The End of an Error. Trump Plaza comes crashing down just like everything he’s ever done. pic.twitter.com/8us3qzfxAJ
— Hoodlum ?? (@NotHoodlum) February 17, 2021
“The Trump Plaza has stood for years as one of the city’s most visible eyesores, occupying prime land on the boardwalk. Chunks of falling debris & metal contributed to its designation as an ‘imminent hazard,’ setting the stage for Wednesday’s demolition.” https://t.co/2DFfRApEAD
— Katie S. Phang (@KatiePhang) February 17, 2021
Quite the metaphor.
For a more pleasant video, here’s an update on the ducks, back outside and happy. Adventures in Ducks: Winter Edition
Open thread
NotMax
Dragged up from below as it fits right in.
Gin & Tonic
Sconed!
JustRuss
They shoulda had a Go Fund Me to put Trump’s name back on the thing before they whacked it. I’d have chipped in.
Keith P.
Cue the dog lifting it’s leg on the rubble
hueyplong
Now do Mar a Lago.
Already doing the GOP, though not quite as quickly, which is ok.
karen marie
The detonation people did a great job! That building collapse is the most competent thing ever done with Trump’s name attached. Nice!
KenK
A wonderful way to start our day! ;)
waspuppet
I understand they had to take off all identifying signage, but I was hoping some worker had spray-painted TRUMP on the roof before the blast.
Jeffro
My name is OrangeMan, King of…nothing, not anymore! LOL
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level boardwalk stretches far away.
NotMax
“Hey! That was s’posed to be my liberry!”
//
Baud
Love the cheering.
“And there was much rejoicing.”
germy
We were watching Inside Edition last night and they did a segment about the model of air force one that trump took with him from the White House. It used to be in the oval office. It could be seen on a table when foreign leaders were visiting.
It’s on display at Mar a Lago now.
Dorothy A. Winsor
That IS satisfying.
Back from our second Moderna shots, so far doing just fine. Having my second cup of half-caff, which may defeat the purpose of going half-caff, but I don’t care.
cope
To quote somebody who is not me, “Infrastructure week is finally here.”
Evil_Paul
Note to Trump: THIS is what people celebrating as a building comes down actually looks like!
CaseyL
@germy:
Of course he stole something. I’d be surprised if the model was all he and his parasitic consort and spawn made off with.
clay
@karen marie:
As was pointed out above, it no longer had his name attached! May all of history follow suit.
eddie blake
@Jeffro:
sweet. orangemandias! king of not a thing!
OT- i forget who recommended it on the other thread, but mz. blake and i watched netflix’s the dig last night. it’s about the sutton hoo find in england. REALLY top-notch stuff.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
amazes me those rotting hulks couldn’t convince the lumpen that maybe trump wasn’t such a great businessman… oh well
what’s the state of AC in general these days? I guess I should ask, pre-Covid. Were/are there enough busloads of people coming to play the dime slots to keep it going?
@germy: of course he swiped something, and of course it was, essentially, a toy.
eddie blake
@CaseyL:
it’s not.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/15/politics/white-house-move-lincoln-bust-pheasant/index.html
SiubhanDuinne
@Gin & Tonic:
English muffined!
VeniceRiley
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I didn’t get 2nd dose side fx for a whole day. Then fatigue and chills snuck up on me. Keep some dayquill or poison of your choice handy. Even just aspirin will probably do.
schrodingers_cat
Reposting from last thread. Any insight is appreciated. Thanks.
I have a question for the lawyers of Balloon Juice
Twitter has banned the Orange person and many white supremacists since the election but in India the BJP blue checks are using Twitter as their Radio Rwanda clearly running afoul of many Twitter guidelines yet Twitter does not ban them.
Is there a way to make Twitter follow its own guidelines outside the United States using our justice system.
Jeffro
Noted in the WaPo’s rolling updates section: Biden receives ashes for Ash Wednesday
Y’all remember the orange moron getting ashes…or even know what Ash Wednesday is…right? No? LOL
GregMulka
I don’t know TaMara, that seemed pretty damn pleasant.
Jeffro
Btw if there are any interested front-pagers/those able to post tweets, there’s a thread up by Jean-Michel Connard ( @torriangray) about his idiot RWNJ older brother the survivalist in Texas…who didn’t think to buy a manual can opener and, well, yeah… LOL
germy
@Jeffro:
(She was worried Biden would cancel Christianity if he won the election.)
mvr
That was almost our country.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@VeniceRiley: Good to know. Thanks.
stinger
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Glad to hear it!
