Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Carl Reiner died last night. He was 98. Here’s the New York Times obituary.
He started out as second banana and writer on Sid Caesar’s Show of Shows, which was where I saw him. Ernie Kovacs was my favorite comedian, but Caesar was a close second. They introduced a new strain of comedy that flows through Mad Magazine and Saturday Night Live.
Here’s some of his work:
Open thread for good stuff.
Should I take insulin pic.twitter.com/ALEYQqzJir
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) May 27, 2020
.@MonicaHesse takes a look at the women who are skewering Trump: “I’m taking that setting away and putting those words into the mouth of someone who is much more low status and low power,” @sarahcpr tells her. https://t.co/VXp4AQJ7kb
— Elahe Izadi (@ElaheIzadi) May 22, 2020
TikTok takes a ton of abuse (and not without reason), but it can also be a weapon for the relatively powerless — “Women on TikTok have cracked the code on how to satirize Trump”:
Kylie Scott, a social worker turned film student, was dutifully obeying stay-at-home orders in California when she caught a clip of the president riffing on antibiotics and coronavirus. On TikTok, where lip-syncing is a popular pastime, somebody had mimed the president’s monologue as if he were a clueless substitute teacher, forced to lecture on a subject he knew nothing about. But to Scott, the president’s speech seemed like something much more basic: the 3 a.m. ramblings of a drunk girl in a club.
So that’s what she turned it into. Scott threw on a sparkly top, grabbed a bar glass, and spent 30 minutes learning to lip-sync the president’s address — “The germ has gotten so brilliant” — before recording her reinterpretation and throwing it on TikTok, where it promptly gained more than a million views.
If you’ve had an extra hour or 90 to stare at a screen in the past two months, you might have seen one of Scott’s videos. The settings change, from bar crawl to birthday toast to Uber ride, but her character remains the same: Scott is a runny-mascara’d hot mess who is definitely going to borrow your purse and then puke in it. She just happens to be delivering the monologues of the president of the United States. “I’m not splicing anything together,” Scott says. “They’re all full sound bites that he’s said directly.”…
… Comedians have long complained that Trump is difficult to parody: He says things that are weirder than what any writers’ room could come up with, with a delivery that’s practically beyond exaggeration. Lip-sync remixers like Scott have found a way to revive presidential satire by simply keeping the word vomit and changing everything else.
Sarah Cooper is another master of this method. Wearing her own street clothes and in her own Brooklyn apartment, she’s filmed a whole series, including “How to Medical” — using Trump’s comments about injecting disinfectant to kill the virus — and “How to Obamagate.” Already an author and working comedian, her Twitter following has grown from 60,000 to 600,000; when I talked with her on the phone this week, she said she’d been “taking meetings,” one of those Hollywood terms that often means somebody powerful wants to make you into somebody famous…
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I turn for (more) respite to the glorious inanity of a couple of very funny women.
First up, in a clear concession to readership capture, SNL At Home’s brilliant Kate McKinnon:
Next up, the incomparable Catherine Tate, ably straight-manned by “I’m Not A Doctor” David Tennant:
There is a back story to that video that may be the funniest six minutes of classroom time every conceived:
So, yes, the world is turning to shit and we are led by vicious morons, but Dr Who abides. (And if you are an anti-Whovian, or merely, like me, mostly indifferent, perhaps the comments can be the place in which y’all offer up that which whacks your funny bone the most in times like these (or any others).)
And with that, it’s 0-Bourbon-00 here. Slainte, and have some thread…
I, Too, Loathe The Scumbaggery Infesting The Republic…And So:Post + Comments (59)
A number of you all indicated you loved the stories Alain would tell in his posts and his comments. And before I go any farther, I was in touch with Carol today and what you all wrote in your comments to Cole’s post, as well as mine last night and today really made her load a little lighter.
On the 6th I was texting with Alain – I had asked him about upgrading to a new 4k AppleTV as I’ve been running my old one and as a result was unable to watch my superhero cartoons and movies adapted from comic books in glorious 4K Dolbyvision – and I wanted his opinion on whether it was worth it. Yes, I asked a tech guy who was also a tech gear guy if I should upgrade my tech. Silly me!
