"Why would I? All of you are white" That explains, well, most everything.
Politico - Jesus Christ. That VanderHei guy must be on the Putin direct deposit program.
And that Springer guy. I remember when he bought the place and everybody was all" Just because he's a German right winger doesn't make him a Nazi."
Sure.
I was looking at The Daily Show excerpts on YouTube about the Biden statement. There were 2,500 comments and all of them were " Go Joe - No lie told!! " Which is my opinion exactly.
Isn't it fun to watch the people who call everything they disagree with "Communism" get all het up about being called "fascist" when all they do is use fascist rhetoric, imagery and ideas? And by "fun" I obviously mean "those nightmares where you are about to be crushed by a steamroller and can't move".
I'm actually a little surprised at the lack of reaction from Harris saying, in response to a question, "Yes, he's a fascist." Thought that would stir things up more than it did, but I guess our country is evenly divided between "About damn time you said it!" and "Damn straight, and we're proud of it!"
The classic that where the two extremes meet, it’s in fascism where the nature of the gummint — commie, capitalism — is secondary and, again, it’s the unity of the global brotherhood of fascism.
Not fully unrelated or something: the fraternity our lefties have for fascist Putin.
I used to run into Putin-lovers back when I was hangin' out in the comment section over at Tooze's place. I don't think their views were ever well-formed enough to be called "leftist", more like nihilists, contrarians, edgelords.
[WM sez]: "And that Springer guy. I remember when he bought the place and everybody was all 'Just because he's a German right winger doesn't make him a Nazi.'"
If you go to your local Sherwin-Williams dealer, there are about 100 shades of white [power] you could have mixed up for your next political application. It's a real Johnny-on-the-spot...
Your average Homeowner's Association being like the Ku Klux Klan, but with (a) even less humor and (b) the obligation to pay to belong to a group that hates you.
"You call THAT a garden gnome?! Looks to me a LOT like Trump smacking himself in the face while stepping on a rake!! That's never gonna fly in THIS neighborhood, boyo!
Now, if you'd sculpted Sleepy Joe fallin' down some stairs maybe we'd allow it..."
I mean, politics dictates it shouldn't be said and it's unfortunate someone gave Uncle Joe a microphone on the same night Harris held her closing rally, but Trump supporters ARE garbage. They may be kind to their grandkids and love dogs, etc. etc. But basically they are fine with blowing it all up as long as they won't (or believe they won't) catch any flying shrapnel.
Attack snails on crack? That would be an achievement far greater than any SpaceX crashing rocket, and deserving of an overblown Congressional line item.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack snails on crack off shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
But now Trump says he's gonna protect women "whether they like it or not" so now the outrage ball is back on our side! This is like watching a game of ping-pong at the Memory Care Facility.
Last night I had the displeasure of listening to Sean Hannity "interview" Lumpy Shit Führer and listening to LSF whine about how everyone from Puerto Rico loves him SOOO MUCH!!! and he rebuilt the entire island by himself with his tiny hands and the only reason I didn't scream and throw things was I was at work and they give me the feeling they're just waiting to call mental health services on me at any moment.
Blink SIS times if you just want the trained seal team to come balance balls on their noses and dive thru hoops as a subtle way of illustrating what a pathetic circus your jobsite is...
So he's gonna protect us sort of like the gangsters in Goodfellas, etc., protect the people they extort into paying them (the goodfellas) protection money.
You may not have noticed, but conventional political wisdom is on a bit of a holiday. But us calling Trump supporters "garbage" is a short hop from them calling us "vermin" and all that implies. I'm not looking forward to Kristallnacht no matter who's smshing the windows. They support garbage, they laugh at garbage.
Thing about a lot, really all, Trump supporters is they don't imagine that "blowing it all up" will affect them, only people, places, and things they hate and fear. They HATE the idea that everything is interconnected and complex. They.'ll see TV reports of "illegals" rounded up and say "good, about time". What happens to food prices will be a complete suprise. I even believe a lot of them don't care if the deportations even happen. If they did we would be looking at Harris vs. DeSantis. Its the thrill of saying it out loud they love. Oh, plenty of them want the cruelty on TV. About half, I'd say. I've talked to too many people who love the outrage more than any policy.
