Listening to the liberal redneck rant is like crack for me. (No, not the literal crack; the figurative crack.)
I don’t care if he is talking about Joe Manchin and his fairytale world, I still feel better after listening to him.
Oh, and speaking of rants, can I just say that 92 degrees is too freaking hot for 9 in the freaking morning? We have more than a week of this. grumble grumble
I would be up for some fun or interesting links, if you have them.
Totally open thread.
Albatrossity
Agreed. He is one of the best!
Baud
What is figurative crack?
Ken
“Fun and interesting” is a relative term. For example, I find both the “Chess in Popular Culture” blog and Derek Lowe’s “Things I Won’t Work With” series fun and interesting, but acknowledge some might not.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I guess you could say that it was a metaphor.
WaterGirl
@Ken: I intentionally said fun OR interesting. I figured that covered every possibility, political or not political. :-)
Ken
@WaterGirl: No, you distinctly said “like crack”, so it’s a simile
EDIT: On reflection, “figurative crack” doesn’t appear until your parenthetical, where it is not being used as a metaphor but arguably is a metaphor, though it’s not obvious for what. Perhaps, like the Titanic, it’s a multi-purpose metaphor suitable for many situations.
Citizen Alan
In other news, it turns out all our fears about encroaching fascism are overblown because senile old biddy Dianne Fienstein reassures us that “democracy is not in jeopardy.”
WaterGirl
@Ken: I should have re-read my comment. After reading Baud’s comment, I assumed that I had written that it IS crack for me.
I stand corrected!
WaterGirl
@Citizen Alan: Democracy is not in jeopardy? What a relief! //
I said yesterday that I think Feinstein has lost the plot and that her loved ones should be having a very difficult conversation with her.
I stand by that.
zhena gogolia
So “senile old biddy” is okay? Ageism and sexism double whammy.
Old Dan and Little Ann
Crack is whack.
germy
We Asked Our Former History Teachers Why They Didn’t Teach Us Black History but They Were Too Busy Also Coaching Football
Villago Delenda Est
I agree, WaterGirl, 92F in the morning is insane. Let me guess you live somewhere east of the Mississippi where the humidity makes it that much worse? Out here in Tracktown (where the NCAA championships are taking place) it’s cool and rainy. We had one day of 90+ temp a week and a half ago, right after Memorial Day, then back to normal for an Oregon June.
Oh, and Trey is hilarious and spot on. Love the guy. The accent really is what sells the bit, because it’s so counterintuitive for us Yankee dogs.
Villago Delenda Est
@WaterGirl: DiFi has gone around the bend. California, do something about her. She’s an embarrassment now.
cain
@watergirl – I can’t use the visual part of the editor using firefox – any reason for this? I have to use the text tab instead.
Critical Race Theory is trending because the fascist gov DeSantis has banned it from schools. The man is turning into a complete dictator and represents a clear and present danger to everyone as far as I’m concerned. He’s also incompetent and a racist, so a trifecta.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Friday Night Pub Closing Time in the UK, done in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry
https://m.facebook.com/100047571510908/posts/330557248539990/?d=n
aka The Battle of Wastings
Omnes Omnibus
@cain: Does the FL governor have the authority to ban subjects from schools? I tend to doubt it.
Kay
This has been true of the Green Party in Ohio forever- they have no other role that I have ever been able to determine other than as “slice and dice” to elect Republicans, so it’s nothing new- just more sophisticated and intended to reach voters who don’t pay attention to this stuff.
germy
Getting
Republicans
Elected
Every
November
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Did someone say senile old biddy? I must have missed that.
It surely seems that she is having pretty serious cognitive and judgment issues, and the fact that she is a woman has nothing to do with it. Some people get cognitive issues as they get older.
Families have conversations with older relatives all the time when it’s time to take away the car keys because it’s not safe for them to drive anymore.
Does any of that connect with “senile old lady”?
germy
Mike in NC
@cain: DeathSantis is merely embracing the policies of a predecessor, one Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, whose biggest aims in the early 20th century were to drain the Everglades and evict all of the African-Americans then living in the state of Florida. He died before he could accomplish these mighty goals. Hell, he might have been the first politician to come up with “stand your ground” laws.
WaterGirl
@Villago Delenda Est: Yes! Central Illinois, which is in competition for the “armpit of the nation”.
WaterGirl
@cain: Did you, by any chance, just recently update from a version that was 84.x to anything 85.0 or higher?
Or just start using Firefox when you typically use a different browser?
billcinsd
@zhena gogolia: Isn’t truth always a defense?
