Tubby is yelling tariffs again. He's reprogramming the DOJ to turn it into a domestic repression tool. Musk and wannasalami are both vowing to do everything they can to crash the economy.
But this should get the price of eggs moving, so what the heck.
My guess is that people who buy their produce at the farmers market are probably somewhat less likely to vote for deporting the guy who grows their arugula.
"So upon further review he may actually be full of shit..." pretty much sums up the totality of the Trump Era.
I've always been much less worried about Trump himself in a second term. I've anticipated he'd rant and storm and scream "off with their heads!" but would be too lazy and uninformed to accomplish most of what he wants. What has and does concern me is the people he'll be bringing with him this time, who have been greedy for this kind of power their whole lives and know how to actually get things done.
Speaking of people around him, anyone seen Jim Dave? Maybe we should get his face on some milk cartons. Or is there some version of an Amber Alert for missing veeps, like a Warm Spit Alert? I’m getting a mite worried…
Periodic reminder that Mussolini referred to Italy as "the number one corporate state" and he renamed the Chamber of Deputies as the "Chamber of Fasces and Corporations".
More and more, I'm missing Alex Cockburn's Press Clips...
"Before you can count on anything else reversing the trend, you have to get your own mind right. And the first step toward that is to notice."
Or one can just avoid establishment news media which, as a rule, are pro-GOP (and somewhat let's say tolerant if not enabling) propaganda mills.
I know, it sucks to be a casually informed (or less) voter what with the mainstream outlets being so harmful and, you know, just not actually informative.
OTOH, maybe the ship of the casually let sufficiently informed voter sailed long ago, never to return...
“I am not looking for retribution, grandstanding, or to destroy people who treated me very unfairly or even badly beyond comprehension. I am always looking to give a second and even third chance.”
...and obviously, if these filthy traitors *don't* treat Trump "fairly" (i.e. slavishly), even after given a second and third opportunity to do so, *then* comes the retribution and destruction. It's one more illustration of his assumption he is our Ruler and all good Americans must bow to their Ruler. (I'm sure it's in the Constitution somewhere.) Trump's magnanimity toward his enemies consists purely of waiting for two (maybe even three!) acts of Lese MAGAste before the pseudo-legal retribution comes.
I'm conflicted about bowing to rulers. Feet/inches, nah. Meters/centimeters (and, for those miniaturists among us) millimeters...sure. Decimalists Uber Lyft!
This is said like he's an emperor, who will allow some of us to live, out of kindness and generosity. Fuck off, fella, I'm not lookin' for an emperor, kind or otherwise.
"I am not looking for retribution . . ." actually sounds coherent if it's what he really said before the PP cleaned it up. Mostly it sounds like --Project 2025, I know nothing about that.
“I am not looking for retribution, grandstanding, or to destroy people who treated me very unfairly or even badly beyond comprehension. I am always looking to give a second and even third chance.”
and all the times previously when e said he was all about the retribution? Oh wait a follow-up would get one retributed
The worst part is going to be watching everything go to shit and the people that we depend on to fix it will be spending most of their energy blaming Joe Biden.
I hope we're about to the point where people are discovering that you don't learn shit at the University of Austin ( a bold adventure in slavish orthodoxy) and unless you want a career as a right wing social media influencer or maybe a teacher at some shoddy whites only charter School in Alabama or Texas you would be better off in community college. (You can't go wrong with medical billing) Or maybe you could have one of Elon Musk's babies.
They won't discover that you won't learn shit at the University of Austin because they think University of Austin is what higher education is all about.
As someone in the academic class, this angers me no end. There are plenty of scholars at plenty of real universities doing real humanities scholarship that isn't just left- or right-wing grievance studies but has some real intellectual heft to it, and some of it might actually be of interest to a general public if properly presented. But you never hear about them in the media. It's all Guaranteed Great Books of the Western Tradition on the one hand and How Many Black Lesbians Can Fit on the End of My Canon on the other, and people nattering about how conservatives deserve Equal Time. The media won't understand that not everything fits into a neat little opposition of Red vs. Blue, with two and only two sides two every issue that have to be given equal weight just like on a debate team. (I blame our two-party system.) If the late David Bordwell (a distinguished film scholar who offered his work on Hollywood to the public on his invaluable blog) had been given one-tenth the attention that Harvey C. Mansfield and Robert P. George get just by existing, American culture might actually have a chance against the likes of Joe Rogan.