I dunno. When the buffalo wings sell for 10 bucks each, and there's not actually anyone in the shop to deal with 'cause it's all automated (Automat...GENIUS! I'll make a fortune!) maybe then the losing losers will suddenly think "Wait a minute...there's no staff. Who's raking in all this money then...??!!" and the next thought might well be "Dammit! Them corporations gotta pay!!" and suddenly a workers' paradise sprouts...*
Again Biden did NOT call Trump supporters garbage. We do not need to be like the Repubs and make things up although a circular firing squad is a very Dem thing
Politico and The Hill are now both blocked on my phone and on my Google news feed. Because of all the Blue Panic shit. Whatever Harris does, they can find a "Democrat" who says it's wrong. Emphasizing in the last weeks of the campaign that her opponent is a fascist and a wannabe dictator? BIG mistake, says the anonymous "Democrat", takes her "off message" when all Real Americans care about is the price of eggs. After all this egg-talk I think we're due for a national cholesterol test.
She STILL hasn't told us what she plans to do!!! (Meanwhile: mass deportation, sharks, no tax on tips, Arnold Palmer's willy, bird killing wind turbines, Hannibal Lecter, lower taxes for the rich, McDonalds, states rights, beautiful watches, IVF. Got it?)
This is the point where I grind my teeth and restrain myself from saying, "Read the Goddamn syllabus, why don't you?"
Oh sure, she's got plans, but she didn't come over to my house and sit on the couch and read them out to me, personally. Although if she had I'd be angry that she was being so pushy about it.
I got a flyer in the mailbox yesterday about a damn local race repeating the "people can't afford GROCERIES and [X] wants to give TRANS SURGERIES TO ILLEGALS" bullshit. I amused myself briefly by seeing how small the pieces I could tear it into could be.
Meanwhile the idiots gibbering about The Economy now admit their mass deportation circle jerk would crash said Economy, but that's okay because Americans need more austerity to make us tough and ruthless and it'll be RICHES FOR ALL at some undefined point in the future, just watch, any day now. (Of course, when that doesn't happen, we'll just find more people to deport!)
Re: the eggs. I foresee a niche in the chicken egg industry. You know how candy bars got smaller but cost the same? Or how coffee beans used to come packaged by the pound?
Stick with me now...
Chicken farmers plotting to grow smaller chickens that'll produce smaller eggs, thus selling less egg for the same money. That way the chicken industry will take the heat and Dem politicians can go back to getting blamed for sending hurricanes to Republican strongholds just to mess the vote...
Unfortunately, the chicken industry has gone the other way. You can't get small eggs (at least in the big city, where large, extra large, and in some stores still, medium, are the offerings) if you want them. Chickens have become bloated 4-5 lb behemoths that taste like you thought a behemoth would. (no flavour at all since I never thought about that at all).
Every time I pay $4 for a dozen organic cage-free jumbo eggs, I think of all the conservatives mad because they are pretending eggs cost $11. Reminds me of the time circa 2012 a conservative friend was bitching furiously to me over dinner about how the Democrats were making us buy new-fangled lightbulbs that cost $20. I said "Huh? I was just in Home Depot, they sell them for like $3," and she sighed and said, "Well, that's true."
I am so confused that I'm happy that I voted already (or maybe just for the first time with more to follow between now and I Tuesday; Trump said the only way he can lose is by massive voter fraud and I'm here willing and able to do some frauding for the good of the nation).
What confuses me so much that my brain's going be deep fried* for days is this: how can people who call other people, based on lies and BS, vermin *not* a proper target for being called garbage? (*Yeah, yeah, sure; more than normal, okay? I'm not admitting anything, I'm just pandering.)
So a subhuman monster referring to people as vermin is the same as an elderly stammered stammering something that can sound like calling other people garbage?
Let's just pretend DJT does not win Tuesday (Editor: he will not) and does not benefit from a successful insurrection (Editor: less certain, but perhaps not), how long do you think it will take for Democrats to start trying to rehabilitate his reputation? For a future Democratic candidate for president to say "Well you know I am a Democrat very much in the Trump mold" or something like that? Before we see Ellen DeGeneres hugging Mike Pence on camera at an event? Or the Obamas sitting elbow to elbow with Don Jr & Eric, chatting merrily?
