I’ve come down with a little cold- chills, body ache, sinus headache, etc. I’ll be so glad when this pandemic is over so I can just be sick and not worried that I have killed someone.
“Enjoying” a little theraflu with some bee pollen and a teaspoon of honey and then I am gonna nap.
RepubAnon
Feel better soon!
Wag
Feel better soon. Keep an eye on your sense of smell and taste…
Brachiator
I definitely can sympathize. I am dealing with my own sinus issues.
Hope you feel better soon.
SiubhanDuinne
Hope you feel better soon, John.
Just Some Fuckhead
Gonna be awake and alert for the Steelers game?
Damned_at_Random
Stillers-Browns at 8:15 your time, if you can still enjoy football in the end times. I can, but I’m still wondering what Cheney et. al. were trying to prevent in last week’s oped. suspect this is a long way from over
Feathers
@Damned_at_Random: What did Dick Cheney know and when did he know it?
Damned_at_Random
@Feathers: Enough to scare 9 other former SecDefs (and Charlie Pierce: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a35119794/secretaries-of-defense-op-ed-trump-election-military/)
Mike in NC
We’re tuning in to CNN at 10PM EST tonight to catch the two-hour report on Trump’s attempted coup against the Constitution. He egged on the violent mob with an evil speech using language copied from the works of Hitler, one of the few authors he ever read.
We have ten days until this fascist bastard is gone and I have no confidence that he and his henchmen aren’t plotting further damage to the country.
mrmoshpotato
@Damned_at_Random:
Ben bought a football team?
Scout211
I posted this downstairs but wanted to post it to an open thread. A 15 year veteran of the Capitol police who was on scene at the siege of the Capitol on Wednesday, took his own life yesterday. The department is calling it a “line-of-duty casualty.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/01/10/another-capitol-police-death-officer-dies-by-suicide-after-responding-to-pro-trump-riot/?sh=15eb826b70dd
Bruuuuce
Missed the Parler thread below, but found a really good explainer on Section 230 that basically shuts down almost every specious argument being offered by the butthurt right wing (and misled left). Now I am no longer arguing with folks on it, just throwing them the link and telling them to read why they’re wrong
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
So when they make the feature length film on this 5-10 years from now, who plays Trump?
Fair Economist
@Feathers: Whatever Cheney knew was big enough to put him on the same side as us. That’s got to be really monstrous
Bruuuuce
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Someone in the John Belushi/John Candy/Chris Farley/John Goodman mold. Goodman would be excellent, although between his stint on The West Wing and having actual taste, he might not want it.
Redshift
We had our annual pre-VA legislature brunch event in Fairfax this morning. Gerry Connolly (VA-11) spoke about the assault on the Capitol, and covered a lot of the same material as in this talk:
And my rep, Don Beyer, spoke (as he has online) about how Kevin McCarthy should resign for continuing to support the election lies even after the attack, pointing out that as awful as they are, Hawley and Cruz are back-benchers in the Senate, but McCarthy is the GOP leader in the House.
Ohio Mom
Damned_at_Random: and we still haven’t finished with the Mueller report’s loose ends, and who knows what else? So much to investigate…
Meanwhile I am still coming to terms with the idea that Cheney did something I appreciate.
patrick II
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Makes me even more sad that Phillip Seymour Hoffman is lost to us.
mrmoshpotato
@Fair Economist: Hell of a thing when war criminal Dick Cheney is on the correct side of history.
BR
@Mike in NC:
Did someone do a language analysis of the speech? I hadn’t heard anything about it…
RaflW
Is my searching borked, or are there no commentariat opines on the Schwarzenegger video in recent threads here?
The sword part was over the top Hollywood, but the rest of it was, I though, remarkably good. His talking about how post-war, his dad was frequently drunk and abusive living through the regrets and bitterness of serving the Reich was pretty danged unusual from a politician.
I felt like his calling out that “We need public servants that serve something larger than their own power” was a pretty apt diagnostic of the Cruzs, Rubios and Hawleys of this country.
I don’t have any great love for how Arnold ran CA. But he is doing what needs to be done to not have the right half of this country just go totally Lord of the Flies.
