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The Conversation -- September 10, 2024
"A Little, Tiny, Teeny, Itty, Bitty Weeny." Maggie Astor of the New York Times: "Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is running a trolling ad ahead of the debate Tuesday directed at exactly one person: ... Donald J. Trump. The ad highlights former President Barack Obamas mocking comment in his speech last month at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, referring to Mr. Trump's 'weird obsession with crowd sizes,' and an accompanying hand gesture. Mr. Obama brought his palms apart and then close together and glanced down at them meaningfully. If Mr. Obama's words and gesture retained some marginal degree of subtlety, the ad turned them into a sledgehammer, zooming in on his hands and his glance downward. Later, it showed empty seats against the sound of crickets and zoomed in on Mr. Trump's hand -- recalling Senator Marco Rubio's jabs from the 2016 Republican primary in which he said Mr. Trump had small hands.... The Harris campaign seemed to dispel any doubt that the ad was intended more for Mr. Trump's eyes than for voters, by noting that it was airing on Fox News in Mr. Trump's home media market, West Palm Beach, Fla., and in Philadelphia, where he will be on Tuesday for the debate." ~~~
~~~ The ad fits in quite well with our discussion ... in yesterday's thread. Akhilleus wrote, in response to a comment that Harris might want to knee Trump for stalking her on-stage: "Kneeing Fatty in the groin (to have the desired effect), would require surgical strike capability. That tiny mushroom head and microscopic balls would not be easy targets. It'd be like hitting a penny with a rock from a mile away. Maybe there's a strain of pigs who can root out teensy mushroom dick truffles. Hey, it's worth a try. Oink, oink, Donnie."
Johnson's Spending Bill DOA. Catie Edmondson of the New York Times: "Speaker Mike Johnson's initial plan to avert a government shutdown has run into a wall of Republican opposition, as lawmakers from an array of factions in his party balk at a six-month stopgap funding measure that Democrats have already rejected. Mr. Johnson has said he plans to bring up a spending bill this week that would extend federal funding through March 28, which includes a measure that would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote. The addition of the voting restriction bill was a nod to the right flank of his conference and an effort to force politically vulnerable Democrats to take a fraught vote. But his $1.6 trillion proposal was almost immediately met with an outpouring of skepticism by House Republicans on Monday evening as they returned to Washington after a lengthy summer recess. Hard-line conservatives ... said they would oppose the legislation because it would extend current spending levels they believe are too high."
Joe DePaolo of Mediaite: "Melania Trump suggested there is a conspiracy behind the assassination attempt on her husband ... Donald Trump -- saying, 'there is definitely more to this story.'... Melania Trump is not the only member of the Trump family who seems to believe there was a larger plot surrounding the shooting. Both of Donald Trump's sons -- Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump -- floated the idea that Democrats were behind the attack."
Marie: I will be out most of the day today. There is definitely more to this story. Maybe Don Junior has kidnapped me. Maybe I'm in the (nonexistent) basement of Comet Ping Pong pizzeria eating Republican babies. Whatever. This has nothing to do with my having a doctor's appointment and some errands to run as well as it's being primary voting day for state and local elections in New Hampshire.
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Presidential Race
Sophia Cai of Axios: "Ten generals and admirals are mobilizing to defend Vice President Kamala Harris from Republican attempts to tie her to the chaotic 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.... 'Without involving the Afghan government, [Trump] and his Administration negotiated a deal with the Taliban that freed 5,000 Taliban fighters,' the retired military officials wrote in a National Security Leaders for America letter.... The group accused Trump of leaving Biden and Harris with no plans to execute a withdrawal and little time to do so." (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ Marie: The report is 354 pages. According to one of the generals who signed the letter and later appeared on MSNBC to discuss it, the report mentions Harris only three times. So it sounds to me as if what Rep. McCaul did when Harris replaced Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket was call up the draft report in his word-processing program, hit find-and-replace and change "Biden administration" to "Biden-Harris administration." Excellent work!
⭐ Jess Bidgood of the New York Times: "... the only man to have run against two female nominees in two presidential elections is one with a long and explicit record of denigrating women. From the earliest days of his presidential candidacy in 2015 to a Trump Tower news conference on Friday, Donald J. Trump has repeatedly attempted to attack, embarrass and threaten the women standing in his way -- especially on the debate stage.... A review of his onstage clashes with women shows how, over nine years in politics, he has honed a playbook of explicitly gendered attacks against both female candidates and journalists that he is likely to draw from on Tuesday when he debates Vice President Kamala Harris. Mr. Trump has used his physical presence and body language to intimidate women, made veiled threats, complained that they were uniquely mean and belittled their qualifications...." (Also linked yesterday.)