I promise to place this worrisome scenario on my List of Things to Worry About and I will get busy worrying about it just as soon as I've given sufficient worry to all the things I'm currently worrying about.
This is the downside of All Trump All The Time. It worked before (if you haven't read Driftglass on The Bush-Off Machine I highly recommend it) and it will work again. He is a unique and immediate threat, but only thanks to the whole-hearted support of the entire Republican party. And that fact is gonna get washed away faster than you can say Rinso Blue, because there is no mechanism or systemic method to deal with a powerful, well-funded political party bent on subverting democracy to rule unconditionally. Only their methods differ from Trump, not the ends. They will not be shunned because they cannot be ignored, for financial and power reasons. Any reckoning will come from the bottom up.
It's okay for the Nazis to call us "garbage", but we're not allowed to respond in kind because they are alpha males who were born to dominate weaklings like us. They are predators, we are their prey. Know you role, hippies!
Many years ago, a co-worker went to a Halloween party as a Republican. Her costume consisted of wearing the campaign button of a Republican candidate for governor that year.
Back when the first Bush was president I went to a party in a black leotard wrapped in strings of white fairy Xmas bulbs as the thousand points of light.
Hehe -- there's a house up the street from me that adds three more Trump campaign signs every few days. It's the Trump-supporting house within 6 square miles, I'm sure. I'm beginning to think that the occupant actually thinks of them as Halloween decorations.
Peoni is just messing with our minds, wardrobe-wise...which, come to think of it, good for her. Her mind-messing skills had seriously deteriorated, it seems...
I'm not sure I could breathe in a $4,000+ dress that I had to plunk down half of that just to get them to make it for me. And $6000 to make leather pants look like denim??
Not that the Prez is not entitled to remark upon the trash heap status of a non-negligible portion of Trump's voter support, but the timing of this statement is giving me "Husband who gets drunk, makes a scene, and throws up at the ceremony where his wife finally is given her doctorate."
Seeing an actual presidential candidate calling Democrats "horrible people" and no "Prestige Press" commenting on it, is really really interesting, or disgusting. They seem to mean the same thing anymore when speaking of our press overloads.
I remember when Gore Vidal called Buckley a closet Nazi. I think that would be just adorable for someone to do something like that now to anyone in the media. (Although to be fair Vidal sort of apologized saying that he meant to call him a "closet fascist," but misspoke in the heat of the moment.)
And now a rebuttal from my Yahoo inbox: RICHARD! This is SERIOUS! OUR BLOOD RAN COLD WHEN WE SAW THIS....OMIGOD! I'M WEEPING AND I'M A MAN! DID YOU HEAR WHAT NATE SILVER JUST SAID?...FIVE MISERABLE LOUSY DOLLARS, THAT'S WHAT WE"RE SCREAMING FOR, GET YOUR WALLET TIGHTWAD!...RICHARD, THIS IS KAMALA. ARE YOU THERE? ARE YOU GHOSTING ME? DON'T YOU REMEMBER YOU TOLD ME YOU LOVED ME, BABY...WE LITERALLY SOILED OURSELVES WHEN WE SAW THIS ON RECIEVED OPIONION THIS MORNING!
I got a text (which seems more personal than an email) from a woman who says she knows all about the Trans Industry and what those pills and surgeries do to you, and that's why she's endorsing Trump. STOP I replied.
A change I've noticed in the YouTube ads, going from "sex-change surgery" to "castration and mastectomies." Must have focus-grouped it and the second thing got a stronger reaction.
"Audio-induced sensation of skull exploding." That's some innovative production team; they've turned the experience of this election into sound.
I wonder why the panel didn't find time for Garbage Joe being destroyed by Trump's masterful response in Wisconsin. Puerto Ricanface in a garbage truck? I'd love to hear the panel discuss how that'll bring a certain demographic back into the fold.
Today's fashion takeaway: denim-printed nubuck pants exist, and middle-aged men with young girlfriends are the reason.
Fuckin' New York Times had a story about women who strongly support abortion rights but are nevertheless for Trump. Fascinating, because so paradoxical! Trump has a big lead in the Paradoxical Support demographic. Black men who support Trump despite him being an obvious, flaming racist. Hispanic men who support Trump despite his plans to put them in internment camps, etc. And let's admit it, Logical always loses to Paradoxical in the contest for our attention. How many "Here's why these people are voting for Harris" stories has the Times run? Not many, I guess. Harris is a logical choice, by which I mean BO-RING.