BR
@Ohio Mom:
Same here on Cheney. I said this to Adam a week ago in a comment and he said Cheney has a very different concept of what national defense means, but he is sincere about it.
cain
@mrmoshpotato:
Also, a mechanism to give his daughter power. She’s going to come out of this smelling like roses. As more stuff comes out, she’s going to look like a principled conservative. Not sure if that’s going to help her when she runs for President.
BR
@RaflW:
I wonder if this is the time for everyone who has maga relatives to send the Arnold video to them. If even 20% of them are reached by it, it’s a start.
Steeplejack (phone)
@BR:
RaflW
@Ohio Mom: I’ve seen comments that I find credible that the Cheney +9 other Sec Def’s letter may well have been an element in keeping the Captiol sacking from getting even more out of hand/deadly.
It seems like it at least sharpened the minds of some career Pentagon folks, yes?
Steeplejack (phone)
@RaflW:
Gee, maybe check the post called “Schwarzenegger and Immanentize” two floors down.
NotMax
Sinus intemperance might be my oldest, closest acquaintance.
;)
@RaflW
There’s an entire post & thread about it.
RaflW
@Mike in NC: There was an epic, 100+ tweet thread yesterday unpacking nearly line-by-line the speech and its subtexts, coded (and naked) exhortations to violence, blame-laying and such. Not sure in the huge swirl I was in yesterday there who the person was. Shouldn’t be too hard to find, but I am trying to have a tweet-break for a while.
Tony Jay
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Val Kilmer + massive amounts of cocaine.
Like, really, really massive.
RaflW
@NotMax: I literally used the BJ search function on the home page to look for it. So, um, yeah either I am terrible (I even spell checked his name!) or ‘search provided by google’ is crap.
But mostly I’m a moron for not scrolling down like three posts! Duh!
CaseyL
I hear ya, John. I’m longing for a return to the time when “feeling like I’m coming down with something” was cause for some basic preventive measures rather than an obsessive symptom-watch/where-have-I-been accounting.
I saw the Ahhnold video, and was duly impressed. I hope he’s right about the sword analogy. It depends on how deep a dive we do to find/expel everyone involved in the coup attempt. Arnold compares it to a tempered sword; I prefer a debrade-the-wound.
NotMax
@RaflW
Well, the name is misspelled in the headline.
;)
Bruuuuce
@RaflW: That’s probably the Seth Abramson thread that Steeplejack refers to a couple of comments above yours. See that link, or here’s the Threadreaderapp version
RaflW
@NotMax: Phew, I feel about 1% better now!
@Bruuuuce: Perfect, thanks.
Damned_at_Random
@RaflW: I’d like to know exactly what went on in the Pentagon during the insurrection. Was the delay in approving deployment on the MD national guard just a product of confusion- or an intentional stall? Were some Trump appointees shut down by the professional military? I’m not generally this paranoid, but the events of the past couple of weeks have really rattled me
Nicole
I hope you feel better soon, John. My husband tested positive on the 4th for Covid and has been isolating since Monday night away from my son and me. It’s been tough, especially because we talked to our doctor, and she thinks I may have had it first- I had a high fever for three days right before the New Year. However, I tested negative 3 times over an 8 day period, (including right in the middle of my symptoms and the same day my husband tested positive), so we have to act as though I’ve not had it, which means isolation from him until the 14th.
I’ve had fatigue and a low-level temperature for several days after the fever broke; it’s still not back to normal, but trending downwards. And the fatigue is a little less every day.
The only place I can think of where I could have caught it was my son’s pediatric dentist- I wasn’t unmasked for even a moment, but the patients were ( it had been over a year since my son had been seen and he had so much plaque I’m lucky there weren’t cavities, too). It just sucks; this thing is really, really contagious.
That said, there’s plenty of things we can catch that make us miserable but aren’t Covid, and I will send all the good thoughts that you just have one of the annoying other things.
Punchy
Not joking, Johnny — I know THREE people who claimed to have “sinus infections” that quickly thereafter tested +. Seriously, keep vigilant for taste/smell, cuz that’ll go next if indeed yer +.
Just Chuck
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Alec Baldwin of course.
RaflW
@Damned_at_Random: IIRC a McConnell staffer was able to phone a former FBI official who then phoned a career DoD person who it sounds like finally broke the logjam.
