It seemed appropriate
All week, I’ve been craving a sloppy joe. It must be subliminal.
I made one. It was awful. You can see from the pic the meat stayed in chunks and never cooked down to a smooth ‘joe’ texture.
And it was godawful sweet. Never doing that with ketchup again. I’ve lost my taste for sweet.
So I put cheese on it.
As of this writing, nobody has heard from Joe Biden since Wednesday the 17th. He stepped down from the race on Twitter yesterday (Sunday) with a posted letter not even on official letterhead. No other sign of life. No pics, no video, no short news conference. Absolutely unprecedented.
There’s a rumor he had some kind of medical emergency last week in Vegas. Naturally followed by a rumor he’s dead. They’ll have a hard time covering their tracks if that’s true.
Oh, look – a letter from his doctor has just been posted to X. Taken his tenth dose of Paxlovid today; vital signs normal; presidenting just fine, thank you.
This has got Barack’s fingerprints all over it. He never understood American history and tradition and didn’t get how wantonly screwing with them is deeply unsettling to most Americans.
July 22, 2024 — 6:38 pm
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Guys! Guys! I figured out the VP pick!
He confirmed today there’s a chunk out of his ear. I think the little fella deserves a chance.
This is probably the strangest political happening of my lifetime. And I’m old.
I have soooo many questions. The shooter was a long-haired 20-year-old noodle-armed nobody with zero social media presence who lived with his parents. Oh-kay. How did he know the layout of the site, 100 miles away? How did he know there wouldn’t be law enforcement on the roof? (There should have been!). How did he carry a ladder? Was it already there?
Why wasn’t there a presence on the roof? Why didn’t the snipers spot him? How could people on the ground see him and yell about a man with a gun on the roof for five minutes without getting a reaction? What about the cop who went up the ladder, got the rifle pointed at him, and went down again? Why didn’t he duck and draw his weapon?
At the very least, someone deliberately or carelessly assigned the most incompetent possible team to the detail. Did you see that woman trying to protect Trump from the front? She came up to his collarbone. They’re supposed to shield him 100% with their bodies and that just wasn’t physically possible.
How about all those Secret Service chicks surrounding him at the car? Bunch of chubby soccer moms with ponytails. That one poor woman who couldn’t holster her sidearm – I feel bad for the flak she’s taking, but come on.
Biden’s agents look like proper sides of beef.
Well, I guess the good news is, the people responsible for this are in charge of the investigation.
July 15, 2024 — 5:23 pm
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That Joe Biden – what a card! Amiright?
I’ve had a hate-on for Joe Biden ever since I saw this video of him arguing with a reporter about his IQ on the campaign trail. Every claim he makes in it is false, by the way. I didn’t know that then. What I saw was my least favorite kind of asshole: a blowhard.
For the record, that was in 1988.
So I had my eye on him when he chaired the Bork and later Thomas hearings. Jonah Goldberg made the observation that I couldn’t unsee: the smile he flashed every few minutes, like a tic, as if he was giving us all a little treat.
I tried to find video of it and ended up watching enough old hearing footage to piss myself off all over again (without finding what I wanted).
Goldberg went on to say that he liked Joe Biden anyway. He always was wet. (What was his NR column called? Everyone read it back in the day)
Everything since has further cemented my impression Joe is a glib dumb guy. A liar with a nasty temper. I can’t think of another example in history of a loser failing so far upward so many times for so long.
In short, I’m thoroughly enjoying the spectacle. As Howie Carr used to say, my heart feels like an alligator.
Of course, he’s not the same Joe Biden. He’s a potato. He’s still a dumb liar with a nasty temper, but he is no longer glib.
I don’t understand why now, though. He’s looked this bad dozens of times in the last few years, why panic at one more? Pundits are saying it’s because the public pays attention to the debates and this was their first sight of it. But how do they know that? They must have some amazingly quick internal polling.
Anyway – thank you, America. I badly needed this distraction from 2024 British politics. Don’t ask.
July 9, 2024 — 7:44 pm
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Already
Today’s poll results. Reform has already pulled within two points of the Tories, which is remarkable so soon after Farage’s announcement. Extraordinary show of irritation with the ruling party.
Tory candidates have been pushing hard on “a vote for Reform is a vote for Labour” but the math doesn’t work. Even if every Reform voter threw their vote to the Tories they’d still be losing by four. Many voters will think this is an opportunity to spank the Conservatives, who are going to lose anyway.
If Farage hammers the illegal immigration angle, it will pull in some Labour voters. One or two defections to Reform from actually conservative Conservatives and…very interesting indeed.
Probably not going to happen, but a weasel can dream.
June 5, 2024 — 6:45 pm
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Now it gets interesting
There’s a deep, fatalistic belief among Brits that the leadership will inevitably ping-pong between the Tories and Labour whenever there’s a major shift in government. It’s been considered an iron certainty (and polling supports it) that Labour will take control at the general election July 4. Even though their leadership is awful.
The ‘Conservatives’ have been that bad.
Britain is no stranger to extra parties in recent times. The Lib Dems (founded 1988) are the largest of these and they have managed a few seats in government over the years. I honestly don’t know the difference between them and Labour. The Greens (founded 1985 replacing the Ecology Party) almost never win anything, but all their policies get adopted anyway because the ruling class is crazy.
UKIP (founded 1991) wasn’t going anywhere until Nigel Farage took over. Then it managed to win two seats in Parliament and a majority of the seats in the British delegation to the EU. It was almost certainly instrumental in making Brexit happen. This is an extraordinary outcome for a new party.
After the Brexit vote, Nigel threw his weight behind the Brexit Party (2018) which later became the Reform Party (2020), but without him at the helm. It wasn’t going anywhere.
Now Farage has taken the helm of Reform and it’s a kick up the ass. I mean, it almost certainly will split the conservative vote and Labour will get in even more handily, but Labour was going to get in anyway. The Tories have been such absolute shit that a significant number of natural Conservative voters feel they need to be not just voted out but punished. And Farage could pick off a significant chunk of the disaffected working class Left too.
His personality is nothing like Trump’s, but he’s Trumpian in that normies rally to him and the elite hate him with an irrational passion. This could get interesting.
June 4, 2024 — 7:51 pm
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Ladies and gentlemen, the 47th President of the United States
With a wolverine on his head. I explain the wolverine in this 13 year old post.
I have coffee with my elderly English friends Friday mornings (nearly all Guardian readers). They were snickering about the Trump verdict and I said, “they’ve just made him the next president.”
Silence. Then guffaws. I felt like Ann Coulter in that famous clip.
We’ll see, won’t we? Have a good weekend!
May 31, 2024 — 7:14 pm
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Wet.
Welp, it looks like we’re getting a general election over here. On the 4th of July, no less!
Not sure what Sunak is thinking. He is emphatically not a popular politician and he will probably be the death of his party. Absolutely nobody voted for him. Not even members of his own party. He got the top job through some kind of dark WEF fiddle. No-one’s knows.
“Wet” by the way is kind of the British word for RINO.
Absolutely everyone running is a piece of shit and I despair. I think I’ll write in Donald Trump.
Other’n that, nothing to report. Wednesday is my day off and I spent it in the comfy chair watching YouTubes with titles like “the 10 creepiest last minutes caught on camera” and “Pet Owners Share The Most Ridiculous Reason They Had To Bring Their Pet To The Vet”.
Folks, I was born for this life.
May 22, 2024 — 7:57 pm
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Old age is a pig
So Diane Feinstein has left the Senate, the only way she was ever going to go. I don’t know much about her track record. I assume she was an egregious lefty just because of her constituency, but it’s all moot now. God speed, ma’am.
Speaking of egregious lefties, Newsom Gavin has vowed to appoint a black woman. Is that the most insulting thing you’ve ever heard? Imagine being the appointee.
“Hello, Ms Black Woman. Don’t bother with your résumé, I’m sure you’re the best candidate. Because black. And woman.”
Still, I suppose people who trade in identity politics don’t see the problem.
Too late for the Dead Pool this week, obviously. Congrats to Nana1 (I gather. I haven’t double checked yet). See you next week and hope your favorite pick doesn’t die on you before then!
Good weekend!
September 29, 2023 — 6:57 pm
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Guys, guys…he sent me an email!
Thing is, this is almost certainly true. In fact, you’d probably have to travel a fair old distance to find another registered Republican. There’s a woman from Texas who lives in a village about five miles away – maybe she’s higher up the Republican ranking than me.
This was a fundraising email from the NRSC which ISTR has an iffy relationship with Trump. Shameless. They used his picture and tried to sound like him and everything. Which means they know which GOP faction the energy (read:money) is coming from. *thinky face*
September 14, 2023 — 7:27 pm
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This tiny green strawberry
Found in a punnet of strawberries. Uncle B was excited to find them this early in the year, but they were…not very good.
I don’t know about you guys, but I think I’ve heard from every seated Republican politician in the last couple of weeks, including several from Ted Cruz and one from Lindsey Fucking Graham.
Why now? And why me? I think I maybe gave ten bucks to Sarah Palin a thousand years ago, and haven’t heard much since. How did they all bust out the same mailing list allofa sudden?
Who writes their begging letters? They’re just awful. I’m sure they must hire people who know how to get results, but at what cost.
Lindsey called me Friend (capital F) and patriot and asked me to pray for our country. Oh, and money. He definitely asked for money.
I feel soiled.
April 26, 2023 — 7:12 pm
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