It’s Halloween so it was a bit of a slow news day and a slow day around here, but hey, the universe wants us to have a slow day every now and then, especially when everything is AAAAAAAAAAGLABLARCH.
First trick or treat in our new house. Decent turnout; we ran out of candy about 15 min before it was over, but I think that was partly due to Some People in the house being a bit too generous (should be only one piece per kid!). One of my besties stopped by, we sat at our little decorated table in the driveway sipping scotch and enjoying the unseasonable weather. It was too windy for the decorated popup I'd planned to have but we made do.
We had a pretty good turnout of kids trick or treating with quite a few of the parents saying they love my daughters campaign signs (6) and a 12 foot Harris/Walz banner draped across the front of the house. They thanked us for doing that and a few said they wish they had the balls to do the same. One guy said that if he didn't have 4 kids, he would put signs in his yard.
I am constantly irritated by how Trump supporters have latched onto "context" as an excuse for whatever shit he says or does, and how, apparently, that bait is regularly taken by the media covering said shit.
"The context" here is, admittedly, not that he is calling for Cheney to be shot. "The context" here is that he, a repeated draft dodger, is insulting her for being a war-hawk (which... fair enough), while calling for her to be put in the line of fire to see if that changes her mind- completely ignoring that he himself has repeatedly insulted soldiers who have, that he has frequently (and in public) insulted soldiers who have been injured in the course of war and that he has frequently called for and celebrated violence against other politicians and other US citizens. "The context" for the right is literally the rest of this answer AND ONLY THAT. His other comments and his years of behaviour are not "the context". Therefore it's unfair to judge him because "the context" here is something they like.
"Oompa Loompa" was trending on Xitter. It was because the PAB had a very unflattering photo released out into the wild today. The "trending" tag has since been deleted, because Musk is a crybaby, but the original photo has already escaped containment.
Aside from everything else - the GQP, the RNC, etc. and their 'garbage' lawsuits, Covenant Eyes Johnson in the House and his "secret" thing with Trump to fuck things over, the state leges who think that they can still send fake electors, and the very real threat of violence in some places.....
Methinks we've got this next week, big time. And then the following 10 weeks will be a bumpy ride, so buckle up.
The first woman POTUS on 1/20/25? Being sworn in by the ball-less asshole John Roberts? I will splurge on a bottle of Veuve while I cry my eyes out.
Tucker Carlson says he was physically mauled by demons:
“According to the former Fox News pundit, he was attacked “while I was asleep with my wife and four dogs in the bed” and was “mauled — physically mauled” while his wife and dogs continued to sleep peacefully. “
“When Dreher asked Carlson if he was attacked by a “demon,” Carlson replied, ‘Yeah, by a demon — or something unseen that left claw marks on my sides.”
The things you will say when your wife wakes and finds you masturbating.
Donald Trump's own supporters are clearly bored of his rallies - with one making a funny face directly behind him.
The 78-year-old, who is bizarrely claiming he won New Mexico twice and recovering from struggling to open a truck door, was mocked by his own rally attendee during his speech in Henderson, Nevada on Thursday evening.
Just to add insult to injury, Trump was making a bizarre point about the southern border that didn't make much sense and claimed the Dems want to get rid of "windows and cows."
"They hate the American people," he said about the Democrats. "Who would have an open border policy where prisons and jails and penitentiaries are freely allowed to walk into our country."
Trump, who appeared to think prisons can walk, was unaware of the man in a 'Trump-Trump-Trumpety-Trump' t-shirt pulling faces.
He also made multiple blunders, such as referring to Elon Musk as a computer and repeating the line that he is "the father of IVF" an hour after originally making the point.
On Musk, he said: "In terms of computer, I would say he’s probably about as good as you get."
"They hate the American people," he said about the Democrats. "Who would have an open border policy where prisons and jails and penitentiaries are freely allowed to walk into our country."
Did this, oh, let's call it a "talking point" even though it's gibberish, mutate from his misunderstanding of what "asylum" is?
I've been revamping my wardrobe this year, and I'm finding my tastes are echoing how I used to dress in the early to mid '90s. Just-above-the-knee-length dresses w/tights and boots, maxi skirts w/big sweaters, corduroy pants w/a velvet jacket, etc... all with chunky ankle boots or mary janes or platform brogues. I wore out all my Docs years ago and can't afford them now so it's knock-offs for me.