And given the stooges Trump installed in the weeks before this despicable attempt, it is certainly possible that non-uniform Pentagon people were obstructing the provision of aid prior to that call. Investigations need to be painstaking, detailed and thorough.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
If you’re looking for a little non-political controversy, let me toss this one out there. Animated character with 20-foot prehensile penis: appropriate children’s TV or not?
I learned about this somewhere over the last couple days but haven’t the foggiest idea where. I have a vague memory that it might have been mentioned by Stephen Colbert or one of his guests.
Speaking of internet rabbit holes, it turned out my wife had never heard of Randy Rainbow when I pulled up his post-insurrection “Sedition”. So we went deep down the RR rabbit hole for awhile.
NotMax
@Just Chuck
Too svelte.
:)
Feathers
@RaflW: I don’t know that this is the issue with your search, but sometimes either Google’s trawlers won’t have reached very recent activity or the algorithm is weighted in a way that older material is seen to have more interaction and thus weighted highly enough to knock the brand new stuff you are looking for out of the top search results.
Google is constantly mixing up the way results are delivered and sometimes things just aren’t what one would hope.
Hungry Joe
All this Pence and Cheney talk got me thinking about post-War GOP Veeps: Nixon, Agnew, Bush I, Quayle, Cheney, Pence. (Ford and Rockefeller semi don’t count — were appointed, never ran for Veep.) Good god, what a sick and/or pitiful crew.
Democrats have had LBJ (Hi there, Raven!), Humphrey, Mondale, Gore, Biden, and (sooooooon!) Harris. Not half bad.
cain
@RaflW:
Man just imagine what that would mean if it all comes out – that there are individuals ready to stage a coup. This is like beyond any other political scandal that I think we have witness thus far because how pervasive it is.
I think though the FBI is going to have to look at itself first and purge their own folks before embarking on this. How many of them participated or throated support? Every Trump supporter within the FBI should be worried.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Evil, Evil, Evil, Stupid, Evil, Stupid. Hmm, a pattern develops.
hueyplong
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Hope you showed her “Bunker Boy.” Far and away my favorite of his videos.
RaflW
@Feathers: I wondered about that. And the box is very basic on the home page (which is probably appropriate). I was looking for a ‘sort-order’ option, because the results I got seemed very date-random, so I was tryna figure out how many pages I’d need to click thru.
But then, spelling turned out to be key! (I’m an absolutely terrible speller, so I won’t cast stones).
Damned_at_Random
@Tony Jay: Sam Rockwell with a red rubber nose
Ohio Mom
I have never followed Schwarzenegger, not his film career or his political one — I have a vague memory of an embarrassing divorce, that showed him to be a dick of husband — but could it be that he has grown and matured politically? He’s older and wiser?
RaflW
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Poor Gerald, didn’t even get remembered!
Nor Rockefeller, but who gives a fuck about him.
LuciaMia
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I’d say Ernest Borgnine, but he’s dead.
NotMax
@Hungry Joe
What, no Alben Barkley?
;)
sdhays
@cain: The USPS law enforcement arm is going to be busy. Apparently, they’re the ones called in to investigate other Federal law enforcement when those agencies don’t know who to trust.
Barbara
One small mercy is that Steven Sund is gone as of yesterday one week prior to the date he said he would leave, which, under the circumstances, was pretty suspicious given 1/16 is 2 days before MLK Day and 4 days before Inauguration.
Mary G
@RaflW: I was off the computer doing life things this morning and may or may not have had time to go through the old threads, so I am glad you linked the Arnold video. I loved it. Our not so great Governator has grown into a mensch.
cain
@Hungry Joe:
Mondale is gonna be 94 this year.
divF
@Hungry Joe: raven’s most recent (previous thread) signoff was “fuck LBJ and Nixon”. I view that as a more accurate assignment of guilt.
gbbalto
@Nicole: Best wishes to your family for your husband’s qucik recovery!
cain
Unfortunately a Trump crony is in charge of that as well. Considering that the USPS had a hand in delaying the mail – Trump has corrupted so many agencies.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@RaflW: Hungry Joe mentioned them but left them out of the original list as appointees, not elected VPs.
PsiFighter37
@Ohio Mom: He got divorced when it came out that he had fathered a child with the housekeeper who looked after his and Maria Shriver’s house. That was the straw that finally broke the camel’s back.
