Ah, yes, E.T.
The story of two friends who stop listening to bad faith government opposition, revolutionize travel and healthcare, and subsequently win the hearts of suburbanites forever. https://t.co/gH7czrCN8r
— Zd (@Zeddary) May 6, 2021
I guess the Republicans were all rooting for the undocumented alien to die, and were disappointed when it turned out not to be the movie’s final arc.
Speaking of final arcs, y’all know about Trump’s NEW! EXCLUSIVE! grift social media platform, right? (Well, if *you* had to find something to keep Brad Parscale too busy to talk to reporters, as well as keep TFG occupied during business hours… )
Imagine, if you will, a social network so exclusive, so elite, that only one lonely old man can even post on it. Now open your eyes… https://t.co/FPtfuPxQIP
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) May 4, 2021
Former Biden campaign aides are nonplussed about Trump’s new platform.
One tells me: “So you’re telling me it took Jason Miller almost half a year of ‘A Beautiful Mind’ montages to get Trump a LiveJournal?”
— Annie Linskey (@AnnieLinskey) May 4, 2021
Sorry but can we please all just take a moment to really appreciate the fact that Trump paid to build his own personal pretend Fisher-Price version of Twitter where he is the only person posting since he is banned for life from the grown-up version. Just absolutely fantastic.
— Gary Whitta (@garywhitta) May 5, 2021
— DJ (@DJNYCNY) May 4, 2021
It's a blog. Trump more or less made himself a LiveJournal and called it "a communications platform," the same way he made a fake ex-President logo and letterhead and declared himself an office. I try to give him as little headspace as possible these days, but this is hilarious. pic.twitter.com/2l93RObF39
— Tasha Robinson (@TashaRobinson) May 4, 2021
craigie
Eventually? Sad!
Roger Moore
The goal isn’t to let Trump communicate with the world. The goal is to let Trump think he’s communicating with the world.
West of the Rockies
Have I heard correctly that in his decline into senility, Fred Trump was given sheets of blank paper to sign, with his handlers all pretending they were important documents? Seems like ugly Don is moving in that direction…
owlbear1
I guess the Republicans were all rooting for the undocumented alien to die, and were disappointed when it turned out not to be the movie’s final arc.
I’ve been told it’s because there weren’t enough banks foreclosing on orphanages in the movie.
mrmoshpotato
If all of these shitbags want to be remembered, they could launch themselves into deep space. We’d remember the feat for an hour at most – then party.
NotMax
From the Dolt 45 terms of service, among things verboten (emphasis added):
Betting pool is now open on when he bans himself.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax:
I’ll reserve ‘Never.’ for myself because he’s a narcissistic pile of shit who can’t do anything wrong in his own mind.
When do I collect my winnings?
HumboldtBlue
I really enjoyed this musical analysis of “Unchained Melody”. What a wonderful piece of music.
And for those not in the know, here’s Yo-Yo Ma with the Bodega Boys.
Sebastian
That’s like getting a blowup doll after a divorce.
sukabi
@NotMax: what’s with the rules? Isn’t he the only user?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
That ET thing. It’s really weird how the GOP is just frozen in the 80s. Not to mention the Alien and the kid are the villains in their version of it.
Leto
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: well these are the people who root for the Empire to squash the Rebels, then wonder why people mock them.
Chris T.
New thought: if anyone yells at you to “take off your mask”, take your pants down and moon them. Then turn around and say: “Oh, did you mean my face mask?”
Mary G
DMcK
@sukabi: Ego-stroking nonsense. “Sir, you can rest assured that everything posted here is beyond reproach. Says so right in the rules!”
“Sir” to be inevitably replaced by “Your Honor”, of course.
Ninedragonspot
I went to the reopening of the San Francisco Symphony tonight. In the loge opposite me was none other than Madame Speaker Pelosi. She was very attentive during the whole 75-minute performance, interrupted only once by an aide who handed her a phone.
But I guess we already knew she was a good listener.
Redshift
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
It’s because their beginnings are in the Reagan era. It’s like evangelicals with evolution; it was a really big deal at their founding, so they can never let go of it.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Chris T.: Very Baudian.
Ruckus
@Redshift:
Conservatives have been like this for a very much longer time. It just started to become more noticeable in the 80s. Reality is that they have always wanted the same things they do today, it was just more difficult to hear about it because they didn’t say the bad parts out loud – and Reagan brought out the worst in them. But now they understand that they can say the bad parts out loud because there is press, TV and “news” suppliers who yell the quite crap every day.
Steeplejack
Better E.T. graphic:
?BillinGlendaleCA
Sixty years ago today, the first American was rocketed into space for 15 minutes.