Kay
@germy:
Just about every cycle in Ohio there are Democrats who ask me about Green Party election litigation. I literally no longer have the will to explain it to them :)
“just, NO, ok? Trust me”.
It’s always like some bullshit about a “patch” on a Diebold machine. “Send money!” They have done more to discredit legitimate voting rights advocacy than any other single factor. Just poison.
Alison Rose
@WaterGirl: Citizen Alan’s comment at #7.
Omnes Omnibus
@billcinsd: This isn’t a court, it is not a defamation suit, and there a metric shot tons of ways to express that sentiment without being sexist. Unless sexism was point of the sentiment that the poster was trying to express. No reason to be a sexist asshole, unless that who one is. Hell, even then, striving to be better is the better choice. YMMV.
WaterGirl
@Kay: I don’t know, this seems pretty succinct.
Green Party
Getting
Republicans
Elected
Every
November
Maybe you could print that up on a business card to hand out when you are asked.
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose: Thank you!
@zhena gogolia: My apologies for missing that.
germy
I like her response to Rubio:
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
I simply refer to people like DiFi and Leahy and Breyer and Grassley and McConnell and RBG as “old ticks who won’t stop their infestation and are sure as shit NOT indispensable”. The ones who are Democrats, in particular, need to clear the way for younger talent to come forth. They’re driving under the speed limit in the passing lane with the right blinker on. The
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl:
It’s in comment #7.
I’m just wondering why “scold” is beyond the pale but “senile old biddy” is AOK.
Alison Rose
@germy: Hope Marco’s got some aloe vera for that burn.
WaterGirl
@germy: I want to start a collection of Democratic women expressing their emotions without saying a word. I would add this one right away, and also the one of AOC staring daggers at Joe Manchin.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia:
Because I actually saw the word “scold” and it pissed me off. I obviously barely skimmed the comment about Feinstein, and didn’t actually read the words.
They are both sexist in my book, but senile old biddy is much worse than scold, which in and of itself sucked.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: By the way, I apologized at #30 for having missed that, before seeing your comment at #33.
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose: He can borrow mine! Oh, wait, sorry, I left it at home. Rubio is out of luck.
bbleh
As noted elsewhere, I was really hoping that Manchin had a plan, that he was carefully keeping the flying monkeys from launching while negotiating quietly with Biden and Schumer, that they knew all along what the Republicans would do and they were just waiting for the time when, entirely in sorrow and not at all in anger, they felt compelled by the urgent need of the American people for long-delayed improvements to their transportation and communication and utility systems blah blah, and for all the JOBS they would bring, and they reluctantly, after being opposed mindlessly by people who seem to want us all to live in a third-world country, saw no alternative but to move forward via a standard legal means, indeed one devised by the Senate long ago for precisely this sort of issue.
Well, apparently not.
Lucy (would that be Susan Collins or Mitt Romney? or perhaps some demonic hell-spawn of the two) has positioned the football, ol’ Joe Manchin has played Charlie Brown to perfection, and now he’s up in the air and on his way to falling flat on his ass, again, in the process kneecapping the White House, and most importantly, SCREWING OVER HIS CONSTITUENTS IN WEST VIRGINIA.
Dude had — arguably still has — an unparalleled opportunity to bring home a truckload of bacon. But no, he prefers to prance around from camera to camera, imagining himself to be the Second Coming of Robert Byrd, Saint of Bipartisanship, while he’s played for a fool by the Republicans.
Against my hope, my fear was that he was out of his depth and was going to bobble the whole thing completely. Looks like that’s how it turned out.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: Okay, I didn’t see that before my comment.
Villago Delenda Est
@WaterGirl: Lifelong member of the Falange sez wut?
JimV
My feeling is that Manchin is a spy. A Republican sent to infiltrate the Democrat caucus, report on their plans, and do his best to derail them or hamstring them. He is inside the tent, pissing in.
That is an extreme view which normally I would reject, but it is the only explanation I can think of for why he would not support a voting rights act. He has blown his cover.
The final indicator for me was a recent article in the New York Times stating that he is a good Democrat on some issues but just has some quirky philosophical differences on others; nothing fishy going on, move along, folks. Where have I heard something like that from the Times before?
Betty
@WaterGirl: Absolutely. Should have happened before the last election.
Kay
It is just amazing how quickly Right wing political operatives weaponized “anti wokeness”. A complete takeover in 6 months.
Kay
@JimV:
I would think he would be humiliated by his inability to get any GOP votes for the John Lewis bill. Whatever else he is, he’s completely ineffective as a legislative leader or persuasive force.