Cheryl Rofer
SiubhanDuinne
@Mike in NC:
Glad to know about that. I’ll also be watching Nancy SMASH! on 60 Minutes tonight. From the tiny clip I saw, she’s going to be fierce.
TS (the original)
@Scout211:
Saw this earlier at Wapo. Your link has more information. My disgust at Kevin McCarthy has only grown with his tweet.
The GOP has so much blame in all/any deaths related to the Capitol invasion & they put out mealy mouthed statements of being so very sorry.
Feathers
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Studio Ghibli’s Pom Poko, currently available on HBO Max, is about a group of Tanuki (Japanese raccoon-dogs) who use their fabulously large testicles by stretching out their scrotum and using them to fly. The Tanuki are battling developers who want to destroy the forest where they live. They even kill some of the workmen.
It is based on a creature from Japanese folklore. Westerners are probably more familiar with the shapeshifting foxes, because female ones will seduce men and lead them astray, which offers wide possibilities for artistically tasteful, yet racy films. The raccoon-dogs (more closely related to dogs, but tend to be called raccoons in English) have more transformative ability, but mostly involving their enormous testicles, which they use to make humans look foolish. Not as many sexy movie possibilities.
Do not know of any Danish super penis folklore.
sab
@Bruuuuce: So which side are you on?
Mallard Filmore
@Nicole:
“Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. Its been over a year …” … since I have seen a dentist. I used to scrape plaque off the inside of my teeth on a weekly basis with a tool from the drug store. With the pandemic, I have been home and able to brush (softly with a soft toothbrush) after EVERY meal or snack. So far there has not been any plaque forming.
Nicole
@gbbalto: Thank you- it looks he’s coming through with very mild symptoms, which is a relief. And, on the good side, it means we won’t be sweating about when he’ll be able to get vaccinated as he’ll probably have immunity for some months. (It’s the reason I hope my doc is right and I did have it even though I tested negative). Obviously we’re still masking up and washing our hands and social distancing and will until the CDC says otherwise, but we’re feeling a great deal of gratitude for his mild case. It’s just luck; you never know. I know so many people here have had rougher times with this freaking virus.
Geminid
Someone probably has already said this, but Speaker Pelosi will be on 60 Minutes. After the Bears-Saints game, I guess.
Steeplejack
@Damned_at_Random:
Plus it’s not like they don’t have TVs in the Pentagon and couldn’t see what was going on in real time.
Another Scott
@Damned_at_Random: ProPublica has a DoD timeline that’s worth a look. But it raises as many questions as it answers.
It’s going to be a long time before we have a clear picture of what did and didn’t happen, I think.
Cheers,
Scott.
Nicole
@Mallard Filmore: The kiddo has been much more attentive to his teeth since the dentist visit, for sure. He did not enjoy the scraping one bit. This was the first time the dentist really had to go after his teeth and I think he hopes it will also be the last.
NotMax
Respite-y.
Am still somewhat in shock after the monthly shopping quest yesterday after seeing fresh blueberries on sale at a much lower price than in summertime. Normally gaze longingly at them but cannot bring myself to justify the cost. This time the purchase was nigh unto irresistible (at Whole Foods, of all places, where had stopped in order to replenish the stock of not-dark rye flour).
Sister Golden Bear
Hope you feel better soon, Cole.
Also, that Black officer in the video being chased up the stairs by white insurgents wasn’t running away — he saw the doors to the Senate chambers were open and deliberately made himself bait to draw the mob away.
He was the one person standing between democracy and the rule of tyrants. If the traitors had succeeded in taking hostages, we undoubtedly would been watching live-streamed executions of senators and others.
Officer Eugene Goodman is a fucking hero.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Mostly tuned to Fox.
//
sab
@RaflW: I had a hell of a time ordering Tom Levenson’s book from Nook until I realized they might think he was named Thomas Levenson. Presto! Magic!
Tony Jay
@Damned_at_Random:
I’ve literally just spent the evening watching Sam Rockwell’s calm, soothing voice emanate from the mouth of a silverback gorilla. Far too manly for Pettygrift’s whiny nasal hooting.
Just get a giant sausage skin, lightly seared, and stuff it with John Voight, Gary Sinise, Kevin Sorbo, Rosanne Barr, et al, topped up with a few dozen litres of pig-fat and a thatch of crystallised cat-piss. Put it in an ill-fitting suit and you’re good to go.
