I'm just going to repeat here what I wrote on Abortion Every Day last night. There is a boomerang effect with Walz, because he presents as such a normal, nice guy. When the GOP goes after him hard, it makes THEM look like they're, well, weird:
I like how when she starts with "I was California's Attorney General and a courtroom prosecutor before that", everybody knows where's she's goin', and the whole crowd is ready with "I KNOW DONALD TRUMP'S TYPE" when the time comes. I hope she does that at every rally, people have come to expect that bit of audience participation.
Chait doesn't like that Harris picked Walz. Tom Friedman, Chris Cillizza,, Nate Silver, and Megan McArdle don't like it either. If Bill Kristol weighs in against it, Harris has this in the bag. And if James Carville and Mark Penn come out against it, Harris and Walz can take an extended trip to Hawaii and won't even need to campaign, lol.
Every last one of these people is paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to comment on politics, and their prognostications are almost always wrong, and their opinions out of step with the zeitgeist. In any other job, they'd have been sacked years ago.
I saw that Emanuel bailed on the memorial services in Nagasaki "because Israel wasn't invited." I'd hope that Biden would get him on the phone and tell him to get his ass over there tout de suite, or not bother coming home. "Rahm, you effing, effing idiot..."
Let's be fair, this is how the Democrats used to do it: "Balance the ticket" with a right-winger (Gore picking Lieberman) or a Southerner (JFK picking LBJ) or, best of all, a Southern right-winger (if you can find one.) She's breakin' the rules! What's the use of all these years of our pundit-experience if people are gonna do NEW things?
What use, indeed? They can't be expected to take new facts or unfolding events into consideration, it's right in their contracts they don't have to! And those contracts were typed on an IBM Selectric typewriter and copied on a mimeograph machine.
Copeland remarked: "My title was always 'Ballet for Martha', since Martha Graham commissioned me to do the work. But over the years, so many people have said 'oh, Mr. Copeland, when I hear that music I can just see the Appalachians'. These days, I'm starting to see them myself...."
There's a line break so when I read "very light grey Thom..." I thought McAn and got a twinge of nostalgia for my unsuccessful childhood. But no...
Hey, *now* I wonder: why is Mr Upright's outfit never described?
Wait, theis?!
"UPRIGHT: The Vikings, Twins, and Timberwolves did not play in North Dakota and Minneapolis was not burned to the ground."
Fact checks *aren't* extinct??
As for the Chait piece: if he was important, if he really mattered, there'd something sad, maybe tragic, about how earnestly he blows something stupid out of his when, unlike many or most of his peers, he seems to know better. I think.
Anyway, props to the Maestro for the attempt to work something off the Walz choice. Incredibly high degree of difficulty there.
Buff, Buff...Walz is from Nebraska. His wife is from Minnesota. Walz moved up there to stay with her. He's bringin' Nebraska Bothsides to the Great Northern Solitudes. Oh, and yeah, free lunch.
Trump's appearance at the NABJ last week was, in fact, delayed by 35 minutes not from audio problems but from the fact he objected to having real-time fact checking.
IIRC (and I don’t care enough to check), he aborted part way through. And to think: having as a questioner Harris Faulkner wasn’t enough for him to behave. (Now that I think about it, I’m so anxious for a debate, I’d even watch Fox to watch Kamala work him over. No place is safe for the unhinged; they’d go crazy no matter where they are.) A reminder that even if he’s smarter than I’ll ever credit him, he’s still fucking stupid.
Going before a hostile crowd to flaunt his racist bona fides as oppose to doing same at one of his rallies… please.
He went to Gish Gallop a bunch of people he does not believe should exist (Black journalists) and they were having none of it. Because (just my opinion, mind) they're used to having White people talk over them--especially their bosses--and have to be prepared for when this inevitably will happen.
And apparently he told them he definitely wasn't going to do it, so they were scrambling to put out a press release saying the appearance was off, when he, without warning, walked out on stage. He loves to do shit like that. Put people off balance. Oppositional Defiant Disorder.
Last night someone tweeted a pic of Walz in hunting gear with his dog, with the caption "Good luck painting this guy as a California liberal." Stephen Miller responded with "he put tampons in boy's restrooms." Then Rod Dreher retweeted Stephen Miller.
