I live in the airport now. My flight was cancelled, but I didn’t realize it until I was already here. So now I have several hours here.
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Don’t drink the water.
I got stuck in the San Francisco airport back in the mid-80s due to a plane that had collapsed front landing gear or something like that, for about half a day. Being young and kinda stupid, I made the mistake of going into the little bar at the top of the tunnel that led to my boarding gate. I had a little drinky-poo that was kinda tasty, so I had another one. Got the munchies so I went to one of the food stands and had a burger, that was kinda tasty. Then I went back to my gate and talked to the nice lady about the flight that I was supposed to be on that was eventually canceled, so I went back to the bar and had another drinky-poo. I didn’t have anywhere else to go, so I had another drinky-poo. I think I was up to five White Russians by that point and wham.
I’m kinda sensitive to booze, so I didn’t realize how drunk I’d become until I got up off the barstool and tried to walk back to the gate. Stumbled down there, drunker’n hell, sat in one of the little chairs and tried to doze off. The flight was eventually ready to board and the nice lady came to wake me up, and I woke up still drunker than hell . I didn’t get back to Sea-Tac until something like one in the morning and good god I was still wasted. The flight attendants were very sympathetic so they kept feeding me coffee for the whole flight and making jokes every time they walked by my seat.
I shoulda gotten her number.
Never again. I will never fly drunk again. Never, never, never. That little bar was making their drinks way too damn strong.
Joe Walsh’s twitter feed.
I have no words.
Yeah, actually I do.
So apparently Fat Donny’s base know he’s lying. They go along with his lies, and choose to believe those words rather than admit that lies are actually false statements that are specifically intended to deceive people, but perhaps only certain people so his deceptions are intended to be opposite of his real meanings and they can surmise his real intentions out of those false statements. He’s actually being honest in his prevarications because his base knows he’s lying, because he is such a brilliant man that he doesn’t need to use factual information when he issues a statement.
All one needs to do to believe that he must be the most honest man to ever become President is realize that the actual statements he makes are the opposite of what he is actually talking about.
Sigh.
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I think it must be one of the Kubler-Ross stages for the 63 million unhinged, hate-filled, racist, ignorant Fuckface voters.
It’s all about tribal identity for these meatheads. And for the time being they can rationalize that, while Team Fuckface may be corrupt, lying, traitors, they are their corrupt, lying, traitors. But of course this requires that they place some distance between themselves and their beloved heroes. Because although they may be willing to support a team of corrupt, lying, traitors, deep down nobody really wants to believe that they themselves are a corrupt, lying, traitor. So this is the beginning of the process whereby the 63 million angry, hate-filled, racist meatheads begin to slowly cringe away from the dumpster fire and pretend that they didn’t pour on the kerosene and light the match.
Fuck that. Not this time. They are all corrupt, lying, traitors. Every damn one of them. And they are no longer entitled to call themselves American.
I listen to Sirius and the “No Labels” republican channel once in a while. They have transitioned to the shrug stage.
They acknowledge what trump and the republicans are doing and then do a verbal shrug of helplessness.
Trump coordinated with the Russians…Shrug…
The republicans want to take 28 million off health care so they can give a tax cut to the richest…Shrug…
The republicans want to destroy net neutrality. …Shrug…
Trump lies constantly …Shrug…What you gonna do?
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(Can you go back to putting dates on the Open Threads? It’s hard to tell them apart by just an exclamation point. )
They’re all politicians and liars.
@2 @3 Trump, like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, is a one-trick pony.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/04/amid-washington-dysfunction-lack-of-accomplishments-trumps-clings-to-his-shrinking-support.html
@7 Spare us the false-equivalency bullshit. No, they’re not the same. For sheer dishonesty and destructiveness, Republicans, and Trump especially, slink and slither in a class by themselves.
Shades of Tricky Dick’s “plumbers” unit! With the collapse of Trumpcare, the GOP’s new top priority is stopping leaks. Jeff Sessions’ crackdown on leakers is today’s news lede. It’s not like our country doesn’t have other problems, e.g. health insurance, North Korea, police brutality, etc. It’s all about priorities, and the GOP’s #1 priority is regime survival.
