"mui plenty stinko barracho" is my fave. That and the mayor finding out Sylvester has stopped the cheese festival. "El gato keeps us from the cheeseo". "No cheeseo?!" shouts the mayor, then under his breath "Oy gevalt".
I once lived in a doublewide house trailer with one other person and 6 cats. Can you imagine sharing the same space with SEVEN PEOPLE? Someone would be dead within the week.
That's the problem with people, they just take up too damn much space.
Defraud is a weird* word. Wouldn't it make more sense simply to say 'fraud'? I mean, if I was to be defrauded, wouldn't that rightly mean that fraud against me had been abated?
The greatest trick the devil…I mean the GOP, I always get those two mixed up…ever pulled was convincing some people that conservatives who grew up with intergenerational wealth, went to Ivies, and worked in finance or law were the real Voice of the Working Class. Then further persuading those same people the “Elites” were college students, teachers, social justice advocates, etc.
I’m so glad the mask is starting to get ripped off that con game. Calling them “fascists” wasn’t working because it sounded too scary and extreme. But “weird” seems to be doing the same job very effectively.
Family owned, highly recommended. Molinari's in North Beach gets more attention, but Lucca's is better, and not just because Molinari's sold me some mouldy prosciutto once.
Have you tried a banh mi from Lee's (there's one on Larkin)? The baguette they're on is outstanding. Thin, crispy crust, with a light, airy, fluffy inside. They make them every 35 minutes. My favorite baguette.
". . . a weakness for someone who needs to wrangle with chief executives and central bankers . . ."
Indeed. Can you imagine the Vice-president of the United States not being at least a millionaire, if not a billionaire? How ever will he deal with those chief executives and central bankers? Why, he may end up being like Katie Porter!
Oh, "wrangling", is that what they call it now? The rich guy with lots of stocks is better at "wrangling" chief executives? In my day, we just called it a hand job.
Someone (an economist?) said "The American question is : “if you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”
Now the right wants it to be Someone (an economist?) said "The American question is : “if you’re so smart, why aren't you buying into the Neoliberal looting of the planet? Are you stupid or unAmerican??)
On an unrelated-but-potentially-amusing-to-our-host note, Dave Andelman has a fun little post about the history of WINS radio in NYC and how it took over the news biz.
Back in 2008, one of the big papers at the time sent a reporter to Alabama to interview white evangelicals (it was maybe the prototype of the Cletus Safaris we’ve seen since 2015). They were trying to gauge the effectiveness of Obama’s evangelical outreach.
Naturally, the white evangelicals of Alabama were unreceptive, to say the least. But what has stuck in my mind for years was one 80 year old woman describing what she thought heaven would be like: she said she’d live in a beautiful home with top of the line, modern kitchen appliances, etc.
I’ve always thought that not only showed a sadly limited imagination about the possibilities of an afterlife, but also reflected how these people want to live now: with the door barred against outsiders, and all the goodies hoarded for themselves.
When Jehovah witnesses go door to door on Saturdays one of the reasons is that they're taught that come the end times, everyone else is going away and they get to keep all the stuff that's here. When they come to your house and knock on your door they're trying to get a look at all the stuff you have to see if they want it when you go to burn in the Lake of Fire. This always sounded like a particularly American religious experience.
Tee hee. Kinda broke 'em from coming to my house - they were great sport. Mormons are even more fun, but I seem to be short of them these days. The last Mormon I spoke to mentioned she had a cat allergy, so I gave her a good long handshake. Bwahahaha!
LOL, I didn't realize this was an Actual Thing for the religious right. These people have such a lack of imagination, if they ever saw a bona-fide miracle they'd try to franchise it.
In the REAL heaven we got people for alla the chores. High end restaurants every night, and when the bill comes we ceremoniously tear it up in front of the sadsack waitress.
What part of "passeth understanding' do these people not get? Read the damn thing. It says you can't imagine it. So stop trying to imagine it!! Illiterate morons.
It's an odd failing, for people who have so much experience at not understanding things. God's literally saying "Don't even try", you think they'd come to it naturally.
Saul of Tarsus' billion-dollar idea was to reinvent Jesus not just as God, but a loving God who cares about you and your happiness and your bank account, basically shrinking God down into chewable tablet size. That's how you get a Heaven that looks like a cross between The Villages and Branson.
