Can't remember if I ever said, but this stuff -- "Audio aneurysm" -- I'd maybe like a playlist of Deceived Opinion's Greatest Clips.
And props to the Maestro for the tastefully disrespectful cartoon accent for Carville who deserves for more mockery than he's getting. Of course, his unimportance may account for all of the preceding there...
But what was briefly on my mind this AM: That Turd Social fake clip of Obama being busted: Who such an act light a necessary fire under Democrats asses or would we just get more expressions of concerns and reminders of broken, dysfunctional norms? To be clear, I think busting Obummer is highly unlikely but I wouldn't say with the insane pedo guy in the White House, it's not impossible.
BC is lovin' the latest batch of treats. She was making little cat happy noises while eating them yesterday, Never heard that! She's always been strictly "Meow",
I find it hilarious that Obama is sitting next to Schitzenführer in the video, when anyone with a sense of morals and ethics should be parsecs away from his stanky ass.
The Obama stuff is almost certainly dick-waving for the rules (as you say, it's not impossible) but Obama has some resources and cards to play, in Trump's vernacular. Obama could put together a legal team that would turn Bondi and Gabbard into spiral cut honey baked hams, since the core assertion is the purest of bullshit. In turn DOJ would use its go-to move of endless filings on "interpretations" of legal minutia to drag it out, but arresting the most popular Democratic politician alive would be the best voter motivational tool imaginable. Let's see how the Democratic party can fuck that up.
And, sure, Obummer *could* likely beat the wrap but that’s after he’s busted and no doubt photographed and printed.
And as my smart ass position goes, I wonder if busting Obama could inspire his party to act like a real red meat opposition party. I’d put that around a 50/50.
As I keep saying, the national party is grossly limited by beholden to *Republican* special interests just like Slick Willy dictated.
“Sound of civilization collapsing” seems redundant after hearing from Ol’ Snakehead. Carville is the reason we can’t have nice Democratic things. There isn’t a useful progressive idea he hasn’t been against.
I love "sound of civilization collapsing" lol. Unfortunately given the absurdity of our timeline, that soundtrack will probably be yakety sax.
Thumbs up on Peoni's ensemble, Roy, your matching of the deep purple pumps to the blue in the dress is impressive.
I'm afraid my mindset is stuck in the fatalistic "I'd like to see ol' Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam" mode. But there are a few hopeful signs. While they all look like foaming nutters to most normal people, Trump's base does contain factions. To one faction, a big part of his appeal has been what they see as his no-bullshit anti-elitism. They don't think he's a good guy, they just see him as anti-elite (I know, I know). So when he's being just as evasive and just as prone to retreat to the protection of his privileged class as the people they despise, it's not good for him.
The other faction is the gibbering Pizzagate, Q conspiracy theorists, the people who believe every single "elite" is part of a massive, millions-strong pedophile ring that they believe Trump is secretly trying to expose. You can see how Trump fucking teenagers throws a monkey wrench into THAT theory.
So if Trump finds himself caught in a pincer grip between two factions of his base, it's just barely possible he won't wriggle out of this one.
Thanks. I hope I'm getting better at the clothes thing. As it is I feel like Detective Sunday showing off his suit to Julian in American Gigolo. Is there a basic text you could recommend?
You know, one of the advantages of growing up in NYC is even when you don't think you're paying attention, you sort of absorb style through osmosis. So a lot of my fashion sense comes through years of trial and error before deciding what really works for me.
But I've heard really good things from a couple of women about The New Secrets of Style: Dressing Your Best Every Day by the editors of In Style magazine. Probably one of the most important things to realize is every single color has a warm or a cool undertone depending on the shade. Match warm with warm and cool with cool and it's hard to go wrong.
For men's fashion you can't beat the Derek Guy on Bluesky, but you probably already know about him.
The Epstein Files thing is really getting to them, and everyone needs to keep fanning the flames and demanding more info. I’ve seen earnest liberal friends handwringing about whether the grand jury transcripts can be released legally, and I’m just…. Stop being mesmerized by the shiny keys he’s jangling! There’s absolutely no reason to over analyze *anything* they toss out as a red herring. Fight your impulse to good-faith analyze everything he does, and instead stay on the offensive. For crissakes, we’re pushing on an open door; don’t stop to philosophize about the nature of the door!
