"Numpty" is a great word! More later. I'm in a meeting right now. Usually I don't give a shit but I called the meeting so I need to do a particularly good job of feining interest.
I’ll start with the obvious joke: DeSantis should have been forced to carry his candidacy to full term.
The DeSantis Boomlet of 2022, when loads of pundits on the right (and center) believed DeSantis could topple Trump, is a textbook example of rightwing and centrist pundits simply not being normal, and apparently not knowing anyone who *IS* normal. Anyone could have told them once the DeSantis-bot was forced to interact with us carbon-based life forms his candidacy would grind to a halt. The guy is just weird in an unsettling, uncanny valley type of way, sort of like if some screenwriter was making a “how about a fascist governor, but he’s really a robot?” pitch to the studios.
We’ll have to wait to find out, after he’s returned to his charging station, if he will upload “human social skills” software before 2028. But I doubt it. Unlike you Roy, I’m not sure what he wants to do next. Run for President again? Join a think tank? Dream of electric sheep? Who knows. But I think talking head is out of the question. That would be a sure-fire recipe for getting normies to change the channel.
The first episode was brilliant. The rest of the series could be characterized as the weekly attempt to stretch about 20 minutes of material into a full hour...
He did win Florida, which while it is a truly fascist state is not really that different than a lot of others and perhaps enough to push the Electoral College to grant him the presidency. Don't forget that Clinton got several million votes more than Trump.
True, but IIRC he only squeaked by the first time, and the second time he ran against Charlie Crist, who could probably be defeated by a monkey in a necktie.
BRILLIANT strategy by the Florida Dems, BTW. "We'll get all the Democratic voteses because he's runnin' as a Democrat, AND we'll get all the Republican voteses cuz he's a Republican too! It can't miss!"
Ya know, given the wonders that climate change and Republicans are bringing to Florida, I'm thinking "Slough Of Despair" could soon replace "Sunshine State" on the license plates.
Now that I think about it, maybe Three Fingers would have been a better candidate in the general election than fPOTUS -- that is, even more repellant to the voters. Bummer...
Anyway, I’m so old that I lost it for him when I saw him copying fPOTUS’ childish hand gestures. I thought: what kind of putz copies that bizarre shit unless it’s an on-the-spectrum thing?
But then came, in no particular order, Don’t say gay, Disney,the white boots and high heels and a broad range of fuckery. And, of course, his support for Covid.
Meanwhile, also weird is how trouble Republican pols have channeling Trump’s insanity while the base only wants it from the old man. Of course, the base enjoys the sadism from anyone, the insanity not so much.
Of course, with the primaries about to become irrelevant but for grifting, fake-Tubby has time for a couple of trials.
First, DeSantis will get a lavishly endowed professorship at New College in Sarasota, maybe the the Christopher Rufo Chair of Conversion Therapy, with no teaching duties, of course, and with a special appointment overseeing women’s sports, to keep the trans and dykes off the volleyball team. Then he’ll sign up with the law firm of Takeum, Shakeum and Runn, filing mass lawsuits on behalf of parents who find books scary and think modern music is all Satan and gay. Finally, he’ll raise money for a Real America Theme Park in Cedar Key, FL, to rival Disney, which will consist of multiple doublewide trailers and will be destroyed by Hurricane Elwood in 2028.
Cedar Key. Back in 1981, I flew in there on a solo cross-country flight. There were only a handful of houses there at the time, and as I cruised along the downwind leg of the traffic pattern, I saw a yellow Mercedes pull out of a driveway and head to the runway. After I landed, the little old lady at the wheel of that Mercedes asked me if I wanted some coffee or a doughnut! She was the welcome wagon!
Yeah, even in the 90’s Cedar Key was Old Florida: a motel on the beach, a boardwalk, a fish shack and some houses in stilts. It was the first state capital but was destroyed in a hurricane and never fully recovered.
" What does it take to crap out as quickly as DeSantis did?"