They are stepping right into the trap but they can't see it because they're weird. And everyone feels normal to himself.
My, they certainly have an insatiable curiosity about what’s going on in everyone’s trousers. Maybe they should try porn? ZZZZZAP! Ooops, shouldn’t have said that word around Mike Johnson
Look at me, doin' an interview in the front seat of my newly-gifted Tesla Cybertruck with a misogynist gamer-boy, nothing the least bit weird about that, amirite guys?
How the fuck is that kid wealthy? What kind of fucked up world do we live in? That little ass-sniffing pervert's as dumb as a post swizzle-sticking the toilet at a MAGA rally.
I saw a Cybertruck IRL for the first time yesterday and OMG, what an amazingly huge cluster of fuck that thing is! I am not easily amazed by largescale displays of profound stupidity but my gob, she is truly smacked.
Everyone who was ever a teenager with a period has a story in which the availability of tampons in a public restroom would have prevented some real trauma. It's a winner.
"Cat Ladies Shouldn't Be Allowed To Vote" and "No Free Tampons For You" would both make excellent bumper stickers to win over the women's demographic, LOL.
So very, self-destructively weird, and utterly blind to the fact they are. It's delicious.
I saw a quote from a Democrat in the Minnesota legislature, "If Republicans hate how Kamala Harris smiles and laughs, they're REALLY gonna hate Tim Walz."
Someone reposted an attempted "funny meme" from the right. A Photoshop of Walz's (Waltz'?) head sticking out of a box of tampons, with the headline "Tampon Tim."
Apparently one of the vilest, dumbest, Underpants Pervert bros -- I speak, of course, of Christopher Rufo -- is now having a meltdown on twitter because of Walz. He is one or two tweets away from calling Walz a race and gender traitor.
Keep it up, boys. The normies LOVE this stuff, lol.
Some right-wing social media operative posted a photo of the Walz family, like "here they are, have at it." And nobody could figure out what they were supposed to find objectionable about it. Incredibly Midwestern wholesome normal. Maybe it's the utter lack of plastic surgery?
My weekly sessions with Received Opinion remind me how we used to, when everybody was still alive, go over to my in-laws house every Sunday afternoon. The in-laws weren't quite so restrained.
I, for one, think Jesus would get pretty pissed off if you ask him " Should we just be giving food to hungry children? "
I would rock that light grey seersucker suit. You see, I'm a horticulturist and I would always have the right color corsage!!
I believe the idea is that if we give everybody lunch, then everybody gets fed, nobody gets humiliated, and for a very small price, we get on with the learnin'. Not in a personal relationship with Jesus, but I'm guessing he'd be on board.
Um, I think you described what's wrong with free lunch for all - no one is stigmatized and someone who doesn't deserve a cheese sandwich might get one.
OT, but when I hear about loosening child labor laws, I think of my mother. She lost the end of a finger on one of her first jobs as a cook. Yep, 15 or 16 years old and running an electric meat slicer.
Not child labor, but my mother-in-law, at 18, was a Radium Girl. It was a tragic life of pain and suffering. But, hey we don't need no regulations putting the breaks on business! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
A friend from Northern Wisconsin told me the local bar was booked at least once a week for a medical-expenses fundraiser. Keep votin' Republican, folks! Protect our alcohol-based healthcare funding system!
Oh, I'm sure someone could wax poetic about how it "brings the community together" for us to all drink ourselves into cirrhosis while raising 5% of the cost of someone's medical bills. Maybe get the government to pay the bills and we do a softball game instead?
Ah, Academi, now there’s an interesting example of nomenclatural misadventure. Who names a paramilitary force after the toilet discharge tank of your typical RV? Whoops, gotta flush that stain off (along with the accusations of murder and torture) by pivoting to - hmm, his sister’s tenure as school-hating Secretary of Education? “Greetings, benighted denizens of some Third World country, we are the Academi! These M-16s are like a nun’s ruler, the tools needed to correct your errors. No, no need to thank us, we will take whatever we want in return.”
Poor media! In addition to having to look for ways to smear Walz, they aren’t getting their recession. As expected, the market rebounded after some profit taking and rebalancing. At least Hurricane Debby Does Tampa only missed by a few miles and is flooding the Low Country, cuing up complaints about FEMA in 3…2…1
Yes. The tropical depression stalled out over Myrtle Beach and is moving at three (!!!) miles an hour. It's been raining since Sunday night and has only stopped at intervals.