I'm just really tired of wearing the uniform of jeans & some grandma-looking top every day in a non-stop rotation of boring/acceptable outfits because it's easy. I'm tired of not sartorially presenting how I feel inside. So I've been shopping at places like Etsy and ThredUp, and I recently sent a huge bundle of clothes to ThredUp so hopefully I'll get some credit if they sell.
I'm in my early 50s and gave up on trying to *look* cute like a decade ago, but I'm starting to want to *feel* cute again. Like, for myself.
I think that might have a lot to do with my levels of depression and maybe feeling better about myself lately because I've been drinking significantly less than usual for a little while now.
Anyway. None of this means shit to anyone but me but I'm sharing anyway because here is where I share. Heh.
I decided sometime in my fourties that there was a venn diagram with a good overlap between "I'm comfortable and enjoy what I've chosen" and "acceptable to most other humans I'm around" and I've never gone back. It involves wearing various cuts and styles I happened to like from nearly every decade of my life. A lot of A-line skirts. Plain dark fabrics for the most part. Comfy lightweight sweaters. Nothing binding. Leggings or black tights. Sensible shoes.
Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author
Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized
Jeffrey Epstein showed off photos of Donald Trump with “topless young women” sitting in his lap, the controversial author Michael Wolff has alleged.
The pedophile financier had about half a dozen pictures which showed Trump by the pool with multiple young women, Wolff claimed on his podcast, Fire & Fury, Thursday. They were taken in the “late 90s” at Epstein’s Palm Beach home, where he victimized dozens of underage girls along with his procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, Wolff said.
Wolff alleged that they were in Epstein’s safe, which the FBI seized when they raided his homes in New York and Palm Beach in July 2019. The massive haul of evidence taken by the feds has never been made public–and while prosecutors disclosed after the raid that they had “hundreds of photos of girls and young women,” they have never offered any more details of them.
Wolff said of the photos, “They were with Trump at Epstein’s Palm Beach house sitting around the pool with these young girls, and the young girls are topless.
“And in some of the pictures, they’re sitting in his lap. I mean, and, and then there’s one I especially remember where there’s a stain, a telltale stain and on the front of Trump’s pants, and the girls are pointing at him and laughing.” Trump
Is this the October surprise? I'd release the pix with the pixilation and send a series of ads aimed squarely at MAGA: "Let's face it--you're voting for this guy."
Don't hype it--understate it and let then let the ad go silent for 10 seconds while the picture remains in front of the viewer.
This week there was a post about Jimmy Kimmel doing a PSA about Donald Trump meant to be shared with low-information MAGAs as opposed to the "we know exactly what he is--also we're insane" MAGAs; and i have to say, for all the shit late night gets from progressives for being toothless, i don't think they're watching Seth Meyer's A Closer Look. It goes so fucking hard and he brings receipts and he does it twice a week. I would challenge any Trump supporter to binge 10 of these from the last year, because i think the underlying idea that a significant portion of MAGA is simply low-information is basically correct.
And i bring up this episode in particular because Meyers said something pretty refreshing that Donald Trump is not inevitable. We spend so much time worrying about a possible second Trump that the fear becomes more powerful than the man himself. Not sure if i explained that exactly right.
First trick or treat in our new house. Decent turnout; we ran out of candy about 15 min before it was over, but I think that was partly due to Some People in the house being a bit too generous (should be only one piece per kid!). One of my besties stopped by, we sat at our little decorated table in the driveway sipping scotch and enjoying the unseasonable weather. It was too windy for the decorated popup I'd planned to have but we made do.
We had a pretty good turnout of kids trick or treating with quite a few of the parents saying they love my daughters campaign signs (6) and a 12 foot Harris/Walz banner draped across the front of the house. They thanked us for doing that and a few said they wish they had the balls to do the same. One guy said that if he didn't have 4 kids, he would put signs in his yard.
Four days to go. Ten days until the shitstain gets sentenced. I hope and pray that the judge has the balls and throws him in jail.