I saw a picture of a tattoo on a guys arm "Lev. 18:22 A man shall not...." the whole verse. I guess he didn't read the next chapter, where Leviticus 19:28 says "no tattoos or piercings'......
That's probably a better outcome than what someone with imagination would come up with. Kurt Vonnegut, for example, imagined heaven as a place where everyone just hung around with nothing to do and were bored out of their minds for eternity. That seems like a more realistic possibility.
The other catch is, to have any fun you'd hafta leave, but in order to leave you hafta get past Border Guard Bill on THIS side of the gate, whose job is to charge a shit-ton of moolah if you wanna get back into the real world.
Borges said his heaven was "a kind of library;" my heaven is a comprehensive, inexhaustible museum. Upon further reflection I realized that earth and all the human lives, artifacts, and phenomena it has ever held and now contains is just a poorly curated heaven.
The funny thing is a large number must have entered while they were still winning the war. How did they break the news to them? Did they have some kind of Heavenly Cable News Network with regular updates on how things are going back on Earth?
I endured the misfortune of spending the first few days of this month in Alabama to attend the wedding of my wife’s bandmate (she was an itinerant musician for years before taking up the practice of law) and former inamorato from the eighties. There were nearly four hundred guests at the reception dinner, and I’m reasonably certain that I was the only atheist Democrat in the room.
Because the frau is in failing health (which has taken an unexpected and steep downward turn beginning hard upon our return to California) I kept to myself some tart observations I might otherwise have made, so I’ll vent here. The bride, fifty-seven, is a state judge, having been elected to that position. You may draw the obvious conclusion regarding her politics. But wait, there’s more! She was a fucking 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦 to the GOP convention in Milwaukee last month. I mean, it’s one thing to hook up with a Good German, but this guy just got hitched to a card-carrying Nazi Gauleiter. Fuck me.
Franklin? I always thought the second heavenly voice was the Supreme Being. In any case, this guy is Republican Jesus all the way. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall be sheared like sheep. Blessed are the poor, for they will be too tired to revolt. Blessed are the piecework laborers, for they shall supply the cheap goods.”
Trump's lead among White non-college-educated voters (which make up half of the voters in Wisconsin) has shrunk from 24 points to 14 points since Harris/Walz replaced Biden/Harris. I could be nuts, but maybe the guy who doesn't own any stocks is helping?
I’ve been expecting this since it’s been an article of faith on the right that the Walz pick was a mistake because he’s a trans socialist tampon commie (or something like that) base pick versus “centrist” Josh Shapiro, and so won’t attract any new votes to Kamala. See Nooners’ last wsj column, for example. If you always bet against this crowd you’ll never lose money.
As I'm sure you're aware, Tampon Commie is not only a great band name, it will probably be coming to a campaign button or bumper sticker soon. Claire Marz, where you at?
Picking Walz still astonishes me, because the conventional-Democrat path was laid out SO clearly, and then she didn't take it! I even remember a quote from one Democratic insider (anonymous, of course) that Harris had to "show she could stand up to the left." Also, Nikki Haley Voters! Just MILLIONS of 'em, yours for the pickin' if you go with Shapiro, but NO HALEY VOTERS FOR YOU if you pick Walz.
Yep, "bet against this crowd you’ll never lose money" needs to be engraved in marble somewhere, perhaps on Bill Kristol's forehead.
I think a lot of factors are starting to gel at once: people thought Biden was too old and were mad about inflation on his watch, they wanted a change, they were pissed they had the same choice as in 2020. I think Trump's lead was less about a growth in his support and more about a depression of Biden's.
Harris's current lead isn't all about newly invigorated Democrats, most of it is probably people who think "OK, we don't want that loudmouth Trump, but the other guy wasn't great. Let's check this new team out." And yeah, Walz helps with that. I think "mind your own damn business" resonates deeply with a lot of voters.
People sick of Trump's doom-and-gloom schtick + a whole bunch of people who weren't old enough to vote in 2016 and 2020 and who don't spend their days worrying about what goes on in public bathrooms.
Assuming roughly half those non-college-educated White folks are women (probably less than half, since women are now more likely to get college-educated) and they were being pushed forcefully towards the Democrats anyway, now "A Woman's Place is On Top - of the Ticket" might be having some effect. Also those "Tampon Tim" attacks might have helped, thanks Fox News!