All kidding aside (who'm I kidding?): Mr Dulce and Mr Gabbana collapsed and died, writhing in agony to the end, the moment they saw Peoni in that thing they'd churned up from whatever depths whence such abominations.
Was just discussing seersucker--for those who wish to follow the drunkard's path, and I'm not saying it never beckoned--there is no clothing like a seersucker suit. It just says "rumpled though I am, the person who wears me is someone who could have been something." Especially if you wear it in the south. Even Home Depot attendants will be asking you how your book is coming along. Great column, summing up the chatter I've been hearing. Facebook is one big cuddle puddle right now, you know: "Ted Lasso lives!" "Why didn't I have a father like that." Everyone should enjoy the ecstasy while it lasts, I think. And I cannot believe JD Vance thinks he'll mop up the floor with him. He's certainly welcome to try. I was on a substack and someone said "Logical people love Vance." I realized I was having a chat with AI, and I thanked this Mr. Spock for his opinion.
Sooner or later Harris or Walz will commit/be perceived to commit a "gaffe." The cuddle puddle will diminish. But there are signs that the MAGA fever may be breaking. Saw a bunch of Arizona Republicans praising Kamala yesterday. Poor Tubs.
"I think it’s one of those made-up things like Deez Nuts..."
"... I’m as sensitive to radical leftist antisemitism as anyone..."
Love this shit!
Re: "the couch thing": I'd have to accidentally click on a link disproving it because it's so funny I don't care if it's bullshit. It's up there with "santorum."
Someone, I think it was Chelsea Handler, said she didn’t care if it’s true, that she knows a couch fucker when she see’s one and Vance is a couch fucker. Yep. Now if Walz can get him to deny it, he might be the next LBJ.
I know he's a couch fucker the way Tubby knows that Joe Biden regrets dropping out and will show up at the DNC convention to reclaim his rightful spot at the top of the ticket.
Good one; these just keep getting better. FWIW, I would like to point out that all the public schools in Baldwin County, Alabama now provide free breakfast and lunch to students. This place is still a right-wing political cesspool, but even the local MAGAts don't seem to object to free food for kids. FWIW.
Oh, you've got a ways to go before it really starts to bern. I've been berned out for decades...except for that one shining moment when everyone* felt the bern...
It'd be cool if somebody stole Walz's voice to make a fake "cable news" clip: his taking head smilingly relating the lyrics to "Balls to the Wall" by Accept ...
Too many slaves in this world / Die by torture and pain
Too many people do not see / They're killing themselves, going insane
Too many people do not know / Bondage is over the human race
They believe slaves always lose / And this fear keeps them down
Watch the damned / They're gonna break their chains [...]
Any one of us could name a half-dozen policy ideas that consistently poll at 60-70% So yeah, why not just run on that stuff? Dump that Clintonian triangulation in the shitter where it belongs.
That's what having Walz as a VP pick means to me: There's now a broad consensus within the Democratic Party around a list of undeniably popular ideas and we can leave the Manchins and Sinemas and Liebermans behind, because there's now a broad consensus within the American people around these same ideas. You might even say these ideas are normal, and the people who oppose them are weird.
"What are you, Community Notes?" LMFAO.
I'm just going to repeat here what I wrote on Abortion Every Day last night. There is a boomerang effect with Walz, because he presents as such a normal, nice guy. When the GOP goes after him hard, it makes THEM look like they're, well, weird:
GOP: He gives free meals to kids!
Normies: great
GOP: He gives free tampons to teenagers!
Normies: good idea
GOP {sputtering}: He…he had his kids through IVF!
Normies: we love IVF
I was so proud when this crowd started chanting " LOCK HIM UP"
We can be pretty funny when we put our minds to it.
They also chanted "HE'S A WEIRDO" when Walz mentioned Vance. Vox populi!
I like how when she starts with "I was California's Attorney General and a courtroom prosecutor before that", everybody knows where's she's goin', and the whole crowd is ready with "I KNOW DONALD TRUMP'S TYPE" when the time comes. I hope she does that at every rally, people have come to expect that bit of audience participation.