One explanation for Bordwell's neglect: he taught at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. And for the media, only the Ivy League counts. Land grant universities can go to hell.
"And for the media, only the Ivy League counts. Land grant universities can go to hell."
I was trying to reassure a friend who teaches at UW-Madison that her job was probably safe (despite the fact that done quite a lot of activism in support of the rights of Palestinians) because you can't whip up a prestige-media frenzy by firing people at a state university. Only the Ivies will do.
The Poison Ivy League produced its share of major league-quality players, but nobody would touch any of 'em, except for Calvin Amine, the trusty shortstop for the Halifax Hives. Cal covered the infield like a well-spread salve, he did.
Sadly, called up by the Orioles, he washed out of the bigs after just one series (against the Chicago Orphans) during which he went 0 for 12 and just generally rubbed the manager the wrong way...
"I blame our two-party system." we had that even before the assholes stuck The Humanities in a cage and put a sign that says FREAK on it. I blame the conservative movement that's been demonizing it since they realized poor kids who finally got to go to school came out questioning authority.
That parenthetical referred to our bad habit of dividing everything into Red vs. Blue. It comes from assuming the universe operates like the American political system.
Hell, now we're assuming EVERYTHING operates like the American political system. Haven't you heard we're now living in a "post-truth world"? Despite the fact that the truth still matters quite a lot in the everyday lives of the billions of humans who are not Donald Trump.
Wait 'til they make using PraegerU vidyas in school national, instead of just in Florida.
(Saw one of those nutso assertions recently that claim New York and California are being abandoned by the masses in favor of that bastion of freedom that is Florida. Hell, maybe they'll all go there and the weight will sink it.)
I guess I could watch the thing (lol no) but who are the students? Where would they have gone if this thing did not exist? I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't ringers who have a deal to transfer to Hillsdale the moment the coast is clear.
This is my bet as well. And 60 minutes undoubtedly performed the same rigorous scrutiny as the NYT did when they interviewed GOP ringers as "undecided" voters.
This college course vending machine is not designed to be degree-granting, it's marketed for the type who want get a course here or there for "self-improvement" & is too blinded by rage or resentment to endure anything that doesn't already agree with their own worldview, but also too enamored of their own intellect to accept any negative feedback on their own work.
Continuing education, in other words. Well, with the decline in college-age prospective students coming our way, continuing education is where it’s at.
Personally, I’ve gone from rage to mocking and sarcasm, after the immediate “oh, shit” on 11/6. Yes, Trump wants to fuck up his enemies, which are everyone with a 100+ IQ and a soul, but he has chosen clowns to carry out his will. I’m reminded of Benson in the original Time Bandits. Remember, Elon and Vivek have to work with Margery Taylor Greene; who is going to translate between them and her? Tom Homan and Steven Miller are both in charge of deporting America’s workforce; who’s going to get the corner desk? Trump’s Putin-loving asset is going to be amidst the biggest spy complex in the world; deep state antics are sure to follow. I wish the press weren’t so blind to the Theater of the Absurd being constructed in DC so everyone could enjoy the laffs while the price of everything goes through the roof.
I first heard the Ohio bit back around '75, at the local skateboard shop. Someone did or said something stupid, and one of the others hangign out simply asked "Are you from Ohio?" "Whaaat?"
I'm waiting for the usual suspects to claim a sharp decline in consumption of tomatoes and avocado toast (thanks to tariffs on Mexico and Gazpacho Police) have led to rise in home ownership.
Trump's "runaway victory" was LESS THAN 50% of the electorate, representative of only 23% of the country, Elon said BEFORE THE ELECTION that the plan was to crash the economy do they could rebuild it, and, with these incompetent dumbshits, we're going to have supply line disruption from the animal pandemics and human pandemics and weather disasters and neglect of infrastructure EVEN IF they don't deport all the people actually doing the work to support the country.
One of the commenters over on today's Wonkette daily tabs post was talking about getting an "I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO" T-shirt. I'm thinking there might be a market soon for those.
Another historical reference [ besides McCloskey ] :
The company stampeded across the hall and out a side passage with the narcs at their heels. As they rushed out, Goodgulf slammed shut the door in the narcs' faces and hastily put a spell on it.
"Hawley Smoot," he said, striking the door with his wand, and with a smoky "foof" the door disappeared, leaving the Wizard face-to-face with the puzzled narcs.