After establishing that I should upgrade, which I have done (hence the HDMI cable references yesterday), he asked if I wanted some sourdough starter. Before we go any further, while I love sourdough bread, I don’t eat very much of it because I don’t do well with refined carbohydrates and refined sugar. So I largely avoid bread and all the other things I love that are made of refined carbohydrates and include refined sugar. He lulled me in on the sourdough by asking about a candy store in Tallahassee and then segued into the sourdough. Here’s what happened:
(ETA: When I first entered Alain’s information into my phone, I entered it based on how it sounded when he pronounced his last name or how I thought it sounded, so Chamot wound up as Chailmont – don’t judge, I’m tone deaf…)
Alain Chailmont: Look up Lofty Pursuits or Pd.net. Public displays of confection. I’m so jealous you can drive there.
Adam L Silverman: Ok
Alain Chailmont: Just amazing craft and addictive watching. Candy making.
(Adam here: at this point I’m looking up Lofty Pursuits to try to figure out where they are so I can determine how long it will take me to get there)
Adam L Silverman: Ok. That’s a six hour drive depending on traffic. So I could drive there, but I could also drive to Atlanta
Alain Chailmont: Yeah. But it’s a fuck closer for you than me! lol
Adam L Silverman: Yes, but…
Alain Chailmont: You won’t be stopping by, I dig.
Adam L Silverman: Not any time soon. Also, statewide and county wide shelter in place order
Alain Chailmont: Neither will I. I don’t expect business to take me to Tallahassee Which is why I ordered a week and a half ago from them. Can’t wait to get my order.
Adam L Silverman: Gotcha. Enjoy! Time for me to walk the dogs!
Alain Chailmont: Careful of the 🐊
Adam L Silverman:
Alain Chailmont: I showed Carol that earlier, she figured some folk would finally listen because that’s a relatable distance. Lol. Any interest in some Sourdough starter? My new batch is almost ready to dry and I’d be happy to send you a sample.
Adam L Silverman: Passover starts this week so no bread and I also can’t tolerate refined carbohydrates, so I generally avoid bread. But I appreciate the offer. I’m sure TaMara would appreciate a batch!
Alain Chailmont: Just for thought – my primary usage is sourdough pancakes. When the starter is cultivated well, they are so complex. The fermented flour is usually easy on digestion for those with issues.
I’ll send her one!
Adam L Silverman: Okay, send me one. I’ll find a use for it
Alain Chailmont: Shall do. Hott Stuff Sourdough is my brand 😂 it’ll await your efforts indefinitely as long as you keep it dry and in the dark.
Adam L Silverman: Not a problem. Thanks!
By now you’ve noticed that 1) I didn’t actually want any sourdough starter, but…, 2) I threw both Passover and TaMara at him as a distraction, neither of which worked, and 3) when that didn’t work I gave in. What you can’t see in those texts is that I gave in because I could feel through the texts that I wasn’t being a good friend. That the sourdough starter was important to him, so I’d take some and find a use for it because that would make him happy. And because it was an easy thing to do to make him happy. And it did make him happy.
Two days later, feeling the need to extract a bit of payment for knuckling on the sourdough starter, I had this conversation with Alain:
Adam L Silverman: You got Popehat in trouble
Wife: what's that
Me: nothing
Wife: it's something. What's in the jar?
Me: nothing, nothing, just an empty jar
Wife: what is that in there?
Me: meth. I have a meth habit
Wife: no you don't. It's — oh my god. Is that sourdough starter? really?
Me: NO I SWEAR, IT'S A JAR OF PORN— TOTALAUTHORITYHat (@Popehat) April 8, 2020
Alain Chailmont: Haha lol
Adam L Silverman: Do we need to schedule an intervention?
Trying to bake some #bread during your #quarantine? San Francisco neighbors are sharing their treasured #sourdough starter by pinning them to telephone poles. See a map of where you can find a starter closest to you. –> https://t.co/vBhKde2dvM
— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) April 7, 2020
Alain Chailmont: I. Am. So. Cool. For once.
Adam L Silverman: Don’t let it go to your head
The next day, while kibbitzing about Passover seders, or in my case the lack thereof, Alain returned to sourdough starter:
Alain Chailmont: My new batch dries tomorrow and so i begin shipping again Saturday lol
Adam L Silverman: Just so you know, you can’t sell that stuff within 500 feet of a school or a playground!