Damn! The economy is doing so great since Drumpf became preznit!
Can anyone point to any change in policy that’s made times so good?
Regulations!
It’s easier for a mentally ill person to get a gun!
It’s easier for a coal company to dump mine waste into mountain streams!
Good times are here again!
Oh, the ACA still hasn’t been repealed. Booooo!
The most important thing to any politician is getting elected and staying in office no matter what else happens. It’s all about them and their egos.
The unique hazards of this inflated stock market were abruptly illuminated last week when an acquaintance of mine bought 5 stocks only to have 4 of them drop by 8% – 10% within a day or two.
There might be buying opportunities next month if GOP dysfunction results in a government shutdown and debt default.
Otherwise, I don’t see a correction happening.
My stocks are returning about 15% (annualized) this year, but you have to be extremely selective in making new acquisitions, because the gains are very uneven, not marketwide. I own over 30 different stocks and about a third of them are lower than they were on January 1.
Like many of the Wall Street pros, I’m stockpiling cash and waiting for better opportunities. I bought a few more shares of AT&T last week the day before they jumped — there was nothing especially smart about that, I simply bought them right before their earnings report came out — but otherwise I’ve been spent this summer biding my time.
@12 “It’s all about them and their egos.”
Probably has more to do with pensions.
Pretty much guarantees that Fuckface did it for the Russian financial backing.
So if all those Harvard, Stanford, and Yale graduates passed up untold riches and vast opportunities “for their egos” maybe that’s a good thing. Watching in disgust as our national security and key global security and trade relationships are incinerated at the alter of Hillbilly Russian imperialism makes a few egos seem kinda harmless.
@14 – Yeah, that too.
@15 – I’ve noticed your no slouch in the ego department, ace.
This part of the jobs report is concerning
“If there was a blemish in the month’s numbers, it came from the distribution of jobs to lower-income sectors. Job creation was strongly titled to part time, which gained 393,000 positions, while full time fell by 54,000.”
“At this point, the question must evolve from how many jobs are being created each month, to what types of jobs are being created each month? Employers are clearly still heavily reliant on part-time, temporary and low-wage labor.”
How do you raise a family on a part time temp job?
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and I’ve noticed you Hillbilly Traitors all seem to prefer corruption and incompetence.
Oh, and Okie Noodlin’! Can’t forget that.
@17 Would you like to support that with reasoned argument, citing to specific examples?
Olbermann explains, with greater clarity than ever before, just how clumsy and stupid Trump is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhJ3BNPNn40
Roger Rabbit Commentary: The real story here, of course, is not Trump’s disastrously bad character and temperament, but the disastrously bad judgment of the Republicans still sticking with him hoping for some sort of positive outcome.
Roger Rabbit’s Solution to the North Korea Problem
Get China to invade North Korea, annex it, and turn it into a vassal province like Tibet. That border is virtually undefended, so it should be pretty easy, but if North Korea nukes China, what do we care about a few million Chinese? Of course, China will want something in return, so we’ll let them take over the South China Sea, which we don’t need anyway. This strategy will save us the trouble and expense of two wars, and we can use the money we’ll save to pay for Medicare For All.
What Trump doesn’t get: Iran doesn’t need a nuclear program. They can buy A-bombs from North Korea.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/04/north-korea-officials-visit-to-iran-could-signal-wider-military-ties.html
@ RR @ 22:
Nobody really wants to deal with
NorthBest Korea. It has been a near total hermit kingdom for going on five generations now. It’s an utter mess. If the Chinese really wanted to unfuck that situation they would have done so 30 years ago. The citizenry has been fed constantly on a diet of images and alleged speeches and sayings and bullshit platitudes from Their Dear leader. His pictures are on practically every wall in every home and office in the country.He apparently has the mind of a child from what I’ve read; full of wonderment and bliss, and no sense whatsoever of compassion or pity because he dah boss and he don’t have to give a fuck.
Seems to me that this is becoming a common theme.