This illustrates a good part of my coping strategy. Henry Miller writing about a brief moment he experienced in Greece on the brink of WWII:
“In point of truth it is aeons since I passed through that narrow strait. It will never happen again. Ordinarily I would be sad at the thought, but I am not now. There is every reason to be sad at this moment: all the premonitions which I have had for ten years are coming true. This is one of the lowest moments in the history of the human race. There is no sign of hope on the horizon. The whole world is involved in slaughter and bloodshed. I repeat—I am not sad. Let the world have its bath of blood—I will cling to Poros. Millions of years may pass and I may come back again and again on one planet or another, as human, as devil, as archangel (I care not how, which, what or when), but my feet will never leave that boat, my eyes will never close on that scene, my friends will never disappear. That was a moment which endures, which survives world wars, which outlasts the life of the planet Earth itself. ”
Sounds like the earliest days of the war, the Nazis just rolled over one country after another, nothing could stop them, the best we can do is look for some small consolation. Because it would be foolish to hope that the Nazis might be beaten, that Hitler might end his days by putting a bullet in his own brain.
I know you don't want me to take this attitude, Roy, but dammit. If women were so Goddamned stupid to vote from Trump, then they deserve the shit-storm that is coming. All womens health subsidies will be cut by this madman straight out of The Handmaid's Tale. Oh my gracious, Americans might have to face the consequences of their actions. Horrors! Heaven Forfend!
And "blue collar boom", well that fucked. The plan is make all blue collar folks so fucking poor they can become wage slaves. Blue collar Southerners are accustomed to that, so let's share that pain nation wide. I expect "company towns" will make a comeback (cue Tennessee Ernie Ford).
I'm on Social Security now, so I know I'm going to get fucked over. "What, the government has a pile of money the Goddamned billionaires don't have already?! This cannot stand!" Our economy is going to go down like a turd in a well, and the only question is how much of the country does China get and how much does that rat-bastard KGB colonel get. Probably the former, because the latter will be busy invading Poland in the short term. I suppose I need to learn Mandarin. That'll give me something to do in the camps when I'm not beating up ex-reporters, aka my exercise program.
We are well and truly fucked. Third world countries will give us the stink-eye after this catastrophe, but hey, Americans wanted a washed-up TV star to send them down the road to perdition, that's what they get. And then boo-hoo and whine because "Oh shit! He did exactly what we thought he would do!"
The thing to hold close to your heart is that the majority, hell, almost all of those voters don't think there will be consequences, some because they believe their chain of car dealerships or regional beer distribution business will protect them, some because they believe the whole thing is a show they read about or watch on YouTube. The kind of disruption everyone is obsessing over is complex and expensive to pull off, and while they want to be Nazis they are just not capable of it. Not some moral thing, hell no, but they are not that organized and competent. There will be camps, hell Texas is literally begging for a franchise contract, but watch them try to oull it off on the cheap like everything they try. A blood-soaked circus where every act is clowns.
To me, it all depends on the military response. We know the cops are cool with posse commitatus, so they're out. My hope is internecine war within the military. Pretty sure the fly-boys will go Trump, being Evangelical nutjobs, but I'm hoping my pals in the Navy and some in the Army will push back. I hoping the jar-heads, er, um, the United States Marines will go with the Constitution, probable but not certain, don't have enough contacts with those cats.
I'm stocking up on Orville Redenbacher myself. It will be a show, assuming, of course, the revolution will be televised (h/t H. Rap Brown).
There are white and yellow versions, and I think the flavor is a bit better with the yellow. I used to really love White Cat corn, but it's gotten very hard to find in a store (I'm not going through Amazon!).
Paul Newman's (if you can find it) is suprisingly good, as is his frozen pizza.
The military's reaction will depend on what Trump orders them to do.
Send Seal Team 6 into Mexico to,take out some cartel? International law could be a problem.
Send Idaho National Guard into California to round up "illegals"? Send Army or Marines into a demonstration to bust heads? Ordering military to attack civilians will be a problem for some. Me, I'm wondering what the hell the US intelligence agencies are going to do about Trump and Comrade Gabbard burning sources and capabilities.
I see the Paul Newman's often - never tried it. Huge fan of his dressings, particularly the Caesar Salad variety, I go through a lot of those. That bears investigation.
Pizza? Well, our oven died years ago. If I can get the new air fryer up and running we're golden. Otherwise it's a slice or two at a time in the toaster oven.