Absolutely, the grand jury transcript is bullshit. And the concept of "good faith" and anything to do with Trump is divided by the distance between the North and South Poles.
I am enjoying their obvious panic. I guess next they'll release the file on the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping, lol.
Less than a week ago he signed a bill zeroing out all foreign aid, The Lancet estimates 14 million dead as a result. And yet it was a one-day story (not the Lancet thing, that's a zero-day story) and now the news is Nothin' But Epstein. This makes me incredibly sad and incredibly enraged at the same time.
Hey, remember when that guy who was a MAGA and an Infowars listener shot four people in the head for the crime of Being Democrat? What was that, like ten years ago or sumpthin'?
Hey, how 'bout that guy who shot and then beheaded his father because dad worked for the Army Corps of Engineers and his son wanted to start a civil war and kill everyone who worked for the government? Crazy, huh? Maybe I imagined it?
Dont hang too much hope on the Q-Continuum being consistent in their anti-pedo obsession. I saw one X screencap of some woman loudly not caring about the Epstein stuff because Trump was "getting things done". She didn't go into detail, but she didn't have to.
I see Trump's coalition not so much factions as a Wad of interests, a group of blind people touching the elephant that is Trump. They have their hands on the bit that appeals to them and ignore the rest as best they can, as only Americans can ignore politics. But the wriggling is getting harder and harder as there is more and more history behind him. They're throwing the kitchen sink at the wall on this one, and it might "work" well enough, but the Master is clearly sweating on this. It's getting harder every time.
I think we can be sure of one thing: They never cared about the girls (because OBVIOUSLY.) Just a tool to get at the people they hate, if it stops working, find another tool.
James Carville . . . why the fuck won't he go away? Why the fuck is anybody listening to him? Why the fuck is he being constantly booked on MSNBC? Why the fuck is he STILL being brought in to advise Democrats on election strategy?
Like a bad barnacle on a dying whale, Carville knows his gravy train and will ride it to the abyss when it dies, yakking all the while about how the hagfish really aren't all that bad if you just try to understand them.
Cut Jimmy a break. They guy is homeless and MSNBC lets him sleep in the Green Room. The deal is that he has to be out of the building by 5AM. He sticks close to 30 Rock in case a guest slot opens. That way if they send a page to fetch him, the poor kid won't have to wander all over the city.
He said "It's the economy, stupid!" teaching the Democrats a lesson they can NEVER unlearn: A Democratic candidate is allowed to speak on ONE issue and no more. So pick your one issue carefully, and spend hours and hours arguing with your fellow Democrats about what the one issue should be!
The gerontocracy mentality of the Democratic Party is so powerful it is upheld as gospel wisdom even by younger members of the party like Hakeem Jeffries. They all believe they deserve stints to the grave on the public teat.
And the idea politicians should FOLLOW public opinion rather than try to SHAPE it is regarded as the first through 9th of the Ten Commandments. The 10th is always ask for more money.
I only WISH they'd follow public opinion. Instead, we get complete crap like "we will respond in a time and place of our choosing," which is what Jeffries said after Trump had a Democratic congressperson arrested. Even the TV host was so incredulous she had to ask him again, and he gave EXACTLY the same response--which tells me he thought long and hard about what to say so as to NOT energize the Democratic base, not seem like he was opposed to Trump, and NOT seem like he was actually taking a position on the whole affair. And public opinion even back then was that Trump was unpopular and his immigration policy was unpopular.
And here we are, two months later . . . and Jeffries and Schumer STILL cannot bring themselves to voice loud vigorous opposition to Trump.
As the great Casey Stengel once said, "Doesn't anybody here know how to play this game?!?!"
Which begs the question of when that time and place of their choosing will be. The midterms? Like anyone will remember by then, there will be dozens of new atrocities in the interim. And it will be hard for Jeffries to get access to the megaphone of the media from the gulag.
Same reason ever major news outlet featured the same Steve Bannon quote on how MAGA is united behind Trump because of the Epstein smear. He fills a need. We lesser mortals can't comprehend that need, but up on Mt Olympus it's as clear as a bell.