I have Michelle Bachmann on line 1. Even though God told her to run for president, she crapped out as fast of Ron-boy did.
On line 2, I have Rick Perry. God also told him to run, only to let him implode in spectacular fashion.
I do not think Desantis is going to end up on TV or in a think tank or with any of the other usual wingnut welfare gigs. He's one thoroughly detestable and obnoxious human, and the more people were exposed to him, the more they came to despise him. No amount of comportment training is going to remedy that because being able to instantly alienate everyone in the room is now his superpower.
And I think he's going to be pretty busy for the next few years. He still has his term as governor to finish out, and there's that tremendous Disney lawsuit that he's going to lose. There's also all the OTHER lawsuits he got the state sucked into that he's going to lose. And there's all of his conservative cronies who are being revealed as completely amoral cretins in delightfully public ways. And I'd bet folding money that Casey decides he has no future in her life because her ambitions are waaaaay bigger than just being the wife of an ex-governor/historical footnote/contemporary punchline.
Great minds etc. Less interested in what becomes of Ron than what Casey’s next move will be. She didn’t assemble that Jackie O wardrobe to hang around Tallahassee.
The only mystery is why such a seething ball of vitriol and ambition ever initially relegated herself to the role of Politician's Wife. She cannot be contained.
Sort of like the only relatable thing about Trump was how he couldn't wipe the smirk off his face when he was surrounded by evangelical Christians who were praying for him. It was like he was looking at the camera with the thought bubble "can you believe I've put it over on these asshole marks" over his head.
LOL, he actually claimed it was scar tissue, said he'd bumped his head while installing cabinets. Nothing says "tryhard" like having an elaborate lie to explain why you're balding.
Working on and around aircraft, I have slammed my head into wings and propellers hard enough to knock me down. Hard enough to actually tear my scalp. And yet, somehow, I still have a full head of hair. Walker must have hit those cabinets while running full-tilt so that the cabinet edge peeled his scalp back from forehead to occipital.
An aviation psychologist who freelanced for me once wrote:
"Have you ever seen a 6-foot tall tooth? Of course you have! Think about someone standing on stage speaking to an audience. That person has a piece of spinach stuck to one of their front teeth. The instant you notice that piece of spinach, it becomes all you can see. The speaker transforms from a person to a six-foot tall tooth."
The article was on how certain distractions can fixate our minds and make us ignore more important things.
I have had an uncanny knack for bashing my head into things like cabinets, car hoods, and various parts of the machines at work but I never blamed them for the fact my hairline started retreating the way it did, hahahaha!
You know how you'll be reading on the internet and some pundit style wag starts talking about how bad Trump is going to beat our ass and how completely fucked we are ? There's a real good chance that whoever is writing that crap once wrote a piece about how DeSantis is some kind of fascist God and just you wait until he runs for president and we will be really fucked because he'll be unstoppable.
While we’re on the topic of desperation, 58-year-old confirmed bachelor Tim Scott got engaged over the weekend, with his campaign releasing photos of him kneeling before his soulmate on a lovely stretch of SC beach. Will send a link to their registry when I find it.
I expect that engagement will go the way of the wind when Nancy Mace takes over his Senate seat next year, and no further political need of a bride will be needed.
1996 was supposed to be the year Dan Quayle took his rightful place as The Gipper's true heir. Turns out God was saving the smug little shit for the one worthwhile thing he was ever to do: Help save the Republic, or at least give it a brief lease on life.
(This is the era of Things I Never Thought I'd Say.)
It's comments like this that can twist a thread, or even tear the fabric of the community here. I'm not one to pin my hopes on such a thing, but perhaps you can mend your ways and help us all stitch this coalition together.
I say “from your mouth to dog’s ears” because it’ll have about the same effect.
Well, the dog might thump his tail.