Jeffro
@germy: oh my dear lord (pun not intended but hey)
Yes, Jenna, YES: we are coming to ‘cancel Christianity’ (eyeroll)
It’s just not possible to get through to these people. trumpov is a good, god-fearing, pro-Christianity guy but that Joe Biden, HE’S going to ‘cancel’ Christianity. Yep that makes sense.
Another Scott
@germy: “Republicans don’t lie to be believed. They lie to be repeated.” – LOLGOP
Cheers,
Scott.
(“Who tries to keep that in mind, but doesn’t always succeed.”)
cope
@germy: Wow, she’s “on record” is she? Is Twitter like part of your “permanent record”? That goes right next to her being on record that conservative women are “hotter”. That took some guts on her part.
Old Dan and Little Ann
After 6 months of shoulder pain I finally went to the doctor yesterday. He offered me a cortisone shot and I was all for it. Then the nurse brought it in and it dawned on me. “I had my first vaccine 2 weeks ago and the 2nd one on 2 weeks. Is this a good idea?” She then went to ask Doc and I heard him say, “Oh, yeah. I forgot to ask.” So his advice was to come back 3 weeks after my next vaccine. Ugh! I don’t like the idea of helping a doctor to not fuck up!
Keith P.
@germy: Technically, Peter is the “Rock”…. or Dwayne Johnson
mrmoshpotato
@Gin & Tonic:
Yummo!
Benw
Haha that was awesome!
What kind of moron screws up a casino in Atlantic City?
germy
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@germy:
I remember Tammy Faye Baker belting out a hymn of that name on courthouse steps at some point in her and her (ex?) husband’s trial for bilking your Aunt Millie out of her pension check to build an air-conditioned doghouse.
Spanky
@Gin & Tonic: Dammit! Now I’m jonesing for scones.
And real ones, too. Not that grocery store shit.
FelonyGovt
That video is almost as satisfying of the one several years ago of a workman removing the name T**** from a hotel in, I think, Brazil.
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne: Bearclaw me! Mmmmmm bearclaws.
Doc Sardonic
Well……looks like Ron Johnson has a challenger for his Senate seat. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30916789/milwaukee-bucks-executive-alex-lasry-announces-2022-senate-run
Mike J
Who had to pay to demolish it? I’m guessing he stuck the public with the bill.
germy
scav
@germy: Oh Jenna sweetheart, I think that solid rock you’re standing on just might be your head. Maybe your heart. One of the two.
Baud
@germy:
I too can talk tough when facing down imaginary risks.
Fester Addams
If legally enjoined from putting the shithead’s name on it I’d have gone with just “RUMP”.
And there would have been a phone app that let a few hundred thousand people push the firing button at once. The actual imploder would have been randomly determined by cloud software.
Roger Moore
@schrodingers_cat:
Twitter put a gigantic loophole in their policies that lets politicians get away with way more than private citizens. That’s the only reason they didn’t ban Trump years ago. It was only when they decided he had violated their even laxer policies that they finally banned him. I think they’re going to vigorously resist any attempt to ban a politician who’s not obviously on the way out.
Baud
@scav:
Shorter Jesus: Get the fuck off me, Jenna.
nevsky42
The Plaza, even when it was running, was just awful and rundown. It would have been the worst place on the boardwalk if the Taj Mahal wasn’t still running at that time as well.
If the Taj Mahal wasn’t the perfect metaphor for everything Trump; impressive-looking from a distance (in the dark) but once you actually got there you saw how everything was a facade, cheaply-made and falling apart. It was one of the last poker rooms still running, but by the end the place had just become filthy. You could hold the top chip in a stack and pick the whole stack up. At the very least, that imprinted on me the need to wash my hands and not touch my face long before covid…
karen marie
@clay: Not physically or legally but as an historic artifact. I like to think the news reports of what a dirty, nasty building owner he is gave him agita.
mrmoshpotato
@Jeffro:
@germy: My favorite response to this kind of grandstanding crackpottery is “Get off the cross. We need the wood.”
Ceci n est pas mon nym
A random thing I have learned from baking shows: Apparently most of the English-speaking world pronounces “scone” to rhyme with “bun” rather than “bone”.
I find this strange.