I put that together in about one minute after reading yours. Thumbing away on the phone whilst cruising along on the electrified Caltrain (first ride on the new train – spiffy, and much quieter!)
Anyway, I was hesitant to post it because bleh, but I thought everybody ought to share in it, if only so's the rest of your day will be better than the moment you read it.
The flop sweat pooling inside the White House and Merde-a-Lardo is rising to floodwater levels. Every batshit hallucination in Trump’s wizened brain is being taken out for a spin in order to distract his cult - and I most certainly include every Republican politician - from Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. It might work, if he finds a personal bête noir for each Congressman, Senator, Governor and State legislator.
I don't know about that, but I do know that when they used to play the song "Skidmarks On My Heart", it would be on the setlist the band members had as "Skidmarks On My Shorts".
"He has gotten Bondi to order the release of the 2016 Hillary Clinton emails files, and then the Martin Luther King assassination files"
He should say that he's releasing ALL the files, starting with the Lindbergh baby or some such. He's releasing them in chronological order, which means the Epstein files will come out in due course.
Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line! That's why they win, because of their superior discipline, such a well-oiled machine, those Republicans.
I've mentioned before that there was a bogus lawsuit against Trump when he was running against Hillary by two women who claimed they were underage prostitutes for Epstein and that they were raped and abused by Trump. The thought at the time was that it was a ruse to get the press to actually look into Trump's ties with Epstein. Anyway, I looked into it and Trump was a frequent flier on the Lolita Express and so was Bill Clinton. My guess was that Hillary didn't go after Trump for being a rapist because he had that on Bill. So Bill Clinton's inability to keep his dick in his pants resulted in far worse outcomes than is generally known. Anyway, it must go both ways and Bill knows horrid details about how Trump racked up his frequent flier miles. They probably took turns. In some alternate screenplay in which Bill Clinton wasn't a total piece of shit, he'd confess and turn witness against Trump, saving the day and ready to pay his penitence as he's trotted off to prison. Only in the movies, eh. It takes a real piece of shit to be a real piece of shit and everyone involved with both Epstein's crimes and their coverup is a real piece of shit.
Which brings us to the question of why the Dems aren't branding the Republicans as the Pedo Party. That would be so easy and effective, but for whatever reason - cowardice or Clinton - they're too weak and pathetic to go there.
I haven’t been following the saga as closely as I might over the years, but my impression was that the “Lolita Express” referred not to the aircraft itself, but to those flights that took Epstein and friends to and from his lair on the Virgin Islands (fire the writers. Or give them a raise, I don’t care). That is to say, not every passenger who ever appeared on the plane’s manifests—it had other routes—was flying to the Caribbean to sate himself on nubile enigma (an anagram, as others have pointed out) flesh. Do we know whether Big Dog ever traveled to Epstein’s sea-girt redoubt? That would, obviously, be a very bad look indeed, but did he?
With those other audio cues, it's as if Received Opinion has tapped into my brain waves. Sound of marching band fed to a car crusher goes with the mental effort of trying to follow a fraction of what's happening for real, while Tubby and crew throw their spaghetti. The latter, at the moment, largely being, "Look at Their Blacks!" (MLK files, and AI Obama in cuffs).
By the way, I wouldn't really consider that a lathe, at least as we define them now. As in: in a lathe, the cutting tool is stationary, but moving in 'X' (in and out relative to the centerline of the spinning part) and 'Z' (traveling lengthwise up and down the part). Since the cutting tool in that video is a multi-tooth thing that's spinning, while being able to travel up and down the length of the part while the part moves in 'X' as it rotates, it seems pretty close to modern 4 axis milling machines.
It looks like the operator would have to pay attention to keeping the 'master' part against the guidebar or the parts would be inconsistent. Still a very cool machine!
Waiting for Tubs to order the retrial of the Central Park Five by Super Duper Executive Order, which is right there in the Constitution, read it for yourself. At least it’s what the framers intended, I have that on John Roberts’ authority.
Can't remember if I ever said, but this stuff -- "Audio aneurysm" -- I'd maybe like a playlist of Deceived Opinion's Greatest Clips.