APOD for today.
Chris T.
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Huh. I don’t know whether to be pleased or insulted….
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Chris T.: I guess that depends on your take on the Baud!20XX! platform.
Ten Bears
“Webzine” never did stick. In some circles I refer to my blog as “my website”.
Embarrassing none-the-less, bastard probably gets more traffic than I do …
Just One More Canuck
@?BillinGlendaleCA: a true Baud-bro wouldn’t have been wearing pants in the first place
HeartlandLiberal
Re: Trump’s social media platform (blog, w/o comments by readers), yesterday a new account popped up on Twitter, something like “From the Desk of Donald Trump,” and started posting his shit from his blog. Twitter users started complaining to various Twitter policy and security accounts, and when I checked back a few hours later, the new account had been deleted by Twitter. This whackamole is gonna happen probably every day now as Trump and allies try to get stuff on Twitter. FWIW, there is not an option you can select to report such policy violations on Twitter. You would think they would provide an option for something like that, but, nope. Not there
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Just One More Canuck: Good point.
SixStringFanatic
@Roger Moore: Which is why it only has one ad banner: Fisher-Price.
OzarkHillbilly
@Steeplejack: I’m gonna have nightmares now.
Booger
@HeartlandLiberal: Do you put green peas in your whackamole? I find they liven it right up without making it stodgy.
There are those who call me...tim... (Still posh)
Remember when Ryan created a “blog” for Creed that was just a Microsoft Word document? Like that. “Even for Creed, it’s pretty disturbing.”
SFAW
CNN tells me that Rep Buddy Carter (Liar-GA) has filed a formal complaint against Rep Zoe Lofgren (D-America) for “disparagement” because she had the gall to collect Rethug tweets supporting the Seditionists, and posted them along with Section 3 of the 14th Amendment (which prohibits anyone who has engaged in “insurrection or rebellion,” from serving in Congress). It seems she did not explicitly call for the Traitors to be expelled, but the Rethug Constitution apparently says, in Amendment 37, that “Republican fee-fees must not be hurt, nor their traitorous behaviors exposed.”
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW: How dare you accurately quote me!
Wanderer
@HumboldtBlue: Great links. Thanks HB.
Ken
I believe I heard something like that as well. Also that one time, TFG tried to slip in a new will that left the majority of the estate to him.
Ken
@NotMax: Second betting pool on when his blog falls foul of Florida’s “no online censorship unless you own an amusement park” law.
Ramalama
I’m going to need receipts on this recent gloat. Former Guy does not pay his bills, so some web developer may have billed #45 a high six figures, but likely has not collected. I mean, Michael Cohen’s checkbook isn’t available anymore. Who paid? And what did they pay? And when did they know they paid?
Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)
I took a little spin over to Former Guy’s new “platform”. It’s truly sad, and yet indescribably funny.
VOR
@HeartlandLiberal: Yes, you can set up Twitter accounts which automatically post things from outside sources. For example, I follow such an account which reposts pictures of an adorable cat from another site. Trump’s site is set up so his posts are just right for re-posting to Twitter in hopes of circumventing his much-deserved ban. Twitter will be playing Whack-A-Mole as TFG’s handlers keep trying new accounts for re-posting.
J R in WV
IIUC they have icons for reposting TFG’s posts to Twitter, Facebook, etc.
Surely Twitter and Facebook can build a detector to test new posts to see if the dupilcate posts on Trump’s web page!!
I won’t be visiting TFG’s blog, no clicks from me nor mine!!
J R in WV
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Thanks for that link Billin, I don’t recall dates that well, only recall 3 birthdays at the moment, mine, Wife’s and lil Brother’s… so without your reminder I would be oblivious to this anniversary.
Surely a wonderful moment in the history of science, and so glad Alan Shepard got to land on the Moon later on, after taking the very risky first flight on what was more or less just a military weapon.
Like getting shot out of a very large cannon ala Jules Verne, almost. And given this photo, linked from your link, how can anyone buy into the Flat Earth conspiracy!??
fancycwabs
To be fair a lot of people on Twitter ought to find their old blog passwords (1/ )
dyspeptic
I am nonplussed at the misuse of nonplussed
Brantl
@dyspeptic: Your nym suits you….
artem1s
so TFG has been taken out to the social media version of ‘the farm’ where he gets to play with all the other
doggiesnice ex-presidents?Here’s a question that will drive him bonkers. How many followers does he have on his new, exclusive social media account?
artem1s
@mrmoshpotato:
we are long overdue for getting that B Ark off the ground.