ETA: We also go through Sock-a-Rooni pasta sauce like nobody's business. It is first rate. Never less than two jars in the house at a time. Mrs. LP finds it most acceptable, as do I, but I keep a couple of jars of Bertolli Alfredo sauce on hand (I'm the Northern Italian fan). Put some artichoke hearts in there and oh yeah baby Markie's going to town!
I'm relieved to see the nosh recommendations getting their due! This shows we can put a bright face on a dark turn of events. Mrs. Miniver would be proud!
Yeah, I don't think Claudia Sheinbaum is going to sit still for an invasion of Mexico. Especially since they have an army, navy, and air force of their own.
Hundred and eight years ago, when Pershing went into Mexico ostensibly to get Pancho Villa, Mexico was in the midst of a ten-year civil war with armed bands controlling different parts of the country, and no real central government. That's. . .not happening now.
She can't sit still for it. Violation of soveregnity is kind of a big deal. Trump has no idea what kind of elemental forces he's fucking with here. He sees all of this as corporate negotiations.
I hate this part the most, because it is the essence of Trump. A powerless man throwing shiny trinkets at the media who ooh and ah over them as if they had meaning and import. And so they are shoved in my face on a daily basis, even while limiting myself to sarcastic web sites for the kitten pictures and weak jokes. Me, I'm looking forward to the Inaugaration where he'll give another apocalyptic speech soaked in blood and retribution that will be ignored by everyone and then get down to Day 1 business when he tries to do something. At least there will be some connection between Trump and reality at that point.
When I can bring myself to look, my news feed is 50% post-mortems of the election and What The Democrats Did Wrong, and the other 50% is speculative reporting on What Trump Might Do. After much scrolling, I was able to find a story about how the air is Delhi is killing people, the only reporting available on something happening in the here and now.
Tubby is yelling tariffs again. He's reprogramming the DOJ to turn it into a domestic repression tool. Musk and wannasalami are both vowing to do everything they can to crash the economy.
But this should get the price of eggs moving, so what the heck.
Sadly (per E-Loan) those eggs refuse to move more than about once a month, and the Lads Who Lust has a sad...
25% tariffs on everything from Canada and Mexico, and a tax policy raising the burden on everyone but the top 5%.
But it's all gonna be Biden's fault, of course.
Where does my food come from? The grocery store. Sorry, I haven't looked into it any farther than that.
Fastidious farmers market for us (or the deli, or the deli next door to the other deli).
My guess is that people who buy their produce at the farmers market are probably somewhat less likely to vote for deporting the guy who grows their arugula.
This is true.
"So upon further review he may actually be full of shit..." pretty much sums up the totality of the Trump Era.
I've always been much less worried about Trump himself in a second term. I've anticipated he'd rant and storm and scream "off with their heads!" but would be too lazy and uninformed to accomplish most of what he wants. What has and does concern me is the people he'll be bringing with him this time, who have been greedy for this kind of power their whole lives and know how to actually get things done.
...which consists mostly of getting things undone...
Speaking of people around him, anyone seen Jim Dave? Maybe we should get his face on some milk cartons. Or is there some version of an Amber Alert for missing veeps, like a Warm Spit Alert? I’m getting a mite worried…
As a card-carrying member of the Mity Mite Protection League I demand–I say DEMAND, that you STOP WORRYING THE MITES!
Can we still worry the midges?
Just a smidge...
A leaping dipshit is worth more than a Thiel minion.
He's using the post-election lull to spend more time with his couch.
The Divan Divine!
Sofa, so good!
He was promised there would be NO fact checking
My missives from the Heritage Foundation are just oozing with anticipation for the bloodbath to commence.
Periodic reminder that Mussolini referred to Italy as "the number one corporate state" and he renamed the Chamber of Deputies as the "Chamber of Fasces and Corporations".
As opposed to Lumpy Shit Führer's "Chamber of Feces And Corruption"
More and more, I'm missing Alex Cockburn's Press Clips...
"Before you can count on anything else reversing the trend, you have to get your own mind right. And the first step toward that is to notice."
Or one can just avoid establishment news media which, as a rule, are pro-GOP (and somewhat let's say tolerant if not enabling) propaganda mills.
I know, it sucks to be a casually informed (or less) voter what with the mainstream outlets being so harmful and, you know, just not actually informative.
OTOH, maybe the ship of the casually let sufficiently informed voter sailed long ago, never to return...