And props to the Maestro for the tastefully disrespectful cartoon accent for Carville who deserves for more mockery than he's getting. Of course, his unimportance may account for all of the preceding there...
But what was briefly on my mind this AM: That Turd Social fake clip of Obama being busted: Who such an act light a necessary fire under Democrats asses or would we just get more expressions of concerns and reminders of broken, dysfunctional norms? To be clear, I think busting Obummer is highly unlikely but I wouldn't say with the insane pedo guy in the White House, it's not impossible.
Crypto should change its name to Insane Peso.
Insane Clown Peso i
I prefer
"Crapto"
You’re a brilliant artiste, mashing up autocorrect’s error and what I meant or tried to write.
Love to Barn Cat for me.
BC is lovin' the latest batch of treats. She was making little cat happy noises while eating them yesterday, Never heard that! She's always been strictly "Meow",
Hope she doesn’t get too addicted that she forgets her job and quits mousing or gets sloppy and lazy doing the work.
Unlike Amos and the minions, she has responsibilities.
I just took a couple of great Barncat videos and one with Amos+Minions. I will have them posted yet this evening.
Which treats do you use? Our Francesca goes nuts for the squeeze up ones by Hartz - "Delectables".
https://www.delectablescattreats.com/products/squeeze-up/
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/bonkers-bites-cat-treat-catnip-chickn-cheddar-16-oz
Cheap ! 2 bucks a bag. !
You caught my typo for me.
Supposed to be pedo, of course.
Zeppo, Chico, Harpo, Pedo and Crypto
In stead of Marx Brothers, the Suckerx Brothers.
The Marks.
I find it hilarious that Obama is sitting next to Schitzenführer in the video, when anyone with a sense of morals and ethics should be parsecs away from his stanky ass.
The Obama stuff is almost certainly dick-waving for the rules (as you say, it's not impossible) but Obama has some resources and cards to play, in Trump's vernacular. Obama could put together a legal team that would turn Bondi and Gabbard into spiral cut honey baked hams, since the core assertion is the purest of bullshit. In turn DOJ would use its go-to move of endless filings on "interpretations" of legal minutia to drag it out, but arresting the most popular Democratic politician alive would be the best voter motivational tool imaginable. Let's see how the Democratic party can fuck that up.
I give it like 5-10% possibility, closer to 5.
And, sure, Obummer *could* likely beat the wrap but that’s after he’s busted and no doubt photographed and printed.
And as my smart ass position goes, I wonder if busting Obama could inspire his party to act like a real red meat opposition party. I’d put that around a 50/50.
As I keep saying, the national party is grossly limited by beholden to *Republican* special interests just like Slick Willy dictated.
You have to admit, "Sound of marching band fed to a car crusher" is just as good!
“Sound of civilization collapsing” sums it all up perfectly. The end can’t get here soon enough!
“Sound of civilization collapsing” seems redundant after hearing from Ol’ Snakehead. Carville is the reason we can’t have nice Democratic things. There isn’t a useful progressive idea he hasn’t been against.
Problem with Carville is that he thinks he's Huey Long when in actuality he's O.K. Allen.
Or the "brain" behind O.K. Allen?
Brutal... We can name a bridge after James, and blow it up a few years later. With him on it.
“Come, blessèd meteor.”
You get ALL the diacritical marks for that one.
I love "sound of civilization collapsing" lol. Unfortunately given the absurdity of our timeline, that soundtrack will probably be yakety sax.
Thumbs up on Peoni's ensemble, Roy, your matching of the deep purple pumps to the blue in the dress is impressive.
I'm afraid my mindset is stuck in the fatalistic "I'd like to see ol' Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam" mode. But there are a few hopeful signs. While they all look like foaming nutters to most normal people, Trump's base does contain factions. To one faction, a big part of his appeal has been what they see as his no-bullshit anti-elitism. They don't think he's a good guy, they just see him as anti-elite (I know, I know). So when he's being just as evasive and just as prone to retreat to the protection of his privileged class as the people they despise, it's not good for him.
