Of course it hurts like hell (for me, anonymous reader) to learn how Snopes has lost its mind since the last time I went to look for the truth of whether alligators were really showing up in NYC sewers,or whatever.
I still, however, like to think that it’s possible for anyone at all to look at old footage of Charlottesville, and of Trump pressers, and come to the same conclusion we did back then, and let it make us work even harder to support Kamala and Tim for President/VP, and down ticket Dems for their races, and put TFG and his truly idiotic VP nominee into the dustbin of history WITHOUT killing either of them.
Somehow I know Wonkette and my fellow readers agree.
Shalom, Ziggywiggy, and many many thanks for your amazing work.
Hah. The minute I saw the headline, I knew it was you before I saw the byline. I am surprised I have not seen you on this forum before; or did I miss something?
Well, it is almost seven in the ay of em, and I want to get my shopping in for today. Among a few essentials, I have chocolate-covered raisins and tonic water (with quinine) on the list.
3500, half non-POC. By telephone. I guess that qualifies as phoning it in, I guess he's so impressed with himself he thinks he still has enough pull to make that work. Whom the gods would destroy they first send mad.
"fixer-upper" is quite the euphemism. He hired contractors to renovate the house in 2022, who stripped the building down to the concrete frame. But then he abandoned the project and now the interior walls, exposed to the elements, are rotting out.
Most of the articles about this are happy to describe this slowly crumbling house as an apt allegory for the man himself.
On those rare occasions when the PowerBall or MegaMillions gets up close to a billion or so I'll go in the Legion and buy a ticket. Invariably someone will ask what I'd
do with that much money and my reply is always "You think I'm an asshole NOW . . . "
We should experiment. I volunteer to gogetmoney or whatever, everyone give me all the millions, and we'll see if I turn into A Asshole. Or, depending on your viewpoint, a bigger one I suppose ^.^
We'll need a control for a proper experiment though.
I won't either, I'll just wait for the highlights or lowlights or hope for news that PAB had an aneurysm on stage and we're all done with him. At least until the massive fight about his funeral, because they'll probably treat him like any other ex-POTUS when he should be hoping to get put in an unmarked grave so that no one desecrates his corpse.
If trump shows up, talks in his monotone voice and doesn't say anything too crazy, not just Van Jones, but most of the media will proclaim him the winner and finally became presidential.
All it would take would be OHJB to hold up a baggie of Adderall and wave it back and forth. Trump would stampede his way across the stage, grab the baggie, rip it open, and swallow the contents whole.
Trump is an idiot. His fund of general knowledge is about like a fifth grader. Reports have one if his professors saying he was the dumbest student he ever had. All he excels at is grifting and appealing to.the bases instincts if his cult. For example he has never been able to understand that tariffs are a tax on the importing nation, not the exporting nation. If there are overriding benefits, like national security of having products or raw materials sourced domestically, they are negatives for the economy in both countries.
Just like sales taxes on items you buy at Walmart are not paid by Walmart, tariffs on goods from China are not paid by China. While Walmart may remit sales tax to the state, it's a separate item on the receipt added to your bill and you pay it. But this is just one of dozens of examples of his stupidity. Like dropping nukes into hurricanes or flushing your lungs with Lysol. He is not very smart when it comes to reasoning and basic knowledge.
Trump wants Weimar era hyperinflation and civil unrest so that he can call for martial law, etc. And of course, this approach benefits the Rich who pass the increased costs onto the middle class.
What will people need to give up just to be able to afford groceries at three times the current cost? While the cost of insurance, utilities, gas all go through the roof.
Gas prices are a moving target. In my area about two weeks ago it was around $3.49 a gallon. Six days ago it was $3.05. Yesterday it was $3.29. But the BLS had gas prices up less than 2% over the past12 months. Prices in grocery stores only up 1%. But the main stream news will not report that. Instead they meet at a diner in deep red Ohio where people shine about not being able to buy food or gas because it's so expensive. My suggestion, fix your eggs and bacon at home. Save money on food and gas if you can't afford the local hangout.
I have a theory, and it is a continuation of my 2016 theory.
My 2016 Theory is that people spent a great deal of time trying to show they would be independent of the incoming Clinton Administration. That's why the email story, and all the media was basically fellating Trump happened.
This is what is happening here. People in the media are addicted to Trump's spurge.
Les Moonves said it out loud: "[a TFG presidency] may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS,"
Edit: I got the timeline wrong. This quote was from relatively early in 2016, so it is referring to TFG just being in the race, with a potential wink to continued benefit to CBS if the asshole actually won.
Yes, I got here tonight and the HVAC is out. I really should have turned around and headed back home to work as soon as I got here. The lady on 2nd shift said she thought about warning us, but was worried we'd be asleep and she'd wake us up. I think it would have been worth it if she had.
There was a Tumblr thread that I wish I could find again, where someone was trying to be all sexy and said, "I want to make you feel like a summer night in the south" and another user replied, "That's a threat." :-D
Beautifully said, yes right through the rage.
Of course it hurts like hell (for me, anonymous reader) to learn how Snopes has lost its mind since the last time I went to look for the truth of whether alligators were really showing up in NYC sewers,or whatever.