Unconscionable Fear-Mongering Hate Speech. Chris Cameron of the New York Times: "The Trump campaign promoted an outlandish false claim on Monday that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, have abducted and eaten their neighbors' pets, again demonizing migrants as the campaign seeks to attack Vice President Kamala Harris on immigration. A news release from the campaign on Monday recounted the falsehoods, which were amplified earlier in the day by ... Donald J. Trump's running mate, JD Vance, and sought to stoke fear, saying 'it's coming to your city next.' Mr. Vance, as Ohio's junior senator, has in recent months attacked the growing Haitian population in Springfield, a group whose members are living and working in the United States legally.... Mr. Vance has latched onto the complaints of community members and has denounced the Haitians as being in the United States illegally, 'draining social services' and 'generally causing chaos.'" An NBC News story is here. ~~~
~~~ Jeff Cercone of PolitiFact: “A Sept. 6 Facebook post said, 'Springfield is a small town in Ohio. 4 years ago they had 60K residents. Under (Kamala) Harris and (Joe) Biden, 20,000 Haitian immigrants were shipped to the town. Now ducks and pets are disappearing.'... The Facebook post was flagged as part of Meta's efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed.... The claim that Haitian immigrants are eating wildlife and pets in Springfield was also widely shared by conservative influencers such as Charlie Kirk and X owner Elon Musk, and political entities and figures including the House Judiciary Committee and vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio.... 'Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn't be in this country. Where is our border czar?' he wrote, in an apparent reference to Vice President Kamala Harris." ~~~
~~~ Marie: Vance's assertion bald-faced lie is particularly egregious. (1) The underlying premise is false: Haitians aren't eating Fluffy or Fido. (2) It's racist. (3) The Haitians in Springfield came to the U.S. legally according to the NYT. (4) They did not row to Mexico in a leaky boat, then swim the Rio Grande to cross the U.S. border where Vice President Harris was waiting to greet them and wrap them in thick terry hotel towels.
Isabella Volmert & Gary Robertson of the AP: "The highest courts in two states ruled differently Monday on efforts by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be removed from their presidential ballots, with a divided North Carolina Supreme Court affirming he should be omitted and the Michigan Supreme Court reversing a lower court decision and keeping him on."
Annals of "Journalism," Ctd., New York Times Edition
Really Bad. Peter Baker of the New York Times was not the guy the New York Times should have picked to clean up their failure to raise the issue of Donald Trump's age & mental acuity after devoting untold column inches to wringing their hands over President Biden's age and mental fitness. As Lawrence O'Donnell emphasized at the top of his show Monday night, Baker tried to do this by publishing part of Trump's affordable-child-care "proposal"/word-slaw, which we posted in a video September 6 and Akhilleus spelled out in full at the end of the Comments on September 5. BUT THEN. Immediately after Baker posts part of the Trumplebabble, he just can't help translate, expand upon and explain it to us: "What he seemed to be saying was that he would raise so much money by imposing tariffs on imported goods that the country could use the proceeds to pay for child care. In itself, that would be a disputable policy assumption." Actually, no, Peter, Trump doesn't come out and say that. More important, his tariff plan is not "disputable"; it is a direct tax on American consumers, including (and especially) people who have problems paying for child care. (If you are a person rearing children, you will need to buy more stuff than I need to buy.) Understanding how tariffs work is not difficult, people. ~~~
~~~ Even Worse. Ana Swanson who "covers international trade" for the New York Times: allows "economists," some cited and some not, to obliquely hint that consumers pay tariffs, though it requires some intuition to glean that till you get deep into the article. Furthermore, she lets on in Graf 4 that "Economists have been skeptical of many of [Trump's] assertions [above the dollar-strengthening and revenue-raising bonanza his tariffs would be]." But it is not until Graf 25 that she writes, "In a report on Monday, the World Trade Organization said that tariffs tended to place the largest burden on low-income households, which spend a greater proportion of their income on traded goods, as well as women and smaller companies, which may be less able to pay the higher costs." MB: Peter Baker at least has the excuse of being outside his usual wheelhouse when he ventures into a discussion of tariffs; international trade is Swanson's beat, for Pete's sake.~~~
~~~ Say, here's something the Times could have done: Leave the Trumpy tariff-'splaining to another fellow on staff: the Nobel-Prize-winning economist and columnist Paul Krugman: "On Saturday, at a rally in Wisconsin, Donald Trump said some bizarre and potentially damaging stuff about economic policy.... To be honest, the most vile thing he said at that event wasn't about economics; it was his declaration that his vision or plan for 'getting them out' -- deporting undocumented immigrants -- 'will be a bloody story.' Still, his remarks about how he would use tariffs to preserve the dollar's status as a reserve currency should worry anyone.... Summaries of Trump's statements often make them sound more coherent than they are -- a process some have decried as sanewashing. So let me hand over the mic to Trump himself and reproduce his remarks verbatim. First, he proclaimed his own infallibility: 'Trump is always right. I hate to be right. I hate to be right. I'm always right.'"