Thank you. I had forgotten about that. James Bell Hood wanted to 'punish' his division for their failure at I-cant-remember. Oh, he punished them all right. Fredricksburg 2: Union Boogaloo.
I can make Spouse laugh out loud telling her about how John Bell Hood destroyed his army at Franklin and Nashville (with special mention of the heroism of the Thirteenth United States Colored Troops).
Hey, great news from Wisconsin, where two constitutional amendments written by the Republican-controlled legislature both went down to defeat - and it wasn't even close, 58-42 NO!
This had to do with Gov. Tony Evers using federal emergency Covid aid to, you know, actually help people. King Robin Vos stepped in with these two amendments to stop that "helping people" thing from ever happening again.
I assumed it would be close because it's a low-turnout election and these were relatively complicated technical budget issues. But apparently, "Written by Robin" was all the voters needed to know about it.
Reminds me of the Supreme Court race, which everyone assumed would be close, and the liberal justice trounced the right-winger by eleven points.
We keep this up people will stop referring to us as a Swing State, and no more will we enjoy all that wonderful media attention. I can't wait.
I sure can’t. I do try to play it. I can’t play the themes fast enough, though. And I can’t improvise at all above ~220 beats per minute. At that pace most of my licks are impossible, but I can manage something (assuming I’m in good shape, which I’m not).
Teachers advise us not to tap our feet when playing fast tempos. We’re supposed to internalize the pulse. Makes sense, since the real practitioners manage 300+ BPM while still grooving. Not me!
Also, Andre Jacques, one of the most obnoxious MAGA Republicans in our state legislature (and that's really sayin' something) came in THIRD with about 20% in the Republican primary for an open Congressional seat in Green Bay.
Now I'm imagining a movie, The Ballad of Andy Jack, where he gets his ass kicked in every fight.
I wish I had paid better attention, because I don't think I ever saw a single argument in favor of the amendments. Now I'm wondering how you'd explain the "problem" that these things are supposed to be "solving."
Yeah, those were harder, I remember the Republicans were smart, and it read as basically "Elections shall be administered by election administrators" and explaining the trickery behind it and the intended effect (not good) took some effort. I'm hopeful we're approaching the point where we can just say "Republicans wrote this and want you to vote for it" and that will be enough. And who knows? Maybe we we won't even have a Republican majority after November! Ah, but that's just me getting carried away.
Yes! They've tried to recall him three times, I think. Hilariously, one recall attempt was thrown out when a bunch of the signatures they collected turned out to be from people who weren't even in Vos' district. Election integrity indeed!
So yeah, "We hate Robin Vos" is the one thing that brings all of Wisconsin together.
Absolutely unrelated to the substance of the scene above: my brothers and I will occasionally go into an extended impromptu riff using the voice of George Bailey to tell Mary to do unspeakably pornographic things to himself and/or other characters from It’s a Wonderful Life: “That—that’s right, Mary, j-j-just spank him a little *harder*… that’s perfect, Mary!”
Walz might not grasp the concerns of people who hoard money like aging spinsters hoard cats?
No, wait - that can’t be right. We do something about spinsters with too many cats because they’re so obviously loco in the cabeza.
At least we have those spinstercat videos to amuse us unto death.
Watch that aging spinster with cats stuff, buddy. 🤣
I am a childless cat lady in this sense, mister:
http://fantasyward.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-cats-of-frank-frazetta.html
Bless ye, laddie.
Lose the extra ‘d’ & yer golden, fren! :)
2 marks. Well-crafted.
Whoops! My bad.
I thought you were a childless guinea pig lady?
"loco in the cabeza" Speedy Gonzales, represent!
"mui plenty stinko barracho" is my fave. That and the mayor finding out Sylvester has stopped the cheese festival. "El gato keeps us from the cheeseo". "No cheeseo?!" shouts the mayor, then under his breath "Oy gevalt".
Yeah, imagine wanting to spend more time around cats than other people! Why, you'd have to be, like, a LUNATIC!
I once lived in a doublewide house trailer with one other person and 6 cats. Can you imagine sharing the same space with SEVEN PEOPLE? Someone would be dead within the week.