I still, however, like to think that it’s possible for anyone at all to look at old footage of Charlottesville, and of Trump pressers, and come to the same conclusion we did back then, and let it make us work even harder to support Kamala and Tim for President/VP, and down ticket Dems for their races, and put TFG and his truly idiotic VP nominee into the dustbin of history WITHOUT killing either of them.
Somehow I know Wonkette and my fellow readers agree.
Shalom, Ziggywiggy, and many many thanks for your amazing work.
Hah. The minute I saw the headline, I knew it was you before I saw the byline. I am surprised I have not seen you on this forum before; or did I miss something?
PS: Semantics....sigh. *opes has gone to ****.
Yay Brooke! Welcome!
Great article!
Welcome Brooke Binkowski! I am very sad that you just taught me that Snopes is compromised. I need to get out more.
MORE OF THIS WRITER PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are there any others here who will just be too frigging nervous to watch this debate? No way I'm watching this thing or the commentary afterwards.
I'll watch with the sound off, closed captions on.
Not really. Biden's the only one going to be debating though.,
Trump will just be throwing shit around. Same as last time
I can yell at the screen. Like breaking dishes, it will feel good and do no harm.
You have the same coif as donny?
Well, it is almost seven in the ay of em, and I want to get my shopping in for today. Among a few essentials, I have chocolate-covered raisins and tonic water (with quinine) on the list.
Are you suggesting that chocolate- covered raisins and quinine-laced tonic water are not essentials?
Not together, hopefully
One never knows. (evil eyebrow wiggle)
Shit, the debacle is today! I need Bloody Mary mix, STAT!
sounds essential to me
'Black Americans for Trump' event a 'major bust' that featured 'a sea of white people'
https://www.rawstory.com/blacks-for-trump-2668623451/
3500, half non-POC. By telephone. I guess that qualifies as phoning it in, I guess he's so impressed with himself he thinks he still has enough pull to make that work. Whom the gods would destroy they first send mad.
And I'm guessing that "sea of white people" was actually a half-empty rented conference room.
Wait a minute, this isn't the faucets and fixtures convention?
More like a puddle.
eye-dropper?
Shocker.
Always.
Probably what the barbershop stunt was all about
I'm shocked the organisers weren't handing out boot polish and making attendees go blackface.
Think there were only like 5 or so hand picked minions at that thing or some such
So they did not need to that time
To his acolytes they all look the same anyways...
in other news...
𝐾𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡‘𝑠 𝑀𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑏𝑢 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑙, 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑-𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑓𝑖𝑥𝑒𝑟-𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 ℎ𝑒𝑓𝑡𝑦 $39 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑔.
𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑚, 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎 $14 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑝 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑔. 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 26% 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 169 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑔𝑜, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑛𝑜 𝑏𝑢𝑦𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡—𝑠𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑟.
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔—𝑎 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑢𝑟 𝑔𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡, 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑜 𝐴𝑛𝑑𝑜-𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡.
"fixer-upper" is quite the euphemism. He hired contractors to renovate the house in 2022, who stripped the building down to the concrete frame. But then he abandoned the project and now the interior walls, exposed to the elements, are rotting out.
Most of the articles about this are happy to describe this slowly crumbling house as an apt allegory for the man himself.
Pointed observation.
As if he was not already A Asshole.
I believe too much money will make anyone into A Asshole.
He needed zero assistance to be One Of The World's GREATEST ASSHOLES.
The fact he considered himself a musician always perplexed me.
On those rare occasions when the PowerBall or MegaMillions gets up close to a billion or so I'll go in the Legion and buy a ticket. Invariably someone will ask what I'd
do with that much money and my reply is always "You think I'm an asshole NOW . . . "
This may be a thing indeed.
We should experiment. I volunteer to gogetmoney or whatever, everyone give me all the millions, and we'll see if I turn into A Asshole. Or, depending on your viewpoint, a bigger one I suppose ^.^
We'll need a control for a proper experiment though.
Couldn't that just be the people that gave you all their money?
saying he has way more money than brains involves division by zero..
The debate will happen, it will be what ever it will be. No one's mind will be changed.
I'll make popcorn and watch. The bingo cards are ready.
I will probably not watch.
May drop in to check a liveblog occasionally..
it's past my bedtime anyway.
I won't either, I'll just wait for the highlights or lowlights or hope for news that PAB had an aneurysm on stage and we're all done with him. At least until the massive fight about his funeral, because they'll probably treat him like any other ex-POTUS when he should be hoping to get put in an unmarked grave so that no one desecrates his corpse.
Wouldn't want graverobbers going after a really tiny hand of glory . . .
http://www.garthtoons.com/blog/2024/6/26/predictable-pundits
He got MSNBC a little wrong. It would be more like Trump tripped over his own feet, but Biden looked old
Van Jones: "Tonight was when Trump finally became presidential."
If trump shows up, talks in his monotone voice and doesn't say anything too crazy, not just Van Jones, but most of the media will proclaim him the winner and finally became presidential.