The Worst. Jamison Foser in Finding Gravity: "When former Vice President Dick Cheney endorsed Kamala Harris last week, the New York Times didn't even bother to print an article about the endorsement in the newspaper.... 'In our nation's 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,' Cheney said in a statement.... That's as stark a demonstration of Trump's extremism as you could ask for, and a cross-party endorsement pretty much unprecedented in modern American history, but the New York Times couldn't be bothered to print its article about the endorsement in the newspaper, running it online only. Contrast that with the front-page above-the-fold treatment the New York Times gave RFK Jr.'s endorsement of Trump two weeks earlier -- and as you do so, keep in mind that RFK Jr. has never held any meaningful position in government; he's just a crackpot anti-vaccine activist trading on a famous name[.]" Thanks to RAS for the link.
Dan Lamothe of the Washington Post: "Sen. Tommy Tuberville has blocked the promotion of an Army general who is a senior aide to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, people familiar with the matter said, threatening a confrontation between the Republican firebrand and the Pentagon just weeks before the presidential election while reviving a months-old furor over the military chief's medical secrecy. Tuberville (Ala.) has frozen the nomination of Lt. Gen. Ronald P. Clark to become the four-star commander of all U.S. Army forces in the Pacific, according to the senator's spokeswoman, Mallory Jaspers, and two other officials familiar with the emerging standoff. The maneuver, which has not been previously reported, restricts Clark's nomination from coming up for a vote in the Senate and could mark the beginning of the end of his 36-year military career.... Jaspers, in a statement, linked the hold on Clark's promotion directly to the political imbroglio over Austin's health crisis."
Alexander Bolton of the Hill: "Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Monday announced that his panel will hold a hearing on the Supreme Court's controversial 6-3 ruling giving former President Trump broad immunity from prosecution for crimes related to his official acts as president.... 'Congress can't turn a blind eye to the dangers of the Donald Trump immunity decision by the Supreme Court. We're going to highlight the blaring dangers of this far-right ruling for the American people,' he said in statement posted on the social media site X. Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has warned the court's conservatives placed the president of the United States above other Americans in applying criminal laws and created in essence a two-tier justice system." (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ Devin Dwyer of ABC News: "An alleged private message from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' wife Ginni to the leader of First Liberty Institute, which describes itself as the nation's largest religious liberty organization, has triggered a wave of criticism from top Democrats, including a new call for the justice to recuse himself from future cases involving that organization.... 'YOU GUYS HAVE FILLED THE SAILS OF MANY JUDGES,' Ginni Thomas apparently wrote to First Liberty head Kelly Shackelford, according to ProPublica. 'CAN I JUST TELL YOU, THANK YOU SO, SO, SO MUCH.'... 'The reported comments by Ginni Thomas are deeply problematic,' said Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., in a statement Monday."
Sam and the Princess, Ctd. Abbie VanSickle & Philip Kaleta of the New York Times: "An eccentric German princess who evolved from a 1980s punk style icon to a conservative Catholic known for hobnobbing with far-right figures said on Monday that she hosted Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. and his wife at her castle during a July 2023 music festival.... The 64-year-old princess [Gloria von Thurn und Taxis] said that Justice Alito and his wife, Martha-Ann, are her 'friends' and that after her castle festivities, the three attended the opening of the Bayreuth Festival, the world's premier venue for the performance of Wagner's operas." ~~~
~~~ Marie: I absolutely, fucking knew Wagner had to be in the picture. And you will not be surprised to learn that Adolf Hitler was a strong supporter of the Bayreuth Festival. During WWII, the Nazi party ran the show. According to the Times story, while in Regensburg enjoying his stay in the 500-room castle, Alito told a local journalist, "I will enjoy [the Bayreuth Festival]. A friend of mine has waited his whole life to get tickets to go, and so it's quite a privilege to be able to go."
