…as if things being literally on fire wasn’t enough
…it’s time for the “other” convention
…wherein the GOP takes a plethora of self-started dumpster fires & attempts to pour ever accelerant they can find on the conflagration in the hope that it will draw attention away from the fact that all of their pants are constantly on fire
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/twitter-flags-trump-tweet-mail-drop-boxes-covid.html
…well…that or run around trying to put theirs out…& some distance between themselves & the top of their ticket
…ok…so…we know he’s full of shit where the drugs are concerned
…it’s too much to hope that he’ll take his own fucking advice & poison his own self
…whereas poison is very much on the table again where his buddy Vlad is concerned
…& it isn’t just the medical care for Russian dissidents that’s been perversely slow under the circumstances
…but as ever, some things move faster
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/08/24/coronavirus-reinfection-hong-kong
…& quite profitably…for a few
…while others…are just as fucked up…but the “profit” might be even more reprehensible
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rejected-mail-ballots/2020/08/23/story.html
…I’m not even going to bother with the full attribution because who needs more of that noise…but I heard the deranged mass of decomposing pumpkin himself claiming that sending ballots to eligible voters who might not have requested them was “so unfair”…which is a bit fucking rich
…the sheer petulance of these preening parasites is somehow still fucking hard to believe
The Trump Organization has stalled a state inquiry into the financing of four properties for months, Attorney General Letitia James said in court papers.
…so that convention had a lot to distract the faithful from
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-york-ag-trump-organization-lawsuit/2020/08/24/story.html
…& just the one increasingly grubby looking playbook to pull from
…speaking of hoaxes…claiming the economy is going gangbusters is some deluded bullshit…but is it even in the top three most deluded stains of bullshit this fucking asshole is peddling at this point?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/24/absurd-claim-that-trump-is-most-pro-gay-president-american-history
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/data-show-trump-didn-t-build-great-economy-he-inherited-it
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/trump-s-trade-war-drives-some-auto-jobs-china-n1237865
The only thing he can hope for is fear itself.
…seriously…I’m gonna have to stop there or this is going to turn into a wall of text…or more accurately a fucking screed…because that shit is weaponized credulity so fundamentally batshit crazy that the only way it gets traction is as a lazy fig-leaf for a brand of sullen victimhood that no self-respecting person should be capable of entertaining without being crushed beneath the sheer weight of the attendant shame
…& there’s other shameful shit to get to grips with…yet. a. fucking. gain.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/23/kenosha-police-shooting-video-wisconsin
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-police-kenosha-wis-shooting-black-man-back-n1237819
…& the baseline was shameful to begin with
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/academic-impact-violence/2020/08/23/story.html
…& even the miracle of modern technology isn’t exactly throwing open the doors
…although
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/23/politics/trump-voting-lawsuit-pennsylvania/index.html
…& I guess this qualifies as good news by 2020 standards
…as does this
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/23/james-comey-donald-trump-steve-bannon
…& this isn’t bad news, either
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/apple-tv-s-new-oprah-show-highlights-evolution-american-truth-teller
…but damn if doesn’t feel like we deserve better?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/23/pandemic-unemployed-workers-running-election
…be good to yourselves, folks…we’ve got 60-some days to go…& who the fuck knows how long it’s going to feel like before we get to January?
https://www.today.com/health/7-self-care-tips-coping-covid-19-crisis-fatigue-t189933
i decided that was more fun than using my words
So the RNC Day 1:
I will just say this. I think Kim and Half-Scoop’s relationship is strong, because they obviously openly share their meth. Most addicts hoard but they are open and giving.
I wonder if any of Half-Scoop’s five (shudders) children will be making an appearance. I wonder if the divorce has gone through. I hope the wife took him to the cleaners. First off, she had to sleep with him at least five times. I wonder if has any assets to divide?
I read an interesting thought/humor piece. Donald Trump dies. Mel has blackmailed him successfully enough that she gets tangible assets, like Mar-a-Lago and the apartment in Trump Tower, but no cash or securities. She’s generous in that way.