WaterGirl
@RaflW: You are right – the search results are not in chronological order. They are sorted in terms of the best matches to the search term. So a thread from 2005 that had his name in the title and the post 15 times would show up well ahead of a post from yesterday where it was mentioned 5 times.
Redshift
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: It was on Colbert, but that wasn’t the first place I saw mention of it. I think I saw it in a post here first.
Ohio Mom
PsiFighter37: Oh it all comes back to me now — I’d forgotten Arnold had married into the Shriver-Kennedy clan.
Still, I remember the gist of it, he was a rotten husband back then.
sdhays
@cain: Weren’t they the ones who brought in Ghislaine Maxwell? They were in the news in the last few months regarding a big arrest.
WaterGirl
@Barbara: Your comment sent me to google, and while they didn’t say WHY he resigned earlier, the article did say that the new person had taken over on FRIDAY, so that’s good. I couldn’t imagine why they didn’t fire his ass and have him gone in 45 minutes.
I thought leaving him in place for 10-days was a terrible mistake, so I’m glad that didn’t happen. There’s a lot of ass-covering and shredding and getting your stories straight that can happen in 10 days.
Ken
You mean who voices him? They’ll use Andy Serkis and motion capture for the video. They’ve got the CGI Jabba the Hut model already, assuming Disney licenses it.
Lapassionara
I am very concerned about the inauguration ceremonies. I have no confidence that Biden and Harris can be kept safe if they are outside when taking their oaths. I hope they decide to move to an inside location, some place not protected by the Capitol Police.
Bruuuuce
@sab:
The outside, looking in, as usual :-)
I believe that 230 is doing a good job, and that the vast majority of the calls for its abolishment or major edits are wrong. But IANAL.
Just Some Fuckhead
@SiubhanDuinne: 60 Minutes will likely broadcast late because of the Bears/Saints game so she will probably wind up opposite the Browns/Steelers game.
cain
@PsiFighter37:
A recent article says that they are still technically married (over 9 years now) But they each have their own lives and relationships.
cain
@Barbara:
He’s going to be tried for sedition. He’ll have to explain where the fuck he was during that breach.
Redshift
@Barbara:
And one day before Q day (17th, for the 17th letter), which is one of the days there’s been chatter about a repeat attack.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Touché.
Another Scott
I’ll just leave this here.
(via JuanitaJean)
Cheers,
Scott.
Redshift
@WaterGirl:
Yeah, especially since leaving in 10 days was what he announced, not what anyone else requested.
Martin
Man, conservatives are losing their absolute shit out there regarding the account bans and shutting down of Parler. We need a special explainer for the snowflakes titled “That’s not censorship, that’s capitalism”.
namekarB
Awww crap John. You’re a smart guy right? Go get a damn Covid test
Another Scott
The pandemic isn’t over. Nobody should be flying unless it’s an emergency.
Grr…
Cheers,
Scott.
Omnes Omnibus
@Bruuuuce: The other three are dead.
Bruuuuce
@Martin: See my link upthread about Section 230. Tell them to read it all the way through, because almost every one of their arguments gets shut down in it.
Redshift
One of the reports that came out fairly soon after the insurrection was that higher-ups in the Capitol Police didn’t expect this crowd to be any trouble because they were “pro-police.”
I hope (probably in vain) that one of the results of this is that anyone whose threat assessment puts “pro-police/anti-police” above “do they have guns” is summarily fired. If your job is to protect other people and you make your own safety is a higher priority than theirs, you’re not doing your job.
NotMax
@Martin
Yuppers. Free speech does not mean free of responsibility or of consequences.
Taking a dump in the punch bowl will get you ejected from the gathering.
Jinchi
Yeah, it’s pretty clear that word was going around and people in the military were getting concerned that Trump was up to something. Publishing that editorial was a good move. Unfortunately, it implies that senior officials in Trump’s administration were complicit in the attack on Congress.
Ken
XKCD got there years ago.
Jinchi
I’ve seen a few of those, but they’re on Twitter, so maybe the snowflakes can’t read them anymore.
Martin
Ok, it’s starting to get real out there.
