After the election, Mike Pence should be enslaved and forced to clean up the mess each time a white bull without blemish is sacrificed to Iuppiter Optimus Maximus, clad only in a loincloth with nothing but porridge twice a day and forced to sleep in an alcove on the temple portico.
Harris got the job done, Pence lied his ass off and was describing a completely different Administration than the shitshow we’ve had the bad luck to have ringside seats for over the last four years.
My two major thoughts:
1. Somebody tell the Male Mannequin that interrupting and talking over two women isn’t going to be a smash hit with female voters. We ain’t all like Mother, bitch.
2. Put the fly on the Covid-19 task force, it can’t do a *worse* job.
Sharp analysis. I couldn't make it to all the way. Pence is a former talk radio host so he knows that nothing he says has to be true, it just has to be said with authority -- soak the bullshit in sea of buzzwords (the American people) and rhetorical fallacies, and lies become factoids of freedom. Then you just keep talking and talking because debate rules are for suckers.
Maybe one day we'll have our own bonfire of the Hannities, but for now we're just fucked.
That "American People" business always makes me want to stab a motherfucker. Boehner was the king of that shit. I am like, Pence/Boehner, my man, you can just say the people want this tax bill passed, no one is going to think you mean the Germans. Or you can say you're doing it for America. No one is going to think you mean for the many noble cinderblocks and parking meters of the nation. People who say "the American People" more than once per 30 years (the normal amount) are people who have so little contact with reality, they don't even suspect they have no contact with it. Anyway I hope Pence has a nightmare about flies covering him and getting into his mouth and calls Trump in dread and it turns out Trump had the exact same nightmare.
You know what infuriated me, though, really? The moderator's decision to be tits on a bull. She asked some fantastic questions, then let Pence never answer. She should have repeated the damn question as soon as he was done: "Thank you, but you did not answer the question. If your nominee Amy Barrett hands Indiana a chance to write its own abortion law, do you hope that the law in Indiana bans abortion completely? You can answer with an explanation, but if the explanation doesn't start with yes or no, I'm going to ask you until it does. And I'll ask Sen. Harris too, to be fair."
"I haven’t had to look at his face in a long time and I’m kinda rattled by how it looks like some kind of pale putty into which someone has pressed doll’s eyes and some Gumby bits."
I didn't watch. It seemed too much like a hostage situation. And I knew Roy would be here, because as fucked up as things are, I still have clever friends, and kind friends, and an extremely dark sense of humor.
Meanwhile Chris Cilizza is at CNN. Really, we've had evidence of the increasing death spiral of the species for a long time now, but there are places where we probably all should have sat down and discussed it.
"He soon abandoned it as, apparently, the fly on his hair-helmet instructed him to concentrate more on wingnut bullshit."
Do NOT dis the fly. It was a message to xtians that Pence is the devil.
"I haven’t had to look at his face in a long time and I’m kinda rattled by how it looks like some kind of pale putty into which someone has pressed doll’s eyes and some Gumby bits."
Not that I'm any expert on Pence but he seems to be in some sort of frozen rictus that past couple of months, maybe from the extra bullshit needed to defend Donnie.
"In the same area, I don’t see how anyone, even a Republican, can believe Pence or any Republican when they say they care about the environment. Why don’t they just go “pass”?"
Hahaha!
"Harris’ point about Trump already “packing” the court with white people was great — especially since she made that point in a way that didn't sound as rough as I did. I guess as a black woman she’s had practice."
Funny not funny.
Sympathy to Roy for wading this shit but then again, that's what we pay him to do.
I hated the moderator, for all the obvious reasons. Why even choose her? She's a print journalist. This is television. You don't even need a journalist for the job. You need an umpire who will kick ass when the occasion warrants. Anyone can draw up a list of good questions, for fuck's sake.
Latest word, meanwhile, is that Trump refuses to do a Zoom debate. One wonders why, don't one?
We've had two vice-presidents from Indiana: Pence and Quayle. Both have been as dull and stupid as you can imagine. If these are the best the IN GOP can muster, the average Gooper must be really hideous.
After the election, Mike Pence should be enslaved and forced to clean up the mess each time a white bull without blemish is sacrificed to Iuppiter Optimus Maximus, clad only in a loincloth with nothing but porridge twice a day and forced to sleep in an alcove on the temple portico.