Ann Marimow of the Washington Post: "Justice Elena Kagan on Monday brushed aside concerns about whether lower-court judges could effectively enforce the Supreme Court's new ethics rules, saying those on the federal bench are more than capable of holding justices to account. 'I just think judges are not so afraid of us,' Kagan said. 'I think there are plenty of judges around this country who could do a task like that in a very fair-minded and serious way.' Kagan was expanding on her recent suggestion that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. appoint an outside panel of highly experienced judges to review allegations of wrongdoing or questions about recusal decisions by the justices, some of whom have faced questions in recent years over unreported gifts of luxury travel and potential conflicts of interest in key cases."
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Florida. Patricia Mazzei of the New York Times: "A traffic stop that led to Tyreek Hill, a wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins, being handcuffed outside the team's stadium on Sunday escalated quickly after a police officer knocked on the player's car window and he objected, body camera footage of the incident shows. The Miami-Dade Police Department released the video on Monday evening after initially delaying its release pending an internal affairs investigation into the officer's actions. The investigation is ongoing. Mr. Hill's brief detention -- he was later released and went on to score a touchdown in the Dolphins' season opener on Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars -- prompted concerns about police use of force. The president of a local police union countered those accusations by saying that the officers had followed policy after Mr. Hill was being 'uncooperative.'" MB: Hill is Black; Ana Navarro said on CNN that the arresting officers were Hispanic (races not specified).
Idaho. Kim Bellware of the Washington Post: "An Idaho judge has moved the location for the murder trial of Bryan Kohberger, the man accused in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in 2022 while they were asleep in their home near the campus. In an order issued Monday, Latah County Judge John C. Judge agreed with the defense's overarching argument that, despite the best efforts of the court, the international media sensation over the killings had probably tainted the pool of local jurors, making it impossible for Kohberger to receive a fair trial in Latah County."
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Israel/Palestine, et al.
The New York Times' live updates of developments Tuesday in the Israel/Hamas war are here.
The New York Times' live updates of developments Monday in the Israel/Hamas war are here: "The Israeli Air Force conducted strikes in a humanitarian area in the southern Gaza Strip, targeting what it said was a militant command center, the Israeli military said Tuesday.... A spokesman for the Civil Defense in Gaza said on social media that entire families had disappeared in the strike, along with about 20 tents and that the attack had left three deep craters, suggesting that more than one missile had hit the area, Al-Mawasi. They said that there had been no warning and that there was a severe shortage of equipment needed for search and rescue efforts." ~~~
~~~ Marie: I do get that Hamas is a barbaric organization. But so is the Israeli government.
News Lede
New York Times: "On Tuesday morning, Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur, launched to space for a second time. The mission, known as Polaris Dawn, is a collaboration between Mr. Isaacman and SpaceX, the rocket company led by Elon Musk.... At 5:23 a.m. Eastern time, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Less than 15 minutes later, the crew of four astronauts inside the Crew Dragon capsule -- that will be their home for the next five days -- were in orbit.... The Polaris Dawn mission will mark some milestones for private spaceflight -- the first spacewalk conducted by nonprofessional astronauts, and the farthest journey from Earth by anyone since NASA's moon landings more than 50 years ago."
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“The people closest to Trump in his White House have a warning for America: Trump is not fit to be president again.”
Maybe we can send this to the media also.
"A new poll finding voters think Donald Trump is a centrist should be a wake-up call for the news media
News companies like the New York Times doing things like hyping cross-partisan endorsements for Trump while downplaying far more significant cross-partisan endorsements for Harris is one reason the public perceives Trump, the most extremist major-party presidential nominee of any of our lifetimes, as closer to the center than he actually is.
Another reason people see Trump as closer to the center than he is: newspapers like the Times portray Trump and his allies as being obsessed with centrist-friendly things like cutting wasteful spending and increasing government efficiency, instead of exploring their actual extremist views"
What to do about the recent data breach:
https://wapo.st/3ZhHVmh
I have frozen my credit at all 3 agencies, did it online and it took about an hour due to a snafu at one of them.
Because they use a weird 'gotcha' question with a wretchedly poor user interface, ie no opt-out. Sorry I don't recall which off the top of my head, but the other 2 were no real problem and went smoothly.
More debate pitfalls, and more tightrope walking:
Or she's got a tough job tonight.