Baud
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Mind blown.
Spanky
@Benw: Just for the record, Trump didn’t screw up the AC casino. He syphoned all of the money out of it for himself, decared bankruptcy, and left all those creditors – the ones who figured an AC casino was a slam dunk – holding the bag.
mrmoshpotato
@Spanky:
Scone snob!
The Moar You Know
@schrodingers_cat: There’s no way to make Twitter follow its own guidelines INSIDE the US using our justice system, never mind outside. If there had been, Trump’s account would have been taken down his first week in office. Twitter, like any other social media outlets at the moment, is not subject to any government regulation.
There might be local laws in India that they have to follow. Doubt any BJ lawyers are licensed to practice in that country.
scav
@Baud: And while you’re at it, get thee behind.
West of the Rockies
@germy:
Jenna Ellis, like most conservatives, is a poseur, a humble-bragger who bravely confronts non-existent threats.
As a Christian, I will punch in the nose any Xenamorph that dares try to burn my bible and lay eggs in my face!
mrmoshpotato
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I find that wrong and offensive. Now – I wish I could stuff my bones with chocolate chip scones!
karen marie
@eddie blake: That story not only repeats the lie about outgoing Clinton staffers removing Ws from keyboards but enhances it with “famously.” JesusmotherfuckingChrist.
prostratedragon
@Spanky: Was thinking the shorter version: someone who was skimming.
geg6
@Doc Sardonic:
Anybody know what his chances are? Sounds like he’d have name recognition and lots and lots of money for a run.
West of the Rockies
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
And you can’t buy a Quarter Pounder in Paris.
Doc Sardonic
@geg6: Omnes (I think is in WI) would have a better idea on viability, I just happened to see that on my news crawl this morning.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’m sure Lt Col Ersnt (ret) is gonna raise some hell and demand some answers.
zhena gogolia
OMG, my husband is going to love that duck video.
karen marie
@Spanky: Get yourself a half pint of cream and make these – they’re the best. I make them with dried cherries or dried cranberries but they’d also be great without a fruit addition.
James E Powell
The consensus of the Very Serious People seems to be that if Biden & the Democrats don’t get Republicans to vote for the COVID relief package, it’s a total failure.
They also seem to be obsessed with the idea that Biden has to give up the minimum wage increase. Nobody wants to go to one of those diners and ask the employees about it
It’s like the VSPs don’t want Biden to be completely successful. They need him to lose on something, anything.
Gin & Tonic
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The world’s mightiest military is afraid of mean Tweets.
Jeffro
Limbaugh just passed away!!
JanieM
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Heh. Among the people I used to visit in Ireland, I mostly heard it pronounced more like “sconn” (rhyming most closely with John, but not really quite that, either).
Here’s a lighthearted article about it. Better to fight over pronunciation that religion, anyhow.
Cameron
@Baud: Mind blun?
zhena gogolia
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
It’s a great hymn, one of my favorites. Fuck these people for sullying that too.
leeleeFL
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I pronounce it like “on”. I heard it that way on British period dramas
rikyrah
Limbaugh is dead.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jeffro: one of those days when you wish the Xians were right about the whole hell thing, and trembling before a just God
leeleeFL
@Spanky: not quite following your logic here…..
mrmoshpotato
@James E Powell:
The Very Serious People can very seriously go suck an ass’s ass. Nice to see 8 years of “NO!” just didn’t happen. Was Obama even President?
zhena gogolia
@Jeffro:
I wish I had that Jerry Seinfeld gif saying “what a shame.”
Jeffro
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: oh, absofuckinglutely!
We’ll be toasting ol’ Rushbo at the Fro household tonight, that’s for sure
mrmoshpotato
@Jeffro: Is he in Hell yet? (I make no apologies!)
mali muso
@rikyrah: Speaking of things that are satisfying…
PsiFighter37
@Jeffro: Adios, motherfucker. Hope he enjoys his stay in hell.
Kent
Good riddance.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@rikyrah:
@Jeffro: Another weight lifted off the soul of the US. It’s hard to feel anything but a kind of numbed relief reading that. The amount of damage and evil that guy single-handedly created…
Time for the old joke. “We should say something good about the dead. He’s dead. Good.” Many attributions for that on the internet, but the oldest I found was Moms Mabley.
Old School
@geg6:
Alex Lasry is not that well known. His father, Marc Lasry, is a co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks. But Herb Kohl made the leap from the Bucks’ front office to the Senate, so there is a history there.
