TGIF [DOT 25/10/24]

25/10/24 MegMegMcGee 26

What’s up Deadsplinterati! Hope everyone had a great week. Mine feels like it flew by. Tonight I’m going to the Opera. And on Sunday my neighbors are coming over for a Dame Maggie Smith appreciation night. We are watching Evil Under the Sun.

This can’t be over soon enough.

Imagine getting roasted by the White House like that

I love her

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  2. I’ll believe this when I see it.

    Governor Hokum puts the brakes on congestion pricing once someone must have pointed out that the entire NYC metro area, car owners or not, would turn Republican for a generation, and there was the election coming up. She already played a part in Democrats losing the House in 2022 and she wasn’t gonna give Great Aunt Nan, the Speaker Emirata, whatever that’s supposed to be, any more ammunition.

    But there’s always an upcoming election and congestion pricing, no matter how worthwhile it would be, would be an albatross hung around the necks of “tax and spend” Democrats. I don’t know how London pushed theirs through. Did the Mayor do it by fiat and everyone fell into line? As a moneymaker no doubt it has been a huge success but as a way to reduce congestion it was, as the British might say in their understated way, a slight disappointment.

    PS: We don’t own a car and live outside the congestion zone so this is an academic exercise for me.

    • And speaking of the Brits, where are the Labour election-interferers? I always enjoy a good chat with a Brit. Not the loony ones who glue their hands to motorways and throw soup at priceless works of art and throw statues in the river at Bristol, but the sane, funny, chatty ones, who enjoy a pint. I don’t exactly live in a swing district so I probably will miss out on this election interference.

      • …turns out there’s always been a sub-set of campaign bodies supplied by labour types taking busman’s holidays to the US in presidential years…possibly the mid-terms, too

        …bit cheeky, really…they have to do it on their own dime…& foreigners aren’t meant to make donations…so…that’s a somewhat grey area of contradictory logic from the off…either their time is a donation that doesn’t get zeroed out because it’d be illegal to pay them…or it isn’t worth anything so it’s not like a donation…or both…or neither…but apparently if they post about it on an in-house linkedin account…that part makes them all the stuff of FISA warrants like the folks who got friendly with carter page

        …bit of a head-scratcher, that…but if one does come a-knocking, I bet they’d tell you all about it if you can make a half-decent cuppa?

        https://winners.webbyawards.com/2017/video/general-video/animation/20349/doc-brown-my-proper-tea

        …as for the congestion charge…that was 20years ago…only cost a fiver a day…had a smaller catchment zone…& because it was in prehistoric times ken livingstone got it done as mayor…& probably burned out the last of whatever goodwill he’d earned from “inventing” the travelcard…which was a day/week/month/year-long ticket for all public transport & an absolute boon to many

        …& a half-dozen or so years later when boris decided those hire bikes in paris were neat & went a bit cyclists-uber-alles about roadmarkings…drivers had other shit to get pissy about so they haven’t even rioted about the ULEZ stuff that makes it damn near unaffordable to drive an old car anywhere in or around london on any kind of regular basis?

    • Apparently Tucker likes them abusive daddies (hence his love for Pootin.)

      Also, the CIA wouldn’t hire him (for whatever reasons.)

      The guy clung to wearing a bowtie forever… something’s seriously fucked in that guy’s head.

  5. Better late than never, huh, WaPo? Actually no. It’s not better late.

    How Trump talks: Abrupt shifts, profane insults, confusing sentences

    I would like to punch the asshole that gave Trump this term in the throat.

    Donald Trump debuted a name for his idiosyncratic, digressive speaking style this summer: “the weave.”

    Uh, yeah. So you’re just now noticing? Must be nice to have a job where you don’t actually have to pay attention.

    Trump’s recent public appearances have been strikingly erratic, coarse and often confusing, even for a politician with a history of ad-libbing in three consecutive presidential runs, a Washington Post review of dozens of speeches, interviews and other public appearances shows. His speeches have gotten longer and more repetitive compared with those of past campaigns. He promotes falsehoods and theories that are so far removed from reality or appear wholly made up that they are often baffling to anyone not steeped in MAGA media or internet memes.

    He jumps more abruptly between subjects and from his script to improvising, sometimes offering what sound like non-sequiturs. He occasionally mixes up words or names, and some of his sentences are meaningless or nonsensical. As he delivered more speeches in October, he has made multiple slip-ups per day. He has become more profane in public.

    No. No, you do not.

    “I have no cognitive,” he said at a town hall in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on Sunday.

    • between that…and that chechen warlord dude what had his cybertruck disabled remotely (alegedly) i would have serious concerns about buying anything musk related

       

      sorry…not buying anything that twat can turn off on a whim

  8. This is not really interesting to non-New Yorkers, I suppose, but doesn’t this look like a remake of “Hocus Pocus“? And what is Kickback wearing? Is there some batik going on? Or…quilting? Maybe the patches somehow represent all of New York’s counties?

    I can’t remember who the woman on the left with the rictus grin is, but next to Kickback is the (fortunately) seldom seen or heard from junior Senator, Kryristyn Gyyllenhaall or whatever her name is, and then I believe on the far right is Andrea Stewart Cousins, the majority leader of the NY State senate.

    I wouldn’t trust any of them to take my recycling down to the basement. Excelsior!

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