I’m heartened, because he was mostly the culture war candidate: nasty, with the Pushaw woman pushing “all gays/LBGTQS or mentions thereof are grooming your kids to be molested”, and “Disney wants to put boys in yer daughters’ gym showers and cut your sons’ penises off”...most folk got this was stone nuts.
Florida had been both redneck as fuck, and a very gay state. Ron’s next turn will probably avoid that..and his Wife’s Jackie O longings will remain unfulfilled.
Watching the crackup of the Moms for Threeways, and insane FL Pols is fun: but can a Dem win in Florida?
It also made me wonder if the average Republican voter has a limited appetite for new forms of bigotry, being perfectly satisfied with the old forms (racism and misogyny) inherited from their parents. Sure, they were willing to take on Muslim-hatin' after 9/11, as a form of service to their country, but don't expect 'em to study up on new forms of hate every couple of years, that's more mental effort than they're willing to put in. Turns out the anti-trans stuff was just too novel and weird and complex for them. Trump knows how to stick to the tried-and-true.
Jackie Faux might be mulling her own candidacy for Governor come 2026; as it is now it's a reverse of "Elect Lurleen And Let George Do It". She's the one with the true political instincts (and strikes me as an updated version of the only woman Richard Nixon was afraid of, Barbara Bush).
It was right here at REBID that I proclaimed the only pleasure I would take from the Republican primaries and the endless election coverage would be Trump's evisceration of Meatball Ron. The fucking worm didn't even make it to New Hampshire before bending the knee to Trump. The next 9 months are going to be completely joyless.
In a better world this'd go viral today. I can see it now. The quip, the song for fun and context, a little graphic of a fatcat withholding moneybags from a deflating Ron.
Thanks! I wish I had my ol’ writin’ job back. This struck me as funny...I’m also surprised that no one seems to have made a connection between TV’s The Curse and Jared and Ivan’s.
Oh, and Ron is depicted with a meatball body, ill-fitting blazer, and of course the white boots. Maybe Trump is sticking a pin in the deflating meatball.
I'm taking it as tremendously good news, whatever the reason, and whatever the effect on the primary (none.) Because DeSantis, more than any other candidate, really leaned HARD into the anti-vax lies (the day before he dropped out, he was saying he'd appoint RFK Jr. to head the FDA). And if he had been successful, there would be a thousand opportunistic Republicans (but I repeat myself) who'd be thinking, "Hey, I oughta give this anti-vax shit a try, worked for DeSantis!" Now they'll all go off looking for some other gimmick to get another rung up the greasy ladder.
"Numpty" is a great word! More later. I'm in a meeting right now. Usually I don't give a shit but I called the meeting so I need to do a particularly good job of feining interest.
Good luck!
The act of calling it demonstrates a modicum of interest. Go to sleep.
I’ll start with the obvious joke: DeSantis should have been forced to carry his candidacy to full term.
The DeSantis Boomlet of 2022, when loads of pundits on the right (and center) believed DeSantis could topple Trump, is a textbook example of rightwing and centrist pundits simply not being normal, and apparently not knowing anyone who *IS* normal. Anyone could have told them once the DeSantis-bot was forced to interact with us carbon-based life forms his candidacy would grind to a halt. The guy is just weird in an unsettling, uncanny valley type of way, sort of like if some screenwriter was making a “how about a fascist governor, but he’s really a robot?” pitch to the studios.
We’ll have to wait to find out, after he’s returned to his charging station, if he will upload “human social skills” software before 2028. But I doubt it. Unlike you Roy, I’m not sure what he wants to do next. Run for President again? Join a think tank? Dream of electric sheep? Who knows. But I think talking head is out of the question. That would be a sure-fire recipe for getting normies to change the channel.
"Who knows. But I think talking head is out of the question. That would be a sure-fire recipe for getting normies to change the channel."
IIRC, no one wanted to watch that old Max Headroom series back in the day either...
The first episode was brilliant. The rest of the series could be characterized as the weekly attempt to stretch about 20 minutes of material into a full hour...