I really don't get why so many here are repeating the Republican lie that Biden called Trump supporters garbage. He didn't and we shouldn't catapult the propaganda
"Why would I? All of you are white" That explains, well, most everything.
Politico - Jesus Christ. That VanderHei guy must be on the Putin direct deposit program.
And that Springer guy. I remember when he bought the place and everybody was all" Just because he's a German right winger doesn't make him a Nazi."
Sure.
I was looking at The Daily Show excerpts on YouTube about the Biden statement. There were 2,500 comments and all of them were " Go Joe - No lie told!! " Which is my opinion exactly.
Dunno about Team Axios but fascism is fascism so of course Springer and Putin: the global brotherhood of fascist leaders.
Isn't it fun to watch the people who call everything they disagree with "Communism" get all het up about being called "fascist" when all they do is use fascist rhetoric, imagery and ideas? And by "fun" I obviously mean "those nightmares where you are about to be crushed by a steamroller and can't move".
I'm actually a little surprised at the lack of reaction from Harris saying, in response to a question, "Yes, he's a fascist." Thought that would stir things up more than it did, but I guess our country is evenly divided between "About damn time you said it!" and "Damn straight, and we're proud of it!"
The classic that where the two extremes meet, it’s in fascism where the nature of the gummint — commie, capitalism — is secondary and, again, it’s the unity of the global brotherhood of fascism.
Not fully unrelated or something: the fraternity our lefties have for fascist Putin.
"the fraternity our lefties have for fascist Putin."
I really hope you're not counting Matt Taibbi as any kind of "leftist" any more.
A generic observation, didn’t have anyone in (what’s left of the) mind.
I used to run into Putin-lovers back when I was hangin' out in the comment section over at Tooze's place. I don't think their views were ever well-formed enough to be called "leftist", more like nihilists, contrarians, edgelords.
[WM sez]: "And that Springer guy. I remember when he bought the place and everybody was all 'Just because he's a German right winger doesn't make him a Nazi.'"
If you go to your local Sherwin-Williams dealer, there are about 100 shades of white [power] you could have mixed up for your next political application. It's a real Johnny-on-the-spot...
Whenever I discover a spot on my Johnny I place my urologist on danger money.
4 out of 5 fascists prefer “Birth of a Nation White” for their painting needs.
Go with beige, mom, who cares what the neighbors say?
Your average Homeowner's Association being like the Ku Klux Klan, but with (a) even less humor and (b) the obligation to pay to belong to a group that hates you.
"You call THAT a garden gnome?! Looks to me a LOT like Trump smacking himself in the face while stepping on a rake!! That's never gonna fly in THIS neighborhood, boyo!
Now, if you'd sculpted Sleepy Joe fallin' down some stairs maybe we'd allow it..."
And, in my experience, (c) an inordinate sense of nosiness.
I mean, politics dictates it shouldn't be said and it's unfortunate someone gave Uncle Joe a microphone on the same night Harris held her closing rally, but Trump supporters ARE garbage. They may be kind to their grandkids and love dogs, etc. etc. But basically they are fine with blowing it all up as long as they won't (or believe they won't) catch any flying shrapnel.
This is why I've devised a way to load shrapnel on the backs of thousands of crack stampeding snails.
I and my crack troops await the standard 227%-over-budget bids from DOD.
Attack snails on crack? That would be an achievement far greater than any SpaceX crashing rocket, and deserving of an overblown Congressional line item.
Also another great band name.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack snails on crack off shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
But now Trump says he's gonna protect women "whether they like it or not" so now the outrage ball is back on our side! This is like watching a game of ping-pong at the Memory Care Facility.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/31/donald-trump-women-protector-wisconsin-rally
See if you can spot the difference in terms of electoral impact:
Trump offends Puerto Rican-Americans
Trump offends women
Biden offends people who are voting for Trump
Last night I had the displeasure of listening to Sean Hannity "interview" Lumpy Shit Führer and listening to LSF whine about how everyone from Puerto Rico loves him SOOO MUCH!!! and he rebuilt the entire island by himself with his tiny hands and the only reason I didn't scream and throw things was I was at work and they give me the feeling they're just waiting to call mental health services on me at any moment.