And that’s my Alain sourdough story. I didn’t want any, I could feel through the texts on my phone that not wanting any was upsetting him, so I said I’d take some. I’m sure there’s a packet en route in the mail, and I’m going to put it to damn good use in his memory!
By the way, Gretchen Koch an amazing graphic artist with a PhD in religion, she did this on the fly for Popehat:
Open thread!
PS – I’ve got a baking/confecting post I’ll put up tomorrow night. I made chocolate coated peanut butter truffles earlier sweetened only with agave. They’re setting up right now in the fridge.
I Thought I’d Share an Alain Story: Sourdough EditionPost + Comments (51)
Like Floriduh! Man, Floriduh! Woman is can’t be bargained with. She can’t be reasoned with. She doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And she absolutely will not stop, ever…
Deputies @FlaglerSheriff: woman arrested for placing dozens of Easter eggs in mailboxes around county w pornographic materials in them. 42 yo Abril Cestoni facing a host of charges including violating stay st home order. Investigators say she was ranting about church & clergy. pic.twitter.com/N8KPzEv0eE
— claire metz (@clairemetzwesh) April 9, 2020
From the Flagler, County Sheriff’s Office:
Woman Arrested for Putting Easter Eggs with Explicit Content in Mailboxes
Since Sunday, April 5, 2020, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) has received numerous calls from local residents throughout Flagler County stating that they found a plastic Easter egg in their mailbox that contained pornographic images, non-threatening references to local churches and county buildings, and other miscellaneous items.
On Wednesday evening, FCSO received multiple calls from residents reporting that a female was once again placing plastic eggs in mailboxes, this time on Hernandez Avenue. Corporal Jacob had previously identified the suspect vehicle as a 2004 silver Honda Civic. FCSO’s Problem Area Crime Enforcement (PACE) Unit began to search areas where the reports were coming from. At 11:19 p.m., PACE located the vehicle traveling north on Belle Terre Parkway at Whiteview Parkway and a traffic stop was conducted.
During the investigation, 42-year-old Abril Cestoni (DOB 4/10/1977) admitted to placing the items in the mailboxes stating that she was educating people. There was a bag full of pornographic material inside the vehicle and she told deputies that she had distributed over 400 pamphlets in the past few days throughout Flagler County. Cestoni did not have any symptoms of COVID-19.
“Our team did a great job in tracking this deranged offender down and taking her into custody,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. “Thankfully she did not appear to be sick with COVID-19 symptoms, but she certainly needs some help. This again proves that ‘see something, say something’ works and we thank the community for being part of our guardianship policing philosophy.”
Cestoni was arrested and charged with 11 counts of Distributing Obscene Material. It was also determined that Cestoni did not have a valid driver’s license. She was additionally charged with Driving with a Suspended License and Violating Executive Order 20-91 for conducting travel not related to essential activity. She was booked into the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility and is being held on a $7,000.00 bond.
Cestoni has previously been arrested in Flagler County for Driving with a Suspended License, Writ of Bodily Attachment, and Failure to Appear for a Traffic Summons.
Additional charges may be pending as the investigation continues.
Easter is named for a fertility goddess after all.
Open thread!
Floriduh! Woman Does Easter If You Know What I Mean & I Think You Do…Post + Comments (63)
From WPTV Channel 5 in West Palm Beach:
Florida authorities tracking a stolen car also discovered heroin, cocaine, guns and a baby alligator when they went to make an arrest.
Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma announced details of the bust at a news conference Friday.
He said a deputy ran the plates on a car, learned it was stolen and followed it to a Lake Mary house.
That’s where deputies found the drugs and a baby alligator that was being kept as a pet.
Since it is Floriduh!, I can pretty much guarantee that the baby alligator will be charged and tried as an adult!
Open thread!
Floriduh! Man Never Takes a Day Off! Even During a Pandemic!Post + Comments (32)
So, this picture (taken yesterday) expresses both Tikka’s and my contempt for our current leadership:
And here he is, the Right Hon. Tikka, about to testify to Trump’s manifold failures, swearing his oath on the text of his choosing:
And last, a challenge for y’all.
Context, and shared pain: my sibs and I are addicted to various forms of wordplay. We’ve been trading limericks in our weekly video calls. Here’s one from my older brother:
Not too shabby!
And here are my three entries from yesterday. They don’t all scan, but they mean well:
Nor will Donald, come the rout in November.