RaflW
Limbaugh has left the chat.
To which my friend notes online:
karen marie
@mrmoshpotato: The last four years of Republicans telling Dems to fuck off have also fallen into the memory hole. Was there a single call by anyone during fuckwit’s term that Republicans should work with Dems? Nope. This has gotten past annoying.
eddie blake
@karen marie:
the cult of the bothsides is alive and well on cnn. it may never die.
Jeffro
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: that’s a great way to put it (weight off the soul)
2021 is really working overtime to make up for a shitty 2020, that’s for sure
NotMax
@West of the Rockies
113.4 Grammer doesn’t have panache.
;)
trollhattan
Cancer generally wins. As a Sacramentan I apologize for our role in launching his career. An own goal if ever there were one. Only difference between Limbaugh and Trump is one of them didn’t get $400M from Dear Old Dad. Their wants in life were the same.
patrick II
@Jeffro:
Any word on where to send donations?
karen marie
@eddie blake: It won’t die but it will take another hiatus when there’s another Republican president or Senate majority.
Nora Lenderbee
My husband and I both cheered. I don’t care if that makes us bad people. Too bad the fucker didn’t croak 30 years sooner.
Amir Khalid
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
That’s nothing. Wait till you find out how they pronounce Featherstonehaugh.
leeleeFL
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I thought, “I really wish I could’ve seen his face when he found out Jesus is a Hippy!”
I am a marginally bad person
clay
@rikyrah: Glad he lived long enough to see Republicans lose the Senate and Presidency, and Biden dismantling everything he spent his career trying to achieve.
The Moar You Know
@rikyrah: wish he’d come back to life just so he could die again. Once is getting off too easily for the staggering amount of evil that thing propagated in its lifetime.
West of the Rockies
Obligatory: tots and pears.
leeleeFL
@RaflW: That wins the internets for today, brilliant!
Mike in NC
Good riddance to that POS. I worked with idiots back in the 90s who blared his garbage through the office.
Ohio Mom
Old Dan and Little Ann:
Yup, doctors make mistakes which patients must catch and head off.
The questions is, where is your bottom line? What level of mistake are you willing to let slide and what is a deal breaker?
I don’t have a firm rule of thumb myself, I just go on gut reaction. So some doctors have gotten second chances after taking my correction, and others… I have replaced.
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
Rush to judgment, as it were.
//
rikyrah
@James E Powell:
They can go phuck themselves.
Nobody gives two shyts about bi-partisanship.
They want the check.
They want the relief.
If you work for government, you want that money so that we don’t have to start layoffs.
Darkrose
????????
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Jeffro: Watching the Biden town hall last night, seeing the Trump Casino implosion this morning, and now the Limbaugh news. Yeah, it’s been a pretty good last 24 hours.
Takes the edge off learning that DeJoy is planning to eliminate first-class mail and two-day local delivery.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: There is no end to the damage this man did
LurkerNoLonger
@Jeffro: Everyone around the world is dancing the streets!!!!!
leeleeFL
@NotMax: A close second here
trollhattan
@germy:
If the Kenyan Zuper Zecret Mooslim couldn’t do it, how’s sleepy Joe gonna do it?
geg6
Rush is dead. Good.
Just Chuck
Am I a bad person if I laughed out loud at learning that Rush died?
While I was listening to Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit in the Sky at the time?
mrmoshpotato
@karen marie:
Yes. Though I’d argue the past 4 years of death and destruction were thrown down the memory hole.
Jeffro
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I know, right? Trumpov sent packing, Giuliani being sued, Dobbs losing his show, etc!. The hits just keep on coming! ?
I think Biden’s gonna have to sack that whole board and fire Dejoy. It’s getting really bad across the country
SiubhanDuinne
@Amir Khalid:
Or Cholmondeley.
Jeffro
@Just Chuck: you’re not a bad person at all!
my thoughts immediately went to having some Champagne this evening. Or sparkling karma, as it were ☯️?
Benw
@Spanky: gotcha, thanks for clarification!
Martin
@schrodingers_cat: No. Can’t even make Twitter follow their own guidelines in the US using our justice system.
But, the State Department can talk to Twitter about things. I would write to Uzra Zeya and express your concerns and ask if the State Dept. could work with Twitter on that.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jeffro:
toasting the roasting?