Blue Cross Blue Shield has pledged to give no money to the campaigns of members of Congress who voted to challenge the election results. Commerce Bank, Marriott, and Citibank are also pledging that.
What’s important about this is both the recognition that in terms of PR, association with these individuals is toxic, but also it’s a formal recognition of the 147 legislators that challenged the results. No weaseling out for the ones that tried to keep their head down.
Baud
@Martin:
Interesting.
Martin
@Ken: Except that doesn’t explain the capitalism part. They’re still stuck on why Apple can pull Parler but not be forced to pull the MSNBC app.
Ken
@Redshift: I’d think the death of Officer Sicknick, and the injuries suffered by other capitol police, would prompt all police to re-examine that assumption. Not that I’d want them to adopt a policy of “shoot anyone waving a Blue LIves Matter flag, because they’re only using it to get past my guard”.
Just Chuck
@Martin: Because MSNBC doesn’t give a platform to violent fascist white supremacists? Apple is not obligated to be neutral either legally or morally.
Jinchi
I’m guessing it was intentional. Trump was ignoring calls for assistance. Apparently Pence was the one who authorized it in the end.
Ken
@Martin: Tell them that if they want the MSNBC app yanked, they need to go on that website and look for people calling for the murder of police officers and members of Congress. Then they can report MSNBC for violating the terms of service.
As a side effect, it tricks them into reading something outside their news bubble.
Sm*t Cl*de
I often wake up feeling that way too.
Martin
@Just Chuck: See, that’s the problem when nobody discriminates against you. When that suddenly happens as a normal part of capitalism, it’s bewildering and infuriating to them, even though it’s perfectly normal to everyone else.
Baud
@Ken:
They’ll be the ones posting those comments.
catclub
@Tony Jay: Brian Dennehy has died. Unfortunate.
Fair Economist
@Punchy:
Enh, like most respiratory infections, this has very variable symptoms. I’m just getting over COVID, and in my case I felt a little sick for 2 days, and then the next day my fever went up to 103, and stayed at 100-102 *even with aspirin and ibuprofen* for 3 days after that. Then it “broke” and started going between normal and slightly elevated (99.x) for a few more days, and since then it’s been normal. I didn’t lose my sense of smell and taste until *after* the fever broke and went down to that variably slightly elevated level.
Edit: FWIW, I get a lot of sinus infections, and for the first two days I was thinking “maybe this is a sinus infection”. In my case I figured it was *likely* COVID because my husband was already running a high fever without serious nasal symptoms with *his* later-proved-COVID case, and right now, there is very little flu to cause that.
NotMax
Need to decompress? Limited series on, of and about Fran Lebowitz now on Netflix – Pretend It’s a City.
catclub
I read this and get VERY cynical. Blue Cross is clean, but the ‘Health insurers Benevolent Association’ still gives to the same GOP crowd.
Or Blue Cross gives to the PAC that supports the GOP member.
Sm*t Cl*de
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
This sounds like Wadjunkaga, the Winnebago / Hočąk Trickster, so Imma calling ‘Cultural appropriation’.
WaterGirl
@catclub: Oh, I always loved him. Dammit. COVID?
TS (the original)
@WaterGirl:
The Wapo article on him leaving early included the information that another officer had died which I thought may be related.
Baud
A hell of an ugly whiff
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Geminid:
The Speaker’s interview will be harder hitting.
SiubhanDuinne
@catclub:
He died last April.
catclub
@WaterGirl: Not sure. It was April. I was thinking of who plays Trump in a movie.
NotMax
@catclub
Brian Blessed still kickin’. I’d bet he can produce a perfectly cromulent American accent.
Or, if CGI could be used to shrinkify whatever the actor’s name is for Captain America, use it to tallify Jack Black.
;)
patrick II
Bernie
Why? Is Tesla doing that well all of a sudden?
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
He died nine months ago.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl:
He died in April.
Baud
@patrick II:
Tesla is way overvalued.
SiubhanDuinne
@catclub:
Oh, sorry. I thought you were posting a breaking news/RIP comment.
catclub
excellent analogy. Leave the bad bits and it will fester.
catclub
@SiubhanDuinne: no offense taken.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Lapassionara: The Capitol Police probably won’t be the lead organization for the inaugural, that’ll probably be the Secret Service.
catclub
Tesla is doing slightly better over the past year. Tesla STOCK is going crazy. Like, Tesla stock adds up to more than all the other automakers, combined, plus airlines.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s been known to make it difficult to act.