That's the problem with people, they just take up too damn much space.
I approve of anything that makes the financial elites nervous.
Funny that the one thing that does NOT make them nervous is having a convicted fraudster as President.
All our fraudsters have convictions! No inefectualists 'round here!
"convicted fraudster" aka Our Kinda Guy.
"Don't worry, he's just going to defraud OTHER people!"
Defraud is a weird* word. Wouldn't it make more sense simply to say 'fraud'? I mean, if I was to be defrauded, wouldn't that rightly mean that fraud against me had been abated?
*Ooo! Edgy!
It's an eponym, after DJ DeFraud, noted asshole
George Carlin nods in agreement, from Heaven.
"EVERYONE does it!"
Real 'Muricans get in five felonies a day!
"Game recognize game."
Plus, the thievery is *international.*
The greatest trick the devil…I mean the GOP, I always get those two mixed up…ever pulled was convincing some people that conservatives who grew up with intergenerational wealth, went to Ivies, and worked in finance or law were the real Voice of the Working Class. Then further persuading those same people the “Elites” were college students, teachers, social justice advocates, etc.
I’m so glad the mask is starting to get ripped off that con game. Calling them “fascists” wasn’t working because it sounded too scary and extreme. But “weird” seems to be doing the same job very effectively.
Can't wait for Peter Theil's protege (to put it politely) to tear into Walz on the debate stage about this "doesn't own stocks" thing.
Don't forget those elite baristas!
The only people more elite work in Italian delis with the Fancy Meats.
Lucca Deli, on Chestnut, in the Marina. Just take the sandwich and enjoy it, mister!
I'll soppressata the wisecracks.
Just gimme the dough, he said, sourly.
Family owned, highly recommended. Molinari's in North Beach gets more attention, but Lucca's is better, and not just because Molinari's sold me some mouldy prosciutto once.
The hard-crusted sourdough roll, chock fulla cheese and the rest (hold the onions), is all you need. Ever.
Have you tried a banh mi from Lee's (there's one on Larkin)? The baguette they're on is outstanding. Thin, crispy crust, with a light, airy, fluffy inside. They make them every 35 minutes. My favorite baguette.
". . . a weakness for someone who needs to wrangle with chief executives and central bankers . . ."
Indeed. Can you imagine the Vice-president of the United States not being at least a millionaire, if not a billionaire? How ever will he deal with those chief executives and central bankers? Why, he may end up being like Katie Porter!
https://youtu.be/2WLuuCM6Ej0?si=tHrlW7IWdjroidyN
Oh, "wrangling", is that what they call it now? The rich guy with lots of stocks is better at "wrangling" chief executives? In my day, we just called it a hand job.
Was gonna write something about the wrangle of the dangle, but no...
The wrangle of the dangle is directly proportional to the mass of the .....
Oh, sorry, childhood flashback.....
directly proportional to the mass of the
couch? chaise lounge? davenport?
You mean chief executives and central bankers are cattle? Explains a whole lot then. (And I always thought they were sheep...)
Why, Harris should drop this Walz guy and bring on Jean Baptiste Emanuel Musk as VP!
Viper Petter!
Did his Siamese cat die?
Then she could do all her campaign events livestreamed on Twitter! This is gonna be GREAT!
So, as a reader of CS Lewis (my teenage crush was on a CS Lewis fan), I wonder how Joseph would taste in a marinara sauce with a nice Chianti...
Don't forget the fava beans! Ff-ff-ff-ff-ff! 😂
Ask Uncle Screwtape.
"So, as a reader of CS Lewis (my teenage crush was on a CS Lewis fan)"
is a delightful introductory phrase. Thanks.
Indeed, it suggests a story.
Perhaps he comes for the girl; stays for the writings, literary scholarship, and Anglican lay theology. [wikipedia]
Then realizes to his chagrin that Anglican lay theology does not result in getting laid.
I posit the existence of Narnia Furries
The dark secret of Aslan and Mr. Tumnus revealed!
Let's both not Google this stuff.
I'm glad Lewis is too dead to see what's no doubt out there.
Someone (an economist?) said "The American question is : “if you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”
Now the right wants it to be Someone (an economist?) said "The American question is : “if you’re so smart, why aren't you buying into the Neoliberal looting of the planet? Are you stupid or unAmerican??)