"liberal readership that needs a little hand-holding, and may pay to have it held"
Gitcher little hands away from me!
"many investors [in Face-eating Leopard futures] still seem to be betting that he will not fully pursue those plans
University of Austin? Isn’t that Bari Weiss’ grift?
Sure is. 60 Minutes must be worrying about that Harris interview.
“I am not looking for retribution, grandstanding, or to destroy people who treated me very unfairly or even badly beyond comprehension. I am always looking to give a second and even third chance.”
...and obviously, if these filthy traitors *don't* treat Trump "fairly" (i.e. slavishly), even after given a second and third opportunity to do so, *then* comes the retribution and destruction. It's one more illustration of his assumption he is our Ruler and all good Americans must bow to their Ruler. (I'm sure it's in the Constitution somewhere.) Trump's magnanimity toward his enemies consists purely of waiting for two (maybe even three!) acts of Lese MAGAste before the pseudo-legal retribution comes.
I'm conflicted about bowing to rulers. Feet/inches, nah. Meters/centimeters (and, for those miniaturists among us) millimeters...sure. Decimalists Uber Lyft!
Take the measure of a man with a tape measure!
As told to the Washington Times. "The Trump with a song in his heart! Not many people know: a turrrrific dancer!"
This is said like he's an emperor, who will allow some of us to live, out of kindness and generosity. Fuck off, fella, I'm not lookin' for an emperor, kind or otherwise.
"I am not looking for retribution . . ." actually sounds coherent if it's what he really said before the PP cleaned it up. Mostly it sounds like --Project 2025, I know nothing about that.
“I am not looking for retribution, grandstanding, or to destroy people who treated me very unfairly or even badly beyond comprehension. I am always looking to give a second and even third chance.”
and all the times previously when e said he was all about the retribution? Oh wait a follow-up would get one retributed
The worst part is going to be watching everything go to shit and the people that we depend on to fix it will be spending most of their energy blaming Joe Biden.
I hope we're about to the point where people are discovering that you don't learn shit at the University of Austin ( a bold adventure in slavish orthodoxy) and unless you want a career as a right wing social media influencer or maybe a teacher at some shoddy whites only charter School in Alabama or Texas you would be better off in community college. (You can't go wrong with medical billing) Or maybe you could have one of Elon Musk's babies.
...with a ... trenchant ... chianti...?
I blush at the modesty of your proposal.
Easy there, bo – not so much a proposal, merely a suggestion...
They won't discover that you won't learn shit at the University of Austin because they think University of Austin is what higher education is all about.
As someone in the academic class, this angers me no end. There are plenty of scholars at plenty of real universities doing real humanities scholarship that isn't just left- or right-wing grievance studies but has some real intellectual heft to it, and some of it might actually be of interest to a general public if properly presented. But you never hear about them in the media. It's all Guaranteed Great Books of the Western Tradition on the one hand and How Many Black Lesbians Can Fit on the End of My Canon on the other, and people nattering about how conservatives deserve Equal Time. The media won't understand that not everything fits into a neat little opposition of Red vs. Blue, with two and only two sides two every issue that have to be given equal weight just like on a debate team. (I blame our two-party system.) If the late David Bordwell (a distinguished film scholar who offered his work on Hollywood to the public on his invaluable blog) had been given one-tenth the attention that Harvey C. Mansfield and Robert P. George get just by existing, American culture might actually have a chance against the likes of Joe Rogan.
One explanation for Bordwell's neglect: he taught at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. And for the media, only the Ivy League counts. Land grant universities can go to hell.
I was just reading about film director in-jokes on Bordwell's site. Stage Views by Jed Leland!
"And for the media, only the Ivy League counts. Land grant universities can go to hell."
I was trying to reassure a friend who teaches at UW-Madison that her job was probably safe (despite the fact that done quite a lot of activism in support of the rights of Palestinians) because you can't whip up a prestige-media frenzy by firing people at a state university. Only the Ivies will do.
The Poison Ivy League produced its share of major league-quality players, but nobody would touch any of 'em, except for Calvin Amine, the trusty shortstop for the Halifax Hives. Cal covered the infield like a well-spread salve, he did.
Sadly, called up by the Orioles, he washed out of the bigs after just one series (against the Chicago Orphans) during which he went 0 for 12 and just generally rubbed the manager the wrong way...