@leeleeFL:
and… um… doesn’t have blue eyes like the ones in the (very tasteful, I’m sure) paintings in his house
Martin
@rikyrah: One less fascist on this planet. Can’t help but welcome that.
Ohio Mom
Just last night I was wondering, “Isn’t Rush dead yet?” I was only a few hours early.
As Shakespeare pointed out, whatever good he did (call his mom on Mother’s Day? Okay, I’m stretching here) is now interred with his bones, but the damage done to our national discourse will go on. Sadly.
On another note, I saw a tall building imploded once, about 30 years ago. It’s fine seeing it on video but nothing compares to seeing it in person in real time.
mrmoshpotato
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
The Fuck?!
sab
@hueyplong: No. Mar a Lago was a pretty building before Trump. Scour it down and it could be a pretty building after Trump.
I don’t want everything he touches to die. Just people who chose to work with him.
sab
@Ohio Mom: Go to Vegas. They implode routinely. A local pasttime. Put their implosions in the city webpage.
Martin
@sab: Agreed. It was built by Marjorie Merriweather Post. She left it to the NPS when she died, but they couldn’t afford the upkeep, gave it back to the family, who sold it to Trump.
My wife likes to decorate with art of architecture, and we have a number of pieces that are made up of old postcards of different buildings. One had a postcard of Mar A Lago from the 1930s. We removed that when Trump started running, and we’ll put it back when he no longer owns the property. But it’s a lovely, historic building that deserves better than to be owned by Trump.
leeleeFL
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: ….icing on the cake, methinks!
sab
Now I know why I had that desperate urge to eat a s’more for dessert after lunch.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
See here.
Uncle Cosmo
@Jeffro: Hence my occasional monicker for Dolt45: Orangecandyass. As with “Trumplthinskin,” feel free to appropriate, expropriate, and inappropriate, so long as you use it liberally.
karen marie
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I read a thing in USA Today that opined that while Biden can’t rid us of DeJoy, he can replace the USPS board of governors. Fucking up first-class mail is a crime that should not go unaddressed.
@mrmoshpotato: True.
BruceFromOhio
@karen marie: LOL, my first thought was, “nice drop, guys!” Hats off to the demo crew for doing in a few moments what took 4+ years elsewhere.
rikyrah
@Jeffro:
I live in an Urban Area – 5 blocks from my local Post Office.
I haven’t gotten any mail for over a week.
I want that muthaphucka IN JAIL.
Jeffro
@Uncle Cosmo: never has one ‘man’ earned so many slanderous nicknames ;)
liberal use noted – thanks!
karen marie
You just cannot make this shit up:
BruceFromOhio
@karen marie: dead giveaway ol’ Rick’s got a generator.
Almost Retired
@nevsky42: Yeah, the Taj Mahal was just gross. I was there at the end of 2015 on a day trip during a conference in Philadelphia. Dirty carpets, gross bathrooms, worn furniture, something short of the “best people” dealing cards and slinging cocktails, etc. SAD!! As it happens, I won about $350, which at the time I didn’t think would make much difference to someone of Trump’s alleged wealth. But, I’ll bet now he could use that cash.
JAFD
@Gin & Tonic: Breakfast with Bob Dylan …
“Everybody must get sconed…”
In other news, got an Email, “Due to the forecast of a winter storm, all COVID-19 vaccination appointments that were scheduled at Essex County College, Sears, Kmart and West Caldwell Tech for Thursday, February 18th are being moved to Sunday, February 21st. The appointment time you received for your vaccination will remain the same.”
When I got Jab #1, was minimal discomfort – on ‘needle scale’ where 9 is “we have to draw a couple of vials of blood, and … there’s gotta be a vein here somewhere…” that jab measured about 1/2; and no side effects – that evening, wondered “what’s this bandaid doing on my arms – oh yeah, got shot this morning.” So not fretting. Want to get it out of way.
Ken
I think The Sopranos adequately covered this.
burnspbesq
@Benw:
‘That kind.
sab
Only open thread today: just got my first issue of Garden and Gun Magazine. It’s interesting. This month’s recipes not so useful since I doubt I will ever cook a wild boar. Or chicken and waffles since my mom’s waffle iron traumatized us all.
Nothing on guns.
They seem to be very aware that if your magazine is catering to those who love southern food and culture then black people are a huge part of your target audience.
I am looking forward to future issues.