S'cuse me, while I flop these shipping containers fulla yuan on the loading dock...Oh, sorry – wrong thread?
"If you're so smart, why don't you pick up your cues faster?"
"Are those my cues?"
"Yes, and they should be dry by now. Why don't you pull them up out of the cellophane before they scorch?"
You're ex-cuesed.
Gotta watch yourself at the Old Same Place!
You can't get there from here.
On an unrelated-but-potentially-amusing-to-our-host note, Dave Andelman has a fun little post about the history of WINS radio in NYC and how it took over the news biz.
https://daandelman.substack.com/p/unleashed-memoir-4-birth-and-death
Losing WCBS is hitting me pretty hard. I heard day before yesterday. I despise late-stage capitalism. To see the Tiffany Network fall....
Helluva story. Never knew that WINS was up for the '65 blackout! And yeah, you never forget your first waterbug.
"1010 WINS - because Jesus fuck, why would you WANT to listen to WABC?"
Jim Gaffigan: Does anyone else think it's weird that Heaven has gates? What kind of a neighborhood is Heaven in?
You die and go to a gated community? That says a lot about the values of those who fantasize about reality as Christians.
Back in 2008, one of the big papers at the time sent a reporter to Alabama to interview white evangelicals (it was maybe the prototype of the Cletus Safaris we’ve seen since 2015). They were trying to gauge the effectiveness of Obama’s evangelical outreach.
Naturally, the white evangelicals of Alabama were unreceptive, to say the least. But what has stuck in my mind for years was one 80 year old woman describing what she thought heaven would be like: she said she’d live in a beautiful home with top of the line, modern kitchen appliances, etc.
I’ve always thought that not only showed a sadly limited imagination about the possibilities of an afterlife, but also reflected how these people want to live now: with the door barred against outsiders, and all the goodies hoarded for themselves.
In Heaven, the melons come already balled
Heaven is a Norge full of Tang and egg salad.
Norge. Boy that takes me back. Thanks man.
Knock on any Norge!
Oh you.
Seems like Knock on any Norge might could be added to our Euphemism Hall of Fame, but will wait for the esteemed panel of judges decision.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSe6yxKy4r8
In heaven, everyone has a walk-in shower and a bidet toilet. It's like their conception of god is as a top-tier Century 21 agent.
And none of THOSE people next door.
When Jehovah witnesses go door to door on Saturdays one of the reasons is that they're taught that come the end times, everyone else is going away and they get to keep all the stuff that's here. When they come to your house and knock on your door they're trying to get a look at all the stuff you have to see if they want it when you go to burn in the Lake of Fire. This always sounded like a particularly American religious experience.
Tee hee. Kinda broke 'em from coming to my house - they were great sport. Mormons are even more fun, but I seem to be short of them these days. The last Mormon I spoke to mentioned she had a cat allergy, so I gave her a good long handshake. Bwahahaha!
My idea of heaven includes not having toilets, because you don't need them.
An all-inclusive resort where every Tuesday is Margaritaville night.
Don't forget the tacos!
Only if Jedediah Dorkus Vance has already died
A big house with modern appliances? Man, wait until she sees the roller coasters and Star Trek transporters! And the pizza, it’s to die for! https://youtu.be/ikosus8S09M?si=qJVW99A2kAuN1bcZ
LOL, I didn't realize this was an Actual Thing for the religious right. These people have such a lack of imagination, if they ever saw a bona-fide miracle they'd try to franchise it.
In the REAL heaven we got people for alla the chores. High end restaurants every night, and when the bill comes we ceremoniously tear it up in front of the sadsack waitress.
MAGA heaven, for real. And don't forget the pleasure boats! You get a boat, and YOU get a boat....
Deckhands from hell, but they've got work visas
Purgatoried cabinboy interns getting a foot in the gate
Just put a pro-Trump sticker on the bill.
What part of "passeth understanding' do these people not get? Read the damn thing. It says you can't imagine it. So stop trying to imagine it!! Illiterate morons.
It's an odd failing, for people who have so much experience at not understanding things. God's literally saying "Don't even try", you think they'd come to it naturally.
They've met Dr. Dunning and Dr. Kruger, oh yeah.