The other faction is the gibbering Pizzagate, Q conspiracy theorists, the people who believe every single "elite" is part of a massive, millions-strong pedophile ring that they believe Trump is secretly trying to expose. You can see how Trump fucking teenagers throws a monkey wrench into THAT theory.
So if Trump finds himself caught in a pincer grip between two factions of his base, it's just barely possible he won't wriggle out of this one.
Thanks. I hope I'm getting better at the clothes thing. As it is I feel like Detective Sunday showing off his suit to Julian in American Gigolo. Is there a basic text you could recommend?
No Brown In Town is all I got.
Solid rule.
Is that a Dr. Seuss book?
Could be, if he properly credits Herb Caen.
You know, one of the advantages of growing up in NYC is even when you don't think you're paying attention, you sort of absorb style through osmosis. So a lot of my fashion sense comes through years of trial and error before deciding what really works for me.
But I've heard really good things from a couple of women about The New Secrets of Style: Dressing Your Best Every Day by the editors of In Style magazine. Probably one of the most important things to realize is every single color has a warm or a cool undertone depending on the shade. Match warm with warm and cool with cool and it's hard to go wrong.
For men's fashion you can't beat the Derek Guy on Bluesky, but you probably already know about him.
PARISIAN TRUMAN CAPOTE: “That’s not style, it’s clothing.”
LOL! Never heard that one, but it makes sense you can rely on the maestro behind the Black & White Ball for a good quote.
I just modified his “that’s not writing*, that’s typing”—though he probably did say it. 😂
*ETA: I had to correct a typo. I had “style” again when I meant to say “writing.” Cripes, I can’t even get the “typing” part right.
I believe it was originally “That’s not writing, that’s typing,” and he was speaking of Jack Kerouac.
I can’t even get the “typing” part right.
That's not typing, it's writing
I just go with "everything basic black". And whatever comfortable I can dredge up at Amvets or Goodwill. I am not a fashionable guy.
The olive drab t-shirt I often wear was briefly fashionable thanks to Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
I'm wearing my Mr. Handy "Read a book!" t-shirt and striped shorts from Target. I am styling
I am constantly SO tempted to wear my "I Helped A Trans Girl Get Her Vagina" shirt (black, of course) to work but I don't want to get fired.
Upside:
At least when you DO want to get fired you know how to go about it.
The only fashion tip I can share is from Rodney Dangerfield:
Rodney: Doc, doc! My teeth are yellow! What should I do?
Dentist: Wear a brown tie.
The Epstein Files thing is really getting to them, and everyone needs to keep fanning the flames and demanding more info. I’ve seen earnest liberal friends handwringing about whether the grand jury transcripts can be released legally, and I’m just…. Stop being mesmerized by the shiny keys he’s jangling! There’s absolutely no reason to over analyze *anything* they toss out as a red herring. Fight your impulse to good-faith analyze everything he does, and instead stay on the offensive. For crissakes, we’re pushing on an open door; don’t stop to philosophize about the nature of the door!
Absolutely, the grand jury transcript is bullshit. And the concept of "good faith" and anything to do with Trump is divided by the distance between the North and South Poles.
I am enjoying their obvious panic. I guess next they'll release the file on the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping, lol.
Make White Lindbergh Baby Great Again. Big bonus for father's Nazi sympathies.
AN IMMIGRANT DID IT
They’re eating the Lindbergh baby.
Atsa one spicy baby!
I saw the Lindbergh baby and the baby looked at me.
It's possible Lindbergh himself killed the baby, as the kid had some genetic abnormalities that greatly upset our Chuckles
It’s about time! That shit was fishy.
That is the North and South Galactic Poles, of course 😁
They wouldn’t.
Less than a week ago he signed a bill zeroing out all foreign aid, The Lancet estimates 14 million dead as a result. And yet it was a one-day story (not the Lancet thing, that's a zero-day story) and now the news is Nothin' But Epstein. This makes me incredibly sad and incredibly enraged at the same time.
Hey, remember when that guy who was a MAGA and an Infowars listener shot four people in the head for the crime of Being Democrat? What was that, like ten years ago or sumpthin'?