I hope she extends it being being a prosecutor to simply being a woman. Because every one of us knows Gropey McGroperson and his many, many bros.
Maybe be we should rename the Overton window the Chait window, ever shifting rightward no matter what happens.
Pronunciation tip: The "a" is silent, the "Ch" is pronounced "Sh".
A 'pro tip' we can all get behind!
Just coming here to say WHAT NO MENTION OF FREE TAMPONS????
Automatic Luxury Communism, here we come!
Chait is such a fucking twit. Never saw a right-wing frame he didn’t like.
Chait doesn't like that Harris picked Walz. Tom Friedman, Chris Cillizza,, Nate Silver, and Megan McArdle don't like it either. If Bill Kristol weighs in against it, Harris has this in the bag. And if James Carville and Mark Penn come out against it, Harris and Walz can take an extended trip to Hawaii and won't even need to campaign, lol.
I like this theory!
Every last one of these people is paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to comment on politics, and their prognostications are almost always wrong, and their opinions out of step with the zeitgeist. In any other job, they'd have been sacked years ago.
Yes, especially Kristol, as you point out.
Dicks get clicks?
Tell that to my OnlyFans!
(Just kidding, and several years too late in my opinion)
's Ok – I laughed gratuitously once several years ago – you're covered.
That French Olympic pole vaulter whose schlong knocked the bar over would certainly think so.
Hearing the announcers try to describe *how* he knocked over the bar was a hoot. 'Manhood' seemed to be the preferred euphemism.
He's immortal, and for losing. What a time to be alive.
Why didn't they go with "his south pole"?
The fact the Rahm Emmanuel doesn't like Walz is all the endorsement I need!
Adding him to my list!
I saw that Emanuel bailed on the memorial services in Nagasaki "because Israel wasn't invited." I'd hope that Biden would get him on the phone and tell him to get his ass over there tout de suite, or not bother coming home. "Rahm, you effing, effing idiot..."
Let's be fair, this is how the Democrats used to do it: "Balance the ticket" with a right-winger (Gore picking Lieberman) or a Southerner (JFK picking LBJ) or, best of all, a Southern right-winger (if you can find one.) She's breakin' the rules! What's the use of all these years of our pundit-experience if people are gonna do NEW things?
Yep. They have no template to work with, and so, being morons, they are completely flummoxed.
Incumbent President drops out leaving his VP to run in his stead, if this isn't Hubert Humphrey losing to Richard Nixon then I got nothin'.
I mean, what good is knowing history if you can't claim that this new thing is EXACTLY LIKE that old thing?
I'm with you, Steve. No more history for me!
Let's make our own!
What use, indeed? They can't be expected to take new facts or unfolding events into consideration, it's right in their contracts they don't have to! And those contracts were typed on an IBM Selectric typewriter and copied on a mimeograph machine.
Fuck "balance". Lean to the left!
The right people hate him!
Kristol likes it. Sorry. Keep fighting!
Pivot to the right! Drop all those positions that are, across the board, wildly popular!
Always twirling, twirling, twirling towards FREEDOM!
Thanks for firing up 'Appalachian Spring' in my head.
"so turning, turning we come down right".
And the judges are unanimous on a 9.9 for that finish! Looks like we have a new lead in the baguette vault! Probly due to the degree of difficulty.
Copeland remarked: "My title was always 'Ballet for Martha', since Martha Graham commissioned me to do the work. But over the years, so many people have said 'oh, Mr. Copeland, when I hear that music I can just see the Appalachians'. These days, I'm starting to see them myself...."
"I can just see the Appalachians"
Well, tell the Appalachians to get off your goddamn lawn, then.
Yes, these positions are popular with ordinary voters. But are they popular with *important* people?
Run to the center, where all the independent voters are waiting for you to repudiate everythimg you said in the primary!
They're exactly halfway between, that's where I placed 'em on my one-dimensional Political Spectrum!
There's a line break so when I read "very light grey Thom..." I thought McAn and got a twinge of nostalgia for my unsuccessful childhood. But no...
Hey, *now* I wonder: why is Mr Upright's outfit never described?
Wait, theis?!