All it would take would be OHJB to hold up a baggie of Adderall and wave it back and forth. Trump would stampede his way across the stage, grab the baggie, rip it open, and swallow the contents whole.
Nah, because he crushes them and snorts it, allegedly.
Precisely what I was thinking XD
SOMEtimes NYT gets it right
𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐄𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐁𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡’𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠, 𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑦. 𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑥 10 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/us/politics/trump-trade-tariffs-imports.html
Obviously because the first one was so successful!
Trump is an idiot. His fund of general knowledge is about like a fifth grader. Reports have one if his professors saying he was the dumbest student he ever had. All he excels at is grifting and appealing to.the bases instincts if his cult. For example he has never been able to understand that tariffs are a tax on the importing nation, not the exporting nation. If there are overriding benefits, like national security of having products or raw materials sourced domestically, they are negatives for the economy in both countries.
Just like sales taxes on items you buy at Walmart are not paid by Walmart, tariffs on goods from China are not paid by China. While Walmart may remit sales tax to the state, it's a separate item on the receipt added to your bill and you pay it. But this is just one of dozens of examples of his stupidity. Like dropping nukes into hurricanes or flushing your lungs with Lysol. He is not very smart when it comes to reasoning and basic knowledge.
You could have ended that last sentence right after "smart."
Don't forget his plan to outlaw EVs and require Detroit to build coal-powered cars
Trump wants Weimar era hyperinflation and civil unrest so that he can call for martial law, etc. And of course, this approach benefits the Rich who pass the increased costs onto the middle class.
He doesn't. His handlers do.
The largest tax increase in history!
And regressive.
What will people need to give up just to be able to afford groceries at three times the current cost? While the cost of insurance, utilities, gas all go through the roof.
"But gasoline is already $6 a pound under Biden!"
-- DJT, any time now.
Gas prices are a moving target. In my area about two weeks ago it was around $3.49 a gallon. Six days ago it was $3.05. Yesterday it was $3.29. But the BLS had gas prices up less than 2% over the past12 months. Prices in grocery stores only up 1%. But the main stream news will not report that. Instead they meet at a diner in deep red Ohio where people shine about not being able to buy food or gas because it's so expensive. My suggestion, fix your eggs and bacon at home. Save money on food and gas if you can't afford the local hangout.
"But I never have Roadkill Bacon handy for my Roadkill and American Cheese Scramble (none of them Frenchie Omelettes for me!)"
https://imgflip.com/i/8v5ua3
If our nightmare happens, buy what you will need right away. These kinds of tariffs will push prices sky high.
I think a better subhead would have been 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛
I've seen that urgently addressed by several people on network TV news. They used words like "epic disaster."
I should like to know how it is political fairness to whitewash something horrific anyway.
Seems to me doing so would be immediately unfair to the person who was NOT pro neo nazi.
Did a fact checking place get bought out like so many of our media sources now are?
See the superb column today by Brooke Binkowski utterly TRASHING Snopes....
I have a theory, and it is a continuation of my 2016 theory.
My 2016 Theory is that people spent a great deal of time trying to show they would be independent of the incoming Clinton Administration. That's why the email story, and all the media was basically fellating Trump happened.
This is what is happening here. People in the media are addicted to Trump's spurge.
Think it is easier than that.
The media is just owned by the power behind the right wing.
That, and chaos brings in clicks, and that's all they really care about.
Chaos eventually brings in tumbrels, barbed wire and streetlamps too. They ought to remember that.
Les Moonves said it out loud: "[a TFG presidency] may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS,"
Edit: I got the timeline wrong. This quote was from relatively early in 2016, so it is referring to TFG just being in the race, with a potential wink to continued benefit to CBS if the asshole actually won.
Speaking of fuckers who should never be forgiven....
Yes. The owners want more tax cuts. They also truly believe that their wealth will shield them from any/everything. And they may be right.
If the fascists take power they will own everything.
Lawsy, it were nasty outside this morning. Heat index in the 80s, and very moist.
92F with 31% humidity, at 3:30 in the morning.
My phone tells me it's 76F outside, which makes it 7F cooler than it is in here. Cannot wait for 7:30 to get here.
??? AC fritzing?
Yes, I got here tonight and the HVAC is out. I really should have turned around and headed back home to work as soon as I got here. The lady on 2nd shift said she thought about warning us, but was worried we'd be asleep and she'd wake us up. I think it would have been worth it if she had.
Grrraahhhhh
Work AC out is the worst. We had that at new building, cause new building was unoccupied for 5 years, so had some issues.
We moved in, in July XD of course.
Bleah, that's frickin' awful.
It will cool down in October.
was out yesterday in the mid 90s with over 50%
I may never actually forgive my supervisor. Until I forget to hold that grudge, like I do
I once saw a tweet describing summers in the South as "take a hot shower. Don't towel off. Put on all your clothes."
There was a Tumblr thread that I wish I could find again, where someone was trying to be all sexy and said, "I want to make you feel like a summer night in the south" and another user replied, "That's a threat." :-D
Essentially correct.
Moist. Yeah. That's one word for it.
Moist.
Ask for it by name!
Moist...
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmoissssssst.