A few days ago at a 2024 campaign rally, a certain candidate for POTUS lifted the spirits of one and all with this:
“But what they don’t understand is that I am willing to go to jail if that’s what it takes for our country to win and become a democracy again,” Trump added, prompting cheers from the audience.
Attribution: HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN by Randall Enos, Easton, CT
i know i know, bill’s not the most favorite latenite guy on the Trail; but sometimes he’s worth a laugh or two.
Bill reacts to the top stories of the week, including President Biden’s visit to Israel and the Republicans’ inability to govern.
here’s another:
Paul Begala and Bret Stephens join Bill to discuss the GOP’s support of election denier Jim Jordan while other members of Trumps inner circle are pleading guilty in court.
I can’t see how Gym Jordan doesn’t wake up one day and think, “Wow—EVERYBODY thinks I’m an absolute asshole. I wonder what I could do to change myself a little”.
How you do dat?
As for the aspiring Schicklegruber he’s going to fly away soon. The sands in the hourglass are quietly and inexorably filling the bottom section, and as his little minions are avidly running about seeking shelter from the storm his “soldiers” are slowly melting away, back into their backyard barbecue and beer bust anonymity, fervently hoping to avoid the wrath of the federal government.
Oh…..when he says he’s willing to go to jail, he’s lying.
Sturge, If someone wakes up in the morning and the first five people he sees are assholes, what are the chances he thinks it might be himself who’s the asshole?
I’m spending this week in Alabamafied and it’s a trip.
and he turned it into a desperate-sounding plea for money last night…
Thomas Friedman making sense (free link NYT):
Maybe an old guy who’s been around this block a few times not such a bad idea …
Axios: Inside Biden’s Gaza Strategy
Biden tried from a position of love and friendship to tell the Israelis, ‘Think long term and don’t make the same mistakes we made after 9/11,” a U.S. official told Axios. Biden has avoided directly pressuring the prime minister, according to U.S. officials. Instead, he has asked questions — a gentler way to raise concerns. … Biden has also asked Netanyahu several times how he plans to avoid an escalation that would push Hezbollah into the war, U.S. officials said. Biden asked Netanyahu and other Israeli officials about alternatives to a ground invasion of Gaza and whether they had a plan for what to do in Gaza after dismantling Hamas.
this week’s meme…
https://www.euronews.com/2023/10/15/two-state-solution-losing-grounds-in-israel-and-palestine-even-before-terror-attacks-surve
“Two-state solution losing grounds in Israel and Palestine even before terror attacks, surveys show”
“Public surveys carried out in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank have revealed that only one in three people now see the feasibility of a political resolution to the issue.”
“Notably, the sentiment against a two-state solution has significantly shifted among the Arab Israelis compared to the Jewish Israelis.”
“Some 67% of Palestinians oppose the two-state solution, citing settlement expansion as a key reason for their scepticism.”
“Plus a growing dissent against the lack of implementation of the Oslo Accords – a pair of agreements signed in 1993 to ensure the “right of the Palestinian people to self-determination” – and Israel’s use of coercion in the occupied territories has only made matters worse.”
None of this had to happen. I wonder if there are any regrets that it didn’t, on either side? I wonder if it’s made it more unlikely to ever happen?
The American Nazis have done woked up the proverbial sleeping giant. Chump is a fool, his congressional supporters are charlatans and fools, his base is comprised of fools, and all are plainly seen as such by the bulk of regular Americans.
Most “regular” Americans love to be true to their schools. They gladly accept and are grateful for the science which manages to time and again save their lives. Most of all Americans want to be FAIR.
I looked up purple patch one time and have been intrigued by it ever since. Bedeviled, ya might say.
I see now a possibility of a two-state solution, with destruction of the hamas guys and perhaps curbing of Netanyahoo to boot. They should jump on that with both feet.
I think Joe is on top of it, and that Vice President Harris is going to have a prominent role.
Who knows, she might spark a Women’s Revolution over there.
Hard for us optimooses to stay grounds to reality sometimes.
Sturg- Agreed on VP Harris.
Bad Bunny is the musical guest and, somehow, also the host of SNL tonight.
Omg. Gym Jordan. Went to law school . It doesn’t say he passed the bar. I am shocked.
Going to write a book, call it
IF IT HADNT BEEN FOR THE
_____________ (Fill In The Blank)
A Backwards Look At Both Sidesism
For ones thing. Stop taking people’s
homes and stop the settlements
He had a job getting hot and sweaty and rolling around on the floor with a bunch of young boys AND went to law school?
Passes in Ohio for “well rounded”, I guess.
That bunny in Monty Python—now THAT was a bad bunny.
the cold open, maybe a bit of the monologue, the Weekend Update and I’m outa there……
Trump is telling loyalists to kill new speaker candidate’s prospects in the cradle: report (msn.com)
KGC – I have seen two different sources state he failed the bar and only has law school as his great achievement.
Thanks BB. Of course I read it in the the Columbus paper so nothing bad about the perv
Jeez can you imagine that little schmuck in a courtroom? Or worse—a judge?
If I was a lawyer I doubt I’d be a college wrasslin’ coach. Unless, you know, unless I just kinda, you know, liked the close physical contact aspect.
let’s get
the Led out
I heard today in a ad for a podcast that Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton were the defense lawyers in America’s first murder trial.
I’ve always had a soft spot for this tune. In ‘68 or early ‘69 I went to NY while on leave from Memphis, and my buddy’s girl friend and her sister took me out to a place where we got drunk and the walls and dance floor would lighting up in sync with the loud loud music. It was groovy.
We got drunk and danced with gay abandon The sister, Mary Alice, later that year committed suicide over some guy or something. That was sad, but my buddy married his girl friend and had 10 children 3 of whom became navy seals and one of whom was Dave, a major character in the movie “Act of Valor”. But then my buddy’s heart attacked him to death in ‘21 and it got sad again. It was peaceful, though, there is that. After working outside at the cabin that he’d built in the Adirondacks, he came in, sat at the table and as Sue rubbed his shoulders he died right there at the table.
Swear to god.
That was funny….on my own for a couple of nights there on Statem Island close to the Outer Bridge, I went to a bar down the street and proceeded to drink alone. I soon came under scrutiny as it was ascertained that I was a Staten Islander type. It was a Jersey bar. The Jersey guys, largely because of different drinking laws, had appropriated this bar as Jersey property and woe betide any unfortunate Statem Islander scum who might wander in unawares.
After I was afforded the chance to do some footsy fantwork and explained what a South Carolina was, I had a great night drinking with my new Jersey friends.
After I sat in with the band, that clinched it. They figured anybody could play like that had to have a Jersey heart.
They were right, of course. In ‘69 I’d already been playing since ‘56 and had spent the sixties playing in the diciest of hot dives. I played like I was a adult.
those zep albums are just engineered so well, perfectly mixed 🤩
Way Up for James
James Brown, Live at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, released in 1963.
We used to kill ‘em with “I Don’t Mind”.
lol………”VIVID SOUND “. Somebody had to THINK that up and then put it on the album…….like it actually meant something.
“I’m a Vivid Sound man, myself,” he said, lighting up another Chesterfield.
those zep albums are just engineered so well, perfectly mixed 🤩
Those 4 guys were probably pretty well mixed just on stage playing, too.
Prediction for the SNL cold open: Heidi Gardner as Sydney Powell making tRUMPsky spitting mad.
After the the Magats lose the next election Pootin will be wandering around the hallways muttering to himself, “OK, so now we do it the hard way”.
SNL cold open prediction: Gym Jordan reporting to Chump.
Ivey, enjoy your Bama rejuvenation (Roll Tide, fruck Tennessee 😁). Gym went to law school and flunked the bar? Claims he never took it. Who gets a masters in education then spends three years in law school and doesn’t take the bar? I didn’t know I had so much in common with Gym. But I did take and pass the bar.
He’d rather be a wrassler.
It’s like that old saying:
You can take the boy out of the wrassler but you can’t take the…..uh…..you can’t….um…..well, you know……
Haha Svengoolie Tonight….”Godzilla, King of the Monsters”. An American re-make of the original Japanese Godzilla in which they inserted Raymond Burr as the only American actor in the movie. A real Classico.
I wonder how many of chump’s grandchildren will wind up changing their names.
Luckiest person on the planet: Tiffany.
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