"UPRIGHT: The Vikings, Twins, and Timberwolves did not play in North Dakota and Minneapolis was not burned to the ground."
Fact checks *aren't* extinct??
As for the Chait piece: if he was important, if he really mattered, there'd something sad, maybe tragic, about how earnestly he blows something stupid out of his when, unlike many or most of his peers, he seems to know better. I think.
Anyway, props to the Maestro for the attempt to work something off the Walz choice. Incredibly high degree of difficulty there.
Buff, Buff...Walz is from Nebraska. His wife is from Minnesota. Walz moved up there to stay with her. He's bringin' Nebraska Bothsides to the Great Northern Solitudes. Oh, and yeah, free lunch.
What will the nation do with an entire generation of Minnesotans who think grilled cheese is their due?
Answer: Juicy Lucys for everybody!
Now that’s my kind of free lunch!
So it’s true he’s actually an agent of the Comintern??
I knew it!! Only a godless commie would make a joke about America’s Most Beloved Peter Thiel Puppet/Sofasexual and a couch.
"This is Garrison Kellor for Tom Walz...."
Arrrrghhhhhh!!!!! Nooooooo!!!!
Yeah...whaddabout alla them strong wimmins?
Make All America's Kids Above Average
MAAKAA!
Oh, yah, a little lunch
Trump's appearance at the NABJ last week was, in fact, delayed by 35 minutes not from audio problems but from the fact he objected to having real-time fact checking.
A glorious shit show.
IIRC (and I don’t care enough to check), he aborted part way through. And to think: having as a questioner Harris Faulkner wasn’t enough for him to behave. (Now that I think about it, I’m so anxious for a debate, I’d even watch Fox to watch Kamala work him over. No place is safe for the unhinged; they’d go crazy no matter where they are.) A reminder that even if he’s smarter than I’ll ever credit him, he’s still fucking stupid.
Going before a hostile crowd to flaunt his racist bona fides as oppose to doing same at one of his rallies… please.
He went to Gish Gallop a bunch of people he does not believe should exist (Black journalists) and they were having none of it. Because (just my opinion, mind) they're used to having White people talk over them--especially their bosses--and have to be prepared for when this inevitably will happen.
Maybe it’s pretty much just he FA with the NABJ and then FO.
Sooo much FA in his rotten life and now he finally’s reaching the FO stage…
And apparently he told them he definitely wasn't going to do it, so they were scrambling to put out a press release saying the appearance was off, when he, without warning, walked out on stage. He loves to do shit like that. Put people off balance. Oppositional Defiant Disorder.
Agent of Chaos as our President, what could go wrong?
A less-than-useful idiot. It's possible that some in the Money Wing of the GOP might be figuring this out.
But what's the alternative? A DEMOCRAT? And a marginal tax rate a full TWO POINTS more than under Trump? Nope, chaos it is.
Are you saying he was LYING about that?
What are the ODDs?
Eric son of Eric tweeted yesterday that Harris's pick of Walz shows there's no room for Jews at the top of the Democratic Party.
Which prompted Chuck Schumer to respond "News to me."
As Charlie Pierce frequently points out, these really are the mole people.
Last night someone tweeted a pic of Walz in hunting gear with his dog, with the caption "Good luck painting this guy as a California liberal." Stephen Miller responded with "he put tampons in boy's restrooms." Then Rod Dreher retweeted Stephen Miller.
They are stepping right into the trap but they can't see it because they're weird. And everyone feels normal to himself.
Weird, hell. They've devolved into apelike prehumans, gleaning bloodsucking mites from each other's pelts in the moonlight.
You know, lunar ticks.
Ah, c'mon, if'n ya read this far it's yer own fault.
They are attempting to appeal to the crucial "Angry Parents Who Demand To PAY For Their Child's Tampons" demographic, lol.
More like to not pay for Someone Else's Child's Tampons. In other words, assholes. And they've already got that demo sewn up.
They are now preaching solely to the choir, and the choir is comprised of Underpants Perverts. Not a good look in a general election.
Two Underpants Perverts right at the top of the ticket!
My, they certainly have an insatiable curiosity about what’s going on in everyone’s trousers. Maybe they should try porn? ZZZZZAP! Ooops, shouldn’t have said that word around Mike Johnson
Look at me, doin' an interview in the front seat of my newly-gifted Tesla Cybertruck with a misogynist gamer-boy, nothing the least bit weird about that, amirite guys?
