TGIF! [DOT 11/10/24]

11/10/24 MegMegMcGee 33

Hope everyone had a great week!

If my friend’s cat sitter falls through I may have a kitten in the house this weekend. So tots and pears that she falls through.

What a life!

Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert Kennedy and family matriarch, dies at 96

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/10/10/rfk-widow-ethel-kennedy-dies

Seems like most people got out of the way in time

As Hurricane Milton moves away from Florida, millions are without power and at least 7 are dead

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/10/10/hurricane-milton-damage-deaths-florida-live-updates

I just really enjoyed this headline

Barack Obama to campaign for Harris; Trump insults Detroit in visit to Detroit – US politics live
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/oct/10/trump-harris-biden-election-politics-latest-updates

Stonks!

TD Bank hit with record $3 billion fine over drug cartel money laundering
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/10/investing/td-bank-settlement-money-laundering/index.html

Justice for Bug!

Have a great day!

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      • one of dubyas more likeable moments lol…. dude looked genuinely amused after dodging the first shoe

        (tho…come to think of it…i never really disliked dubya….wasnt really paying attention to shit back then…and he kept making the news for amusingly misunderestimating things like the danger of pretzels)

    • Not a surprise to me. Trump’s supporters reminded me of many of the rural/suburban poor folks I knew back in the rural community I grew up in. They looked at middle class people as “rich.” Resented immigrants (like my parents) because in their minds they felt they had it easy and why the fuck did they get so successful while they weren’t; especially because my parents weren’t white (racist as fuck) and not getting my parents were educated which helped opened doors or the circumstances like they were part of the most educated wave of immigrants that Canada needed (like the immigrants of today.) Naive. Ignorant. Resentful.

      JD Vance shows you can take the hillbilly to Yale Law, but you can’t take the resentful angry hillbilly out of the Yalie.

        • They can’t even hide behind euphemisms any more, now it’s just fully open hatred. It’s great, I love this country.

          Also I don’t think Vance is a resentful hillbilly at all; I think he’s a soulless opportunist who sees a path to power and will throw everyone aside to get it. Different flavor of fascist, IMO.

          • I suspect he’s both, but more the opportunist because he’s trying to escape his roots.

            As for racism… I know he’s married to an Indian woman, but the most racist guy I know is married to an immigrant from Colombia. I suspect with both of them their racism could also be a class thing too as she’s from a Colombian Castilian family (I found out how racist they can be) while it seems JD’s wife comes from a Brahmin family (the highest of the Hindu caste system) with all the racism/classism that comes with it.

            Hell, I know from my own experience with family on both sides which from the Korean upper class as well (only in name on my dad’s side).

            • Strom Thurmond was a big fan of sex with Black women. The entire history of the South for centuries is rooted in white men seeking out Black women. Faulkner wrote Go Down Moses to address the pathology of whites who did this as a part of their power dynamics, and the repercussions it had for both sets of people.

              But it’s crazy how so many in the pundit class don’t know any of this.

              • Having a fetish doesn’t mean you’re not racist. You can pretty much ask any woman of color and they’ll tell you. Like you point out, Strom was just another racist with a fetish. 

            • My argument would be that he pretty clearly saw Trump for what he was back in 2015 and 2016 and publicly said so … until Trump won and it became clear the path was through him rather than against him. Once that was the case he couldn’t wait to lick boots. Lindsey Graham is very similar; he saw the reality of Trump right until it was time to suck up to him. (Graham’s even more interesting because he clearly doesn’t believe in anything but isn’t really a power grabber, either. It’s like he’s the moon, eternally reflecting someone else’s personality.)

              That said, to your point, I’m sure if Vance had ended up back in his old homestead after college and the army, he absolutely would be a seething grievance-filled dickhead.

    • The tell. Cokehead Narcissist used to tell me that I had no way out. I couldn’t run to the cops as her “boys” would find out and kill my family. I couldn’t run to my family because the same. She told me I had lost. That rhetoric got way worse when I began to challenge her (after calling her bluff.)

      I think that’s what Trump’s doing now.

      • Hey, I’ve been meaning to ask this, but in lieu of having you tell the whole story all over again, is there some post on here from some years back where you ran down the whole deal with Cokehead Narcissist in the first place – like an origin story of sorts? I mean, I get the impression that it was a relationship gone horribly wrong and that the person in question had more issues than a newsstand, but I always feel like I’m missing something whenever you bring her up. . . .

        • Short version…

          Well, she was someone I met during my dating years. Very attractive woman.

          I made the mistake of inviting her back home where she started drinking and snorting (to my surprise.) That’s when things started to go south because she’s started ranting about her life in Russia and her so called mafia family. That scared the shit out of me. She started talking about her gangster exe. I didn’t know she was bullshiting, but she’s damn good actress.

          Anyway she took off drunk and high to visit her exe in prison (despite my efforts to take away the keys. She was a violent drunk.)

          The cops busted her for DUI and she blamed me for it. I became more entangled with her fucked up life and eventually she got kicked out of her apartment so she moved in with me.

          It was the longest year and 1/2 of my life. I was scared to get kick her out because of her “connections” and she happily extorted money from me till I basically had none left. Only then did I push back.