No, the cash is left to Ivana’s Three Stooges. Tiffany’s cut out. The lawyer reads the will and tells the unholy trio, “Your father’s estate consists of $34.19 found in a cookie jar under a bed in Mar-a-Lago. That is yours, to be distributed equally, under the conditions of the will. He has also left you $956 million in debts to be payable to the following (State Bank of Russia, DeutscheBank, a couple of hundred law firms, various trusts set up in the wake of successful lawsuits brought by the NY Attorney General…).
I temporarily forgot he has 5 kids. Wonder if he ever sees them.
I doubt he does because there’s a lot of gushing nonsense in the Trumposphere and you never see Half-Scoop with any of the spawn. I hope Mom pulled a Marla and moved to the other side of the country and contents herself with having sole custody and cashing the alimony and child support checks, should Half-Scoop have the funds to pay it. I have no idea where any of them live. Is Half-Scoop in NYC? DC? A private sanitarium in Connecticut with supervised outings? Someone let him and Kim off the leash last night.
From the desk of Politics Makes Odd Bedfellows, it looks like Don Jr. is opposing a gold mine in AK for–wait for it–environmental reasons. Now, I can’t bring myself to believe that at face value. There has to be another motivation, but I can’t figure out what it is.
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/905587879/new-hurdle-for-major-alaska-gold-mine-after-donald-trump-jr-tweets-opposition
…yeah…when both sides of the argument include members of that family it’s hard to believe even the ones you’d otherwise imagine were on the “right” side of the issue seem like they must have some reliably repugnant motivation for taking their position
…if they’re opposing it it’s probably because his daddy isn’t getting enough of a cut of the profits to suit him but thinks it’d be inconvenient to reverse his position if he directly came out against it so jr is the messenger?
…but honestly I haven’t looked into it so that’s purely conjecture
It’s because he wants to shoot animals up there in Alaska.
So, now we know where he draws the line. Money is great and industry is fantastic, and tearing up the environment is awesome…but if it gets in the way of killing wildlife, then he’s out.
There are probably animals he wants to kill there.
He’s probably trying to buy/been promised land downstream,on which they could build a TrumpCo hunting resort🤨
My main takeaway from the RNC is wondering at which point screaming that the actual literal socialist Marxist communist uptopian dystopia is right around the corner if you allow this old Centrist white man to be President stops being a viable talking point for everyone but the basest of Trump’s base.
It’s like…the “cancel culture” stuff. Unless you’re extremely online, you probably don’t even know what cancel culture “is”, and the frequent references to Democrats try to cancel stuff seems like it’ll ring hollow to Republicans who don’t live their entire lives on Facebook or Twitter. Or the “they’re comin’ for your suburbs!” stuff that seems aimed squarely at suburban white women that airs just on the side of “okay, this kinda sounds like bullshit”.
And most of the RNC’s time seemed to be devoted more to Bernie Sanders and AOC than it was to Joe. The problem being that I think most people like Bernie, and (once again) unless you’re extremely online, AOC might not have the EXTREMIST branding Republicans think she does?
And basically no one talked about the pandemic, mostly because talking about the pandemic would have made it clear that Trump has done jack-and-shit about it.
Like, I watched the RNC expecting to be horrified, but mostly I was kinda annoyed and entirely bored. Every speech was kind of a retread of the speech before it, and then it just kinda ended with no fanfare.
I don’t know. I feel like shouting about how the Democrats are going to literally destroy the country if they’re elected into power is only playing with a very, hyper-specific part of the Republican part of the electorate, and any sensible Republican (in as much as those exists) is kinda gonna look at this stuff and conclude that, yeah, they ain’t voting for Joe, but that they’re also not going to risk going out to vote in a pandemic for Trump either, because everything the speakers are talking about is kind of extremely stupid.
The problem with this is most Republicans will show up and will vote for Trump and their ballots are more likely to be counted than Democrats. They don’t need to talk about the pandemic because if you watch Faux News you know that more people die from car crashes and the flu than Covid (not true but every Faux News viewer will swear this is true). This shows us how stupid this country is…
https://www.statista.com/statistics/373814/cable-news-network-viewership-usa/
Part of why Trump wants in person voting is the intimidation factor but also the fucking machines are easy to rig. I listened to an interview with an election official from a place that used the Diebold machines and he believed that was the main reason for Trump’s obsession. They don’t count votes where you vote, they send info to a central Diebold location & get back results w/out anyone checking.