Hey, how 'bout that guy who shot and then beheaded his father because dad worked for the Army Corps of Engineers and his son wanted to start a civil war and kill everyone who worked for the government? Crazy, huh? Maybe I imagined it?
Ashamed to say I had forgotten about that one.
But it's the Dems who are the violent ones, y’know! I hear that No Kings protest had association with whispers COMMUNISTS 😱
So I wasn't hallucinating? It was like a week or two ago, wasn't it? (I have this feeling a lot these days.)
Well, we finally have the answer to that old Zen koan: "What is the sound of one civilization collapsing."
Peoni indeed looks lovely today, on the outside.
Which is the only place where she can.
Dont hang too much hope on the Q-Continuum being consistent in their anti-pedo obsession. I saw one X screencap of some woman loudly not caring about the Epstein stuff because Trump was "getting things done". She didn't go into detail, but she didn't have to.
I see Trump's coalition not so much factions as a Wad of interests, a group of blind people touching the elephant that is Trump. They have their hands on the bit that appeals to them and ignore the rest as best they can, as only Americans can ignore politics. But the wriggling is getting harder and harder as there is more and more history behind him. They're throwing the kitchen sink at the wall on this one, and it might "work" well enough, but the Master is clearly sweating on this. It's getting harder every time.
I think we can be sure of one thing: They never cared about the girls (because OBVIOUSLY.) Just a tool to get at the people they hate, if it stops working, find another tool.
Another good one! Worth it for the audio descriptions alone..
James Carville . . . why the fuck won't he go away? Why the fuck is anybody listening to him? Why the fuck is he being constantly booked on MSNBC? Why the fuck is he STILL being brought in to advise Democrats on election strategy?
Like a bad barnacle on a dying whale, Carville knows his gravy train and will ride it to the abyss when it dies, yakking all the while about how the hagfish really aren't all that bad if you just try to understand them.
Cut Jimmy a break. They guy is homeless and MSNBC lets him sleep in the Green Room. The deal is that he has to be out of the building by 5AM. He sticks close to 30 Rock in case a guest slot opens. That way if they send a page to fetch him, the poor kid won't have to wander all over the city.
Did his Republican wife finally kick him out of the house?
Did she ever let him in? Always thought that was a made-for-TV arrangement.
They have kids, so he's definitely been inside.
Nudge, nudge, SAAAY NO MOAH
The people who don't want Democrats to win book him as a Dem spokesperson.
I know! Stephanie Ruhle spent half her show kissing his wrinkly ass just last night.
The is what you get when you fire all the POC.
2 marks for the hagfish.
Tho come to think of it, 0.5 mark off for failure to DEI the name to femfish of a certain age.
Don't slime me, bro!
I'll leave that to the ha – ah. Never mind.
He won an election! Thirty-Three years ago!
He was present when an election was won nearby.
He said "It's the economy, stupid!" teaching the Democrats a lesson they can NEVER unlearn: A Democratic candidate is allowed to speak on ONE issue and no more. So pick your one issue carefully, and spend hours and hours arguing with your fellow Democrats about what the one issue should be!
The gerontocracy mentality of the Democratic Party is so powerful it is upheld as gospel wisdom even by younger members of the party like Hakeem Jeffries. They all believe they deserve stints to the grave on the public teat.
And the idea politicians should FOLLOW public opinion rather than try to SHAPE it is regarded as the first through 9th of the Ten Commandments. The 10th is always ask for more money.
I only WISH they'd follow public opinion. Instead, we get complete crap like "we will respond in a time and place of our choosing," which is what Jeffries said after Trump had a Democratic congressperson arrested. Even the TV host was so incredulous she had to ask him again, and he gave EXACTLY the same response--which tells me he thought long and hard about what to say so as to NOT energize the Democratic base, not seem like he was opposed to Trump, and NOT seem like he was actually taking a position on the whole affair. And public opinion even back then was that Trump was unpopular and his immigration policy was unpopular.
And here we are, two months later . . . and Jeffries and Schumer STILL cannot bring themselves to voice loud vigorous opposition to Trump.
As the great Casey Stengel once said, "Doesn't anybody here know how to play this game?!?!"