And Max had the advantage of occasionally being relatable.
This comment made me put The Art of Noise (featuring Max Headroom)’s “Paranoimia” in my playlist.
Oh, I KNEW you folks had good taste in music! *sigh* remembering the days MTV showed real videos like "Close to the Edit"
Check out the video for Art of Noise featuring Duane Eddy’s “Peter Gunn”: a young Rik Mayall appears in it.
Probably my favorite version of Peter Gunn.
First time I ever drove, Art of Noise was in the cassette player.
Objection! I did. In fact, I shall have to search it out.
Am I wrong, or is it the only cyberpunk TV series?
He did win Florida, which while it is a truly fascist state is not really that different than a lot of others and perhaps enough to push the Electoral College to grant him the presidency. Don't forget that Clinton got several million votes more than Trump.
True, but IIRC he only squeaked by the first time, and the second time he ran against Charlie Crist, who could probably be defeated by a monkey in a necktie.
(Ex-Republican Charlie Crist, by the way.)
BRILLIANT strategy by the Florida Dems, BTW. "We'll get all the Democratic voteses because he's runnin' as a Democrat, AND we'll get all the Republican voteses cuz he's a Republican too! It can't miss!"
"who could probably be defeated by a monkey in a necktie"
100% would watch
Florida's gonna Florida. If Las Vegas was a state...
Maybe, but wife might take a swing at coaching Meatball in the dark arts of TV performance. I smell another REBID coming on...
Do android dictators dream of electric sheeple?
I have one acronym for DeSatan and I’ll leave it at that: RIH (Rest in Hell).
"I come not to praise DeSatan but to bury him."
The Malevolent Duck's presidential hopes waddle back into the Slough of Despair.
Ya know, given the wonders that climate change and Republicans are bringing to Florida, I'm thinking "Slough Of Despair" could soon replace "Sunshine State" on the license plates.
Now that I think about it, maybe Three Fingers would have been a better candidate in the general election than fPOTUS -- that is, even more repellant to the voters. Bummer...
Anyway, I’m so old that I lost it for him when I saw him copying fPOTUS’ childish hand gestures. I thought: what kind of putz copies that bizarre shit unless it’s an on-the-spectrum thing?
But then came, in no particular order, Don’t say gay, Disney,the white boots and high heels and a broad range of fuckery. And, of course, his support for Covid.
Meanwhile, also weird is how trouble Republican pols have channeling Trump’s insanity while the base only wants it from the old man. Of course, the base enjoys the sadism from anyone, the insanity not so much.
Of course, with the primaries about to become irrelevant but for grifting, fake-Tubby has time for a couple of trials.
I do like the phrase: "His support for Covid." Upvoted for that.
First, DeSantis will get a lavishly endowed professorship at New College in Sarasota, maybe the the Christopher Rufo Chair of Conversion Therapy, with no teaching duties, of course, and with a special appointment overseeing women’s sports, to keep the trans and dykes off the volleyball team. Then he’ll sign up with the law firm of Takeum, Shakeum and Runn, filing mass lawsuits on behalf of parents who find books scary and think modern music is all Satan and gay. Finally, he’ll raise money for a Real America Theme Park in Cedar Key, FL, to rival Disney, which will consist of multiple doublewide trailers and will be destroyed by Hurricane Elwood in 2028.
Cedar Key. Back in 1981, I flew in there on a solo cross-country flight. There were only a handful of houses there at the time, and as I cruised along the downwind leg of the traffic pattern, I saw a yellow Mercedes pull out of a driveway and head to the runway. After I landed, the little old lady at the wheel of that Mercedes asked me if I wanted some coffee or a doughnut! She was the welcome wagon!
Now she'd be hustlin' a buncha Spanish-speaking folks onto a plane outta state...
Yeah, even in the 90’s Cedar Key was Old Florida: a motel on the beach, a boardwalk, a fish shack and some houses in stilts. It was the first state capital but was destroyed in a hurricane and never fully recovered.