My Mother’s predictive wish is that Fat Donny is going to have a massive “heart attack” or a “stroke” that pops one of his eyeballs right out of his head. Preferably on national television. She is pretty sure that the hardline Republican jackass kult really wanted Pence all along, and Pence is the really scary one. He wants to be the christian Ayatollah that everyone adores and fears. He’s goddamn Ned Flanders with a machine gun and seriously sadistic personality. Meanwhile, Fat Donny survives and spends the rest of his life drooling his chin off in some private nursing facility, kept well out of the public eye.
A little Thorazine goes a long way. I’m sure his dosage will necessarily be above average to compensate for his weight.
For his own good, of course.
In other news, Dylann Roof apparently got a fat lip from one of his fellow inmates, a black dude.
I find it interesting that certain blogs and forums are now presenting this little event as another example of absolute proof of the black folks being genetically predisposed to a constant state of uncontrollable violence and rage.
@24 “If the Chinese really wanted to unfuck that situation they would have done so 30 years ago.”
Of course, and that’s why you have to offer them an incentive. They REALLY want the South China Sea, and they’ll go the extra mile to get it. For example, they’ve hinted they’d fight a war with us to enforce their claims. I wouldn’t go as far as formally recognizing the Nine-Dash Line, but I’d offer them something approximating de facto recognition; to wit, I’d say, look, with the NK regime gone we can get by with much less military presence in the region, we’ll still sail and fly there, but not as much and in particular we wouldn’t see a need to send our carriers there in the ordinary course of events, and we’ll discontinue our reconnaissance flights off your coasts, too; and we’ll pretty much leave it to you guys to police the area, enforce navigation rights, and work out with your neighbors who gets the oil and fish. Fighting NK might be more attractive to them than fighting us, especially if they get a swag bag from us for doing it.
@ RR @ 25:
As long as it isn’t my nephew that gets drafted, I ain’t worried.
How come our trolls (And the media, ahem liberal) don’t want to talk about labor participation rate? Same as it was in October ’16. Why no talk of ‘real unemployment” which hasn’t changed since April. Can’t be because your guy is in charge now, right?
But hey, the ‘fake’ unemployment rate is all Trump, right? It keeps dropping with no budget that isn’t Obama’s…and Fox News is ecstatic about the current ‘fake’ unemployment rate.
17 – This is all you need to know about McFuckhead:
“…affluent, elite, healthy, and highly educated coastal progressives.”
That quote says it all.
28,
Stop feeling envy and do something constructive about it.
Rather than spend half of your take home on ammo and digital cammo, drink your body weight in beer daily, spend more on your television than on your teeth, and slavishly devote yourselves to AM-hate-radio con men selling you phoney gold buggery schemes, why not get a library card? Open a savings account? Get that GED you’ve been puting off?
And for godsakes move out of that filthy trailer park!
So is Carl one of those who believes he must show up the recommended time to get through security at the airport? Which would increase his airport time. Did this affect his thoughts about airport security and how secure he felt while waiting at the airport? Or was he seeking out the best sleeping spots? Caught up on his reading? Dreamed of giant squirrels saying: “Eat shit Tom.” with the thought that coal is great and he mines it. And if I were a powerful coal executive would I be stuck in the airport waiting for a flight, or would I have just gone out to the executive jet.
@3 Americans still love Lance Armstrong. We do love this great American hero.
@12 Must be why our congress people spend so many hours every day talking to donors and contributors. I feel a little sorry for them, but then wonder if they can do the job I send them to Washington or Olympia to do. Which is not to raise money constantly for their next election
Could be we are an American oligarchy. We have the new gilded age, a President that fits well to being a gilded age President. Only requirement is an ability to sound and look Presidential from time to time. Then when it all explodes perhaps we will have someone who pick up the pieces.
Reality never sinks inti investors until fall usually in October.
@20 Now your superego is talking. We will hear from the Id soon.
@22 China should insist on South Korea as their payment in the bargain for invading.
Trump should take out any North Korean subs at sea, or their Air Force, and they will come to the table. Use some carrots the military will execute the great leader, and serious talks can occur to reunite Korea or the status quo with close Korean ties and the end of the DMZ unless they want it as a nature preserve.