For instance:
If Harris were to rip the fat guy a new one--which would be very satisfying for this observer to see--I fear it would not play well with the "average" male to whom smarties in general are anathema, especially especially when they are smart girls or women.
RAS,
I'd guess more plays into the misperception of the Pretender as centrist than his portrayal in the MSM.
In addition to the standard Republican rhetorical support of lower taxes and strong national security, over the years the R's have successfully laid the entire immigration mess at the Dem's feet and Biden was far too slow in seeing the political headache it would cause for him.
Then, too, there are the unstated but powerful givens in many communities, those associated with racial identity and of course the old guns, god, gays attitudes that all seem normal or central to those who hold them.
The Pretender projects the frustration, fear, and anger of a whole lot of people who see liberals as the ones who are out of the mainstream, that is as the ones who are far from occupying the center.
Against all reason admittedly, all the name-calling, all those cries of Communist and Socialist have retained their potency--for a reason.
@Ken Winkes: You're right about men who fear smart women, but I think Harris has to show up Trump. And I think she will. Playing the demure girl would garner criticism that "she can't stand up to real world leaders like Trump."
I doubt she'll land any hard punches, but a Wow! moment wouldn't hurt. A "Mr. Trump, you're no Jack Kennedy"-type response would be in order.
Wait until Donald hears that tomorrow is National Patriot Day.
I can just hear him now: "Look, they created a holiday just for me
because I'm the number one patriot, and child care is expensive, have
you seen the cost of doughnuts and Hawaii is an island."
He'll do it much better than I can.
New York Times
"Project 2025's Kevin Roberts to speak at NY Times’ Climate Week NYC event
Roberts has referred to environmentalism as a “pseudo-religion” and called for unleashing our “vast reserves of oil and natural gas”"
Digby has a guest link to The Atlantic
"Mark Liebovitch and it’s about the invertebrate cowards in the Republican Party.
Hypocrisy, Spinelessness, and the Triumph of Donald Trump
He said Republican politicians would be easy to break. He was right."
More on the Times conspiracy:
My wife pointed out to me this AM that the NYTimes ran side by side pictures of Harris and the Pretender.
Which do you think looked a bit strained and tired? Which hale and rested?
Yup. You got it right.
But as I said to her, on the positive side, there might be but one more family on our block that even looks at the Times...
I think it is time to declare the f***ing New York Times an "enemy of the people." They are/it is the equivalent in all of newspaper land similar to that channel that licks Dump's feet every chance it gets. It is pretty pathetic to see how far it has fallen since the 1980s. Whoever this legacy Sulzberger is, he is a piece of work and should be declared persona non grata along with his owned former "newspaper of note."
It's really too bad that some people still think it is the end-all/be-all, and its opinions and columns appear in other papers rather like the AP. I am grateful that some people are martyring themselves by reading the important works so as to let the rest of us knows the drivel being firehosed (like Dump) under false pretenses. I have not slammed the door on them because of several opinion writers that I respect, but I won't go out of my way to read any of it. They need fresh editorship/publisher policies, and I don't see that happening. Too bad. The "upside" is that if Mango Monster is elected, they can look forward to total punishment/banishment.
"Trump is going to lie at the debate. A lot."
So Marie was right about those $900 tickets Alito got from his neo-Nazi pal, Princess TNT.
It turns out that Hit Man Sam’s tickets were to Wagner operas after all, and at Bayreuth, one of Hitler’s favorite places. He and Wagner’s daughter in law, Winifred (a Brit!), exchanged love letters for years.
Now don’t get me wrong, I love Wagner, but I don’t see him as a great dinner companion. He could be a total asshole, but his work is much more complex and nuanced than the Nazis think. Other people love him, not for his music, but because they see, especially in his Ring operas (Der Ring des Niebelungen), the resurrection and apotheosis of ancient myths of god-like Teutonic power as an authoritarian aphrodisiac. In the same way Nietzsche is taken out of context for right-wing control purposes by scumbags who have never read him, Wagner has a place of honor in the withered little hate-filled hearts of people like Hitler and Sam Alito who never see the whole picture.
But here’s where it gets interesting. Just like the gun fetishists on the court, in Congress, and out there in the world, who send their kids to school with AK-47s, have only read the first part of the Second Amendment, Wagner’s fascist lovers are only interested in one aspect of the Ring: the part about stolen gold, a ring of power, and gods who split mountains asunder while building their own Marred a Lardo in the sky.