In Traveller, we'd call this a Class D starport.
I think he has a monumental task ahead:
Assert the dehumanization of the GAYZ and all they represent and project EXCEPT THE DARLING WHITE BOOTS! THOSE ARE MANLY! MANLY I TELL YOU!!!
Pee Wee Herman wore them better. And danced on the bar to “Tequila” in them, too!
[Chef's kiss] Ah, Peewee. Intense, but never brittle.
Not a brittle bone in his little body.
Those boots were made for losin'
Cue DeSantis: “ I meant to do that!”
Hey, that's Elon's move!
Satan & The Gays have a great new album out, it's climbing the charts
Hurricane Elwood: "I HATE Florida Nazis."
You got it!
"[...] think modern music is all Satan and gay." Wait, wait, wait - you mean to tell me it... isn't?
" What does it take to crap out as quickly as DeSantis did?"
I have Michelle Bachmann on line 1. Even though God told her to run for president, she crapped out as fast of Ron-boy did.
On line 2, I have Rick Perry. God also told him to run, only to let him implode in spectacular fashion.
I do not think Desantis is going to end up on TV or in a think tank or with any of the other usual wingnut welfare gigs. He's one thoroughly detestable and obnoxious human, and the more people were exposed to him, the more they came to despise him. No amount of comportment training is going to remedy that because being able to instantly alienate everyone in the room is now his superpower.
And I think he's going to be pretty busy for the next few years. He still has his term as governor to finish out, and there's that tremendous Disney lawsuit that he's going to lose. There's also all the OTHER lawsuits he got the state sucked into that he's going to lose. And there's all of his conservative cronies who are being revealed as completely amoral cretins in delightfully public ways. And I'd bet folding money that Casey decides he has no future in her life because her ambitions are waaaaay bigger than just being the wife of an ex-governor/historical footnote/contemporary punchline.
Beat me to it. I'm now taking bets on how long that marriage will last.
Put me down for $5 on "two weeks after he exits the governor's office."
I'm pretty sure the Missus is already paid extra who actually lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Oo-Oo-Oo-F!
Great minds etc. Less interested in what becomes of Ron than what Casey’s next move will be. She didn’t assemble that Jackie O wardrobe to hang around Tallahassee.
Dunno, a woman who's willing to overlook "Thigh food" to get married is hard to predict.
Hah- just wrote more or less the same thing- wish I'd read you first! Respect...
That she must be some kind of political genius is belied by the fact she married Lumpy.
The only mystery is why such a seething ball of vitriol and ambition ever initially relegated herself to the role of Politician's Wife. She cannot be contained.
She contains multitudes . . . of small children she swallowed whole and head-first.
It's just a shame that Guantanamo can't take him back.
Gitmo: "We don't want the fucker, either!"
I mean, we take the worst of the worst, but COME ON
"They hate people like Walker and DeSantis. It’s frankly their most relatable quality."
I'd forgotten this quote. But it's re-runnable because it is truly true.
Sort of like the only relatable thing about Trump was how he couldn't wipe the smirk off his face when he was surrounded by evangelical Christians who were praying for him. It was like he was looking at the camera with the thought bubble "can you believe I've put it over on these asshole marks" over his head.
Except in truthy-truth they are the EASIEST MARKS. Their entire world view demands it of them.
Accurate. They are the living embodiment of P. T. Barnum's cynicism.
Truth! A while back, I read that Utah led the country in confidence scams. That "must respect all authority" stuff is a pretty harsh drug.
Wherever there's someone talkin' shit 'bout Scott Walker, I'll be there.
Shiny bald spot on line 3
LOL, he actually claimed it was scar tissue, said he'd bumped his head while installing cabinets. Nothing says "tryhard" like having an elaborate lie to explain why you're balding.