Atrios summed up Jeffries best: “Impressing Pelosi is not actually a skill that generalizes.”
Which begs the question of when that time and place of their choosing will be. The midterms? Like anyone will remember by then, there will be dozens of new atrocities in the interim. And it will be hard for Jeffries to get access to the megaphone of the media from the gulag.
When they came for the Democratic congresswoman from New Jersey, I did not speak out because it was not the time or place of my choosing.
“Voters don’t pay enough attention to the issues!”
[does nothing until 3 months before the election]
“Why are you voters so stupid and apathetic?!”
“Everything we’re for is exactly what the American people are for" - DNC Chair Ken Martin.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/16/dnc-chair-ken-martin
It's like we're trying to decide where to go for dinner, and Ken Martin is the guy who ALWAYS says "I dunno, where do YOU want to go?"
I feel like I caught a stray with that observation.
You should go to Runza's for lunch. The BBQ, Bacon, Swiss Runza is quite good
Caught a stray?!?!?! We're not eating pets now, are we?!?!?!
Follow public opinion (if it matches what our donors want). Otherwise ignore the filthy rabble and their bothersome demands.
Bingo.
Except when you're begging them for money.
I'm standing athwart history, texting STOP
Same reason ever major news outlet featured the same Steve Bannon quote on how MAGA is united behind Trump because of the Epstein smear. He fills a need. We lesser mortals can't comprehend that need, but up on Mt Olympus it's as clear as a bell.
A billion bucks can buy the name
That voters may not know,
But Heaven's walls' too high to hear
The troubles down below.
If for every scoundrel
My pocket gained a nickel
I’d cram the coins urethra-bound
Their feelings hurt AND their dick’ll
That's a stiff sentence.
I put that together in about one minute after reading yours. Thumbing away on the phone whilst cruising along on the electrified Caltrain (first ride on the new train – spiffy, and much quieter!)
Anyway, I was hesitant to post it because bleh, but I thought everybody ought to share in it, if only so's the rest of your day will be better than the moment you read it.
I can just hear James Carville now, bawling, "God damn you sons of bitches, I said we need some fucking unity!" 🤣
Yelling over at the lone member of the Judean People's Front: "Splitter!"
We will have unity when everybody agrees with me!
The flop sweat pooling inside the White House and Merde-a-Lardo is rising to floodwater levels. Every batshit hallucination in Trump’s wizened brain is being taken out for a spin in order to distract his cult - and I most certainly include every Republican politician - from Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. It might work, if he finds a personal bête noir for each Congressman, Senator, Governor and State legislator.
Lying about shit is his superpower.
Civilization's collapse is the soundtrack for our times.
At least we got a beat (Ohhh, do we get beat!)
Memo: check if anyone has done a Go-Gos parody about climate change called "We Got The Heat"
I don't know about that, but I do know that when they used to play the song "Skidmarks On My Heart", it would be on the setlist the band members had as "Skidmarks On My Shorts".
YMCA?
Don't know Y not...
I get the Judge Crater joke! I’m old, but I’m spry!
That joke was old when they used it on the Dick Van Dyke show 60 years ago.
It most certainly was! My mom explained it when they used it on Laugh In
It's great to hear from Bolt, but I fear for his being fed to a car crusher along with another poor marching band.
"He has gotten Bondi to order the release of the 2016 Hillary Clinton emails files, and then the Martin Luther King assassination files"
He should say that he's releasing ALL the files, starting with the Lindbergh baby or some such. He's releasing them in chronological order, which means the Epstein files will come out in due course.
Release the flat bastard files! (or at least take 'em out of the toolbox)
Flat bastard? I've heard of Flat Stanley, but I've a feeling you aren't referring to him.
Steve'll explain it when he gets half-round to it.
Let's start with the basics...
https://youtu.be/geoG5m8U2dM
Who ate all the pies?
You did, you did
you flat bastard
Expect the John Wilkes Booth files next.
You really nailed the affect of that squinting cornpone goblin Carville.
Yeah, but now Roy's gonna have to go in for a refill on his apostrophes.
No "inner-necine scraps an’ fisty-cuffs" or "pronouns an’ whatnawt." Not when there could be a unifying figure like Elon Musk.
Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line! That's why they win, because of their superior discipline, such a well-oiled machine, those Republicans.
I've mentioned before that there was a bogus lawsuit against Trump when he was running against Hillary by two women who claimed they were underage prostitutes for Epstein and that they were raped and abused by Trump. The thought at the time was that it was a ruse to get the press to actually look into Trump's ties with Epstein. Anyway, I looked into it and Trump was a frequent flier on the Lolita Express and so was Bill Clinton. My guess was that Hillary didn't go after Trump for being a rapist because he had that on Bill. So Bill Clinton's inability to keep his dick in his pants resulted in far worse outcomes than is generally known. Anyway, it must go both ways and Bill knows horrid details about how Trump racked up his frequent flier miles. They probably took turns. In some alternate screenplay in which Bill Clinton wasn't a total piece of shit, he'd confess and turn witness against Trump, saving the day and ready to pay his penitence as he's trotted off to prison. Only in the movies, eh. It takes a real piece of shit to be a real piece of shit and everyone involved with both Epstein's crimes and their coverup is a real piece of shit.
Which brings us to the question of why the Dems aren't branding the Republicans as the Pedo Party. That would be so easy and effective, but for whatever reason - cowardice or Clinton - they're too weak and pathetic to go there.
I haven’t been following the saga as closely as I might over the years, but my impression was that the “Lolita Express” referred not to the aircraft itself, but to those flights that took Epstein and friends to and from his lair on the Virgin Islands (fire the writers. Or give them a raise, I don’t care). That is to say, not every passenger who ever appeared on the plane’s manifests—it had other routes—was flying to the Caribbean to sate himself on nubile enigma (an anagram, as others have pointed out) flesh. Do we know whether Big Dog ever traveled to Epstein’s sea-girt redoubt? That would, obviously, be a very bad look indeed, but did he?
Wikipedia agrees with my memory:
“ Sex parties involving underaged teenage girls allegedly occured onboard the aircraft, organised by Ghislaine Maxwell.[2]”
There’s an article from way back in the Miami Herald that anyone interested should read.
"In some alternate screenplay in which Bill Clinton wasn't a total piece of shit, he'd confess and turn witness against Trump, saving the day..."
The flaw in this plan is that nobody believes Bill Clinton.
They're too busy allowing the GOP to brand THEM as pedos.
Not nearly enough but a good start: https://bsky.app/profile/democrats.org/post/3lu75zhydn22q
Audio aneurysm, the soundtrack of our lives.
With those other audio cues, it's as if Received Opinion has tapped into my brain waves. Sound of marching band fed to a car crusher goes with the mental effort of trying to follow a fraction of what's happening for real, while Tubby and crew throw their spaghetti. The latter, at the moment, largely being, "Look at Their Blacks!" (MLK files, and AI Obama in cuffs).
Mantovani, as performed on a metal lathe.
And it may be a mental lathe, grinding away in my aching head.
The music goes round and round and comes out all over the floor.
Sprays ketchup-stained walls?
You do and YOU clean it up!
The machines have covers now, and chip conveyors to put the music into a 55 gallon drum for recycling.
Not the ones I watch on YouTube!
https://youtu.be/LM_1XBy0Qqw
Well, of course! That thing's pretty neat, actually.
By the way, I wouldn't really consider that a lathe, at least as we define them now. As in: in a lathe, the cutting tool is stationary, but moving in 'X' (in and out relative to the centerline of the spinning part) and 'Z' (traveling lengthwise up and down the part). Since the cutting tool in that video is a multi-tooth thing that's spinning, while being able to travel up and down the length of the part while the part moves in 'X' as it rotates, it seems pretty close to modern 4 axis milling machines.
It looks like the operator would have to pay attention to keeping the 'master' part against the guidebar or the parts would be inconsistent. Still a very cool machine!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-OWg8yZkILc
Waiting for Tubs to order the retrial of the Central Park Five by Super Duper Executive Order, which is right there in the Constitution, read it for yourself. At least it’s what the framers intended, I have that on John Roberts’ authority.
What we need is a Junebug on a Peony, if you get my drift.
Haw haw haw haw.