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1852209432878342308#m
I am constantly irritated by how Trump supporters have latched onto "context" as an excuse for whatever shit he says or does, and how, apparently, that bait is regularly taken by the media covering said shit.
"The context" here is, admittedly, not that he is calling for Cheney to be shot. "The context" here is that he, a repeated draft dodger, is insulting her for being a war-hawk (which... fair enough), while calling for her to be put in the line of fire to see if that changes her mind- completely ignoring that he himself has repeatedly insulted soldiers who have, that he has frequently (and in public) insulted soldiers who have been injured in the course of war and that he has frequently called for and celebrated violence against other politicians and other US citizens. "The context" for the right is literally the rest of this answer AND ONLY THAT. His other comments and his years of behaviour are not "the context". Therefore it's unfair to judge him because "the context" here is something they like.
They learned a new word and now want to use it everywhere!
I see that the "Jerking Two Cocks" dance is fire these days. Nobody does Donnie like Donald.
I know I'm a little late, but
VANCE / TUCKER
2028
There! Scared, yet?
“If I found out Emma was going into the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair.”
–Jesse Watters.
He has a point. She would probably get more sexual excitement that way.
Watters emasculated by lever, is all I heard.
If She only Knew! 💯
and no-one is going to let the air out of the tires of her car to vote for them.
"Oompa Loompa" was trending on Xitter. It was because the PAB had a very unflattering photo released out into the wild today. The "trending" tag has since been deleted, because Musk is a crybaby, but the original photo has already escaped containment.
The Hairless Fuhrer is an oompa loompa.
Aside from everything else - the GQP, the RNC, etc. and their 'garbage' lawsuits, Covenant Eyes Johnson in the House and his "secret" thing with Trump to fuck things over, the state leges who think that they can still send fake electors, and the very real threat of violence in some places.....
Methinks we've got this next week, big time. And then the following 10 weeks will be a bumpy ride, so buckle up.
The first woman POTUS on 1/20/25? Being sworn in by the ball-less asshole John Roberts? I will splurge on a bottle of Veuve while I cry my eyes out.
Tucker Carlson says he was physically mauled by demons:
“According to the former Fox News pundit, he was attacked “while I was asleep with my wife and four dogs in the bed” and was “mauled — physically mauled” while his wife and dogs continued to sleep peacefully. “
“When Dreher asked Carlson if he was attacked by a “demon,” Carlson replied, ‘Yeah, by a demon — or something unseen that left claw marks on my sides.”
The things you will say when your wife wakes and finds you masturbating.
He sleeps with 4 dogs in his bed. Methinks one of them is a secret Democrat.
Probably a succubus with a kink for scratching.
Is it supposed to be some halloween thing or are they that clueless?
Linguist discusses a certain Wonkism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCe7Fj8-ZnQ
Fascinating. I'm getting "Hiatus signals Wonkette exceptionalism in English language."
Or I'm just killing some time until I can start making noise at 8 CDT.
Donald Trump's own supporters are clearly bored of his rallies - with one making a funny face directly behind him.
The 78-year-old, who is bizarrely claiming he won New Mexico twice and recovering from struggling to open a truck door, was mocked by his own rally attendee during his speech in Henderson, Nevada on Thursday evening.
Just to add insult to injury, Trump was making a bizarre point about the southern border that didn't make much sense and claimed the Dems want to get rid of "windows and cows."
"They hate the American people," he said about the Democrats. "Who would have an open border policy where prisons and jails and penitentiaries are freely allowed to walk into our country."
Trump, who appeared to think prisons can walk, was unaware of the man in a 'Trump-Trump-Trumpety-Trump' t-shirt pulling faces.
He also made multiple blunders, such as referring to Elon Musk as a computer and repeating the line that he is "the father of IVF" an hour after originally making the point.
On Musk, he said: "In terms of computer, I would say he’s probably about as good as you get."
https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/153316/trump-faces-rally-ivf-repeat
"They hate the American people," he said about the Democrats. "Who would have an open border policy where prisons and jails and penitentiaries are freely allowed to walk into our country."
Did this, oh, let's call it a "talking point" even though it's gibberish, mutate from his misunderstanding of what "asylum" is?
that seems to be the consensus.