Also, "passeth" sounds like Trump in that livestream with Musk.
Saul of Tarsus' billion-dollar idea was to reinvent Jesus not just as God, but a loving God who cares about you and your happiness and your bank account, basically shrinking God down into chewable tablet size. That's how you get a Heaven that looks like a cross between The Villages and Branson.
And there's never any question who is number one.
It's just like The Villages, but without the STD epidemic!
Same folks who think the Demiurge who spoke all reality into existence cares very, very deeply about gender presentation.
That's a LOTTA speakin' right there. Dude don't shut up! Reminds me of the posers in the BART station yesterday:
"I'M WALKIN' AWAY!"
"YOU'RE WALKIN' AWAY?! I'M WALKIN' AWAY!!"
"THAT'S NOT WALKIN' AWAY!"
Would that I had more upvotes.
I saw a picture of a tattoo on a guys arm "Lev. 18:22 A man shall not...." the whole verse. I guess he didn't read the next chapter, where Leviticus 19:28 says "no tattoos or piercings'......
A guy who needs a reminder printed on his own skin must be REALLY tempted.
That's probably a better outcome than what someone with imagination would come up with. Kurt Vonnegut, for example, imagined heaven as a place where everyone just hung around with nothing to do and were bored out of their minds for eternity. That seems like a more realistic possibility.
In the traditional conceptualization, if you're not into harps and ennui you're pretty much shit out of luck, it's true.
The one catch is that you've got to make your own fun!
The other catch is, to have any fun you'd hafta leave, but in order to leave you hafta get past Border Guard Bill on THIS side of the gate, whose job is to charge a shit-ton of moolah if you wanna get back into the real world.
Wait a minute - you've been dead before, haven't you?
Whad'ya mean 'before'?
Actually, no, but I did hang around with BG Bill after hours, tellin' stories...
He spent money like a drunken ... uhmm ... sentry.
Thus explaining all the weird inexplicable shit that happens in the world!
Borges said his heaven was "a kind of library;" my heaven is a comprehensive, inexhaustible museum. Upon further reflection I realized that earth and all the human lives, artifacts, and phenomena it has ever held and now contains is just a poorly curated heaven.
Asimov went down that road too.
Is that from Happy Birthday, Wanda June? I liked the idea that even the Nazis are there, vaguely regretful about the genocide.
Slapstick, but maybe he used it across multiple stories.
The important thing is that they're sorry.
The funny thing is a large number must have entered while they were still winning the war. How did they break the news to them? Did they have some kind of Heavenly Cable News Network with regular updates on how things are going back on Earth?
I endured the misfortune of spending the first few days of this month in Alabama to attend the wedding of my wife’s bandmate (she was an itinerant musician for years before taking up the practice of law) and former inamorato from the eighties. There were nearly four hundred guests at the reception dinner, and I’m reasonably certain that I was the only atheist Democrat in the room.
Because the frau is in failing health (which has taken an unexpected and steep downward turn beginning hard upon our return to California) I kept to myself some tart observations I might otherwise have made, so I’ll vent here. The bride, fifty-seven, is a state judge, having been elected to that position. You may draw the obvious conclusion regarding her politics. But wait, there’s more! She was a fucking 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦 to the GOP convention in Milwaukee last month. I mean, it’s one thing to hook up with a Good German, but this guy just got hitched to a card-carrying Nazi Gauleiter. Fuck me.
Ooh, did she get to wave a sign that said "Mass Deportations Now"?
Old Milwaukee, pour one out for me
I come from Alabama with a bandaid on my ear
2 marks, right down the middle.
My sympathies. You peered into the abyss, but fortunately for you the abyss failed to notice you were there. Good job of keeping it incognito.
Very sorry to hear of the downward turn in health. Best wishes to you both.
Maybe he does a really good job of "separate the art from the artist"?
Also: I'm sorry to hear about your wife's ill health, and more so that it has taken a downward turn.
"And colored maids who do windows and can't quit."
Franklin? I always thought the second heavenly voice was the Supreme Being. In any case, this guy is Republican Jesus all the way. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall be sheared like sheep. Blessed are the poor, for they will be too tired to revolt. Blessed are the piecework laborers, for they shall supply the cheap goods.”
Based
Bassed
Baste
Basta
I was confident you would fill in, with precisely this.