Damned_at_Random
@Tony Jay: Sam can play creepy – he can play anything. But Roseanne Barr might be a good choice at that. she has the perfect voice for it.
catclub
You read my mind. I interchange Dennehy and Blessed in my head.
Just Chuck
@Sm*t Cl*de: Wait, Winnebago is named after a guy with a 20 foot prehensile penis?
Awesome. Now I want one. A Winnebago that is, I’d prefer to keep a more, ahem, fitting form.
NotMax
@BillinGlendaleCA
Not for James Dean.
:)
Timill
@patrick II: Yes. A quick google suggest it’s up by a factor of 10 approximately on the year.
Just Chuck
@catclub: Tesla likely owns the patents on a lot of battery technology that they’ll be licensing out to other carmakers. But a P/E Ratio of 1700:1 is … let’s say “not sustainable”
Barbara
@WaterGirl: When he used the term “First Amendment activities ” I knew a cover up was afoot. DoD is using similar language. Working as I do in a location where I have a bird’s-eye view of a lot of protests, and having attended more than a few, the level of security is ALWAYS higher than what was on display last Wednesday, no matter who is protesting or what the subject.
trollhattan
@Baud:
They have a LOT of company in that regard.
Steeplejack
@Another Scott:
Calouste
@patrick II: Tesla is the new Bitcoin for a certain type of
gamblersinvestors. They’re somewhat ahead in the electric car game at the moment, but older car manufacturers are catching up fast. BMW for example has said that it will have 25 electric models by 2023Yutsano
Rep. Swalwell has an opinion…
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: Well, he’s a Bruin.
Kent
Sure it is. But a WHOLE lot of investors who thought that same thing have lost tens of billions of dollars trying to short Tesla and have lost their shirts in the process.
That’s why I buy index funds in my retirement accounts and don’t mess around with this sort of thing. It’s not always rational. And it might take longer than you can afford to be proven right.
sanjeevs
Worthwhile thread from an observer at the Capitol
https://mobile.twitter.com/TerryBoutonHist/status/1348365375449268226
WhatsMyNym
@Kent: Shorting any stock is not for amateurs, you have to be able balance the losses with the rest of your portfolio.
I’d stay away from Tesla and their products.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@cain: I don’t get why there would be any Trump supporters left at the FBI. He did nothing but bash them for 4 years.
Tony Jay
@Damned_at_Random:
If Barr wasn’t a complete fucking loon she could have made a lot of people smile by doing a reverse Sarah Cooper and putting her voice onto videos of Trump speechifying. Perfect whiny timbre. But, yeah, loon.
Calouste
@Martin: You know what would really work? If they said they wouldn’t donate to the RSCC unless they can make sure the money doesn’t go to those seven seditious Senators. Moscow Mitch would have them out of the caucus, if not the Senate completely, before the clock strikes the next hour. Because no fundraising is no power for Mitch.
tinare
Rest. Fluids. Feel better!
Elie
Zinc and vitamin C — and rest
Take it easy John
Miss Bianca
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
I’m just glad I’m not the only person who thought of that one! Randy Rainbow will have dashed it off in his sleep, I am sure, while I was wrestling with line 1!
Another Scott
@patrick II: The recent runup in Tesla was because they were added to the S&P500, so everyone who has an S&P500 index fund had to buy their shares.
Some of the rise before that had to be in anticipation.
The rise before that, dunno.
He’s been getting lots of good press with his rockets, etc., and still leads the electric car race – for now.
Cheers,
Scott.
J R in WV
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Boris Karloff? Too good looking…
Peter Lorre? Nope, too small
Vincent Price? Nope, can’t do a Staten Island accent.
I dunno…
ETA: Who was the guy who dressed up in a clown suit to kill youngsters? John Wayne Gacy? Him!!
J R in WV
@Damned_at_Random:
When you ask “Were some Trump appointees shut down by the professional military?” the answer is “No, some professional military folks were shut down by Trump appointees!”
You got it exactly backwards!!!
Torrey
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Jeff Daniels, in an interview about his role as Comey, said he would really like to play Trump at some point.