The funny thing about Wagner’s Ring operas is that none of the all-powerful gods or the greedy murderers and connivers get to win. None of the He Men conquer anything. In fact, they all get their collective asses kicked. By a woman. The winner is a woman who uses love to restore the balance of the universe. Her sacrifice wipes out all the greed and hate. The gold is returned to earth from whence it came. Order is restored to the world.
I bet Hitler didn’t get that. Neither, I’m guessing, does Savonarola Sam.
I think a lot of the media has forgotten how badly Trump did at the last debate against Biden. He had by far the second worse debate performance of all time. Unfortunately Biden had the worst. The media smelled a Democrat and blood in the water and swarmed like a school of piranhas while ignoring the fascist hippo a few feet away. This time DonOld won't be able to hide from the spotlights. Hopefully the media can stay out of the way and allow the people see Trump without them sanewashing his every deranged utterance.
I majored in music in college, then went on for a master's, and eventually did most of a doctorate. In all that time, I guess I did not know that Wagner and history and Hitler were intertwined, and apparently neither did my professors! It was only years later when I found out this tidbit. It may be because being a flute player doesn't really have repetoire of Wagner that favors flute, like in chamber music. I don't think I ever played his orchestral stuff either...and solo music did not really exist. I did know snobby people who bragged about loving Wagner opera music--so I can see Seething Sam being one of those people...In my mind it is cartoonish. Like him.
One of my old college roommates was a big Wagner fan. He was a tad eccentric, dressing up in his collection of WWI German military uniforms on Wagner's b-day and knowing the lyrics by heart.
This latest clip on The Meidas Touch is exceptional: Loser!
Jeanne,
Wagner uses the flute to great effect in “Lohengrin” and the Forest Murmurs scene in “Siegfried”, the third Ring opera. Forest birds talk to Siegfried (yeah, I know, you buy the premise, you buy the joke). Most snobby opera fans I’ve met don’t really know shit about Wagner. They like the Greatest Hits, the Ride of the Valkyries, eg, but the great first act of that opera, not to mention the dialogues between Father and Daughter, Wotan and Brunhilde, the linchpin of the whole thing, elude them.
Unwashed,
Never donned German military garb while listening to Wagner, but my junior year in college, we played Siegfried’s Funeral March to honor our pet parakeet found dead in her cage one morning. We did the whole Viking Funeral thing in the fireplace in our room (okay, we mixed mythologies, so sue us). Hoo-wee. That smelled bad. But the music was great. I used the Knappertsbusch recording. It lasts longer. We have poor Tweetie a good send off.
Teensy dick whiner sez no boxes for Kamala to stand on!! Waaaah!
Never one to avoid stooping to the most stupid, juvenile levels, the “small fingered vulgarian” is screaming that Kamala Harris should not be allowed to stand on a box to make her appear anywhere near his god-like stature! Harrumph! Fatty claims to be 6’3” and in some reviews, 6’4”. His NY state driver’s license says 6’2”. Other analysts, comparing his flabby carcass to subjects known to be 6’2” say he’s more like 6 feet. It’s all that fat and the blow dry high top coiffed wiggy hair that make his fat ass look taller.
Whatever.
Whacking Harris for being 5’4”, or whatever she is, and suggesting that his fat bulk and “towering” height make him a better leader is the, sorry, height of stupidity.
If taller is better, Robert Wadlow (8’11”) would have been the greatest leader in history; Napoleon a schmuck. Julius Caesar is thought to have been a bit under 5’7”. Guess he was a loser too.
Height would make Fatty far superior to founder, co-author of the Federalist Papers and the Constitution, and our fourth President, James Madison. Anyone think that would be true in any possible universe?
How about we say no wig, no spray tan, no shoe lifts.
No?
Didn’t think so. See you at the debate, shorty.
So, the corporate MSM consensus about this debate is it’s all on Harris to prove she can withstand the Trump lies and attacks and explain her positions.
Trump just has to show up and not piss his pants.
He starts 3/4s of the way to the finish line. She stats a mile before the starting line.
Sounds about right.
Jesus, the thing just started and he’s already notched 20 lies.
Looks like their letting Trump rant whenever he wants.
Trump is ranting about abortions AFTER the ninth month, but David Muir quickly changed the subject and wouldn’t allow Harris to rebut that lie.
Jesus…he’s screaming about eating cats and they’re letting him.
She’s kicking his ass. Let’s see if the MSM agree.
Wow. He’s out of control.