Blink three times if you want us to send Seal Team Six to rappel down from a helicopter to pull you out of there.
Blink SIS times if you just want the trained seal team to come balance balls on their noses and dive thru hoops as a subtle way of illustrating what a pathetic circus your jobsite is...
Yep.
It’s math wizzes like you that get paid the big bucks.
He's already in hot water for "protecting" us whether we like it or not, he should think about laying off.
Periodic reminder that concentration camps are always, originally, viewed as being for "protective custody".
"The mob we created would tear these people to pieces if we didn't put them behind barbed wire!"
Whether they Kristall, or nacht.
"whether they like it or not" A comment on his social/dating history.
I'm guessing it's mostly not.
So he's gonna protect us sort of like the gangsters in Goodfellas, etc., protect the people they extort into paying them (the goodfellas) protection money.
"That's a nice vagina ya got there, be a shame if something happened to it."
You may not have noticed, but conventional political wisdom is on a bit of a holiday. But us calling Trump supporters "garbage" is a short hop from them calling us "vermin" and all that implies. I'm not looking forward to Kristallnacht no matter who's smshing the windows. They support garbage, they laugh at garbage.
Thing about a lot, really all, Trump supporters is they don't imagine that "blowing it all up" will affect them, only people, places, and things they hate and fear. They HATE the idea that everything is interconnected and complex. They.'ll see TV reports of "illegals" rounded up and say "good, about time". What happens to food prices will be a complete suprise. I even believe a lot of them don't care if the deportations even happen. If they did we would be looking at Harris vs. DeSantis. Its the thrill of saying it out loud they love. Oh, plenty of them want the cruelty on TV. About half, I'd say. I've talked to too many people who love the outrage more than any policy.
I dunno. When the buffalo wings sell for 10 bucks each, and there's not actually anyone in the shop to deal with 'cause it's all automated (Automat...GENIUS! I'll make a fortune!) maybe then the losing losers will suddenly think "Wait a minute...there's no staff. Who's raking in all this money then...??!!" and the next thought might well be "Dammit! Them corporations gotta pay!!" and suddenly a workers' paradise sprouts...*
*yeah, no.
"I even believe a lot of them don't care if the deportations even happen."
Just put the fear of ICE into those people and they'll mow my lawn for even LESS!
Again Biden did NOT call Trump supporters garbage. We do not need to be like the Repubs and make things up although a circular firing squad is a very Dem thing
If it wasn't this they would have misinterpreted something else. Also, Biden did NOT call Trump supporters garbage
Politico and The Hill are now both blocked on my phone and on my Google news feed. Because of all the Blue Panic shit. Whatever Harris does, they can find a "Democrat" who says it's wrong. Emphasizing in the last weeks of the campaign that her opponent is a fascist and a wannabe dictator? BIG mistake, says the anonymous "Democrat", takes her "off message" when all Real Americans care about is the price of eggs. After all this egg-talk I think we're due for a national cholesterol test.
She STILL hasn't told us what she plans to do!!! (Meanwhile: mass deportation, sharks, no tax on tips, Arnold Palmer's willy, bird killing wind turbines, Hannibal Lecter, lower taxes for the rich, McDonalds, states rights, beautiful watches, IVF. Got it?)
This is the point where I grind my teeth and restrain myself from saying, "Read the Goddamn syllabus, why don't you?"
Oh sure, she's got plans, but she didn't come over to my house and sit on the couch and read them out to me, personally. Although if she had I'd be angry that she was being so pushy about it.
Eggs AND bacon!
I got a flyer in the mailbox yesterday about a damn local race repeating the "people can't afford GROCERIES and [X] wants to give TRANS SURGERIES TO ILLEGALS" bullshit. I amused myself briefly by seeing how small the pieces I could tear it into could be.
Meanwhile the idiots gibbering about The Economy now admit their mass deportation circle jerk would crash said Economy, but that's okay because Americans need more austerity to make us tough and ruthless and it'll be RICHES FOR ALL at some undefined point in the future, just watch, any day now. (Of course, when that doesn't happen, we'll just find more people to deport!)