Working on and around aircraft, I have slammed my head into wings and propellers hard enough to knock me down. Hard enough to actually tear my scalp. And yet, somehow, I still have a full head of hair. Walker must have hit those cabinets while running full-tilt so that the cabinet edge peeled his scalp back from forehead to occipital.
It's a weird example of the Streisand effect: With his elaborate and ridiculous explanation, he ensured that all anyone would see is the bald spot.
An aviation psychologist who freelanced for me once wrote:
"Have you ever seen a 6-foot tall tooth? Of course you have! Think about someone standing on stage speaking to an audience. That person has a piece of spinach stuck to one of their front teeth. The instant you notice that piece of spinach, it becomes all you can see. The speaker transforms from a person to a six-foot tall tooth."
The article was on how certain distractions can fixate our minds and make us ignore more important things.
This is clinical. I appreciate clinical.
I have had an uncanny knack for bashing my head into things like cabinets, car hoods, and various parts of the machines at work but I never blamed them for the fact my hairline started retreating the way it did, hahahaha!
You know how you'll be reading on the internet and some pundit style wag starts talking about how bad Trump is going to beat our ass and how completely fucked we are ? There's a real good chance that whoever is writing that crap once wrote a piece about how DeSantis is some kind of fascist God and just you wait until he runs for president and we will be really fucked because he'll be unstoppable.
The shit was all over the place year before last
"I went to a Trump rally and everybody there LOVES Trump so much, oh, you Dems are gonna lose so BAD."
“How can Trump have lost? His rallies were so big!” MAGA moron.
Don't forget the BOAT PARADES
"And all the same people, every time! That's POPULARITY!"
And COMMITTMENT!
Or conservatorship, at least.
Talk about confirmation bias!
People who wait in the cold to get into Lambeau Field really like the Packers, film at 11.
Nah. They just keepin' watch on their investment.
While we’re on the topic of desperation, 58-year-old confirmed bachelor Tim Scott got engaged over the weekend, with his campaign releasing photos of him kneeling before his soulmate on a lovely stretch of SC beach. Will send a link to their registry when I find it.
aw...bless their hearts...
I expect that engagement will go the way of the wind when Nancy Mace takes over his Senate seat next year, and no further political need of a bride will be needed.
How does this work, exactly? Lifetime bachelorhood is OK for Lindsey but not for Tim?
South Carolina loves those traditional family values, you know.
Hey hey hey! As a 59y/o confirmed bachelor I kinda resent the implication.
To thine own self be true. And don’t make any huge life changes to impress an orange tub of goo.
Lindsey is a made man.
Well, poor Tim also has his, um, unfortunate skin tone to overcome, so there's that.
I blame the parents.
Take the rest of the day off, my friend.
I hope he at least asks his boyfriend to be his best man. It would be rude to leave him out of the ceremony entirely.
The Wedgewood “Plantation” dinner set, but skip the fish forks.
now envisioning a fish with a fork
Snakes be goin' "Dude. Where ya been?"
He might have lasted longer if he had dropped 15 pounds and gotten some clothes that fit instead of the lift boots.
Catty, but probly, yeah...
1996 was supposed to be the year Dan Quayle took his rightful place as The Gipper's true heir. Turns out God was saving the smug little shit for the one worthwhile thing he was ever to do: Help save the Republic, or at least give it a brief lease on life.
(This is the era of Things I Never Thought I'd Say.)
When you need Dan Quayle to tell you what the Constitution says.
We're safe, I read the whole thing and there's not a potato in it.
From your mouth to God's ears. Oh wait, I'm an atheist 🤣
Or, in the words of the Mighty Captain Picard (at the small-appliance repair shop where he's taken his Singer): "Make It Sew!"
* Reaches for the rolled-up newspaper *
Where's Pops when I need him? He only made me go to my room!
*looks at GM, nods*
It's a fair cop.
It's comments like this that can twist a thread, or even tear the fabric of the community here. I'm not one to pin my hopes on such a thing, but perhaps you can mend your ways and help us all stitch this coalition together.