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4812513-adin-ross-donald-trump-cybertruck-rolex/
Any photo taken at any event at Mar-a-Lago is a freak show.
How the fuck is that kid wealthy? What kind of fucked up world do we live in? That little ass-sniffing pervert's as dumb as a post swizzle-sticking the toilet at a MAGA rally.
I saw a Cybertruck IRL for the first time yesterday and OMG, what an amazingly huge cluster of fuck that thing is! I am not easily amazed by largescale displays of profound stupidity but my gob, she is truly smacked.
Everyone who was ever a teenager with a period has a story in which the availability of tampons in a public restroom would have prevented some real trauma. It's a winner.
"Cat Ladies Shouldn't Be Allowed To Vote" and "No Free Tampons For You" would both make excellent bumper stickers to win over the women's demographic, LOL.
So very, self-destructively weird, and utterly blind to the fact they are. It's delicious.
Funny you should mention, but I made up some bumper stickers. Anyone who wants one let me know. https://x.com/marzclaire/status/1820940390133887003
Ooh! Me, me!
DM me in Twitter with address.
I saw a quote from a Democrat in the Minnesota legislature, "If Republicans hate how Kamala Harris smiles and laughs, they're REALLY gonna hate Tim Walz."
Walz: "I look forward to debating J.D. Vance.....if he'll get off the couch, that is"
This guy is a keeper.
I made a request..
Someone reposted an attempted "funny meme" from the right. A Photoshop of Walz's (Waltz'?) head sticking out of a box of tampons, with the headline "Tampon Tim."
These people are indeed weird.
Apparently one of the vilest, dumbest, Underpants Pervert bros -- I speak, of course, of Christopher Rufo -- is now having a meltdown on twitter because of Walz. He is one or two tweets away from calling Walz a race and gender traitor.
Keep it up, boys. The normies LOVE this stuff, lol.
Saw this yesterday:
Q: Define "woman"
A: Someone who will never vote for YOU
The judges will also accept “someone who covers her drink when you walk into a room.”
Oof. And Yoicks!
They're gonna make it so Walz is beset by groupies on the campaign trail.
Some right-wing social media operative posted a photo of the Walz family, like "here they are, have at it." And nobody could figure out what they were supposed to find objectionable about it. Incredibly Midwestern wholesome normal. Maybe it's the utter lack of plastic surgery?
They had their kids by IVF, which makes mom and dad embryo-serial-killers.
The video of Walz and his daughter at the state fair is great.
HE: Let's eat. Corn dogs?
SHE: I'm vegetarian.
HE: So, turkey, then.
The daughter seems great.
Also they ride on some intense carnival ride. Walz is laughing the whole time. Can you picture Tubby on a carnival ride?
When we take the presidency and both houses of Congress I say we pass a law requiring him to ride one every day.
GET IN THE TEACUP BITCH
Also news to Douglas Emhoff.
When you find yourself gettin' owned by Chuck Schumer, you're doin' it wrong.
Boy, is THAT true. As Charlie Pierce said of him, 'He is not a wartime consigliere."
My weekly sessions with Received Opinion remind me how we used to, when everybody was still alive, go over to my in-laws house every Sunday afternoon. The in-laws weren't quite so restrained.
I, for one, think Jesus would get pretty pissed off if you ask him " Should we just be giving food to hungry children? "
I would rock that light grey seersucker suit. You see, I'm a horticulturist and I would always have the right color corsage!!
But not the shoes, Shirley. The shoes are a $1270 joke on the wearer.
I believe the idea is that if we give everybody lunch, then everybody gets fed, nobody gets humiliated, and for a very small price, we get on with the learnin'. Not in a personal relationship with Jesus, but I'm guessing he'd be on board.
But... but... how will we PAY for it? Oh, by raising taxes on rich people? OK, never mind.
Um, I think you described what's wrong with free lunch for all - no one is stigmatized and someone who doesn't deserve a cheese sandwich might get one.
Oh, you want a slice of pizza, do you? WELL CLEAN OUT THIS MEAT GRINDER, KID.
During math class. You're not gonna need math where you're going.