While Biden didn’t get much of a “bounce” from Dem convention:
https://news.yahoo.com/new-yahoo-news-you-gov-poll-finds-no-convention-bounce-for-biden-but-he-still-leads-trump-by-11-161948380.html
I bet Trump does, because it is being shown on all networks and we are a nation of ignorant gullible people.
I mean, it’s possible that Joe’s capping out, but he’s still got an eleven point advantage in that poll. I think Trump will get a bounce, but making up an 11 point difference? If we agree that almost everyone has already made up their minds, then yeah, Trump gets a bump, but not enough of one to bridge the gap that exists in a substantial way.
For those who pay attention to astrology, Mars is stuck in place and ready to cause conflict, create inflammation, and add insult to injury. Sounds about right…
In my corporate past life I worked with a very sweet woman who was really into astrology. Whenever something went wrong, like a printer went on the fritz or a file disappeared from the server, she would say, “Well, Mercury is in retrograde.” One day someone to whom some mishap had befallen snapped, “You say this every day. Is Mercury always in retrograde?” “Oh no, you see what happens is…”
Are we just going to pretend that Kimberly Guilfoyle didn’t borrow her entire aesthetic from Melania last night? She looks like her dude’s step-mother … it’s fuckin’ bizarre. (Also she’s older than Melania, but whatever, we don’t kink-shame here in the DS comments.)
We don’t kink-shame here? I’ll show myself out.
Splurtted my coffee laughing out loud.
I did not know she was older than Melania. My favorite fun fact about her is that she was married to Gavin Newsom. She’s clearly in it for the grift and doesn’t care which side the money comes from.
I’m trying to figure out why every Republican woman starts to look the same. Like, ALL of them. All the brunettes look like all the other brunettes and all the blondes look like all the other blondes. I know diversity is a problem in the GOP, but it’s to the point where I can’t tell any of them apart.
Stepford Men’s Club
They all use the same plastic surgeons. It’s like convergent evolution, but creepy.
You really are quite the wordsmith, RIP. Your DOTs make me laugh and wince at the same time. Some day I hope to enjoy your considerable talents without wanting to crawl back into bed after reading.
Falwell is now saying he hasn’t resigned his position at Liberty University. Did they Bill Barr him by announcing he was stepping down to shame him into leaving? You think they’d know he has no shame. Good article from Politico. The most disturbing revelation –
And just then he comes out and he’s wearing a Speedo.
Eww, I do not need that image haunting me.
…I thank you for the kind words…& would that I could find less to wince about
…but that certainly isn’t going to happen if Falwell & swimwear are involved…does seem like the announcement might have been made before he’d actually been given the push, though…not that I’ve any sympathy for the guy but as tactics go it’s a pretty shitty one
I’d expect nothing less than shitty tactics from any organization that has been associated with Falwell for so long. They deserve each other.
“And they put me on leave because of pressure from self-righteous people.”
No, Junior, they put you on leave because you’re a fucking embarrassment they can ill-afford to have running around. In a Speedo.
Self righteous people ? Pot, meet kettle!
*spidey senses tingling*
daughters extra huggy and polite today…even made me a coffee
dont know whats coming next…..buuuut
I do. Hide your wallet.
literally just sent her off to the shop with my card to pick up pasta sauce…..lol
but yeah…im figuring this is either going to be expensive…or shes pregnant
Being pregnant would be very expensive!
i figure if thats the case im putting her on ebay….
buy one get one free…limited time offer :p
(tho..tbh…boyfriends parents are considerably richer than us…and pretty damned old school…….it could work out…hah… yeah..im hoping for regular expensive)
oh and in unrelated news…usain bolt caught the rona
sooo..i guess you can scratch outrunning it off the list of possible ways to avoid rona
Or did he catch up to it?
oooo…well..that is probably how hes gonna sell it now…lol
but i think he got it from throwing himself a bday party
I would consider this progress.
Ski resort to change name
O.o
this whole time i thought squaw was just the noise skiers made as they plunged off a sheer cliff
HoneyHeart from GT shares her derecho experience.
https://groupthink.kinja.com/1844845256