Zip it.
I say “from your mouth to dog’s ears” because it’ll have about the same effect.
Well, the dog might thump his tail.
I’m heartened, because he was mostly the culture war candidate: nasty, with the Pushaw woman pushing “all gays/LBGTQS or mentions thereof are grooming your kids to be molested”, and “Disney wants to put boys in yer daughters’ gym showers and cut your sons’ penises off”...most folk got this was stone nuts.
Florida had been both redneck as fuck, and a very gay state. Ron’s next turn will probably avoid that..and his Wife’s Jackie O longings will remain unfulfilled.
Watching the crackup of the Moms for Threeways, and insane FL Pols is fun: but can a Dem win in Florida?
"can a Dem win in Florida?"
I say we run Charlie Crist one more time and see if that works.
People of Florida lookin' at this post goin' "Damn. Who hearted THAT?!"
Now we know Charlie's a subscriber.
Evan Urquhart over at Assigned Media has an analysis of Meatball and his anti-trans legacy. Haven't read it yet but Evan's a reliable source.
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/desantis-anti-trans-politics-what-was-that
Yes, Parker Molloy also posted this, it's really excellent. Some good insights there on how moral panics are manufactured, and why.
It also made me wonder if the average Republican voter has a limited appetite for new forms of bigotry, being perfectly satisfied with the old forms (racism and misogyny) inherited from their parents. Sure, they were willing to take on Muslim-hatin' after 9/11, as a form of service to their country, but don't expect 'em to study up on new forms of hate every couple of years, that's more mental effort than they're willing to put in. Turns out the anti-trans stuff was just too novel and weird and complex for them. Trump knows how to stick to the tried-and-true.
Jackie Faux might be mulling her own candidacy for Governor come 2026; as it is now it's a reverse of "Elect Lurleen And Let George Do It". She's the one with the true political instincts (and strikes me as an updated version of the only woman Richard Nixon was afraid of, Barbara Bush).
It was right here at REBID that I proclaimed the only pleasure I would take from the Republican primaries and the endless election coverage would be Trump's evisceration of Meatball Ron. The fucking worm didn't even make it to New Hampshire before bending the knee to Trump. The next 9 months are going to be completely joyless.
Yeah – straight to rerons...sad.
Where's that rolled-up newspaper?
[skittering under bed]
Gil Scott Heron was way ahead of you.
https://youtu.be/Xc1flR0LgwY
"The Republicans haven’t renominated a losing presidential candidate like Trump since Tom Dewey,"
Uh, Nixon...
And, sadly, he won.
Was sad that Bigelow cut him off, but you know the song: “you gets no bread for one meatball.”
In a better world this'd go viral today. I can see it now. The quip, the song for fun and context, a little graphic of a fatcat withholding moneybags from a deflating Ron.
Thanks! I wish I had my ol’ writin’ job back. This struck me as funny...I’m also surprised that no one seems to have made a connection between TV’s The Curse and Jared and Ivan’s.
Oh, and Ron is depicted with a meatball body, ill-fitting blazer, and of course the white boots. Maybe Trump is sticking a pin in the deflating meatball.
I'm taking it as tremendously good news, whatever the reason, and whatever the effect on the primary (none.) Because DeSantis, more than any other candidate, really leaned HARD into the anti-vax lies (the day before he dropped out, he was saying he'd appoint RFK Jr. to head the FDA). And if he had been successful, there would be a thousand opportunistic Republicans (but I repeat myself) who'd be thinking, "Hey, I oughta give this anti-vax shit a try, worked for DeSantis!" Now they'll all go off looking for some other gimmick to get another rung up the greasy ladder.
Overtaken by events, e.g., that nasty upper respiratory illness going around (But It's Not COVID!!!)
As long as they apply anti-vaxxing to themselves only.
We'll get to share their viruses, it's the only thing they're generous about.