These people are so foreign to me just their behavior in what is a workplace. I would just never have made this giant, bragging “look at me!” stink without any ability whatsoever to deliver my own stated alternative to the For the People Act.
Ksmiami
Fuck Joe Manchin over and over again- elect better Democratic Senators, crush Republicans and put him out to pasture
Kay
Don’t blame the Mine Workers for Manchin. They’re on the right side of this.
They should ask him to list the GOP votes he’s secured for his election bill. He promised there would be support for a narrower bill. Why can’t he get it done? Why is he even talking to civil rights leaders? He needs to be finding the 10 GOP Senators he promised he could deliver.
bbleh
@JimV: @Kay: I’ll go with Occam’s Razor and say he’s not that smart or evil; he’s just hapless and out of his depth.
He was good at staying in office when he was a long-time pol with deep family connections in a small, quirky state that values them, and when there wasn’t really much on the line: just go with the flow, make acceptable noises, take money from the right people, etc. And there’s no question that staying in office as a Dem has taken some careful footwork, although less so than the recent red hue of WV might suggest: this ain’t Alabama or Wyoming.
But it apparently has turned out that he has no idea what to do with actual power, actual leverage, other than get himself on camera mumbling meaningless pieties.
Alas, he’s not a crafty strategist, but I also don’t think he’s a cunning undercover agent. Both would require real cleverness that, sadly, he has not shown he possesses.
cope
Going for broke here suggesting this short video is both interesting and fun. It’s fun to watch and if you know how video is “painted” line by line and read how the effect is done, I think it’s interesting.
Edited to remove wrong link.
Edited to add that I like the music, too.
gene108
@Citizen Alan:
As long as she can get elected and re-elected, there’s no threat to democracy.
I think too many Democratic politicians have this view.
cope
Trying again vis-a-vis comment 49.
https://vimeo.com/7878518
rikyrah
@Kay:
Always felt this way about Green Party. They are nothing but spoilers.
WaterGirl
@cope: spooky!
cope
@WaterGirl: At a distance…
Gravie
I love Trae Crowder. As a liberal who grew up in the South and spent about the first 30 years of my life there, I know just where he’s coming from.
rikyrah
@WaterGirl:
I love this picture. And her facial expression.
BWA HA HA HA AH AHA
rikyrah
@Kay:
The inability to get 10 Republicans for the John Lewis Act- he needs to sit down, STFU and get with the program.
Nobody is going to tolerate his bi-partisan cosplay bullshyt.
Zelma
@Gravie:
Just curious. How does one get to be a liberal in the south? It can’t be easy.
gvg
@Zelma: How does one NOT get to be a liberal anywhere? I don’t really understand “conservatives” even thought there have always been a bunch around me. Florida.
I feel that I just pay attention…..don’t understand fools.
Ksmiami
@Kay: Manchin is a party of one… just fuck him and let’s bring the fight…
the pollyanna from hell
@Zelma:
Liberals behind enemy lines often grow up more passionate and mutually supportive. Been there, done that.
evodevo
Mr. Evodevo LOVES him…he’s always sending me links…
Another Scott
Dead open thread, but I have to share this.
[ rofl ] OMG. BoJo is such a stupid child.
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: Boju is such a classy guy. How do these people get elected?
oatler.
@cope:
“The Crying of Comment 49”
NotMax
Fun or interesting? Repeated from the morning thread.
Paper and foil and canned, oh my.
;)
J R in WV
@bbleh:
No, all the evidence shows that Sin. Manchin received a huge donation from a secret super pac in order to fuck with the Biden program. Would be a BRIBE if it wasn’t for the Supreme (NOT) Court and their bribery accepting decisions — evidently it’s nearly impossible to bribe a member of congress any more, thanks to the crooked Supremes…
Manchin sold out to the highest bidder to support the Right Wing Nut Job agenda… totally not a surprise, he’s been as crooked as a dog’s hind leg all his life….
ETA: after reading the rest of the comments, I want to point out that Manchin didn’t fail at all. He generated a huge cash payment into his superpac, where it will lay unused until he retires and runs away with the money. Nothing matters to Manchin but cash flow!
If he can generate positive cash flow by pushing a sharp knife into Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, that’s a net VERY good thing to Joe Manchin. He’s going to retire rather than run again, so he has to enhance his retirement fund as much as possible over the next 4 years. No matter who has to die for Joe Manchin to do that.
Am I bitter? YES, I am.
cope
@NotMax: My college girlfriend worked as a demonstrator of various products in department stores in the Chicago area in the late ‘60s. One vendor had her wear a paper mini-dress and black boots. Imagine my disappointment that she didn’t keep her outfit and model it for me.