          Meanwhile at work I was getting dinged for every absence I had (due to her addiction as she needed some idiot to listen to her while she snorted coke) which is why I hate two managers in particular. Basically I was getting fucked over at home and at work because of her.

          I forged a plan that eventually got her kicked out of the house with the help of the cops.

          Same week I went after management.

          Anyway, she was the biggest damn mistake of my life… I could have said no but I was weak and vulnerable (still reeling from the loss of my career/profession, health issues, betrayal by a friend and lonely too) and I was the perfect prey for someone like that.

          It’s also the defining moment in my life (currently)… as I fought to survive her and at work (and won.) Those two managers now directors still wonder how I’m still at the company despite their best efforts. With help from my HR sister and parents.

          My parents inadvertently helped me (with some unexpected cash) which is why I do my best to take care of my parents now as I’m still so grateful that the money came when I needed it the most.

            • @perdido

              It happened between 2014 to 2016 (she moved in 10 years ago in late Oct so a soon to be unhappy anniversary.) I never uttered a peep on line till after she got the boot because I was paranoid. I didn’t tell my sisters the whole story till about 3 years after the fact. My closest friends didn’t know either till I told them after a few beers a few months after she was gone. My parents didn’t know/won’t know.

              I mentioned this story on another forum because I had to get it out and off my chest despite my own personal shame (it was a tell us the craziest story about you theme.)

              Once in a while I bore people to tears about it only because it changed my life for the better (I think.) But here’s the darker part of the story…

              I did leave out the part about calling her bluff. It was the week of Xmas of 2015 and she was celebrating by snorting a storm of coke. She was out of money and wanted to snag 10k more from me, but the problem was I didn’t have any. I had already run through my line of credit and didn’t have much left and I didn’t have anywhere near the savings (I was barely able to pay my bills and eat despite all the OT I had been working.) I told her no, I wasn’t going to do that. I told her that you can sick your fucking boys on me. I don’t care. Then she “called” them and told me that they were coming for me. I decided to grab a bat and figured if this was going to be my last stand that I was going to die swinging so I went out to “greet” them. I waited two hours (or it felt like it) for these goons to show up and kill me. They didn’t show.

              I came back inside and she told me that they were just going “warn” me and they’ll let me live. At that point I started to realize that she had been bluffing.

              After that all the plans went in motion to get this woman out of my house/life, but I had no means as she basically drained me of all my easy to obtain financial assets and I was pretty much empty.

              The next week my parents gave me a gift of money. Why? Because they were proud of me for dealing with my problems (little did they know) on my own and not begging for money/help.

              Also added to the grimness was the fact she tried to turn me into a coke addict too. I managed to get off that shit when I realized what she was trying to do getting me to do a bump here or there.

              Not exactly my best shining story, but I think I came out stronger and a little better for it (the price I paid though.)

    • 60 Minutes broadcast a ton of detail about Trump dodging the interview. They explained how they worked to accommodate him, his demands that there be no fact checks which they declined, his shifting excuses for not showing, and how he broke tradition.

      https://www.thewrap.com/60-minutes-trump-interview-why-he-canceled-cbs/

      Basically they did what so many outlets should have done, which is pull back the curtain on his BS.

      It’s the second time he’s threatened a major outlet’s license, following threats against ABC for how they hosted the debate.

      Some pedants argued it was an empty threat because TV networks don’t have licenses. But networks absolutely do have licenses at the affiliate level – if Trump were to attack ABC and CBS local licenses, the networks would collapse.

      All of this also undercuts the idiotic political press narrative of Harris dodging the press while Trump embraces it, and trying to turn Harris and Biden’s approach to the political press as somehow a dangerous freedom of the press issue. Not that the NY Times or Politico will admit anything. They’d rather get wiped out by Trump than thrive with Harris.

        • One really stupid thing among this fake furor is outlets like the NY Times publishing questions they wish Harris would address.

          They’re larded with things like “polls say the public still believes Trump is an effective leader on the economy. What do you say to critics who think your message isn’t clear enough?”

          Which is pure horserace nonsense that couldn’t possibly provide the kinds of policy detail they say they want. But reporters on political desks don’t understand policy and often openly argue it doesn’t matter. They hate that Democrats like Harris are actually fluent in policy and they aren’t.

  5. TD really is our version of Wells Fargo. A couple of decades ago they bought out one of the smaller trust companies that Canadians actually liked. To keep customers from fleeing they had to keep the branches separate from their own.

    Funny enough, my first ever bank account was thru them but after we moved we never went back.

    Coincidentally(?), Cokehead Narcissist used to bank with them.

    • Back in the 80’s Carlin talked about the right wing push to sentence drug dealers to the death penalty. He said that won’t do anything because dealers face death all the time.
      However, he said, what would stop the drug trade is to sentence the bankers who launder the drug money to death. That shit would stop immediately.

      • I believe that came a bit later for Carlin, like around 1996 or so. Here’s the clip from his stand-up special that year. (It’s the same one he opened with the whole “Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn’t want to fuck in the first place?” routine that people were taking as prophecy when the Supremes finally did it to Roe v. Wade. . . .)

         

        • Right, yes.  Although I do know the abortion joke was first used in his “What am I Doing in New Jersey?” album which came out in the mid-80’s.  But, come on, that one is timeless.  Just as relevant today as it was then.

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