188 Comments

Something nice for the night crew.

Here is a transcription one of the more famous pieces from Book 1 of Bach's _Well-Tempered Clavier_, BWV 847, "Prelude and Fugue in C minor." This is an electronic piano doing a nice job of standing in for a grand piano.

Lots of sixteenth notes with the hands playing in unison along with a score. Don't worry about not reading music, just watch the hands. The counterpoint is mesmerizing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0XtnCXll9E

Expand full comment

Too early for schadenfreude?:

The Despicable Meatball DeSatan campaign is performing as if the Titanic, Hindenburg, and space-shuttle Challenger all had a hellspawn baby and it was named Meatball and it ran for the Preznitsy and it immediately ate mucho shit just like its parents did. This guy will never hold an elected office again.

Bonespurs taught me a tough lesson in celebrating prematurely, but it does look like the Meatball is cooked. To know him is to hate his guts. yay

Expand full comment

"Let Ron be Ron."

"But, honey, there's no there there."

Expand full comment

Maybe, but I doubt it, America isn't quite ready for an overt cristofascist, as opposed to a oranged putschy grabbing one...haha, I'm deluding myself.

Expand full comment

Let the conspiracy theories take flight!

Body found in search for black male paddleboarder, 43, who drowned in pond on Obama's Martha's Vineyard estate: 911 call was made from ex-President's $12M property last night

Expand full comment

43 year old black male paddleboarder? Well, that’s obviously Obama from the past. Real Obama was cloned, the clone took over to demonically provide moderately affordable health care to Americans. Real Obama was sent through time where he was killed by the clone (with Killary’s help, natch) in the staged paddleboarding “accident”. OPEN YOUR EYES AND DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH, SHEEPLE!!!11!1!

Expand full comment

The scandal that will rock the nation through the end of July all the way to Labor Day. Certain anticipated court developments will be flying under the media radar.

Expand full comment

Where's Hillary? She's the key ...

Expand full comment
Comment deleted
Jul 24, 2023
Comment deleted
Expand full comment

No shit!

¨Monday War Room LIVE! Breaking: Dead Body Found Outside Obama’s Mansion At Martha’s Vineyard — TUNE IN NOW!

Expand full comment

May I ask a question? I can? Thanks!

When I get a notice that someone replied to a witty comment of mine, is there a way to jump to that reply, in case I want to keep the conversation going, or answer a question asked of me? Disqus used to do that but I've not found a way to do it here on Substack. I'm guessing there IS a way, I'm just too thick to figure it out.

Thanks!

Expand full comment

Depending on how many posts exist, you can use control-f to invoke the Window search function. I'd hit the "more posts" button a couple of times first, unless it was really recent.

I'm thick as well, so don't feel bad....

{Love your screen name, by the by.|

Expand full comment

That's a good idea, and thanks!

Expand full comment

Just clicking doesn't work for me (on Opera/Chrome/FIrefox) -- you may have to click, THEN refresh the page. That SEEMS to work for me.

Expand full comment

That works! Thank you thank you thank you!

Expand full comment

YES click on the text of the reply

it will send you right to the comment

[if you click on the blue arrow it only sends you to the main article]

when you are done look up and click the spool emoji and it will send

you back to where you were when you hit the bell.

Expand full comment

With the app, I have to go to the homepage to see notifications -- then click the bell icon, and clicking on any of the reply notifications will take you to that reply. It doesn't seem to work that way on my laptop browser though.

Expand full comment

Yes, I'm on a tower and tempusfugit's suggestion of hitting the text, then refreshing the page seems to be what I have to do.

I was so worried - I didn't want people to think I was ignoring them!

Expand full comment

you can use the activity page to suss out the comment id:

The format is

ben-shapiro-not-triggered-by-barbie/comment/21260529

story / comment / comment ID

Expand full comment

Yes. Click you picture in the upper right. Select "Activity" ... that will show all the likes, etc. Click on the comment text (not the link) and that will transport you directly to the exact comment.

You know, like Disqus was SUPPOSED to do ...

Expand full comment

I'm done with you clowns. Smell you tomorrow.

Expand full comment

See you later, crocodile!

Expand full comment

Another stupid question. When Americans have to replace appliances, they'll be obtaining the new more energy efficient ones. Dipshit.

Expand full comment

Only if you are a commie. Real Murican' Manly men seek out appliances from the 50's that run on coal.

Expand full comment

Laugh all you want young one.

But when I was a wee chick I had a wood cookstove.

A Majestic and we banked the fire each night with coal

Even had the coal cellar with the coal shoot.

Expand full comment

We used dry corncobs. You could regulate the amount of heat by the number of corncobs!...

Expand full comment

You can have my whale oil dryer when you pry it from my greasy, drippy hands.

Expand full comment

It's just ridiculous and beyond infuriating.

This planet is dying before our eyes. And they're agitating about this shit.

Expand full comment

Beats having to actually do anything.

Expand full comment

Jesus, shut the fuck up.

Expand full comment

cry/laugh emoji

cry/laugh emoji

cry/laugh emoji

Expand full comment

I'm eventually going to start screaming and not be able to stop. :( :( :(

Expand full comment

when you hit town....

I'm inviting you for beer.

And we can bash the empties on the fence.

It's a great stress reliever

Expand full comment

Thank you! We're probably going to visit in October-ish, also.

Expand full comment

ok in between times I'll get you an email so we can plot.

dis gonna b good.

us 2 in the same town...

Expand full comment

Hmmm. No comment from me for now.

Expand full comment

Thank you so much! And looking forward to meeting you.

I think there are also several other Wonkers in the area, also too!

Expand full comment
Comment deleted
Jul 24, 2023
Comment deleted
Expand full comment

Fuck's sake, who told you where we ran off to?

Expand full comment

Mezcal or Raki will work, also, too...

Expand full comment

Yeah. But you're not supposed to go through the drive-thru in reverse.

Expand full comment

Good to see you GB! I've been posting skyline pics and no one responds with "biscotti", you were missed.

Expand full comment

Why not both .gif

Expand full comment

Wot is wrong wit dat

Expand full comment

I'm already enough of a loony. They'll come and cart me away for sure if I do that. XD XD XD XD

Expand full comment

Here's a SHOCKER: according to a recent JAMA report, MORE REPUBLICANS THAN DEMOCRATS DIED OF COVID!!!1!!111!

Of course, there are two possible explanations for this:

1. When the Democrats collaborated with China to weaponize the virus, they specifically designed the pathogen to be more lethal for GOP voters. Brilliant work, really.

2. JAMA is a bunch of scientists, therefore JAMA is lying.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2807617

Expand full comment

Corollary: The oranged pussy grabbing con man would still be POTUS if he had handled the pandemic with any, any leadership or integrity.

Expand full comment

Maybe. I'm not so sure, but yeah, one could perhaps say that the 1 million American dead did not die entirely in vain, if their deaths helped preserve the Republic from a fascist takeover.

Expand full comment

When I got my first Covid shot, the National Guard was helping out at the Knights of Columbus Hall. There were three lines. It was a big operation for the small town of Cheboygan, MI. As I was standing in line, I said (loudly): "Boy, I sure see a lot of Republicans here!" A lot of guilty heads turned my way!...

Expand full comment

YoU CaN't ExPlAiN tHaT!

Expand full comment

It's like the tides, you see...

Expand full comment

This would not be possible to develop a virus more lethal to GOP voters. First, science would have to identify the Stupid Gene. And if it had done that, we'd already have a cure for it. Clearly, we do not.

Expand full comment

Do you want to tell the GOP, or shall I?

Expand full comment
Comment deleted
Jul 24, 2023
Comment deleted
Expand full comment

Note which states they chose for their samples.

Expand full comment

OT: BIRIBB feel all SWEATY.

Friend of Mom sent fooood to Birb Parents' house. Birb say A Thamk.

Expand full comment

Cockadoodledoo!

Expand full comment

“Si nos quedemos Juntos vamos a ganar? Si!“

Expand full comment

We're having a lovely pearly gray day here in Western Washington, including a little rain. I'm loving it.

Expand full comment

Here in lovely Lacey WAh it is a balmy 65 but alas only a few minutes sprinkles

Expand full comment

Fog is blowing in off the ocean, from the northwest. Haven't decided how I feel about it yet, though.

Expand full comment

Is it the original Fog (1980) or the remake (2005)?

Expand full comment

We got a nice refreshing shower here today on the North side of the 49th, too.

