effort or doing anything scary. They glory in other people dying for it.
Jay
@mrmoshpotato:
sorry if my humour is dark.
Dec 23, I have an MRI and CT scheduled.
Based on those results, they will decide if I have to have 1/2 of my right lung carved out, 1/4 of my left lung, and roughly 1/3 of my kidney, because of Covid.
rikyrah
@Jay: ?????
Jay
@rikyrah:
sadly, it is what it it is.
Strokes are a big deal in my family, since 1945.
Before then, It was Nazis.
Weird times.
Thank you.❤️❤️❤️❤️
Barbara
@Jay: it is what it is but fingers crossed and hoping for the best for you.
Aleta
{{ @Jay: }} ? ? Please keep us informed how you’re doing. Of anything at all, incl. depression if you wish (which would be understandable). If it helps to write. ? ?
Jay
@Barbara:
@Aleta:
I will post, as I can,
others here are dealing too.
Will try to keep it less “Dawn of the Dead” and more “Zombie Land” or “Shawn of the Dead”.
Villago Delenda Est
Whiny ass titty baby is now a thing among “conservatives”, who should be dragged, kicking and screaming, back under the rocks from which they oozed.
RSA
@Mary G: That article is from 2017. It turns out that if you search (for example) for “vulnerable” and “covid” on cdc.gov, you get some hits.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
The ghost f Hugo Chavez ordered a War on Black Friday and I missed the memo?
Won’t anyone thinking of our sacred consumer traditions.?
Ksmiami
@Jay: oh dear I’m so sorry- I hope they find that whatever damage you sustained can be healed though as there is so much we are learning about the disease and that for every innocent Suffering a Republican gets it double…
HeartlandLiberal
FWIW, the Federalist Bot posting that is a self-declared satire account, “powered by P.A.R.O.D.Y. Engine.” I know, I know, it is very hard to tell the difference anymore.
gbbalto
@Jay: So sorry to hear this – hoping for the best
different-church-lady
@Jay: Meh. We’ve now got “Don’t touch the wooly catapillars if they’re white — those are toxic.”
Joey Maloney
At the end of a rope.
J R in WV
@Jay:
Sorry to hear of your exposure to Modern Medicine, which as wonderful as it can be is also invasive and uncomfortable at best.
Best wishes for the minimal interference needed to restore your health. Strokes aren’t the killer they once were, hoping Covid effects aren’t either.
Thinking of you.
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@Geminid:
I recently heard a long performance of Erik Satie’s solo piano music, on election evening, actually, to avoid getting upset as the numbers came in slowly and inaccurately – Gymnopedies, ran several hours, almost hypnotic.
So I clicked on the Balloon Juice Amazon link and looked up Satie, and ordered a set of CDs with all Satie’s solo piano music. Then, getting carried away, I ordered all of Debussy and all of Ravel. Yay, I thought.
Unfortunately, I learned that the reason such recordings aren’t more popular is that all composers write their best pieces, their better pieces, and their not so good pieces. So now I have to weed out the not-so-good things from the huge amount of things I have on hand.
The point of all this is that Wife and I have tinnitus, we hear background noise, buzzing, humming, etc, all the time. So far it only bothers us when there is no actual sound to distract us, as in at bedtime. So out family doctor recommended listening to soothing music in the bedroom, which really works.
I am able to concentrate on the music, note by note, and it not only distracts me from the tinnitus sounds, but from other thought processes, like The Donald and what he will be up to tomorrow…
But selecting the music is important, you don’t want The Stones on there, for example, or the 1812 Overture with cannons. I love Rachmaninoff, but it isn’t good sleeping music, too much drama.
StringOnAStick
@Jay: I’m so sorry about the impacts Covid has had on you. I sincerely hope that your upcoming imaging studies show no need to do any of these surgeries and that anticoagulant drugs can be The answer. The only positive thing is that as a Canadian you won’t go bankrupt from the medical costs like an American could. The kind of work you do would most likely be a job without health insurance here.
Uncle Cosmo
Is something significant allegedly happening on 18 Feb? Or is arithmetic incompetence another one of your signature skills?
Ya know, Moshie, there ain’t a lot we agree on, but this is one of those stopped-clock moments that come twice a day. Well played!
Jay
@different-church-lady:
but if you don’t touch them, how will you know what kind of winter is coming?
ballerat
@Mary G: Article is from 2017.
The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion
@Jay: Jesus, I am so sorry to hear this.