I'm not sure Elon was supposed to say that last part out loud.
"Enjoy the strong, smooth taste of unfiltered Elon!"
Re: the eggs. I foresee a niche in the chicken egg industry. You know how candy bars got smaller but cost the same? Or how coffee beans used to come packaged by the pound?
Stick with me now...
Chicken farmers plotting to grow smaller chickens that'll produce smaller eggs, thus selling less egg for the same money. That way the chicken industry will take the heat and Dem politicians can go back to getting blamed for sending hurricanes to Republican strongholds just to mess the vote...
Unfortunately, the chicken industry has gone the other way. You can't get small eggs (at least in the big city, where large, extra large, and in some stores still, medium, are the offerings) if you want them. Chickens have become bloated 4-5 lb behemoths that taste like you thought a behemoth would. (no flavour at all since I never thought about that at all).
Our Chicken Tastes Good, Like A Behemoth Should!
Trump claims Elon will find like $2 Trillion in waste fraud and abuse to cut and nobody will even notice the lost economic value
'Cause he knows it when he smells it!
Every time I pay $4 for a dozen organic cage-free jumbo eggs, I think of all the conservatives mad because they are pretending eggs cost $11. Reminds me of the time circa 2012 a conservative friend was bitching furiously to me over dinner about how the Democrats were making us buy new-fangled lightbulbs that cost $20. I said "Huh? I was just in Home Depot, they sell them for like $3," and she sighed and said, "Well, that's true."
Ha!
...she sighed and said, "Well, that's true."
And that was the first and last time any conservative admitted they were wrong about something.
I am so confused that I'm happy that I voted already (or maybe just for the first time with more to follow between now and I Tuesday; Trump said the only way he can lose is by massive voter fraud and I'm here willing and able to do some frauding for the good of the nation).
What confuses me so much that my brain's going be deep fried* for days is this: how can people who call other people, based on lies and BS, vermin *not* a proper target for being called garbage? (*Yeah, yeah, sure; more than normal, okay? I'm not admitting anything, I'm just pandering.)
Great post, BTW. Highly amused.
As a horticulturist with a master license in pesticide use and application, I can attest to the close relationship between vermin and garbage.
So a subhuman monster referring to people as vermin is the same as an elderly stammered stammering something that can sound like calling other people garbage?
NOW MY HEAD HURTS!!
It's the slow-moving shrapnel that get ya!
SHRAPNEL?? THERE’S SHRAPNEL FLYING AROUND??
There wasn't before your head exploded...
😂
Let's just pretend DJT does not win Tuesday (Editor: he will not) and does not benefit from a successful insurrection (Editor: less certain, but perhaps not), how long do you think it will take for Democrats to start trying to rehabilitate his reputation? For a future Democratic candidate for president to say "Well you know I am a Democrat very much in the Trump mold" or something like that? Before we see Ellen DeGeneres hugging Mike Pence on camera at an event? Or the Obamas sitting elbow to elbow with Don Jr & Eric, chatting merrily?
Thought this was Manquemann for a minute. Is he your Halloween costume?
Let's all go as each other!
“I’m Brian, and so is my wife!”
"If only I were somebody else,
Whoever would I be?
Pablo Picasso? Attila the Hun?
I certainly wouldn't be me."
- "T.S., Eliot", by B. Kliban
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.
Not like you.
Oof.
Irrespective of his assholistry.
Only because his name never came up on a conference call with Joe Biden.
I'm still working on frequent references to my own diminishing faculties... Oops! Next Halloween, I guess... :p
I promise to place this worrisome scenario on my List of Things to Worry About and I will get busy worrying about it just as soon as I've given sufficient worry to all the things I'm currently worrying about.
Thank you for your service
This is the downside of All Trump All The Time. It worked before (if you haven't read Driftglass on The Bush-Off Machine I highly recommend it) and it will work again. He is a unique and immediate threat, but only thanks to the whole-hearted support of the entire Republican party. And that fact is gonna get washed away faster than you can say Rinso Blue, because there is no mechanism or systemic method to deal with a powerful, well-funded political party bent on subverting democracy to rule unconditionally. Only their methods differ from Trump, not the ends. They will not be shunned because they cannot be ignored, for financial and power reasons. Any reckoning will come from the bottom up.
I reckon mostly from the bottom down, so this'n 'll be hard to square.
"there is no mechanism or systemic method to deal with a powerful, well-funded political party bent on subverting democracy to rule unconditionally. "
Other than defeating them, time after time, at the polls.
Mike Pence refused to endorse Trump this year
Nazis: We must destroy the mongrel hordes that seek to infiltrate and subjugate our German people! Death death death!
The Opposition: We don’t like your boss’s mustache.
The Supine Press: Why oh why must the Fuhrer’s opponents stoop to such appalling incivility? Where is the comity of bygone years?
Ubi sunt the cocktail parties of yesteryear?
Why won't Joe Biden apologize to the people who have "Fuck Joe Biden" yard signs?
He wants to take away their FREE SPEEEEEEEECH
He should apologize to the people who shot him in the face!
It's okay for the Nazis to call us "garbage", but we're not allowed to respond in kind because they are alpha males who were born to dominate weaklings like us. They are predators, we are their prey. Know you role, hippies!
Flash back to four years ago when anyone suggesting reasonable limited social response to COVID got labeled "a Nazi"
"You might want to, I dunno, wear this mask around others and stand six feet away-"
"DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO, HITLER!!!!"
Meanwhile we're getting a Master Course in exactly how The Big Lie works and why "good Germans" went along with the Nazis.
Not really liked, but agreed with ruefully.
On a personal note, in 2016 I went for Halloween as a Basket of Deplorables, and that costume rocked.
Many years ago, a co-worker went to a Halloween party as a Republican. Her costume consisted of wearing the campaign button of a Republican candidate for governor that year.
Too easy.
I remember those years, when the stereotype of Republicans was that they were bland, plain-vanilla people. Then they got "interesting."
Back when the first Bush was president I went to a party in a black leotard wrapped in strings of white fairy Xmas bulbs as the thousand points of light.
Hehe -- there's a house up the street from me that adds three more Trump campaign signs every few days. It's the Trump-supporting house within 6 square miles, I'm sure. I'm beginning to think that the occupant actually thinks of them as Halloween decorations.
Spooky.
What they'd communicate to me is, "Knock on my door lookin' for a handout, kids, and you'll get shot in the face."
BABA BOOEY! Now that takes me back!
"Baba booey!" is a Howard Stern thing, and he likes Kamala now. Keep up, Ryan!
Peoni is just messing with our minds, wardrobe-wise...which, come to think of it, good for her. Her mind-messing skills had seriously deteriorated, it seems...
Chafe's "Dress Like a Child" era is giving me LIFE!! Thanks, Maestro!
My guess is he's got a new young girlfriend.
To be revealed in an upcoming episode? Is it Laura Loomer?
I hear Olivia Nuzzi's unattached at the moment.
And if you think I'mo heart THIS, think again!
Refuse to heart LL, sorry.
LL, no Bean, no heart.
He wrote young
A David Brooks castoff, or someone even dewier?
If you only pick from kids who can afford to live on an unpaid internship in Manhattan, you know you're getting the Quality Stock.
I'm genuinely confused by Peoni's wardrobe choice. After Labor Day???
Not only that, but no 74 year-old woman would ever wear that dress, much less on TV without at least tossing a bolero over it.
Maybe she's still drunk from the 4th of July.
Well I think she looks GREAT. But maybe a mantilla?
Exactly. At least toss a tasteful shawl over that mess.
Been a LONG time since she was in Labor.
Roy is such a good sport when we rip his women's costuming choices to shreds, lol.
Oh, if only the ghost of Joan Rivers could join in.
Wider than a smile
We're crossing up her style, some say
Fashion Rules Are For Peons, Not Peonies, A Continuing Series
Except No Brown In Town.
Certain rules are iron – AH SAY AARN! – clad.
Tell it to UPS.
I'm not sure I could breathe in a $4,000+ dress that I had to plunk down half of that just to get them to make it for me. And $6000 to make leather pants look like denim??
“Trump mold” is nearly impossible to eradicate once it infests your home.
See why I'm certain it will happen?
Cue the bloody ED
Not that the Prez is not entitled to remark upon the trash heap status of a non-negligible portion of Trump's voter support, but the timing of this statement is giving me "Husband who gets drunk, makes a scene, and throws up at the ceremony where his wife finally is given her doctorate."
Sort of like that moment in Funny Girl.
Seeing an actual presidential candidate calling Democrats "horrible people" and no "Prestige Press" commenting on it, is really really interesting, or disgusting. They seem to mean the same thing anymore when speaking of our press overloads.
I remember when Gore Vidal called Buckley a closet Nazi. I think that would be just adorable for someone to do something like that now to anyone in the media. (Although to be fair Vidal sort of apologized saying that he meant to call him a "closet fascist," but misspoke in the heat of the moment.)
I love considering Vidal calling out Buckley for being in the closet.
Yes, James Mason in A Star is Born.
You know what to do next, Joe. The beach house awaits.
Except Biden did not do that
And now a rebuttal from my Yahoo inbox: RICHARD! This is SERIOUS! OUR BLOOD RAN COLD WHEN WE SAW THIS....OMIGOD! I'M WEEPING AND I'M A MAN! DID YOU HEAR WHAT NATE SILVER JUST SAID?...FIVE MISERABLE LOUSY DOLLARS, THAT'S WHAT WE"RE SCREAMING FOR, GET YOUR WALLET TIGHTWAD!...RICHARD, THIS IS KAMALA. ARE YOU THERE? ARE YOU GHOSTING ME? DON'T YOU REMEMBER YOU TOLD ME YOU LOVED ME, BABY...WE LITERALLY SOILED OURSELVES WHEN WE SAW THIS ON RECIEVED OPIONION THIS MORNING!
2 marks for nailing the severity of the flaming pants.
I got a text (which seems more personal than an email) from a woman who says she knows all about the Trans Industry and what those pills and surgeries do to you, and that's why she's endorsing Trump. STOP I replied.
With thumbs athwart my phone, texting STOP.
*gasp* you mean those pills and surgeries that... um... do what you pay shitloads of money for?
HUH.
They do exactly what they're supposed to do, which is the REAL scandal!
A change I've noticed in the YouTube ads, going from "sex-change surgery" to "castration and mastectomies." Must have focus-grouped it and the second thing got a stronger reaction.
The inadvertent clinch does it every time...
I enjoy that Bolt Upright is increasingly sliding into IDGAF mode.
I think I'd be beyond giving a fuck, too, being around those fuckknobs.
"Audio-induced sensation of skull exploding." That's some innovative production team; they've turned the experience of this election into sound.
I wonder why the panel didn't find time for Garbage Joe being destroyed by Trump's masterful response in Wisconsin. Puerto Ricanface in a garbage truck? I'd love to hear the panel discuss how that'll bring a certain demographic back into the fold.
Today's fashion takeaway: denim-printed nubuck pants exist, and middle-aged men with young girlfriends are the reason.
Yoicks!
To all of them? Agreed, then. Though some of the yoicks have more social import than others.
Fuckin' New York Times had a story about women who strongly support abortion rights but are nevertheless for Trump. Fascinating, because so paradoxical! Trump has a big lead in the Paradoxical Support demographic. Black men who support Trump despite him being an obvious, flaming racist. Hispanic men who support Trump despite his plans to put them in internment camps, etc. And let's admit it, Logical always loses to Paradoxical in the contest for our attention. How many "Here's why these people are voting for Harris" stories has the Times run? Not many, I guess. Harris is a logical choice, by which I mean BO-RING.
Nah. You're missing the manatee in the tiny, liver-shaped, algae-scummed pool:
Anybody with a pair 'o docks is already inclined to vote fer the rich-person fluffer.
Bass Weejuns!!!!!
Same people who called Biden all sorts of names for *visiting his son's grave* now being mad that he called them what they are? Delicious.
Revenge is a dish best served with two scoops of vanilla ice cream.
Mr Whippy!
but so many things are . . .
I really don't get why so many here are repeating the Republican lie that Biden called Trump supporters garbage. He didn't and we shouldn't catapult the propaganda
I built myself an empire from a load of useless garbage
Called the Blood of the Exploited Working Class
But they've overcome their shyness
Now they're calling me Your Highness
While the world cries "Kiss me! Son of God!"