Steve, I'm gonna fill in the OOF that you left blank right here.
OT, but when I hear about loosening child labor laws, I think of my mother. She lost the end of a finger on one of her first jobs as a cook. Yep, 15 or 16 years old and running an electric meat slicer.
Not child labor, but my mother-in-law, at 18, was a Radium Girl. It was a tragic life of pain and suffering. But, hey we don't need no regulations putting the breaks on business! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
Omg
Doesn't it make you sick when Repubs talk about "job-killing regulations"? In Repub America, job kills you!
Brakes. I'm dumb.
I have seen it suggested that poor kids do work around the school to earn their lunches. Have them bus tables, serve the other kids, sweep up.
The dignity of labor, totally not humiliating.
"Oh, boy! Refresh my juice box!"
Says Little Lord Fauntleroy of the 3rd grade, first son of the local Toyota dealer.
One of Newt Gingrich's outside-the-box ideas, from the 90's. The cruelty has been the point for a long time.
Oh yeah!... You may recall that he's a historian. Factory urchins made to crawl among the gears, that's his idea of character building.
Isn't he married to an uber-Catholic fembot who has never spawned? Super suss.
People are happier when they have a place and know it.
No, we're NOT going to shut it off, what the hell do you mean? Time is money, you little commie! Just watch what you're doing and there's no problem!
Points at 7-year-old
"Bastards!
Freeloaders! "
Spectrum news had a story about a pastor who was collecting donations to retire the school lunch debt of the town's children.
It's the 21st century, we're the richest nation an earth, and "school lunch debt." One of these things is not like the others.
Can't count the number of people we know in our local music community who have had fundraisers to pay for medical debt.
A friend from Northern Wisconsin told me the local bar was booked at least once a week for a medical-expenses fundraiser. Keep votin' Republican, folks! Protect our alcohol-based healthcare funding system!
You can't have socialism.
Oh, I'm sure someone could wax poetic about how it "brings the community together" for us to all drink ourselves into cirrhosis while raising 5% of the cost of someone's medical bills. Maybe get the government to pay the bills and we do a softball game instead?
Save that money for an extra large basket of curds!
Hey now, some of us ENJOY drinking ourselves into cirrhosis, thank you very much.
Ah, Academi, now there’s an interesting example of nomenclatural misadventure. Who names a paramilitary force after the toilet discharge tank of your typical RV? Whoops, gotta flush that stain off (along with the accusations of murder and torture) by pivoting to - hmm, his sister’s tenure as school-hating Secretary of Education? “Greetings, benighted denizens of some Third World country, we are the Academi! These M-16s are like a nun’s ruler, the tools needed to correct your errors. No, no need to thank us, we will take whatever we want in return.”
Uhmm...yoicks?
Only because Wagner Group was taken.
That's some huffing pure uncut PR when you think just changing the name of your hell-company is going to change things.
I've long referred to Erik Prince as "Prinz Erik von Schwarzwasser zu Abu Dhabi".
“caption is SUGAR WALZ.”
I audibly chortled.
Chortling audibly is hereby annointed The Thing To Do Today.
Poor media! In addition to having to look for ways to smear Walz, they aren’t getting their recession. As expected, the market rebounded after some profit taking and rebalancing. At least Hurricane Debby Does Tampa only missed by a few miles and is flooding the Low Country, cuing up complaints about FEMA in 3…2…1
Yes. The tropical depression stalled out over Myrtle Beach and is moving at three (!!!) miles an hour. It's been raining since Sunday night and has only stopped at intervals.
All kidding aside (who'm I kidding?): Mr Dulce and Mr Gabbana collapsed and died, writhing in agony to the end, the moment they saw Peoni in that thing they'd churned up from whatever depths whence such abominations.
The suit is okay, but that print - a poor imitation of Victorian wallpaper.
But it's right for Peoni I feel.
I like it!
Hear that?! That chortling??!!
Not enough Scheele's Green.
"Scheele's green had completely fallen out of use as a pigment but was still in use as an insecticide into the 1930s"
It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping!