After the disaster he failed to anticipate.
I should be in charge of this space!”
Now the challenge, or the opportunity. Jackals, have at it: share your bad jokes, memes limericks, clerihews, Balliol rhymes, Tom Swifties–hell, a sonnet, if you’re on it. The more it hurts the better it is for all of us.
Image: William Mulready, The Sonnet, 1839. (Yeah, I know. It’s pretty dreadful. But it fits!)
Sunday Afternoon Silliness/Tikka Ain’t Got Time For Trump’s NonsensePost + Comments (109)
My brother is a magpie, and a grotesque abuser of the English language, both qualities which come in handy at times like these.
Here are a couple of his gifts to me, regifted to you, from the last few days.
1: A dread disease dad joke:
You know, with climate change and mild, short winters, tick borne diseases are moving north and appearing in locations unfamiliar with them. The good news?
You can now get Lyme with your Corona.
And then, for the musically inclined, he sent me this, which originated a classmate of his from high school, now turned into a pro violinist:
“Cloroxissmo” FTW.
Over to y’all: open (especially for gallows humor) thread.
Image: Pieter Claesz, Still life with a glass of beer and smoked herring on a plate, 1636
We can use an open thread, so here’s a video clip of very good boy Bailey swiping and eating someone’s burrito at Warren campaign headquarters earlier today.
Bailey legit just swiped someone’s burrito. pic.twitter.com/MWr6ZeiJa2
— Gabrielle Farrell 💫 President Warren 2020 (her/s) (@FarrellGabriell) March 5, 2020
Current defense attorney, former Federal prosecutor, burrito aficionado, and Michael Avenatti bête noire Ken White has taken the case!
The evidence is circumstantial at best, my client has no statement, is my client free to leavehttps://t.co/LKzSDVryT8
— WorkThroughItHat (@Popehat) March 5, 2020
Also, everyone, for the love of someone’s, anyone’s, and/or no one’s (for the atheists) Deity or Deities (for the polytheists), please use horizontal mode for pictures and videos!!!!
Whose a good boy, with very bad gas? Bailey is!!!!
Open thread!
Given this afternoon’s and evening’s Executive Branch reassignments and terminations, we’re going to need these to get through the weekend.
I believe we’re somewhere in the elevated range on the advisory system.
We’ll have to wait to Monday to see if Senator Collins makes it all the way to sternly worded letter. So stay tuned.
Open thread!
Important Metrics To Get Us Through the WeekendPost + Comments (46)
The Ghost of Christmas One Percent pic.twitter.com/4KlF8sUtzB
— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 3, 2019
Melania Trump’s White House Christmas decorations are a monochromatic wonderland https://t.co/9nRy0lPHJW
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 2, 2019
… White paper stars hang from the ceiling of the East Colonnade, a passageway that has been transformed by arches lined with clear plastic panels printed with white line drawings of more than 60 examples of American architecture and innovation. They spring from the ground like an austere garden of blueprints…
…[A]s she’s done before, she released a video of herself filmed during her final walk-through on Sunday after returning from Thanksgiving in Palm Beach, Fla. In it, she’s looking at an advent calendar in the shape of the White House, adjusting ribbons, and sprinkling fake snow on trees in the Grand Foyer and Cross Hall, which was filled with evergreens covered in white lights or gold paint…
Whatever tastes viewers have, the first lady’s devotion to Christmas decorating cannot be quibbled with. This year she began preparations as early as July, according to an Instagram post that showed her looking at an array of flowers and fabric swatches. This is within the normal holiday decor preparation time for first ladies, but most other first ladies have not trumpeted that fact. The Trumps have also had fewer state dinners than their predecessors. Such events are usually an opportunity for first families to show off their style. That leaves the Christmas decorations as the preeminent expression of Melania Trump’s tastes…
Former model Melania Trump finally has the advertising budget she dreamed about when she was doing all those degrading cattle calls and low-rent catalog shoots, and yet all the classy designers turn up their noses, murmuring about ‘overextended already, I’m afraid’ and ‘not exactly the kind of job where our staff is at its best, if you know what I mean.’