I've been revamping my wardrobe this year, and I'm finding my tastes are echoing how I used to dress in the early to mid '90s. Just-above-the-knee-length dresses w/tights and boots, maxi skirts w/big sweaters, corduroy pants w/a velvet jacket, etc... all with chunky ankle boots or mary janes or platform brogues. I wore out all my Docs years ago and can't afford them now so it's knock-offs for me.
I'm just really tired of wearing the uniform of jeans & some grandma-looking top every day in a non-stop rotation of boring/acceptable outfits because it's easy. I'm tired of not sartorially presenting how I feel inside. So I've been shopping at places like Etsy and ThredUp, and I recently sent a huge bundle of clothes to ThredUp so hopefully I'll get some credit if they sell.
I'm in my early 50s and gave up on trying to *look* cute like a decade ago, but I'm starting to want to *feel* cute again. Like, for myself.
I think that might have a lot to do with my levels of depression and maybe feeling better about myself lately because I've been drinking significantly less than usual for a little while now.
Anyway. None of this means shit to anyone but me but I'm sharing anyway because here is where I share. Heh.
I decided sometime in my fourties that there was a venn diagram with a good overlap between "I'm comfortable and enjoy what I've chosen" and "acceptable to most other humans I'm around" and I've never gone back. It involves wearing various cuts and styles I happened to like from nearly every decade of my life. A lot of A-line skirts. Plain dark fabrics for the most part. Comfy lightweight sweaters. Nothing binding. Leggings or black tights. Sensible shoes.
I like to call it "early Vatican II nun"
I strive to get away with wearing pajama-like clothing at all times. Soft, comfortable & stylishly layered... with combat boots. Hehe.
I do love that we as a society do Halloween. It’s silly and fun and neat
I had fun with it today. Wore cat ears to work & we had a fun little party.
Ate way too much sugar, though... ugh. Hehe.
True? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/
Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author
Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized
Jeffrey Epstein showed off photos of Donald Trump with “topless young women” sitting in his lap, the controversial author Michael Wolff has alleged.
The pedophile financier had about half a dozen pictures which showed Trump by the pool with multiple young women, Wolff claimed on his podcast, Fire & Fury, Thursday. They were taken in the “late 90s” at Epstein’s Palm Beach home, where he victimized dozens of underage girls along with his procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, Wolff said.
Wolff alleged that they were in Epstein’s safe, which the FBI seized when they raided his homes in New York and Palm Beach in July 2019. The massive haul of evidence taken by the feds has never been made public–and while prosecutors disclosed after the raid that they had “hundreds of photos of girls and young women,” they have never offered any more details of them.
Wolff said of the photos, “They were with Trump at Epstein’s Palm Beach house sitting around the pool with these young girls, and the young girls are topless.
“And in some of the pictures, they’re sitting in his lap. I mean, and, and then there’s one I especially remember where there’s a stain, a telltale stain and on the front of Trump’s pants, and the girls are pointing at him and laughing.” Trump
Is this the October surprise? I'd release the pix with the pixilation and send a series of ads aimed squarely at MAGA: "Let's face it--you're voting for this guy."
Don't hype it--understate it and let then let the ad go silent for 10 seconds while the picture remains in front of the viewer.
as Tanya Tucker said: A little to late to do the right thing now.
Sure, Epstein hung himself in a suicide prevention cell.
Gross. EW.
And IMHO, undoubtedly accurate, the sick fuck.
This week there was a post about Jimmy Kimmel doing a PSA about Donald Trump meant to be shared with low-information MAGAs as opposed to the "we know exactly what he is--also we're insane" MAGAs; and i have to say, for all the shit late night gets from progressives for being toothless, i don't think they're watching Seth Meyer's A Closer Look. It goes so fucking hard and he brings receipts and he does it twice a week. I would challenge any Trump supporter to binge 10 of these from the last year, because i think the underlying idea that a significant portion of MAGA is simply low-information is basically correct.
And i bring up this episode in particular because Meyers said something pretty refreshing that Donald Trump is not inevitable. We spend so much time worrying about a possible second Trump that the fear becomes more powerful than the man himself. Not sure if i explained that exactly right.
But here's the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XznQin7BfBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XznQin7BfBE
Yes, and yes