Calvin Amine would eventually serve as the longtime head coach of the UMMR Coughers.
"I blame our two-party system." we had that even before the assholes stuck The Humanities in a cage and put a sign that says FREAK on it. I blame the conservative movement that's been demonizing it since they realized poor kids who finally got to go to school came out questioning authority.
That parenthetical referred to our bad habit of dividing everything into Red vs. Blue. It comes from assuming the universe operates like the American political system.
Hell, now we're assuming EVERYTHING operates like the American political system. Haven't you heard we're now living in a "post-truth world"? Despite the fact that the truth still matters quite a lot in the everyday lives of the billions of humans who are not Donald Trump.
Wait 'til they make using PraegerU vidyas in school national, instead of just in Florida.
(Saw one of those nutso assertions recently that claim New York and California are being abandoned by the masses in favor of that bastion of freedom that is Florida. Hell, maybe they'll all go there and the weight will sink it.)
I guess I could watch the thing (lol no) but who are the students? Where would they have gone if this thing did not exist? I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't ringers who have a deal to transfer to Hillsdale the moment the coast is clear.
This is my bet as well. And 60 minutes undoubtedly performed the same rigorous scrutiny as the NYT did when they interviewed GOP ringers as "undecided" voters.
If the Federalist Society has taught us anything, its that some "free" mediocre American pizza can buy a lifetime of loyalty.
Whaddabout Comet?!
Who needs unions and health insurance when you can have pizza?
Why, I'd sign away my dental plan for a keg of beer!
This college course vending machine is not designed to be degree-granting, it's marketed for the type who want get a course here or there for "self-improvement" & is too blinded by rage or resentment to endure anything that doesn't already agree with their own worldview, but also too enamored of their own intellect to accept any negative feedback on their own work.
Continuing education, in other words. Well, with the decline in college-age prospective students coming our way, continuing education is where it’s at.
I for one approve of education continuing, tho we are hard-pressed to confirm that is a trend.
Not degree-granting; presumably, wing-nut welfare sinecure granting.
The takeaway: Speak authentically. Do not echo the noise and the buzz. Remember the Maine! Work makes what?
Personally, I’ve gone from rage to mocking and sarcasm, after the immediate “oh, shit” on 11/6. Yes, Trump wants to fuck up his enemies, which are everyone with a 100+ IQ and a soul, but he has chosen clowns to carry out his will. I’m reminded of Benson in the original Time Bandits. Remember, Elon and Vivek have to work with Margery Taylor Greene; who is going to translate between them and her? Tom Homan and Steven Miller are both in charge of deporting America’s workforce; who’s going to get the corner desk? Trump’s Putin-loving asset is going to be amidst the biggest spy complex in the world; deep state antics are sure to follow. I wish the press weren’t so blind to the Theater of the Absurd being constructed in DC so everyone could enjoy the laffs while the price of everything goes through the roof.
I'm imagining "Margery" as a new term for awfulness. "Get down there and clean that grease trap out - it's getting margery down there!"
This is probably the etymology of the Gen Alpha term for "Ohio" to signify something shitty & lame.
I first heard the Ohio bit back around '75, at the local skateboard shop. Someone did or said something stupid, and one of the others hangign out simply asked "Are you from Ohio?" "Whaaat?"
I'm waiting for the usual suspects to claim a sharp decline in consumption of tomatoes and avocado toast (thanks to tariffs on Mexico and Gazpacho Police) have led to rise in home ownership.
I forget--is it the job of the Gazpacho Police to make us eat more, or less, avocado toast?
Less eating, period. WingFührer Musk has decreed sacrifice* will be needed to improve the caliber of the Volk.
*Does not apply to increasing purchases of Trump™ Merch.
So you're not sympathetic to her being adddressed as "Margarine Trailer Queen"?
Trolling for a ride with Clarence the RV King?
2 marks.
Trump's "runaway victory" was LESS THAN 50% of the electorate, representative of only 23% of the country, Elon said BEFORE THE ELECTION that the plan was to crash the economy do they could rebuild it, and, with these incompetent dumbshits, we're going to have supply line disruption from the animal pandemics and human pandemics and weather disasters and neglect of infrastructure EVEN IF they don't deport all the people actually doing the work to support the country.
One of the commenters over on today's Wonkette daily tabs post was talking about getting an "I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO" T-shirt. I'm thinking there might be a market soon for those.
Those "I'm With Stupid -->" t-shirts y'all been hoarding should be useful as well
"Don't Blame Me I Voted For Harris/Walz"
Unfortunately, due to the poor winner nature of the magas, that could prove dangerous.
Same old, same old, I guess —
But in other news, Dennis Prager fell down the stairs & was badly injured, thus proving that Trickle Down economics works...
Well, I'm not WITH stupid, but we do seem to be trapped in the same timeline together.
Embrace the Stupidity!
If you don't mind, I'm keeping it at arms length while wearing an N-95 mask.
"Fell down the stairs" is going to be the US FSB version of "fell out of a window"
Another historical reference [ besides McCloskey ] :
The company stampeded across the hall and out a side passage with the narcs at their heels. As they rushed out, Goodgulf slammed shut the door in the narcs' faces and hastily put a spell on it.
"Hawley Smoot," he said, striking the door with his wand, and with a smoky "foof" the door disappeared, leaving the Wizard face-to-face with the puzzled narcs.
I remember when this happened...
Time to prepare ourselves for four more years of living through Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came:
XXIX.
Yet half I seemed to recognize some trick
Of mischief happened to me, God knows when—-
In a bad dream perhaps. Here ended, then,
Progress this way. When, in the very nick
Of giving up, one time more, came a click
As when a trap shuts—-you're inside the den!
This illustrates a good part of my coping strategy. Henry Miller writing about a brief moment he experienced in Greece on the brink of WWII:
“In point of truth it is aeons since I passed through that narrow strait. It will never happen again. Ordinarily I would be sad at the thought, but I am not now. There is every reason to be sad at this moment: all the premonitions which I have had for ten years are coming true. This is one of the lowest moments in the history of the human race. There is no sign of hope on the horizon. The whole world is involved in slaughter and bloodshed. I repeat—I am not sad. Let the world have its bath of blood—I will cling to Poros. Millions of years may pass and I may come back again and again on one planet or another, as human, as devil, as archangel (I care not how, which, what or when), but my feet will never leave that boat, my eyes will never close on that scene, my friends will never disappear. That was a moment which endures, which survives world wars, which outlasts the life of the planet Earth itself. ”
Excerpt From
The Colossus of Maroussi (Second Edition)
Henry Miller
Sounds like the earliest days of the war, the Nazis just rolled over one country after another, nothing could stop them, the best we can do is look for some small consolation. Because it would be foolish to hope that the Nazis might be beaten, that Hitler might end his days by putting a bullet in his own brain.
Exactly, the Nazis can never be beaten. It’s a genetic thing. No matter how often they get mown down, a new generation will soon grow and thrive.
I know you don't want me to take this attitude, Roy, but dammit. If women were so Goddamned stupid to vote from Trump, then they deserve the shit-storm that is coming. All womens health subsidies will be cut by this madman straight out of The Handmaid's Tale. Oh my gracious, Americans might have to face the consequences of their actions. Horrors! Heaven Forfend!
And "blue collar boom", well that fucked. The plan is make all blue collar folks so fucking poor they can become wage slaves. Blue collar Southerners are accustomed to that, so let's share that pain nation wide. I expect "company towns" will make a comeback (cue Tennessee Ernie Ford).
I'm on Social Security now, so I know I'm going to get fucked over. "What, the government has a pile of money the Goddamned billionaires don't have already?! This cannot stand!" Our economy is going to go down like a turd in a well, and the only question is how much of the country does China get and how much does that rat-bastard KGB colonel get. Probably the former, because the latter will be busy invading Poland in the short term. I suppose I need to learn Mandarin. That'll give me something to do in the camps when I'm not beating up ex-reporters, aka my exercise program.
We are well and truly fucked. Third world countries will give us the stink-eye after this catastrophe, but hey, Americans wanted a washed-up TV star to send them down the road to perdition, that's what they get. And then boo-hoo and whine because "Oh shit! He did exactly what we thought he would do!"
The thing to hold close to your heart is that the majority, hell, almost all of those voters don't think there will be consequences, some because they believe their chain of car dealerships or regional beer distribution business will protect them, some because they believe the whole thing is a show they read about or watch on YouTube. The kind of disruption everyone is obsessing over is complex and expensive to pull off, and while they want to be Nazis they are just not capable of it. Not some moral thing, hell no, but they are not that organized and competent. There will be camps, hell Texas is literally begging for a franchise contract, but watch them try to oull it off on the cheap like everything they try. A blood-soaked circus where every act is clowns.