All that to say GET OUTTA MY HEAD!
Hey, it's surprisingly roomy in here, I'll go get my Barcalounger!
Pervert.
Trump's lead among White non-college-educated voters (which make up half of the voters in Wisconsin) has shrunk from 24 points to 14 points since Harris/Walz replaced Biden/Harris. I could be nuts, but maybe the guy who doesn't own any stocks is helping?
https://www.mediaite.com/election-2024/harris-surging-with-swing-state-white-working-class-voters-donald-trumps-core-group/
Thinking people are comin' outta the woodwork! Adlai Stevenson is reanimating with jealousy!
Corporate media continues to throw spaghetti at the wall. Not only is nothing sticking, they ain't even hitting the damn wall.
"You think that's spaghetti... (chuckles)"
I’ve been expecting this since it’s been an article of faith on the right that the Walz pick was a mistake because he’s a trans socialist tampon commie (or something like that) base pick versus “centrist” Josh Shapiro, and so won’t attract any new votes to Kamala. See Nooners’ last wsj column, for example. If you always bet against this crowd you’ll never lose money.
As I'm sure you're aware, Tampon Commie is not only a great band name, it will probably be coming to a campaign button or bumper sticker soon. Claire Marz, where you at?
I likes it.
Got back to Philly area yesterday. The stickers are great, thank you! I've already passed the extras out to enthusiastic co-workers.
To each according to their flow.
That one's right on the line, but I'll allow it, lol.
You are literally too kind.
I'd like to personally thank whoever thought of that.
Fully Automated Luxury Tampon Communism
A vending machine in every bathroom!
Picking Walz still astonishes me, because the conventional-Democrat path was laid out SO clearly, and then she didn't take it! I even remember a quote from one Democratic insider (anonymous, of course) that Harris had to "show she could stand up to the left." Also, Nikki Haley Voters! Just MILLIONS of 'em, yours for the pickin' if you go with Shapiro, but NO HALEY VOTERS FOR YOU if you pick Walz.
Yep, "bet against this crowd you’ll never lose money" needs to be engraved in marble somewhere, perhaps on Bill Kristol's forehead.
Indeed. They think "zeitgeist" is the name of a German sausage.
Feel the Bratgeist!
Hearted, but obviously you have no idea how that stuff is made.
Bratwurst, made from 100% organic free-range Bratz™.
You'd risk breaching the infinite vacuum inside.
Uhmm...oof?
If they'd picked Shapiro, I think I know what the Repubs would be saying.
Harris ((Shapiro))?
How come apostrophes gotta do alla dirty work?
Media and repukes would be Gaza 24/7 and demanding Harris go all Sistah Soulja on the protesters or be accused of insufficient fealty to Israel.
"accused of insufficient fealty to Israel"
And also TOO MUCH fealty to Israel, IYKWIMAITTYD.
ALL of them would be whispering, and some would be saying it out loud.
If ssdd thought of "tampon commie," then thanks!
I think a lot of factors are starting to gel at once: people thought Biden was too old and were mad about inflation on his watch, they wanted a change, they were pissed they had the same choice as in 2020. I think Trump's lead was less about a growth in his support and more about a depression of Biden's.
Harris's current lead isn't all about newly invigorated Democrats, most of it is probably people who think "OK, we don't want that loudmouth Trump, but the other guy wasn't great. Let's check this new team out." And yeah, Walz helps with that. I think "mind your own damn business" resonates deeply with a lot of voters.
People sick of Trump's doom-and-gloom schtick + a whole bunch of people who weren't old enough to vote in 2016 and 2020 and who don't spend their days worrying about what goes on in public bathrooms.
Assuming roughly half those non-college-educated White folks are women (probably less than half, since women are now more likely to get college-educated) and they were being pushed forcefully towards the Democrats anyway, now "A Woman's Place is On Top - of the Ticket" might be having some effect. Also those "Tampon Tim" attacks might have helped, thanks Fox News!
America has historically been a "mind your own business" culture.
"some portion thereof" needs squeezin' in there sommers...
Significant shrinkage!
God's name is Franklin? I thought it was Harold. You know, Our Father who art in Heaven, Harold be thy name...