Expand full comment

[eastern Washington resident a tad dewy secondary to 90F heat and sweating the risks of Red Flag fire warnings glares enviously toward the west]

Expand full comment

I'm inclined to believe that Handsome Joe read fascist Bibi the riot act for abrogating the power of the Israeli Supreme Court in favor of further enhancing his own.

Expand full comment

Maybe. It's still not clear if American Jewish voters are so anti-Bibi. Joe is no doubt being cautious.

Expand full comment

While he was likely relatively diplomatic I don't believe for one minute that Dark Brandon held back much. Knesset has succeeded in effectively disabling the Israeli Supreme Court and putting additional power in Bibi's dirty fascist hands.

I am not inclined to believe that Handsome Joe is inclined to be too patient with him, and the Jewish Americans I'm acquainted with share the perspective of the enraged Israeli protesters in Tel Aviv this morning.

Expand full comment

"Marjorie Taylor Greene has described a witness of the President's son as, quote, 'toned and fit from rigorous exercise, with a figure of one much younger than her years which was, she suspected, the envy of even the younger women in Congress like one in particular from New York who shall remain nameless but who she knew would never turn the dashing Hunter's head, her sunny smile illuminating her still fresh skin like the morning sun at the golden hour and her cascades of corn colored hair falling in rivulets like waterfalls [find some other words for waterfall] which had no doubt caught the rakish, but haunted, hunk's attentions. Or it would have, if the weight of tiredness had not been so heavy on her shoulders- saving the country from the Commie hoards wasn't easy that's for sure...'..."

"...Ms. Taylor Greene is that you?"

"'What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?' He asked, in a voice like velvet but even smoother, like velvet with oil on it and sanded by the desert's mystery..."

"...alright."

"She smiled, too tired to think of a clever reply, but the smile, she could sense, was enough..."

Expand full comment

"Sir, the Bulwer-Lytton Contest is that way...."

Expand full comment

“Cataract? I thought that’s an eye thing old people get?”

Expand full comment

Cascade. It's a dish soap.

Expand full comment

Frau Marj wishes...

Expand full comment
Comment deleted
Jul 24, 2023
Comment deleted
Expand full comment

Just wait till Ben decides to write one.

Expand full comment

“As I looked into her eyes, at the docile and compliant nature expressed through them, I knew her vagina would be dry, and I became aroused by the thought. ‘But first, a sandwich’ I said to myself.”

Expand full comment

"What's the White House's opinion on the display of Hunter Biden's cock?"

"Closeted much, are you?"

Expand full comment

cue George Michael Out There

Expand full comment

Stay tuned for a even more tasteless question, directed at Jill and concerning whether Hunter’s dimensions run in the family.

Expand full comment

Boxers or briefs?

Expand full comment

Hunter is the son of Joe's first wife, Neilia Biden, who was killed along with her daughter Naomi in a car crash in 1972. Beau and Hunter were both critically injured but survived.

Expand full comment

Neila was a lovely woman....

Expand full comment

Projection is confession after all.

Expand full comment

Come on Jack, give us an indictment Monday!!

Expand full comment

Looks like Bernie Kerik flipped. He has to sit for a deposition by August 24.

Expand full comment

In which case? Do we know?

Expand full comment

The fake elector case, which Bernie rolled around in like a dog in shit.

Expand full comment

Low rent street thug.

Expand full comment

Yeah, he's a low-class criminal grifter, not a Trump true believer. I'd be shocked if he didn't flip. The one who is more surprising is still Michael Cohen.

Expand full comment

Birb a say:

Yeeeeeeeeeeees

Expand full comment

Bernie is well acquainted with the inside of a jail cell. I doubt that he welcomes returning to one. Also - he's just another one of those chicken-hearted grifters that Trump draws to himself like flies to excrement.

Expand full comment

Do you mean grand jury? Or a meeting with Jack's people?

Expand full comment

Yes and yes. Turned over half a gigabyte of documents from 2020.

Expand full comment

IIRC, he's been in prison before? Probably not interested in booking a return trip.

Expand full comment

Tax fraud and lying to the FBI. Trump pardoned him.

Expand full comment

That's perfect.

I had forgotten.

Expand full comment

Isn't his grand jury meeting on Thursdays? Or is it Mondays too?

Expand full comment

I don't know anymore! There have been so many grand juries all over the place, not sure where DC federal stands.

Expand full comment