"A blood-soaked circus where every act is clowns."
Wait, this is you looking on the bright side?
Cue Eric Idle. "Look on the bright side of life..."
When life hands you lemons, throw them at somebody.
To me, it all depends on the military response. We know the cops are cool with posse commitatus, so they're out. My hope is internecine war within the military. Pretty sure the fly-boys will go Trump, being Evangelical nutjobs, but I'm hoping my pals in the Navy and some in the Army will push back. I hoping the jar-heads, er, um, the United States Marines will go with the Constitution, probable but not certain, don't have enough contacts with those cats.
I'm stocking up on Orville Redenbacher myself. It will be a show, assuming, of course, the revolution will be televised (h/t H. Rap Brown).
Redenbacher is readily available, but I'm a fan of the Bob's Red Mill yellow variety myself.
Ohhhh, intriguing. Big fan of ol' Bob. Never saw the popcorn, got to look out for that.
There are white and yellow versions, and I think the flavor is a bit better with the yellow. I used to really love White Cat corn, but it's gotten very hard to find in a store (I'm not going through Amazon!).
Paul Newman's (if you can find it) is suprisingly good, as is his frozen pizza.
The military's reaction will depend on what Trump orders them to do.
Send Seal Team 6 into Mexico to,take out some cartel? International law could be a problem.
Send Idaho National Guard into California to round up "illegals"? Send Army or Marines into a demonstration to bust heads? Ordering military to attack civilians will be a problem for some. Me, I'm wondering what the hell the US intelligence agencies are going to do about Trump and Comrade Gabbard burning sources and capabilities.
After the purge of the intelligence agencies (i.e.firing anyone with intelligence), ain't gonna be no thing. Vlad will get the VIP treatment.
I see the Paul Newman's often - never tried it. Huge fan of his dressings, particularly the Caesar Salad variety, I go through a lot of those. That bears investigation.
Pizza? Well, our oven died years ago. If I can get the new air fryer up and running we're golden. Otherwise it's a slice or two at a time in the toaster oven.
ETA: We also go through Sock-a-Rooni pasta sauce like nobody's business. It is first rate. Never less than two jars in the house at a time. Mrs. LP finds it most acceptable, as do I, but I keep a couple of jars of Bertolli Alfredo sauce on hand (I'm the Northern Italian fan). Put some artichoke hearts in there and oh yeah baby Markie's going to town!
I'm relieved to see the nosh recommendations getting their due! This shows we can put a bright face on a dark turn of events. Mrs. Miniver would be proud!
Certainly! Ya gotta eat, after all. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow.....whoops, nevermind.
Yeah, I don't think Claudia Sheinbaum is going to sit still for an invasion of Mexico. Especially since they have an army, navy, and air force of their own.
Hundred and eight years ago, when Pershing went into Mexico ostensibly to get Pancho Villa, Mexico was in the midst of a ten-year civil war with armed bands controlling different parts of the country, and no real central government. That's. . .not happening now.
She can't sit still for it. Violation of soveregnity is kind of a big deal. Trump has no idea what kind of elemental forces he's fucking with here. He sees all of this as corporate negotiations.
I hate this part the most, because it is the essence of Trump. A powerless man throwing shiny trinkets at the media who ooh and ah over them as if they had meaning and import. And so they are shoved in my face on a daily basis, even while limiting myself to sarcastic web sites for the kitten pictures and weak jokes. Me, I'm looking forward to the Inaugaration where he'll give another apocalyptic speech soaked in blood and retribution that will be ignored by everyone and then get down to Day 1 business when he tries to do something. At least there will be some connection between Trump and reality at that point.
When I can bring myself to look, my news feed is 50% post-mortems of the election and What The Democrats Did Wrong, and the other 50% is speculative reporting on What Trump Might Do. After much scrolling, I was able to find a story about how the air is Delhi is killing people, the only reporting available on something happening in the here and now.
Manchester City lost to Arsenal 4-nil last weekend. 5th loss in a row. THERE's yer big news.
Somethin' shaky about the cosmos...
actually they lost to Tottenham
You mean Bern's peddlin' FAKE NEWS?
Like someone who doesn't know North London
Mea culpas are maxissima.
Tottenham, who in their previous league match had lost at home to Ipswich Town...
City loses a couple of the best players in the league and BOOM! Well...still in second place, but BOOM!