She wanted “extremely upscale fashion boutique” and had to settle for “mid-range Midwestern shopping mall in one of the more expensive suburbs.” Sure, it excited the Qanon crowd, but those people see portents in their alphabet soup. Even the Wingnut Wurlitzer praise seems pretty pro-forma this year (presumably someone on Melania’s staff is assigned to picking out twitter highlights)… probably they’ve just got too many other Trump-related circuses to defend / promote.
This is like a cross between a Lexus December to Remember commercial and a trailer for The Shining.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 2, 2019
"It's not exactly 'I really don't care, do u?' but it's not exactly what one might call welcoming," writes our chief fashion critic @VVfriedman on the White House's decorations this year for the holidayshttps://t.co/RQxXqNK1wn
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 2, 2019
There is even a The Shining-like cameo from two random people dressed like either chefs or grand wizards. pic.twitter.com/AlTYba4P5w
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 2, 2019
WH Xmas Open Thread: “The Spirit of America”… Is Very, Very WhitePost + Comments (86)
Sounds like they were psychic. https://t.co/8095Fjx2H4
— Dennis DiClaudio (@dennisdiclaudio) November 19, 2019
Stephanie Grisham may be a worse person than Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 20, 2019
“Lord, make my enemies ridiculous”…
but really it was totally uncalled for for Obama's outgoing chief of staff to put saran wrap on all the toilets. Steve Bannon nearly suffocated.
— Gator MaClunkey (@Zeddary) November 19, 2019
Jon Chait at NYMag: Suuure, Jan…
… Then there are the notes. Trump loves promoting the narrative that President Obama left “a mess” for him to clean up, and engineered deep state conspiracies to undermine him starting in 2016. Trump has floated the most bizarre conspiracy theories about Obama sabotage, including the claim that Obama tapped his phones. Trump would be extremely happy to circulate photos of any such “you will fail” notes, and any aid who produced such a note would have instantly become Trump’s momentary favorite. Yet nobody has produced any evidence of these notes, even though they were supposedly left throughout the building…
Backlash, per the Washington Post:
… Grisham made the initial allegation during an interview with the John Fredericks radio show after the host asked her why the Trump White House had failed to fully staff the administration with loyalists from its earliest days.
Grisham responded by alleging that the administration faced an uphill battle from the very beginning, including open disdain from Obama aides who left behind hostile messages as they departed their offices…
In response to Obama aides pushing back on her allegations, Grisham issued a statement softening her initial claims and calling the controversy “silly.”
“I’m not sure where their offices were, and certainly wasn’t implying every office had that issue,” Grisham said. “I was talking specifically (and honestly) about our experience in the lower press office — nowhere else. I don’t know why everyone is so sensitive!”…
Can’t You People take a joke?
ICYMI Snark Break Open Thread: WH Press Secretary: <em>Look, A Jackalope! </em>Post + Comments (26)
We report, you decide!
THERE IS A SIAMESE LOOKING CAT CLIMBING UP MY SCREEN CAGE AND WALKING ON MY LABIA pic.twitter.com/LALB0K6Q9e
— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) September 11, 2019
Obligatory:
Open Thread!
Floriduh! Woman Or Cat Blogging? You Make the CallPost + Comments (30)
"Hi Meghan, it's Tim down at Chili's. Yep, he's here again. Um, two Fuzzy Navels and some loaded potato skins. Yeah, I've got his keys, but I'm afraid we're going to have to ban him this time." pic.twitter.com/CeUeOKjQ9B
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) August 29, 2019
Admitted plagiarist and general internet nuisance Ben Domenech is the founder, editor, and biggest booster of a left-twitter punching bag known as The Federalist. Since I am not the only person who thinks of The Federalist as a kind of wingnut-wurlitzer sink trap, watching its public face throw a nutty on twitter is always mildly entertaining…
it is very funny that the publisher of the federalist described this standard news story about a media organization as "doxxing" https://t.co/rmXhMxLXG3
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) August 28, 2019
… The path of conservative media has largely mirrored the challenges of digital and print news operations broadly over the last decade, with wild experimentation in form and content, waves of consolidation, and a series of high-profile collapses…
And others have adapted to [Trump’s] rise and his style. The Daily Caller went populist, amplifying Trump’s anti-immigrant politics. Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire remained skeptical of the president but drew a huge following “owning” his liberal enemies. The Federalist followed a version of this second path.