Harris got the job done, Pence lied his ass off and was describing a completely different Administration than the shitshow we’ve had the bad luck to have ringside seats for over the last four years.
My two major thoughts:
1. Somebody tell the Male Mannequin that interrupting and talking over two women isn’t going to be a smash hit with female voters. We ain’t all like Mother, bitch.
2. Put the fly on the Covid-19 task force, it can’t do a *worse* job.
He wouldn’t even harm a fly.
https://youtu.be/dYDxxHrlmUg
Sharp analysis. I couldn't make it to all the way. Pence is a former talk radio host so he knows that nothing he says has to be true, it just has to be said with authority -- soak the bullshit in sea of buzzwords (the American people) and rhetorical fallacies, and lies become factoids of freedom. Then you just keep talking and talking because debate rules are for suckers.
Maybe one day we'll have our own bonfire of the Hannities, but for now we're just fucked.
That "American People" business always makes me want to stab a motherfucker. Boehner was the king of that shit. I am like, Pence/Boehner, my man, you can just say the people want this tax bill passed, no one is going to think you mean the Germans. Or you can say you're doing it for America. No one is going to think you mean for the many noble cinderblocks and parking meters of the nation. People who say "the American People" more than once per 30 years (the normal amount) are people who have so little contact with reality, they don't even suspect they have no contact with it. Anyway I hope Pence has a nightmare about flies covering him and getting into his mouth and calls Trump in dread and it turns out Trump had the exact same nightmare.
You know what infuriated me, though, really? The moderator's decision to be tits on a bull. She asked some fantastic questions, then let Pence never answer. She should have repeated the damn question as soon as he was done: "Thank you, but you did not answer the question. If your nominee Amy Barrett hands Indiana a chance to write its own abortion law, do you hope that the law in Indiana bans abortion completely? You can answer with an explanation, but if the explanation doesn't start with yes or no, I'm going to ask you until it does. And I'll ask Sen. Harris too, to be fair."
Who will write the first hot-take: " The fly was good for Pence." ?
"I haven’t had to look at his face in a long time and I’m kinda rattled by how it looks like some kind of pale putty into which someone has pressed doll’s eyes and some Gumby bits."
LOL! It's funny because it's true.
I didn't watch. It seemed too much like a hostage situation. And I knew Roy would be here, because as fucked up as things are, I still have clever friends, and kind friends, and an extremely dark sense of humor.
Meanwhile Chris Cilizza is at CNN. Really, we've had evidence of the increasing death spiral of the species for a long time now, but there are places where we probably all should have sat down and discussed it.
"He soon abandoned it as, apparently, the fly on his hair-helmet instructed him to concentrate more on wingnut bullshit."
Do NOT dis the fly. It was a message to xtians that Pence is the devil.
"I haven’t had to look at his face in a long time and I’m kinda rattled by how it looks like some kind of pale putty into which someone has pressed doll’s eyes and some Gumby bits."
Not that I'm any expert on Pence but he seems to be in some sort of frozen rictus that past couple of months, maybe from the extra bullshit needed to defend Donnie.
"In the same area, I don’t see how anyone, even a Republican, can believe Pence or any Republican when they say they care about the environment. Why don’t they just go “pass”?"
Hahaha!
"Harris’ point about Trump already “packing” the court with white people was great — especially since she made that point in a way that didn't sound as rough as I did. I guess as a black woman she’s had practice."
Funny not funny.
Sympathy to Roy for wading this shit but then again, that's what we pay him to do.
That pink eye was not a good look. DJT's eyes are red & weepy like too since his vacation. I hear it's a symptom of something...
Speaking of stinking S**T, did you notice the fly on Spence’s hair helmet?
I hated the moderator, for all the obvious reasons. Why even choose her? She's a print journalist. This is television. You don't even need a journalist for the job. You need an umpire who will kick ass when the occasion warrants. Anyone can draw up a list of good questions, for fuck's sake.
Latest word, meanwhile, is that Trump refuses to do a Zoom debate. One wonders why, don't one?
The moderator should have asked Pence, "If that fly on your head laid eggs, will you commit to carrying them full-term?"
We've had two vice-presidents from Indiana: Pence and Quayle. Both have been as dull and stupid as you can imagine. If these are the best the IN GOP can muster, the average Gooper must be really hideous.