Many Confederate Generals died at Franklin
Thank you. I had forgotten about that. James Bell Hood wanted to 'punish' his division for their failure at I-cant-remember. Oh, he punished them all right. Fredricksburg 2: Union Boogaloo.
I can make Spouse laugh out loud telling her about how John Bell Hood destroyed his army at Franklin and Nashville (with special mention of the heroism of the Thirteenth United States Colored Troops).
And what? He was down to one arm and one leg by that point? Leg for sure. Cray-cray.....
God job, Roy.
Wow, cool typo. I'm leaving it be.
Welcome to the club. The Ooo, That's Inadvertently A Good One Club. No dues, just keep hacking away at that keyboard.
You know what they say -- all credit goes to Good
Hey, great news from Wisconsin, where two constitutional amendments written by the Republican-controlled legislature both went down to defeat - and it wasn't even close, 58-42 NO!
This had to do with Gov. Tony Evers using federal emergency Covid aid to, you know, actually help people. King Robin Vos stepped in with these two amendments to stop that "helping people" thing from ever happening again.
I assumed it would be close because it's a low-turnout election and these were relatively complicated technical budget issues. But apparently, "Written by Robin" was all the voters needed to know about it.
Reminds me of the Supreme Court race, which everyone assumed would be close, and the liberal justice trounced the right-winger by eleven points.
We keep this up people will stop referring to us as a Swing State, and no more will we enjoy all that wonderful media attention. I can't wait.
"Written by Robin"
"Delivered by Pigeon"
"Rejected by Voters"
Problem is, once you get past Swing State, it's straight to Bebop Barony, but you can't dance to it.
"YOU can't dance to it"--Amiri Baraka
Amiri is correct.
I sure can’t. I do try to play it. I can’t play the themes fast enough, though. And I can’t improvise at all above ~220 beats per minute. At that pace most of my licks are impossible, but I can manage something (assuming I’m in good shape, which I’m not).
Teachers advise us not to tap our feet when playing fast tempos. We’re supposed to internalize the pulse. Makes sense, since the real practitioners manage 300+ BPM while still grooving. Not me!
Also, Andre Jacques, one of the most obnoxious MAGA Republicans in our state legislature (and that's really sayin' something) came in THIRD with about 20% in the Republican primary for an open Congressional seat in Green Bay.
Now I'm imagining a movie, The Ballad of Andy Jack, where he gets his ass kicked in every fight.
Why, if the government was allowed to actually help people, that quote from Reagan might become FALSE, and we can't let THAT happen!
I wish I had paid better attention, because I don't think I ever saw a single argument in favor of the amendments. Now I'm wondering how you'd explain the "problem" that these things are supposed to be "solving."
Yes there was a good campaign against them. Too bad nobody thought to do that with the "election integrity" amendments in the spring primary.
Yeah, those were harder, I remember the Republicans were smart, and it read as basically "Elections shall be administered by election administrators" and explaining the trickery behind it and the intended effect (not good) took some effort. I'm hopeful we're approaching the point where we can just say "Republicans wrote this and want you to vote for it" and that will be enough. And who knows? Maybe we we won't even have a Republican majority after November! Ah, but that's just me getting carried away.
Don't the MAGA hate Robin these days?
Yes! They've tried to recall him three times, I think. Hilariously, one recall attempt was thrown out when a bunch of the signatures they collected turned out to be from people who weren't even in Vos' district. Election integrity indeed!
So yeah, "We hate Robin Vos" is the one thing that brings all of Wisconsin together.
Funny, I've never heard of guardian fallen angels!
Absolutely unrelated to the substance of the scene above: my brothers and I will occasionally go into an extended impromptu riff using the voice of George Bailey to tell Mary to do unspeakably pornographic things to himself and/or other characters from It’s a Wonderful Life: “That—that’s right, Mary, j-j-just spank him a little *harder*… that’s perfect, Mary!”
Thanks. I’m here all week.
This...this is...this is just...
Well, 2 marks, whatever it is...
Edited to add you're gonna hafta apportion those marks yourself, so don't blame me when onea yer bros steals yours.*
*Note: I have bros – I know.
I once appalled a seemingly-bro'ish supervisor with audio of Donald Duck telling Daisy what to keep doing….
Soft-core porn from Frank Capra? Perish the thought! Must be an Anthony Mann thing.