Was just discussing seersucker--for those who wish to follow the drunkard's path, and I'm not saying it never beckoned--there is no clothing like a seersucker suit. It just says "rumpled though I am, the person who wears me is someone who could have been something." Especially if you wear it in the south. Even Home Depot attendants will be asking you how your book is coming along. Great column, summing up the chatter I've been hearing. Facebook is one big cuddle puddle right now, you know: "Ted Lasso lives!" "Why didn't I have a father like that." Everyone should enjoy the ecstasy while it lasts, I think. And I cannot believe JD Vance thinks he'll mop up the floor with him. He's certainly welcome to try. I was on a substack and someone said "Logical people love Vance." I realized I was having a chat with AI, and I thanked this Mr. Spock for his opinion.
Sooner or later Harris or Walz will commit/be perceived to commit a "gaffe." The cuddle puddle will diminish. But there are signs that the MAGA fever may be breaking. Saw a bunch of Arizona Republicans praising Kamala yesterday. Poor Tubs.
A gaffe is just a giraffe that didn't get its growth.
VULCAN SLANDER!!!
I imagine the puzzled look Spock would give us as we try to explain "School lunch debt."
"Not feeding your offspring? That seems quite illogical".
One might even say HIGHLY illogical.
Peoni is sartorially on point this week.
I gotta admit that the view from the back wasn't all that flattering. YMMV!
"I think it’s one of those made-up things like Deez Nuts..."
"... I’m as sensitive to radical leftist antisemitism as anyone..."
Love this shit!
Re: "the couch thing": I'd have to accidentally click on a link disproving it because it's so funny I don't care if it's bullshit. It's up there with "santorum."
Hey, why not play their game? It may not strictly be true, but it feels true. In my heart. That JD Vance fucked a couch.
OK, OK, we're allowed ONE of these things.
Proper response from the Responsible Persons®: couches should just keep their cushions crossed.
It's not like you're believing something truly awful, such as libs drinking the blood of children and aborting babies up to four weeks after birth
They started this.
I dunno...sounds a little too much like 'jumped the shark' which is a totally legit thing that really really happened on the tv.
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Ow
...said the couch.
Someone, I think it was Chelsea Handler, said she didn’t care if it’s true, that she knows a couch fucker when she see’s one and Vance is a couch fucker. Yep. Now if Walz can get him to deny it, he might be the next LBJ.
I know he's a couch fucker the way Tubby knows that Joe Biden regrets dropping out and will show up at the DNC convention to reclaim his rightful spot at the top of the ticket.
Wearing a Superman suit
Now that's the touch that makes the whole bit believable.
Couch jumper < couch fucker
Club soda. Just sayin'
Gasoline and a match.
Driftglass with the couch reax roundup today (featuring our host among others!): https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-world-was-never-meant-for-one-as.html
"....ersatz pearl-clutching and synthetic fantodery ..."
Mwah!!
Good one; these just keep getting better. FWIW, I would like to point out that all the public schools in Baldwin County, Alabama now provide free breakfast and lunch to students. This place is still a right-wing political cesspool, but even the local MAGAts don't seem to object to free food for kids. FWIW.
So maybe it's one of those things that makes it less hard to be a parent in America?
But... but... I COULDA HAD A TAX CUT
They're feeding kids SOCIALIST FOOD!
Well they aren’t really MAGA then are they. Little MAGA-inos obviously.
Magettes?
That’s okay but don’t get any closer.
Oh, you've got a ways to go before it really starts to bern. I've been berned out for decades...except for that one shining moment when everyone* felt the bern...
*or so
yes!!!
It'd be cool if somebody stole Walz's voice to make a fake "cable news" clip: his taking head smilingly relating the lyrics to "Balls to the Wall" by Accept ...
Too many slaves in this world / Die by torture and pain
Too many people do not see / They're killing themselves, going insane
Too many people do not know / Bondage is over the human race
They believe slaves always lose / And this fear keeps them down
Watch the damned / They're gonna break their chains [...]
Any one of us could name a half-dozen policy ideas that consistently poll at 60-70% So yeah, why not just run on that stuff? Dump that Clintonian triangulation in the shitter where it belongs.
That's what having Walz as a VP pick means to me: There's now a broad consensus within the Democratic Party around a list of undeniably popular ideas and we can leave the Manchins and Sinemas and Liebermans behind, because there's now a broad consensus within the American people around these same ideas. You might even say these ideas are normal, and the people who oppose them are weird.