The site launched in 2013. In a post introducing the outlet, publisher Ben Domenech compared its mission to that of the original Time magazine, which “aimed to cover and distill the news of politics, economics, world affairs, and culture for the nation’s rising middle class.” The site published a wide-ranging group of writers on a variety of political and cultural topics. Over the years, it has adapted to the Trump moment by criticizing perceived excesses of his detractors in the media and relentlessly questioning the Russia investigation.
Unlike some peers and more like Breitbart, which only revealed its ownership structure under pressure from a committee from which it was seeking congressional press credentials, the Federalist has been resolutely opaque about its finances. The site is owned by a private company and doesn’t have to disclose its ownership or funding structure; its parent company, FDRLST Media, was incorporated as a limited liability company in Delaware in 2016. And the omertà on the topic has prompted a considerable amount of speculation in the political media world, with the phrase “Who funds the Federalist?” becoming a recurring meme, often tweeted at the site’s top brass. The Federalist has winked at the controversy, selling at one point an “I Fund the Federalist” T-shirt.
Despite the air of mystery, publicly available information does shed some light on some of the Federalist’s financials, though it’s not necessarily the full picture — or anything that explains why the secret has been so closely guarded…
I personally assume Ben’s mother-in-law Cindy McCain is using her personal $200 million fortune to keep Domenech busy and out of her basement, because hell, given the option, wouldn’t you?
What did BettyC know and when did she know it?
It was a weird day yesterday: Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill receives prank box labeled 'industrial strength dildos' https://t.co/23lLwQAn31
— Jim Little (@JimWLittle) August 16, 2019
The Pensacola News Journal has all the details:
Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill is fuming after a box labeled “industrial strength dildos” arrived in the mail at his county office Thursday.
Underhill showed the box to reporters following the County Commission meeting on Thursday, saying it demonstrated how far the level of civility has fallen in Escambia County.
“There’s no way this is even remotely appropriate in the way that we conduct business here in Escambia County,” Underhill said while pointing to the box. “We have staff members, young people, who have to handle the mail here. I’m a sailor, you’re not going to offend me with anything, but this kind of garbage, and this is the kind of garbage put out by the same kinds of people, the same lies, the same hate, the same anger that they bring to every single issue.”
The box itself appeared to be a practical joke box and was only filled with paper and a packing slip billing for the package that included the email address of the sender.
The email address belongs to a Perdido Key resident named Scott Anderson, who told the News Journal he had no idea about the box being sent to Underhill or how his email address ended up on the packing slip.
“I’m totally stunned by all of this,” Anderson said.
Anderson said he’s only interacted with Underhill a few times on the Nextdoor website over what he said was a lack of maintenance at the Perdido Key Dog Park.
“I suppose I could’ve irritated maybe an Underhill supporter,” Anderson said. “That’s the only thing I can think of.”
Despite the box appearing to be a joke, it was no laughing matter for Underhill.
Underhill regularly comments in local Facebook groups and often takes a combative tone with people with whom he disagrees.
Underhill said laughing at the antics of his dedicated critics only makes it worse because the time and energy spent on dealing with his critics is time not spent tackling issues that matter such as funding for public safety.
Underhill pointed to the meeting on Thursday as an example. On Thursday, members of Save Pensacola Beach protesting the county’s move to remove language approved by voters last year in a non-binding referendum.
During the discussion, Underhill said he compared the group and its founder Dianne Krummel to antifa, short for anti-facists, the name given to far-left protestors who often wear masks and engage in violent attacks during protest.
“Dianne, at some point you’re going to have to trade in that yellow shirt for a black mask if you keep this up,” Underhill said.
While speaking to reporters, Underhill blamed the press for feeding what he said was “radical activism” of the group and argued that the County Commission chambers should be a place of civil discussion.
When asked if his own speech, especially online, was uncivil, Underhill rejected the idea.
“I don’t think I’m uncivil online at all,” Underhill said. “I engage the adversary. The adversary is the lies, the untruths. The reality is if we as your — especially as conservative elected officials — do not push back against the spending, if we don’t push back against the corruption, if we don’t push back against the lies that are said here, then who will?”
He seems nice.
No word on when the lube is scheduled to be delivered.
Also, The Industrial Strength Dildos are my New Wave Fem Punk cover band.
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Not Safe For Work Delivery: Floriduh! Man EditionPost + Comments (87)
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